When you look at our remaining fixtures there is still alot to play for when you consider we have the opportunity to take points from the teams above us. Hopefully Nige can work his positive black magic during the international break and we come back firing on all cylinders. Heres my forecast
Doncaster away Draw 1 Pt Lincoln Home Win 3 Pts Sunderland Away Loss 0 Pts Ipswich Home Win 3 Pts Plymouth Away Win 3 Points Peterborough Home Win 3 Points Crewe Home Win 3 Points Accrington Away Win 3 Points Hull Home Draw 1 Point
TOTAL POINTS 20
Will that get us into the playoffs ?
On our current form those results will never happen, Nigel really would have to have a new manager bounce to achieve that.
12 points gained from the last 6 games.
I do think 20 from the next 9 is a bit fanciful but 15+ is certainly doable and that gives us every chance.
None of the teams in this league are Barcelona - all it takes is a couple of wins to build up a head of steam. Likely? Probably not. Doable? Certainly.
When you look at our remaining fixtures there is still alot to play for when you consider we have the opportunity to take points from the teams above us. Hopefully Nige can work his positive black magic during the international break and we come back firing on all cylinders. Heres my forecast
Doncaster away Draw 1 Pt Lincoln Home Win 3 Pts Sunderland Away Loss 0 Pts Ipswich Home Win 3 Pts Plymouth Away Win 3 Points Peterborough Home Win 3 Points Crewe Home Win 3 Points Accrington Away Win 3 Points Hull Home Draw 1 Point
TOTAL POINTS 20
Will that get us into the playoffs ?
On our current form those results will never happen, Nigel really would have to have a new manager bounce to achieve that.
12 points gained from the last 6 games.
I do think 20 from the next 9 is a bit fanciful but 15+ is certainly doable and that gives us every chance.
None of the teams in this league are Barcelona - all it takes is a couple of wins to build up a head of steam. Likely? Probably not. Doable? Certainly.
Certainly doable, and who know's we could achieve the 20 predicted, it is in our own hands as we have to play 6 of our main contenders out of the 9 games left, so yes, lets see how it goes starting Apr 2nd
When you look at our remaining fixtures there is still alot to play for when you consider we have the opportunity to take points from the teams above us. Hopefully Nige can work his positive black magic during the international break and we come back firing on all cylinders. Heres my forecast
Doncaster away Draw 1 Pt Lincoln Home Win 3 Pts Sunderland Away Loss 0 Pts Ipswich Home Win 3 Pts Plymouth Away Win 3 Points Peterborough Home Win 3 Points Crewe Home Win 3 Points Accrington Away Win 3 Points Hull Home Draw 1 Point
TOTAL POINTS 20
Will that get us into the playoffs ?
On our current form those results will never happen, Nigel really would have to have a new manager bounce to achieve that.
12 points gained from the last 6 games.
I do think 20 from the next 9 is a bit fanciful but 15+ is certainly doable and that gives us every chance.
None of the teams in this league are Barcelona - all it takes is a couple of wins to build up a head of steam. Likely? Probably not. Doable? Certainly.
Yes I agree mate it is unlikely but as you said 12 pts from our last 6 games is an average of 2 points per game, 2 points a game average from the next 9 is 18 points, that might be enough imo. Again yes I agree that unlikely but it isnt as bad as alot of people are saying on here, it is in our own hands imo COYA
When you look at our remaining fixtures there is still alot to play for when you consider we have the opportunity to take points from the teams above us. Hopefully Nige can work his positive black magic during the international break and we come back firing on all cylinders. Heres my forecast
Doncaster away Draw 1 Pt Lincoln Home Win 3 Pts Sunderland Away Loss 0 Pts Ipswich Home Win 3 Pts Plymouth Away Win 3 Points Peterborough Home Win 3 Points Crewe Home Win 3 Points Accrington Away Win 3 Points Hull Home Draw 1 Point
When you look at our remaining fixtures there is still alot to play for when you consider we have the opportunity to take points from the teams above us. Hopefully Nige can work his positive black magic during the international break and we come back firing on all cylinders. Heres my forecast
Doncaster away Draw 1 Pt Lincoln Home Win 3 Pts Sunderland Away Loss 0 Pts Ipswich Home Win 3 Pts Plymouth Away Win 3 Points Peterborough Home Win 3 Points Crewe Home Win 3 Points Accrington Away Win 3 Points Hull Home Draw 1 Point
TOTAL POINTS 20
Will that get us into the playoffs ?
On our current form those results will never happen, Nigel really would have to have a new manager bounce to achieve that.
12 points gained from the last 6 games.
I do think 20 from the next 9 is a bit fanciful but 15+ is certainly doable and that gives us every chance.
