87 points needed....play offs it is!

[blade too long]

There were never going tobe 20 straight wins, sending offs change games might happen again but we can take it that we arent folding now , whereas in november we wouldnt have come back from that
reckon we can still win enough , all but 4 might do , no one knows all we can do is the best we can, Swindons lost 4 of last 6 , teams at the top feel the most pressure
we relaxed and took colchester apart and bristol city are 3'-0 behind there in 30 minutes , pressure puts everyone under the cosh

 

[davidpinder]

Are you being serious or taking the piss here???

Being serious, however since that post we gained a point on Swindon but lost 2 points on MK makes life difficult. The sooner we play these games in hand the better then we may know more. My worry is that MK will win the league as I don't think we have a chance of catching BC. Is the BBC predictor nowhere to be found?

 

[mattbianco1]

Well ..... the majority of Blades I know were in no doubt, back in Sept / Oct that we would struggle to score goals. This has proven to be true. We did not address this until mid January ...... I don't see why you're getting so twitchy about this point .......
UTB & FTP

We were struggling. Clough knew that and so did we. Unfortunately Higdon hasn't been the 15-20goal man we thought he would be and clough has struggled to get the right man in on loan. O'Grady came in briefly but was recalled a month early. its been a struggle.

You act like we've not even attempted to bring people in.

You should have realised now that Clough isn't in to panic buying, hence the reason we signed O'Grady in November after wanting him in July

 

[Baildon Blade]

We shouldn't live on false hope but... Who will we lose to?

This table charts the fixtures in February 2015

HOME (should get maximum 27pts, realistic target 21/23pts)
Coventry
Peterborough
Fleetwood
Port Vale
Scunthorpe
Crewe
Doncaster
Bradford
Chesterfield

AWAY (draws at Rochdale, Scunthorpe, Barnsley and Oldham. Win at the rest = 16pt)
Rochdale
Crawley
Scunthorpe
Walsall
Barnsley
Oldham
Yeovil
Orient

Get 37pts from the above and we'll make 2nd place. That is 6 draws 11 wins.

OR

Win all the home games and we only need 3 away wins for 95

Don't think you'll ever make it as a football pundit Matt

 

[mattbianco1]

Don't think you'll ever make it as a football pundit Matt

I said realistically we should get 21pts from the home games. OK we can now only get 19. The away game target is as we were

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

No, people are not taking into account the other teams - they all have some tough games.

We now seem to have a tough backbone to the team for away games and as long as we can overcome teams that sit deep at BDTBL then we should make a move.

If we finish above Preston, then we can finish in 2nd place - personally think they are our main worry - just a tough, strong team and as we have seen in the past that is ideal to get out of this division.

We too now have toughness and with Done/Murph now on fire we just need to take one game at a time.

UTB

I am a advocate of one game at a time , but i am feeling one game at a time to be let down.

UTB