Where will we be in 8 games time? 08:40 - Nov 11 with 7678 views | itfcjoe | Sat 21 Nov 3:00pm Shrewsbury Town H Tue 24 Nov 7:00pm Hull City H Sat 28 Nov 3:00pm Charlton Athletic H Tue 1 Dec 7:45pm Oxford United A Sat 5 Dec 3:00pm Plymouth Argyle A Sat 12 Dec 3:00pm Portsmouth H Tue 15 Dec 7:45pm Burton Albion H Sat 19 Dec 3:00pm Peterborough United A The season, and Lambert's future, hinges on these 8 games. 5 at home, 5 against sides who you expect to be right up there (if Oxford sort themselves out...) and only one spare midweek. I'm happy for the Cup's to be written off this year, it is a freak season. But get the next 8 games wrong and a change will have to come before January. With 5 games at home, you need to be picking up a minimum of 13-14 points if we want to be competing at the top end this season. If we drop down to a point or so per game then we are in big, big trouble as a football club. |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 08:43 - Nov 11 with 4366 views | MonkeyAlan | Surely he will be gone after that if we fail abysmally? |  | |  |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 08:58 - Nov 11 with 4318 views | RegencyBlue | You’re not wrong! I don’t see how Lambert could survive ‘failure’ over that period but equally who knows what Evans will do. If fans were in the grounds there would be uproar and he might have his hand forced but given the current situation he might just decide to ride it out. As for us being in real trouble as a football club, I think that’s been the case for quite a while unfortunately. I seriously do not see how any manager can be successful under this ownership and the salary cap coming in will just exacerbate an already dire situation. Sad times. |  | |  |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:03 - Nov 11 with 4289 views | Steve_M | I suspect we'll muddle through with enough points to stay in touch but not reach a conclusion on PL. I'll go for 12 points. The reaction to last night on here is bizarre, it's not even just the news comments. The last five league results don't look good but the season as a whole is fine. So far. And whilst we know what happened last season once Evans kept Lambert after last season it is clear he will only be judged on this season. |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:13 - Nov 11 with 4260 views | ITFC_Forever | Sat 21 Nov 3:00pm Shrewsbury Town H - Win Tue 24 Nov 7:00pm Hull City H - Lose Sat 28 Nov 3:00pm Charlton Athletic H - Draw Tue 1 Dec 7:45pm Oxford United A - Draw Sat 5 Dec 3:00pm Plymouth Argyle A - Lose Sat 12 Dec 3:00pm Portsmouth H - Lose Tue 15 Dec 7:45pm Burton Albion H - Win Sat 19 Dec 3:00pm Peterborough United A - Lose 8 points, and out of the top six. A repeat of last season. |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:15 - Nov 11 with 4248 views | MrTown | I think Plymouth will be one of the toughest away days of the season. Haven't lost at home yet, only lost to Hull and Lincoln in the league, sitting 8th, really good manager, who did wonders at Bury as well - (although is being heavily linked with Sheff Wed). You've summed it up yourself, our season, and Lambert's future hinge on it, it is massive. I can only see 7 points in there for us, possibly 8. Will that be good enough? Up for debate I guess. |  |
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Genuinely can't see us getting more than..... on 09:21 - Nov 11 with 4226 views | Bloots | ....10 points out of that lot. Possibly as few as 8. The issue is that even with that turnout, we'll probably still be around the play offs. Evans needs to man up. |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:21 - Nov 11 with 4229 views | RobTheMonk | I think anything less than 10 points and he's in trouble. Watch him get 10 points and stay afloat now haha. |  | |  |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:25 - Nov 11 with 4217 views | SomethingBlue | Looks like 11 or 12 points to me, which would probably have us sixth or seventh. Anything less than that and it's a real problem. |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:25 - Nov 11 with 4215 views | clive_baker | I'm also not bothered about the cups, they're a distraction from the real business. As someone else said, we're out of them now and we have a decent sized squad so Lambert has no excuses, this is his last chance. The only way I can see him being here next season is if we lose in the playoffs, which would make it tough for ME to sack him but it's a very real possibility. 