Relegation Thread 2023/24

[Deutsch Wolf]

Meanwhile Bournemouth's genius strategy of buying players who are injured is working wonders as Tyler Adams is injured again.

Alex Scott still out for ages too.

 

[Tony Towner]

Graham Taylor is looking down with a wry smile

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Graham Taylor is looking down with a wry smile

Daley was obviously a bad mistake but you could kind of see why we did it, his ceiling was way higher than second tier at the time, Taylor knew him and had got some great football out of him sporadically, we were going big in the market. (Obviously we should have pulled the plug)

Hunt is the worst we've done of those, out for ages and we knew it, a chunk out of the budget that we couldn't afford to waste, played in the same position as one of our best players so why bother, never had any skill or much quality and was all about legs, effort and shithousing. After about 2 games when he eventually came in it was so obvious his legs had completely gone so you were just left with someone who was there purely for nuisance value wasting a shirt every week, terrible signing.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Louise Taylor with a great take in the Guardian this morning.

Burnley, meanwhile, were very good to watch at St James’ Park. Vincent Kompany’s team are mentally, as well as physically brave. They deserve to stay up.

1) This doesn't look like a very good performance? MOTD had it down as a routine Newcastle win, and the two goals came through dreadful errors.


2) They've got 1 point from 6 games, no matter how tough their schedule has been, that means you deserve relegation as it stands.

 

[Kenny]

I think there is a desire within the media to build up people they think should get certain jobs. So for Kompany many think he is destined for the City job. So a narrative is set up for him.

Same happened with Gerrard who was the natural successor to Klopp at Liverpool. That went very quiet as he struggled at Villa.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Remember Fergie's successor...

 

[Kenny]

He has had a lot though! as any manager who played under him had a sniff of success they were his replacement

 

[jd1981]

Louise Taylor with a great take in the Guardian this morning.



1) This doesn't look like a very good performance? MOTD had it down as a routine Newcastle win, and the two goals came through dreadful errors.

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2) They've got 1 point from 6 games, no matter how tough their schedule has been, that means you deserve relegation as it stands.

Man Utd, Villa and Spurs at home aren’t guaranteed defeats. One of which was a 5-2 defeat, they drew a winnable fixture at Forest.

 

[Mel Evo]

Man Utd, Villa and Spurs at home aren’t guaranteed defeats. One of which was a 5-2 defeat, they drew a winnable fixture at Forest.

The Louise Taylor vote of confidence would be the final act of a depressing weekend if I were a Burnley fan.

 

[jd1981]

I think there’s two segments of the relegation battle first batch are in extreme danger that includes: Sheff Utd, Burnley, Luton, Bournemouth, Everton.
Next bunch are in considerable danger: Wolves, Forest, Brentford, Fulham.
You can easily move between each segment depending on injuries etc

 

[YoungWolf]

Louise Taylor with a great take in the Guardian this morning.



1) This doesn't look like a very good performance? MOTD had it down as a routine Newcastle win, and the two goals came through dreadful errors.

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2) They've got 1 point from 6 games, no matter how tough their schedule has been, that means you deserve relegation as it stands.

I find their squad really strange. Mixture of either Belgian league players, bog standard championship players and quite a lot of young players.

maybe they are still adjusting but they haven’t looked particularly good to me yet.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I think there’s two segments of the relegation battle first batch are in extreme danger that includes: Sheff Utd, Burnley, Luton, Bournemouth, Everton.
Next bunch are in considerable danger: Wolves, Forest, Brentford, Fulham.
You can easily move between each segment depending on injuries etc

Chelsea

 

[sycophantia]

Chelsea

Actually I was looking at fixtures and trying to decide what kind of result would suit us tonight.
In all seriousness I guess we have to assume Chelsea will string some results together and finish at least 8-10th. Fulham on the other hand look very ordinary and should be well within our range.

 

[Donegal Wolf]

Actually I was looking at fixtures and trying to decide what kind of result would suit us tonight.
In all seriousness I guess we have to assume Chelsea will string some results together and finish at least 8-10th. Fulham on the other hand look very ordinary and should be well within our range.

Chelsea's fixtures between now & December
Fulham A
Burnley A
Arsenal H
Brentford H
Tottenham A
Man City H
Newcastle A
Brighton H
Man Utd A

Cant see them getting many pts from those, wouldnt surprise me if they are in bottom 6 after that run of games, am sure they will pull away eventually have a run of Everton, Sheff Utd, us, Palace & Luton after that but they could be in turmoil when we play them at Christmas.

 

[sycophantia]

Chelsea's fixtures between now & December
Fulham A
Burnley A
Arsenal H
Brentford H
Tottenham A
Man City H
Newcastle A
Brighton H
Man Utd A

Cant see them getting many pts from those, wouldnt surprise me if they are in bottom 6 after that run of games, am sure they will pull away eventually have a run of Everton, Sheff Utd, us, Palace & Luton after that but they could be in turmoil when we play them at Christmas.

That would be delicious but I find it hard to believe they'll carry on to be so bad for that long

 

[Tony Towner]

I agree, but it's not just this season, it's getting on for a year now. Seems highly unlikely they'll stay there as they have a good manager but it's not a blip

 

[sycophantia]

I agree, but it's not just this season, it's getting on for a year now. Seems highly unlikely they'll stay there as they have a good manager but it's not a blip

Oh it's not a blip, just indicative of a club with a guy running the club that knows fuck all about football but trying to have a say in football side of things, he's obviously not a dummy so you'd expect eventually he'll just let his highly paid and rated manager sort out the football side of things, including transfers.

 

[AndyWolves]

Oh it's not a blip, just indicative of a club with a guy running the club that knows fuck all about football but trying to have a say in football side of things, he's obviously not a dummy so you'd expect eventually he'll just let his highly paid and rated manager sort out the football side of things, including transfers.

I shared on another thread about the owner going into the dressing room, that rarely works out well

 

[Jinky]

0-0 would be nice tonight. Actually, I'm going to watch it, so I'll take a 5-5 draw so it's at least entertaining.

 

[Tony Towner]

Just stumbled across a semi interesting, at least to me, fact.
Of the teams who started the 2010/11 season, the one where we stayed up on the last day, all but the Top 7 were relegated within 8 seasons. Some like Wolves have come back up, but it shows how for all but the few it's when not if.