4 Six-Pointers ...

[Sal Paradiso]

I think we need to brace ourselves:
Wigan - Disappointing loss
Villa - Lose again, McDermott under real pressure
Sunderland - grab a draw with a later goal, people say it's the minimum we needed for Brian to survive
Southampton - Glorious four goal win, the messiah is back, Adkins sacked.

[glenroyal]

.... any win (against one of those those teams), pulls us away from the danger zone and drops our opponents further down into it ....

So that's a 6 pointer then ? 4 of 'em.

[Snowball]

I'm surprised by the knee-jerk optimism from many. I hope they turn out to be right, but...


For me the Wigan game is massive. A win is obviously immediately useful at the one-team level,
allowing us to leap-frog Wigan (IF we win) and we may well (IF we win) move away from Villa who have
a tough game v Arsenal.

But the real point of this second win (IF we win) is the hoodoo will be well and truly broken, confidence would be up,
and we really could begin a decent run (starting with avoiding defeat at Villa on Tuesday...)

But a DEFEAT at Wigan (highly possible according to the bookies who have us at 7/2 for a win, huge odds)
could throw us back into trouble, big worries etc, "Everton was a flash in the pan" etc, and might easily
be then followed by a defeat at Villa.

[Platypuss]

The "Stating the Obvious" thread is here: http://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=115973

[Simon's Church]

The "Stating the Obvious" thread is here: http://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=115973

Could probably rename that the Snowball thread tbh.

[RFCSPACE]

A depressingly poor, big fat 0