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would you take 37pts?


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That would be 10 points from our remaining 10 games (a better average than we have for the season to date). So, yes. It would mean a slight upturn in form.

 

Looking at our final 10 fixtures I'm actually struggling to see where the 10 points come from. Today's game is absolutely massive.

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As mentioned 37 points would be a good return from our remaining fixtures. It's going to be tight, very tight.

 

Slightly off tangent but I see old Bagpuss is already trying to distance himself from the financial concerns at QPR. It's never his fault.

 

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11711/8551355/QPR-will-not-face-financial-issues-if-they-go-down-says-Harry-Redknapp

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No matter how many times I do the bbc predictor, the bottom 3 never get more than 35 points, so yes I would take 37. Should add I've never had saints in the bottom 3 either - some of the others have some nasty games left! Biggest games for us are west brom, reading, stoke and west ham. Add in a sneaky point at maybe Sunderland, Swansea or Norwich and possibly against Liverpool and we will be fine. Today is not 'must win' but would be nice to get some breathing space.

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That would be 10 points from our remaining 10 games (a better average than we have for the season to date). So, yes. It would mean a slight upturn in form.

 

Looking at our final 10 fixtures I'm actually struggling to see where the 10 points come from. Today's game is absolutely massive.

 

And yet strangely we took exactly ten points from our last ten games. The points will come...some from unexpected sources no doubt.

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I think 10pts + is possible, I also think that last weekends result against QPR will serve as a kick up the backside. Our performance was almost like we walked onto the pitch expecting to win with ease, as so many commentators have blown sunshine up our backsides regarding the way we have been playing of late.

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I wouldn't want him managing my team if he's happy to 'take' an amount of points which may not get the team safe. An idiotic statement. Fourth from bottom is the goal, whatever points that may mean and he should be focusing on that.

 

Personally I think Saints will do better than that.

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I just did the predictor, only had us winning 2 more games (one at Reading and home to West Ham) and we still stayed up on 38 pts, 3 clear of QPR (Wigan were below us but with a game in hand as it hasn't been arranged yet) and the entire bottom half had no more than 41 each. I had Reading down by about 14 points, with Villa about 5 ahead of them !

 

There's one tremendous weekend coming up in April where all our relegation rivals are playing something like the top 4, and Wigan v Villa on the last day looks... "interesting", though Villa will be long gone by then.

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Today's points took us above the 32 points we achieved last time out in the Prem. Back then 34 points and a GD of -25 kept West Brom up.

 

All fairly trivial really, you will need a bit more than 34 this year. With Wigan and Villa suddenly turning up I think 37/38 will be around the cut off.

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Today's points took us above the 32 points we achieved last time out in the Prem. Back then 34 points and a GD of -25 kept West Brom up.

 

All fairly trivial really, you will need a bit more than 34 this year. With Wigan and Villa suddenly turning up I think 37/38 will be around the cut off.

 

I think it'll be a little more. Excluding Reading and QPR, who I personally think are down, you have one relegation space for, I'd say, nine teams. (i.e. Anyone from Fulham downwards) Of those nine teams, you have those with a bit of form (Us, Wigan, Villa) and you could probably rule out Fulham and, after today, West Ham. That leaves Newcastle, Norwich, Stoke and Sunderland as the teams out of form. It's because the likes of Wigan and Villa are picking up wins, that more sides above are being dragged into the relegation battle. It's a terrible time for one of those teams to be out of form. Newcastle have the players to drag themselves out of it, and Stoke have the talent to fight to win or draw games too. So really it's Norwich and Sunderland that need to watch their backs, pending a continued improvement in form of Wigan and Villa. Even our form could dip, but I don't see it. I still see 40 points as the safety mark, and won't even start relaxing until we're there. Our next two games are immensely winnable. Six points from those and everything else for the rest of the season is playing for places up the league table.

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Today's points took us above the 32 points we achieved last time out in the Prem. Back then 34 points and a GD of -25 kept West Brom up.

 

All fairly trivial really, you will need a bit more than 34 this year. With Wigan and Villa suddenly turning up I think 37/38 will be around the cut off.

 

My view too as there are 8 teams who could fill the third slot and one of them is bound to do badly over the last 7 or 8 games and collect no more than 4 points! 38 should therefore be sufficient.

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