Looking at previous points totals after 17 games it looks very likely that 36 points will suffice this season.

So we only need another 14 points.

Its extremely unlikely that a team currently higher than 13th will go down with the bottom 5 most likely to provide the 3 that go down. At a push you could include Bournemouth.

I think the current bottom 3 will drop and west ham will just stay up.

That's why the Fulham result disappointed me.. they leapfrogged us and have 3 points day light, we win our game in hand, however, and we should feel confident.

I hope we get a shock win vs spuds, quicker we get to 30, the quicker we can relax... it's been a weird season... the break hasn't helped at all, it be interesting to see who will benefit from the break - kinda like the covid season and it changed the flow.

This was once a quality forum....

I think Forest surviving is too radical a proposition atm. They look a bit like a team who have had to sign a whole new squad from Free Agents at the end of a season.

So'ton look very dire, I think appointing Jones was a huge mistake and possibly a fatal one. They have the squad but barring Jones being replaced a la Palace of old (hopefully) I think they will be departing.

Wolves look like the silent creepers into a relegation candidacy but I think may just have enough. I've also got a feeling the Gary O'Neil honeymoon is over for Bournemouth and they may just make up the final place come May.

I would love for it to be Wolves/WHU or Everton. Everton would be my first choice however what I fear is several awakenings over the next few games/weeks where these teams start picking up points... and we start dropping them. Same perennial story then really!

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

I must admit I am having trouble seeing beyond Forest Wolves & Southampton as being prime relegation candidates but with most clubs having 21 / 22 league games still to play (Plus the various cups)its going to be a fairly congested back end to the season which will no doubt throw up a few surprise results -

The next few weeks will give a clearer picture of who is going to struggle after the WC break
If I were a supporter of West Ham or Bournemouth I would be worried already , Southampton I would be resigned to the fact of Championship football

We are not even half-way through the campaign.

I am thinking depth of squads, injuries, will any of our young academy players come through for example, 22 games to play in the PL is quite a stretch.