| RE-hash of my road to survival 06:18 - Oct 13 with 1416 views | Blue_Heath |
Posted this a few months back but thought it would be interesting to see how it compared so far. My December in hindsight maybe optimistic but so far we are a point above what I thought with 3 games of October to go.
Sat 22 Aug 15:00 Sunderland H (W)
Sun 30 Aug 16:30 Manchester United A
3 points (ACTUAL 3)
Fri 4 Sep 20:00 Liverpool H
Sat 12 Sep 15:00 Crystal Palace A (D)
Sat 19 Sep 15:00 Everton A
4points (ACTUAL 6)
Sat 10 Oct 15:00 Fulham H (W)
Sat 17 Oct 15:00 Manchester City A
Sat 24 Oct 15:00 Nottingham Forest H
Sat 31 Oct 15:00 Hull City A (D)
8 points (ACTUAL 9)
Sat 7 Nov 15:00 AFC Bournemouth H (W)
Sat 21 Nov 15:00 Tottenham Hotspur A
Sat 28 Nov 15:00 Aston Villa H (D)
12 points
Wed 2 Dec 20:00 Coventry City A (D)
Sat 5 Dec 15:00 Leeds United A
Sat 12 Dec 15:00 Newcastle United H (W)
Sat 19 Dec 15:00 Brighton and Hove Albion A
Sat 26 Dec 15:00 Brentford H (W)
Wed 30 Dec 20:00 Chelsea H (D)
20 points
Sat 2 Jan 15:00 Arsenal A
Wed 6 Jan 20:00 Coventry City H (W)
Sat 16 Jan 15:00 AFC Bournemouth A (D)
Sat 23 Jan 15:00 Hull City H (W)
Sat 30 Jan 15:00 Aston Villa A
27 points
Sat 6 Feb 15:00 Tottenham Hotspur H (D)
Wed 10 Feb 20:00 Arsenal H
Sat 20 Feb 15:00 Chelsea A
Sat 27 Feb 15:00 Brighton and Hove Albion H (D)
29 points
Wed 3 Mar 20:00 Brentford A (D)
Sat 13 Mar 15:00 Liverpool A
Sat 20 Mar 15:00 Crystal Palace H (W)
33 points
Sat 10 Apr 15:00 Sunderland A (D)
Sat 17 Apr 15:00 Manchester United H
Sat 24 Apr 15:00 Newcastle United A
34 points
Sat 1 May 15:00 Leeds United H
Sat 8 May 15:00 Fulham A (W)
Sat 15 May 15:00 Manchester City H
Sun 23 May 15:00 Nottingham Forest A
Sun 30 May 16:00 Everton H (W)
40 points
A long way to go of course but so far, so good. |  |
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| RE-hash of my road to survival on 06:26 - Oct 13 with 1378 views | Benters |
Happy with 17th place I’m confident we can do it this time round buh. |  |
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| RE-hash of my road to survival on 17:23 - Oct 13 with 936 views | Blue_Heath |
| RE-hash of my road to survival on 06:26 - Oct 13 by Benters |
Happy with 17th place I’m confident we can do it this time round buh. |
Agree, I don't want to get too carried away with the start and would take 17th now tbh but yes at least so far it looks like we might whereas last time it never felt like we had a chance. | |
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| RE-hash of my road to survival on 17:49 - Oct 13 with 908 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
I think simplifying it now that we have that many wins on the board.
Can we find 9/10 wins out of 32 games? That would have us on 36 or 39 points, you'd have to think we would have enough draws in there to get up to 45 then.
Win 1 in 3 games until the end of the season would guarantee it, you'd think.
What is key is our points tally in early January at the halfway point, real chance to give ourselves a buffer. Must take advantage against non-CL European sides at home in 3 game weeks for those teams.
Forest at home is the next target for at least a draw.
My biggest concern is lack of clean sheets and for me still the goalkeeping position. I think we will get better and better if we keep key players fit. I can foresee a bad winter spell so I want to really keep the foot on the gas before Christmas. |  |
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| RE-hash of my road to survival on 18:51 - Oct 13 with 821 views | Blue_Heath |
| RE-hash of my road to survival on 17:49 - Oct 13 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
I think simplifying it now that we have that many wins on the board.
Can we find 9/10 wins out of 32 games? That would have us on 36 or 39 points, you'd have to think we would have enough draws in there to get up to 45 then.
Win 1 in 3 games until the end of the season would guarantee it, you'd think.
What is key is our points tally in early January at the halfway point, real chance to give ourselves a buffer. Must take advantage against non-CL European sides at home in 3 game weeks for those teams.
Forest at home is the next target for at least a draw.
My biggest concern is lack of clean sheets and for me still the goalkeeping position. I think we will get better and better if we keep key players fit. I can foresee a bad winter spell so I want to really keep the foot on the gas before Christmas. |
Agree with all your comments but also only winning in jury time is a concern too. | |
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| RE-hash of my road to survival on 19:06 - Oct 13 with 796 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| RE-hash of my road to survival on 18:51 - Oct 13 by Blue_Heath |
Agree with all your comments but also only winning in jury time is a concern too. |
Yeah, that won't happen every week, but Sunderland was very good at it last year and it served them well.
Every win is absolutely huge, if we can get to 8 or so before Christmas, we will stay up. That should be the target really, 4-5 more wins before the end of the calendar year.
It just feels lady luck might be with us a little more this time, Palace game being a decent example. Not to take anything away from our start. | |
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| RE-hash of my road to survival on 06:21 - Oct 14 with 604 views | Blue_Heath |
| RE-hash of my road to survival on 19:06 - Oct 13 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Yeah, that won't happen every week, but Sunderland was very good at it last year and it served them well.
Every win is absolutely huge, if we can get to 8 or so before Christmas, we will stay up. That should be the target really, 4-5 more wins before the end of the calendar year.
It just feels lady luck might be with us a little more this time, Palace game being a decent example. Not to take anything away from our start. |
If we could get 8 wins by xmas then we are almost certainly going to stay up.
I just feel whilst we have rode our luck at times this team is much stringer, fitter and hungrier as well as getting the rub of the green something we never got last time.
Home form will be the difference for us hopefully this time around. | |
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| RE-hash of my road to survival on 08:30 - Oct 14 with 490 views | MattinLondon |
| RE-hash of my road to survival on 18:51 - Oct 13 by Blue_Heath |
Agree with all your comments but also only winning in jury time is a concern too. |
Why is winning in injury time a concern?
A goal in the 92nd minute isn’t more fortunate or lucky than scoring in the second or fifth minute. |  | | |
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