The what we need to go 2nd/3rd/4th thread

[Morph]

never mind the midget morph

midget, where?

[Craig_H]

Okay so things are getting really tight at the top of the table now, given the cock up from the mancs last week it leaves it open for us to jump right up the table to 2nd, however unlikely.

First lets just point out that if we had the 3 points from our game in hand we'd be sitting second anyway right now, so our possible true position is quite a rarity going into december. However we've still no date for this game, the coming midweek probably would have been a good time but my best guess now is prob the first week in feb, but anyway.

This week we've got:

Chelsea(28pts) v West Ham
Wigan v Man City(29pts)
Mancs(30pts) v Fulham
Aston Villa v Arsenal(33pts)

So there's some possible tricky matches there, west ham will give Chelsea a run for their money, but with chelsea being at home best we can prob hope for is a draw, Wigan could be very unpredictable under new management so difficult to call, Villa will certainlky give Arsenal a tough test at home, mancs should really be expected to win tho, but we thought that last week as well.

So... assuming we're going to win, a draw or less for chelsea would see us go 4th, same applies if man city drop points, if both drop points we'll jump to 3rd. After that mancs would have to lose to see us go second, and Arse dropping points or even losing could see us close the gap to 3 points.

Bottom line is it's likely one of those teams will drop points somewhere this weekend so lets hope we get the result we need to capitalise.

Edit - also forgot to mention that the mancs play on monday, so whatever happens we could still end up in 2nd even if only for a few hrs

Chelsea will win fairly easily IMO. Man City's game is tricky to call.
Decent chance of Arsenal dropping points, but they could also just as easily win. United will win.

[Red Star]

Should have had the West Ham game next Wednesday and got it out of the way. Stupid letting it drag on into the new year. Arsenal play their game in hand next week.

[Shaggy]

Has our game with West Ham even been rescheduled yet? It hadn't the last time I looked.

[Morph]

Should have had the West Ham game next Wednesday and got it out of the way. Stupid letting it drag on into the new year. Arsenal play their game in hand next week.

i think it's because we originally going to play chelsea then in the cc, and it cocked things up, when it moved to the week after

[Craig_H]

Has our game with West Ham even been rescheduled yet? It hadn't the last time I looked.

Not that i know of.

Maybe the PL have just decided not to bother with the hassle of playing the game, and will just award us the points...

[Morph]

Has our game with West Ham even been rescheduled yet? It hadn't the last time I looked.

you didn't read the first post properly did you

[magicalbarnes]

We dont need to be mentioning Man City's results as come February there will be daylight between them and the usual suspects.

I'v got a funny feeling that Villa will get a result against Arsenal this week though - particularly with Fabregas out for upto 2 weeks.

I do think its very important though to take maximum points off Bolton & Reading going into the Man Utd game.

[The_weatherman]

Isn't Fabregas missing for Arsenal, I can see them dropping points against Villa in that case, they are a different team without him.

[Johnny]

Come january you can throw the African Nations Cup into the mix,we need to stay close to Arsenil until then.

[Craig_H]

Come january you can throw the African Nations Cup into the mix,we need to stay close to Arsenil until then.

Bizarrely, i dont think the ANC will hurt arsenal much, most of the nations that their players are from seem not to have qualified.

[sonsofthedesert]

Bizarrely, i dont think the ANC will hurt arsenal much, most of the nations that their players are from seem not to have qualified.

Chavs are the ones that will be hurt by that, although a guy on SSN was still saying we would only get 4th. They are really original aren't they.

[Morph]

Chavs are the ones that will be hurt by that, although a guy on SSN was still saying we would only get 4th. They are really original aren't they.

that was that bell end tony gale wasn't it, he's a right prick, didn't seem to realise our game in hand could put us second