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means not losing in these-------- do able ?

November 2016
League One
Sheffield United v Bury
Tue 22 Nov 19:45
League One
Charlton Athletic v Sheffield United
Sat 26 Nov 15:00
League One
Sheffield United v Walsall
Tue 29 Nov 19:45
December 2016
FA Cup - Second Round
Bolton Wanderers v Sheffield United
Sun 4 Dec 14:00
League One
Sheffield United v Swindon Town
Sat 10 Dec 15:00
League One
Coventry City v Sheffield United
Thu 15 Dec 19:45
League One
Sheffield United v Oldham Athletic
Mon 26 Dec 15:00
League One
Sheffield United v Northampton Town
Sat 31 Dec 13:00
January 2017
League One
Bury v Sheffield United
Mon 2 Jan 15:00
League One
Sheffield United v Fleetwood Town
Sat 7 Jan 15:00
 



Anything's possible, but I wouldn't chuck a fiver on it mesen.
 
Our toughest match is in the cup so if you remove that and focus on league it seems doable to me. But you never know what the football gods have up their sleeves... :(
 
since1889 said:
Our toughest match is in the cup so if you remove that and focus on league it seems doable to me. But you never know what the football gods have up their sleeves... :(
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In recent years for us, a cosh, but you never know, they might have relented by now

Even Prometheus got off eventually, after 300 years or so :)
 
northsomersetblade said:
In recent years for us, a cosh, but you never know, they might have relented by now

Even Prometheus got off eventually, after 300 years or so :)
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Perhaps we had a gypsy curse similar to the one at Birmingham that was lifted by the manager (Ron Saunders I believe) pissing in the corners! Imagine CW wouldn't be too happy about having to drop keks at BDTBL but summat happened...
 
Definitely achievable, just unlikely. And unlikely things happen all the time. Would expect us to rest some in the cup, and that's the toughest fixture of the lot. Otherwise, it's whether one of those sides plays a blinder or we have a bad day. We're clear favourites in all but one of those matches.
 
can we emulate Arsenal who hold the record for a season of 38 unbeaten
they did 49 games overall , as they went 10 the next season and won the last of the previous season
but we could go 42
which might see us up
 
As a famous motivational speech once said...
'Defeat doesn't worry me, I've had it often and so have you, it's performance that matters. You put in the performance you'll get what you deserve, no luck attached'

Absolutely bang on. If we keep up the level of performance that we have been putting in for the last 13 matches then no amount of bad luck will be enough to stop us over the course of the remaining season. We will lose the odd game, absolutely, but very few teams will be able to match what we bring to the table.

Haven't felt this confident in a manager, assistant manager and team since Basset was at his peak. The Footballing Gods can look elsewhere as far as I am concerned.
 
Stretch said:
As a famous motivational speech once said...
'Defeat doesn't worry me, I've had it often and so have you, it's performance that matters. You put in the performance you'll get what you deserve, no luck attached'[/B]

Absolutely bang on. If we keep up the level of performance that we have been putting in for the last 13 matches then no amount of bad luck will be enough to stop us over the course of the remaining season. We will lose the odd game, absolutely, but very few teams will be able to match what we bring to the table.

Haven't felt this confident in a manager, assistant manager and team since Basset was at his peak. The Footballing Gods can look elsewhere as far as I am concerned.
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Was it Pinchy ?
 



Didn't we go unbeaten for fricking ages in 08/09 (Burnley P/O final season)? Or was that just away from home?
 
blade too long said:
means not losing in these-------- do able ?

November 2016
League One
Sheffield United v Bury
Tue 22 Nov 19:45
League One
Charlton Athletic v Sheffield United
Sat 26 Nov 15:00
League One
Sheffield United v Walsall
Tue 29 Nov 19:45
December 2016
FA Cup - Second Round
Bolton Wanderers v Sheffield United
Sun 4 Dec 14:00
League One
Sheffield United v Swindon Town
Sat 10 Dec 15:00
League One
Coventry City v Sheffield United
Thu 15 Dec 19:45
League One
Sheffield United v Oldham Athletic
Mon 26 Dec 15:00
League One
Sheffield United v Northampton Town
Sat 31 Dec 13:00
January 2017
League One
Bury v Sheffield United
Mon 2 Jan 15:00
League One
Sheffield United v Fleetwood Town
Sat 7 Jan 15:00
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6 home matches and only 3 away excluding the cup match so I would say its doable - however with 6 home games I would settle for 18 points and would be ecstatic with 20 or 21.
18 points would keep up the 2 points a match required for automatic promotion
Would be great if we did it but would prefer a lot of wins getting 20 odd points rather than unbeaten with a lot of draws. Points are more important than an unbeaten run although they do tend to go hand in hand !
 
nicksufc said:
Didn't we go unbeaten for fricking ages in 08/09 (Burnley P/O final season)? Or was that just away from home?
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That was away from home - we went 16 league games away without defeat, between losing at Wednesday on 19 October to losing at Burnley on 20 April. That's a club record I think.

We lost 5 times at home during that span.
 
We won't win every week.
That makes the odds of us losing some game 50/50. Always an individual error, or bad decision away from being the wrong side of a single goal defeat.

So for me, it is very unlikely we will do it.
However, for the first time for a very long time I look ahead at those fixtures and can say we won't lose many, we may well score in every game and we might just win at least half of them.
So that's improvement right there.
 
blade too long said:
means not losing in these-------- do able ?

November 2016
League One
Sheffield United v Bury
Tue 22 Nov 19:45
League One
Charlton Athletic v Sheffield United
Sat 26 Nov 15:00
League One
Sheffield United v Walsall
Tue 29 Nov 19:45
December 2016
FA Cup - Second Round
Bolton Wanderers v Sheffield United
Sun 4 Dec 14:00
League One
Sheffield United v Swindon Town
Sat 10 Dec 15:00
League One
Coventry City v Sheffield United
Thu 15 Dec 19:45
League One
Sheffield United v Oldham Athletic
Mon 26 Dec 15:00
League One
Sheffield United v Northampton Town
Sat 31 Dec 13:00
January 2017
League One
Bury v Sheffield United
Mon 2 Jan 15:00
League One
Sheffield United v Fleetwood Town
Sat 7 Jan 15:00
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Charlton on Saturday is the banana skin
 



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