[Baggiebob(BBB)]

Now with the run in as to who will get in the top 6, its squeaky bum time for you guys. So do you think you have a team capable of doing it + win the play offs against the other three? And who do you think they'll be?

Mine is Shef U - QPR - either Notts F or Coventry

West Brom will bye the way just lose out

[Lord Snooty]

Us, Luton, Millwall and Coventry.

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You should know, Bob. This year's predictions king.

[jjamez]

I think forest will make it probably with us, Luton and then Sheffield United or boro

[Baggiebob(BBB)]

Well those hard fought 3pts have certainly helped you. Well done.
And now wba needs to do the same for the remaining matches

I'm still
Yourselves
Shef U
Notts F
Coventry or QPR
for the play-offs.

[theo_luddite]

I think we'll make the play-off's. If we do my occasional mate Joe will be Coral'd into buying me beers for a few weeks. He's already offering to go halves. 

I doubt we'll make it back to the Prima Donna League this season however, but I'd luv it, just luv it if it happened.
(Where did I hear that before?)

I'm not too bothered who joins us but like us, Cov and Luton are punching way above their expected weight, I reckon at least one of them (likely Luton) will be in the mix. The Chef's eventually joined the party they shouldn't have really missed, but then again they sacked the bloke that has also turned Boro's season round. Three Yorkshire clubs in the play-off's would be nice to see. Late runs from Blackburn and The Tricky Trees could spoil that party though.

Is another late run from one of them there two Larndan clubs on the cards? 'appen it could 'appen, 'appen as it won't.

4 of our last 6 games are against some of those mentioned above, and most of them 6 are already scheduled to be on the tellybox. Plus 6 of them are playing each other this weekend. They can't all win.

It's all in our own hands.

[theo_luddite]

It's all in a few other clubs hands too - so let's have a closer look at that run in.

Looking at the Top 11,  sorry WBA fans, but I needed to draw the line somewhere, daft things can still happen in this division but you getting 74-75 points to finish above almost all those above you in at least 6th really seems a slim chance right now.



As it stands .... read across for where the relevant club will play.

1. Games still have to be played against teams throughout the whole division, not too surprising

2. Fulham and Bornmuff still have most games to play against the rest of the "promotion chasers". It helps explain a little as to why they are where they are but I don't expect either to drop many points in the run in either. It will mean those they play against will obviously drop points though if they don't, which is 6 or so teams looking for points elsewhere. Both sides are capable of losing a couple (or more). They've only one game between them to play against bottom 3rd teams.

3. The next teams who can "stick their oars in" the most are Preston and Swansea, which may seem strange, but 5 teams in the top 11 have to play them both yet, 4 still have to go to Preston and 3 to Swansea.

4. Even though they only usually play one good game a month, and Posh might have played that at QPR on Sunday already, 4 looking for a top 6 place still have to play them with 3 at theirs.

5. Millwall appear to have the "easiest run in on paper" with only Bornmuff to play in the Top 8 and all their other games are against the bottom 10 - but one of those is at Both Ends away. As a result, they can't affect anyone else's results that matter, only their own. Can they get some consistency going again and mount a late push into the Top 6?

6. Town have 2 in each third to play, mainly due to QPR and Coventry falling off the pace recently, but everyone we play is below us. It's in our own hands.

7. Forest have 3 to play in each third, including the Top 2 away. I'm not even going to try calling it. They are a model of the inconsistency in this division and just as likely to lose to Posh as beat Fulham.

8. Blackburn have only Bornmuff to play in the top 3rd and everyone else is in the bottom half. Although Dack is finally back and poking the ball in the net again, they've badly missed the injured Brereton Diaz. Likewise they can't affect anyone else's results.

9. The Chefs still have to play the top 2 at home and QPR twice.

10. QPR have to play at Town and The Chefs twice in the top 3rd plus Direby at Direby. A different proposition to Direby at your own place and don't forget a trip to Both Ends.

11. Knew I'd missed someone, Luton, visit Town after everyone else has played twice and we could both be out of the Top 6. Otherwise Fulham at one end, Posh at the other and a mixed bag with only Blackpool in mid-table to play.

12. After a good start to the season Coventry seem to be running out of steam, but they could get that "Head of Steam" back up again with good results against Fulham, Bornmuff, Town and Forest, but otherwise they appear to have the hardest "Kings Head" of a run in on paper outside the top 2 to get back into the top 6. 


I'll keep this train of thought going every so often, in between a beer or two at either end of platforming the results, not to mention the beers.

[Lord Snooty]

Nice chart, theo.

[theo_luddite]

Somehow had The Chefs on 35 points, fixed now.

With slightly fewer games to play around this time last season, Blackburn, Forest, Coventry and Town were all in the Bottom 9.

[WakeyTerrier]

Posh have done me in again...up until the 87th minute my accumulator was coming in £5 turning into £50 and then bang 1-1 and the cash out reduced from £31 to £5..

I took the fiver at that stage

[SHEP_HTAFC]

Excellent chart that theo....
Another thing to mention is that Town have 4 games at home to play, and only 2 away.
Blackburn for instance have it the opposite way round....2 home and 4 away.