Who gets relegated next year?

It's never too early to start a thread like this. OK, actually, it IS too early, but I'm going to do it anyway.

I say the Orange One gets it at Hull-- they were lucky as hell not to get relegated last year and I don't think that happens again. Wigan and Stoke get the other two. All three new boys stay up for the first time since we were promoted.

 

If Wigan sign Martinez and can minimize the rumored exodus of players, I don't think they'll have much dropoff. Martinez' teams played some very good football at Swans. The question will be if Wigan can play that style and still defend (unlike WBA).

 

Off topic in my own thread -- Newcastle is, well, words canot describe Newcastle right now. I didn't want to post this in the Toon relegation thread as that horse is already dead, but I think they may get relegated again next year. Selling everyone? How did Ashley get rich in the first place? There's no way he was smart enough to do it -- I refuse to believe that. Every decision he has made at Newcastle has been unbelievable.

 

A lot depends on the transfer market, but...I think Stoke were lucky not to finish 20th. They got unsustainable (IMO) production out of Ricardo Fuller and James Beattie, and if those two can't repeat (I don't think they will), I don't know where the goals will come from. They need too much help in too many places to be competitive without relying on pure luck.

But if they somehow stay up again, Tony Pulis is a genius.