We require 11 wins out of 14 for playoffs

Well, Hull's next two games are West Brom & Coventry - so someone's going to lose points - and they've also got Leicester and Leeds in the next few after that. The big imponderable is our own ability to put a few wins together. It looks like O'Brien and Barlaser in midfield for the duration, and while we were able to soak up pressure and ride our luck against Leicester, are we going to develop that ability to dominate games consistently whilst cutting out those lapses in defence?
I'm not even sure we'll clear the first hurdle tbh, but if we can follow up beating Plymouth with a win at Stoke, then I'll start to believe. Then we have a bog game at home to Norwich, who are also a contender. Also win that, and we'll be in the mix. We have a tough run at the end including Leeds, Southampton and Ipswich, who unfortunately are all likely to be gunning for the final automatic spot so won't be resting players.
Everything is against us really, but let's hope at the very least we can keep the pot boiling with a few wins the next few games. To cheer us up going into next season.
 
Boro4life said:
Looking at the fixtures this should do it

H Plymouth Win
A Stoke Win
H Norwich Win
A QPR Win
A Birmingham Win
H Blackburn Win
A Southampton Lose
H Sheffield Wed Win
H Swansea Win
A Hull Win
A Ipswich Lose
H Leeds Lose
A Cardiff Win
H Watford Win
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Regardless of any potential promotion- I’m just looking forward to the imminent 6 game winning run!

Gerrrrrrrin! ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
 
Seen nothing to suggest we wont finish where we are now.

We have taken 6 points off Leicester this season and 1 point of Rotherham. It sums up the season unfortunately.

Too many teams between us and the play offs and 3-4 of them on good runs currently and look capable of continuing.

Lets just hope we can get some sort of run together and finish the season with some consistency.
 
We needed minimum 4 points from Bristol and Preston ... we got zero

That finally ended any top 6 finish thoughts for me

We should have hung on against sunderland too that would have put us 4 points off 6th with the 4 points mentioned above. We've thrown away too many points
 
The one thing I’m fairly sure about is that we shouldn’t be relegated.
If we had have gone up with the present staff it should have been just as much an effort to prepare for next season as it will to get organised for a really decent shot at promotion.
 
KDG said:
Seen nothing to suggest we wont finish where we are now.

We have taken 6 points off Leicester this season and 1 point of Rotherham. It sums up the season unfortunately.

Too many teams between us and the play offs and 3-4 of them on good runs currently and look capable of continuing.

Lets just hope we can get some sort of run together and finish the season with some consistency.
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I am not sure many of them are on good runs, to be honest. From the last 6 games, Ipswich, Preston, Coventry and West Brom have only won 3 each. The only teams in good form at the moment is Leeds, Leicester and Hull.

The problem we have, at the moment is we can't string results together either. If we win our game in hand we are 7 points of the playoffs. If we won 4 or 5 on the bounce the picture would change radically. I am not sure we can do that. Of course the players will be trying to do exactly that.

We will likely fall short now, we do have Howson and Hackney out, for probably the season. I struggle to see us stringing the wins together, but......
 
Laughing said:
I am not sure many of them are on good runs, to be honest. From the last 6 games, Ipswich, Preston, Coventry and West Brom have only won 3 each. The only teams in good form at the moment is Leeds, Leicester and Hull.

The problem we have, at the moment is we can't string results together either. If we win our game in hand we are 7 points of the playoffs. If we won 4 or 5 on the bounce the picture would change radically. I am not sure we can do that. Of course the players will be trying to do exactly that.

We will likely fall short now, we do have Howson and Hackney out, for probably the season. I struggle to see us stringing the wins together, but......
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We play the game in hand next month. Before that, a win on Saturday leaves us no more than 8 points off 6th with that game still in hand.

As I said on another thread, we need to worry about ourselves for now and not other teams. Beat Plymouth and then move on to Stoke. If we can win 4 or 5 on the bounce, or win 4 and draw 2 of the next 6, that gap will close right up and it will all be to play for going into the final 8 games.

Obviously I'm very aware of how inconsistent we have been, but if we can get a settled side out over the next month with the likes of McGree, McNair, Lath, O'Brien and Azaz featuring regularly (and hopefully Isiah Jones soon) then IMO we are very capable of going on a winning streak.
 
If we had all our best players available, then there would be a slim but almost non-existent chance of this happening. However, we have just lost our best 2 centre midfielders, to add to Jones & Bangura, both strikers, and Fry. Getting McGree & O'Brian back is a boost, but not enough.

We will win a few more games, and we might even close the gap to the play-ffs a bit, but overall mid-table obscurity will be the end result this season, unfortunately.
 
Step-by-step.
Match-by-match.
Look no further.

Carrick pre-Preston:

Can Boro bridge the points gap?

If you just take a step back and look at the league how it is and how it's been historically: whoever's at these positions in the league now, never end up in them positions come the end of the season. That's up and down, so let's take each step at a time [smile] and step-by-step and try to win games [and] see where we end up.

With the points distance to the play-offs, do the next two games [Preston / Leicester] take on extra importance?

Yeah. We know what's required, we know where we are in the league, but it's really not make-or-break at this stage. As I just said there, the league historically as it is, you can be in and around it with four to six weeks to play, and you can make a hell of a difference. We're not chasing it at this stage. It doesn’t mean we're not trying any harder or less. We just giving it our best what we can, and hopefully we can have a good week: two big tests, two terrific games. Who knows what can happen?​
 
WilliamMunny said:
We play the game in hand next month. Before that, a win on Saturday leaves us no more than 8 points off 6th with that game still in hand.

As I said on another thread, we need to worry about ourselves for now and not other teams. Beat Plymouth and then move on to Stoke. If we can win 4 or 5 on the bounce, or win 4 and draw 2 of the next 6, that gap will close right up and it will all be to play for going into the final 8 games.

Obviously I'm very aware of how inconsistent we have been, but if we can get a settled side out over the next month with the likes of McGree, McNair, Lath, O'Brien and Azaz featuring regularly (and hopefully Isiah Jones soon) then IMO we are very capable of going on a winning streak.
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Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with your post, just that the teams above us are playing well. They are much like us, by and large.
 
alanmoodysdog said:
and the 6 from leicester? Next half dozen games will reshape the league
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We'd have been better placed if we'd lost to Leicester on Saturday and beat Rotherham twice.

We'd need to go on another 6 game+ winning streak just to get ourselves back in proper contention, and we've struggled to string 2 wins together for most of the season.

Leicester did a Boro and missed sitter after sitter in a game that they should have won on paper, their finishing let them down badly, we didn't play them off the park, we put in a decent backs to the wall away performance with a couple of counter attacks.

We're not going to be able to play that way against most teams.
 
TeaCider said:
We'd have been better of losing to Leicester on Saturday and beating Rotherham twice.

We'd need to go on another 6 game+ winning streak just to get ourselves back in proper contention, and we've struggled to string 2 wins together for most of the season.
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Thats about the size of it TC.
 
TeaCider said:
We'd have been better placed if we'd lost to Leicester on Saturday and beat Rotherham twice.

We'd need to go on another 6 game+ winning streak just to get ourselves back in proper contention, and we've struggled to string 2 wins together for most of the season.

Leicester did a Boro and missed sitter after sitter in a game that they should have won on paper, their finishing let them down badly, we didn't play them off the park, we put in a decent backs to the wall away performance with a couple of counter attacks.

We're not going to be able to play that way against most teams.
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I said something similar the other day, the Leicester game was similar to the Chelsea first leg, on another day they dont miss that many chances and we end up drawing of even losing.

Regardless though it got an important 3 points on the board.
 
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