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At the end of the season what counts is how many points you have accrued.
Not when you get them
Not how often you’ve been top so far
Not whether you were lucky to grab a win

Get the points on the board as soon as you can , and let everyone else worry about you. Take as many points from those around you at the top.
None of them will relish playing us, and will go into games against us hoping to scrape a draw.
Be positive we are playing great football & under Hecky we have now discovered how to score goals

Onwards & UPWARDS
 



munksyb said:
At the end of the season what counts is how many points you have accrued.
Not when you get them
Not how often you’ve been top so far
Not whether you were lucky to grab a win

Get the points on the board as soon as you can , and let everyone else worry about you. Take as many points from those around you at the top.
None of them will relish playing us, and will go into games against us hoping to scrape a draw.
Be positive we are playing great football & under Hecky we have now discovered how to score goals

Onwards & UPWARDS
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Alex Ferguson use to say that the season doesn`t start until March. Which is the sort privileged thinking you get when you know that the range of options you are likely to be facing in March is:

1. I'm top
2. I'm second

As you say, get the points on the board, they all count the same at the end of the season.

Also, with the break for WC, this is effectively 2 mini seasons.

13 games to the WC break - 25 points would be a fantastic return IMO.
 
SellyOakBlade said:
Alex Ferguson use to say that the season doesn`t start until March. Which is the sort privileged thinking you get when you know that the range of options you are likely to be facing in March is:

1. I'm top
2. I'm second

As you say, get the points on the board, they all count the same at the end of the season.

Also, with the break for WC, this is effectively 2 mini seasons.

13 games to the WC break - 25 points would be a fantastic return IMO.
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I think we hit the 50 point mark by the break.
 
Inter_blade83 said:
I think we hit the 50 point mark by the break.
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Blimey, if we manage that and we're sat on 50 points from 21 then bookies will start paying out on promotion. Would mean just 40 points from 25 remaining to get 90.
 
munksyb said:
At the end of the season what counts is how many points you have accrued.
Not when you get them
Not how often you’ve been top so far
Not whether you were lucky to grab a win

Get the points on the board as soon as you can , and let everyone else worry about you. Take as many points from those around you at the top.
None of them will relish playing us, and will go into games against us hoping to scrape a draw.
Be positive we are playing great football & under Hecky we have now discovered how to score goals

Onwards & UPWARDS
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Aye that's right, and that's why the old cliché "It's a marathon, not a sprint" doesn't tell the whole story.

Yes being top early doesn't mean you'll be top at the end of the season but it does mean that at that stage, you've accumulated more points than anyone else which will hold you in good stead. Actual races don't work like that, you aren't accumulating anything if the same way so running out in front doesn't mean owt if you don't have the stamina and everyone else just overtakes you.
 
I think it's a thing of competing perspectives.

Nothing's won or lost at this stage. It's a long season and we could very easily slip a long way or simply get bested by another team. On the other side, points aren't worth any more or less depending on when you pick them up. It definitely doesn't get any easier to get points on the board when there's five games to go, the fatigue is setting in, the injuries are stacking up, and the pressure is building on every kick of a ball.

Personally, I had my sights for this season on play-offs again, maybe pushing for top two. Based on the last few games, I'm feeling very optimistic about that but it'd only take a couple of poor days to change my mind again. Heckingbottom's record since he took over has been promotion form, and I think we've improved over the last window. I'm trying to balance that against the potential quality of the opposition in Watford, Burnley, Norwich and it's just too early to say more.

Simple fact is, it doesn't matter what day of the season it is: if you're picking where you want your team to be on the table you pick the top spot.
 
