Got to try to stay grounded, but yes. we can afford to lose one game now and autos will still be in our own hands as Leeds and Blades have to play each other my feeling is seven wins and three draws or eight wins will be enough can’t help but think with our fixtures that is very very achievable
We're only 2 points off 3rd. No ones doing a Wolves last season. Excellent set of results tonight. One game at a time and all that... Carry on Norwich.
Any of you with a Twitter account, check out the responses to this tweet following QPR beating Leeds. Not a happy bunch.
March 16th could be the pivotal day. We are away to Rotherham, but Leeds and Sheffield meet each other. Beat Rotherham and we are at least two points better off.
Leeds seem to have a fixture list which contains hard fixtures, and about the easiest fixtures possible in this league, with nothing in between. WBA (H), Bristol (A), Reading (A), Sheff Utd (H), Millwall (H), Birmingham (A), PNE (A), Wednesday (H), Wigan (H), Brentford (A), Villa (H), Ipswich (A). They are definitely entering a key month, but I guess every team is when you're this far into the season!
So here we have the remaining fixtures for each of the clubs in the chasing pack. By the time we change the clocks, we could see a bit more ‘daylight’ <getscoatemoji> between 1st and 3rd, so it would be BRILLIANT if we stay in 1st. Bristol have a particularly tough task, having to play each of the clubs above them and several clubs have to play both PNE and Reading.
Thanks JM After last night I think Bristol are now out of touch of autos tbh Your shading clearly shows we have a much easier run. When you look at the detail it gets better - the others have to play the likes of Brentford, Hull, Stoke, Brum and Preston who are all tough on their day. I think for the Blades the match against Wednesday is also a tricky one. Out of that lot we’ve only got Hull and Stoke. No easy games of course, but it does seem to be tipping our way. Ps I quite like your clocks change/daylight play on words! Don’t think it deserved the coat at all!
Equally, it's an opportunity for them to gain some ground on their rivals. Quite pleased Bristol play Ipswich and Millwall before their "promotion double header" with the Blades and Boro. After a shaky two games, and some hard fixtures coming, hopefully they can pick up two easy wins, boosting their confidence before games where they can hurt our rivals.
I think I might argue PNE and Brentford away fall into the intermediate catagory. If they were truely hard they would be higher up the table. Bah!
We gleaned 1 point from 6 from our visits to Griffin Park and Deepdale - these are difficult places to go and I am glad we don't have to play them again ..... Bah !
Just because we struggled doesn't mean all will. Lose to Millwall and should they shift to a tough oponent? Its a relative assessment. You look at the table and those teams near the top when played at their place on paper look the toughest, midtable teams away less tough, but are they more or less tough than vs the top teams on your own patch? possibly? But broadly speaking the table is the best barometer of how good a side is so I would say they are the tougher end of middling but not outrightedly tough. Bah!
I wonder if there's any value in a wider analysis of that trend. So for visits to PNE: We lost, Boro drew, WBA won, with Bristol, Blades and Leeds yet to visit. Promotion contenders average 1.3 points at Deepdale. Brentford: We drew, Bristol won, Boro won, Blades won, Leeds and WBA yet to visit. Promotion contenders average 2.5 points at Griffin Park. I don't think the sample size is big enough to really conclude that Deepdale is a much harder place to go unfortunately.
