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Right then Blades fans how about this for a bold prediction - the mighty Blades have 4 games and Scunny have 3 before the end of this month. My prediction is that both of us will be on 41 points at the start of December - i.e. we will take 10 points from our 4 matches and they will take 4 points from their games, dropping points away at Peterborough and either Oldham or Oxford scraping a much-needed draw in their relegation battle. Come to think of it we may even take all 12 points!!
Bradford and Bolton may also start slipping judging by there upcoming fixtures. Anyone else wearing rose-tinted specs?
 



Peterborough were the best side to play at the Lane so far and beat Bolton. That's the big one for them to slip up in. Wouldn't expect Oldham or Oxford to be enough to stop them but you never know.

Honestly, I'm not that worried about it. They'll lose a game before the end of the season and so will we. The important thing is securing 3 points from our game in hand. That puts us into the automatics where we want to be, and then it's a case of maintaining our position.

I'm sick to death of years of "we want to be in and around the top few by Christmas and look to push on". I want to be one of the teams being chased for once.
 
PeterNdlovu081 said:
In 2012-13 we were unbeaten until November and top on Christmas Day.

I'd be delighted just to sit in 2nd all season.
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Me too. But I'd be even delighteder if we could go up with 100+ points and double that in goals.
 
JohnDenver said:
I was too young to see us win our last trophy - the 4th bloody division title.

So I'm dreaming. :)
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You don't know what you missed JD. The great Colin Morris and the equally deadly Keith Edwards were a magnificent pairing, and if you'd have seen Morris you'd have witnessed wing play of the highest order. A great pity CM never had the chance to play in a higher division, but it was a great season and one that I managed to follow their exploits as they became champions.
 
Tyler Durden said:
I have a feeling that we'll lose at Coventry.
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Which really wouldn't be anything to worry about at all. Especially considering that, discounting that game, we have 6 home games and only 1 other away game before the end of the year.
 
I want to be in the top 2 tea time on April 30th
can be 3rd every other day till then
however

think we are much better than that
 
since our first win in game 5 we are averaging 2.75 points per game
according to the Star
and are the highest goal scorers away from home in the entire league
mind you we have played 2 more away games than home

scunny have played 2 more home games than we have
 
blade too long said:
since our first win in game 5 we are averaging 2.75 points per game
according to the Star
and are the highest goal scorers away from home in the entire league
mind you we have played 2 more away games than home

scunny have played 2 more home games than we have
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that means we will get 113 points :eek:
 



The longer the unbeaten run goes on the more likely we are to lose one. It's tight at the top and every loss will hurt us, even draws won't always be enough. We could be on top at Christmas or we could be fourth.
Hasn't supporting the Blades taught us not to take things for granted? If it can go wrong, it usually does. I'm just enjoying the run, it's nice going into games and not assuming we'll lose or draw, knowing that the players will leave nothing on the pitch, going a goal down and thinking 'we're still going to get something out of this'.
 
I think when we lose (it happens occasionally) the knees will be a-jerking on here like there's no tomorrow.

It's the Bladesfans' Way.
 
BushBlade said:
The longer the unbeaten run goes on the more likely we are to lose one.
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No we aren't.

"Due a loss" is such an annoying term and has no foundations, if you've just thrown heads 12 times in a row your next coin toss will just as likely be a head as it is a tail. And that's if football results were based purely on chance, which they aren't so strictly speaking the better teams will win more and the more you win the better you are and therefore the more likely you actually are to win the next game.
 
Pinchy said:
I think when we lose (it happens occasionally) the knees will be a-jerking on here like there's no tomorrow.

It's the Bladesfans' Way.
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I dont think it will pinch, I get the feeling the vast majority will expect us to go on another long run, as some say it will probably happen (a loss) but the team and confidence is good at the moment and I, although disappointed would expect us to go on another long run.
 
ThroughThinAndThinner said:
No we aren't.

"Due a loss" is such an annoying term and has no foundations, if you've just thrown heads 12 times in a row your next coin toss will just as likely be a head as it is a tail. And that's if football results were based purely on chance, which they aren't so strictly speaking the better teams will win more and the more you win the better you are and therefore the more likely you actually are to win the next game.
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Yes we are. It's fairly common for a team to go ten unbeaten. It's less common to go twenty unbeaten. It's very unusual to go thirty eight games unbeaten. That's why people still talk about Arsenal's invincibles.

Therefore, the longer the run, the closer you get to 'very unusual'. It's very unlikely that we will go thirty eight games unbeaten so the closer you get to that figure, the more likely it becomes that we will lose one. It doesn't mean we're definitely going to lose, just that we probably will.
 
itsinyerblood said:
You don't know what you missed JD. The great Colin Morris and the equally deadly Keith Edwards were a magnificent pairing, and if you'd have seen Morris you'd have witnessed wing play of the highest order. A great pity CM never had the chance to play in a higher division, but it was a great season and one that I managed to follow their exploits as they became champions.
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In my first game I properly remember watching, Morris scored against Bristol City as we were relegated. I think that was his last appearance?

Probably a false memory but I recall people saying "why can't the rest of them do what he does".
 
Scunny's tough patch isn't far off - starting a week on Tuesday at Peterboro.

We need to do what they've done up to now & keep grinding out the wins (especially now we've got this run of mainly home games). Scunny are due a bad run before we are.
 
JohnDenver said:
In my first game I properly remember watching, Morris scored against Bristol City as we were relegated. I think that was his last appearance?

Probably a false memory but I recall people saying "why can't the rest of them do what he does".
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Morris was the archetypal tricky little bugger. He made the admission fee worth every penny, such was his ability to pose a threat.

Not that I indulge in all-time favourite Utd teams, but if pushed Morris would be included every time. One of the greatest Blades I can recall, you can't teach what he did, you just watch, learn, and enjoy.
 
One of the most impressive seasons in recent years by a team that we were battling with was Reading in 2005/06. They lost only two games all season and accumulated 113points. Not sure how long their longest unbeaten run was that season. Over to you Silent.
 
bornablade said:
One of the most impressive seasons in recent years by a team that we were battling with was Reading in 2005/06. They lost only two games all season and accumulated 113points. Not sure how long their longest unbeaten run was that season. Over to you Silent.
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That was Coppell's side wasn't it? With Kitson, Harper, Sidwell, Eagles? I seem to recall they were a bit like we are now, getting the ball forward quite quickly but with quality, strong midfield.
 
BushBlade said:
That was Coppell's side wasn't it? With Kitson, Harper, Sidwell, Eagles? I seem to recall they were a bit like we are now, getting the ball forward quite quickly but with quality, strong midfield.
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That's right. It was either that season or the season after when we were both in the Premier League that they moved the ball from kick off so quickly that they scored after about 30 seconds. It was a deliberate ploy based on both teams generally start slowly and sizing each other up. Really caught us out.
 
Reading had quite a lengthy unbeaten run, and looked the best side in the division, playing quick attacking and purposeful football, and i remember they had Glenn Little out wide who was lethal with the quality of his crossing.

Steve Coppell took a lot of the credit for it, but i think his Number Two had some influence in it, as they could have passed as a Bassett side to the untrained eye. The number two was also a former contemporary of Chris Wilder, a protege of Dave Bassett, and the man who made the correct call last season when he tweeted words along the lines "Sheffield United fans don't respond to sideways passing, it makes the Lane like a library, but if you give a side who attacks and defends with purpose the Lane is like a fortress". The Number Two, Walter Downes.
 



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