The coach Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Looks like we are playing for a play off spot....not great been this far off the top 2 in dec3mber...all them dismal draws coming home to roost 3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post areNOTwhatTHEYseem Posted December 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 18, 2021 At the start of the summer, if you'd have offered me Wednesday being two points off the top six at Christmas, I'd have snatched your hand off. There's a lot of football to be played yet, but if it's to be the playoffs, then I can certainly live with that after the utter car crash that was last season. 25 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The coach Posted December 18, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 18, 2021 5 minutes ago, areNOTwhatTHEYseem said: At the start of the summer, if you'd have offered me Wednesday being two points off the top six at Christmas, I'd have snatched your hand off. There's a lot of football to be played yet, but if it's to be the playoffs, then I can certainly live with that after the utter car crash that was last season. Fair enough..but I wer targeting an instant return to the championship if I’m honest 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areNOTwhatTHEYseem Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, The coach said: Fair enough..but I wer targeting an instant return to the championship if I’m honest It would be lovely, obviously. I just don't see it as all that realistic given the state we were in. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Neon Nick Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 The worst result today was that Wednesday couldn't add 3 more points, had great momentum and now it's broken. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Rotherham and Wigan are going well, so fair play to them. If this was the end of March then I’d be looking solely at the play-offs but there is still plenty of football to play and I still believe the size of our squad will be our trump card in the end. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prowl Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 20 minutes ago, Neon Nick said: The worst result today was that Wednesday couldn't add 3 more points, had great momentum and now it's broken. It gives the other teams a chance to catch up the number of games we've played and makes our true position easier to see. We've got a lot to do to close the gap at the top and the 2 teams up there don't seem to be faltering. All we can do is win all our games and let the others take points off each other. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owls maniac Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Good result with Sunderland and Oxford dropping points. I do agree that top 2 is looking increasingly unlikely- we simply aren’t as consistent and ruthless as Toytown and Wigan and probably have too much ground to make up. Play offs should be a minimum and I’d have taken that in August when we rebuilt the team. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickly Kevin Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 11 minutes ago, owls maniac said: Good result with Sunderland and Oxford dropping points. I do agree that top 2 is looking increasingly unlikely- we simply aren’t as consistent and ruthless as Toytown and Wigan and probably have too much ground to make up. Play offs should be a minimum and I’d have taken that in August when we rebuilt the team. Beat Toytown and Wigan away though. Yes we have dropped silly points but our performances are improving and top 2 can be done. If we keep chipping away then all we can do. Just remember 5 points ahead, 2 games in hand. And we all know how that ended. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 We won't catch the top 2, but we can certainly get in that top 6. Tbf, I would have taken that at the start of the season, given all the sh*te that was going off in and around the club. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickly Kevin Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 12 minutes ago, SiJ said: We won't catch the top 2, but we can certainly get in that top 6. Tbf, I would have taken that at the start of the season, given all the sh*te that was going off in and around the club. Might be the beer but all about 2nd half of season run. Might stick 11/12 season review on. Mind the Gap! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LondonOwl313 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 16 minutes ago, Quickly Kevin said: Might be the beer but all about 2nd half of season run. Might stick 11/12 season review on. Mind the Gap! Apparently we’re 6 points behind where we were at this stage that season and we ended it with 11 wins and 3 draws in the last 14 games so hard to see where we’re going to pick up the extra points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The coach Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, LondonOwl313 said: Apparently we’re 6 points behind where we were at this stage that season and we ended it with 11 wins and 3 draws in the last 14 games so hard to see where we’re going to pick up the extra points We aren’t..we are now playing for a play off spot..that’s how it is 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickly Kevin Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, LondonOwl313 said: Apparently we’re 6 points behind where we were at this stage that season and we ended it with 11 wins and 3 draws in the last 14 games so hard to see where we’re going to pick up the extra points Rivals having dips in form, us winning key games v top 6. At this stage we arent out of top two just yet. Hull came from nowhere last season but we can't afford to drop stupid points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owls maniac Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 We need to be looking to push on and cement ourselves in that top 6. Having seen us against Sunderland and Wycombe there’s no reason why we can’t be above them. Beating Sunderland in two weeks time would send out a big statement of intent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Draws do kill you, particularly in the EFL where you have so many games and they come thick and fast. If you're drawing three games in a week and the opposition and wracking up two wins and a loss then they've had the better week. We will see though. We are hard to beat and we don't lose too many. Just got to go on a proper winning run, six or seven wins and maybe, just maybe we can start challenging for the autos. All ifs and buts atm though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LondonOwl313 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 1 minute ago, Quickly Kevin said: Rivals having dips in form, us winning key games v top 6. At this stage we arent out of top two just yet. Hull came from nowhere last season but we can't afford to drop stupid points. Well my point is 2011/12 we finished on 93 points.. can’t see how we can get to that from here. Can see a possibility of hitting form and averaging about 2 points per game but that takes us to 85 points. So you’d need other teams to not do great for 85 to be enough for 2nd. Would need 3 of the current top 4 to tail off (85 will be enough to overhaul the likes of Plymouth, Oxford, Portsmouth and MK Dons). Odds are against us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Technically, I think this team is better than the 2011/2012 team. We've got some very, very good fooballers for the third tier, that's not in doubt. What the 2011/2012 team had though was a knowhow and an ability to win ugly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owls maniac Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 4 minutes ago, Quickly Kevin said: Rivals having dips in form, us winning key games v top 6. At this stage we arent out of top two just yet. Hull came from nowhere last season but we can't afford to drop stupid points. No they didn’t. Hull went 2nd after 3 games and stayed in the automatic spots pretty much all season. Im not saying we can’t catch them, but both Rotherham and Wigan are slotting sides away at ease at the moment. We’ve picked up but we still aren’t as ruthless up front and vulnerable to dropping points. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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