Port Said Red Posted April 16, 2022 Report Share Posted April 16, 2022 First of all we are finally mathematically safe so even the most pessimistic of our supporter's can breathe deeply again. I seem to remember posting at the end of February when we had 40 points, that we were already safe, it's going to be close but I still think that will be true. Nigel said he wanted a strong finish to the season and that's understandable but difficult to achieve with players that will have one eye on the break, individual targets can help with motivation but we need some as a team too From here we could look at: - 60 points - The most ambitious, will mean winning all the remaining games. Reducing our terrible goal difference/some more clean sheets - Something that would increase confidence throughout the club. 15th place - looking at the way the table has split, that would put us at the top of the bottom group of teams. Finishing above Cardiff - A bit of local ambition admittedly but one the supporter's will enjoy. I would also like to see a few young players getting minutes, but that comes under the individual targets. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFCGav Posted April 16, 2022 Report Share Posted April 16, 2022 I wonder if it’s worth giving lots of minutes to those we hope to move on, ‘put them in the window’ and all that. Vyner and Wells spring to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weepywall Posted April 16, 2022 Report Share Posted April 16, 2022 9 hours ago, TomF said: Back to back wins would be nice Winning a game by more than one goal. Dont think we’ve managed either all season? Hoping we may get back to back wins on Monday, Sheff Utds form has been a bit patchy of late, be nice to do some damage to their top 6 aspirations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted April 16, 2022 Report Share Posted April 16, 2022 1 minute ago, weepywall said: Hoping we may get back to back wins on Monday, Sheff Utds form has been a bit patchy of late, be nice to do some damage to their top 6 aspirations @And Its Smith did you have Sheff Utd to get promoted or top 3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted April 16, 2022 Report Share Posted April 16, 2022 7 minutes ago, Davefevs said: @And Its Smith did you have Sheff Utd to get promoted or top 3? It was to get promoted but I cashed out. £5 bet to win £980 and cashed out for about £240. Rotherham isn’t a definite now either so was a good decision I think 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeAman08 Posted April 16, 2022 Report Share Posted April 16, 2022 I’d like to see a couple games with more young players mixed in. Like a back 4 of Tanner Cundy Atkinson Pring. A front of Semenyo Conway Martin/weimann. Just rotate a few in a bit more. Gets them some minutes and takes some minutes off the older lads. Hopefully end the season with everyone fit for preseason even though a couple months away. Apart from that agree with some of the others. A couple clean sheets. Hopefully good performances. Don’t think it would bode well for them to play out the season thinking what is the point. NP won’t want that and for the most part don’t think it’ll happen. Just takes 1-2 to ruin it though. Hopefully avoid that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Geoff Posted April 16, 2022 Report Share Posted April 16, 2022 9 hours ago, BCFCGav said: I wonder if it’s worth giving lots of minutes to those we hope to move on, ‘put them in the window’ and all that. Vyner and Wells spring to mind. That could work against us if there any scouts watching. Better to say Vyner would definitely be playing because he is a class player and the team needs him, unfortunately he has a slight strain so isn't available. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1ackbird Posted April 16, 2022 Report Share Posted April 16, 2022 End of season targets seldom work, let's approximate... Cotts 100 points got fairly close... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loderingo Posted April 16, 2022 Report Share Posted April 16, 2022 I would like to see us improve on last season's 51 points and 19th place finish as that way we can say there has been a little bit of progress 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityexile Posted April 16, 2022 Report Share Posted April 16, 2022 AW to score 20+ goals. Finishing ‘safe’ without relying on others points deductions. Just to shut some up. Winning two in a row. Finishing above Cardiff. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Red Cyril Posted April 16, 2022 Report Share Posted April 16, 2022 4 hours ago, Davefevs said: @And Its Smith did you have Sheff Utd to get promoted or top 3? I got them to get promoted 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waconda Posted April 17, 2022 Report Share Posted April 17, 2022 Dean Ashton gave a very accurate on Quest - The players will totally relax after achieving safety, booking holidays, avoiding injury and going through the motions etc. Mentally switch off after intense season. Not what fans want to hear but that is real life. Our manager has already said he wanted the season over last week, so most will follow his example. What it might mean some high scoring/exciting games but as for targets they are for fans only at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted April 17, 2022 Report Share Posted April 17, 2022 We haven’t finished the season at all well recently, last season I think it was just 3 points from the last 10 games which was horrendous. The year before 9 points. This season even just wining our last 2 home games will get us to 14 points from our final 10 games which although not promotion form it’s certainly an improvement and will give all of us more confidence going into next season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reigate Red Posted April 17, 2022 Report Share Posted April 17, 2022 Well.........I'm going to my first match at AG since covid...so a win against Hull would be much appreciated lads. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted April 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2022 On 16/04/2022 at 10:21, TomF said: Back to back wins would be nice Winning a game by more than one goal. Dont think we’ve managed either all season? 1 from 2 so far. On 16/04/2022 at 22:39, cityexile said: AW to score 20+ goals. Finishing ‘safe’ without relying on others points deductions. Just to shut some up. Winning two in a row. Finishing above Cardiff. Two from four, for you and on for a full house. