Our Form is Stupendous

[Tamworthram]

5 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

I'm surprised that the grammar police haven't picked you up already on your faux pas.

Must be past their bedtime.

I see you couldn’t resist but the grammar police were probably leaving the error to the spelling police. 😀

[Carl Sagan]

It's good to see. That said, we're still only 4th, despite a very impressive run of results, and my feeling remains (for now) it's as much luck as judgement. If we establish ourselves in the top 2 that feeling needs to be revisited. 

Last season it was also a 7-horse race (ie a significant gap to 8th place) and we were the ones who bottled it and finished 7th. What a missed opportunity.

Are we bottlers? Win the next 2 against rival teams, and we start to have the look of one of the leaders rather than one of the chasing pack. This is a test as it's easier to chase. 

 

[Van der MoodHoover]

31 minutes ago, sage said:

I'm shaw there's a mistake there somewhere

Lukes like it.....

[Elwood P Dowd]

2 hours ago, plymouthram said:

And Derby County U21s to win the EFL Trophy

And the Bake off program on the TV 🎂 😂

[Day]

34 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

It's good to see. That said, we're still only 4th, despite a very impressive run of results, and my feeling remains (for now) it's as much luck as judgement. If we establish ourselves in the top 2 that feeling needs to be revisited. 

Last season it was also a 7-horse race (ie a significant gap to 8th place) and we were the ones who bottled it and finished 7th. What a missed opportunity.

Are we bottlers? Win the next 2 against rival teams, and we start to have the look of one of the leaders rather than one of the chasing pack. This is a test as it's easier to chase. 

 

If we was talking about the odd game being lucky, I may see your point.

However it’s a run of 8 games, lucky to score 18 and concede just 3 yet it’s the next 2 that would swing it? 

Look at the 10 game form someone posted earlier, even with the defeat we still top the table.

Bit unfair at this stage not to give credit where credit is due.

[Brammie Steve]

 

[ap04]

3 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

Boxing Day table last year at the top of the pic, Boxing Day table today at the bottom. More wins, more points, more goals. Still a long way to go but we’re doing comparatively better results wise than we were at the same time last season.

Last year we deserved 2 more wins at this stage, this year 2 fewer. 3rd best team on both occasions.

[G STAR RAM]

6 minutes ago, ap04 said:

Last year we deserved 2 more wins at this stage, this year 2 fewer. 3rd best team on both occasions.

Based on?

[Cisse]

Last season someone made a similar thread and after that we went in to a horrific patch of games. 🥶

[AndyinLiverpool]

2 minutes ago, Cisse said:

Last season someone made a similar thread and after that we went in to a horrific patch of games. 🥶

It might have been the same person

[Caerphilly Ram]

29 minutes ago, ap04 said:

Last year we deserved 2 more wins at this stage, this year 2 fewer. 3rd best team on both occasions.

I’ve presented the facts of where we were in the table on Boxing Day last season and where we are this season, I don’t quite follow what you’ve based your comment on.

[Cisse]

1 hour ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

It might have been the same person

Yes, I thought so but I can't be sure. Well let's just hope the lightning doesn't strike the same place twice.🙄

[ramit]

9 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

I don’t quite follow you

Follow me, follow me.  That's good, that's good.

[TomTom92]

11 hours ago, Millenniumram said:

We’re still only fourth, despite the recent form.

Someone had be the Christmas grinch, and it had to be me.

Just shows that the criticism earlier in the season was justified. We’ve gone on an unbelievable run and we’re 4th. Without Warne and the lads turning it around we’d be sat around 9th with 6th place our only hope.

Said it before and I’ll say it again. Whoever has the best January will go up automatically.

[Srg]

Kinda crazy we’ve gone on this mad run, and we’ve still only collected 3 points more than Bolton in that 10 game span. Can barely afford mistakes to try and make up any ground. 

[Old Spalding Ram]

Might as well stick these up here for the stats lads.

 

[CBRammette]

7 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

It might have been the same person

Yes but this year that person has worded it far more carefully thank goodness 😂

[Tamworthram]

9 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

It's good to see. That said, we're still only 4th, despite a very impressive run of results, and my feeling remains (for now) it's as much luck as judgement. If we establish ourselves in the top 2 that feeling needs to be revisited. 

Last season it was also a 7-horse race (ie a significant gap to 8th place) and we were the ones who bottled it and finished 7th. What a missed opportunity.

Are we bottlers? Win the next 2 against rival teams, and we start to have the look of one of the leaders rather than one of the chasing pack. This is a test as it's easier to chase. 

 

I don’t get your comment about luck rather than judgement. Surely we are where we deserve to be. If you’re saying that we’re only 4th due to some lucky results, well what if we continue to get “lucky” results and find ourselves in the top 2? Why would you revisit your opinion?

As for bottlers, I don’t think dropping points over the next two games would define us as such. It depends on how we perform over the remainder of the season and, in particular, towards the very end (a la last season).

[Crewton]

We might have picked up a few results that weren't entirely warranted, but that applies both ways. We're where we deserve to be and coming into form at a good time, very similar to 1995/96, when a vocal minority also wanted the manager sacked in the Autumn. Undoubtedly, we'll need to have a much better January in the transfer market than last year in order to maintain the current form and force our way into the top 2, but hopefully both Warne and David Clowes have learned from last season and we'll strengthen rather than weaken the squad.

 

[ram59]

Our run of results have been stupendous and certain aspects of our game also. We've only conceded one non penalty goal in our last 8 games, Chrissy Martin's for Bristol Rovers. In fact, I'm struggling to remember the last top drawer save made by Wildsmith.

Despite our great first half yesterday, we only had a limited number of good chances and we should have put the game to bed with that dominance. 

But it's a start and Cloughie started by building his team at the back. Hopefully, with a couple of key attacking signings, we will kick on from this platform and truly dominate teams for the remainder of the season.