Championship 2018-2019

[SoccerHQ]

I'd be surprised if Boro are anything other than Play Offs. Tedious Pulis Ball won't guarantee enough points away from home. See the same for Rowett.

38 points from his 22 games last season. They'll be there or thereabouts. Aden Flint will probably score about 15 for them with even more long throws and set pieces than he got on the end at Bristol.

[Ads]

Wouldn't be enough for Play Offs potentially. Certainly not automatics.

[PeterWithesShin]

That points per game ration guarantees the play-offs, and a few times has been enough to go up automatically.

[Ads]

Not the season before last it wouldn't have. Fulham came 6th in 80.

It depends on whether you have a couple of sides who remain in almost perfect form for significant lengths of time. Last year there were 3, this time I think it looks more of a much of a muchness.

[darren woolley]

Stoke will be up there with and it pains me to say it West Brom if they keep there squad together Boro also like I said before I think we stand a chance of being in the mix maybe Leeds if they keep there manager and don't chop and change and then you have Brentford ,Derby and Sheff Utd who might be there or thereabouts.

[PeterWithesShin]

Not the season before last it wouldn't have. Fulham came 6th in 80.

It depends on whether you have a couple of sides who remain in almost perfect form for significant lengths of time. Last year there were 3, this time I think it looks more of a much of a muchness.

And how many did 7th have, which is the important bit. Not once has a side had that ppg and not made the play offs.

[Risso]

Goals are probably where we're going to struggle this season, unless the Kodj gets back to anything like his best. Hogan is useless, especially if  Bruce stays, and you can't see many of the kids doing very well.  RHM is always injured, and Davis is a good player but not at all prolific. We also won't have Jack dragging defenders out of position to make space for others.

[cdbearsfan]

Snodgrass scored a few, too. Best hope is that one or two youngsters come through and become stars. Someone like Sessegnon  would be nice.

[Risso]

Snodgrass scored a few, too. Best hope is that one or two youngsters come through and become stars. Someone like Sessegnon  would be nice.

He plays for Fulham though I think, so it probably won't be him.

[cdbearsfan]

Another plan scuppered.

[Richard]

So have our odds changed since last week or are we still behind the likes of bloody Forest Derby and Leeds ?

[cdbearsfan]

Behind the three relegated clubs, Forest, Boro and Leeds. Level with Derby. Ahead of everyone else.

[Drummond]

So have our odds changed since last week or are we still behind the likes of bloody Forest Derby and Leeds ?

Stoke
Middlesbrough
West Brom
Forest
Leeds
Swansea
Villa

We're 9/2 for promotion, jointly with Brentford though interestingly shorter odds than them at 12-1 to win the division.

We're 11/1 to be relegated though there are 14 other clubs with shorter odds than that.

[cdbearsfan]

Fourteen clubs less than 11/1.

Robbing bastards.

[SoccerHQ]

Why are West Brom so high out of interest?

Darren Moore did fine job at end of last season but expectation now is they win 20 + games which is totally different so interesting if he's up to that.

So far though they've lost likes of Foster and Evans, Rondon being linked to Newcastle and would expect likes of Craig Dawson and Rodriguez to also be picked up by premier league clubs.

So far they've signed Kyle Bartley and Bobby Reid. Reid could easily be one season wonder.

I don't see them being in mix for automatics, same for Swansea. There's no law that relegated prem teams will be in mix for automatic or even top 6, we saw that in 16/17 and also Hull and Sunderland last season.