Will we make the top 6?

[Stat Brother]

Reading are at home to Burnley who would already be up and you know who we have....

So Ashley Barnes could score the goal to get us into the play-offs.

It might be a long shot, but it would be fookin funny.

 

[Footsoldier]

Understood, but keep it to yourself. I only voted on the poll today, and I still voted no. When polls ask 'how many points will we get from the next 5 games' I always vote 0, and I tend to vote 'lose 3-0' in all score predictors. I'm counter-balancing posts like this:

I was going to keep it to myself but in a way had to try and explain my justification of doing what I've been doing otherwise people will say I'm being negative and will complain and say I'm a troll.

I still stand by my decision though that we'll not make the play offs. Think we'll lose to Ipswich as our good run will come to an end.

 

[fat old seagull]

I'm with you on this BV.
We need six more wins, I reckon, and there's a chance that we could notch up three in our next three. That would just leave us needing to win our remaining home games, all of which are against teams in the bottom third of the table.

Mmmm, but playing teams near relegation at the end of the season is not really good news.

 

[Machiavelli]

Mmmm, but playing teams near relegation at the end of the season is not really good news.

Are you saying that you'd rather we were playing against teams in the top third? Time to haul out the old cliche about no easy games, but I know which ones I'd prefer. At the end of last season, most of our games towards the end weren't against those near the top, and things turned out alright.

 

[fat old seagull]

Are you saying that you'd rather we were playing against teams in the top third? Time to haul out the old cliche about no easy games, but I know which ones I'd prefer. At the end of last season, most of our games towards the end weren't against those near the top, and things turned out alright.

No, I didn't say or imply that. IMO the ideal teams to be playing at the crucial end of season are those that can't achieve promotion or get relegated ie mid table. History has shown that teams that have played shite all season suddenly start winning when their backs are to the wall. It happened to us once!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Just checking, how many points are we off 5 now

My comment was in fact true when I posted it. Are you saying it was not ?

 

[Steve.S]

My comment was in fact true when I posted it. Are you saying it was not ?

Read through for yourself I posted that we could get 5th or 6th, you quoted my post because you obviously thought 5th was not possible.

 

[The Camel]

Hopefully Leicester will have tied up promotion before April 8th

 

[B.W.]

Only 25%! How pessimistic. Chins up.

 

[Albumen]

Without an end date to this poll it's pretty pointless.

 

[Simster]

Are you saying that you'd rather we were playing against teams in the top third? Time to haul out the old cliche about no easy games, but I know which ones I'd prefer. At the end of last season, most of our games towards the end weren't against those near the top, and things turned out alright.

This. It really is nonsense to suggest we don't want to be playing teams threatened with relegation. Of course we do, because they're shite. I'd take a team desperate to win for promotion reasons to beat a team threatened with relegation every single time.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Having only just voted on this on 18th march, when we are coming off the back o0f an away win at Bolton and a 2-0 home win against QPR, life probably looks a lot different to when the poll was started on 2nd February, 6 weeks and several results ago.

We are now, as the expression goes, "in control of our own destiny". Through games in hand and such like, if we win all our games between now and the end of the season, we will be in the top 6.

 

[Trufflehound]

If form from the last ten games is replicated in the next 10 games, the battle for 6th (5th would be out of reach) going into the final game would look like this:-

6. BHA 73
7. Reading 72
8. Forest 70

Reading are at home to Burnley who would already be up and you know who we have....

Your calculations don't take into account the fact Reading and Forest have played a game more. If you take their form over the last 9 games, and extrapolate over the next 9, you get a pre-final day table like this:

6. BHA 73
7. Reading 71
8. Forest 67

Crucially, Forest would already be out of contention before they play us...

 

[dazzer6666]

Having only just voted on this on 18th march, when we are coming off the back o0f an away win at Bolton and a 2-0 home win against QPR, life probably looks a lot different to when the poll was started on 2nd February, 6 weeks and several results ago.

We are now, as the expression goes, "in control of our own destiny". Through games in hand and such like, if we win all our games between now and the end of the season, we will be in the top 6.

This. I am very much more optimistic than I was a month ago. Six points last week was a huge bonus.

 

[sydney]

we are in with a shout now......amonth ago i thought we were cactusssss......!!

 

[smeg]

we are in with a shout now......amonth ago i thought we were cactusssss......!!

Spot on, pretty sure i voted no and I really believed we would be 8th or 9th, now who knows. I wonder how many will be going to Nottingham on May 3rd, it could come down to the last day

 

[James Bond's body double]

Spot on, pretty sure i voted no and I really believed we would be 8th or 9th, now who knows. I wonder how many will be going to Nottingham on May 3rd, it could come down to the last day

Think I will go either way, what allocation do we get there?

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

I was realistic a month back, and thought we'd just miss out. Given the results since then, I'm now beginning to hope ...

 

[Napper]

anyone got the table a month / 6 weeks ago ?

 

[smeg]

anyone got the table a month / 6 weeks ago ?

8 Brighton 29 6 43

This is where we were on the 8th Feb after beating Doncaster