Eastend Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 I think 35 points from the remaining 24 games and we will almost certainly secure a play off spot on 78 points! That’s an average of 1.5 points a game. So 1 win in every 2 games. Doesn’t sound too much does it? Ideally I would like us to achieve better than that of course. But I think anyone would of taken a play off finish at the end of the season! Maybe if we win 50% of our games from now, with a few draws along the way we could be aiming for the 85 point mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 I’m not sure my nerves can take a play off campaign. Let’s just aim for the top 2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishRed Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 35 minutes ago, Eastend said: I think 35 points from the remaining 24 games and we will almost certainly secure a play off spot on 78 points! That’s an average of 1.5 points a game. So 1 win in every 2 games. Doesn’t sound too much does it? Ideally I would like us to achieve better than that of course. But I think anyone would of taken a play off finish at the end of the season! Maybe if we win 50% of our games from now, with a few draws along the way we could be aiming for the 85 point mark Totally agree we would have settled for a play- off place in August, now I am not so sure............. Just need to keep going and see where it takes us. Every game that passes however makes me believe that little bit more than we can finish in the top two Something is going on here, you can feel it in AG more and more at each game - the players believe as do the supporters and there does seem to be a growing bond between the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderInACan Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 Win all our remaining game and we'll go up automatically. You heard it hear first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 Top 2 is a big big ask. Wolves will continue to run away with it. Derby looking very strong now and are a team filled with experience and quality - what is it, half their players have been promoted to the prem before? Cardiff may drop off but with Warnock, anything is possible. Play- offs would be an unbelievable achievement and if we don’t suffer anymore major injuries and do well in January - we will be in their come May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityexile Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 10 minutes ago, Alessandro said: Top 2 is a big big ask. Wolves will continue to run away with it. Derby looking very strong now and are a team filled with experience and quality - what is it, half their players have been promoted to the prem before? Cardiff may drop off but with Warnock, anything is possible. Play- offs would be an unbelievable achievement and if we don’t suffer anymore major injuries and do well in January - we will be in their come May. Where I am at the moment. It is brutal at the top if you drop the pace at all. Four games ago we were five points below Sheff Utd, now we are six above. We might be capable of the reverse of that at some stage. Just taking it as it comes, and if I was a neutral would be thinking Wolves and Derby at the moment. As an aside, even relegation form now of a point a game would see us finish on 67 points, almost certainly top half. That was my par at the start of the season, so not getting carred away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 4 minutes ago, cityexile said: Where I am at the moment. It is brutal at the top if you drop the pace at all. Four games ago we were five points below Sheff Utd, now we are six above. We might be capable of the reverse of that at some stage. Just taking it as it comes. As an aside, even relegation form now of a point a game would see us finish on 67 points, almost certainly top half. That was my par at the start of the season, so not getting carred away. I said pretty much this a few weeks ago. Last few seasons we’ve been down the wrong end, where the table moves slowly as those around are losing too. Now we’re up the top, there are so many points flying around so quickly - as Sheffield Utd are finding out - a small drop of form and it’s a slippery slope out the play offs. I hope that doesn’t happen to us, but we have to remain realistic, we will probably have a dip of form at some point. But we’ve bounced back well so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 No. I reckon we're pretty well safe already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin_unreliant Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 We have a pretty tough looking run of games up to the end of January. If we come through that still in the top four, with Famara, Milan and Callum all close to being back, I think we will have a good shot at the play offs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1960maaan Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 15 minutes ago, robin_unreliant said: We have a pretty tough looking run of games up to the end of January. If we come through that still in the top four, with Famara, Milan and Callum all close to being back, I think we will have a good shot at the play offs. I think (and hope) we will add 2 maybe 3 players in Jan, but even that maybe the end of the month. So , as you say, if we can stay in touch of the top 2 without further injuries, we maybe well placed to have a run at I come Feb/March. Getting through to Jan still there or there about will be an achievement with the current crop of injuries, some new additions and fit players will make make LJ's choices harder but may really be good timing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenred Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 If anyone said we had even a sniff of being top 2 at the start of this season I'd have said they were completely and utterly doolally. Even top 6 I thought was well out of reach. I expected a steady season, and saw keeping away from the relegation scrap as progress. Perhaps a bonus of a cup run - which we've had as well of course Given where we are now then not reaching the play offs would be a real blow, but I'd like to think I can keep the perspective should we drop out of them and appreciate that great progress will have been made this season (unless of course we completely nose dive now - which I cannot see happening at all.) Whatever happens this season has already been a huge improvement on the last and that's all you can ask. Well done to all and let's hope it continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackofromSanJavier Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 8 points from safety. Anything else is gravy in my depressed world! