Now it’s quite difficult to be too confident in a team that has shown how bad its low point can be, but bare with me.
If ever there was a season when the crowds might part, Moses style, as they did for Delboy in the Peckham riots (!) then this seems to be the season.
At this point there is time. There is a lot of traffic in front of us. But time to overtake.
You need to see plenty of teams who you can take as many as 6 points from.
Despite already playing to and losing to Ipswich and Saints, it hasn’t overly hampered us. Both are within range. Leicester a little further afield but expected to be hit by a Sellés debilitating points deduction at some point.
So early favourites are not insurmountable.
Coventry seem to have the wind in their sails and as every seasoned Championship watcher knows, not buggering about and going again often leads to going one better next time around. If only our COH lot had listened to Benjamin Bloom.
The rest however, I’m not convinced with any of them. Even when we were abject, Boro only scraped by us for instance.
What we need is momentum. Momentum and then luck with injuries. Then a good January window.
Build on these last two wins against a slightly shaky Preston and a beatable Derby.
Then hopefully the likes of Hamer, Davies, Arblaster and Chong arrive into a winning team and can show themselves as differentiators.
Get to January and fix the obvious deficiencies and there is an opportunity for a team to lose few matches between now and the end of the season. Whether we are capable is an open question at this point, as when we are bad, we are very very bad.
But I don’t aee a really outstanding team apart from Coventry at the moment and if we can get back into the groove of edging games against the plentiful supply of bang average teams then who knows?
I don’t see a 100 point team there and in fact apart from possibly Coventry I can see the second spot going to a team that doesn’t get much over 80 points.
November and December are really key. Get a very good haul on the back of the recent feel good factor and the January window may well come at the perfect time.
O’Hare has stepped up of late. So has Brooks. So has McCallum. Burrows did last night. It’s time for those feeling sorry for themselves to shake it off and put some very average sides to the sword.
Normally you don’t get such a margin of error but I reckon this season will be competitive in a good sense with plenty of teams bunched together which will mean the opportunity is there.
