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[Albion] Are we the poorest side to survive a PL season?



zefarelly

zefarelly

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I know it's not over yet, and finishing safe with 2 games to spare is far less stressful than many seasons either in the PL for others, or for us in the past, but has there been a shitter team than us that has stayed up? We have been ****ing dire virtually all season, with only 2 memorable performances and one more away result of note. The rest has been anything between lucky and woeful.
 






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Greg Bobkin

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zefarelly said:
I know it's not over yet, and finishing safe with 2 games to spare is far less stressful than many seasons either in the PL for others, or for us in the past, but has there been s shitter team than us that has stayed up? We have been ****ing dire virtually all season, with only 2 memorable performances and one more way result of note. The rest has been anything between lucky and woeful.
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Give it a rest! A '****ing dire' team doesn't accumulate 35 points (with two games to play) in their second ever season in the Premier League.

The second half of the season had been pretty dire, yes, but we're pretty much where I expected us to be.

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Postman Pat

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God no, Sunderland, Stoke, Wigan, West Brom and many others managed to scrape survival for a few seasons before finally capitulating, but we wont keep getting away with it.
 


lawros left foot

lawros left foot

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Jun 11, 2011
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No, been at least 6 worse than us on the last two seasons, they went down, we didn’t.

One week in 2 seasons
 




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Jolly Red Giant

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zefarelly said:
I know it's not over yet, and finishing safe with 2 games to spare is far less stressful than many seasons either in the PL for others, or for us in the past, but has there been a shitter team than us that has stayed up? We have been ****ing dire virtually all season, with only 2 memorable performances and one more away result of note. The rest has been anything between lucky and woeful.
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There have been several teams that were dire the entire season and still survived - QPR about 8 years ago - Wigan the year before that - Hull were brutal one year and survived, they played better the following season and got relegated.
 




Stat Brother

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We've got a few more seasons of praying one poor team beats an even worse team to save the Albion, before we can truly rival the Sunderlands and Stokes of the past.
 




chaileyjem

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Anyone would think that teams in the Premier League haven't survived relegation but still had long periods of bad form (Palace losing 9 out of the first 10 games in 13/14 for starters) and playing badly . Its happened to Burnley, Southampton and us this year. It happens EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
We really are in for a bit of self flagellation if we think that in 25 years or so we are the worst. I mean . Of course its been grim . But Come on.
 


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Jolly Red Giant

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Postman Pat said:
God no, Sunderland, Stoke, Wigan, West Brom and many others managed to scrape survival for a few seasons before finally capitulating, but we wont keep getting away with it.
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The longer you survive in the PL the better your chances are of not getting relegated - particularly if you survive the second season.

Norwich and Sheff Utd will be favourites to get relegated next season - and whoever wins the play-offs. If Villa get promoted they probably have the best chance of the promoted teams of staying up - they have Grealish.
 






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Mayonaise

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May 25, 2014
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We have survived which means we now have a chance to recover, regroup and bring in the striker that we should have done last summer.

The only real disappointment this season has been the behaviour of some of our own fans once things started to go wrong. It's natural to be disappointed and worried but the level of vitriol and abuse being hurled at our own players when it was clear their confidence was shot (against Bmuff & Cardiff) was a real disgrace.

We got away with it this year. Chris needs some better players at his disposal (not from the Dutch league) and we can grow next year and beyond.

We need to stick together.
 




Guinness Boy

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Postman Pat said:
God no, Sunderland, Stoke, Wigan, West Brom and many others managed to scrape survival for a few seasons before finally capitulating, but we wont keep getting away with it.
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Sunderland finished fourth bottom in 2016 with 39 points. We'd need to get four from Arsenal away and City at home to equal them. In the season before that Sunderland and Villa had 38. The season after Watford were fourth bottom with 40. Our realistic, best hope points total is 36 which would equal Southampton last season.
 


dwayne

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Jul 5, 2003
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As long we keep the defence together we will probably be ok. We are a good defensive team. We might be one of the most boring premier league teams ever though !!

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KZNSeagull

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Nov 26, 2007
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No. How quickly people forget that a certain team from up the road were the worst team in the top 4 divisions for an entire calendar year, but somehow still avoided relegation.

Any chance there can be a bit less miserabilsm on here now?
 




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