Almost 2 games a week in February so who plays who and who is the contenders?????? Ive drawn the line at teams up to 9 points adrift and that gives 12 teams in contention … [with DERBY -10pts … HULL -11pts ..with READING & QPR at -12pts] TEAMS IN RED ARE THE CONTENDERS … ALL START ON 30 GAMES THERE ARE 14 FIXTURES [ 51 points / 34 teams vying for them!] that involves top 12 teams playing each other … Sheff Wed don't play any of the other 11 Brentford; City; Blackburn; P N E; Florest; Leeds play 3 and W B A; Millwall; Fulham play 4 …... the rest 2 game fixtures 8th Blackburn v Fulham NFlorest v Leeds Millwall v W B A __________________ City v Birmingham Wigan v PNE Barnsley v Sheff Brentford v Midds Luton v Cardiff Swansea v Derby fixtures of the 11th / 12th FEB:- Brentford v Leeds United Millwall v Fulham _____________________ Swansea v QPR Huddersfield v Cardiff Luton Town v Sheff Wed Blackburn v Hull City Nottm Forest v Charlton Bristol City v Derby County Reading v West Brom Stoke City v Preston fixtures of 15th Leeds United v Bristol City Preston v Millwall West Brom v Nottingham Forest ________________________ Hull v Swansea Fulham v Barnsley Birmingham v Brentford Cardiff v Wigan Athletic Charlton v Blackburn Rovers Sheff Wed v Reading fixtures of 22nd Bristol City v West Brom Brentford v Blackburn ________________ Derby v Fulham Leeds v Reading Nottm Forest v QPR Birmingham v Sheff Wed Preston North End v Hull City Stoke City v Cardiff Swansea v Huddersfield Wigan Athletic v Millwall fixtures of 25th 26th West Brom v Preston North End Fulham v Swansea City Cardiff City v NForest ____________________ Huddersfield v Bristol City Luton Town v Brentford Middlesbrough v Leeds United Millwall v Birmingham Sheff Wed v Charlton Athletic Blackburn v Stoke City fixtures of 29th Blackburn v Swansea City Cardiff v Brentford Fulham v Preston North End Millwall v Bristol city _______________________ Hull City v Leeds United Sheff Wed v Derby County West Brom v Wigan Athletic HEAD TO HEAD POINTS … THATS the make or break fixtures … CITY need to look for 5 of the 9 they contest ! and need 11 of the 18 up for grabs! [ already got 3 of 21 available in February ]
up dated it with this weekends fixture now so 18 points up for grabs and with this weekends fixtures and WBA Fulham and Millwall get to contest 4 games v top 12 teams ….. and that can thin out the points … 3 of the top 4 this weekend can extend their lead over some of the teams from [4th] / 5th to 12th …. [ top 4 all involved in 3 fixtures ] I reckon a lead of 11 pts will be to much to overcome for any serious positional change
This weekend will see most of the different clubs’ new signings play a part. I would guess that very few will make an effort immediate impact as they won’t have had the time to gel.
The next four games monsters Brum Home -Derby Home- Leeds away -WBA home lost ——— won win that lot and you can start dreaming
h . h . A . h . A . A . h . A . h . A . h . h . A . h . A . h …. we have 7 away and 9 home .. 3rd Bristol City 16 . 28 pts . ……... W W W D D L D W L W L L W W W ==== Away form ... ave pts per game 1 . 75 [ potential = 12pts ] 11th Bristol City 14 . 22 pts ………. L W D D W W D D W L L W L W ======Home form ... ave pts per game 1 . 57 [ potential = 14pts ] replicate the season so far and city = 76 points … obviously logarithm applied to all teams IN top 10 and we would finish in 5th/6th [ eg PNE would finish on .. 70 PTS / Swansea on 71 pts ]
Blackburn v Fulham 0 -1 best would have been a draw NFlorest v Leeds 2 - 0 no spying! good result Millwall v W B A 0 - 2 very windy conditions but WBA seems to be nailed on for top 2 Disasterous result losing 1-3 but better against Brum than other top 12 Barnsley and Derby helped a bit … Derby on form? our next opponents, when Brentford meet Leeds and Millwall tackle Fulham! and can be on a bit of a losing run! L D L ? and 7 other top 12 play bottom 12
SO FAR so good still be 7th v LEEDS Brentford v Leeds United ........point each so far so good Millwall v Fulham _____________________ Swansea v QPR ………………….. THANKYOU Q P R Huddersfield v Cardiff …………………………………………….. now sneaking into contention for the March revamp? Luton Town v Sheff Wed Blackburn v Hull City ……………... BBurn creep closer Nottm Forest v Charlton ………….WELL DONE Charlton Bristol City v Derby County ……that was a nail biter Reading v West Brom ………. shows WBA not that invincible Stoke City v Preston ………. have the easiest run in of all top 12
