[Albion] To Avoid Potter Bashing - The Staying Up Tracker - season 21-22 Final Update - 11 ABOVE

[Weststander]

30 points by mid January.

Insane by Albion standards.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Feb looks crucial. Keep up this form against teams we should be taking points off, and we're looking at an amazing season. Fail to win those and the tracker slides quickly back to parity. No reason to assume we won't get points, but it does look an important period.

 

[father_and_son]

This is my immediate go-to thread after every game this season. In previous seasons it has been my sanity check after an unfortunate result but now... Every damn game!

 

[singing4seagulls]

Agreed. I'm checking the tracker after each game to look ahead of us, not backwards fearing relegation like in previous seasons. That Europe line... ��

 

[dazzer6666]

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Oh cr@ap, we're still very much in January, another 10 points and the sheet is rendered useless.

 

[Giraffe]

Now 5 points over after another lovely draw. We love draws, we really do.

 

[Official Old Man]

With 5 of the next 7 games winnable, plus a point from Liverpool, that Europe tracker looks tempting. Indeed could be 6 over it by match 29.

 

[Washboard Didgets]

Can we hit 39 points by the end of February?

Watford, Burnley and Villa plus likely free hits against Man Utd and Spurs that could be scheduled in.

Rumours/speculation that:
Man Utd game could be fitted into GW25 in the midweek between Watford and Burnley (Tue 15 / Wed 16 Feb)
Spurs game could be fitted into the following GW26 in the midweek between Burnley and Villa (Tue 22 / Wed 23 Feb)

Potentially 3 home games in 8 days.

If we can pick up our 'target' points that's 37, Watford looking shaky and you'd like to hope we could get a win, with two free hits on top.

 

[Washboard Didgets]

But I've been a Brighton fan long enough to fear we will lose one of the target wins and probably draw the other, plus Watford could well be on another new manager bounce by then.

So a regression towards the black line and away from the orange one is more where my expectations lie, and the hope/dream would be 39-40 points before March.

 

[Machiavelli]

Feb looks crucial. Keep up this form against teams we should be taking points off, and we're looking at an amazing season. Fail to win those and the tracker slides quickly back to parity. No reason to assume we won't get points, but it does look an important period.

I look at things very differently. The Tracker bore far closer resemblance to our results under CH than it does for GP. We rarely picked up anything from the top six under CH, whereas we have done consistently under GP. We're less effective against our relegation (ex?) rivals now, because we're less good at breaking down teams that play a low, deep block than we are at exploiting opportunities against the (top half) teams that come at us.

 

[Perkino]

Just 2 wins in our last 17...

 

[chaileyjem]

Currently we're -

0 points games (coming up: Man Utd (A), Spurs (H)
P9, W1, D7, L1 - 10pts
1 point games (coming up: Watford (A)
P7, W3, D3 L1 - 12pts
3 point games (coming up: Villa (H), Burnley (H)
P6, W2, D2, L2 - 8pts

 

[Washboard Didgets]

Just 2 wins in our last 17...

Must mean we are due at least 2 or 3 in February then!

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Just 2 wins in our last 17...

Bearing in mind we went 11 without a win that's hardly a surprise.

 

[Washboard Didgets]

Currently we're -

0 points games (coming up: Man Utd (A), Spurs (H)
P9, W1, D7, L1 - 10pts
1 point games (coming up: Watford (A)
P7, W3, D3 L1 - 12pts
3 point games (coming up: Villa (H), Burnley (H)
P6, W2, D2, L2 - 8pts

The first two show how well we are doing, 22 points from a target of 7 points.

The last one tells us what we already knew, that we struggle to win against the teams that are defending for their lives and don't give us space to play into – 8 points from a target of 18 points.

 

[um bongo molongo]

We really are FLIRTING with that Europe line now

 

[fork me]

Oh cr@ap, we're still very much in January, another 10 points and the sheet is rendered useless.

On the contrary, we're pretty much safe now, I'm looking up to the Euro tracker line...

 

[FatSuperman]

Just 2 wins in our last 17...

Just 4 wins in the past 19...
Just 4 losses in the past 22...

 

[Bold Seagull]

Just 2 wins in our last 17...

Or, 2 wins and unbeaten in our last 6...