Remaining Fixtures

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st_brendy said:
Imsaintsme said:
To st_brendy

Fair point, but playing well does not put points on the board.

My altered assessment is that we dont beat the top half teams away from home...fact.

A draw is 1 point but a win is 3 points, so to take three points from a rival is huge!

Had we beaten Cardiff away (whilst playing well) we would be 6 points higher than them up the table.

Had we beaten Brum away today we would have clear breathing space on them. They will be right with us till the end trust me.

Conviction is all that is required.
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Obviously I agree with this (who wouldn't?!), but I still maintain that if you take 4 points off of each of your rivals, then you're highly likely to be in a great position, respective to your aims - no matter if you're fighting it out for a title, or battling against relegation.

We've now achieved that against Birmingham, and 'only' require draws away to West Ham, Leeds, Hull and Boro to tick them off as well. Reading, Derby and Burnley we would all need to beat, but they're at home so I'd back us to do that. The only issues are that we've failed to take 4 points off of Cardiff and Brighton, whilst taking 4 points off of Blackpool will be very difficult.
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I appreciate your response. It makes total sense.

I'd just like us to win a few of the six pointers as I genuinely feel it will be required to get an auto place. I accept drawing the 4 away games against our big rivals individually sounds great but if we draw those games, our rivals will be winning around us and I can promise we will not walk the park against every other team to make up the points. (Bristol City a good example).

We need to knock a few teams out of their stride and I think were perfectly capable of doing that. I'd rather beat West Ham and Boro then draw at home to Reading and Burnley as it will put us in a much stronger position come the end of the season.
 
If we win against West Ham I reckon we'll be well on target for the title. Birmingham, along with West Ham, will be our main promotion rivals. Cardiff, in my opinion, will drop off the pace.

Who'd a thunk it eh!!

COYS
 
Can I just add - the table will fluctuate until the end of the season. The way some fixtures are timed, e.g. a tough away game for us and an easy home game for West Ham. We just need to keep performing and grinding out results, and hopefully that'll see us up.
 
Weve got two good points from our last games, our good first half has ensured that were not in a position where we need to real in the automatic places so ticking along and takin points of the contenders and beating the others should be enough, especially as none of the competition seems able to keep a good run of form going long enough to knock us out of the autos. That said we NEED to beat Burnley.
 
SAINTDON13 said:
Will the Derby game have to be moved if we win on Tuesday? Could be disruptive.
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Yes, although I've got no idea when it would be moved to. We have the following Tuesday free (21st), so it might just be moved to then should we beat Millwall.
 
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