mozo Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, Matty_Taylor_is_god said: Cardiff just the one point behind us now. Going to be a big game in a few weeks As will be Blackburn next week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 4 hours ago, Andy082005 said: My worry is ourselves. 10 games left and I still think it's in our own hands. The only team that will cost us top 6 is ourselves We've been the team that has worried me the most for the last 50 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garland-sweden Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, Matty_Taylor_is_god said: Cardiff just the one point behind us now. Going to be a big game in a few weeks Yes, exciting we have to play Cardiff and Preston home. Next is Blackburn away, we have it in our own hands. COYR!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 Very tight in top 10 - think realistically we’ve known for a while 6th, maybe 5th was our realistic top end aim. It’s well and truly game on for 6th with Prestons current form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciudad Bristol Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 Our performance and Preston's result makes our point today a whole lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 I think we deserve to be still in with a shout after our last two performances, they have been ‘ honest ‘ . As I said somewhere on here earlier this is the time for scrappers and the mental takes over . I also wondered how Preston would cope with their ‘ lofty ‘ position. We didn’t look better than Fulham but somehow got the point . Every game now is going to be tight for us and the other clubs going for the prize . Buckle in . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 39 minutes ago, Major Isewater said: I think we deserve to be still in with a shout after our last two performances, they have been ‘ honest ‘ . As I said somewhere on here earlier this is the time for scrappers and the mental takes over . I also wondered how Preston would cope with their ‘ lofty ‘ position. We didn’t look better than Fulham but somehow got the point . Every game now is going to be tight for us and the other clubs going for the prize . Buckle in . Hopefully Preston will bottle it like we did last 2 seasons! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.G.Red Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 Need to change the title we’re 7th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 9 minutes ago, E.G.Red said: Need to change the title we’re 7th 7th appears to be our mode average position. According to wiki it has been our gameweek position 13 times. We've also been in the top 6 13 gameweeks, and 8th or below on 11 occasions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 9 hours ago, handballbygordonparr said: .....should the results go against us today we could be mathematically closer to relegation than promotion 7th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 It's almost as if the teams around us have as many issues as we do.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 12 minutes ago, Northern Red said: It's almost as if the teams around us have as many issues as we do.... I wish we had fewer issues so that we could compete with the top 5! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handballbygordonparr Posted March 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 55 minutes ago, E.G.Red said: Need to change the title we’re 7th 17 minutes ago, bcfc01 said: 7th. Gaining a point at home and climbing back up to 7th doesn't make my original post untrue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 9 minutes ago, mozo said: I wish we had fewer issues so that we could compete with the top 5! Well yes, but at times you'd be forgiven for thinking that everyone else is so much better than us, when it clearly isn't the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 2 hours ago, Alessandro said: Very tight in top 10 - think realistically we’ve known for a while 6th, maybe 5th was our realistic top end aim. It’s well and truly game on for 6th with Prestons current form. The way things are going, the play off places will likely end up with the teams that have the least worst form over the next 9 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natchfever Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 29 minutes ago, Northern Red said: Well yes, but at times you'd be forgiven for thinking that everyone else is so much better than us, when it clearly isn't the case. There certainly are better teams than City we saw one today for example and Leeds and WBA recently Results are keeping us in with a shout though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PooPants Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 Putting it out there but I can see Forest dropping out of it completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 39 minutes ago, Natchfever said: There certainly are better teams than City we saw one today for example and Leeds and WBA recently Results are keeping us in with a shout though Agreed, but I wasn't on about the likes of those teams, they are certainly better than us and will finish comfortably above us. It was more the teams who are in the playoff mix, pretty much all of whom have been been compared favourably to us at various points this season yet are either behind us in the table or within reach of being overtaken, and have as many (though different in some cases) issues to solve as we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 6 hours ago, Alessandro said: Very tight in top 10 - think realistically we’ve known for a while 6th, maybe 5th was our realistic top end aim. It’s well and truly game on for 6th with Prestons current form. Spot on. Top 2 cut above, Brentford great footballing side. Fulham great squad, but not perhaps a great manager. 6th,or 5th was always an upper limit for me. Maybe without injuries higher but I never really had us down as top 2 contenders. Preston though, Nottingham Forest...these sides are beatable, cstchable. In our own hands? Absolutely. As between now and the last day we play: 1) Nottingham Forest Away 2) Preston Home 3) Cardiff Home 4) Swansea Away 5) Blackburn Away All playoff contenders, all to play. To also add, home games against Hull, Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke...these are winnable. 7 points and maybe 9 should be a target to aim at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 54 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said: Spot on. Top 2 cut above, Brentford great footballing side. Fulham great squad, but not perhaps a great manager. 6th,or 5th was always an upper limit for me. Maybe without injuries higher but I never really had us down as top 2 contenders. Preston though, Nottingham Forest...these sides are beatable, cstchable. In our own hands? Absolutely. As between now and the last day we play: 1) Nottingham Forest Away 2) Preston Home 3) Cardiff Home 4) Swansea Away 5) Blackburn Away All playoff contenders, all to play. To also add, home games against Hull, Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke...these are winnable. 