50 points! A realistic target ?

[bill taylors apprentice]

Considering the fixture list until the end of the season and with most of the opponents having plenty to play for, achieving 50 points total will  be a stiff challenge.
If we do, its unlikely to push us much higher up the table than 9th, maybe 8th, matching the last couple of years positions.
Finishing position is what its all about but 7th place on only 53 points was a freak year and 12th on 46 points was acceptable due to the Euro adventure.
So a pattern is emerging, we are averaging 50 points a season and ending about halfway, an improvement over the first 7 seasons, whats next?
The way the club is run its unlikely we sell our souls in pursuit of climbing the table, but if we have to keep improving just to stand still, how does the team need to develop next year and after that?
 

[filham]

We have recently had a great run of form and have played a settled team.

Now we have lost Sidwell and Dejegah and face Newcastle and Villa Away followed by Chelsea and Arsenal at home , all four desperate for points.

Don't expect too much. I will be more than satisfied with 3 or 4 points from those 4 games.

[Jimpav]

I would like to see us have a crack at a 7th place finish again but it's not easy - our top 7 finish was before Man City's billions and Tottenham gave us a generous head start.

Everton would be a club we could try and emulate but they have a greater pedigree than us as a club and a better manager. Not to mention the obvious advantages of Baines and Fellaini.

Personally I would like to see us in a Wembley final. It's quite frustrating to see the likes of Birmingham, Swansea, Pompey and now potentially Wigan qualifying for Europe via the cup - they've all done this on merit but heartbreaking when we crash out of the cup every year after another tough draw.

[fulhamfever]

And Stoke

[Forever Fulham]

This isn't the year for such dreams.  Every game a dog fight from here on out, opponents desperate.  Anything over 37 points would be amazing.

[tommy]

We are on 39 points now

[Forever Fulham]

I know.  All we needed was 37.

[JackyFulham90]

We will get 5 from the next 4 games I think which would be a decent return

[Forever Fulham]

Reading 23
QPR       23
Wigan    30
Sund.     31

Reading's losses of late give no hint of an ability to climb out of the zone.  Its remaining schedule:
Liverpool (H); Norwich (A); QPR (H); Fulham (A); Man City (H); and West Ham (A).  They will be lucky to get 6, maybe 7 more points at most.  4 is more likely. End result: 27.

QPR next plays Wigan (H); Everton (A); Stoke (H); Reading (A); Arsenal (H); and Newcastle (H).  4 home games.  Probably the easiest remaining schedule of the current bottom dwellers, agree?  Which games do you think they will win?  I think they'll beat Stoke, Reading, maybe Newcastle and maybe Wigan.  At best they would likely end up with 35.  

Wigan, with 30, has to play QPR (A); Man City (A); W Ham (A); Tott (H); WB (A); and Swansea (H).   Gazing into my crystal ball, I see wins against no team; maybe 3 decisions though.  By my math: 33 at the end.  Agree?

Sunderland, with 31, is an enigma to me.  I think they are playing like crap, but their remaining games suggest hope: Chelsea (A); Newcastle (A); Everton (H); AV (A); Stoke (H); and Southampton (H).   I see them winning at home against Stoke and Southampton, and maybe getting a draw against either Everton at home or against AV away.  But not both.  By my fuzzy math, they end the season at 37ish.  

[yannickm27]

Impossible is nothing, if you knew who wins before the game begins, you don't have to play the game, that's why you have to play games, because it's not 100% sure who wins. That's what my dad told me when i was young before i played a game against the number 1 in our competition and we won that game. Since that day i always think about what my dad said :)
I'm sorry if my english is not good :s

[Count Berbatov]

I count 5 points from the remaining games
For 11, you need 2 more wins . Most likely at home. Best chances against L'pool and Chelsea. Or one if the away games, like v Newcastle ..
So yes. Possible

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[Forever Fulham]

Maybe so, Count.  Nothing's impossible.  One might actually have an easier time of it against a team that isn't in the drop zone, playing outside of their boots, scrapping and clawing to survive.  I'd like Wigan to stay up, but I don't see the fire in the belly.  I'd like QPR to stay up too, because in-town rivalries are a good thing in any sport anywhere.  But Reading, QPR, and Wigan look like like they are definitely going down.  Reading's a given. 

[DJinNJ]

Wigan have won their last three! Stoke, Sunderland, Newcastle weren't expecting a relegation fight and may not have the stomach for it (Pardew foolishly said they could stop worrying about it a few weeks ago), while Villa and Wigan have been scrapping all season. Might be wishful thinking on my part though.

[A Humble Man]

Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win.  That is how we do it.  Pingpong will be a great replacement for Sidwell. possibly better, Herby is a class act and will do well against a football playing side like Newcastle.  It was unfair to send him out as a replacement during that battle with QPR.

[Count Berbatov]

Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win.  That is how we do it.  Pingpong will be a great replacement for Sidwell. possibly better, Herby is a class act and will do well against a football playing side like Newcastle.  It was unfair to send him out as a replacement during that battle with QPR.

Urby was probably both, unprepared  mentally and physically. 

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[A Humble Man]

Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win.  That is how we do it.  Pingpong will be a great replacement for Sidwell. possibly better, Herby is a class act and will do well against a football playing side like Newcastle.  It was unfair to send him out as a replacement during that battle with QPR.

Urby was probably both, unprepared  mentally and physically. 

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Are you not allowed to use a computer because the porn filters on it do not work?

[Burt]

 :58:

[RaySmith]

Today's Observer predicts us to finish 8th with 53 points  based on the average points won from the last 10 games.

There is also in the Observer, a full page interview and feature on  Karagounis, where he talks about his career, playing for Fulham, and the situation back in Greece - I recommend people to read this.

[filham]

Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win.  That is how we do it.  Pingpong will be a great replacement for Sidwell. possibly better, Herby is a class act and will do well against a football playing side like Newcastle.  It was unfair to send him out as a replacement during that battle with QPR.

Urby was probably both, unprepared  mentally and physically. 

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If he was mentally and physically unprepared twhat was he doing on the pitch ?

Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win.  That is how we do it.  Pingpong will be a great replacement for Sidwell. possibly better, Herby is a class act and will do well against a football playing side like Newcastle.  It was unfair to send him out as a replacement during that battle with QPR.

Urby was probably both, unprepared  mentally and physically. 

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