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted April 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 On 16/04/2022 at 09:11, Port Said Red said: First of all we are finally mathematically safe so even the most pessimistic of our supporter's can breathe deeply again. I seem to remember posting at the end of February when we had 40 points, that we were already safe, it's going to be close but I still think that will be true. Nigel said he wanted a strong finish to the season and that's understandable but difficult to achieve with players that will have one eye on the break, individual targets can help with motivation but we need some as a team too From here we could look at: - 60 points - The most ambitious, will mean winning all the remaining games. Reducing our terrible goal difference/some more clean sheets - Something that would increase confidence throughout the club. 15th place - looking at the way the table has split, that would put us at the top of the bottom group of teams. Finishing above Cardiff - A bit of local ambition admittedly but one the supporter's will enjoy. I would also like to see a few young players getting minutes, but that comes under the individual targets. On 16/04/2022 at 10:21, TomF said: Back to back wins would be nice Winning a game by more than one goal. Dont think we’ve managed either all season? On 16/04/2022 at 22:39, cityexile said: AW to score 20+ goals. Finishing ‘safe’ without relying on others points deductions. Just to shut some up. Winning two in a row. Finishing above Cardiff. So both Tom and Cityexile got their wishes. I got some of mine and have been proven right about the 40 points. Also it's worth pointing out that as it stands we would finish above Derby and Reading with or without points deductions. Although potentially results next week could ruin that. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dolman Pragmatist Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, Port Said Red said: So both Tom and Cityexile got their wishes. I got some of mine and have been proven right about the 40 points. Also it's worth pointing out that as it stands we would finish above Derby and Reading with or without points deductions. Although potentially results next week could ruin that. No, Derby would be on the same points as us, but with a better goal difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malago Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 Our results against the top 6, as is at the moment, is miserable to say the least. 3 points from a possible 33. An opportunity next week against a play off side to see how we’ve progressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 We were safe after we beat Boro on 19th Feb….there was no need for the panic after that! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted May 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 10 hours ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said: No, Derby would be on the same points as us, but with a better goal difference. Thank you yes, perhaps truer to say that we would be comfortably safe even without the points deductions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richwwtk Posted May 1, 2022 Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Port Said Red said: Thank you yes, perhaps truer to say that we would be comfortably safe even without the points deductions. Although some, no doubt, will just point out how lucky we were that there were 6 teams worse than us in the division. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted May 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 7 minutes ago, richwwtk said: Although some, no doubt, will just point out how lucky we were that there were 6 teams worse than us in the division. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted May 2, 2022 Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 Huddersfield maybe making some changes in preparation for the playoffs. One to consider might be...although by no means terrible if it doesn't happen, still a tough away game and decent side. Win- 3 in a row and totally new ground for this team. Clean sheet- back to back wins with clean sheets. If at all possible Semenyo scores two so he can also hit the double double (10 goals and assists). Martin would need 4 assists to achieve his 10 of each so that seems implausible tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityexile Posted May 2, 2022 Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 25 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said: Huddersfield maybe making some changes in preparation for the playoffs. One to consider might be...although by no means terrible if it doesn't happen, still a tough away game and decent side. Win- 3 in a row and totally new ground for this team. Clean sheet- back to back wins with clean sheets. If at all possible Semenyo scores two so he can also hit the double double (10 goals and assists). Martin would need 4 assists to achieve his 10 of each so that seems implausible tbh. Obviously happy with any of those! Unbeaten would also make it our best unbeaten run of the season on six, our current five matching our run early in the season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted May 2, 2022 Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 3 minutes ago, cityexile said: Obviously happy with any of those! Unbeaten would also make it our best unbeaten run of the season on six, our current five matching our run early in the season. Was trying to think back earlier what our longest run was- and yeah that is motivation on its own too, we could actually achieve a few on Saturday but any would be good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonBristolian Posted May 2, 2022 Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 On 17/04/2022 at 16:04, Reigate Red said: Well.........I'm going to my first match at AG since covid...so a win against Hull would be much appreciated lads. Well, that went well! How often can you make it next season? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonBristolian Posted May 2, 2022 Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 On 30/04/2022 at 20:43, Malago said: Our results against the top 6, as is at the moment, is miserable to say the least. 3 points from a possible 33. An opportunity next week against a play off side to see how we’ve progressed. That is not great but I would rather we picked up points from the teams we “should” be picking up points against than we were a team that turned up against the top six and underperformed against the teams around us. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted May 2, 2022 Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 9 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said: That is not great but I would rather we picked up points from the teams we “should” be picking up points against than we were a team that turned up against the top six and underperformed against the teams around us. bottom 7 - P14 W9 D2 L3 PTS29 ….for me that is why we’ve never been in relegation trouble all season either. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malago Posted May 2, 2022 Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 19 minutes ago, Davefevs said: bottom 7 - P14 W9 D2 L3 PTS29 ….for me that is why we’ve never been in relegation trouble all season either. Agreed. But if we’re going to progress up the table, we need to start taking points off the top teams, as well has beating the teams below us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted May 2, 2022 Report Share Posted May 2, 2022 33 minutes ago, Malago said: Agreed. But if we’re going to progress up the table, we need to start taking points off the top teams, as well has beating the teams below us. Absolutely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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