| Our main rival for 2nd place.. 17:01 - Dec 9 with 2064 views | Wallingford_Boy |
Southampton in my opinion.
Just a point behind us after tonight’s games. |  |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:01 - Dec 9 with 1696 views | SheffordBlue |
I hope we haven't capped our aspirations at 2nd place already |  |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:09 - Dec 9 with 1635 views | Scoob94 |
I would agree with this, think Southampton will be in the top 4 come the end of the season.
Do also think Coventry will begin to fade away soon though, if they lose 2 or 3 in a row for example all of a sudden that gap at the top of the league is almost gone and the pressure ramps up for them. | | | |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:09 - Dec 9 with 1634 views | Radlett_blue |
Kind of interesting that Southampton have rallied after parting company with Will Still. They have given interim manager Tonda Eckert the job permanently, although he looks, on paper, an even riskier appointment than Still. Come the end of the season, we shall see how "permanent" he is. Southampton do have decent players, so this could be a sustainable run.
Will also be interesting if Coventry do fall off their perch. The rest of this League looks even more inconsistent than us so an automatic spot is up for grabs if we can just find more consistency as we do have better players than most of this League. |  |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:21 - Dec 9 with 1542 views | ParisBlue |
Still yet to play Coventry |  |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:21 - Dec 9 with 1546 views | Dubtractor |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:09 - Dec 9 by Scoob94 |
I would agree with this, think Southampton will be in the top 4 come the end of the season.
Do also think Coventry will begin to fade away soon though, if they lose 2 or 3 in a row for example all of a sudden that gap at the top of the league is almost gone and the pressure ramps up for them. |
I know they had a couple of players out, but I was expecting a bit more from Coventry on Saturday if I'm honest. They didn't exactly ask lots of questions of our back 4, for a team that has scored 50 goals already.
I know there have been a few comments about the benefit of squad rotation too, but they really did look cooked towards the end of the match. |  |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:24 - Dec 9 with 1523 views | WestSussexBlue |
They’re really finding their feet, as are Sheffield United. Bad news for the likes of Millwall, Preston and Stoke. I hope we are also now finding our consistency. | | | |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:26 - Dec 9 with 1504 views | Radlett_blue |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:21 - Dec 9 by Dubtractor |
I know they had a couple of players out, but I was expecting a bit more from Coventry on Saturday if I'm honest. They didn't exactly ask lots of questions of our back 4, for a team that has scored 50 goals already.
I know there have been a few comments about the benefit of squad rotation too, but they really did look cooked towards the end of the match. |
We don't know if the Coventry bubble will burst, but that's out of our control. I reckon 90pts will be enough for automatic promotion so we need a marginal improvement in the second half of the season. I think we need another striker (I'd bin Akpom) but we don't need a huge amount of improvement to do it, just more consistency & our deep squad should help us in the second half of the season. | |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:35 - Dec 9 with 1439 views | ParisBlue |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:26 - Dec 9 by Radlett_blue |
We don't know if the Coventry bubble will burst, but that's out of our control. I reckon 90pts will be enough for automatic promotion so we need a marginal improvement in the second half of the season. I think we need another striker (I'd bin Akpom) but we don't need a huge amount of improvement to do it, just more consistency & our deep squad should help us in the second half of the season. |
2 points a game from this point gets us to 85.
We're currently running at 1.63 for the season, and 1.8 over the last 10.
7 games up to Pompey on Jan 4th. We could really do with 15+ points (5 wins)
(I'm a bit worried about Leicester on Saturday, but if we can get a result there, then I think we hit that target) | |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:40 - Dec 9 with 1410 views | homer_123 |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:21 - Dec 9 by Dubtractor |
I know they had a couple of players out, but I was expecting a bit more from Coventry on Saturday if I'm honest. They didn't exactly ask lots of questions of our back 4, for a team that has scored 50 goals already.
I know there have been a few comments about the benefit of squad rotation too, but they really did look cooked towards the end of the match. |
The situation at Coventry is interesting. Next door neighbour but one is a Sky Blue and, therefore, we talk football and we both spend a bit of time watching each others teams.
Whilst Coventry have gone off like a steam train. Recent performances have seen this ship a lot of goals, often conceding first but getting themselves back into matches. I've felt they were due a loss and we were due a performance - the two coincided at the weekend.
What's interesting speaking to my Sky Blue neighbour is that many Cov fans are critical of Lampard. Lampard has set them out as a really attacking team but many fans feel he leaves them wide open to a counter attack or open to any team with a half decent attacking group. A lot of talk about them being 'found out' of late - which does coincide with injury and availability issues but that speaks to a wider problem at Cov - squad depth and rotation (or lack thereof).
I'll call it now. They won't get automatic promotion and I would not be at all surprised is Lampard is out of job if they don't get promotion. |  |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:43 - Dec 9 with 1392 views | MK1 |
I don't know, I'm not a Coventry supporter. |  |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:48 - Dec 9 with 1348 views | Radlett_blue |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:35 - Dec 9 by ParisBlue |
2 points a game from this point gets us to 85.
We're currently running at 1.63 for the season, and 1.8 over the last 10.
