Officially level on points with Pompey now (1 Viewer)

guicey15 · Feb 18, 2012

Portsmouth were last night docked 10 points leaving us, as I'm sure you know, level on points with them. A a win today obviously gives us a great chance of escaping the relegation zone. What a chance this is, we might not get another one like this. C'mon you sky blues! PUSB!

speedie87 · Feb 18, 2012

It's all about where we are after the last match. wouldn't even class this as a massive game, still plenty of points to play for.

skybluegod · Feb 18, 2012

speedie87 said:
It's all about where we are after the last match. wouldn't even class this as a massive game, still plenty of points to play for.

agreed still 48 points to play for after this match

speedie87 · Feb 18, 2012

Just remember cov fans no more about surviving relegation battles than anyone else. Don't panic and stick together! A win on the last day to survive has got to be the equilvant excitement of about 5 titles for a utd fan. Love it!

Anyone else enjoying this season more than all the mid table ones? going to a match knowing the result matters, then looking at the teams around you results. Happy days

ohitsaidwalker king power · Feb 18, 2012

speedie87 said:
Just remember cov fans no more about surviving relegation battles than anyone else. Don't panic and stick together! A win on the last day to survive has got to be the equilvant excitement of about 5 titles for a utd fan. Love it!

Anyone else enjoying this season more than all the mid table ones? going to a match knowing the result matters, then looking at the teams around you results. Happy days

er no......:thinking about:

Otis · Feb 18, 2012

There may be all those points to play for, but away we still have Southampton, Leshtur, Hull, Cardiff and Burnley to come.

Think you may be understimating the significance of this match today.

kg82 · Feb 18, 2012

I WOULD say this game is massive, as is every other game till the end of the season. And no, not particularly enjoying this season!

speedie87 · Feb 18, 2012

Ok might be on my own enjoying the relegation battle!

Otis · Feb 18, 2012

I am absolutely loathing it. This has been the worst season in living memory for me. Pretty much bottom of the table since Christmas and in the bottom 3 since October and all those painful last minute defeats.

Awful.

wingy · Feb 18, 2012

guicey15 said:
Portsmouth were last night docked 10 points leaving us, as I'm sure you know, level on points with them. A a win today obviously gives us a great chance of escaping the relegation zone. What a chance this is, we might not get another one like this. C'mon you sky blues! PUSB!

Still one point behind ,they have a game in hand ,the game against them up here is going to be so significant .

speedie87 · Feb 18, 2012

Yeah but when we get out of it how good will that be. We'll all certainly remember this season what ever happens.

How many of the last ten years have been forgettable.

kg82 · Feb 18, 2012

speedie87 said:
Yeah but when we get out of it how good will that be. We'll all certainly remember this season what ever happens.

How many of the last ten years have been forgettable.

Think you're getting a bit ahead of yourself. It will, of course, feel amazing if we escape, but if we don't this will officially be the worst season in our recent history.

Otis · Feb 18, 2012

Agreed. And that is where we are at the moment.

shmmeee · Feb 18, 2012

kg82 said:
Think you're getting a bit ahead of yourself. It will, of course, feel amazing if we escape, but if we don't this will officially be the worst season in our recent history.

I know it's weird but I don't see it like that. Relegation from the Prem was the worst ever, but I'm actually not that bothered about relegation from the Championship. I have hated the mediocrity of the last ten years and genuinely feel we'd have a chance of promotion if we go down (which we did when we came down last time but for some awful management).

I've not felt so depressed so often as this season but I totally understand what speedie is saying about the low troughs making the peaks all th more exhilarating.

Massive game today, wish I could go. Win this and we are right back in it with our destiny in our own hands.

Otis · Feb 18, 2012

I am totally bothered about us dropping out of the Championship. it could be the slippery slope to nowhere.

We had 34 years in the top flight and now 12 in the Championship. Relegation would be a total disaster.

Astute · Feb 18, 2012

We need to stay up. Full stop. If we went down with a Championship squad we would have a good chance of going straight back up. We don't even have a full squad. We would just become a 3rd div team without replacing players we have lost. Would SISU let us sign players? Will they still be with us?

Every game left this season is not massive. The games against the teams in the relegation battle with us are MASSIVE. We need at least a draw in these games. At least we have the easiest runin of teams at the bottom. We have to play nearly every team in the bottom half of the table. Much better than having to play nearly every team in the top half.

We have about the best recent form for teams at the bottom. I can still see a team going down that most consider to be safe at the moment. We are playing better than our position suggests. If we can keep Nimely fit we will be safe. If we win today our squad will be buzzing. A loss today would be a big blow, but nothing we could not come back from.

operationprem · Feb 18, 2012

Agree with that astute Nimely staying will be massive factor if we stay up

Jack Griffin · Feb 18, 2012

If we go down we'll probably have to trim the budget further. It is intended to move towards a wage cap of 60% of turnover in league one, currently the salaries are about 70% of a chanpionship turnover (so Fisher said), that is a lot more than permitted as league one turnover is a lot less than the championship.

Survival/Relegation, it could still go any way..

shmmeee · Feb 18, 2012

If we stay up well have to do it all again next season. It's becoming more apparent Hoffman doesn't want to buy us in our current position.

I'd honestly rather the whole thing comes to a head rather than keep limping along on life support. We are too big to drop through the leagues without someone coming in and taking a gamble on us. We are not Luton, we are a big one club city with a very good stadium. Name one club from a city the size of ours that has dropped to L2?

Grendel · Feb 18, 2012

Bradford and Wolverhampton.

Otis · Feb 18, 2012

That's two clubs isn't it. He said name one.

Jack Griffin · Feb 18, 2012

"However, new ownership could not prevent Villa being relegated to the Third Division for the first time at the end of the 1969–70 season."

Nick · Feb 18, 2012

All of the teams around us have a game in hand though (doncaster have 2)

shmmeee · Feb 18, 2012

kduffy said:
Bradford and Wolverhampton.

Bradford I'll give you. Wolves are in the Prem, hardly a good example of a team that sank without a trace. They spent about one season in Div 3.

And both of those are smaller cities than Coventry.

mark82 · Feb 18, 2012

Jack Griffin said:
"However, new ownership could not prevent Villa being relegated to the Third Division for the first time at the end of the 1969–70 season."

Third division is League 1

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