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robbiekeane

robbiekeane

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Saw this on the BBC:

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Looks like bristol city have the hardest run in based on data, with us third.

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Bristol City have the toughest run-in of the nine teams in play-off contention with trips to Burnley and Leeds United to come.

Based on Opta's Power Rankings, external - a system that assigns a score from 0-100 across more than 13,000 men's domestic teams - the average rating of their remaining opponents is 80.9, compared to Sheffield Wednesday's whose are 77.7."
 
Lamps

Lamps

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It's a bit of a stretch putting this many sides in the hunt for the playoffs.

Norwich are gone if they don't beat WBA. 8 points behind them with 8 games to go. 10 behind us.

Millwall and Sheffield Wednesday 8 points behind us.

Blackburn have got 1 point so far this month. 3 defeats on the bounce. 7 points behind us.

Middlesbrough are still in it. Not a bad run of games remaining but very inconsistent. Drew with Luton last game. 7 points behind us.

Can't see anything but 2 from us, WBA and Bristol City for the last 2 places. Middlesbrough could join the party but would need to go on a good run.

WBA are a capable side. This month alone got a point at Leeds and Burnley. Last game drew at home to Hull.

Bristol City are a decent side but have a difficult run in. Their game against WBA in a couple of weeks will be interesting.
 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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Lamps said:
It's a bit of a stretch putting this many sides in the hunt for the playoffs.

Norwich are gone if they don't beat WBA. 8 points behind them with 8 games to go. 10 behind us.

Millwall and Sheffield Wednesday 8 points behind us.

Blackburn have got 1 point so far this month. 3 defeats on the bounce. 7 points behind us.

Middlesbrough are still in it. Not a bad run of games remaining but very inconsistent. Drew with Luton last game. 7 points behind us.

Can't see anything but 2 from us, WBA and Bristol City for the last 2 places. Middlesbrough could join the party but would need to go on a good run.

WBA are a capable side. This month alone got a point at Leeds and Burnley. Last game drew at home to Hull.

Bristol City are a decent side but have a difficult run in. Their game against WBA in a couple of weeks will be interesting.
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All the teams are within six points of the playoffs calm down.
 
rob9872

rob9872

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It's the Championship, anything could happen. The facts currently are that we're in one of the box seats, it's in our hands and we're in form. For us not to achieve now would take a tremendous drop off in our form, but nothing is certain and we could yet still pay for some of that early season failure.

What I do know is that it will be exciting, there will be twists and turns ahead but it's just nice to be part of it. This is where real football is at. I want the financial benefits of one season in the PL, but that will be a season long struggle and as we're unlikely to challenge at the top end of the PL, then give me in and around the Championship play-offs every season and I'll be happy.
 
Lamps

Lamps

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shmmeee said:
All the teams are within six points of the playoffs calm down.
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Plus GD. That's a lot to catch up with just 8 games to go. But I'm more interested in the gap to us and them. That's 8 points plus GD. They can go past all the rest of them for what I care.
 
baldy

baldy

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rob9872 said:
It's the Championship, anything could happen. The facts currently are that we're in one of the box seats, it's in our hands and we're in form. For us not to achieve now would take a tremendous drop off in our form, but nothing is certain and we could yet still pay for some of that early season failure.

What I do know is that it will be exciting, there will be twists and turns ahead but it's just nice to be part of it. This is where real football is at. I want the financial benefits of one season in the PL, but that will be a season long struggle and as we're unlikely to challenge at the top end of the PL, then give me in and around the Championship play-offs every season and I'll be happy.
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Every season? So you never want to see us in the Prem at all? Very odd
 
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steve cooper

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rob9872 said:
It's the Championship, anything could happen. The facts currently are that we're in one of the box seats, it's in our hands and we're in form. For us not to achieve now would take a tremendous drop off in our form, but nothing is certain and we could yet still pay for some of that early season failure.

What I do know is that it will be exciting, there will be twists and turns ahead but it's just nice to be part of it. This is where real football is at. I want the financial benefits of one season in the PL, but that will be a season long struggle and as we're unlikely to challenge at the top end of the PL, then give me in and around the Championship play-offs every season and I'll be happy.
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I don't think we can assume that early season results would have made much difference if they were better. MR would almost certainly still be here if early results were better, would we have had the same recent run under him?
We will never know, but can't assume we would have.
 
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Macca1987

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There will be strange results in a lot of the games, clubs fighting for survival, clubs still thinking they can make the playoffs. Cov are in pole position at the moment and just need to hold their nerve and perform to the best of their abilities. That is all we can ask of the team, if they come up short then so be it, as long as they give their all, then us fans can't ask for anything more
 
Flying Fokker

Flying Fokker

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steve cooper said:
I don't think we can assume that early season results would have made much difference if they were better. MR would almost certainly still be here if early results were better, would we have had the same recent run under him?
We will never know, but can't assume we would have.
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MR did not have a coaching team as such. We’d have been mid-table at best. The players needed quality coaching. It was better that there was a fresh start.
 
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wingy

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RegTheDonk said:
Yes, the ratings thing is over my head but there's only 3 points between top and bottom, surely it's stats for stats sake. Bottom line, it's in our own hands which is nice.
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And only a difference of about 0.4 percentage points between us and anyone important in mix,so negligible, only if we fall off a cliff does anyone have a chance over these last 8 games,
 
blunted

blunted

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My worry is every game for us is against a team that either needs points to stay up or to get into the playoffs. Even Portsmouth who are not safe can be a tough proposition on their day, like Derby. The Middlesborough game may be easy if one team is out of contention.
We look pants away recently and the loss of Dovin and Eccles wont help. We need Rudoni back firing.
The Derby and Sheff U matches showed we struggle against teams who rough us up and put the boot in.
 
SkyBlueDom26

SkyBlueDom26

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I think we’re a top 6-10th team, if we finish anywhere in that bracket then that’s where we’ll deserve to be, small margins
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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It’s taken a ridiculous run of form to give us a chance of the top 6 after wasting half the season. Win 4 more games and it’s ours
 
pusbccfc

pusbccfc

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It's the 4 home games which are massive.

On paper, the away games are favourable but I don't like the idea of going to Hull (we're shite playing away at night), Luton (they'll be fighting for their life) and Plymouth (see above).

You only have to look at Derby, Pompey and Cardiff away. We even lost to Stoke away from home.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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pusbccfc said:
It's the 4 home games which are massive.

On paper, the away games are favourable but I don't like the idea of going to Hull (we're shite playing away at night), Luton (they'll be fighting for their life) and Plymouth (see above).

You only have to look at Derby, Pompey and Cardiff away. We even lost to Stoke away from home.
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It’s not inconceivable that Plymouth and Luton are both down when we play them. Not sure if that helps or hinders
 
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