Promotion Maths

[kippaxvilla2]

We need another 40 points.  Let's plot our way to those.  I came up with another 43.

[SoccerHQ]

What isn't helping us is the weekends we win everyone else above us seemingly does....Huddersfield, Reading and Leeds all won today and Sheff Weds now winning at Newcastle.

[Toronto Villa]

What isn't helping us is the weekends we win everyone else above us seemingly does....Huddersfield, Reading and Leeds all won today and Sheff Weds now winning at Newcastle.

We can't control that of course. What we must do a better job of is beating the sides above us starting in a couple of days with Leeds. We've not done a good job of that this season only defeating 2 of the 9 sides above us in the current table.

[themossman]

We can control it to the extent we've got home fixtures against 3 of those to come. Those are the games I'm nervous about. Bruce has so far struggledmto get much out of games against decent championship sides.

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Last decent side we played was away at Brighton and we were streets ahead of them.

[ChicagoLion]

Without at least 2 first team level players early in this window we will struggle to reach the play offs.
A RB and CM are essential.

[themossman]

Leeds was more recent than that and, although you might debate how good a side they are, they epitomise the type of side we are trying to get past and we were bilge for much of that game.

[PeterWithesShin]

Of the teams currently above us (or just below) that we've played under Bruce, we've won at Reading, beaten Fulham, drawn at sha and Brighton and lost at Leeds and Norwich. It's not great but it's not awful either especially as all but one were away.

[themossman]

Fair point. The games I had in my mind were Leeds, Norwich and blose when we were generally considered lucky to get a point. But you're right it's a mixed picture.

[IFWaters]

Now we are in the top 10 worth having a compare against the teams above us.

Overall our defence is still up there as one of the top 3-4 in the league, very rarely ships more than a goal, even if they make us nervous.

At the other end it's only Derby who've scored less and they have a game in hand. Still struggling to supply and combine all the attacking talent in a consistent way, failing to put games away.

In terms of form in the last 10 games we are 6th in the last 10 games with 20 points. Extrapolating that form we should get into the playoffs in the next few weeks but we will be hanging on to shirt tails to keep in it.

My prediction, 5th with 77 points, playoff win against Reading in 4th, final against Leeds at Wembley. Thursday should be interesting.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm pretty sure that Kod is still the only player to score more than once since Bruce arrived and obviously he's off soon.

[Witton Warrior]

final against Leeds at Wembley.

Oh joy - I thought it couldn't be worse than Blose...

[Perthvillan]

Agree with Kippax that we need another 40 points in the second half of the season.
When you look at our poor start and the fact that almost all the promotion candidates have to come to VP it shouldn't be beyond us to make the play offs.
We desperately need a decent midfield player in the window though.
I wonder if Man U would part with Michael Carrick?

[jwarry]

6 points off the play offs again ffs. We can't seem to get closer despite winning

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We need to stay in touch and make sure we beat the sides in there at home. Starting Thursday.