Bris Vegas Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Is it too early to have a pinned thread on our promotion (top six) rivals this season? A thread with injury updates, suspensions, fixtures, results etc. There is bound to be some televised games involving our promotion rivals where we can throw some posts in to. At a guess I'd say that Norwich, Wolves, Watford, Ipswich, Boro, Bournemouth and Forest will be the most likely to challenge. Anyway, games for this weekend to perhaps look out for: Boro vs Watford Leeds vs Wolves Sheff Wed vs Norwich Brum vs Bournemouth Ipswich vs Huddersfield Forest vs Blackburn I can see Bournemouth breaking in to the top six this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Chris Cohen and Andy Reid are injured, weather isn't looking great in Nottingham for the weekend either....... But anyway enough about Forest and back on topic promotional rivals you say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Hope Wolves drop out. Arrogant Can see a lot of draws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I can see both Blackburn and Cardiff getting back into the mix, and I strongly fancy both to win this Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rams forever Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Can see Cardiff making the playoffs,Watford,Norwich,wolves,Ipswich or Boro,possible red dogs We will be in top two! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanRam Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 My biggest surprise team and dark horse for promotion:Ipswich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambitious Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I fancy Charlton to be there or thereabouts come the end of the season. Vetokele, Gunmundsson and Tucudean have really improved them. my picks for this thread: Watford, Middlesbrough, Wolves, Norwich, Forest, Charlton, Bournemouth, Cardiff and Blackburn Ipswich and Brentford are the other teams in the top half, but I just can't see them challenging. On topic: we have a great chance of going three points clear this weekend. Middlesbrough and Watford will be an interesting game. Hopefully Blackburn and Sheffield Wednesday can get something, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meandmyboys Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Don't think Ipswich have the quality. The biggest threats for automatic promotion could turn out to be Middleborough and Cardiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsdubs Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Can't see another team that will run away with it, if we put a good winning streak together we'll pull away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needles Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Too soon probably. Norwich, Watford and Middlesborough look dangerous and they're the only three I'm really looking at yet. Wolves, Ipswich, Forest and Charlton might fade or might not. Bournemouth look to be on the up but I wonder if they've really got the tools to do much but flirt with the top 6, I wouldn't write off Cardiff to make a run into the mix, and there's always someone who makes a run from the pack later on. I's say we'll be top 6 or there should be an enquiry and we've got a good shot at top 2 if we can hit our form (won't keep on winning playing 75%), as for who will be challenging us, probably wait until new year to have a meaningful picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaftesbury Street Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Any of these 9 for me: Cardiff Watford Wolves Norwich Sheffield Wednesday Ipswich Charlton Forest Boro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 Not sure why so many people are bigging up Cardiff City. They're awful, and they have been playing awful. You know when you go through the fixtures and you think 'Ah we were abit lucky to get something from that game' - well Cardiff can say that about five or six of their games already. A few lucky wins at home (Sheff Wed, Wigan and even Forest) have kept them from slipping into the bottom eight or so. They were awful at the Ipro, along with Fulham the worst team we've played there all season. I know they've got a new manager, but I don't think other then perhaps a 'honeymood period' they have it in them to win on a consistent basis. Awful away record too, they've yet to win a game and lost at Blackpool and got incredibly lucky with draws against us and Brighton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovis aries Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Don't see what all the fuss is about Norwich, only won 1 of their last 6 league games and most against some pretty weak teams in the division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 Don't see what all the fuss is about Norwich, only won 1 of their last 6 league games and most against some pretty weak teams in the division. Think they've been quite unlucky from what i've seen/read. By all means they hammered Leeds United, Rotherham and Charlton in recent home matches yet took only 2 points. On performances so far, I'd say they are a bigger threat than Boro and Watford in terms of automatic promotion. They don't seem to concede many goals either so I imagine as soon as they rediscover their scoring touch they'll be back to winning games again quite comfortably. One way I use as a measure to see how good a team is is how many wins/losses they have by a two goal margin. It usually gives an indication to how dominant a team is overall that their losses can be 'unlucky/unfortunate' and their wins 'deserving'. Leicester for instance last season won 13 by two goals or more and lost only three. Derby won 14 and lost four QPR in contrast won nine and lost six. Reading in that 106 season were W21/L0 Derby when we went up under BD were a woeful W5/L5 - we lost as many games as we won by a two-goal or more margin. Shows how lucky we were! This season: Derby are currently W4/L0 - I reckon we won't lose more than three games all season by a two-goal margin Watford are W5/L1 Boro W3/L1 Wolves W2/L1 Norwich W5/L0 Forest W3/L0 Charlton W0/L0 Bournemouth W3/L2 Ipswich W3/L1 Cardiff City W2/L1 From the table so far it shows how IMO and using one way of looking at 'dominant teams' that Derby, Norwich and Watford are the front three and how teams like Wolves and Charlton have been scrapping wins so far rather than actually dominating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srg Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Charlton on TV away at Fulham tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam the Ram Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Good start for Fulham, 1-0 up after 5 mins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Fulham starting to get some momentum now. Doncaster W Brum W Bolton W Boro L Norwich W Rotherham D And 2-0 up v Charlton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 2-0 fulham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanRam Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Symons has worked wonders with them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwram1973 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 What promotion rivals??? There are none, were gonna piss it. Thread closed! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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