The rabbits have paid the price for a week or so of escaping my cat. Came down this morning and there was a dead rabbit with its head bitten off on the kitchen floor. Its head lay a foot or so away. Fucking. Gross. 

Yep. Good points. I don't disagree with anything here. I was more so addressing the idea a few pages back that we'll need to win the rest of our games. Not only is that very unlikely to be true in general. It's actually pretty unlikely to be true even after this weekend since the teams around us are not exactly impervious to dropping points.   Taking that into consideration, I did say I think City are favourites against Wolves. It is true that Wolves haven't beaten anyone of particular note. But you can only beat who is in front of you and I think we very often see teams in good form who "haven't beaten anyone important" then play someone "important" and beat them too. Confidence cannot be underestimated imo. It happened to us with Bournemouth earlier in the season from memory. They hadn't beaten anyone significant. We drew confidence from that here on the forum with the usual sausage waving culprits. Probably myself included. And then they fuckin hammered us. (Although I could be misremembering and can't be arsed to look it up. So I recommend nobody else look it up either.  ) Anyway, as I said, I'm still backing City to win, but it isn't a fait accompli in my mind. None of our competitors for CL football are untouchable, including City (although they are certainly returning to form that can't be denied).   Anyway, all things considered, I completely agree with the general prognosis. So I'm just being a pedant.  Us and City are favourites now for 3rd and 4th. Chelsea and Forest competing for 5th in a basic competition to see who can tailspin their way out of the season with the best semblance of grace. And Villa are basically out of it short of a flawless run or Chelsea & Forest both collapsing completely to help them out.

City seem to have got themselves back together somewhat, haven't lost in over a month, through to the cup final. I'm expecting them to go unbeaten to the end of the season now. Wolves are indeed the form team in the league but they have also played the 6 worst teams in the league one after another. Chelsea will lose to liverpool, they've also got us and forest in the run in all capable to taking points from one another but any loss in that run in is devastating for them.   Forests run in is pretty easy but they've also been dropping off pretty hard and I wonder if its just got a bit beyond them by now.  For my money it is Us and City in 3rd and 4th with Chelsea and Forest potentially having a play off on the final day of the season.