Premier League Table come May:

[silvercue]

I have done a few thousand calculations and make us 8TH!

Yes, there are a lot of suprise in there, not least Stoke, but this year will see some big changes to the Premier League standings:

Maybe Stoke will be further down and Villa further up...maybe Moyes will do better with Everton and maybe Newcastle will finish above Sunderland. But West Brom and Fulham will do OK I think - Blackburn must go down this year!

Outside the top 6 though there is no one we should be that bothered about!

1st Man Utd
2nd Man City
3rd Chelsea
4th Liverpool
5th Arsenal
6th Spurs
7th Stoke
8th QPR
9th Villa
10th Sunderland
11th Newcastle
12th West Brom
13th Fulham
14th Everton
15th Bolton
16th Wolves
17th Wigan
18th Blackburn
19th Swansea
20th Norwich

[Olly]

I have done a few thousand calculations and make us 8TH!

How do you do so many calculations?

[QPR1234]

just out of pure interest, what do you base this on? is it reputation or current form or just pure guesswork?

eitherway i dont think your far wrong with some teams. i highly doubt we'll be that high come may. i still expect us to finish around 11-17th

[Olly]

Or you could say, I highly doubt we'll be that high come what may

[Del]

At the end of the day, assuming we can avoid any shocking season ending injuries for any key players, we will be comfortable and around 12th imo. That said from about 8th to 15th there may only be a few points so it's not entirely unrealistic to finish higher than that, would love the top 10.

I think your bottom 3 will be right, with maybe Wigan in there instead of Blackburn. Blackburn anihiated Everton and managed to lose after missing 2 pens and having one given against them when the defender dared to heard the ball away... so they have something about them.... compare that to Wigan, who've only played the 3 promoted teams and were lucky against us to get their first win. Also bear in mind, last year the scraped survival when they had Nzogbia and Cleverly playing for them.... they are a lot weaker this year without those 2.

I don't think Stoke will finish that high. I have them mid table at best. Yes spent money and have improved a lot, BUT, if Etherington or Penant get injured they will revert to Long ball / long throw rubbish to the likes of Crouch, Jones, Jerome, none of whom are prolific and i think all too similar. It won't be pretty and i think with the extra pressure they'll have this year to deliver, it could play against them.

[silvercue]

just out of pure interest, what do you base this on? is it reputation or current form or just pure guesswork?

eitherway i dont think your far wrong with some teams. i highly doubt we'll be that high come may. i still expect us to finish around 11-17th

I thought it was just not cricket to reveal any sources around here and I would hate to break tradition and reveal my data sources for this prediction!

[qprted]

well

well the highest i can think of is 4th

but as long as we can stay up im delighted,i hope we can get a ten million pound striker in jan,that really would bolster our chances

[Del]

well the highest i can think of is 4th

but as long as we can stay up im delighted,i hope we can get a ten million pound striker in jan,that really would bolster our chances

What is it with people's obsession with spending (often wasting) millions.... More money spent does not guarantee more quality - Fact.

I just want us to get in the right players for the team / club as required, if they will help push us to the next level, not for the sake of doing so.

Ask you this, who's better a Free Barton, or an £8m Palacios.... i know who i'd rather have.

Also the best way to sum this up be to think back 15 years and i expect there were many praying we'd spend £2.7m on a striker.....

[LoftusRoadLad]

8th would be ok if we beat the likes of Bolton and Wigan....oh we played em !

[danarnie]

I have done a few thousand calculations and make us 8TH!

Yes, there are a lot of suprise in there, not least Stoke, but this year will see some big changes to the Premier League standings:

Maybe Stoke will be further down and Villa further up...maybe Moyes will do better with Everton and maybe Newcastle will finish above Sunderland. But West Brom and Fulham will do OK I think - Blackburn must go down this year!

Outside the top 6 though there is no one we should be that bothered about!

1st Man Utd
2nd Man City
3rd Chelsea
4th Liverpool
5th Arsenal
6th Spurs
7th Stoke
8th QPR
9th Villa
10th Sunderland
11th Newcastle
12th West Brom
13th Fulham
14th Everton
15th Bolton
16th Wolves
17th Wigan
18th Blackburn
19th Swansea
20th Norwich

Will have to win the FA Cup then....or make the final and play a top 4 team..

[MattyRangers]

Im guna hazard a guess that the table will finish up something like this:

1st Man Utd
2nd Man City
3rd Chelsea
4th Liverpool
5th Arsenal
6th Spurs
7th Stoke
8th Sunderland
9th Villa
10th Everton
11th West Brom
12th Fulham
13th Bolton
14th Newcastle
15th QPR
16th Wolves
17th Blackburn
18th Wigan
19th Swansea
20th Norwich

[silvercue]

the only real change there other than a couple of teams moving very slightly is you have QPR a lot further down.

It would be good to stay up, but are Fulham, Bolton (forget that result), West Brom and Everton really that much better than us. Couple of good managers in there, but Everton could get into big problems this year.

[MattyRangers]

the only real change there other than a couple of teams moving very slightly is you have QPR a lot further down.

It would be good to stay up, but are Fulham, Bolton (forget that result), West Brom and Everton really that much better than us. Couple of good managers in there, but Everton could get into big problems this year.

Yea I think the league was pretty similar to how I see it ending up, but I do think some of our fans underestimate the PL sides abit, even the weaker teams.

I agree Everton COULD get into trouble, but players like Baines, Jagielka, Fellaini, Saha and this lad from Real Madrid are all very very good players and i dont think theyre quite going to be down there with Swansea and Norwich, IMO. I think 15th is a realistic fniish for us. Don't get me wrong, looking at our side i can see we have potential to maybe even push for top half, but Im just being half cautious as to not think weve only to got turn up every week and were guarenteed survival, no game will be easy this year.

[W12pHilOsOPher]

I have done a few thousand calculations and make us 8TH!

Good enough for me. I think we can all celebrate an eighth place finish!

Have you worked out where we'll finish next season too?

[silvercue]

Good enough for me. I think we can all celebrate an eighth place finish!

Have you worked out where we'll finish next season too?

Not yet. For two reasons:

1. I have not worked out who will get promoted from the Chamionship, so I don't even know who we will be playing
2. I need the summer transfer window to have closed for that coming season.

As you can probably imagine these calcualtions are extremely complex, so I can't mess with the formula.