After yesterday’s win, I was looking through the results this season and the games where we could arguably have obtained more points. Purely hypothetical, and of course, you can flip the argument the other way (especially with the ridiculous number of late goals we’ve scored) but there’s no question that we could’ve (and perhaps should’ve) been in that top 6. Magnificent effort and one of the best, if not the best, seasons in living memory, whatever plays out in the next 4;
Barnsley away - 1 point (missed pen, dominated the game)
Blackburn away - 2 points (stonewall penalty after horrific challenge on Gyokeres which coincided in his barren spell)
Preston - 1 point (should’ve been out of sight. Second half collapse was extremely disappointing)
Derby - 2 points (Godden header incorrectly ruled out which would’ve put us 2 up)
Blues - 2 points (by far the better sides, time wasting and shithousery nonsense throughout from the opposition)
Huddersfield - 2 points (still have no idea how we managed to merely salvage a point late on. Fantastic performance, missed chances rued once more)
Millwall - 1 point (minimum we deserved. Another anti-footballing side who came to spoil. The Covid nonsense derailed us during December when we were ready to play, and the likes of Luton and Cardiff cried off with a suspect number of cases. Typically when we were cramming in fixtures in throughout February, these sides were back to full strength and we were decimated with injury)
QPR - 3 points. (Brilliant performance. Fully deserved the win but we missed numerous chances and QPR converting the handful presented to them).
Blackpool - 2 points (another that got away, see Hull, Blues, Millwall)
PNE - 2 points (should never have got to the stage of us having to equalize in the 98th minute by Tavares’ sublime goal)
Luton - 1 point (a game we should never have lost. Up there with the likes of Reading, Hull, Millwall and PNE for shite tactics)
Hull - 1 point (for me, the most disappointing result of the season. We had the opportunity to kick on after hammering Sheffield United on the Saturday and really put ourselves back in the play-off picture. Two absolute gifts for Hull and they shut up shop after about 5 minutes. Saying that, we had the chances to get at least a point)
Derby - 2 points (their phantom penalty aside, Gyo missed 2 gilt edged chances that really should’ve secured the win thereafter)
Blackburn - 2 points (our first 45 was almost flawless and warranted a 2, if not 3-0 lead at HT).
Obviously I’m not saying we should be 24 points better off, but even a handful of the above would have us sitting nicely in that top 6.
Confident we can do the business Monday and the remaining 3 (+3) games which will make the above irrelevant
To get to where we are on our budget is nothing short of miraculous. PUSB