With the bottom 3 losing this weekend and Newcastle and Everton winning it feels like that may be it wrapped up. It would however be nice to get a win as soon as possible though just to increase the gap to avoid being sucked in just in case any of the bottom 3 to manage to put together a great run of form!

The bottom line is that we do not look remotely close to a team that’s about to be relegated. We have lost the same amount of games as Spurs, Wolves and West Ham but have just drawn much too many games.

It’s an unbelievably competitive division this year but is not a hope of us going down.

Norwich, Watford Burnley are doomed.

Doomed I tell you, doomed doomed doomed!!!!!

The nearest to us Norwich are 9 points adrift.

It's all very well saying they can catch up, but it's a very different matter on the pitch.

At best say a point a game that's 9 matches just to catch up, there are then only 5 more matches to play in the entire season.

And we, of course, would have had to lose 9 on the trot.
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_________________________________________________________________Burnley have three games in hand over us they could easily pick up 7 point. We play Watford twice that 6 points at stake. Our position is far more precarious than you think. It’s unlikely that we will go down but it’s a possibility if we don’t start winning a few games

Usually a point a game is enough to survive but this season there are no really poor teams so it is not going to be inconceivable teams in the relegation dog fight pick up points towards the end of the season. Particularly if they are playing teams with not much to play for. Burnley yesterday had 2 or 3 half chances to take the lead against Liverpool and that was virtually the top versus the bottom team. Teams in this division do get worked out and i think we may need some tweaking to help create more chances.
I also agree with the Zaha sentiments. Brentford were manning up on him and if we moved the ball quickly to the right we would have created some 1 v 1's but more often that not Zaha's pass was to predictable and got cut out.
On plus side ( and hopefully i won't jinx us ) but we are defending set pieces a lot better.

All the teams in the bottom 3 have attained approx 0.7 pts a game.Even if their results improve and they all attain an average of 1 pt a game from now until the end of the season, none of them would finish on more than 31 pts.

This thread is a mirror of last season's. And the season before that. Perhaps the Oldham debacle has left a deep residing fear in the minds of Palace fans.
Trying to look at it calmly, the bottom three are very poor indeed; we are a little better. The potential is there, albeit we are a bit hit and miss and have become predictable in recent games. We should have enough to see the season out and have a cup run too.
Stay positive!