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bristolcity Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 3 hours ago, BS2 Red said: I’m not sure my nerves can take a play off campaign. Let’s just aim for the top 2! 100% agree, I know it sounds daft but top2 or nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bristolcity Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 1 hour ago, robin_unreliant said: We have a pretty tough looking run of games up to the end of January. If we come through that still in the top four, with Famara, Milan and Callum all close to being back, I think we will have a good shot at the play offs. That sounds like we will be in mid-table, to be so would be a complete head#### of a January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 I always obsess about points at halfway in the season and to think we have a chance of 46 is insane! It really helps to do the hard work in the first 23 games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey Fox Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 Why dont we just go and win the next game and see where we go from there"......repeat.......repeat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Do The Dziekanowski Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 It’s already starting to break up a bit in the play offs I can see 3/4 teams in the 85+ points and the rest cut adrift as such. Still confident Cardiff will slip up, maybe just maybe we could win at legoland to help our cause for a top two place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bengalcub Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 I don’t see it with derby , think they will fade away . wolves are too strong so we are I. The hunt for only 1 other auto spot they paid big money for their players so I can’t see them losing any in January . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 18 minutes ago, bengalcub said: I don’t see it with derby , think they will fade away . wolves are too strong so we are I. The hunt for only 1 other auto spot they paid big money for their players so I can’t see them losing any in January . Derby do have previous as well. They`re serial bottlers most years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Dawe Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 3 hours ago, Grey Fox said: Why dont we just go and win the next game and see where we go from there"......repeat.......repeat Because we are not the players, and so there is no imperative upon us to take each game as it comes. We can do what we like, on here. And some like to daydream.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 We need to go up automatically, my band has a gig on the day of the play off final, not sure I can dip out of that one - when we got there versus Hull it cost me a long term relationship and lots of money! We were invited to three weddings on that day but I declined them all and went to Wembley to watch the Windass wonder strike sink our hopes and turn my domestic life upside down! The things we do for the City eh?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malago Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 Of course I want us to be promoted, but I'm just happy the club is in the best place it's been since the old first division days. Long may it continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 11 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said: We need to go up automatically, my band has a gig on the day of the play off final, not sure I can dip out of that one - when we got there versus Hull it cost me a long term relationship and lots of money! We were invited to three weddings on that day but I declined them all and went to Wembley to watch the Windass wonder strike sink our hopes and turn my domestic life upside down! The things we do for the City eh?! Your Mrs left you because you went to watch your team at Wembley..?! You did well do get shot of her, if that’s the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myol'man Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 On 12/17/2017 at 10:55, BS2 Red said: I’m not sure my nerves can take a play off campaign. Let’s just aim for the top 2! As a club with one of the worst play-off records lets hope so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 2 hours ago, Bar BS3 said: Your Mrs left you because you went to watch your team at Wembley..?! You did well do get shot of her, if that’s the case. Maybe one of the three weddings was his own and he left her at the altar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 25 minutes ago, myol'man said: As a club with one of the worst play-off records lets hope so! It’s like England going to a penalty shootout. It’s the hope that kills you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 10 hours ago, Bar BS3 said: Your Mrs left you because you went to watch your team at Wembley..?! You did well do get shot of her, if that’s the case. The former Mrs RRH told me that if I went to Darlington on a Tuesday night she would leave me. Fair play to her, when I got back she`d packed her bags and gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 1 hour ago, Red Right Hand said: The former Mrs RRH told me that if I went to Darlington on a Tuesday night she would leave me. Fair play to her, when I got back she`d packed her bags and gone. And it was a home game..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 On 17/12/2017 at 14:14, 1bristolcity said: 100% agree, I know it sounds daft but top2 or nothing. I hope the manager and players are thinking like this. You have to go for the top. No point hedging an accepting mediority. We are close to the top 2, we seem to be able to win games anyway. Why not set our sights on overtaking Cardiff. If we overtake them we will be in the play offs as a minimum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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