What will keep us up....

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

Continued confidence.

Next...

 

[canveyshrimper]

Industrial strength Viagra. :)

 

[Somerset Ex-TTB]

16 Leyton Orient 38 -10 41
17 Gillingham 38 -11 40
18 Exeter 38 -13 40
19 Oldham 36 -13 40
20 Hartlepool 38 -13 39
21 Tranmere 37 -28 38
22 Southend 38 -14 37
23 Wycombe 38 -25 32
24 Stockport 38 -42 24

The number of teams being sucked into the scrap, all the way up to Orient. Before Walsall we were 4 points off safety, now we are 4 points off 16th place.

I think the target this year is going to be less than 52 points. We need to win against Yeovil/Stockport and one of Brentford/Brighton.

A couple of draws away (Gillingham/Oldham) and 48 points should be enough.

 

[peterpan]

50 points for safety

8 games - 4 win 1 draw 3 losses

or

8 games - 3 wins 4 draws 1 loss



LOL

any of these 2 achived will gurantee us safety. and any other team safety. cant remember a time where a team with 50 points in any league has been relegated

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

50 points for safety

8 games - 4 win 1 draw 3 losses

or

8 games - 3 wins 4 draws 1 loss



LOL

any of these 2 achived will gurantee us safety. and any other team safety. cant remember a time where a team with 50 points in any league has been relegated

I think when we won League 1 in 05/06 2 teams were relegated on 50 points. Will check it out in a minute.

O.K. Hartlepool & MK Dons were relegated to League 2 with 50 points each in 05/06. In 04/05 Torquay were relegated on goal difference with 51 Points. In 03/04 Grimsby were relegated with 50 points.

 

[tottenham541]

it would help if tilson used his subs as not one of them were used even when we were down to 10 men.

 

[weststander]

50 points for safety

8 games - 4 win 1 draw 3 losses

or

8 games - 3 wins 4 draws 1 loss



LOL

any of these 2 achived will gurantee us safety. and any other team safety. cant remember a time where a team with 50 points in any league has been relegated

Eeeerrr how about 1988/89 when we were relegated from this division with 54 points ???

 

[turkishm]

Paying the wages so we can come out of embargo and get a couple of short term lonees in, with no Moussa, and Scannell its a big ask with the squad we have to stay up.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Paying the wages so we can come out of embargo and get a couple of short term lonees in, with no Moussa, and Scannell its a big ask with the squad we have to stay up.

As the transfer window closed last week you can forget that.

 

[turkishm]

As the transfer window closed last week you can forget that.

O well dont bother paying wages after all then, o he isnt is he.

 

[Flinty]

i actually think another 8 points will keep us up !!!....according to BBC predictor anyway ;)

 

[Stats]

A miracle..

 

[EastStandBlue]

The fact that we're 4 points off 16th. The more teams in this mess, the better and history dictates there'll be a team dragged into these proceedings later on.

 

[peterpan]

them times teams went down with 50 or more points is a rarety... in the league nowdays and more then usualy you always have atleast 2 or 3 teams way off the par of the rest of the teams in each league.

but as i said before the time teams gone down with 50 ponit the league was extremely tight and teams were losing and beating each other all over the show changing the legue table quite drastically after every match

 

[MisterStubbs]

points, as simple as that. the question is, will get the points we need :(

 

[Revd Dr Alan McCormack]

The more teams in this mess, the better and history dictates there'll be a team dragged into these proceedings later on.

I wouldn't agree about the more teams in trouble the better - that would most likely mean that the couple of teams around us are taking points off the teams very slightly higher up the table when they play each other, dragging those higher teams into it. I would prefer teams around us to get crushed week in week out, meaning that any points Southend get make a massive difference

 

[SUFCStu]

Winning games whilst keeping a clean sheet

and to see every other team above us mess up at every game possible..............

 

[Blueshrimper]

A couple of administrations would be nice.

 

[Southampton Shrimper]

them times teams went down with 50 or more points is a rarety...

It's actually more common than you think. Since the advent of three points for a win back in 1981, a team (or teams) scoring 50 points or more has been relegated in 13 out of those 28 seasons. It would actually have been 14 - exactly half - had Bournemouth not been docked 10 points two seasons ago.

The highest number of points scored by a relegated team in this division was, as Weststander pointed out, 54 points, by us in 1988/89.

But as others have said, it is crazy to write us off at this stage because of our current league position. As mentioned earlier, we are only two points from safety and four away from 16th place.

Compare that to this stage last season, after 38 games. The bottom two were a little way off and did indeed end up getting relegated. Sitting in our current position, 22nd place, at this stage last year were Brighton. They had one point less than we do now and were six points away from safety, yet they managed to put a run together in their last eight games to enable them to finish in 16th on 52 points. One place above them were Yeovil, in the relegation zone on goal difference, on 42 points. They finished the season in 17th on 51 points.

It was the teams sitting in the two positions just above the relegation zone that ultimately went down. Of their last eight games, Northampton lost all of the first five and Crewe managed only three draws.

If we can get a few wins together then we can get ourselves out of this mess. It can be done!! And surely the last four games have shown us that we're not a complete lost cause. Getting that long-awaited clean sheet, finally winning in 2010 and scoring three goals in back-to-back games for the first time in exactly a year surely mean that we can sneak some wins out of our last eight games, only one of which is against a team in the top nine of the table.

We can do it! Come on you Shrimpers!!

:support:

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

If you look at the fixture list, Gillingham have got the hardest run in of clubs in the bottom 10. Obviously it will be easier for them if they beat us next monday, but surely as we have lost 12 out of our last 13 away games an away victory is imminent. (gotmore chance of winning there than at Leeds 5 days later, as they have got to start winning again soon).