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If we can beat Chelsea, we can stay up??
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 Croydonlad  sydenham 15 Oct 17 7.40am |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
Make no mistake, from here it's going to be tough. A few of the teams down there won't be down there soon and our shocking goal difference is another point against us. It's going to take months and months to correct this. Chelsea were about a 6/10 for them today. We'll need quite a big points per game average which we never seem to do gradually so I'd delay the premature celebrations and stroking each other off for 7 months yet. Spot On ~ Yep today was fab ~ but last year we seemed to get a fantastic result every week and it took 3 months to get safe
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| YT Oxford 15 Oct 17 7.59am |
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I've posted elsewhere that we are only 3 points behind last season based on the same 8 games, if you assume Huddersfield replaced Sunderland. So "don't panic" has to be the mantra, with hope that confidence has been restored.
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| Harry Beever Newbury 15 Oct 17 8.46am |
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Doesn't seem like their heads ever dropped too much despite results so hopefully they won't get carried away and feel too relaxed next week. Still a lot of work to do but "buzzing" as Wilf would say. Hopefully we'll prove the lazy pundits who go along with whoever is at the bottom of the table in October as "doomed" wrong yet again as they so often are. Fingers heavily crossed.....
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| Goldfiinger Just down the road 15 Oct 17 9.13am |
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Then will be on 9 points from 10 games, obviously this is football and who knows what'll happen but if the same desire turns up as did yesterday i just can't see us struggling now at all. Roy is gonna get his Palace Army on the march up the table. Roy's post match presser [Link]
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chateauferret  15 Oct 17 2.19pm |
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Everton are playing Seaweed at the moment and both teams look completely s***. Good.
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| Username Horsham 15 Oct 17 3.13pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
Make no mistake, from here it's going to be tough. A few of the teams down there won't be down there soon and our shocking goal difference is another point against us. It's going to take months and months to correct this. Chelsea were about a 6/10 for them today. We'll need quite a big points per game average which we never seem to do gradually so I'd delay the premature celebrations and stroking each other off for 7 months yet. I'm not saying it will be easy, only that despite the awful nature of our start we are still in touch with everyone else. Keeping us up has been billed as some impossible task by a lot of the press, but we don't need to go on a ridiculous winning run to stay up from here. Over the last ten years the 12th placed team int the league has averaged 1.18 points per game, which if we manage for the rest of the season would give us 38 points. That would have us up in nine of the last ten seasons. Birmingham went down with 39 points in 2011. That's what I mean when I say that from this point on we need to aim to be an average, midtable team with our form. We don't need to get carried away trying to desperately win every game. From here we need to be the 12th best team in the league and that should be enough.
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| rollercoaster Cornwall 15 Oct 17 3.22pm |
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I think with a fit first eleven we have a good chance of staying up this year. However we do not have a good enough squad so if we sustain many injuries then we will go down.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 15 Oct 17 4.03pm |
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Originally posted by Goldfiinger
No actual idea but the thought crossed my mind.. Would a Bosnian (Begovic) and a Serb (Luka) want to play together? I'd drop Luca's song. If Begovic was our keeper I don't think he'd like to hear about a murdering man from Serbia ringing in his ears.
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| EddieMac 16 Oct 17 9.52am |
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Hopefully that win will stop the negative fans whinging for a while. Getting Roy in has been a masterstroke and I cant wait till the chap proves all his doubters wrong. Benteke's injury has been the blessing of the year, every team had us figured out and we were so easy to play against. And now we are going to be a nightmare to play against. Very difficult to prepare your defence when you dont know where the attack will come from. In the short term, no out and out striker should get us points and hopefully sign a different style of striker in January. We still need a decent left back, Even If we combined Schlupp, VA and Soaure we still wouldnt make a decent left full. If Ward can hold that form from Saturday then he may has saved his palace career. Onwards and upwards lads, The future is bright and roll on Saturday.
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| EddieMac 16 Oct 17 10.08am |
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Our Next 11 premier league games. Newcastle Away We are now running into a very decent run of games till Christmas, we should be well clear of relegation by Christmas day.
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| Pigglelet Deepest Darkest Sussex 16 Oct 17 10.39am |
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Originally posted by YT
I've posted elsewhere that we are only 3 points behind last season based on the same 8 games, if you assume Huddersfield replaced Sunderland. So "don't panic" has to be the mantra, with hope that confidence has been restored.
In the games we could/should have done better we dropped points in the home games against West Ham (-3), Everton (-3), Bournemouth (-2), Burnley (-3), West Brom (-3) and Leicester (-2) and away at Swansea (-3), Southampton (-3), West Ham (-3) and Stoke (-3). Games where we exceeded expectations were home to Arsenal (+3) and Chelsea away (+3). If we were to gain just half of those dropped points this time round and we don’t repeat the results at Arsenal and Chelsea, we would still be 8 points better off. Taking off the 3 we are already down as well would give us another 5 points and mean us finishing the season on 46 points (of course always assuming we can match the haul of 1.5 points per game from the 18 I haven't mentioned above).
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