Official Premiership 2008/09 thread

[IAceI]

It'd be nice to actually manage a double against a team in a season. We don't do it too often so it would definitely be nice, especially the leverage it would give me next time we EASHL online

[alldaws1]

Which will be never if we lose.

I think Dragsy decided to go out on top, we're on a two-game win streak so no more games

[alldaws1]

How we've missed you Robbie Keane!

[IAceI]

the 5 minutes before Spurs scored were so tense and slow, then Spurs score and it feels like 1 second passed and the game had passed.

Would have preferred to win obviously, you know, get an extra 2 points and a bit closer to safety. And winning is a bit of a foreign concept of late for me, but a point is better than none I guess.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

What a relief.

Ahhh it's great to have Robbie back

So up to twelfth and a win off ninth. It's just great not to be bottom with two points

So anyway, our last ten matches are:

Villa AWAY

Chelsea HOME

Blackburn AWAY

West Ham HOME

Newcastle HOME

Man Utd AWAY

West Brom HOME

Everton AWAY

Man City HOME

Liverpool AWAY

We need to target the West Ham, Newcastle, West Brom and Man City games for victories.

Draws away against Blackburn and Everton would be possible and it depends which Villa team turns up.

Liverpool and Man Utd....You can't hope for anything from either game but you never know, we've done Liverpool a couple of times already this season and we're always up for the big games. If Liverpool's league position is decided by the final game they may take it a bit easy.

Edited March 7, 2009 by ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster

[Matt]

What a relief.

Ahhh it's great to have Robbie back

So up to twelfth and a win off ninth. It's just great not to be bottom with two points

So anyway, our last ten matches are:

Villa AWAY

Chelsea HOME

Blackburn AWAY

West Ham HOME

Newcastle HOME

Man Utd AWAY

West Brom HOME

Everton AWAY

Man City HOME

Liverpool AWAY

We need to target the West Ham, Newcastle, West Brom and Man City games for victories.

Draws away against Blackburn and Everton would be possible and it depends which Villa team turns up.

Liverpool and Man Utd....You can't hope for anything from either game but you never know, we've done Liverpool a couple of times already this season and we're always up for the big games. If Liverpool's league position is decided by the final game they may take it a bit easy.

Man Utd will probably have the league sown up by then too.

[Sandars]

Keane scoring twice in 2 games is enough for me to believe we're staying up.

Still, we need to be more clinical against the true relegation battlers [/captain obvious]

[therockbox]

Looks like he loves being back.

[Thrilla]

Hahaha.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I was just as hard when he scored

[The Future]

That picture is wrong on so many levels.

[Thrilla]

I was just as hard when he scored

Was it in the mouth of a black man as well?

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I was just as hard when he scored

Was it in the mouth of a black man as well?

Only momentarily.

[Thrilla]

You Spurs fans and your crazy celebrations.

[-A-]

I did the BBC Predictor thingy just now and had United winning the title by 14 points, City getting 7th place on goal difference ahead of West Ham and West Brom, Middlesbrough and Newcastle getting relegated. Stoke and Portsmouth only escaped by one point and both had inferior GD to Newcastle in 18th. Arsenal beat Villa to 4th by 1 point despite both winning on the final day and Spurs made it up to 11th.

[alldaws1]

Nevermind, re-read it and I obviously misunderstood.

Edited March 9, 2009 by AD

[Zaz]

I did the BBC Predictor thingy just now and had United winning the title by 14 points, City getting 7th place on goal difference ahead of West Ham and West Brom, Middlesbrough and Newcastle getting relegated. Stoke and Portsmouth only escaped by one point and both had inferior GD to Newcastle in 18th. Arsenal beat Villa to 4th by 1 point despite both winning on the final day and Spurs made it up to 11th.

I ended up having Man Utd dominate and win it on 94 points with Chelski 2nd on 79, Pool and Villa tied on 73 with Pool ahead on GD, Arsenal 5th on 72 and then Everton, West Ham, Tottenham, Man City, Fulham, Sunderland, Wigan, Bolton, Hull, Blackburn, Portsmouth and Middlesbrough, with Stoke, Newcastle and West Brom getting relegated.

I had Tottenham on a 5-4-1 run to get to 8th, so it is possible, just a very hard task.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Hmmm I'm surprised. I had Spurs losing a couple and only winning a few but I guess the other teams around them continue to win some, lose some.

Also surprised that I have Hull finishing so high but I guess all those draws add up!

[HailtotheYo]

[Liam]

To be honest, I'm pretty hopeful for Fulham to continue to make inroads up the table. Our home games include Stoke, Blackburn, Everton and Villa, all games which are emminently winnable at home. Our away games include Middlesborough who blow, Bolton who also blow for the most part, and a couple of others.

We also have Man United at home again, which will be a loss, and Chelsea away, which could be anything, knowing how derbies work out. We also have Liverpool.....at home, I think.

So yeah, if we keep our act together, it could work out ok.