[Albion] It’s amazing how well results have gone our way

[Thunder Bolt]

It is. It is also funny. Statistically we should not have more points than the teams below us combined. Obviously its lovely we do. Is it bottle, poor preparation, being shite or what?

Hasn’t Graham Potter studied psychology or similar? He certainly has the team believing in themselves.

 

[nwgull]

So we only need two points then?

According to Iwelumo post match today when discussing Watford, he said 7 points in their winnable three matches will see them safe. Putting them on 35.

Will the cut-off really be as low as 34 against 35 points?

I think it’ll be lower. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 33 points we have now is enough. Looking at the fixtures, I can see how Watford and West Ham could get 7-8 points from their final 6-7 games respectively, but I wouldn’t back either Villa or Bournemouth to get 6 points.

 

[lawros left foot]

Hasn’t Graham Potter studied psychology or similar? He certainly has the team believing in themselves.

An Open University degree in Leadership and emotional intelligence.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Project Restart has all turned out rather lovely.

 

[Stat Brother]

Project Restart has all turned out rather lovely.

I'll suggest the bottom 5 would be a little more animated through these fixtures, without the break, as they would have had 15th well within their sights.

 

[moggy]

I had Bournemouth to get a possible 8pts.
Not impossible but that’s what I saw as a maximum figure from their remaining fixtures.
So we need a further 2pts.
35pts should be enough in my opinion

 

[Bold Seagull]

I had Bournemouth to get a possible 8pts.
Not impossible but that’s what I saw as a maximum figure from their remaining fixtures.
So we need a further 2pts.
35pts should be enough in my opinion

Have you watched them? Who on earth are they getting 8pts from!?

 

[Stat Brother]

I had Bournemouth to get a possible 8pts.
Not impossible but that’s what I saw as a maximum figure from their remaining fixtures.
So we need a further 2pts.
35pts should be enough in my opinion

Hopefully the team can now do a little better than just scrape through.

It would be nice to start next season (in a couple of weeks) something other than 'favourites for relegation'.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Project Restart has all turned out rather lovely.

It's a terrific concept and should be instituted every year at the first sign that our form has gone down the shitter.

In fact, Project Restart is very similar to what I used to do as a kid when I played Subbuteo against myself and my favourite team was getting hammered.

 

[Sheebo]

Hasn’t Graham Potter studied psychology or similar? He certainly has the team believing in themselves.

After the break for sure. The break may just have saved us although the point away at Wolves may have been a sign we were turning a corner...

 

[ManOfSussex]

It's a terrific concept and should be instituted every year at the first sign that our form has gone down the shitter.

In fact, Project Restart is very similar to what I used to do as a kid when I played Subbuteo against myself and my favourite team was getting hammered.

I understand entirely and it wasn't just just Subbuteo that this was easily done on and for the better. On the Amiga on Premier Manager 2 I seem to recall and latterly on Sensible World of Soccer too, promotion after promotion occurred after questionable starts and transfer signings and a simple restart of the season.

Give me Brighton & Hove Albion on The Amiga and to this day I will give you promotion.

 

[Weststander]

After the break for sure. The break may just have saved us although the point away at Wolves may have been a sign we were turning a corner...

Great to get that point, before Wolves became brilliant.

Everything, seemingly, going our way.

 

[sparkie]

So we only need two points then?

According to Iwelumo post match today when discussing Watford, he said 7 points in their winnable three matches will see them safe. Putting them on 35.

Will the cut-off really be as low as 34 against 35 points?

I'm very optimistic about how low our survival target actually is, but I think 33, 34, or 35 points is a bit close to the wire.

1 more win will do it.

 

[Weststander]

We are halfway up the form table and all the relegation teams are in the bottom five positions. Perfect.

I’ve deliberately selecting match-weeks 25 to 32, being the period where we’ve improved. There are an awful number of losses for the bottom five.

 

[zefarelly]

It's a terrific concept and should be instituted every year at the first sign that our form has gone down the shitter.

In fact, Project Restart is very similar to what I used to do as a kid when I played Subbuteo against myself and my favourite team was getting hammered.

Funny you say that, we played the whole of the 1986 world cup finals in Subbuteo, I think we had 4 teams each . . .my prime team were Northern Ireland, hand painted myself, with the shadow stripes on the shirt and everything . . . . I won the world cup, went 15 games undefeated, then it all went to pot.

Had to retire them all.

 

[Curious Orange]

Going back to our form prior to lockdown, I actually think it was only worrying from a points gained point of view - we were actually quite difficult to beat and didn't concede many goals.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Going back to our form prior to lockdown, I actually think it was only worrying from a points gained point of view - we were actually quite difficult to beat and didn't concede many goals.

Well yes, all of that. But we were the only team in the 4 professional leagues not to have won a game in 2020.

 

[BluesRockDJ]

Credit where it's due, think it's more to do with what we have achieved rather than what others in the bottom six have not.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Credit where it's due, think it's more to do with what we have achieved rather than what others in the bottom six have not.

Agreed. But who would have thought 3 Watford players would put themselves out of the game against Southampton by having a party.

 

[Jim in the West]

I think we’ve done very well, and it IS amazing how poorly everyone else has done. But it’s only approx a third of the way through re-start. And we’ve won ONE game. Just one victory by any of the others can make a significant difference. Things could change quite a bit over the next ten days or so.