Well the Supercomputer still thinks it's going to be us: Norwich City - 98 points Leeds United - 88 points Sheffield United - 86 points Middlesbrough - 81 points West Brom - 80 points Nottingham Forest - 70 points I think we'd settle for that. We now have a virtually fully fit squad for the run in and are top of the form table, so can we keep going full steam ahead?
I saw that earlier and it's amazing how a few results change things Our remaining games this month will have a MASSIVE influence on final positions and IF we can garner 6 or more .......
The supercomputer must have factored in our support for Reading and the influence of agent Nelson on the top 6 positions.
I keep seeing these predictions, and as much as I'd like it, that looks like an extraordinary points total (and gap to the rest), given the number of matches remaining: 1. NCFC 72 -> 98: 26 points in 10 games. That's 8 wins 2 draws. Cannot see us going unbeaten for the rest of the season. 2. Leeds 70 -> 88: 18 points in 10 games: 6 wins 4 defeats. Having seemingly overcome a shaky spell, their form is going to go from 2.1 ppg to 1.8? 3. SUFC 68 -> 86: 18 points, same permutations. Sheffield are one point behind us in the form table, unbeaten in 8, yet are going to lose essentially every other game for the rest of the season? I like the implication that 15 points from a possible 30 might be enough to take us up, but none of the top 3 look like letting up. I don't see that massive gap being likely in the slightest.
I have to agree DH and I'd be very surprised if the gap is grater than 5 points on May 5th. Having said that, I do expect us to end the season on >90 points, so that promotion would be confirmed assuming we beat Blackburn on 27th April at the latest.
90 points has always been enough in the past (though once it required play-offs). That can be achieved by 6 wins out of the last 10 games (or 5 wins and 3 draws). A win over Hull would make that even more likely.
Your caution is sensible, but which match will we lose? Other than the Boro match, I don’t think we should be losing any of them (of course, we still might...) When you add in the fact that a feature of this season (unusually) has been our ruthlessness against lower ranked teams. That might not hold, but certainly our current form suggests so. My feeling is if all goes well we could be in for 93-95 points. Doesn’t take much more to squeeze to 98. As for Blades and Leeds, 18 points is not losing nearly half their remaining matches (most likely win 5, draw 3 and lose 2) it’s nearly 2ppg! If you look at Blades’ fixtures they could easily lose two or three based on opposition. So yes I agree that all looks very optimistic, but I can see how the predictor got to it.
It will be extremely hard to pick the goal of the season this season. Cannot remember any season in the past with such a quantity of sublime goals, of all types. The build up from Krul, the flying wing and cross by Aarons, the trickery of Hernandez, the brilliant passes by Vrancic, the predatory instincts of Pukki or the finesse and power of Bendy, plus Mo, Marco and Tom et al.
It will be extremely hard to pick the goal of the season this season. Cannot remember any season in the past with such a quantity of sublime goals, of all types. The build up from Krul, the flying wing and cross by Aarons, the trickery of Hernandez, the brilliant passes by Vrancic, the predatory instincts of Pukki or the finesse and power of Bendy, plus Mo, Marco and Tom et al.
Boro (A), Stoke (A), Villa (A) are all potential banana skins, and we had to battle hard to get past Millwall and Bolton earlier in the season. It doesn't take a lot for a game to go south, Hanley knows that well. Even if we lose all 3 of those, and draw 2 games, we'd still be picking up 17 points and win promotion (according to the super computer). I just can't see the rest of the season being entirely smooth sailing. Hopefully Brentford or Reading do us a favour tonight, we do the business Wednesday, and things look very good by the end of the weekend!
