The Now-Irrelevant 2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)

James Patrick said:
I'd envisage Palace beating Southampton and Wolves appear to be going to Spurs at the perfect time given their injury crisis. Hopefully we can dig out a victory over Forest and widen the points gap on Leicester.
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Leicester have three of their next four at home. Man. City, Fulham and Palace. Could easily lose all three but at the same time with how poor Man. City are a shock win can't be discounted.

I think as it stands the ideal scenario is to keep three point lead over them or extend it by a couple more points. Then beat them at Goodison and it will be a 8-9 point lead over them with about 15 games left so that would be a very good position to be in as been neck and neck with Leicester for most of this season.
 

I wonder if that is the bottom 3 now. Wolves resurgent under our rejected manager, Palace stabilising, Everton resilient.

If we could scrape the odd win I'd be less concerned - could Broja make that marginal difference ? McNeil returning ?.
 
barneygumble said:
That Jon Rudkin must be an Everton fan.

How, and i say this with sheer bemusement, he's still got is beyond me?

The fans despise him, he's made a strewth of horrible decisions and has made you significantly worse.

By contrast, our fans don't like Thelwell, who's performing considerably better than him.
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Sorry, I post on here then forget, but some of our fanbase is bemused how he is still in the job. Trouble is, because of winning the league and FA Cup, there are sections of the fanbase that will back King Power through everything so the "Rudkin out" chants only consist of a small section of fans.

At the end of the day though, they're now going to end up leaving us with 2 relegations in 3 seasons. I will be amazed if we stay up this season. I don't think we'll bounce back either like last season considering we've lost Dewsbury-Hall and Vardy will be pushing 40 years old. That's on top of players like Vestergaard who we're stuck with on a two/three year contract on a stupid inflated wage (thanks to Rudkin's DOF work).

The board are a disgrace and nothing has changed since our last relegation.
 

CielosGrises said:
I wonder if that is the bottom 3 now. Wolves resurgent under our rejected manager, Palace stabilising, Everton resilient.

If we could scrape the odd win I'd be less concerned - could Broja make that marginal difference ? McNeil returning ?.
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Wolves have a chance against Spurs today. Just read they don’t have a fit CB at all so will be playing Archie Gray and someone else as makeshift CBs.

Perhaps they will buy Keane !!
 
The 3 good points came against 3good teams, no matter the form they are in. Everyone knows how we usually struggle v those teams. Rather get 3 points in 3 sep games v those 3, than win one and lose 2 - (Off course i would want to win any of them - but no point to then lose other 2). Now we have to build hopefully. Lets not forget half the forum seem to think we would be rooted to the bottom 3 and be x amount of points behind about a month ago. So we are already just about swimming above the line. It's never over, till its offically over, no matter how good or bad at a certain time it may look for us.
 
GoldenToffee said:
Massive concerns about relegation if it's 4 without a win today. You cannot have three 'good performances' that result in 0 wins then follow that up with a home game against a team, although in the middle of a purple patch, are no better man for man that you are.
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A win would certainly make December feel much better. Unbeaten, 9 points, at least 4 clean sheets and starting to drift away from the danger zone.

Really need Leicester and Ipswich to lose. They are at home to City and Chelsea so certainly possible

A win and a Leicester loss would put us 6 points and at least 12 goals better off than them
 

Vintage said:
Two dodgy defences then playing eachother. God knows what the score might end up in that one
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It does feel a tiny touch like Wolves are getting a touch of Luck at the minute. Playing a dodgy Leicester side who have conceded tons of shots in a few games. A man Utd side that were rubbish, that played with 10 men for basically whole 2nd half, and a spurs side that seem to have a pile of Injuries. But saying all that, It does not always auto lead to a win. Hopefully from our P.O.V. Wolves dont get it today either. Plus Cunha who souldnt even be playing having a big say in their wins
 
Ring master said:
It does feel a tiny touch like Wolves are getting a touch of Luck at the minute. Playing a dodgy Leicester side who have conceded tons of shots in a few games. A man Utd side that were rubbish, that played with 10 men for basically whole 2nd half, and a spurs side that seem to have a pile of Injuries. But saying all that, It does not always auto lead to a win. Hopefully from our P.O.V. Wolves dont get it today either. Plus Cunch who souldnt even be playing having a big say in their wins
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Agree. A demoralised Leicester would be a good thing though. Hope they get trashed today by City. City must turn up to a game soon …. Mustn’t they ??
 
We also have to consider the risk of only staying up by say less than 5 points and then appointing a new manager.

I’d want a bigger points comfort blanket than that when a new manager comes in with some new players and hopefully a new style. There needs to be a reasonable margin for error.

Hopefully we will be significantly clear of 18th come seasons end but that’s going to require a big improvement in second half of season
 

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