ucandomagic
Well-Known Member
A battling match. Keep Brooks confident and he will fly – he literally did fly as well in the celebration after he scored! Mostly good performances all over the pitch. Probably Burrows’ worst game and we still won. 2 weeks now for the walking wounded to lick their wounds. I thought this game showed up Cleverley as an immature manager. Recent games have shown that our real weakness is when we are pressed hard all over the pitch, but Watford allowed us plenty of time on the ball. Nevertheless, as the League Table below shows – our only struggles are coming in the exact games that they would be expected to.
Hopefully new faces, and returning old faces, before Norwich in 2 weeks’ time.
So, moving on to the graphs, which show what a great position we are still in.
Graph 1 compares our progress against 3 benchmark sets of results which represent Automatic Promotion, Playoff Certainty and Playoff Possibility. My benchmarks take account of who our opponents are each week. On 52 points, comparing to my benchmarks, we are now 2 -points ahead of my Autos Promotion schedule – and that is with our 2 point deduction.
Graph 1:
Graph 2 compares this season against our last 3 successful promotions from this level (all in second place), in 2005/06, 2018/19 and 2022/23. On 52 points after 26 games (with the 2-point deduction) we are 5 points ahead of the 47 points that we had under Wilder in 18/19, 1 ahead of Hecky in 22/23 and still only 4 points behind Warnock in 05/06.
So we are still 5 points ahead of our great 18/19 season with a 2-point deduction.
Graph 2:
Next, the coloured annotated up-to-date League Table, which highlights where our strengths and weaknesses are against opponents’ league positions. As I said above, the colours emphasise that we are only losing to teams that are already having a very good season.
Norwich in 11th are the highest placed team that we play in our next 5 games.
League Table:
Well, we’ve battled through 4 really tough games and ended up still in decent nick - if we'd drawn them all we'd probably have been quite happy - and Hull knocking 2 points off Leeds late on was certainly an unexpected bonus.
So, let's let the kids run riot through the Bluebirds and then the main men can come back rested and hungry to eat the Canaries.
UTB & Slava Ukraini!
Hopefully new faces, and returning old faces, before Norwich in 2 weeks’ time.
So, moving on to the graphs, which show what a great position we are still in.
Graph 1 compares our progress against 3 benchmark sets of results which represent Automatic Promotion, Playoff Certainty and Playoff Possibility. My benchmarks take account of who our opponents are each week. On 52 points, comparing to my benchmarks, we are now 2 -points ahead of my Autos Promotion schedule – and that is with our 2 point deduction.
Graph 1:
Graph 2 compares this season against our last 3 successful promotions from this level (all in second place), in 2005/06, 2018/19 and 2022/23. On 52 points after 26 games (with the 2-point deduction) we are 5 points ahead of the 47 points that we had under Wilder in 18/19, 1 ahead of Hecky in 22/23 and still only 4 points behind Warnock in 05/06.
So we are still 5 points ahead of our great 18/19 season with a 2-point deduction.
Graph 2:
Next, the coloured annotated up-to-date League Table, which highlights where our strengths and weaknesses are against opponents’ league positions. As I said above, the colours emphasise that we are only losing to teams that are already having a very good season.
Norwich in 11th are the highest placed team that we play in our next 5 games.
League Table:
Well, we’ve battled through 4 really tough games and ended up still in decent nick - if we'd drawn them all we'd probably have been quite happy - and Hull knocking 2 points off Leeds late on was certainly an unexpected bonus.
So, let's let the kids run riot through the Bluebirds and then the main men can come back rested and hungry to eat the Canaries.
UTB & Slava Ukraini!
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