Wolves:
Newcastle (A)
Fulham (A)
Blackburn (H)
Man U (H)
Norwich (A)
Bolton (H)
Stoke (A)
Arsenal (H)
Sunderland (A)
Man C (H)
Swansea (A)
Everton (H)
Wigan (A)
Wolves have 3 games against the top 5 coming up, they also face tough trips to Craven Cottage, St.James and The Stadium of Light. They have a decent chance of staying up...depends on how organised their defence can be....usually none-existant.
QPR:
Fulham (H)
Everton (H)
Bolton (A)
Liverpool (H)
Sunderland (A)
Arsenal (H)
Man U (A)
Swansea (H)
West Brom (A)
Spurs (H)
Chelsea (A)
Stoke (H)
Man C (A)
I think its fair to say, QPR have the most difficult run-in when you look at the games they have left. In the final 4 especially, they have trips to the Etihad and Stamford Bridge, while they also face everyones Title underdogs, Spurs.
Wigan:
Villa (H)
Swansea (H)
Norwich (A)
West Brom (H)
Liverpool (A)
Stoke (H)
Chelsea (A)
Man U (H)
Arsenal (A)
Fulham (A)
Newcastle (H)
Blackburn (A)
Wolves (H)
Wigan have a horrendous month in which they face Liverpool, Man U, Arsenal and Chelsea all in a matter of weeks.. looking tough for them... heads may drop quite early...however they have a fighting chance with their final two games against fellow batllers Blackburn and Wolves.
Blackburn:
Man C (H)
Villa (H)
Wolves (A)
Sunderland (H)
Bolton (A)
Man U (H)
West Brom (A)
Liverpool (H)
Swansea (A)
Norwich (H)
Spurs (A)
Wigan (H)
Chelsea (A)
Blackburn are still to play the top 3, plus a collection of the top 10...a simiarly difficult run in to QPR. I think if Blackburn and QPR go into the final day needing points....they are not going to get them.
Bolton:
Chelsea (A)
Man C (A)
QPR (H)
Villa (A)
Blackburn (H)
Wolves (A)
Fulham (H)
Newcastle(A)
Spurs (H)
Swansea (H)
Sunderland (A)
West Brom (H)
Stoke (A)
Despite a difficult start, Bolton's most difficult fixtures lie at St.James and a visit from 3rd place Spurs. A slightly more gentle run in than the previous 4 teams, lets hope bwfc can take the momentum towards the final few games and secure survival.
The key fixtures are:
Wolves vs Blackburn
Bolton vs QPR
Bolton vs Blackburn
Wolves vs Bolton
Blackburn vs Wigan
Wolves vs Wigan
In the remaining mini league, whoever comes out on top will most probably survive...my current guesses:
16th Bolton
17th Wolves
18th QPR
19th Blackburn
20th Wigan
Remaining fixtures
posted on 13/2/12
Qpr and Blackburn are the two teams with goals in them. They are the most dangerous threat. Yakubu and Zamora are far more dangerous then any of the others have to offer. For that they are the safe two and the others to drop
posted on 13/2/12
It really is a lottery ...Who would have predicted QPR would beat Chelsea? Or Blackburn would beat MU at OT? Or Wigan would win at Bolton? There's so many twists n' turns, it's impossible to predict .... and quite excitin' really, in a (panicky) way! Somebody will go down on the last day of the season, I'm sure .....Fingers crossed it's not us!
posted on 13/2/12
Anything can and probably will happen and we're all where we are due to a poor & inconsistent season.
If it was down to cold, hard cash, my money would go on the most experienced managers.
We're also the only team in the FA Cup.
Nightmare scenario is a draw at Millwall & a replay.
posted on 13/2/12
Most experienced managers? Thats Coyle and Hughes lol
Which is kind of crazy...
Can understand the points about other teams having more goals in them, but their defences are equally shambolic to ours, if not worse. We take Knight out and sudddenly ours is much better.
posted on 14/2/12
Most experienced managers? Thats Coyle and Hughes lol
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By this time next week though, it will be Hughes an A N Other at Wolves! Interestin' to see just who they appoint, and whether that ' feelgood factor ' of merely appointing any new manager gives them a big points boost ..... or not ....
posted on 14/2/12
I see no point in looking ahead at the remaining fixtures any more and trying to decide which matches are winnable. After last Saturday, if we lose at home to the bottom of the league, there are no winnable games.
posted on 14/2/12
Wolves depends on who they appoint.
Curbishley - they'll do enough to survive then fade.
Bruce - skin of teeth time
"Colin" Warnock - Bye!
Blackburn -
Yakubu's goals may dry up and he'll maybe lumber about a bit as he did for Everton. And they're more likely to lose 5-3 than win by that.
QPR -
Will probably end up scraping through then shoot up the league next season.
Wigan -
Will end up doing the same as what we have and follow a good win with a lot of defeats meaning doom.
Us -
Lord knows. We've won the most games down there but have lost more. I've given up with trying to figure us out now after the last two matches. But the lucky thing is we're not a million points away like we would've been in previous seasons with our current total.
And hey lets not rule Villa out shall we. We're only 7 points behind.
posted on 14/2/12
I think Villa are out of our reach TBH, as 7 points is a big gulf if you're only averaging a point a game. In the 2nd half of this season, we're averagin' just slightly over a point a game (which is better than our average for the season as a whole so far). Given Villa have a vastly superior goals difference, it could take us 7 games to overtake Villa - and that's assuming they get no points at all in the next 7 games - so that looks unlikely?