| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? 10:12 - Apr 3 with 2341 views | Pippin1970 |
Has anyone going back from the old first division escaped relegation with huge margin. |  | | |  |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 10:18 - Apr 3 with 2289 views | gainsboroughblue |
Fulham in 2008 was one I remember but I don't recall how many points they had to make up.
West Ham, with Tevez etc, the year before that too. |  |
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| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 10:27 - Apr 3 with 2246 views | itfcjoe |
Off top of my head and checking details on wiki
West Ham with Tevez won 7 of last 9 games to stay up by 3 points
Oldham in 92/93 under BFJ won their last 3 games across a week (vs Villa, Liverpool and Soton) to stay up on goal difference ahead of Palace (They went into final day 2 goals and 3 points worse off)
Leicester stayed up by 6 points in 14/15, ahead of title win, but finished the season P9 W7 D1 L1 to get 22 points from those games - before that they had 19 from 29 and were rock bottom |  |
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| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 10:33 - Apr 3 with 2189 views | BlueBadger |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 10:27 - Apr 3 by itfcjoe |
Off top of my head and checking details on wiki
West Ham with Tevez won 7 of last 9 games to stay up by 3 points
Oldham in 92/93 under BFJ won their last 3 games across a week (vs Villa, Liverpool and Soton) to stay up on goal difference ahead of Palace (They went into final day 2 goals and 3 points worse off)
Leicester stayed up by 6 points in 14/15, ahead of title win, but finished the season P9 W7 D1 L1 to get 22 points from those games - before that they had 19 from 29 and were rock bottom |
West Ham breaking the rules to sign Tevez and stay up would have annoyed me more had out not been the Blunts under Warnock who got relegated as a result. |  |
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| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 10:43 - Apr 3 with 2157 views | homer_123 |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 10:33 - Apr 3 by BlueBadger |
West Ham breaking the rules to sign Tevez and stay up would have annoyed me more had out not been the Blunts under Warnock who got relegated as a result. |
Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella! |  |
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| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 10:45 - Apr 3 with 2140 views | Blueschev |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 10:43 - Apr 3 by homer_123 |
Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella! |
I actually like Colin. |  | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 11:19 - Apr 3 with 2033 views | homer_123 |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 10:45 - Apr 3 by Blueschev |
I actually like Colin. |
I don't dislike him. | |
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| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 12:50 - Apr 3 with 1867 views | SouthfieldsBlue |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 10:27 - Apr 3 by itfcjoe |
Off top of my head and checking details on wiki
West Ham with Tevez won 7 of last 9 games to stay up by 3 points
Oldham in 92/93 under BFJ won their last 3 games across a week (vs Villa, Liverpool and Soton) to stay up on goal difference ahead of Palace (They went into final day 2 goals and 3 points worse off)
Leicester stayed up by 6 points in 14/15, ahead of title win, but finished the season P9 W7 D1 L1 to get 22 points from those games - before that they had 19 from 29 and were rock bottom |
Going to need West Ham style end to the season to stay up, and even then when might get screwed by a high points tally this season. | | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 12:54 - Apr 3 with 1856 views | Blueschev |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 12:50 - Apr 3 by SouthfieldsBlue |
Going to need West Ham style end to the season to stay up, and even then when might get screwed by a high points tally this season. |
It would go down as my favourite season ever if we now went on a run just as West Ham go in to free-fall, and we beat them on the final day to stay up at their expense. It's on my birthday too.
*Edit: I thought West Ham were on 30 points not 34. Looks like my dream won't come true. [Post edited 3 Apr 12:56]
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| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 14:09 - Apr 3 with 1648 views | SouthfieldsBlue |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 12:54 - Apr 3 by Blueschev |
It would go down as my favourite season ever if we now went on a run just as West Ham go in to free-fall, and we beat them on the final day to stay up at their expense. It's on my birthday too.
*Edit: I thought West Ham were on 30 points not 34. Looks like my dream won't come true. [Post edited 3 Apr 12:56]
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Their form is pretty poor and their fixtures not especially kind. Definitely a wild longshore, but I wouldn't let the dream of us relegating West Ham at their place to save ourselves die just yet. | | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 14:12 - Apr 3 with 1631 views | itfcsuth |
I mean it would be one of the best I am sure.
Didn't West Brom perform some sort of great escape under Mogga? |  | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 14:16 - Apr 3 with 1610 views | Blueschev |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 14:09 - Apr 3 by SouthfieldsBlue |
Their form is pretty poor and their fixtures not especially kind. Definitely a wild longshore, but I wouldn't let the dream of us relegating West Ham at their place to save ourselves die just yet. |
Win 6 of our next 8 games and we finish on 35 points, just have to bank on them losing all of theirs. 96th minute Kalvin Phillips winner would be sweet, their fans would love that. Not sure the walk back to the station after the game would be particularly pleasant in this scenario. [Post edited 3 Apr 14:17]
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| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 14:23 - Apr 3 with 1576 views | NedPlimpton |
Looks like Sunderland 13/14 were 7 points from safety with with 6 matches left to play. Stayed up with one game left to play
And West Ham 06/07 were 10 points from safety with nine games left to play. Stayed up on the final day
So it has been done! |  | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 14:24 - Apr 3 with 1569 views | ElderGrizzly |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 10:27 - Apr 3 by itfcjoe |
Off top of my head and checking details on wiki
West Ham with Tevez won 7 of last 9 games to stay up by 3 points
Oldham in 92/93 under BFJ won their last 3 games across a week (vs Villa, Liverpool and Soton) to stay up on goal difference ahead of Palace (They went into final day 2 goals and 3 points worse off)
Leicester stayed up by 6 points in 14/15, ahead of title win, but finished the season P9 W7 D1 L1 to get 22 points from those games - before that they had 19 from 29 and were rock bottom |
Leicester immediately sprung to mind too and we are going to need to do something similar to have any chance you’d assume |  | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 14:55 - Apr 3 with 1444 views | SouthfieldsBlue |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 14:16 - Apr 3 by Blueschev |
Win 6 of our next 8 games and we finish on 35 points, just have to bank on them losing all of theirs. 96th minute Kalvin Phillips winner would be sweet, their fans would love that. Not sure the walk back to the station after the game would be particularly pleasant in this scenario. [Post edited 3 Apr 14:17]
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If we win 6 of 8 we finish on 38! But to take it to the last day, it means 5 wins from 7, so likely need to be flawless against Wolves, Everton, Leicester and Brentofrd, whilst picking up a win from Chelsea, Arsenal and Newcastle. That could set us up for the final day at West Ham if they struggle against everyone bar Southampton. | | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 14:59 - Apr 3 with 1412 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 14:23 - Apr 3 by NedPlimpton |
Looks like Sunderland 13/14 were 7 points from safety with with 6 matches left to play. Stayed up with one game left to play
And West Ham 06/07 were 10 points from safety with nine games left to play. Stayed up on the final day
So it has been done! |
All very encouraging but I suspect there were more teams hovering who were able to be sucked in than we have this year.
