Promotion Maths

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Prior to Norwich we were taking 2 points a game. After tomorrow we will be back up to the statistic, or as near as damn it. This despite us not having got into our stride.

We wasted 10 games with a chump, it's cost us automatic promotion, but I struggle to see a singular reason why we can't make the top 6.

21 from 11 would mean automatic promotion extrapolated across the season. For us it means play offs, a trip to Wembley and a trip back home.

[Pete3206]

Jeez, gloom and doom or what? Still half a season to play.

We'll get in the top 6.

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Too right. Last week is was all fruity lions and rear view mirror memes. Now because Bruce has lost 2 of his last 10 it's curtains and some sage nodding about how "it was mid table all along".

You don't spend 50 million and sack your manager after 10 games for promotion "next year". 9 points from Sheffield fucking Wednesday. It'll be like shelling peas.

[PeterWithesShin]

Or if we lose tomorrow we've gained 1 point on the top 6 since Bruce took over. Even if we win it's 4 points gained in 11 games. Sadly I don't think it will be so simple Ads.

[kippaxvilla2]

Someone needs to show me where we are going to get to 72 points which I think is fairly average for the play offs.  So another 44 points.   Doesn't sound as bad when I put it like that. 

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We won't lose so why are you worried?

[PeterWithesShin]

For the reasons stated obviously.

[villan from luton]

Tomorrow is another day, lets win that and see where we are and what we have to do. A lot of the away games remaining are not against teams ahead of us, there is a long way to go but Bruce can do it

[villan from luton]

For the reasons stated obviously.

Do you not think we will improve?

[PeterWithesShin]

Almost certainly when we (hopefully) add some midfielders in Jan, but not sure we'll improve enough. As I said even if we win we'll have gained 4 points on 6th in 11 games despite a record of W6 D3 L2. The first 11 games are fucking it for us as it leaves us very little wiggle room as we've found out after 2 defeats in 10.

[Ads]

Win tomorrow and it's 21 points from 11 games. That's automatic promotion form. How can that be anything but improvement? Despite no midfield and not really firing on all cylinders yet.

[PeterWithesShin]

You'll have to point out where I said we haven't improved. Again, it's whether we can improve enough to make up for giving everyone else an 11 game start.

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You said we will.improve in the future, specifically January. It implies the improvement has yet to begin.

[SoccerHQ]

RDM left us so much ground to make up.

Anyone know how many points we were behind Huddersfield in the table after Preston?

We never caught up with them the other week but lost at Leeds and since then they've gone on a good run again and are now 11 points clear which isn't great.

Frustrating when we start to get close to the top 6 they all suddenly remember how to win again and pull clear of us.

I'm still actually confident of top 6 but tomorrow is the sort of game we need to be convincing in and win to show we mean business.

I'd be really disappointed if we start again negative and also tentative which seem to go together for our away games bar Brighton.

[PeterWithesShin]

We've obviously improved on the first 11 games, we also obviously need to improve further still to make the top 6.