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The road to 90 points
- Thread starter Ernest
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I don't think 93 pts is going to do it. We have really got to beat Derby as only one more slip allowed.
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I don't think 93 pts is going to do it. We have really got to beat Derby as only one more slip allowed.
JonnyComeEarly
UTA!!
I think we need to win enough to allow us to lose v leeds and norwich. Hudds will slip uo soon but these 2 away games for us are flagging up big time
Why should Huddersfield slip up? Only Kasey Palmer is injured. They have good enough reserves anyway. No complacency as they are chasing. The only reason I can think of is their goalkeeper.
Newcastle could slip up because of complacency and because Hayden is injured.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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Huddersfield tend to win their games by a single goal (apart from against us)
This doesn't make them world beaters IMO. It leaves them vulnerable to the occasional unexpected result.
Every so often a keeper or a defence plays at the top of their ability and shuts out the opposition.
Also there are those games where the team just don't perform -
Huddersfield are just as prone to having "one of those games" as us. Possibly more so, given their average win margin.
KJP
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Think we need 95 Pts minimum
throbinson
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It's simple really, we just need more points at the end of the season then the team in 3rd place
TWOCHOICEStom
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I ****ing hate this bollocks. I just want a year as an Albion fan when May approaches and I can think... "I wonder what I'll have for dinner tonight?" instead of "fffffaaarrrrrgrghhhhhh!!!!!"
Insel affe
HellBilly
Jebus....
This points needed thing keeps going up & up....
My head is going to explode...
Win on Friday, I am sure Brentford will get something out of the game on Saturday against Huddersfield, however they have the easiest run in on paper and are the threat I honestly would put them down for 25 points from now until the end of the season which would give them 93, for us to get that we would be able to lose 3 games and draw 2 out of 10 games, when you think of it like that we should be ok.
I think Leeds are not so much of a threat as they have got Newcastle, Reading and Brentford away all potentially tricky games they will not come away with 9 points from them games.
It is all about us maintaining win, draw, lose now and
Machiavelli
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Is very nearly the right answer. Because if Huddersfield are in third place, we'll only need the same number of points as them.
pastafarian
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Exactly, i dont remember signing up to this sort of tomfoolery at the Amex initial presentations.
1/ I want my life back
2/ my computer wants its memory back and is sick of running 73000 permutations of every eventuality
90 points should do it though
If you include months that have an R in them then we are 5 points ahead of schedule
Little value in using predictors 10 matches out.
I wouldn't even bother until 40 games are gone, at a push perhaps at 38 games this year when the boring international break bores us to tears.
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Absolutely - this obsession with a points total is fine at the beginning of the season.. The "Steve Backley" approach is a well trodden path in business as well as sport.. it is great to have a target as part of a wider ambition.. It makes sense at the beginning of the season to try and break the overall goal down into daily behaviours etc -
Overall Goal - get promotion
measurable Target = 90 points (based on what has been a good enough total in the past - see also "40 points to avoid relegation from PL)
Short term goal : 2 points a game
What do we do to get 2 points a game = win games we might usually have drawn - make attacking substitutions etc etc..
The problem happens, as it did with Steve Backley, that whilst you can plan this way, the target can move.. he only won a silver medal in the javelin, because the work he did to throw a certain distance, a distance that had won gold medals in the past, wasn't enough.. someone else came in and threw further - he hadn't planned for that..
Therefore, we now have to plan for a 10 game season - aim for say, 2 points a game, and train, plan for that - that's the bit that is still in our control.
The bit that gives me comfort is that Huddersfield have to win at least 2, and probably 3 more games than us in the run-in.. For example, if we win 5 more games, they will have to win 7 or 8 out of their last 11.. They can't plan properly for that because they are not in control of our results.. Forget points totals for the season.. think about points total in the next 10 games..20 points..
nicko31
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Think we will need 93 if Hudds continue their run of form
If you offered me the same number of points as the team in 3rd, I'd take it.
So win 5 and draw 2, that's 17 points and puts us on 91, 2 behind Huddersfield.
Insel affe
HellBilly
??Agreed. The goal posts have moved.
That's not giving me comfort, they've won 8 of their last 11, including games against the rest of the top 6.