Cann we avoid the drop?

[braineclipse]

lol - our GD os 33 better than 18th place. Can we call it 9 points to make ourselves feel better?

That literally made me laugh out loud.

I was trying to make a point here that most people on here can see our situation and that most people here can count to eight. In you come and tell me you get nine...

And you manage to be right about it too.

fudge off
(meant in a good way, just to be clear).

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

No one knows what the parameters are for that. It's not exactly a well defined expression.

I actually like the description from Kompakted. "Staying up needs to be our absolute number one priority as a club."

When that is true we're in a relegation fight imo. When we rest/rotate players out in the cups because we have to get points in the league to avoid relegation. When long term planning, player development, next season, style of play - everything takes a backseat to our absolute number one priority, staying up. Then, for me, we're in a relegation fight.

Or to put it differently. If we're in a relegation fight right now surely we should rotate very heavily for the EL fixture this week. Play the kids if we have to. Getting out of the EL group stages surely isn't worth risking relegation over. Our absolute number one priority.

We are already qualified for the next stage of the EL. The dilemma is, shall we do our best to win the remaining EL games (relatively weak opponents) to avoid the additional two games in the play off round. Two extra games we could well do without.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

lol - our GD os 33 better than 18th place. Can we call it 9 points to make ourselves feel better?

Having a great goal difference might be our saviour

 

[Yiddo]

Could you imagine getting relegated and winning the Europa league. Would we still qualify for the Champions league as a Championship team? Birmingham qualified for the Europa after getting relegated with their league cup win over Arsenal, obviously a long time a go and a different competition.

 

[parklane1]

We have at home against Leicester, and Ipswich have at Liverpool. We could easily make it a 11 points of safety. Which should shut up most of the gloom and doom on here.

Do not hold your breath waiting for that to happen.