28 West Ham - 0

Nov

4 Tottenham - 0

18 Everton - 1

25 Stoke - 3

28 Brighton - 0

Dec

2 West Brom - 1

9 Bournemouth - 3

12 Watford - 1

16 Leicester - 0

That's how I see it going, I think we'll get 9 points from those 9 games

Edited by jimruss (24 Oct 2017 10.15am)

Home; West Ham - 1

Nov

Away Tottenham - 1

Home Everton - 3
Home Stoke - 3

Away Brighton - 1

Dec

Away West Brom - 0

Home Bournemouth - 3

Home Watford - 0

Away Leicester - 1

Yes it's possible to get 13pts from nine games. This is how I see it could play out.Glass half full not half empty approach.

3 points from 9 games and just 2 goals scored are grim statistics.

On the positive, and objective side, a reasonably convincing argument can be put forward based on our record from similar-ish situations over the last four seasons and Roy Hodgson's average Premier win ration of around 37%. I suppose it boils down to the "we've done it before so we can do it again" hypothesis. Given that we've got our strongest ever starting 11 in the Prem (injuries and form allowing), there is surely cause for cautious optimism.

On the negative, and subjective side, our continuing problem of getting points from games where we control play and have a decent share of possession shows no signs of improving. This is particularly hurting us at Selhurst Park where our dismal points tally against teams in the bottom half of the table continues. A procession of managers have not been able to reverse this trend and unless and until we can, we are always going to put ourselves under pressure. I know it's the 'Palace way' to be contrary and inconsistent, but I do worry about just how feasible it is in the long term to keep beating top six teams to compensate for home defeats against bottom six teams. I guess this is the "you can't keep on flirting with relegation because you'll eventually come a cropper" theory.

I believe Roy Hodgson is the right manager for us in these circumstances. I think we have a better chance of avoiding relegation than our current position and statistics would suggest. However, we have to start picking up points now so I suspect it's likely to be a tough and attritional battle against West Ham on Saturday - even more so since Bilic seems to have been given two matches to save his job.

I think we'll pick up something against West Ham. Definitely think we will get something against Brighton, our squad has a fair few players that we're with us when we last played them so they will know and let the rest of the squad know how important this game is (or at least I hope) and hopefully they will remember poo-gate and use that to fire them up

We are not going down and so confident am I that I will dive naked into Thornton Heath pond and proceed to do 10 lengths backstroke should I be proven wrong.

This beats anything Paddy Power can offer!

Bring back Brolin