Have we peaked to soon!!

[itsinyerblood]

As if you have any control when you win, draw, or lose?

Under Wilder the players enter the pitch with one thought, to do their best. The fact is, we have an inbuilt desire to win, it's now in the DNA of this club, something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime. Achieving this is a near miracle, we have finally discovered that it's ok to raise the stakes and see just how good we can become. Of course we haven't reached our performance summit yet, whether this will be achieved is what makes each season the intense curiosity it's always going to be.....but what we can all sense is that under Wilder we're growing from strength to strength. as a team and as individuals, SUFC is the place to be if you want to raise your game and become the best you're capable of becoming. Something very special is happening at our club, just be patient and all will be revealed.

 

[RammyBlade]

Or to put it another way...

...a random team with 17 points from 14 games have to win 24 from 32 just to get close to automatics...our bubble isn't bursting, theirs has burst.

Cant see a team named random in the table but theres one referred to as pigs who have the same points ? SWFIUA

 

[ChezVegasBlade]

Too many parallels with last season. Once we hit top spot we just continued to grind the other teams by winning whilst they all took points off each other and the gap just increases slowly but surely..... UTMB

 

[blade too long]

its not whether its a marathon rather than a sprint

going up depends on consistancy 2 points per game
its what we do,
Ive watched us since Keith Kettleborough had hair and this is the team thats provided the most consistancy of performance in all those years
Dont need no billy big boots stars , we play a system that we reproduce every week

its why we will be in the prem next season
we are nowhere near peaking , thats about 15 years away when Wilder retires to Peronia

 

[Rusty view]

Isn’t increasing the Gap (Mind it now) an upward move of sorts?

True. I was thinking positionally. I'm starting to take an interest in the gap to 7th and 3rd.

 

[Grizzly blade]

I read somewhere that we’ve won 10 out of the opening 14 games and the last 3 teams to do that have gone up.

But does that mean the 4th last team to do it didn’t get promoted?

 

[CrookesBlade]

You have to win games to be promoted.

 

[Grizzly blade]

The lack of draws is interesting.
While there are no rules in how many games you should draw, it’s expected that you will draw some and we will.

With 32 games left how many could we realistically be expected to draw with the way we play. 8?

So if we did draw 8, then that leaves 24 games. Now if we won half and lost the other, that’s 44 points. 74 points over the season, which ain’t bad and should be top 6.

All guesswork of course, but with the start we have made we would have to see a dramatic drop in performances to miss the play offs from here. And if this manager can’t get this club ready for a play off, then no club can.

 

[blade too long]

logically we are on 30 points
90 points should see us get auto
so we need 60 points from 32 games left

19 wins 3 draws and 10 defeats

think thats well doable with this team

 

[Come from away]

After six years in League One it is natural to worry but we will not really have a good measure of where we might finish until January. We will have played everybody and know whether the playoffs are in reach.

 

[Blade56]

McLaren haven't won the title since 2008, Ferrari haven't won it since 2007

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I'm a football fan not an F1 fan, ya get me drift WH

 

[flashinblade1889]

We are a very consistent team 14 games in 30 points in the bag,average 2 points a game over the rest of the season that gives us 94 should be enough UTB FTP

 

[Lil red rooster]

our relegation battle is going much better than the piggies relegation battle is,so we can afford a little dip because the gap is HUGE.

 

[Lil red rooster]

sorry I forgot the piggies is a promotion push not a relegation battle.

 

[sheffielder]

We haven't peaked. We have got considerably stronger since the season started and there is no reason why we won't get better.

Judging by the last few games you would think Clarke, Baldock, CCV, Stevens and Blackman still have more in the locker.

 

[Isar]

To answer the op, in a league season there is no such a thing as peaking to soon. It is simple, try to beat the team you are playing, after that game, repeat. Do that on a game for game basis.

 

[Silent Blade]

Everyone says it a marathon and not a sprint which is correct . When you watch a horse race it's always the horse that comes from behind that wins not the one in the front . There is a lot of football to be played before May time so as my title says have we peaked to soon !!

Just like Devon Loch?

 

[bornandbred]

I'm expecting 100 points and nothing less.

 

[PokerBlade]

Games at the start of the season are worth the same as games at the end of the season, it's only the pressure that mounts up.

No one knows whether we'll keep this up for a full season. There's plenty of teams that do what Scunthorpe did last year and fade away just as there are teams who set their standards early and don't let it drop. If you want the optimistic view, Scunthorpe were overly reliant on one player who had a fantastic first half of the season. We function as a squad and if we put in a good performance without Fleck on Tuesday it will more or less prove the point that we can do it without any given one of our best individuals.

If you want the pessimist perspective, then we showed Scunthorpe and Bolton that a nine or ten point head start can turn into a fifteen point lead. And I still feel as though there are teams like 'Boro with some incredibly talented individuals that have a good scope to improve their performances. Even if we fade only a little from the form so far, you can't rule out Wolves and Cardiff from going the distance. Add to that that other clubs will be willing and able to outspend us in January and we're asking a lot from this team.

To be honest, I'm not sure how much I even care. I was honest pre-season when I said fourth from bottom at the end of the last game would be a solid achievement. To think now that realistically that means seven wins from our next thirty two it's almost unbelievable that we won't absolutely smash that.

This season is going to far exceed our first ambition and we're going to do it by playing thoroughly entertaining football.

 

[Barney]

Why would anyone prefer us to have less points than we currently have, just to fit in with a shitty analogy

 

[blade.i.am]

I'm with Bachmann Turner Overdrive on this one:
B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet

 

[Martin]

Good question I think not but it just depends on injuries and the big question on everyone lips on what we do in the January transfer window if we bring in one or two quality players into the squad we got a very good chance we are a little light on cover in some departments