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Chickens, roost etc. but let's not detract from what has been a very good first season back after six years in the Wilder-less wilderness. :D Who'd swap with Wednesday?

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Thanks as always for these, grafikhaus.

On Wednesday, I'm pretty confident that they will be able to lose every remaining game and still stay up. They're having an absolute shocker yet there's somehow still 7 teams worse than them. They're on 37 points now (7 points clear) - I find it really hard to believe that any team goes down with more than 40 points this year.
 
grafikhaus said:
Chickens, roost etc. but let's not detract from what has been a very good first season back after six years in the Wilder-less wilderness. :D Who'd swap with Wednesday?

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25 points seems a lot from the last 11 games.

In the slightly unlikely event we win all the home games, it still requires 2 wins and a draw from the 5 away games with only 2 defeats between now and the end of the season.

Given we are 3 off 6th with a game in hand (so potentially joint 6th), and what it would take to make 80, I think the total will be lower this time around.

Though Fulham got 80, they attained 23 points in their last 11 games, meaning they had 57 from 35 games, 2 more than us. They had 60 from 36, meaning they were already 2 ahead of Boro, same games and 1 fewer than Derby, but who seem well of the pace Fulham set for the final 10 games.

Our current form doesn’t compare to the form needed to finish top 6 but it’s not inconceivable to win the next three on a game by game basis.

That’s the thing with the fixture calendar, your form is often dictated by how the matches fall. Yes, we lost 4 from 7, but 3 of those defeats were against teams likely to finish 1st, 2nd or 3rd and 4th.

When you look at Forest, Burton and Ipswich, they are the sort of teams you would see Duffy, Sharp, Clarke and Brooks excelling against. I hope they do

Cometh the moment, cometh the Bladesmen!
 
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I wish we were down at the bottom. Drop 2 home points and finish further away from the 'danger zone'. Could only happen to the pigs... Still, United get a point away in a tough away game at Ipswich (who have 7 points from the last nine). The pigs scrape a home draw against fifth-from-bottom Bolton (who have a GD of -24). The pigs remain 18 points behind us and have played a game more.

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We should have a minutes applause the day they can no longer catch us.
 
Ainsley Harriott said:
We should have a minutes applause the day they can no longer catch us.
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That could be as soon as Saturday if we beat Forest and they lose at Leeds.

Gap will be 24 points with 8 to play.

If you believe that they can realistically make up the goal difference then it will be at Brentford.
 
Ainsley Harriott said:
We should have a minutes applause the day they can no longer catch us.
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Nothing could make us look more small time.

The fact that a team in 17th can`t catch us, irrespective of who they are, should not be a cause for widespread celebration.

By all means rub it in - throw their pre season comments back in their face - but "finishing above the pigs" is not, and should never be a measure of success.
 
SellyOakBlade said:
Nothing could make us look more small time.

The fact that a team in 17th can`t catch us, irrespective of who they are, should not be a cause for widespread celebration.

By all means rub it in - throw their pre season comments back in their face - but "finishing above the pigs" is not, and should never be a measure of success.
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It’s more tongue in cheek than serious.
 
A very welcome win for Wendy. It means the useless Jos will be around for next season. Just the 17 points gap now... Seriously, in our last 24 games we've only had two unbeaten runs...of two games each. Lack of consistency is what'll cost us.

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Lack of money. Our firm dipped in January. Teams like Forrest went and signed 8/9 players for big money some of them.

Do a graph that shows money spent in correlation to league position!
 
Bladezz said:
Lack of money. Our firm dipped in January. Teams like Forrest went and signed 8/9 players for big money some of them.

Do a graph that shows money spent in correlation to league position!
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January isn’t where it went wrong for us. That happened immediately after we lost Couttsy. We took 1 point from the next 5 games and 5 points from 8 games up to the end of December, losing 5 out of 8.

