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It's "on" but extremely unlikely. Let's see in 5 games. If it is then I'll dream about it. Until then top 2 is the focus the rest I don't care about
 
50 points in 22 games is unreal.

50 in the next 24 won’t be needed and won’t be attained.

40 / 44 from last 24 surely enough (to get to 88 / 92).

UTB
 
DronnieBlade said:
50 points in 22 games is unreal.

50 in the next 24 won’t be needed and won’t be attained.

40 / 44 from last 24 surely enough (to get to 88 / 92).

UTB
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That’s the difficulty in my mind, that there are three teams in the division which look capable of achieving a very high points total - Leeds, Burnley and us - and there are only 2 automatic promotion places. I think it’s entirely possible that there’ll be a team this season which achieves 90+ points and doesn’t get promotion.

If I was looking at it from a neutral perspective, given the number of changes United made over the summer, and the fact that (In my view) we have a strong first 11, but don’t have enormous strength in depth, I’d probably put Leeds and Burnley as favourites.
 
WorkingtonBlade said:
That’s the difficulty in my mind, that there are three teams in the division which look capable of achieving a very high points total - Leeds, Burnley and us - and there are only 2 automatic promotion places. I think it’s entirely possible that there’ll be a team this season which achieves 90+ points and doesn’t get promotion.

If I was looking at it from a neutral perspective, given the number of changes United made over the summer, and the fact that (In my view) we have a strong first 11, but don’t have enormous strength in depth, I’d probably put Leeds and Burnley as favourites.
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Yep most neutrals would pick a team who had achieved six less points than us for automatic promotion.
 
Going great guns so far but too early to get carried away with this type of stuff.

Way things are going we could finish third on 90 points and lose to the Pigs in the play offs.

Imagine that 😆😬😱
 
WorkingtonBlade said:
That’s the difficulty in my mind, that there are three teams in the division which look capable of achieving a very high points total - Leeds, Burnley and us - and there are only 2 automatic promotion places. I think it’s entirely possible that there’ll be a team this season which achieves 90+ points and doesn’t get promotion.

If I was looking at it from a neutral perspective, given the number of changes United made over the summer, and the fact that (In my view) we have a strong first 11, but don’t have enormous strength in depth, I’d probably put Leeds and Burnley as favourites.
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I’d disagree - both Leeds & Burnley are dropping points away from home in games they should be winning. Our strength this season is to win ugly ie. and I’m not sure Leeds / Burnley are showing enough of that. Yes I can see us dropping points from teams around the top 6 - but honestly the way we are managing games against the rest of the league is ruthless.
 
'Judge them after 10 games', 'let's see where we are at Xmas' - the prevailing wisdom is always to keep your powder dry. With good reason. The 10 games and Xmas milestones are well established and historically are shown to have merit.

As it turns out, we've easily passed those tests, but we still have huge amounts of work to do. Even if we recruit well during January and pull in decent points over the next 2 weeks, l still won't feel it's job done.

I'll not start feeling comfortable until l see us with a 9 point cushion on 3rd and a couple from Leeds, Burnley, Sunderland, Boro and Blackburn start to fall away.
 

The takeover had taken on huge importance now that if it goes through is the best chance of good recruitment in January
Squads threadbare lose another 1 or 2 we could implode
Different scale but look at City, who’d have thought prior to their accumulation of
injuries this would happen
I still believe with the lack of depth and tyd amount of football to be played we will finish 4/5th
 
Hamandcheese said:
It will take more than 90 for 2nd place this time

There's no reason to expect Leeds and Burnley to get worse, and this is a weak division
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100% agree. 3 strong teams all at it with Sunderland nipping at all our heels. Boxing Day is huge
 
PeterNdlovu081 said:
I like your optimism but it's a big statement to make with the next four games coming against Burnley, West Brom, Sunderland and Watford.

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Agreed we could end up with 0 points(I am a glass half empty guy lol) from those games they are tough games.
We have also not been firing on all cylinders for the last 3 games for whatever reason.
We really need Anel, Vinni, and Tyrese back for these games.

And no i dont want a bet with anybody that we don't end up with 0 points from those games.
 
Well we have played everybody except Burnley but there is a long way to go yet, a good January window is needed. Up to now I see only four teams in the mix for auto's one will have to endure the lottery of the play off's and one will miss out. I hope that isn't us. Then there is always a team that comes with a late run and does well in the play off's, probably best if we keep our gobs shut and take it a game at a time.
 
Ron_Justice said:
'Judge them after 10 games', 'let's see where we are at Xmas' - the prevailing wisdom is always to keep your powder dry. With good reason. The 10 games and Xmas milestones are well established and historically are shown to have merit.

As it turns out, we've easily passed those tests, but we still have huge amounts of work to do. Even if we recruit well during January and pull in decent points over the next 2 weeks, l still won't feel it's job done.

I'll not start feeling comfortable until l see us with a 9 point cushion on 3rd and a couple from Leeds, Burnley, Sunderland, Boro and Blackburn start to fall away.
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I'm not too bothered about Boro and Blackburn they both dropped points yesterday. Its Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland that don't seem to be dropping points, and getting last minute goals and penalties and opposition players sent off.
We have also had injuries have any of those sides had 4 first team players (Not squad players) missing for the last few games.
We have to finish above 2 off those sides its just a case of who cracks first.
Our squad is probably not the strongest out of the top 4 with the possible exception of Sunderlands don't know enough about theirs. That's why the January transfer window is really important we really need 3 or 4 strong 1st team ready players because I'm sure Leeds and Burnley will strengthen and Sunderland were apparently looking a Jordan Henderson.
 
andy m said:
Yep most neutrals would pick a team who had achieved six less points than us for automatic promotion.
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Well, yes, I do accept that if we're talking about a neutral who's only reference point is the league table, they would probably conclude that the current top 2 will finish as the top 2. I was thinking of someone who took a closer interest in Championship football, who might conclude that the lack of depth in our squad would start to have an impact as the injuries and suspensions wrack up in the second half of the season. Of course, some of it will depend on who is in a position to strengthen in the January transfer-window, and that remains a bit of an unknown for us.
 
Don’t see us doing anywhere near 100. Much better than last season though although we’re only 1 place lower in the leagues than we were last season. The difference is frightening when you compare our form in the media of emojis ………..
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Until tomorrow
 

WorkingtonBlade said:
That’s the difficulty in my mind, that there are three teams in the division which look capable of achieving a very high points total - Leeds, Burnley and us - and there are only 2 automatic promotion places. I think it’s entirely possible that there’ll be a team this season which achieves 90+ points and doesn’t get promotion.

If I was looking at it from a neutral perspective, given the number of changes United made over the summer, and the fact that (In my view) we have a strong first 11, but don’t have enormous strength in depth, I’d probably put Leeds and Burnley as favourites.
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I think much depends on what these three squads look like on Feb1.
Some further indication might be available after the next four rounds of matches.
 
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