2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)

[Saint Domingo]

1 defeat in 7 games...Dyche OUT!

Ultimately it’s this that makes me confident of survival. He finds a way to stop losing runs and keep points ticking over. There’ll be sides at the bottom going on huge losing streaks getting punted for loads of goals. We normally find a way to stay competitive most games.

 

[davek]

Completely ridiculous writing games off just as it’s ridiculous looking at a fixture and saying we’ll win that. All games in the PL are difficult, especially away from home, for all teams. Fulham just slapped Palace on their own ground, West Ham beat United at their place. Teams will drop points at Ipswich. Equally though there’s an opportunity for points every game. We’ll pick up points in December no doubt in my mind.

Same fixtures last season (another season we were "defo going down lad"): United away, Liverpool home, Chelsea home, Arsenal away, City away we took 6 points from.

 

[davek]

Ultimately it’s this that makes me confident of survival. He finds a way to stop losing runs and keep points ticking over. There’ll be sides at the bottom going on huge losing streaks getting punted for loads of goals. We normally find a way to stay competitive most games.

There's half a dozen teams at the bottom who'd take our squad + Dyche as manager to secure PL status.

 

[NorthernBlue]

1 defeat in 7 games...Dyche OUT!

Given the shocking first 4 games then 10 points from these games is not great.

Leicester
Palace
Newcastle
Ipswich
Fulham
Southampton
West Ham

Makes the next three games vital before the horrible 4 games in a row on the horizon.

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

A rudder less ship comes to mind as our form is apathetic

 

[davek]

Given the shocking first 4 games then 10 points from these games is not great.

Leicester
Palace
Newcastle
Ipswich
Fulham
Southampton
West Ham

Makes the next three games vital before the horrible 4 games in a row on the horizon.

Vital?

I'm not sure of that.

We're as close to mid-table as we are to the drop zone.

 

[Runub]

We're as close to mid-table as we are to the drop zone.

This is true at the moment but based on what we see on the pitch week in week out the gap to mid-table will get wider and the gap to the bottom will shrink

 

[Blue peter]

Whoever the new manager is next season, I really he gets the same understanding that 1) the clubs been a circus 2) the squads crap and I hope his target for some fans just to be safe and avoid relegation. I do wonder though when we start to just want that little bit more? Moving to the new stadium is not going to be the game changer some think it will be.

 

[Ring master]

Not that it matters now but i actually think that Saints disallowed goal v Wolves should have counted,or should a pen to them

 

[NorthernBlue]

Vital?

I'm not sure of that.

We're as close to mid-table as we are to the drop zone.

We’ll likely be bottom three going into the bad 4 fixtures if we don’t take care of business against Brentford and Wolves

 

[MikeH72]

1 defeat in 7 games...Dyche OUT!

Or 2 wins in 11 games with the easiest run of fixtures on paper in the whole league, if you want to slice it a different way.

 

[davek]

Or 2 wins in 11 games with the easiest run of fixtures on paper in the whole league, if you want to slice it a different way.

I prefer to look at the table and see that we've been way worse off than this in the last three seasons.

 

[MikeH72]

I prefer to look at the table and see that we've been way worse off than this in the last three seasons.

I prefer not to look at that table to be honest with you.

This time last season we had 14 points too.

 

[Timak]

So some of the people who cried about how boring Moyes was for years and years are now the biggest supporters of Dyche.

Almost as if it is deliberate contrarianism.

 

[nsno-chris]

The only person who has put us in a relegation fight is the mangaer

A bottom feeder who thrives in portraying a lie of some magical saviour