Plastic Hawk wrote:Jorge14 wrote:I can only hope that this is the beginning of the mid-table end-of-season silly season that might see us beat a team four or five in a few weeks time with probably another big reversal to come.
I am still concerned though. Relegation isn't totally out of the question because we could struggle in every game in April and May given that all the teams we are playing are still chasing automatic promotion or the play-offs. If this follows a below par March, then we'll be in the perfectly relegatable 50-55 points range.
55 points isn't "perfectly relegatable". Find me one side that's been relegated from League 1 with more than 52 points. One more win will be plenty to see us safe - and might not even be necessary.
The most number pf points a team from this level has been relegated with since the inception of 3 points for a win is 54. Several others have been relegated with 52 and 53, so its entirely reasonable to see 55 points as the safety line.
I don't think for one minute we will get relegated, but the fact that we are still talking about it with 9 games of the "big push" season remaining is testimony to just how far backwards we have gone in the last 14 months thanks to Bonser's befuddled decision making.
As things stand we require 16 points from 9 games to match what we got last season, and even salvage the achievement of treading water in mid-table. Of course many other aspects of the club have gone backwards during the same period, from the complete lack of success in every cup to the loss of 25-30% of our fanbase.
If this very real decline os to be arrested the board of Walsall FC need to take a long hard look at how they are running things. I doubt they will, because I don't think they have the ability as bsuniness people or football people to do so.
I simply expect yet more whinging about the credit crunch permiated with some nausiating mutual back-slapping and maybe a bit of scaremongering to keep the remaining support on the nipple.