Championship 2018-2019

[Matt Collins]

Yep

You have to think that if Norwich are currently wining a lot of games narrowly, late in games, and scraping past mediocre teams at home, it will catch up with them

Leeds - I've always felt they'll burn out as Bielsa sides tend to. That game is gonna be massive

[SoccerHQ]

God Norwich are so jammy aren't they?

I imagine they must have quite a hard fixture list in second half of the season as they seem to be playing all relegation candidates at home recently (Bolton, Rotherham and Millwall last three home games) and scraping 95th minute wins.

How many top teams have they beaten this season? Obviously they beat us but that was second game of DS so we were barely in top half at that point. I remember WBA beating them 4-3 start of the season and Stoke beat them at home a few weeks ago, think Leeds might've done aswell.

Could be a good time for us to play leeds in 2 weeks as seen they've got likes of Cooper, Dallas and Ayling out for 6 weeks so will struggle to put an experienced back 4 out against us so got to think our front three will get a lot of joy in that game.

Was pretty happy Forest lost tbh. Way they've been playing recently they probably fancied a run at top 2.

[SoccerHQ]

Just checked Norwich results against "top" teams this season:

Norwich 3-4 West Brom
Sheffield United 2-1 Norwich
Norwich 0-3 leeds
Norwich 1-0 Boro
Derby 1-1 Norwich
Norwich 0-1 Stoke
Forest 1-2 Norwich
Norwich 2-1 Villa

From now up to start of February they've got Derby, Forest, West Brom, Sheffield United and Leeds so confident that 10 point gap will be significantly eroded.

[Risso]

Good stats SHQ!

[IFWaters]

Just checked Norwich results against "top" teams this season:

Norwich 3-4 West Brom
Sheffield United 2-1 Norwich
Norwich 0-3 leeds
Norwich 1-0 Boro
Derby 1-1 Norwich
Norwich 0-1 Stoke
Forest 1-2 Norwich
Norwich 2-1 Villa

From now up to start of February they've got Derby, Forest, West Brom, Sheffield United and Leeds so confident that 10 point gap will be significantly eroded.

Is this where we're supposed to call them'flat track bullies'? I have no idea what that means.

[Clampy]

I can't see Norwich keeping up their good form. I reckon they will fall away like Sheff Utd did last season.

[olaftab]

Norwich may well fall away but we need about 4 teams to drop points consistently whilst we  keep averaging 2 per game. If this happens over the next 15 games we will be top however it's a big if and we have no room for error and it's not in our hands. We just have to grind on and see what happens.

[SoccerHQ]

Norwich may well fall away but we need about 4 teams to drop points consistently whilst we  keep averaging 2 per game. If this happens over the next 15 games we will be top however it's a big if and we have no room for error and it's not in our hands. We just have to grind on and see what happens.

We have plenty of good fixtures from after Leeds game up to middle of February. We should be well established in the top 6 and still have 3 months of the season to go.

[ChicagoLion]

I think Bruce left us too much to do, I expect the play offs and would fancyus against any one.

[WarszaVillan]

It all depends where we are when the tulips come up and the tickly bit starts

[PeterWithesShin]

Top 6 (points wise) after 21 games
43
42
37
37
36
36

After 21 games last season
48
44
40
38
37
37

[SoccerHQ]

Wolves were pretty much on 50 points. Would imagine Newcastle were same the previous year.

Would be amazed if Norwich or Leeds got over 90 points. We're nearly halfway now and both are just over 40 points and scraping wins at home to relegation candidates so should balance out when they play tougher games.

Still think 85-90 will be enough for 2nd but then I thought that last year and Cardiff simply didn't fall away.

[PeterWithesShin]

The Newcastle season it was
46
45
37
36
35
35

It rarely varies much.

[Ads]

On a different note, some top notch costumes at the Christmas Party.

Grealish as Duffman
Landsbury as Where's Wally
Hutton as Ledger's Joker
Taylor as Ali G

Hutton and Taylor looking top draw.

God knows who the rest are.

[LukeJames]

The Cool Runnings one was excellent, no idea which players it was though.