No we couldn't have been. At the time Trollope was sacked, we were on 8 points. At the end of the year, the team above the relegation zone was on 20 points. With 23 games remaining, there were 69 points on offer, so there was absolutely no chance of us being mathematically relegated on Dec 31st. We couldn't have been relegated on Jan 31st, Feb 31st or March 31st either.