35 games left this season, all for league points and lets see how many of those 105 points we can secure. In terms of the next 8 I'm going for 14 points, which would leave us on 36 from 19 / 1.9ppg which is probably upper playoffs form. |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:26 - Nov 11 with 4211 views | Swansea_Blue | Peterborough by the looks of it, given it's an away game |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:33 - Nov 11 with 4194 views | TheTrueBlue1878 | Needs 10 for me. Won't get 10. Pull the axe. Pray Paul Cook is available. Sounds a plan. |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:38 - Nov 11 with 4173 views | Scuzzer | Settling down for Christmas? |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:42 - Nov 11 with 4151 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:03 - Nov 11 by Steve_M | I suspect we'll muddle through with enough points to stay in touch but not reach a conclusion on PL. I'll go for 12 points. The reaction to last night on here is bizarre, it's not even just the news comments. The last five league results don't look good but the season as a whole is fine. So far. And whilst we know what happened last season once Evans kept Lambert after last season it is clear he will only be judged on this season. |
Agree about last night as it was a nothing game but I don’t think the concern about recent form is misplaced given what transpired last season Even as late as January any dissent against Lambert was shot down in some quarters because ‘we’re top/second/in the playoffs) despite it being obvious to anyone with a brain the wheels had firmly come off and we were headed in one direction This season is showing similar signs - promising start against some of the cannon fodder followed by a downturn in form once the big boys come along. The only difference really is that it’s happened earlier this time around As for the next 8, I’m going for the 8-10 points range, which should really force a change but almost certainly won’t. Yay |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:43 - Nov 11 with 4151 views | TheTrueBlue1878 |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:25 - Nov 11 by clive_baker | I'm also not bothered about the cups, they're a distraction from the real business. As someone else said, we're out of them now and we have a decent sized squad so Lambert has no excuses, this is his last chance. The only way I can see him being here next season is if we lose in the playoffs, which would make it tough for ME to sack him but it's a very real possibility. 35 games left this season, all for league points and lets see how many of those 105 points we can secure. In terms of the next 8 I'm going for 14 points, which would leave us on 36 from 19 / 1.9ppg which is probably upper playoffs form. |
4 wins, 2 draws, 2 defeats would possibly look something like: Sat 21 Nov 3:00pm Shrewsbury Town H - Win Tue 24 Nov 7:00pm Hull City H - Lose Sat 28 Nov 3:00pm Charlton Athletic H - Win Tue 1 Dec 7:45pm Oxford United A - Win Sat 5 Dec 3:00pm Plymouth Argyle A - Draw Sat 12 Dec 3:00pm Portsmouth H - Draw Tue 15 Dec 7:45pm Burton Albion H - Win Sat 19 Dec 3:00pm Peterborough United A - Lose Looks optimistic. |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:46 - Nov 11 with 4141 views | itfcjoe |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:42 - Nov 11 by C_HealyIsAPleasure | Agree about last night as it was a nothing game but I don’t think the concern about recent form is misplaced given what transpired last season Even as late as January any dissent against Lambert was shot down in some quarters because ‘we’re top/second/in the playoffs) despite it being obvious to anyone with a brain the wheels had firmly come off and we were headed in one direction This season is showing similar signs - promising start against some of the cannon fodder followed by a downturn in form once the big boys come along. The only difference really is that it’s happened earlier this time around As for the next 8, I’m going for the 8-10 points range, which should really force a change but almost certainly won’t. Yay |
