It's easy to keep saying as long as Fulham and Bolton keep losing then we're safe, but if we dare start relying on others it's likely to kick us in the nuts.
Have Fulham even won away this season? I don't think they have, so we have every right to expect 3 points next Saturday although if any of us think they'll be a walk over then they're very very wrong!
It's these games that we often trip up on and we must come away from that game with at least a point, at least.
Now, if we do win, are you going to taunt the Fulham support with "Down with the Derby, you're going down with the Derby......."?
I remember oh to well the feeling or desperation, sadness, dissapointment when we went to Oxford's Manor Ground and they taunted us all game long.
I swore to myself I would never dish out the same treatment to any club if they were in that position because of how bad it felt being on the receiving end. And it did hurt!
But will you?
I know I will and I know it goes against what I said back in 98 but Fulham were so smug in going up to Division one when they had Keegan as manager and we were struggling in the same division.
They sang and they sang loud "You'll never play us again, you'll never play us again....."
I wouldn't mind some smugness of our own on Saturday!!
One more win and another Bolton defeat next week will almost certainly do it. And then we can look forward to a long summer with a few no mad signings that are more "work in progress".
Boo!!
