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Offline rougegorge

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #345 on: December 04, 2018, 12:52:00 PM »
Well for a start norwich should be beating beating Bolton at home Saturday .
Norwich could be like Cardiff from last season or Huddersfield from the season before. Not in terms of similarity in play, but as the team which you keep telling yourself 'they'll not keep this up for long!'

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #346 on: December 04, 2018, 03:26:16 PM »
Looking at our fixture list I've got a feeling it's going to get worse beefier it gets better. I reckon we might well be bottom six or so by the time we face west brom in December

Mental note, don't listen to Matt.....

Offline ktvillan

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #347 on: December 04, 2018, 06:39:24 PM »
Didn't we (briefly) go above Cardiff into second towards the end of the season last year after being miles behind at one stage and despite having Bruce in charge?  I think it was either after the Wolves home game or possibly when we beat Cardiff themselves.  Only for Bruceball to fuck it up completely.

Offline AV82EC

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #348 on: December 04, 2018, 08:19:56 PM »
Didn't we (briefly) go above Cardiff into second towards the end of the season last year after being miles behind at one stage and despite having Bruce in charge?  I think it was either after the Wolves home game or possibly when we beat Cardiff themselves.  Only for Bruceball to fuck it up completely.

Yep. Sometime in late Feb and early March I think.

Offline Richard E

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #349 on: December 04, 2018, 08:48:39 PM »
We went second after we beat Blose in February.

Offline Lastfootstamper

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #350 on: December 04, 2018, 08:51:05 PM »
For six whole days, wasn't it?

Offline Matt Collins

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #351 on: December 04, 2018, 09:16:23 PM »
Looking at our fixture list I've got a feeling it's going to get worse beefier it gets better. I reckon we might well be bottom six or so by the time we face west brom in December

Mental note, don't listen to Matt.....

Ha! Fair to say I'm feeling a lot more positive now

I did put a tenner on us to win the league at 20-1 after the Swansea game so I was obviously a bit up and down

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #352 on: December 04, 2018, 09:35:38 PM »
Didn't we (briefly) go above Cardiff into second towards the end of the season last year after being miles behind at one stage and despite having Bruce in charge?  I think it was either after the Wolves home game or possibly when we beat Cardiff themselves.  Only for Bruceball to fuck it up completely.

It was after the SHA game, our 7th win in a row and we were 2nd, a point or two ahead of them.

Cardiff then promptly won their next seven themselves and we got 1 point from Fulham and Preston games and that was that.

Offline footyskillz

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #353 on: December 04, 2018, 09:39:23 PM »
Well for a start norwich should be beating beating Bolton at home Saturday .
Norwich could be like Cardiff from last season or Huddersfield from the season before. Not in terms of similarity in play, but as the team which you keep telling yourself 'they'll not keep this up for long!'

Good comparison idea!

I been wishing for too long that all team above villa won't keep it up for long ! Giving hope for progress!

However  now i have an over confidence villa win majority of matches  !

Malandro

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #354 on: December 05, 2018, 08:25:54 PM »
I’m home alone tonight, so decided to watch the extended highlights of our last few games.

I’m sure the forest game will not be the last that we score five plus goals.

Offline eamonn

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #355 on: December 06, 2018, 12:53:41 AM »
Norwich are battlers with great team spirit but I don't think they have half the quality that we do and their defence can certainly be got at. Letting in four at home to Millwall is worse than five to Forest in a way...

I think we'll reign-in the 9 points deficit on them over the next three months, certainly before the last day of the season meaning our game against them at VP in May shouldn't be do-or-die.

Offline IFWaters

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #356 on: December 08, 2018, 06:17:30 PM »
Unfortunately until we get rid of Nyland we have the tendency to turn 3 points into 1. Naarwich now 11 points ahead. We are somewhat reliant on them and Leeds imploding a bit.

Offline Lastfootstamper

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #357 on: December 08, 2018, 06:30:22 PM »
We have to play Leeds twice. There's six points.

Offline Mister E

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #358 on: December 08, 2018, 06:44:15 PM »
Since the Smith arrival, I've felt that if we could get to January in reasonable shape, get in a keeper, CB and LFB, we'll push on and definitely be in contention for automatic. The next 4 games are massive for us.

Offline robleflaneur

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Re: Championship 2018-2019
« Reply #359 on: December 08, 2018, 07:27:04 PM »
Norwich are battlers with great team spirit but I don't think they have half the quality that we do and their defence can certainly be got at. Letting in four at home to Millwall is worse than five to Forest in a way...

I think we'll reign-in the 9 points deficit on them over the next three months, certainly before the last day of the season meaning our game against them at VP in May shouldn't be do-or-die.
It's now 11 points but I agree with your analysis.They are just getting over the line at home against the likes of Bolton and Rotherham.Their goal difference is not that good ,considering the number of points they have got.
We are an outstanding side and we are in 8th and Stoke are starting to get their act together,it will be an almighty scramble for promotion and the play off places and Norwich could well succomb to the pressure.We,on the other hand,are starting to demolish our opponents.

 


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