I think the fans are a bit twitchy this year, and understandably - bar the Doncaster away game (and MK in reality) our performances have either been good or acceptable on the whole and think we are good value for our current return of 2 points per game. The games against better teams have seen 3 defeats but without picking faults could easily ahve resulted in 3 or 4 points.....but if that continues over next few games where we lose to better teams he'll rightfully go. There are currently 6 or 7 teams who are on 2ppg, if our form drops to 8-10 points over 8 then we could get cut adrift from the top 4 or 5 quite quickly......we can't pin our hopes on nabbing 6th place, we need to be there or thereabouts and hopefully Evans sees that |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:48 - Nov 11 with 4121 views | tractorboy1978 |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:43 - Nov 11 by TheTrueBlue1878 | 4 wins, 2 draws, 2 defeats would possibly look something like: Sat 21 Nov 3:00pm Shrewsbury Town H - Win Tue 24 Nov 7:00pm Hull City H - Lose Sat 28 Nov 3:00pm Charlton Athletic H - Win Tue 1 Dec 7:45pm Oxford United A - Win Sat 5 Dec 3:00pm Plymouth Argyle A - Draw Sat 12 Dec 3:00pm Portsmouth H - Draw Tue 15 Dec 7:45pm Burton Albion H - Win Sat 19 Dec 3:00pm Peterborough United A - Lose Looks optimistic. |
At the end of the day, we've got the squad to beat all of those. Will we? No. But it's a really sad indictment of where we are as a club that people are looking at those 8 games and saying 14pts from a possible 24 is optimistic. |  | |  |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:59 - Nov 11 with 4094 views | LankHenners | On our current form 12 from that seems like an optimistic prediction. Peterborough is pretty much a write-off, then it'll be a struggle to pick up anything more than a point from Hull, Portsmouth, Plymouth and Charlton, Oxford could be anything depending on whether they wake up (though have played quite a few of the bigger guns already), and the only two that you can look at and feel reasonably confident about winning are Shrewsbury and Burton. Whatever the ultimate points total is, I expect we'll fall away from the top 2 but be in the mix towards the bottom end of the playoffs which won't be good enough but will lead to 'the negativity is incredible' interviews from Lambert and Evans doing nothing because he hasn't learned and will think because we're still top 6 we'll have a good chance of going up. |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 10:00 - Nov 11 with 4070 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:46 - Nov 11 by itfcjoe | I think the fans are a bit twitchy this year, and understandably - bar the Doncaster away game (and MK in reality) our performances have either been good or acceptable on the whole and think we are good value for our current return of 2 points per game. The games against better teams have seen 3 defeats but without picking faults could easily ahve resulted in 3 or 4 points.....but if that continues over next few games where we lose to better teams he'll rightfully go. There are currently 6 or 7 teams who are on 2ppg, if our form drops to 8-10 points over 8 then we could get cut adrift from the top 4 or 5 quite quickly......we can't pin our hopes on nabbing 6th place, we need to be there or thereabouts and hopefully Evans sees that |
‘Could easily have resulted in 3 or 4 points’...you could have said the same last year though, some of the games we lost against the better sides were close run and had certain moments gone our way then a different outcome. Ultimately though when the same result keeps happening it becomes a pattern and more than just bad luck Reality is that we still don’t score enough goals. Again this year we started ok on that front (13 in the first 6 league games boosted by the 4 at Blackpool) but since then we’ve only managed 4 in our last 5. Again same story last year - 21 in the first 11 and then 25 from the next 25 People can blame al the refereeing decisions they like but when you’re struggling to score you’ll struggle to win games |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 10:03 - Nov 11 with 4070 views | itfcjoe |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 10:00 - Nov 11 by C_HealyIsAPleasure | ‘Could easily have resulted in 3 or 4 points’...you could have said the same last year though, some of the games we lost against the better sides were close run and had certain moments gone our way then a different outcome. Ultimately though when the same result keeps happening it becomes a pattern and more than just bad luck Reality is that we still don’t score enough goals. Again this year we started ok on that front (13 in the first 6 league games boosted by the 4 at Blackpool) but since then we’ve only managed 4 in our last 5. Again same story last year - 21 in the first 11 and then 25 from the next 25 People can blame al the refereeing decisions they like but when you’re struggling to score you’ll struggle to win games |
