Premiership Placings for the season

[Rawlie19]

19th - Wigan - Their existence in the Premiership annoys me as they only got 15,000 for a lot of games last season and they couldn't even sell out to Arsenal! Frankly, their fans don't deserve a Premiership club and this year Chris Hutchings is going to fulfill my wish and take them down. Anybody who rates Titus Bramble needs their head checked and they've just lost their best player in Baines and have yet to replace him. Add to that the fact that De Zeuw's gone and they're down.

It shouldn't matter how many fans they've got. If we had 20,000 less fans than we currently have and you were one of the few, how would you feel if someone said "scrap that club, they don't have a strong enough support"? You would presumably still love the club as much as you do now?

[Royalee]

19th - Wigan - Their existence in the Premiership annoys me as they only got 15,000 for a lot of games last season and they couldn't even sell out to Arsenal! Frankly, their fans don't deserve a Premiership club and this year Chris Hutchings is going to fulfill my wish and take them down. Anybody who rates Titus Bramble needs their head checked and they've just lost their best player in Baines and have yet to replace him. Add to that the fact that De Zeuw's gone and they're down.

It shouldn't matter how many fans they've got. If we had 20,000 less fans than we currently have and you were one of the few, how would you feel if someone said "scrap that club, they don't have a strong enough support"? You would presumably still love the club as much as you do now?

Perhaps I should have said 'town' instead of 'fans' no deserving a Premiership club then. Although their fans probably don't either with their pathetic pitch invasion after the playoff first leg the other year.

[Farnborough Royal]

1. United
2. Chelsea
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
5. Spurs
6. Everton
7. Aston Villa
8. West Ham
9. Newcastle
10. Pompey
11. Blackburn
12. Bolton
13. Middlesbrough
14. Man City
15. Reading
16. Sunderland
17. Fulham
18. Birmingham
19. Wigan
20. Derby

[glosson]

Birmingham, Wigan and Derby out...

So who do you suppose will get promoted?

[wolsey]

My uninformed and sadly lacking predictions: -

United or Chelsea to win the league (but frankly who gives a damn)

Liverpool 3rd (but closer than last year)
Arsenal 4th
Spurs, Everton, Blackburn: Euro places (assuming they or top 4 win cups)

Man City, Newcastle, West Ham, Villa flatter to deceive

Us to finish middle third

Middlesbro to struggle but survive

Bottom five (in no apparent order) Wigan, Derby, Fulham, Birmingham, Bolton

Sunderland, Portsmouth - who cares?

[bassavage]

Birmingham, Derby and Boro will go down.

Chelsea will win the league.

We will finish 12th.

[RG6]

Here's my prediction.

Man U
Liverpool
Chelsea
Spurs
Arsenal
Everton
Bolton
Portsmouth
Aston Villa
Newcastle
Man City
West Ham
Blackburn
Fulham
Reading
Sunderland
Middlesborough
Wigan
Birmingham
Derby

[kingthor]

Man Utd
Chelsea
Liverpool
Arsenal
Tottenham
Newcastle
Reading
Everton
Bolton
West Ham
Portsmouth
Aston Villa
Manchester City
Blackburn
Fulham
Sunderland
Middlesboro
Birmingham
Wigan
Derby

[Rawlie19]

1. Chelsea 81
2. Man United 78
3. Arsenal 72
4. Liverpool 69
5. Tottenham 59
6. Blackburn 55
7. Reading 52
8. Everton 51
9. Aston Villa 50
10. Bolton 49
11. Middlesboro 49
12. Newcastle 47
13. Portsmouth 47
14. Man City 46
15. Sunderland 44
16. Fulham 44
17. Birmingham 42
18. West Ham 42
19. Wigan 41
20. Derby 34

[Victor Meldrew]

One area where I dsagree greatly with Royalee and some of the others is Pompey.
I think they will finish in the top 7.

[URZZ]

Man Utd
Chelsea
Liverpool
Arsenal
Spurs
Everton

The rest

Reading about 15th

Sunderland
Wigan
Derby

I tipped Sunderland too, but they're playing bloody good against Spurs Despite not scoring, they're doing very well, and if they play like this all year they won't be anywhere near relegation.

[URZZ]

Man Utd
Chelsea
Liverpool
Arsenal
Spurs
Everton

The rest

Reading about 15th

Sunderland
Wigan
Derby

I tipped Sunderland too, but they're playing bloody good against Spurs Despite not scoring, they're doing very well, and if they play like this all year they won't be anywhere near relegation.

And they oxf*rd did it too.

[Dirk Gently]

I'm amazed that the consensus seems to be that Villa and Bolton will do well and Sunderland will struggle.

I'd see things as exactly the opposite way round - Bolton was all down to Big Sam and without him they'll have problems, and there's just something nor quite right at Villa - MON seems to have lost the magic.

Sunderland I think will do as well as we did last year - they have the confidence and the momentum that we came with last season.

[Royalee]

19th - Wigan - Their existence in the Premiership annoys me as they only got 15,000 for a lot of games last season and they couldn't even sell out to Arsenal! Frankly, their fans don't deserve a Premiership club

We haven't sold 3,000 tickets for Man United away, and Can't sell out at home to Chelsea.

I guess we don't deserve a Premiership club either...

I think we have sold out at home to Chelsea and we had superb support at Old Trafford...

[rotherwick_royal]

I think Man City are the dark horses this year - reckon they'll finish in the top 8. Everyone forgets Sven has got a great club track record. Also think Bolton will flirt with relegation, at least until Little Sam gets the chop around Christmas.

Mid-table for us would suit me fine!