Just had a look on bet fair where we are 8th favourite to be relegated.
Looking at the odds for us either to be relegated or not, they have us as having between a 12.5% and 20% probability of going down. I'm not fully aware of what teams around us have done but personally I think we will be stronger than last year. I'd place us as closer to a 10% chance of relegation.
How do we justify a life just sitting by the coal?, or roaring at the stadium: foul ref, offside, goal ...
"I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline." Phil Jones CRU
Undoubtedly lazy as none of his predictions are startling insights, but the vast majority of pundits will have us in the bottom 6 and it's hard to argue with the rationales.
Undoubtedly lazy as none of his predictions are startling insights, but the vast majority of pundits will have us in the bottom 6 and it's hard to argue with the rationales.
... and how many of the same pundits had us in the bottom six last season when they had rationale shoved up their own arses?
How do we justify a life just sitting by the coal?, or roaring at the stadium: foul ref, offside, goal ...
"I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline." Phil Jones CRU
Undoubtedly lazy as none of his predictions are startling insights, but the vast majority of pundits will have us in the bottom 6 and it's hard to argue with the rationales.
... and how many of the same pundits had us in the bottom six last season when they had rationale shoved up their own arses?
Totally agree. Was hoping Liddle would predict it again.
Our odds will always be huge due to our business model. Every year we are set to sell a player or two and only invest a small percentage of that into the squad. To the uninitiated that (more likely than not) would predict a worse performance the following season.
It's worked for us do far and this is not a dig in the slightest.
However, when pundits look make their predictions the clubs who've invested money into transfers will always be picked to improve and those who have taken money (value?) out of their squads will be predicted to do worse.
Simple, if flawed, ways for those with no knowledge to guess at a season's outcome.