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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. 15:32 - Mar 9 with 1523 viewsghostofescobar

I’ve felt fairly comfortable for most of the season that we’d get the 2nd auto spot, but that’s evaporated. Boro and cov don’t look like they are going to slip up now. Incredibly tough April ahead. Fixtures piling up. Still not finishing teams off when we are playing well enough to beat them. More away games than home left to play (4 home, 7 away). Maybe I’m being overly negative. Monday blues (excuse the pun) perhaps. Give me reasons to stop being a negative ninny!

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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 16:26 - Mar 9 with 332 viewsBlue_Moses

For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 15:52 - Mar 9 by Herbivore

We have though. Over each of our last five games (since mid-Feb) we've gained two points on them. If that happens over the remaining fixtures and we win or draw our game in hand then we'll finish above them.


We've picked up 2 points more than Boro over the last 6 games but we are still 5 points behind them,

Your post reads as though we have gained 10 points
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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 17:04 - Mar 9 with 281 viewsTheBoyBlue

I genuinely don't know if we will get top two, but I've always been confident that we can and still am. Some (not yourself as this is the first time you've expressed doubts) are incredibly quick to write off any chance of us getting top two whenever things don't go our way and yet still we have it in our hands.

For all that we have had disappointing results like Saturday, so have Middlesbrough and Coventry. Who knows what will happen over the next couple of months? Certainly not me. But I'll take this over what we used to have a few years ago when the season was over by this stage.

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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 17:33 - Mar 9 with 251 viewsSuffolkPunchFC

For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 16:04 - Mar 9 by Vic

We absolutely can still get a top 2 spot, but I've not expected it for a while now. We'll only get it if we see quite a big uptick in consistency (which sounds crazy given our PPG over the last few months; but actually it's credit to Cov & Boro for doing even better (or doing enough to hang on above us!)

PO's will be interesting - I'm pretty confident that over two games we can beat any of the other teams. The final is a lottery tbh!


Over 34 games we're top 2 ahead of Boro - albeit on GD. That's a pretty good indicator over most of the season that we can absolutely be in the mix over the last 10/11 games. Beat Boro I I believe we take 2nd.
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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 18:00 - Mar 9 with 209 viewsHerbivore

For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 16:26 - Mar 9 by Blue_Moses

We've picked up 2 points more than Boro over the last 6 games but we are still 5 points behind them,

Your post reads as though we have gained 10 points


How the feck have you read my post as saying we've gained 10 points on them when it clearly says we've gained 2 points on them over the last 5 games? It's fine to admit you're wrong mate, especially when it's on something factual. You can hold the opinion that you don't think we'll catch them but saying we've not gained on them over the last 5 games just isn't true.

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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 18:15 - Mar 9 with 165 viewsblueoutlook

For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 15:52 - Mar 9 by Herbivore

Except it's not. I really dislike this modern phenomenon of ignoring reality in favour of feels.


Oh but it is…………..
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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 18:16 - Mar 9 with 165 viewsNthsuffolkblue

For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 18:00 - Mar 9 by Herbivore

How the feck have you read my post as saying we've gained 10 points on them when it clearly says we've gained 2 points on them over the last 5 games? It's fine to admit you're wrong mate, especially when it's on something factual. You can hold the opinion that you don't think we'll catch them but saying we've not gained on them over the last 5 games just isn't true.


You inserted the word each which makes it wrong. You could read it as 10 points over 5 games or 5 lots of 5 games where we have gained 2 points in each block (which would be 10 points over 25 matches - it is actually 6 points). You need to remove the word each from your post that they have replied to.

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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 18:34 - Mar 9 with 141 viewsLeoMuff

The thing is if it wasn’t for a dodgy teg and some last ditch blocks we would be in a great spot. Even then it’s still in our hands the boro game will be huge

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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 18:59 - Mar 9 with 119 viewsBlue_Heath

For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 15:39 - Mar 9 by Illinoisblue

If we don’t, playoffs it is. Should be nothing to fear there cos there’s no way we could lose at Wrexham three times in a season.


No but we could lose to them 4 times.
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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 19:48 - Mar 9 with 78 viewsHerbivore

For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 18:16 - Mar 9 by Nthsuffolkblue

You inserted the word each which makes it wrong. You could read it as 10 points over 5 games or 5 lots of 5 games where we have gained 2 points in each block (which would be 10 points over 25 matches - it is actually 6 points). You need to remove the word each from your post that they have replied to.


The each clearly refers to us and Boro (each of our last 5 games) not to each game. Everyone else seemed to get it and it's easily checkable.
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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 19:49 - Mar 9 with 76 viewsAVJones

For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 16:09 - Mar 9 by Herbivore

Our poor start, and their ridiculous start, is the only reason we aren't already clear of Boro: https://www.twtd.co.uk/league-


Unfortunately, games in August count as much as all the rest of them…

Our fast start in 23/24 was critical. It gave us belief and momentum, and meant we were never playing catch-up.
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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 19:54 - Mar 9 with 63 viewsSwansea_Blue

It’s not nice chasing. I’d rather have the points in the bag than a game in hand, but it looks like what I like doesn’t matter if we end up playing our game in hand in the last week. Buckle up and enjoy the ride!

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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 19:55 - Mar 9 with 64 viewsHerbivore

For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 19:49 - Mar 9 by AVJones

Unfortunately, games in August count as much as all the rest of them…

Our fast start in 23/24 was critical. It gave us belief and momentum, and meant we were never playing catch-up.


Well yeah, I don't think anyone is saying August doesn't count. We had a disrupted month and disjointed start and it cost us. But over a sustained period now we've outperformed Boro and if we continue to do that over our last 11 games there's a good chance we finish above them.

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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 20:19 - Mar 9 with 26 viewsBigalhunter

For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 19:49 - Mar 9 by AVJones

Unfortunately, games in August count as much as all the rest of them…

Our fast start in 23/24 was critical. It gave us belief and momentum, and meant we were never playing catch-up.


Spot on, yet we had some usually sensible posters on here batting off the the early season results as if they didn’t matter, along with the less sensible ones who argued no one should look at the table until the end of September as it was utterly meaningless.

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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 20:33 - Mar 9 with 10 viewsBigalhunter

For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 15:37 - Mar 9 by jasondozzell

We've got KM.

This is where we put the hammer down.

I thought our second half reaction was excellent on Saturday.

It's always been a race between the end of the season and KM getting time to coach a new team.

It's tight but we are going to do it.


Genuinely loving the optimism, but first halves like the one against Leicester (and they’re far from isolated events) have to be eradicated because, as great as KM is, we aren’t winning games after the opposition get the first goal.

If we can start putting together more 90 minute performances rather than relying on these 45 minute fire-fighting rescue jobs with a clump of 60th minute subs, then I’d happily join you in your belief that we’re going back up.

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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 20:37 - Mar 9 with 3 viewsnaa

I'm far from certain too, and am beginning to think it'll be the play offs.

However, Boro are not going to win 12 in a row, so they will slip up. It's just a case of how many times and if we can get catch them when they do.

Our fixture pile up is really hurting us though
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For the first time this season I don’t think we’ll get top two. on 20:37 - Mar 9 with 2 viewsskinnybob72

Pretty sure that Cov & Boro both took 12 points from their first 4 games - while we took only 3, which we blamed on being late getting transfer business done.

We've never really properly caught up that gap and so have been under pressure to stay in touch ever since.
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