Stevo said:
And then monkeypox will throw us into a 2 year lockdown and the season will be scrapped
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McBurnie will also score 20 goals by then, before going down for 3 years

Berge then gets a move on a free as his contract expires
 
Form dictates how the opposition approaches games Yesterday Hull tried to match our formation in the first half It was a total disaster and it gave us the midfield When we are at home teams will sit and hope to hit us on the break But this suits our high press Part of our problem away last years was that teams thought they could beat us and set up to their strengths not to stop us playing If we can string a few away wins together this will stop
 
When we got promoted under Warnock our first ten were 8 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss if memory serves correct. The rest of the season we were okay but not magnificent and allowed Leeds to close a 14 point gap down to 2. Those opening 10 games are what got us promoted in the end. That and dropping Akinbadbuy for Shipperley.
 



sonofbruce said:
When we got promoted under Warnock our first ten were 8 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss if memory serves correct. The rest of the season we were okay but not magnificent and allowed Leeds to close a 14 point gap down to 2. Those opening 10 games are what got us promoted in the end. That and dropping Akinbadbuy for Shipperley.
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Including the customary Warnock Jan/Feb blues of three or four consecutive defeats. Always seemed to happen, however we were doing!
 
WF10BLADE said:
Injuries stacking up? That's a permanent thing for us especially when "back in a week" means months out.
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Same as last season regarding injuries.

That said it seems other clubs are complaining about injury problems as well. Hull had a few players come off against us yesterday.
 
I think our biggest risk is injuries to key players. We have no real cover for Egan, although maybe Clark could if fit. Ndaiye would be a huge loss. Not sure Khadra is like for like. We only have one Sander and McB is becoming undroppable and we don’t have anyone who can play same role. Not saying losing any of them would be terminal but I’ve seen us snatch defeat from the jaws of victory before.

Who would have forecast our centre forward and leading scorer Ched Evans would be sent down just before the end of 2012 season When promotion was effectively in the bag?
 
We're on course for 44.6 points between now and the WC break.

If we carry on our current points per game average we'll finish on 97 points.

The table doesn't matter at this stage in the season, but points per game is looking good so far and we haven't had an easy start by any means
 
I also think there's a phycological aspect to being top of the League and playing well. It's how other managers set up and opposition players approach the game.
A lot of teams - and managers - will be happy to stay in this division, and throughout the season will focus on the fixtures that will keep them up.
They will win some games, they will lose most games.
So, and I'm not getting carried away here, but if we are top and blowing teams away (sorry said I wasn't getting carried away!) then how does a manager approach their next fixture against us? What if a player has just got back from injury on the Monday, and they are playing us Tuesday, but have a '6 pointer' against Middlesbrough on Saturday? Put him in the team, or get him sharp for the Saturday game?
Not all teams in the League are busting a gut for top spot, but are there to simply survive, or for the manager to appease the fans by doing better than the season before.
I'm not saying we are promoted already, but if you have this cloud of invincibility - then the lower teams will treat us differently. And it's certainly one of the benefits of storming the League early - lf you look like the best team in the League then your opposition might also be caught up in that illusion.
 
Bladesman said:
Same as last season regarding injuries.

That said it seems other clubs are complaining about injury problems as well. Hull had a few players come off against us yesterday.
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As above, all clubs during the season will experience some injuries to their squads. We are as strong, if not stronger squad wise than last season.
 
Its guaranteed that nothing's guaranteed with following the Blades.

Always expect the unexpected and you'll be ok.

Oh and also don't forget - that we can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, even in the last day of season!

Factor all that into the equation and you won't be disappointed - or maybe you will, definitely (maybe)
 
The race is not for the swift, but those that can endure.
Unless it's the 100m of course. You'd be fucked with that attitude then.
 
What a load of bollocks, early season, mid season, late season?
Go and try to win the game you are currently going into, I fuckin hate football speak,
 
Let's just enjoy winning games, stacking up points. But please, we've just started, let's see where we are at Easter before promotion talk. Norwich have just shot up the league in a couple of weeks, it's just as easy to slip down quickly.
 



I just looked at Oddschecker and was surprised to see that we’re joint favourites for promotion with Norwich at 11/8. I know we’re top and playing well so that shouldn’t be a surprise, but I always assume it won’t last 🙂
 
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