Lord Duckhunter

I would prefer to be safe as early as possible, how on earth does a villa win make us safer. Villa lose the next 2 and the only way we can go down is if Wigan win their next 3, one of which is arsenal away. The sooner Wigan or villa can't catch us the better.

We need a back up left back, and spend a bit of money on a Centre half that will walk straight into the team. I'm happy with one of Jose or Yoshida provided there's a top quality player beside them. Not too concerned about Centre mid. Cork MS and SD with Ward-Prowse as back up is ok for me. Need a bit of pace out wide and a striker as Rickie isn't going to get any better at his age and there's been times he's struggled. Other than that we evolution rather than revolution. The 3 sides coming up will struggle and Norwich, Wigan/Villa or Sunderland aren't going to get any better than us, and Fulham look like a side going over the hill to me.. I cant see WBA or Swansea being as strong next year, so provided Cortese is sensible we could be up around 9/10th ready to push on again.

Spot on, How can anyone want Villa within 2 points of us, especially if Wigan go on a run like they can and have done before .

Did anyone see MOTD 2 last night? Les Ferdinand and Michael Owen roasting Bosingwa for his attitude, "look at him" said Les "they're relegated and he goes done the tunnel smiling". Here's the clip, funny how nothing said about Redknapp who really seems to be enjoying it as much as Bosingwa, if not more. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22314331

Trevor Birch is on Keys and Grey's talksport show tomorrow at midday.

Nobody is saying that at all. However, anyone who doesn't think Wigan can beat WBA & Swansea, doesn't think Villa can beat Sunderland and Norwich, doesn't think Sunderland can beat us at home is deluded. If god forbid Norwich also beat West Brom & Newcastle beat QPR, we'll be going into the last game of the season needing something or preying that Villa beat Wigan, will people still be talking about 1% and other such nonsense in those circumstances?

This is what I've been saying, it's nowhere near as clear as 1% or other such nonsense. If Villa beat Sunderland at home then I cant see how the the9 can have us at 1% and them at 35% bearing in mind there will only be a 2 point difference. Perhaps the9 can give us the %'s if Villa win at home on Mon?

We're 150/1 to go down, what will we be if Villa win on Monday to close the gap to 2 points between them and us?

Twitchys getting roasted by some journo on Talksports The Press Pass. He said "Redknapps blamed the pitch, the players, Mark Hughes, the agents, and the owners for paying high wages in fact the only person not taking any blame is Harry Redknapp, the manager with a 16% win ratio".

I thought "Sanchez is right" was one of the stupidest phrases I've read on here, but you then managed to get even more idiotic after that.

That's it, I've just put a £5 on my results to soften the blow IF a freak set of results. £5,865.50 will be the winnings. I'm hoping my £5 goes up in smoke tomorrow.

I hope you're right, I just have a real nasty feeling about this. I genuinely cant seeing getting anything from Spurs and Sunderland, so it's all down to what Wigan and Villa do. Wigan are capable and Villa have a half decent forward line. Really could do with Sunderland turning them over Mon, but that'll mean 3 in a row and I really cant see that. Draw maybe the best we can hope for, which will leave Villa 4 behind with 3 to play. If Villa draw Mon , with them having Chelsea and Wigan, and Wigan having Arsenal, I'll start to relax as it'll start to look pretty impossible for both to pip us. In the meantime I'm going to worry, if that's ok with everyone.

We were good enough to beat City and Chelsea yet bad enough to lose to QPR, so yes Sunderland are capable of losing to Villa then beating us. I'm not saying it will happen, but I will start to get a bit twitchy if Villa win Monday. Everyone has mid table "on the beach" teams to play and that worries me. Only getting 1 point from Swansea and WBA (however well they played) has left me a bit more nervous than I should be and I would much prefer Stoke (our last really winnable match) not being last day. I still think we'll be ok, but we're not as safe as some seem to think.

Spurs 1-0 Saints Villa 1-0 Sunderland Norwich 0-1 Villa WBA 0-1 Wigan Wigan 1-0 Swansea Sunderland 1-0 Southampton Norwich 1-0 WBA QPR 0-1 Newcastle Would mean last day Norwich 41 Newcastle 40 Sunderland 40 Villa 40 Saints 39 Wigan 38 Forget about the 1-0, but the results aren't that far fetched. If Wigan beat Villa last day and we will need a point home to Stoke. Ok, we'd have taken that in Oct, but not 3 games ago.

Want QPR to win. However unlikely it is if they're still not down with 2 games to go Newcastle going to Loftus Road looks a hell of a lot harder. West Ham away, Arsenal at home and QPR on the back of 2 wins is a pretty tough run in.

Are people saying this is why Shaw's out? Doesn't really make sense . Utd sign Wilfred Zaha and then let him stay at Palace, but agree to sign Shaw but don't let him play for Saints?

Does that include our players, because AL and GR go down pretty easy and J Rod clearly dived at Villa?

Wigan's next 2 are the big ones. WBA and Swansea, win them and it's going to get tight. The thing that makes me a bit more at ease is Villa-Wigan on the last day, as they both cant get 3 points. I've just got a feeling that they'll both need 3 to overtake us, so we should be ok. If you look at the fixtures there's a lot of sides playing each other, so even if Villa win the next 2, they're against Sunderland and Norwich.

Fox was unprofessional. The game was lost and he was already on a yellow,diving in like that was just what I call a "look at me" challenge. He was just trying to show the crowd how "committed" he was. Selfish, headless challenge when he knows Shaw is struggling. I've defended Fox a bit on here, I don't think he's quite as bad as people make out, but that was indefensible.

Glen Campbell

He hasn't played well "in the majority of games he's played in" at all. He's flattered to deceive most games and been like a petulant child in others. We keep being told he'll come good, but I'm not convinced. Tim Vickery said all along that he wouldn't make it in England and after a season he looks right. Yesterday summed him up perfectly. A few decent touches here and there, wayward shot, shiete delivery from corner, giving the ball away and then acting like a baby because another player had the check the chase him back and hassle him/foul him.

The FA have not taken any offense committed 2 seasons prior and in another country into account before in any other disciplinary action. I'm sure if they feel the case is exceptional then they should do, however they set a president with Defoe that biting wasn't exceptional. Therefor I feel that the FA are making this up as they go along and can quite understand Liverpool's issue with this.

I must have missed the Defoe yellow card thread after he bit a fellow professional. Perhaps someone can explain the massive difference between yellow and 10 games because im struggling

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There was a precedent in that Di Cannio got 11 games for very similar offense. A lot of Liverpool fans are rightly upset that Defoe did the same thing and only got a yellow card, with the FA refusing to over rule the Referee saying it was not an exceptional offense ( as per Ben Thatcher).