Sure, over Sunderland we could get a 4 point gap, but the post you were replying to ('4 teams on 48 points') and the conversation being had was the logjam of teams on 48, which is where the confusion came from. All good!
So we could have a 3 or 4 point lead going into Southampton game if others drop points. and if we win that it could be 6-7 point lead. likely others will get points but still could drop them.
Yes, we could have a 3 point lead over some of the teams currently on 48 points with us if Coventry drop points to Stoke, Preston to Blackburn or Norwich to Cardiff (probably the most likely of the 3). I'd just focus on ourselves though and getting the 3 points at a ground we notoriously struggle at given the teams around us also have quite winnable games. Even Sunderland have Birmingham.
There is if it means banking 3 points in a game we haven't won yet. It's what leads people to get so outraged when it doesn't eventuate as happened against Swansea. Just take it one game at a time and don't take things for granted. When you're banking points and writing off points for the opposition and using that as a basis to look forward multiple games it becomes far too hypothetical. Reminds me of two seasons ago when everyone was insisting we could make the Top 6 and chucking bets on it, and I was urging restraint. What will be will be, let's beat Hudd.
Indeed we do as we record once a week. Happy to be corrected but did we discuss Southampton with the context of 'Once we've beaten Huddersfield how will we go against Southampton'? I really don't get the way you've taken this discussion. All it started with was me querying how we could be 5 points in front of teams level with us on 48 points after the next game and you've taken it down a weird alley. I know you love being very positive and looking for the absolute best case scenario for us, but watching this place meltdown after we didn't beat Swansea underlines why we can't take games for granted.
it’s not gone down weird alley you knew the point I was making in the first post. and I never said once we beat huddersfield I said if then if others drop points we can get bit of breathing space going to Southampton.
I genuinely didn't as the discussion was about the teams we were level on points with so had no idea what you meant by potentially being 4-5 points ahead of them after the next game. Wasn't sure if you were talking about something else. You've acknowledged you forgot Coventry had equalised and were actually talking about the broader group behind us and I said that was all good!
Great post ST, I can resinate with this, my first came in 1957 and have only supported one club all my life. I did spend 15 years in Aberdeen working and went to Pittodrie to get my football fix, but it was never the same as supporting your home town club. I guess that's why I am very much a glass half full poster, we have seen some ****e in our time, but we still enjoyed it, and what we have today is light years better than those days. Having said that, I wouldn't swap for those old experiences for all the tea in China.
The fact I got asked at work drinks about "that Philogene banger" and then messaged by an Arsenal mate in London about "the hull goal" has blown my mind. Even when we were in the PL we weren't on the map as much as we are now.
Especially as Huddersfield have hit some form since changing manager and even before last night's win had scored seven in two games compared to our 8 in 8. Factor in our shocking record at their place and I'd take a draw now.
I must admit, when he cut inside the first time I was screaming at my screen for him to cross. Then even louder the second time. In fact, even as the ball was going across it looked like he'd fluffed it, I was raging. Talk about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde!
How does appealing decisions help? Do you think the ref is going to stop play and run over to the crowd VAR style and then correct himself having spoken to Alan in Seat 209 Row Q? I sit there listening to people scream for a foul after a legitimate challenge on a City player, or call for a yellow card when a player has changed his mind on a throw going short or long thinking it is time wasting. Their blood pressure must be through the roof!! Some of it is down to people not understanding the rules but some of it seems to be learned behaviour and they are just shouting for the sake of it. I sit in the East/South Corner and somewhere at the back there is a bloke we all call 'seconds man'. He shouts nothing but 'switch' when we have the ball and 'seconds' when we win a header that goes into a mix. There are people laughing at him all over but he is still doing it like some 1980's pub team manager and seems obvlious to how daft it sounds. Now his mate next to him has got the same two catchphrases! I'm all for getting behind the team, encouraging good play and trying to lift the lads when they need it but ref bashing is moronic. It serves only to make them more likely to go against us, conciously or sub conciously. They will never change their mind. For me the key to atmosphere is placing the right people in the right areas and I think the club are starting to get there. The North stand isnt bad from where I sit and the other end of the East stand seems to be quite vocal too. As Stephen Toast said you are unlikley to ever replicate the type of atmosphere you see on the continent in the UK. I go in the Stretford end at Man Utd a fair bit and it is class in there but when I have been at the other end of the ground it sounds nothing like being amongst it. The West and South stand are never going to make noise, it has always been the same. A good away support helps too. I'd like to see something better to try and generate atmosphere pre- match. The DJ does nothing for me, Ben Rainey was great the first time but dont feel anything building with this current guy and the announcer doesnt seem to know how to generate excitement. I'd look at City warming up in front of the North Stand. Seperate the away team from their fans pre-match and get our players to try and pump up the crowd before they go in. When players run to our corner and ask for a reaction before the take the corner they get it. Even Acun could play a part, he can play the crowd as good as anyone. Singing a song with scarves in the air aint gonna frighten anyone I'm afraid. Look at the reaction the Turkish flags caused against Millwall, that type of thing does raise the volume.
