Could sub 30 points be enough to stay up this season

You are right mate.

Cant see 30 being enough but it might be as low as 34-35.

Cant recall start like it for 3-4 teams

Sunderlands 1 win was scrappy 1-0 v poor wigan side, villa 1 of only 2 wins was v sunderland
and to square it off saints only beaten villa

what was Derby's total, 15?

derby got 9, only won one game ( v newcastle ) . sunderland got 15.

NINE

Reading might manage 9 draws

nicely slipped in mm

Over the past 10 years only one other team has needed 40 or more
points to stay up (by coming 4th from bottom).
Over the last 10 years the following number of points would
have been enough to keep a team in the league - 35, 35, 36, 38, 35, 34, 34, 43, 37, 35.

We did our best to preserve sunderlands proud record

I don't honestly see any of the current bottom three getting anywhere near 35 points.

dont see any of the bottom 5 getting 35 points

QPR are doomed 30+ or not

Well their current projected points totals are:-

Reading 24
Southampton 20
QPR 16

They are certainly lagging behind the pace.

Nov 11, 2012 -- 12:42AM, Hamsterdam wrote:

Well their current projected points totals are:-Reading 24Southampton 20QPR 16They are certainly lagging behind the pace.

... not really.  Their current projected points are:

Reading 32 - 33.5
Southampton 30.25 - 31.75
QPR 35.25 - 36.75