7 games up to Pompey on Jan 4th. We could really do with 15+ points (5 wins)
(I'm a bit worried about Leicester on Saturday, but if we can get a result there, then I think we hit that target) |
Yes, we need to improve & this season has been such a mix of good, indifferent & poor performances that I'm still utterly unconvinced that we will do so. We've seen some false dawns & then a good performance last Saturday after a couple of shockers. | |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:51 - Dec 9 with 1328 views | GlasgowBlue |
Yep. I said it at the beginning of the season and I still maintain that whoever finishes above Southampton will be promoted. |  |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:52 - Dec 9 with 1315 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:24 - Dec 9 by WestSussexBlue |
They’re really finding their feet, as are Sheffield United. Bad news for the likes of Millwall, Preston and Stoke. I hope we are also now finding our consistency. |
See. Everyone laughed at me when I said sheff utd for promotion in September.
Going along as I thought.
As long as town go up too of course im rooting for them for my pocket lol. |  |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:52 - Dec 9 with 1312 views | mellowblue |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:09 - Dec 9 by Radlett_blue |
Kind of interesting that Southampton have rallied after parting company with Will Still. They have given interim manager Tonda Eckert the job permanently, although he looks, on paper, an even riskier appointment than Still. Come the end of the season, we shall see how "permanent" he is. Southampton do have decent players, so this could be a sustainable run.
Will also be interesting if Coventry do fall off their perch. The rest of this League looks even more inconsistent than us so an automatic spot is up for grabs if we can just find more consistency as we do have better players than most of this League. |
Will Still really did not look like he had a clue. Van Nistelrooy had a good start at Leicester but faded fast, could happen at Southampton too. | | | |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:58 - Dec 9 with 1262 views | Stenvict |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:09 - Dec 9 by Scoob94 |
I would agree with this, think Southampton will be in the top 4 come the end of the season.
Do also think Coventry will begin to fade away soon though, if they lose 2 or 3 in a row for example all of a sudden that gap at the top of the league is almost gone and the pressure ramps up for them. |
Sounds like what people were saying about us 2 season's ago. | |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:59 - Dec 9 with 1260 views | Radlett_blue |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:52 - Dec 9 by mellowblue |
Will Still really did not look like he had a clue. Van Nistelrooy had a good start at Leicester but faded fast, could happen at Southampton too. |
Van Nistelrooy's "good start" lasted 2 games - a home win over West Ham & a draw at Brighton, before 8 consecutive losses, in none of which Leicester managed even a single goal. | |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 18:29 - Dec 9 with 1162 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:21 - Dec 9 by ParisBlue |
Still yet to play Coventry |
Still yet to play tonight's game but apparently only a point behind us after it.
And yet they could be as much as 7 points behind us after tomorrow's (I don't think they will be, though)! |  |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 18:49 - Dec 9 with 1027 views | Wallingford_Boy |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 18:29 - Dec 9 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Still yet to play tonight's game but apparently only a point behind us after it.
And yet they could be as much as 7 points behind us after tomorrow's (I don't think they will be, though)! |
They’ll batter West Brom, they are truly awful.
Will Still was always an odd appointment, was clearly way, way out of his depth.
I still,think Coventry will win the league and if we finish above Southampton, we’ll be second. | |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 18:55 - Dec 9 with 995 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 18:49 - Dec 9 by Wallingford_Boy |
They’ll batter West Brom, they are truly awful.
Will Still was always an odd appointment, was clearly way, way out of his depth.
I still,think Coventry will win the league and if we finish above Southampton, we’ll be second. |
Just got to do no more than 3 points worse than Soton then!
I think there is far too far to go to state any of those things. (Apart from Still being a poor appointment.) Coventry have been fantastic for 18 matches but a season is 46 matches long and their squad looks thin. | |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 19:57 - Dec 9 with 769 views | gainsboroughblue |
And 1 up already tonight. |  |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 20:08 - Dec 9 with 717 views | ParisBlue |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 19:57 - Dec 9 by gainsboroughblue |
And 1 up already tonight. |
Make that 2-0 (19 mins gone) | |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 20:10 - Dec 9 with 702 views | bartyg |
I can see a four horse race for the autos- us, Cov, Saints and Boro
Weirdly out of those I think Cov might be the least likely |  | | |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 20:10 - Dec 9 with 699 views | PhilTWTD |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 17:21 - Dec 9 by Dubtractor |
I know they had a couple of players out, but I was expecting a bit more from Coventry on Saturday if I'm honest. They didn't exactly ask lots of questions of our back 4, for a team that has scored 50 goals already.
I know there have been a few comments about the benefit of squad rotation too, but they really did look cooked towards the end of the match. |
They've a small squad by comparison, hence two keepers on the bench on Saturday. Can see them being pulled back into the pack as the likes of us, Southampton and probably Sheffield United get stronger and more consistent. |  | | |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 20:11 - Dec 9 with 665 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 20:08 - Dec 9 by ParisBlue |
Make that 2-0 (19 mins gone) |
We should be kicking ourselves that we didn't rack up a decent points gap when Saints were in disarray. | |
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| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 20:14 - Dec 9 with 628 views | bartyg |
| Our main rival for 2nd place.. on 20:11 - Dec 9 by GlasgowBlue |
We should be kicking ourselves that we didn't rack up a decent points gap when Saints were in disarray. |
Tbf their underlying stats have always been quite good- in many ways just a more extreme version of our season so far. | | | |
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