WATFORD: - Liverpool away - lose Everton home - win Leeds home - draw Brentford home - draw Man City - away - lose Burnley - home - win Crystal Palace - away - draw Leicester - home - lose Chelsea - away - lose 31 points EVERTON: - Watford - away - lose West Ham- away - lose Man Utd - home - lose Crystal Palace - home - win Liverpool - away - lose Chelsea - home - lose Leicester - away - lose Brentford - home - win Arsenal - away - lose Leicester - home - draw Burnley - away - draw Newcastle - home - draw 30 points LEEDS: - Wolves - away - lose Southampton - home - draw Watford - away - draw Chelsea - home - lose Crystal Palace - away - lose Man City - home - lose Arsenal - away- lose Brighton - home - win Brentford -away - draw 32 points BURNLEY: - Southampton - home - draw Man City - home - lose Norwich - away - win West Ham - away - lose Wolves - home - draw Watford - away - lose Aston Villa - home - draw Spurs - away - lose Newcastle - home - draw Aston Villa - away - draw Everton - home - draw Newcastle - home - lose 30 points NORWICH: - Brighton - away - draw Burnley - home - lose Man Utd - away - lose Newcastle - home - lose Aston Villa - away - draw West ham - home - lose Wolves - away - lose Spurs - home - lose Leicester - away - lose 19 points This is my take. I think TVOR is being too positive. Here I am also being quite positive but I think maybe we can stay up by a point or two.
36 would be doable for some teams but we'll need to do it all at home. We've barely laid a glove on Norwich, Palace or Brighton so I have absolutely no faith that we can get through the home games without losing at least a couple.
How the **** can we win three successive home games? That will be a dream. But I can see us beating Palace away from home. And we are likely to get a draw from one of Chelsea away or Liverpool away. Winning our next home game will be a huge achievement though! Sent from my TECNO P701 using Tapatalk
To be fair the Everton game will probably be midweek after the Leicester game? So only two successive wins.
I also can't see us beating Leeds and Leicester at home. I will be very happy with a draw in each of those games Sent from my TECNO P701 using Tapatalk
Need to beat Everton, Leeds, Burnley. If not can lose one and beat Palace or Leicester. Play the kids for City and Liverpool couldn't care less. 3 wins we stay up
Personally find TVOR's optimism endearing, and *almost* infectious. I don't quite share the same level of hope for our winnable games, but I do feel there's at least some point in watching the rest of the season now.
People are focussing too much on US. Lads, its Burnley, Norwich and Everton. I reckon we need a point or two from our last 9 to be safe. So get behind the team!
I don’t think we can lose any of those 3 given the points swing it will cause. Win 3 or Win 2 and Draw 1 as a minimum.
Haha have to reluctantly agree on this one, although I’m still yet to be convinced he’s a real human being, his unrelenting positivity is, as you say, becoming almost infectious.
When we do go down, I imagine VOR will be straight on with THE ORNS ARE GOING UP! THE FUTURE IS YELLOW posts!
Whoops! My bad a typo I'm afraid But can you honestly say that those games are NOT winnable because I can't as they are all very winnable.
I don't think many on here have taken into account what our rivals have to do to stay up, because we have probably got the best run in on paper out of all the teams I have highlighted, so all we have to do is match up to the on paper expectations.... THEN THE 'ORNS WILL STAY UP
Have you actually looked at the games Everton & Leeds have to play, have another look even if you think they are better than us they do not have easy run ins.
I don't agree with your Leeds, Brentford or Leicester predictions, but even if you are right we will be staying up
Good point Malt!!! The Hoo Doo is broken so..... THE 'ORNS ARE STAYING UP, THE 'ORNS ARE STAYING UP SO NOW YOU'VE GOTTA TO BELIEVE US, THE 'ORNS ARE STAYING UP
I know we possibly might beat Leicester or get a draw, but the way Leeds play and press when they don't have the ball, I can't see us beating them at home. If it's an away game, I will be more optimistic. Sent from my TECNO P701 using Tapatalk
Not toddler-tantrum territory, but maybe heading in that direction? Insulting Watford fans for being how Watford fans have always been is odd. There may be manuals and qualifications for coaching teams and for managing businesses but as far as I know there isn't a 'correct' way to support a club.
Every game is winnable for every team in every game of football. It’s just then a question of the odds of winning that game, and then the odds of a team who have lost 8, or is it 9 straight home games suddenly wining 2/3/4 homes games in a row. The National Lottery is also “winnable” you’ve just got to get all the right numbers. If you’re so confident in the results stick a tenner on an acca for them to pan out like that, I think you’ll find the odds for it will make you a very rich man.
They are winnable however I thought home to Norwich, Brighton and Palace were also winnable, hence my cautiousness!
I might just do that bet even though I am not usually a gambling man, by the way what's an acca? If Newcastle and Brentford can suddenly start winning then so can we, and as I have said repeatedly these are VERY WINNABLE games, have a little faith in the team you purport to support... LETS DO THIS Thanks for the tip, I'll send you a postcard from Barbados while I'm spending my winnings
Winnable games in isolation, but we’re not good enough to win multiple games in a row. We only win games because: - Our defence and goalkeeper manage to have an error free 90 minutes. - Our midfielders all perform to their absolute maximum at the same time. - Our attackers take their chances when they come along. - The opposition are out of sorts/on the beach, or in the case of Villa, Norwich, Everton and Utd about to sack their manager. All of the above happens at the same time every so often, but there is no way in hell it happens 3/4/5 times in a row.
I haven’t said we are going to lose them all, I am trying to be realistic in saying it’s unlikely we will win them all!
While acknowledging that ultimately you have to play everybody twice in a season so it should even itself out, I certainly think there are good and bad times to play our opponents. Southampton had been on a terrific home run (neither City nor Liverpool could win there), but then Newcastle won there and their confidence was obviously punctured a little. So I feel we caught them at a good time. Ditto United, as it was Ole’s last match. We went to Norwich when they’d lost all their previous matches, and also caught Villa on the back of a few bad results. So we have to hope that we can continue to catch opponents at the right time. Such a pity we don’t get to play Everton next weekend. And probably lucky we weren’t scheduled to play Leeds next, as their tails will be up. That said..we do seem to have a propensity to play opponents back into form. I believe Brighton have lost every match since we rolled over against them. Both times we faced Wolves, they’d lost their two previous matches without scoring. We gave Leeds their first victory of the season. After beating us, Brentford then went on a long winless run. Palace were badly out of form when they beat us 4-1. So it will be interesting to see which Watford turns up for the remaining fixtures. Can we be the one who ruthlessly dispatches an out of form opponent..or the one who rolls over and plays them back into form? If it’s the former, I believe we have a genuine chance of an unlikely survival. However, it’s the latter, it’s going to be a dismal end to the season, watching the likes of Everton end their terrible away run when they visit us etc..
