Mucca Mad Boys
Well-Known Member
I fully agree.
And with recent results I see Bristol City as our main rivals trying to take our top 6 place. They have Norwich, Burnley and Watford when we have our harder 3 games. It doesn't get much easier for them as they then have WBA. I can't see them pulling ahead of us by much during these games as we're 2 points ahead of them and there's no sign of one of the clubs we raced past putting a good run together.
I wouldn’t want to swap position in the table and remaining games with anyone outside the top 4.
You get it.
There’s a reason the bookies still have us 5th favourites for promotion. Compared to our rivals, we have an ‘easier’ run in. Bar Sheff U away, all our hardest games are at home which is what you want rather than having to go to Sunderland, Burnley, WBA and Boro away.
Barring WBA and maybe Boro, we’re not playing teams around us so there isn’t the same ‘double jeopardy’ risk of losing and giving points to the teams around us.
As impressive as WBA’s away draws against Leeds and Burnley were, its value is less than one win. They’ve still got tough away games against Norwich, Bristol and ourselves to come and Sunderland at home. If they win all those games, fair play to them and at least they’ve done us the favour keeping Norwich and Bristol City at bay.
Derby is just one minor setback at the minute.