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Race to 100 points Tracker
at 11:55 18 Feb 2024

If we look at Valentines Day as the start of our run-in, we had 60 points from 30 games before the Millwall game with 16 games to go. In the reverse 16 fixtures we harvested 40 points. If we matched that over the return games we would get 100 points.

We won 12 of those 16 games, drew 4 and lost 0. The draws were against Huddersfield (A), Rotherham (A), Birmingham (A), Norwich (H). If we match all 16 results and get 100 points we will be in the top 2.

So, adopting a method being used on other threads for comparison to previous seasons, comparing our progress against the reverse fixtures give us this so far:-

Millwall W 3-1, W 0-4. +0 points, 100 point target +0 points
Swansea W 3-2, W 1-2 + 0 points, 100 point target + 0 points

Which means we are still on target for 100 points if we match the remaining 14 games results from earlier this season.

Next game: Rotherham, need to match D 2-2 to stay on target.

I intend to update after each game.
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Marco Silva N/T (n/t)
at 12:31 7 Apr 2018

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The Elephant in the Room
at 22:26 24 Jan 2018

There's so much divided opinion on here as to whether its MM or ME who is turning this club into one that has no ambition, not enough funding etc.

But you're all missing the elephant in the room.

Its us, the fanbase. We're not pulling our weight.

Our role is not only to air our grievances and opinions. Its to put our hands in our pockets and pay into the club by actually buying tickets and going to games. By filling our own stadium. Its quite simple. We have an average gate of around 15000 in a stadium of 30000. If Easyjet ran with their planes half full every flight, they'd soon get to the point where they would have to downsize to suit their income.

For every additional 1000 bums on seats at him games, our contribution to our club would increase by about £30,000. 23 times a season. Which is £700,000 per season. Do, average home gates of 24000 (remember those days?) would provide support of £7M per season. I imagine that would enable the club to start shopping fir a different class of player if it had an additional £7M a season. And if we could somehow get to an average of 90% full (27000), we would have about £9M more per season than we do now.

Yes, the football is turgid and boring.

However, removing our financial support harms our club. A number of us seem to think that ME should increase his financial support. Why don't we? We like to talk about the club belonging to the fans, but we have become apathetic and, worse, many of us have stopped supporting the club. There's a fundamental difference between a fan and a supporter. A supporter buys tickets, programmes, has a beer and a pie, buys stuff in the shop etc. That's meant to be us, folks!!

When some say things like Derby's owner supports the club more, we forget that their fans buy twice as many tickets as we do which pays the wages of a lot of those exotic players. In fact, we could have afforded to buy Tom Lawrence if more of us fans were also supporters.

Also, when some of us bemoan ME not making funds available to the manager, we misstge point that its us the fans who are nit making funds available to the manager.

In fact, our collective decision to withdraw 40% of our financial support during the past 10 years is the biggest single contributor to our change from a club with ambition to one that is stuck in a rut of mediocrity.

So, lets wake up. If you pay for sky sports and don't go to Ipswich him games, you are supporting our rivals, and not your own football club.

The way out of this mess is in our hands, not in ME or MM. We need to break out of our apathy and put our hands in our pockets, or stop criticizing those who are actually doing so.

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A new RB and a new RCB; and no contract extension
at 14:07 31 Jan 2017

Is it so difficult to see why Chambers might be going? Looks like the club has replaced/ provided cover for both positions he might play, including one who fits the 'on pitch leader' profile.
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