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Originally Posted by mistaram

I'm with you MA got a squad of very good Championship player's ,no kids in their squad I expect there parachute money to count this season

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.... and they have a good manager in O'Neill. They were on 8 points from 15 games when he arrived. They got a further 48 points from the 31 games they played under O'Neill. Extrapolate that over a 46 game season and that gives you 71. One point more than Swansea who finished 6th. They would have been in the playoffs..... theoretically. That is the form they will take into the new season.

Having somehow gone for teams that werent relegated or had been promoted on another thread, my prediction is that Brentford, Watford, Norwich, Cardiff Swansea, Reading and Middlesbrough will be competing for top 6, Bournemouth will do a Huddersfield and free fall.

Forest, QPR, Stoke and Huddersfield will be challenging and we will finish 10th!