We are not safe and I remember the Oldham year all to painfully but TP is an utter professional and will not let the players focus drop. A win against Villa and that will be enough, a draw and then a draw from either West Ham or Everton will also be enough. There could be the case of us going to Fulham safe and them needing a win to stay up!

The ups and downs of Palace have left me older than my years

3 Points from Villa and its all over.

3 (Cardiff, Fulham, Sunderland) teams basically have to turn their season round and do something that they haven't managed all season which is to get 4 wins from 5 games Or from sunderlands POV 4 from 7. Even then, it will be reliant on us not picking up 3 points from 15 available.

Sunderland have the hardest run in, no doubt they will get some points unexpectedly, but its too much for them, to surpass us at least. Same for Cardiff and Fulham.

....If we win next week.

Edited by JL85 (06 Apr 2014 1.14pm)

I was speaking to a Fulham supporter the other day who had given up all hope of his team staying up. Yet and yet, IF they beat Norwich (Who are not good away from home) they will only be 2 pts behind the 'Canaries' and Norwich's remaining games are against Arsenal,Chelsea, Liverpool and Man C !

Edited by Willo (06 Apr 2014 1.23pm)

It's still all very tight. It wouldn't surprise me if Fulham beat Norwhich next week and with their remaining fixtures if that happens I think Norwhich will go down.
3 points from Villa and we will be pretty much safe unless some disastrous miracle happens.

I wouldn't say far from safe, but you can't really rest until you've finished the season. It'd take a miracle to keep Cardiff up now, but we need three more points to really feel safe.

3 points against Villa, and we're talking about where we can finish, and not what we have to do to stay up. No point taking the foot off the gas, we still need to try to get the best result each week. We can still decide who wins the league.

After all Pulis has never finished lower than 15th, it be nice if we could keep his never relegated record intact and finish above 15th place.

It'd be a great season if we could also take some points from City and from Liverpool to hang alongside that Chelsea scalp.

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Weren't all the Cardiff fans resting their laurals on beating us on saturday?

I am optimistic, but its still going to be a close call. We do need to beat Villa but still, thats one big game! Form wise our better then them at the moment and are favorites to win, but thats not enough for me. Its one game that we could mess up or get unlucky in.

All I'm saying is, it doesnt matter who we are playing, the point is, when you are basing survival on a single 90 mins of football, its still a little desperate. If we needed one win, and we had 3 winnable games, then maybe that would be a different story.

Then again, we have a possible 9 points to collect - villa, west ham and fulham..!

So we should be able to do it!