11-03-2018, 07:01
(This post was last modified: 11-03-2018, 07:41 by St Charles Owl.)
44 points will see us survive. Out of the last 6 seasons, a team on 44 points would have survived in 4 of them. If we can get two wins then as I said Sunderland need to win 6 of their last 9 games to catch usa, Birmingham would have to win at least 5 of their remaining 9 games, and Burton would have to win 5 of their final 10. Even the dingles will need to win 4 of their last 9. I cannot see them doing that. Its also worth noting that as bad as we have been, over the last 10 games they are all below us in the form table so they have been even worse!!! For them to catch us their form will have to improve to levels they haven’t reached all season!! You really think they can do this??
The caveat is that we need 6 points, and that isn’t going to be easy at all without 3-4 first team players getting off the treatment table and then performing better than what we currently have available. The team we have been seeing had no chance of beating Derby, but we did, we need to find 2 more of those performances to survive.
Lets also remember we have only one game in the next 3 weeks, L**ds away and then the international break. For the past 8 weeks we have been playing 2 games a week with a very limited squad, so Jos hasn’t been able to do much with the players besides prepare for a game or recover from a game. We have got one player back in Lees, but in that time have also lost Matias, Thorniley, Hunt for a few games, and Pudil to suspension for a few games. Reach is our one player who seems to be able to go for 90 mins, but even he looks shattered at the moment. These next two weeks will give the players a rest, give Jos time to work on formations/tactics and hopefully get some players fit. I am hoping that we will see a different side when we play Preston on Good Friday, both in terms of fitness, tactics and personnel!!
Midfield is where we are crap at the moment, getting back Hutch and Bannan in there alongside Clare will make us so much better, put Reach at wingback with Hunt on the opposite side, play Lees, Venancio and Pudil at CH and any 2 from Joao, Nuhiu and Rhodes up top would give us a chance to win a couple of games we might currently lose. We have essentially 3 weeks to get enough of these players back to dramatically improve the team over what we have been playing.
The caveat is that we need 6 points, and that isn’t going to be easy at all without 3-4 first team players getting off the treatment table and then performing better than what we currently have available. The team we have been seeing had no chance of beating Derby, but we did, we need to find 2 more of those performances to survive.
Lets also remember we have only one game in the next 3 weeks, L**ds away and then the international break. For the past 8 weeks we have been playing 2 games a week with a very limited squad, so Jos hasn’t been able to do much with the players besides prepare for a game or recover from a game. We have got one player back in Lees, but in that time have also lost Matias, Thorniley, Hunt for a few games, and Pudil to suspension for a few games. Reach is our one player who seems to be able to go for 90 mins, but even he looks shattered at the moment. These next two weeks will give the players a rest, give Jos time to work on formations/tactics and hopefully get some players fit. I am hoping that we will see a different side when we play Preston on Good Friday, both in terms of fitness, tactics and personnel!!
Midfield is where we are crap at the moment, getting back Hutch and Bannan in there alongside Clare will make us so much better, put Reach at wingback with Hunt on the opposite side, play Lees, Venancio and Pudil at CH and any 2 from Joao, Nuhiu and Rhodes up top would give us a chance to win a couple of games we might currently lose. We have essentially 3 weeks to get enough of these players back to dramatically improve the team over what we have been playing.