We recovered in January, we only lost once in January and once in February. Chris did a great job in giving us some depth in the squad and grinding out better results. Losing Coutts was a catastrophe we couldn’t address until the transfer window. Had results been as good as we’ve had since January for that period, we would have been comfortably in a play off position now.
 

UnitedBlade said:
January isn’t where it went wrong for us. That happened immediately after we lost Couttsy. We took 1 point from the next 5 games and 5 points from 8 games up to the end of December, losing 5 out of 8.

We recovered in January, we only lost once in January and once in February. Chris did a great job in giving us some depth in the squad and grinding out better results. Losing Coutts was a catastrophe we couldn’t address until the transfer window. Had results been as good as we’ve had since January for that period, we would have been comfortably in a play off position now.
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Sorry, that should say lost once in January, twice in February and once in March. Three of those defeats were against 1st, 3rd and 4th in the league.
 
Right. We're at the 'business end'. Now is exactly when Fulham took off last season and had five wins and one draw in the final six games to secure 6th slot with 80 points. (In fact, they only had two 'winning streaks' all season - 3 games and 5 games). Over to you, CW! :D

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First the good news. We're going to finish above the pigs. Some achievement for a pub team coming into La Liga.

Don't get too down, Blades. The play-offs is a 'step too far' for us this season. Just because our disappointing end to this season doesn't mean it's been a bad season. Just as Wednesday's recent 'dead cat bounce' doesn't mean they've had a good season.

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Just two defeats in the last ten games, but the draws'll kill you. Dead Loss Luhukay's lot are slowly reeling us in - maybe in a year's time.

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With a heavy heart - and more out of a sense of duty - I'll put up the penultimate 'CWLS'.

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Like a marathon runner dressed as a purple giraffe and who hasn't put the training* in, we've glimpsed the finishing line and collapsed. I don't go along with this 'our legs have gone' argument*. Since mid-March, we've only had one 'midweek' match. We're talking about professional athletes here, so if they can't get fit for one match a week, our fitness regime and 'fight' of the players leaves a lot to be desired.
 
Last one of the season, and it has been a good season. Our second half of the season has to be put into context - we've only finished six points out of the play-offs. It's hardly like we've been playing out of our skins post-Christmas, quite the opposite. We've thrown that extra 6 points away in just two very recent games - Birmingham and Preston.

Now teams like Wendy, Forest (lost half their games) and Birmingham (lost 26 out of 46), they've had poor seasons, but the relief of escaping relegation is probably making them blind to the fact that United are progressing. And they aren't.

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Just for you 1973Blade !

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Just five games in but it's beginning to look good. Attendance at Bolton by the way was 14,848, 1,978 of which will be delighted with what they've seen. Next up, Villa! Also, tho' the pigs scraped a narrow win against 10-man Ipswich, they're still two points behind us despite having just had two of the easier home games in four days. Since our first game back in the Championship (August 5th, 2017), they've never had more points than us. Mind the gap!
 
grafikhaus said:
Just for you 1973Blade !

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Just five games in but it's beginning to look good. Attendance at Bolton by the way was 14,848, 1,978 of which will be delighted with what they've seen. Next up, Villa! Also, tho' the pigs scraped a narrow win against 10-man Ipswich, they're still two points behind us despite having just had two of the easier home games in four days. Since our first game back in the Championship (August 5th, 2017), they've never had more points than us. Mind the gap!
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That's looking good thanks, three wins in a row and we all feel optimistic now!
 

grafikhaus said:
Just for you 1973Blade !

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Just five games in but it's beginning to look good. Attendance at Bolton by the way was 14,848, 1,978 of which will be delighted with what they've seen. Next up, Villa! Also, tho' the pigs scraped a narrow win against 10-man Ipswich, they're still two points behind us despite having just had two of the easier home games in four days. Since our first game back in the Championship (August 5th, 2017), they've never had more points than us. Mind the gap!
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I'm sorry. I don't understand. Games 4 to 5 in 17/18 it appears we jumped 6 points. Am I being thick? (Not unusual.....)
 
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