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12th place, 4 points above the relegation zone or 5 points off bottom?

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Title says it all really. Im fed up of hearing that we''re 12th and that all is rosey. Its a false sense of security when the league is so tight. As was last seasons ultimate league position. There has been a lot of jostling around in the bottom half these last few weeks. Noone is safe and noone is cut off. Any one of 10 teams could go down. We should be focussing on how perilous the gap is, not patting ourselves on the back for being 5 teams clear. League position at this stage with the league so tight is irrelevent and not something we should be drawing reassurance from. We''re in just as much doodoo as the rest of them, yet some seem to think we arent. Ill be reassured when the points gap is much bigger and that its obvious there are 3 teams worse than us

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A comforting thoughtThe bottom three are currently averaging around 0.75points per game - which if it continued would see them finish on 29 points at bestFor them to finish on 38 points it would mean almost doubling their average so far, which over a season would have them finish on 54 pointsCan anyone see any of the bottom doing that ?Therefore at 36 points which should be enough I would suggest we need three more wins and three more draws

However our true target has to be 11th at least

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It means over 23 games there have been 8 teams worse than us this season!! Over the last 10 games we have accumulated points at a steady rate that has kept us just above the bottom 3. It is only the Fulham game that has really dragged us down in that period - we have avoided defeat to those teams around us. Indeed the draws at Palace & Sunderland look like very decent results now.

A win against Cardiff on saturday would be a huge result, a draw would be acceptable. The same for the forthcoming visit to West Ham.

4 wins & 4 draws from the remaining games will take us to 40 points. We need to be realistic & accept that survival is still the main aim for us. Next year we can invest again and try and push on again.

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[quote user="City1st"]A comforting thoughtThe bottom three are currently averaging around 0.75points per game - which if it continued would see them finish on 29 points at bestFor them to finish on 38 points it would mean almost doubling their average so far, which over a season would have them finish on 54 pointsCan anyone see any of the bottom doing that ?Therefore at 36 points which should be enough I would suggest we need three more wins and three more draws

However our true target has to be 11th at least

[/quote]Far too sensible to be accepted by many. There will be many teams that won''t get 40 points.It''s possible even 35 will be safe. They still all have to play each other so there will be much throat cutting.If we can''t get to 36 points we will deserve to go down.

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We will probably be safe but only just. Hughtons tactics of boring the opposition into submission will get us enough drab draws to see us limp over the line. Doubt the club will bother with a season highlights review though!

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I agree and if results don''t go our way in these next to upcoming fixtures and we don''t get a win at Cardiff and then get an inevitable mauling from man city then it is extremely possible that we may find our selves in the bottom 3 of not very very close to it.

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Said it before but will say it again what we are seeing is the huge gap between the "haves" and "have nots" manifesting itself in the Premiership with effectively over half the division in a relegation battle. A close look at say Southampton will reveal a club owned by billionaires spending money on players Norwich City could only dream of. Despite spending £20M on players, we have one of the weakest squads in the division because we just cannot compete with even the likes of Southampton, let alone the bigger clubs. Three seasons of Premiership football seems to have inflated peoples expectations, when a glance at our 112 year history reveals a small, provincial city team that has spent the majority of its life outside the top tier of English football. I feel reasonably confident that we will survive. Personally I do not think that Chris Hughton is the man to take us forward but equally I do not agree with the constant attacks on him and the club by some posters. The reality is that whoever the Norwich City manager is in the future their brief from the NCFC will board will remain as Premiership survival unless their is a huge cash injection......

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