Match Day Thread Today's Games

Blades are now 1-0 up at Preston.

 

Boo! That's the game I thought might go our way.

 

TP's P45 is being printed as I write this - 2-0 down at Swansea

 

Holy Crap! The Binners are 2-0 up at Stoke!

 

That's fine - Millwall, Wigan and Reading are all winning - no ground gained if it stays that way

 

That must be their 2nd team. 1st team are at Bolton.

 

You mean Bolton?

 

F**K I missed that

 

Just checking you are all paying attention!

Bolton, Stoke..... What's the difference? Its still cold oop North

 

Bless them. At long last they've discovered a little form...form that will serve them well in division 3 (three) next season

 

I am sure we now can not finish lower than 6th. Negative maybe but still another step to the promised land. Also in the last 16 televised games in the SW/DR regime we have yet to lose. And this is not going to jinx our future tv games as we are playing way beyond any such paranoia about such things.

 

West Brom have really fallen away now

 

I'm going to something I never thought I would:

I really hope that Millwall escape the real door this season. They struck me as a really, honest hard working side who really tried to give us a proper game this season.

 

Blades and Leeds playing leapfrog with one another. Meanwhile we disappear into the distance!

 

Before today we were 5 ahead of 2nd and 7 ahead of 3rd. Now we're 7 ahead of 2nd and 8 ahead of 3rd with only 6 games to play. 8 more points would guarantee promotion.

 

I think we need ten as it stands. 18 points to play for and eight ahead of Leeds. We do have a GD of +10 though.

 

I think it's 10, assuming that Leeds don't catch us up on goal difference, or 11 if they do.

 

Yes it is 10, as 94 is the maximum Leeds can now achieve and 95 for the Blades. Obviously any points they drop will bring our target down. The +10 goal difference over Leeds and +4 over SU is a big advantage for us now.

 

Yeah although the goal difference point is a bit misleading as if we were to drop that many points and they were to gain that many the goal difference would probably be in their favour (well certainly Blades’ GD)

 

True Rob, but today we gained 3 over the Blades and 5 over Leeds. If we do similar in our next two games the difference then amounts to the equivalent of an extra point.