Derby County.
Just our luck tonight that the very time we notch our first win since God only knows when, all the other basement jacks pick up points too. Hey-ho.
So we're still 8 points behind. But do I spy my old mates Plymouth Argyle in freefall ....? lol
Edit: Target for survival = focus on 3 points from the next game
There you go folks, taken the table out and put in an Edit.
Looks more encouraging already ...!!!
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It's about getting our heads down and winning now. Sod what everyone else does.
Just the next game ..... go for the win.
Nothing else to get in the way.
And don't think any further ahead.
(!)
If we can get a little run going then its still possible to get out of this mess, but we have to do it NOW, we need a win at Burnley on Saturday, a draw won't be much good at all, and then a home win against Cardiff.
The sooner we are back in the pack then the sooner the pressure will ease.
We need a new centre-half to come in (Wayne Brown) and another forward to come in as well.
i aint going to start thinking about staying up but the games are there for us to try to save our selves
Don't torture yourself about whether we can stay up or not, NLA.
Let's just see what we can get at Burnley on saturday, and take it from there one game at a time.
We got a win today. So nothing changes.
If we reach 50 points I'm pretty sure we will stay up.
Just 3 points again on Saturday.
That's all for now.
;o)
we can still do this but it is going to be very very very hard
I think that's pushing it a bit when 4th bottom already have 30 points.
Not in this division. In the top flight, maybe, but the general average points total to stay up is 50, what with 8 extra games.
It'd be great if we could stay up with a low total like that, but I can't see that happening. This division is bastardly unpredictable & I could see at least 11th position to 21st being seperated by only a few points, come May.
What NLA is saying is, no one knows how big it is, and it might not be as big as some people are making out.
And we couldn't climb it in one leap anyway, so we might just as well focus on the next step.
Because we've got a decent chance of making that.
If we get that right, then who knows?
It's only been 2 League games though.
No chance of that, can't afford it!
Trying to second guess results elsewhere? That way lies madness fellas, just need to get our heads down and see what happens. Odds are still very much against us but staring at the table every 5 minutes is not going to help anyone...although I did buy a paper today for the first time in months.
BUT :-)
4 points from our next two games will take us realistically somewhere between 4-7 points of safety, with 15 games left to go.
Get those 4 points, or 3 at the very minimum and the dream is very much alive.
Actually only need 8 wins and 4 draws, or 9 wins and a draw to get us to 50 points, not 10/11 wins. Personally I think if we win 8 of the 17 remaining games that will be enough, as long as in those 8 are wins over the teams around us (we have 3 of them at home and 2 away I believe, so we win those 5 games and any 3 others).
I'm not saying we'll do it, but we need to focus on the next game. 8/9/10/11 wins sounds like a load and is putting to much pressure on ourselves too soon. You win a game and then you concentrate on the next win, and the next and suddenly its 3 more wins or 4 more wins, not 8 or 9.
Just had a look at Soccerbot and Burnley have the worst current form, followed by Debry and Plymouth. Also they have an predicted final table. Obviously they still have us bottom (is is calculated based on average form over the season, so can't take into account changes in form), but the interesting thing is they have Derby 3rd from bottom with 43 points and then next team above them, and therefore safe, on 47. This would suggest 48 points is the calculated safety target (47, but we have a rubbish goal difference).
So that means we need 26 points from 17 games, or 8 wins and 2 draws (7 wins and 5 draws too).
That's all.