It's very hard to call, Huddersfield are dropping like a stone after a decent start, Brighton are struggling, Stoke can't buy a win, unless Newcastle buy in January they're in trouble.

I'd go for Brighton, Huddersfield, Newcastle but it could be any of the bottom 9, us included.

If we play like we did for the first 85 minutes last night we will go down. However we have played much better than that this season and got nothing so swings and roundabouts.
I hope for West Brom, West Ham, and Man Utd. In reality I will have to settle for West Brom, Swansea and Stoke.

Oddschecker is now showing us at around 2/1 to be related. The current favourites are Swansea, West Brom and Huddersfield - we are in fourth place. Brighton fifth, West Ham sixth.
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Whoever appoints Pulis will survive. But otherwise I hope its WBA, Brighton & West Ham.

I think it's more likely to be Swansea, Huddersfield and Brighton though.

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Aside from Pardew's first half of the 2015/16 season, we're about where we've always been after 17 games:

2013/14 13 points 18th position
2014/15 15 points 17th position
2015/16 29 points 6th position
2016/17 15 points 17th position
2017/18 14 points 18th position

So we're either riding our luck again or we're past masters of making a late surge in the 2nd half of the season. 4 points from the next 2 games would be a good return and see us with more points at the halfway point than 4/5 seasons in the Prem.

Edited by Charlie Croker (14 Dec 2017 5.42pm)

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