I think Palace & Newcastle are going down this season. As much as a good manager Roy is I think these days players tune managers out after 1 1/2 years and I’d imagine Roy’s training sessions involve a lot of team shape drills etc. You saw at Albion how the players downed tools on Pulis clearly the’d had enough of repeating the same thing over and over I think the same will happen at Palace, the’l then try and hire a more forward thinking manager but don’t have the players to play that style of football, the summer recruitment looks very poor as well.
Refreshing to see the teams that have come up (Norwich & Sheffield United) really giving it a go, Norwich blew Newcastle away yesterday I think the’l both stop up (Sheffield United by the skin of their teeth) hopefully it’s a different story for Villa.
I think relegation is tough to call this season. There are probably 10 teams who could potentially get caught in a battle to stay up. Of those, I would think Bournemouth and Burnley are the most likely to be comfortably safe, and after them probably Watford too. That leaves the three promoted teams, Palace, Newcastle, Brighton and Saints.
Personally I think Palace have too much genuine quality in Zaha, Townsend, Sakho, Van Aanholt and Milivojevic amongst others and will stay up. I also think Sheff Utd will be a very difficult team to beat (at home especially) and will do enough to survive.
So I'm guessing 3 relegation places from 5 clubs: Brighton, Southampton, Newcastle, Norwich and Villa.
Of those Villa are the least prepared to stay up and I expect them to go down. From the other 4 you can almost take your pick, it's quite hard to call which 2 will join the Seals.