Relegation

[Bluebonic]

The shagite are going to absolutely disembowel this team. Start digging your fallout bunkers lads, we will have to be in hiding for weeks!!

 

[Handball]

I've just looked at our fixtures between now and new year.
Eight games and as it stands, I'd be amazed if we took more than 9 points from the lot
A win over Brentford is an absolute must, I don't know all that much about them to be fair, but from highlights I've seen, they look a quick, strong team who are very dangerous on the break, which already has we extremely concerned. I can see another Watford type result being a distinct possibility.
Once we get our key players back, we should be grand, but until then, you wonder where the next point is coming from.

 

[diggerdestroyer]

I can see this thread popping up alot more if we fail to beat brentford and rightly so. Of course our first 11 should have enough to finish 10th 11th 12th but it's a squad game over the season and we have some woeful players.

It reminds me of that newcastle team I think 2009 that fell away and ended up in real trouble around feb and eventually got relegated. It's just the complete lack of fight and intensity that has bedded into the team over seasons.

 

[billyblue80]

Doubt we will go down but it could get a lot worse before it improves no idea if Benitez survives that.

 

[blue61]

All the ingredients are there, only a matter of time, unless Moshiri seriously restructures the club from the top down. What a shambles this once great club has become. Hate them all.

 

[GoodisonRoadSupperBarWool]

Whatever our stance on bentiez is the way we are going in 2/3 managers time with this current sacking of managers we go down.

 

[Roachey11]

I'm genuinely not sure where our next win comes. Brentford looked to maybe be the game, but I seriously doubt it with the team that we'll be sending there.

 

[carolinablue232]

Once we get healthy we’ll be fine. The next month or so is gonna hurt though.

 

[strummer]

That is genuinely a championship front three

It's not even that good enough for that level

 

[4737carlin]

Whatever our stance on bentiez is the way we are going in 2/3 managers time with this current sacking of managers we go down.

This is the problem, we have turned too many.over in too short a period of time, of course we are a mess, we can field an 11 bought by about 5 different managers

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Every year this happens and every year we end up nowhere near the relegation fight.

Spot on - the injuries back, the style of play back and we win games again.

9th-12th.

Rinse and Repeat.

 

[Parker]

Spot on - the injuries back, the style of play back and we win games again.

9th-12th.

Rinse and Repeat.

Seriously, even when it was the Koeman-Allardyce crap. I was never worried about relegation because the league is just full of awful teams worse than us.

 

[everton1953]

Doomed?

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Seriously, even when it was the Koeman-Allardyce crap. I was never worried about relegation because the league is just full of awful teams worse than us.

Even if we went down I wouldn't be arsed in the slightest as the parachute money near enough guarantees you come back up providing you can keep the bulk of your players like Newcastle, Fulham, Norwich did etc. Its not the death knell it used to be 10-15+ years ago.

Sure you'll get ribbed by the Kopites but it would actually force change and get the structure of the club sweeped clean and likely a few of the wastes of a wage like Iwobi off the books.

Hasn't done Leicester, Wolves & Villa any harm.

 

[The Sorting Hat]

People laughed when I said even if we went down I wouldn't be arsed in the slightest as the parachute money near enough guarantees you come back up within 1-2 outside of some awful mismanagement.

Sure you'll get ribbed by the Kopites but it would actually force change and get the structure of the club sweeped clean and likely a few of the wastes of a wage like Iwobi off the books.

Hasn't done Leicester, Villa & Wolves any harm.

No mate. People laughed when you said Benitez would get us into Europe
Then they laughed when you said we'd finish 8th under Benitez
Then they laughed when you said we'd finish in the top half under Benitez
Then they laughed when you said we'd finish above 12th under Benitez
Then they laughed when you said we'd easily finish above the relegation zone
Then they laughed when you said Benitez getting us relegated isn't a problem because Rafael is such a great manager he'd use the parachute manager to get us back up.

We aren't laughing with you...