FabioPorkpie
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I'd have backed Coburn and Watmore to have scored more given the minutes of Connally and Balogun.
100 % this!
I’d have bet my mortgage on it.
I'd have backed Coburn and Watmore to have scored more given the minutes of Connally and Balogun.
To be fair I dont either however we all thought the same at this point last year for both Bournemouth and Fulham and the gap really closed, as we know the championship is a strange old league, injuries, players sold dip in form!I think 11 points is a lot to make up even with current form. I can’t see Burnley or Sheffield u skipping up to that extent. I’d like to think carrick was supported in the market and see what happens rather than throwing the kitchen sink at an improbability. Next season, hit the ground running
Burnley seem like they’re full steam ahead, Catching up with Sheffield would be nothing short of a miracle..although I said that about reaching the top six!I think automatic promotion is gone they are both probably better squads than us and have a massive head start on us. I can't see us splashing 10 millions plus on stewart or 15 to 20 on gyokeres. I do think we replace Muniz if he goes back but probably with another loan. Barlaser may sign if not we will try in the summer. I suspect Carrick with sign a youngster from man utd.
I think Hackney benefits from having Howson's experience alongside him - with another young player he might not look so composed. We definitely need to replace Howson long term but it should be a proven schemer who, like Howson, can provide the stability for Hackney to continue to flourishCarrick needs to get on the blower to old trafford and do whatever is necessary to get them to cut short Hannibals loan at Brum and get him to us.
Him and Hackney would be formidable.
He did go up and speak to him after the game. Nice touch I thought.Carrick needs to get on the blower to old trafford and do whatever is necessary to get them to cut short Hannibals loan at Brum and get him to us.
Him and Hackney would be formidable.
There’s a few cute moves that Hackney looks to have lifted from Howson’s handbook.. great position to be in playing alongside Howson and having Carrick giving you pointers.I think Hackney benefits from having Howson's experience alongside him - with another young player he might not look so composed. We definitely need to replace Howson long term but it should be a proven schemer who, like Howson, can provide the stability for Hackney to continue to flourish
Realistically the top 2 are gone.. crazily optimistically 2nd place is not mathematically off the cards. 88 points anybody?Top 2 are long gone. Given how tight the championship has been this season and the gaps they have, they'd have to have relegation form not to go up, and with their squads and finance I can't see it.
All signings should be geared towards helping a play off push this term, without destabilising or reducing the budget for a big push in the summer.
That would require Sheff Utd to get 37 pts or less over 20 games - 1.85 ppg - so a drop off in form from their current 1.96 and for us to take 49 pts from 20 games - 2.45 ppg (112 pts over a full 46 game season) or to put it another way 15 wins 4 draws and 1 defeat. That's Ali Brownlee levels of optimism!!!!crazily optimistically 2nd place is not mathematically off the cards. 88 points anybody?
same thought processauto would be an absolute miracle, it's near impossible. We need 4 wins and a draw more than Sheff Utd. Even if they dropped to 1.5 points per game (they're almost 2 points per game at the moment), then we would need 43 points from 20 games, 13 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats. They've got too much firepower to drop to 1.5 points, and we won't score more than 2 points a game for the next 20
I'll bite your hand off for a guarantee of play offs right now.
1.5ppg gets them to 81auto would be an absolute miracle, it's near impossible. We need 4 wins and a draw more than Sheff Utd. Even if they dropped to 1.5 points per game (they're almost 2 points per game at the moment), then we would need 43 points from 20 games, 13 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats. They've got too much firepower to drop to 1.5 points, and we won't score more than 2 points a game for the next 20
I'll bite your hand off for a guarantee of play offs right now.
2ppg gets us to 78 points..1.5ppg gets them to 81
2ppg gets us to 79
this season’s entire average has us at 1.5ppg and if we continue that we’ll land on 69 points.. I think we’ve got more in the tank after our worst ever start in our history.
74 should cut it about 1.7ppg from here on in
77 should guarantee playoffs at 1.9ppg
2.2ppg gets us to 83 points..
It’s defo time to start talking crazy talk!!!
2ppg gets us to 78 points..
78 would almost certainly guarentee playoffs. It would have got you into the playoffs 18 out of the last 20 seasons (19 with decent goal difference). There was one mad season where you needed 80 but generally 70-75pts gets you in.Scrape into the playoffs on some seasons with that total