Relegation Thread

Pretty certain that QPR are going down 1/3 with Stan James.
Safety / survival , probably around 38 points at a guess , cant see QPR picking up 28 points over the rest of the season , they look terrible against Liverpool at the moment and are heading for a mauling.

Bookies have Reading at 1/6 to go down , seems a fair shout.
Then it gets to be a bit of a struggle , Southampton at 4/5 , can they pick up the required points ?
Wigan will probably do the usual , decent run tail end of the season , survive again @ 9/4

Any chance of a so called BIG team dropping out ? And can i include Villa in that statement ?
Villa @ 13/8
Wigan @ 15/8
Sunderland @ 7/1 , surprised they are as high as 7s
Newcastle , Fulham and Norwich all at 10/1.

Any thoughts then ?

I've said all season I thought Villa would struggle and they aren't proving me wrong, difference being with Villa is that they do have a big performance within them whilst a few of the teams around them don't .
I think Wigan will be ok as they have trodden this path many times before, I know it sounds a bit obvious to say but I think any three from those currently in the bottom four will go down, thats QPR and Reading gone with Villa and Southampton fighting to avoid the last spot.

Reading aren't getting out, & like i said yesterday even despite the 'arry factor QPR look fucked. he's lost the players already.
s'oton have a bit of fight about them & they're our biggest dangers. Wigan will go at some point as they can't keep flirting with danger every season & get away with it, but we were down there last season so the same could be said for us. I found it funny when West Ham cried on going down as they'd been fighting it for years soI won't cry now. I've always thought it'd be close & I think we have just enough but its hard to say that at the moment. Obviously the Wigan result is a real knife in us, but they still won't be far away, & I've always thought West Ham could still collapse yet.
They key for Villa id Dunne & Vlaar back & playing together. The cups could come at the right time for us, & the only other bright spot is that I'd rather have this run now than in April

I've thought of another key for villa actually. I read somewhere that we are the lowest scorers in the prem this season & I think a major problem could be that someone might come in for Benteke in the window. The last 3 games hes shown to be a bit too eager & looked naive in getting caught offside a lot but apart from that he's been a very good signing for us. the problem is that we only paid 7 or 8 million so someone offering double could be a problem, particularly as apparently he thought he was joining a London club....I kid you not. If he is mysteriously missing from the team at Ipswich in the FA Cup next week it might be time to look at backing Villa for the drop particularly as it sounded a bit like Demba Ba to Chelsea sounded done & dusted earlier

I'm still relatively confident & I feel Dunne & Vlaar can do the centre half bit. Vlaar is mobile enough that at least it wouldnt be like Dunne playing alongside Collins, which at times was like Evans & McNaught

You're right about Benteke being unable to play for another club this season, although its rumoured Spurs want him in the summer

Villa under evens, & only 5/1 to finish bottom

If anyones got any maps showing how to get to Gillingham & Port Vale I can probably get rid of them for you.....

Been thinking about Lambert. Personally I want to see him stay but his stubbornness ala Wenger regarding the kids & his comment that hes only looking at 1 or 2 players in the window might hurt him. He's supposed to have been called in by Lerner after the Bradford match & if you look at the next 10 days weve got Albion away live, then if we get knocked out by Bradford in the 2nd leg, with 10 days of the month to go, i wouldnt be surprised if he goes.
Just looked for a next manager to go market but couldnt see one, although Betvictor have a next permanent Villa manager market with Di Matteo @ 2/1 & 16/1 bar!! They know something? I would've took Hughes before & can see it actually, but i'm not sure now. i'd like to see Lambert stay but if form like this continues hes fucked

1/3 hes gone by the last match

Best price 4/7 to be next manager to go, & if you take a very stingy Ladbrokes out of it they're 8/1 bar

Gus Poyet is the man for Villa, you should go get him.

Why did PL leave Norwich ? he was worshipped there.

Nelsons gone, played his last match

Villa are in a big, big fight & its touch b& go whether we get away with it. Reading & S'oton have made a fight of it & sacking Atkins is either a masterstroke or a complete fuck up, no middle ground. I don't see anyone breaking away out of it but Fulham or West Ham, & possibly Norwich, could easily be added to the mix. Wigan have chanced it for years, everyone says how good Martinez is but he doesn't improve them & they're always in there

the temptation regarding QPR is that losing Nelsen is big, as the fans were singing he was playing on his own under Hughes. 'Arry just seems to have lost more players than he's won over & his body language says that although they've improved a bit, he doesn't believe