We are literally looking at Wolves and nobody else. | |
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| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 15:08 - Apr 3 with 1351 views | NedPlimpton |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 14:59 - Apr 3 by gainsboroughblue |
All very encouraging but I suspect there were more teams hovering who were able to be sucked in than we have this year.
We are literally looking at Wolves and nobody else. |
Yep, and it's not like Wolves are on a particularly bad run of form either! | | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 15:15 - Apr 3 with 1316 views | Smoresy |
Personal target is disbanding the Luton appreciation society that was attracting converts for a weird couple of weeks on here, as well as refuting the guy who keeps claiming that Leicester are our equal or better in "almost every metric". We're now 7 points from beating Luton's total last season, which would make us the most competitive promoted side of the past two seasons. | | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 15:21 - Apr 3 with 1289 views | forrestsfringe |
Pedant alert but at least two posts on this thread refer to us playing at West Ham on the last day; however they’re going to come to Portman Road on the final day, we lost there at the start of October. | | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 16:58 - Apr 3 with 1081 views | Blue_In_Boston |
Pre Premier League days Coventry used to pull off some mad escape acts. I'm sure they would win 7 out of their last 8 games most seasons when it looked like they were dead and buried. | | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 17:27 - Apr 3 with 996 views | The_Major |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 16:58 - Apr 3 by Blue_In_Boston |
Pre Premier League days Coventry used to pull off some mad escape acts. I'm sure they would win 7 out of their last 8 games most seasons when it looked like they were dead and buried. |
84/85 springs to mind. I think Cov were as good as down with about half a dozen games to go, but it got to the last game, and they played Everton, who were already champions. And because they were also FA Cup and Cup Winners Cup finalists, they didn't actually play this game until the end of May.
This being before the days when all teams played the last games at the same time, this was a good couple of weeks after everyone else had finished. Coventry had to win, and because Everton were firmly ensconced on the beach by that point, they did so 3-1.
So up stayed the mighty Sky Blues and instead down went.... Norwich. Tee hee. |  | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 17:27 - Apr 3 with 994 views | Radlett_blue |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 16:58 - Apr 3 by Blue_In_Boston |
Pre Premier League days Coventry used to pull off some mad escape acts. I'm sure they would win 7 out of their last 8 games most seasons when it looked like they were dead and buried. |
plus the notorious draw with Bristol city, when Jimmy Hill got the Coventry kick off delayed by 20 minutes. |  |
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| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 17:52 - Apr 3 with 933 views | Bluedandy |
Don't forget that we've dramatically avoided the drop from the Premier League before.
On the last day of the season in 1994 we were going down up until Mark Stein scored an injury time winner for Chelsea against Sheffield United.
It meant the Blades replaced us in the bottom three, otherwise we were doomed on goal difference despite earning a decent draw at Blackburn.
Oh pray that history somehow repeats itself. | | | |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 17:56 - Apr 3 with 916 views | Radlett_blue |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 17:52 - Apr 3 by Bluedandy |
Don't forget that we've dramatically avoided the drop from the Premier League before.
On the last day of the season in 1994 we were going down up until Mark Stein scored an injury time winner for Chelsea against Sheffield United.
It meant the Blades replaced us in the bottom three, otherwise we were doomed on goal difference despite earning a decent draw at Blackburn.
Oh pray that history somehow repeats itself. |
Wolves are in decent form, even without Cunha they have been picking up points steadily & although we could beat them on Saturday to give us an outside chance, it would take a big turnaround in form for us to close the gap. West Ham & Everton are out of our reach. One win at Bournemouth doesn't mean we are about to go on a strong run, especially with some tough games coming up. We've even failed to beat Southampton & Leicester in 3 attempts. | |
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| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 18:08 - Apr 3 with 887 views | Bluedandy |
| Would it be the best escape from relegation from the top flight in history? on 17:56 - Apr 3 by Radlett_blue |
Wolves are in decent form, even without Cunha they have been picking up points steadily & although we could beat them on Saturday to give us an outside chance, it would take a big turnaround in form for us to close the gap. West Ham & Everton are out of our reach. One win at Bournemouth doesn't mean we are about to go on a strong run, especially with some tough games coming up. We've even failed to beat Southampton & Leicester in 3 attempts. |
It's unlikely but not impossible ... if we beat them on Saturday there's a small but undeniably increased chance of a great escape.
A team like Wolves could have another dodgy patch even with Cunha.
Their last four games are tough and might yield a meagre return.
Take it to the last day and anything can happen. | | | |
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