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I think we will finish the season around 58-62 points range in what has been, in my opinion, the hardest championship for some time with the relegated Premier League sides struggling to dominate and newly promoted sides having budgets like never seen from promoted sides before. That return is very good considering the rebuild that happened and the managerial change within it. The club is going in a positive direction and most people see that.
 
TruckerJack said:
I think we will finish the season around 58-62 points range in what has been, in my opinion, the hardest championship for some time with the relegated Premier League sides struggling to dominate and newly promoted sides having budgets like never seen from promoted sides before. That return is very good considering the rebuild that happened and the managerial change within it. The club is going in a positive direction and most people see that.
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The aim should be to beat last season points tally of 61. If we can do that it would be an excellent season considering the disaster appointment we made at the start of it.
 
This makes an awful lot of assumptions. It's quite feasible that many of the fixtures become 'dead rubbers' by the time we play them. The likelihood of Stoke or the Blades making the play offs is as slim as ours. By the time we play Soton, QPR, Norwich and even Charlton they may well be safe or out of the play off picture. Only Oxford look to be making a fist of it in the bottom four. Really could see WBA and Leicester both down.
 
Professor said:
This makes an awful lot of assumptions. It's quite feasible that many of the fixtures become 'dead rubbers' by the time we play them. The likelihood of Stoke or the Blades making the play offs is as slim as ours. By the time we play Soton, QPR, Norwich and even Charlton they may well be safe or out of the play off picture. Only Oxford look to be making a fist of it in the bottom four. Really could see WBA and Leicester both down.
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Southampton on a good run could make the playoffs.
Sheffield United are a good side with lots of quality may sneak into 6th .
 
Amazing how so many people now regard the appointment of Sheehan as a disaster…..what’s that posh word again….revisionism??
 
Copamundial said:
Amazing how so many people now regard the appointment of Sheehan as a disaster…..what’s that posh word again….revisionism??
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His permanent appointment was a disaster and the club were absolutely correct to act when they did to stem the flow.

I understand why it happened but we fell into the inevitable trap of appointing a successful caretaker.
 
SwanseaBoy123 said:
The aim should be to beat last season points tally of 61. If we can do that it would be an excellent season considering the disaster appointment we made at the start of it.
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It doesn’t make sense to me to say that ‘it would be an excellent season considering the disaster for half of it’.

Surely the disastrous bit is equally a part of the season as the better bit?

Excellent would not be a word I’d use to describe this season as a whole. It’s been much the same as the past few seasons. Absolutely dreadful bits and much better bits leading to a pretty average year overall.
 
I think people are getting too hung up over the upcoming fixture list.

The last 6 games of the season often bear no resemblance to the previous 40 with so many teams with nothing to play for.

Sometimes teams are on the beach and sometimes they’re more relaxed and play without fear so trying to predict results is much harder.

If we approach the next 11 games with the same intent/attitude we’ve done since Matos has arrived then I’ve not doubt we’ll pick up at least 3/4 wins and end up on around 60 points which is on a par with 3 of the last 4 seasons.
 
Londonlisa2001 said:
It doesn’t make sense to me to say that ‘it would be an excellent season considering the disaster for half of it’.

Surely the disastrous bit is equally a part of the season as the better bit?

Excellent would not be a word I’d use to describe this season as a whole. It’s been much the same as the past few seasons. Absolutely dreadful bits and much better bits leading to a pretty average year overall.
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Well I mean overall it would be underwhelming but with the context of just truly how bad we were under Sheehan It has to be considered a success to beat last seasons tally.

We were statistically just as bad as Sheffield Wednesday under Sheehan and were comfortably a bottom 3 team in every single metric. I still dont think to this day people truly grasp just how bad we were.
 
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