"I've always believed there will be five teams in it, the three who came up, and Southampton and Blackburn who are not having good seasons," Robson said.
"Just because you are going into Christmas bottom doesn't mean you will get relegated.
"We've just got to do better than the teams around us.
"It's important to do well against the teams in your section of the division and those two months are going to be really important to how our season goes."