Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:20 pm
Thursday, 3.45pm: So will Posh stay up? Who better to ask than the rest of the reporters covering Championship football this season?
After all, apart from the most fanatical of supporters, we are the people who watch more games than anyone else, so we asked 23 other newspapers who they felt was doomed for the drop this season.
Fourteen managed to beat a deadline and reply, but Posh fans and manager Darren Ferguson might want to look away now....
Brighton Argus - Bristol City, POSH, Barnsley.
Leicester Mercury - POSH, Barnsley, Bristol City.
South Wales Echo - Bristol City, Wolves, Sheff Wed.
Middlesbrough Gazette - Sheff Wed, Wolves, Bristol City.
Birmingham Mail - Bristol City, POSH, Barnsley.
Ipswich Evening Star - Bristol City, Wolves, Blackpool.
Nottingham Post - Bristol City, Wolves, Blackburn.
South London Press - Bristol City, POSH, Wolves.
Bolton News - Bristol City, Wolves, Barnsley.
Burnley Telegraph - Bristol City, Wolves, Blackburn.
Wolverhampton Express & Star - POSH, Barnsley, Bristol City.
Derby Telegraph - Bristol City, POSH, Barnsley.
Yorkshire Post - Bristol City, POSH, Barnsley.
Hull Daily Mail - POSH, Wolves, Blackburn.
Final score:
13 Bristol City.
8 POSH
8 Wolves
7 Barnsley
3 Blackburn
2 Sheff Wed
1 Blackpool
Only the Hull Daily Mail believes current bottom club Bristol City will stay up.
The majority believe Posh and Wolves, the other two teams currently in the relegation zone, will join them.
And what about our own resident expert? Well Alan Swann has correctly predicted the Posh finishing position in each of the last two seasons.
He said Posh would finish fourth in League One in 2010/11 and then win the play-offs and he predicted an 18th place finish last season.
This season he said 21st which would do very nicely.