7 points and maybe 9 should be a target to aim at? As long as we see the Fulham ‘team’ and not the Huddersfield ‘team’, performance wise, I think we can be confident of sneaking points in a large number of those games, we’ll see. Encouraging that a few key players, Kalas and Smith, for example, finding form. I’m hoping too that being part of the chasing pack will help, pressure on Preston and Forest to fight off that pack, we’ve seen how a long season mentally and physically of being chased can add a pressure to great for some teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garland-sweden Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 We have a big squad that have been difficault to make the right starting eleven, it has not benefit us so far but in the end it could be good, nine games left and our players are hungry and fit, not tired. Nagy, Famara in the team is important. COD doing better and Niclas plays 30 min or starts. Wells have scored twice and he is a player, the defence looks strong again. We had a bad run hope we can have a good run now when its needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City oz Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 9 minutes ago, Garland-sweden said: We have a big squad that have been difficault to make the right starting eleven, it has not benefit us so far but in the end it could be good, nine games left and our players are hungry and fit, not tired. Nagy, Famara in the team is important. COD doing better and Niclas plays 30 min or starts. Wells have scored twice and he is a player, the defence looks strong again. We had a bad run hope we can have a good run now when its needed. Yes 9 left and 5 at least should be 3 pointers = 18 points. 4 others will result in probably 2 draws and 2 losses. Total 20 points out of a possible maximum of 27 would finish us in the top six. Yesterday’s performance was promising and we could be hitting a good run at the pointy end of the season. Not a brilliant unbeaten run but a run of merit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 15 hours ago, mozo said: Yeah, I've assumed that those sides are as inconsistent as us! Honestly, it feels like Brentford are a superior team, and Preston have their s--t together better than us, so I don't begrudge either side finishing top 6. My issue is why aren't we better... Based on what? Brentford got their first win in 6 and Preston have Lost 3 in a row Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Balls Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 Realistically there are 7 teams vying for the last play off spot. The top 4 won’t change, but Forest look fragile so might be caught as well. It’s in our own hands whether or not we make the playoffs. We still have to play quite a few of those teams around us, so wins against them will give us more breathing space. And given yesterday’s performance, I would hope that the players will give their all in these fixtures. My worry remains our home form and particularly the games against Stoke and Hull. Just because they are towards the bottom of the table, these are not gimmes. In fact, in the last few seasons, these are just the type of teams we slip up against (think Sunderland and Wigan). The reality is that we need to average 2 points per game from now to the end of the season. Possible but quite a challenge given our fixtures. The nightmare scenario for me remains the possibility of making the playoffs but needing a win against Preston in the last game of the season. If that is the situation and it’s them or us, you just know that we are going to blow it against one of our bogey teams! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey54 Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 We're entering the silly season too. Teams start bottling it as the pressure mounts up and teams down the bottom start winning runs. Look at Wigan. Lose at home to us then beat West Brom and Leeds away. It's squeaky bum time as Sir Alex used to say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buster Footman's T shirt Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 The omens are there.....who did we play at home on the last day of the season last time we made the Championship play offs..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City oz Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 11 minutes ago, Dr Balls said: Realistically there are 7 teams vying for the last play off spot. The top 4 won’t change, but Forest look fragile so might be caught as well. It’s in our own hands whether or not we make the playoffs. We still have to play quite a few of those teams around us, so wins against them will give us more breathing space. And given yesterday’s performance, I would hope that the players will give their all in these fixtures. My worry remains our home form and particularly the games against Stoke and Hull. Just because they are towards the bottom of the table, these are not gimmes. In fact, in the last few seasons, these are just the type of teams we slip up against (think Sunderland and Wigan). The reality is that we need to average 2 points per game from now to the end of the season. Possible but quite a challenge given our fixtures. The nightmare scenario for me remains the possibility of making the playoffs but needing a win against Preston in the last game of the season. If that is the situation and it’s them or us, you just know that we are going to blow it against one of our bogey teams! That’s 18 points. I think we need more like 20. Any one know what of the last nine are in front of the cameras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 59 minutes ago, MarcusX said: Based on what? Brentford got their first win in 6 and Preston have Lost 3 in a row Brentford, 1st win in 6, but only lost 2 in past 12 games. Their wins this season include a 7-0, 5-0, 5-1 and a 4-0 that we all remember. Watkins and Benrahma are quality and on fire this season. Preston are having a wobble, I just feel like Millwall, they're well drilled. Blackburn on reasonable form too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loosey Boy Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 Huge game next Saturday now......let's hope for good numbers from the travelling Cider Army.....the boys need our support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Peacock Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 9 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said: Spot on. Top 2 cut above, Brentford great footballing side. Fulham great squad, but not perhaps a great manager. 6th,or 5th was always an upper limit for me. Maybe without injuries higher but I never really had us down as top 2 contenders. Preston though, Nottingham Forest...these sides are beatable, cstchable. In our own hands? Absolutely. As between now and the last day we play: 1) Nottingham Forest Away 2) Preston Home 3) Cardiff Home 4) Swansea Away 5) Blackburn Away All playoff contenders, all to play. To also add, home games against Hull, Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke...these are winnable. 7 points and maybe 9 should be a target to aim at? O'Neill seems to have Stoke playing how they should. Won't be easy. Hull and Sheff W are in free fall, just the type of game to trip us up! Not an easy game left. But play like we did today and I will be happy, no matter the outcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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