I don't think the games were particularly close last year against better sides, felt like we were held at arms length in nearly all of them, especially towards the end of the truncated season. Over the next 8 games we'll know definitively where we are |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 10:07 - Nov 11 with 4049 views | The_Flashing_Smile | Agreed. I've consistently given Lambert the benefit of the doubt - and he has had some mitigating circumstances with injuries and ridiculous ref decisions - but this next run of games is, as you say, crucial, and will show where we are and what we're doing under Lambert. No more excuses after this and I will have given him a very generous crack of the whip. |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 10:15 - Nov 11 with 4023 views | SamWhiteUK |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:26 - Nov 11 by Swansea_Blue | Peterborough by the looks of it, given it's an away game |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 10:18 - Nov 11 with 4007 views | Pilgrimblue |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:43 - Nov 11 by TheTrueBlue1878 | 4 wins, 2 draws, 2 defeats would possibly look something like: Sat 21 Nov 3:00pm Shrewsbury Town H - Win Tue 24 Nov 7:00pm Hull City H - Lose Sat 28 Nov 3:00pm Charlton Athletic H - Win Tue 1 Dec 7:45pm Oxford United A - Win Sat 5 Dec 3:00pm Plymouth Argyle A - Draw Sat 12 Dec 3:00pm Portsmouth H - Draw Tue 15 Dec 7:45pm Burton Albion H - Win Sat 19 Dec 3:00pm Peterborough United A - Lose Looks optimistic. |
Think you are but will be interesting to see where we are on 20th! I suspect that 10/12 points is par, any more then PL is getting there but any less and he's losing it. |  | |  |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 10:18 - Nov 11 with 3993 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 10:03 - Nov 11 by itfcjoe | I don't think the games were particularly close last year against better sides, felt like we were held at arms length in nearly all of them, especially towards the end of the truncated season. Over the next 8 games we'll know definitively where we are |
Disagree aside from the point about the latter games where I think confidence was completely gone and we were going into games expecting to lose Before that though we should have beaten Sunderland at home, were probably the better team at Peterborough, should have beaten Wycombe twice, matched Coventry away and same with Oxford away. Plus the win at Fleetwood It was only really the Rotherham games that we’d been properly bad - until the wheels really came off It’s all too familiar this time around unfortunately |  |
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Where will we be in 8 games time? on 10:22 - Nov 11 with 3991 views | PJH |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 09:46 - Nov 11 by itfcjoe | I think the fans are a bit twitchy this year, and understandably - bar the Doncaster away game (and MK in reality) our performances have either been good or acceptable on the whole and think we are good value for our current return of 2 points per game. The games against better teams have seen 3 defeats but without picking faults could easily ahve resulted in 3 or 4 points.....but if that continues over next few games where we lose to better teams he'll rightfully go. There are currently 6 or 7 teams who are on 2ppg, if our form drops to 8-10 points over 8 then we could get cut adrift from the top 4 or 5 quite quickly......we can't pin our hopes on nabbing 6th place, we need to be there or thereabouts and hopefully Evans sees that |
Whilst we COULD have got a better return from the games that were lost we also COULD have got less points from some games that we ultimately won. Crewe were clearly better than us and although we deserved to beat Gillingham, with the chances that they had they COULD have got one (or three) points from that game. |  | |  |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 10:27 - Nov 11 with 3978 views | itfcjoe |
Where will we be in 8 games time? on 10:22 - Nov 11 by PJH | Whilst we COULD have got a better return from the games that were lost we also COULD have got less points from some games that we ultimately won. Crewe were clearly better than us and although we deserved to beat Gillingham, with the chances that they had they COULD have got one (or three) points from that game. |
Yep, I don't disagree - I personally think 22 points from the 11 games is about fair for us - and 2ppg will get us up, or very close to going up. If we are still on 2ppg on Xmas Day then the majority of questions will have pretty firmly been answered, but I think most fans aren't expecting that to be the case. Hopefully we are wrong, and the extra time off the squad has had can see us through a ruinous run of fixtures. |  |
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