None of the teams in this league are Barcelona - all it takes is a couple of wins to build up a head of steam. Likely? Probably not. Doable? Certainly.
Yes I agree mate it is unlikely but as you said 12 pts from our last 6 games is an average of 2 points per game, 2 points a game average from the next 9 is 18 points, that might be enough imo. Again yes I agree that unlikely but it isnt as bad as alot of people are saying on here, it is in our own hands imo COYA
74 might be enough, but it partially depends on who we drop points against
It would be better to beat Ipswich, Doncaster and Lincoln and lose/draw against Plymouth and Crewe for example
When you look at our remaining fixtures there is still alot to play for when you consider we have the opportunity to take points from the teams above us. Hopefully Nige can work his positive black magic during the international break and we come back firing on all cylinders. Heres my forecast
Doncaster away Draw 1 Pt Lincoln Home Win 3 Pts Sunderland Away Loss 0 Pts Ipswich Home Win 3 Pts Plymouth Away Win 3 Points Peterborough Home Win 3 Points Crewe Home Win 3 Points Accrington Away Win 3 Points Hull Home Draw 1 Point
TOTAL POINTS 20
Will that get us into the playoffs ?
How often are you right with your predictions? 😬
Very rarely mate but I'm a bigger optimist than TS & Nig put together 😁
My predictions are really dire! That is just trying to pick out a win, lose or draw. 40% at best. But this year it is harder than ever to suss what may happen - just look at how Burton have turned their form around. We'll probably get a kick in the teeth like last year and miss out on the play-offs by a point or goal difference.
Or an Oxford win worst case scenario so that it increase Lincoln's chances of being dragged back into it - Oxford have wasted their games in hand so can only go above us on GD if they win as will have played the same amount of games
Averaging two points a game would get us to 74 points which I think has always been enough in previous seasons. In Bowyer's first season, we made the play offs with 71 points.
With our recent win draw win draw run, we have been averaging 2 points a game so it is more than a distant possibility even if we improve only slightly.
Also on the face of it, an Oxford win tonight will drop us to 8th. But they will be on the same points with a slightly better goal difference having played the same games. End the season with two points a game and we are likely to finish above them, and it brings Lincoln within 6 points (same number of games played) with us yet to play them.
Not really watching the match as I'm more interested in the Matchplay golf over in the States, but what I have seen I can comfortably say that League 1 football is crap. How we are below both of these teams just shows how bad we really are.
Not really watching the match as I'm more interested in the Matchplay golf over in the States, but what I have seen I can comfortably say that League 1 football is crap. How we are below both of these teams just shows how bad we really are.
I thought Oxford looked alright tbh, especially first half. I’d be very surprised if Lincoln ended the season in the top 6 though.
Surely the best result for us.If we have any hopes of getting into the playoffs then this makes it better for our chances of catching Lincoln who we have still got to play.We obviously need Donny to slip up,as well which makes our game next week against them even more important.Clutching at straws- probably.But until that Large lady starts singing......
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Absolutely no point trying to predict anything in this league. We don’t know what Charlton is gonna turn up let alone results involving other teams.
I do think 20 from the next 9 is a bit fanciful but 15+ is certainly doable and that gives us every chance.
None of the teams in this league are Barcelona - all it takes is a couple of wins to build up a head of steam. Likely? Probably not. Doable? Certainly.
Unless in two weeks, Adkins can wipe the memory of Bowyer from their brains......
It would be better to beat Ipswich, Doncaster and Lincoln and lose/draw against Plymouth and Crewe for example
With our recent win draw win draw run, we have been averaging 2 points a game so it is more than a distant possibility even if we improve only slightly.
Also on the face of it, an Oxford win tonight will drop us to 8th. But they will be on the same points with a slightly better goal difference having played the same games. End the season with two points a game and we are likely to finish above them, and it brings Lincoln within 6 points (same number of games played) with us yet to play them.
Not really watching the match as I'm more interested in the Matchplay golf over in the States, but what I have seen I can comfortably say that League 1 football is crap. How we are below both of these teams just shows how bad we really are.
Only the following with games in hand now...
1 in hand
PBoro, Crewe, Burton, Wigan, Rochdale
2 in hand
Sunderland, Pompey, Ipswich, Accrington, AFC Wimbledon
3 in hand
Donny, Blackpool, Shrews
Donny and Blackpool basically guaranteeing we won't catch them.
Donny will drop points. Practically playing 2 games every week until end of season and they're not exactly in great form either
(Apart from more than half of our opponents who have between 1 & 3 games in hand) :-)
I'm not confident, but it's still in our hands
...and then there's the last kick of the game pen that cost us 2 more points
We have been so close to being in a fairly decent position