Uptherams Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 9 points above 7th, but Wigan have three games in hand. If they played them all now they would get at least 4 points. This would put 6th on 56, just 6 behind us. We have Forest and Reading to play. Loose them and then what... Can we please just go back to playing good flowing attacking football. Is that too much to ask? I don't care if we end up drawing a game 3-3 or losing 4-1. It's the matches we win 3-1 I care about. You need confidence going into the play off's. The semi's is about goals. How on earth do we expect to even get to Wembley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Pack it in mate. Were 3rd in the table in March, enjoy the first properly exciting season in years and ******* support the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyDyer Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 The one question I keep asking myself, is would the Derby Penguins have gone 270 minutes with out scoring a goal? I think we all know the answer to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 9 points above 7th, but Wigan have three games in hand. If they played them all now they would get at least 4 points. This would put 6th on 56, just 6 behind us. We have Forest and Reading to play. Loose them and then what... Can we please just go back to playing good flowing attacking football. Is that too much to ask? I don't care if we end up drawing a game 3-3 or losing 4-1. It's the matches we win 3-1 I care about. You need confidence going into the play off's. The semi's is about goals. How on earth do we expect to even get to Wembley. Fundamental flaw here. The question shouldn't be how many points does 6th have, it's 7th we need to worry about. If QPR win their game in hand, then we're fourth. But QPR, us and Forest are all on a bad run. So we have to consider if 3 other clubs have it in them to overtake us. Wigan could catch us based in the run they're on, if Forest turn it around and beat us at iPro, they could catch us, and Reading are doing okay and could potentially catch us too, especially if they beat us. That's a very, very worst case scenario though. It's far more likely that Forwest are doomed from here, so even if Wigan and Reading were to overtake us (which would take a string if losses at this stage), we'd still be 6th. So there's nothing to really worry about in terms if finishing in the play offs. But there's probably something to worry about in terms of oicking up confidence for the play offs. But we're not going to get second now, and we're not going to secure our place in the play offs based on games against Millwall and Bolton. I reckon we could loose every game, as long as we beat Forest and Reading. They are the important ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Also, we're only one win from safety. Yeovil can only get a maximum of 65pts now. So no, nothing to worry about. Forest in the other hand, I can see them going down from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grantona Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Second is still a realistic possibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Keep ticking over then start to hit the form shown after McClaren's arrival just in time for the play offs I'll be happy. Not worried at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsilks Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 9 points above 7th, but Wigan have three games in hand. If they played them all now they would get at least 4 points. This would put 6th on 56, just 6 behind us. We have Forest and Reading to play. Loose them and then what... Can we please just go back to playing good flowing attacking football. Is that too much to ask? I don't care if we end up drawing a game 3-3 or losing 4-1. It's the matches we win 3-1 I care about. You need confidence going into the play off's. The semi's is about goals. How on earth do we expect to even get to Wembley. If there was a time to hit a poor run of form then we hit a reasonable time. Plenty of time to work on the players confidence in time for an assault on the play offs. I'd be concerned if we started to show poor form with 7~8 games left of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grantona Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I reckon Brighton will finish above Forest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfb Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Heres a reason to slash your wrists........ Burnley V Leeds 15:00 Huddersfield V Blackburn 15:00 Ipswich V Wigan 15:00 Leicester V Blackpool 15:00 Millwall V Charlton 15:00 Nottm Forest V Doncaster 15:00 QPR V Yeovil 15:00 Reading V Derby 15:00 Can anyone see the rest in the mix with us losing ? Dark days indeed....... 4th by Saturday night and Wigan can push us to 5th if they wn them all For me, still the best season we've had for years, makes a change to be worried about who's above us, and not who's below us... And i still think my £20 bet to finish in the top 6 that i put on when Mac came, is money in the bank ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnieronalde Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 No need to be worried at all. It's just the cycle of fixtures. We had the same in August and September then went on a brilliant run. We'll keep picking up the odd point, then once we get Reading, Forest and Ipswich out of the way we'll get back to winning ways. I can conceivably see us winning 6 or 7 in a row again before the end of the season. Nowt to worry about at all. That's the beauty of giving ourselves that massive 9 point cushion we had, we earned the right to have a blip without it killing us. A point on Saturday would be lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Palace entered the playoffs last season in poor form. And Brighton entered in great form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Ram Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Not worried.. Always had play offs as the target this year in my head.. Looks like we will get that. Will we win the play offs? Probably not.. Am I happy if we miss out ? No because I love this club but I will accept it as this has been our best season for bleedin years and I can finally go to games, reasonably confident that we will have a go and I won't be asleep be half time. The realist in me says we are not ready for the top boys yet... Next season, we should be looking for automatic.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBE Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 A stupid OP. We outplayed a Bolton side who had scored 14 in their last 3 games and there was a lot of good football last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyDyer Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 When Macca came in, I said he would need 3 transfer windows, including the one just gone, before we looked at promotion. He has massively exceeded my expectations, but I still think he'll need those windows. Couple of decent signings in the summer to replace weaker members/unused players and we will look a hell of a force. Then the January window to sure up or already dominant position. The problem when your plan a gets found out, is finding a plan b. At the minute our plan b is Sammon. A fella that for all his puff, couldn't score in a brothel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlsonDerby Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 We played just as well as we did during that good spell last night - one goal would have led to a lot more. The only difference is we aren't getting the early goal which forces the teams to attack us. Bolton are no mugs they've scored 5 twice in their last 3 matches and they never looked like scoring last night. We look solid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Don't panic, Mr Mainwaring, Don't panic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistoldPete2 Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Heres a reason to slash your wrists........ Burnley V Leeds 15:00 Huddersfield V Blackburn 15:00 Ipswich V Wigan 15:00 Leicester V Blackpool 15:00 Millwall V Charlton 15:00 Nottm Forest V Doncaster 15:00 QPR V Yeovil 15:00 Reading V Derby 15:00 Can anyone see the rest in the mix with us losing ? Dark days indeed....... 4th by Saturday night and Wigan can push us to 5th if they wn them all For me, still the best season we've had for years, makes a change to be worried about who's above us, and not who's below us... And i still think my £20 bet to finish in the top 6 that i put on when Mac came, is money in the bank ..... Of our last 9 games of the season are against teams who we have not lost to. we won 7 and drew 2. So long as we are in a play off place before those games we should stay in a play off place come the end of season. But it's not a done deal, as Ive said all along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Heres a reason to slash your wrists........ Burnley V Leeds 15:00 Huddersfield V Blackburn 15:00 Ipswich V Wigan 15:00 Leicester V Blackpool 15:00 Millwall V Charlton 15:00 Nottm Forest V Doncaster 15:00 QPR V Yeovil 15:00 Reading V Derby 15:00 Can anyone see the rest in the mix with us losing ? Dark days indeed....... 4th by Saturday night and Wigan can push us to 5th if they wn them all For me, still the best season we've had for years, makes a change to be worried about who's above us, and not who's below us... And i still think my £20 bet to finish in the top 6 that i put on when Mac came, is money in the bank ..... Always a couple of freak results around every weekend. Leeds will go and probably beat Burnley for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 11 games left and we need 13 points to reach the average points total for 6th (75 points) If we can't get 13 points from the next 11 games then we don't deserve to be in the play-offs. FACT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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