SO FAR so good still be 7th v LEEDS Brentford v Leeds United ........point each so far so good Millwall v Fulham good point from Millwall that's 2 draws so 4 pts short of what others have to overcome _____________________ Swansea v QPR ………………….. THANKYOU Q P R Huddersfield v Cardiff …………………………………………….. now sneaking into contention for the March revamp? Luton Town v Sheff Wed Blackburn v Hull City ……………... BBurn creep closer Nottm Forest v Charlton ………….WELL DONE Charlton Bristol City v Derby County ……that was a nail biter Reading v West Brom ………. shows WBA not that invincible Stoke City v Preston ………. have the easiest run in of all top 12 CITY 6 FROM 9 …. [ 9 OF 21 ] TOUGH WEEKEND FOR ALL COMING UP
fixtures of 15th Leeds United v Bristol City ………….. lost 1-0 pretty much expected as LEEDS had to come good at some point Preston v Millwall ……………. nice one Millwall West Brom v Nottingham Forest …. that's another 2pts less to chase! ________________________ Hull v Swansea ...wow 8 goals and 1 pt for SWANS Fulham v Barnsley …………….. who would have thought 3 -0! Birmingham v Brentford …. BRUM DOING WELL again just 1 pt lost for us! Cardiff v Wigan Athletic … good draw for WIGAN Charlton v Blackburn Rovers … BBurn on a roll Sheff Wed v Reading ….. How long will GM last now? REAL CRUNCH NEXT WEEK ……………………………
Table end jan ...points then & posn & pts now & gained pts 1 Leeds --------------- 55 --------2-----59...…………..5 2 West Brom --------53 --------1-----63...………...10 3 Nottm Forest -----51 -------- 5-----55...………….4 4 Fulham -----------49 ---------3-----56...………….7 5 Brentford --------47 ---------4-----55...………….8 6 Bristol City ------47 ---------7-----53...…………..6 7 Preston -----------46 ----------6----53...…………..7 8 Swansea ----------45 ---------9-----48...………….3 9 Millwall -----------44 ---------10---49...…………..5 10 Blackburn ------ 43 --------- 8----50...…………...7 11 Cardiff ------------43 ---------9-----50...…………..7 12 Sheff Wed ------42 ----------12----44...………….2 Derby + 4pts ........Birmingham + 10 pts share 12th place pts City have 6 of the 21 up for grabs in February i reckoned on them needing 11 to stay 6th
we are all in agreement ...almost! that this month, and in general, the championship is far from a stable entity as far as results go! Only 6 of the top 12 have in FEBRUARY banked more half of the points up for grabs, with city sitting on the fence with 6 and the other 5 including LEEDS, from 5 down to 2! Drawn games at moment dominate the top 12 playing each other long may it continue! except maybe this weekend City will hopefully withstand the initial WBA assault and do better than a point although WBA so far are W3 D 1... ! 2 fixtures this weekend stand out …. Bristol City v West Brom Brentford v Blackburn with the other main protagonists playing:- Derby v Fulham Leeds v Reading Nottm Forest v QPR Preston North End v Hull City Stoke City v Cardiff Chasers Swansea v Huddersfield Wigan Athletic v Millwall Birmingham v Sheff Wed A mish mash of results of similar upsets to last 4 weeks could see quite a herd of prospects pushing the gate to the top 6!
Bristol City v West Brom ……………... as widely expected Brentford v Blackburn ………. good result ________________ Derby v Fulham another good result Leeds v Reading …….. would expect them to have scored more! Nottm Forest v QPR ……… a very good job done by QPR Birmingham v Sheff Wed .........….THINK BOTH THESE OUT OF THE MIX NOW Preston North End v Hull City …. WITHOUT Bowen have no answers Stoke City v Cardiff … well done Stoke … would have expected a draw Swansea v Huddersfield ...we need to emulate Swansea on Tuesday! Wigan Athletic v Millwall well done WIGAN reined in Millwall 2 fixtures to go and need to win both … both on the road and 12 points for Feb will have been reasonable!!!!
fixtures of 29th Blackburn v Swansea City .. drawn good result for City Cardiff v Brentford .. drawn good result for City Fulham v Preston North End ............... Fulham/wba/leeds 3 teams we need to beat teams in top 12 .. but not us next week!!!! Millwall v Bristol city .. drawn good 2nd best result for City _______________________ Hull City v Leeds United Sheff Wed v Derby County West Brom v Wigan Athletic WE needed 11pts from February.. we got just S E V E N .. very very poor return. 1 in 3 ......
