{"id":15194,"date":"2008-08-03T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=15194"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"16th-place-with-reading-and-birmingham-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2008\/08\/03\/16th-place-with-reading-and-birmingham-up\/","title":{"rendered":"16th Place With Reading and Birmingham Up??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And despite that low prediction the paper does state that the Swans may turn out to be the division&#39;s surprise package as Bristol City were last season &#8211; and I am sure that pretty much every Swansea fan would take a season like Bristol City&#39;s one of last year!!<\/p>\n<p>Jason Scotland &#8211; 29 goals to his name last season &#8211; is listed as the team&#39;s key man and the 16th place prediction is above the likes of Watfor d(17th), Sheffield Wednesday (18th) and Barnsley (21st)<\/p>\n<p>The paper predicts promotion glory for Reading and Birmingham whilst a season of doom is predicted for Plymouth, Southampton and Blackpool.&nbsp; If they have everything spot on then Derby, QPR, Crystal Palace and Wolves will compete in the play offs.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the paper predicts that all three promoted sides will stay up.<\/p>\n<p>PREDICTED FINAL TABLE (News of the World)<\/p>\n<p>1. Reading<br \/>2. Birmingham<br \/>3. Derby<br \/>4. QPR<br \/>5. Crystal Palace<br \/>6. Wolves<br \/>7. Ipswich<br \/>8. Charlton<br \/>9. Cardiff<br \/>10. Sheffield United<br \/>11. Coventry<br \/>12. Preston<br \/>13. Nottingham Forest<br \/>14. Norwich<br \/>15. Bristol City<br \/><strong>16. Swansea<br \/><\/strong>17. Watford<br \/>18. Sheffield Wednesday<br \/>19. Doncaster<br \/>20. Burnley<br \/>21. Barnsley<br \/>22. Plymouth<br \/>23. Southampton<br \/>24. Blackpool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And despite that low prediction the paper does state that the Swans may turn out to be the division&#39;s surprise package as Bristol City were last season &#8211; and I am sure that pretty much every Swansea fan would take a season like Bristol City&#39;s one of last year!! Jason Scotland &#8211; 29 goals to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}