We're Staying Up! Championship Football!

[Pegojack]

I'm not negative about the team, I very much like Vic Tomato's direction of travel. But we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves. We're eight points off the relegation zone, but six of the eight clubs below us have one or more games in hand. And with the exception of Wednesday, they are all scrapping like hell to stay up.

I watched Portsmouth and WBA away at Watford and Derby respectively this week, and neither club is going to go quietly into that goodnight. They both fought out tough 1-1 draws against teams higher up the league, and both draws were deserved. Lets see if we can do the same at Hull.

 

[TruckerJack]

We are not in relegation trouble at all, the opposite. I’m looking up not down. The squad is playing to its potential now and this manager choice looks spot on. Today will be tough but over the course of the season we will be closer to playoffs than 22nd. If the league started when Matos took over we would be 4th or 5th. I think we finish around 10th.

 

[Colin-swansea]

Not like you to be pessimistic.
You could have said the same last season
Goals came from Eom , Cullen , Key , Ronald .
We are 2 points better off than last season before today's game .
Cardiff who went down were on 31 points from 29 games we were 34 points from 29 games .
With so many teams below us we only need to match a couple of those .

Hi Malc,

no criticism of Vitor, quite refreshing to see an attacking brand of football but - a failure to take our chances at home or away have certainly prevented the team from failing to take points especially when the performance warranted it.
Will Nunes be the catalyst to scoring or assisting that would increase the one goal a game on a regular basis, bearing in mind that the relegation bar is probably going to be equal to that saw Brum relegated(50 points), or even one or two points more.
What needs to be remembered is that if we don't increase our ratio of goals scored and assists, pressure will be ramped up as games count down to the end of the season.

 

[malc]

Hi Malc,

no criticism of Vitor, quite refreshing to see an attacking brand of football but - a failure to take our chances at home or away have certainly prevented the team from failing to take points especially when the performance warranted it.
Will Nunes be the catalyst to scoring or assisting that would increase the one goal a game on a regular basis, bearing in mind that the relegation bar is probably going to be equal to that saw Brum relegated(50 points), or even one or two points more.
What needs to be remembered is that if we don't increase our ratio of goals scored and assists, pressure will be ramped up as games count down to the end of the season.

I'm not saying your criticising Matos just your pessimistic about staying up .
The bottom 6 for me will be Sheffield Wednesday , Oxford , Blackburn , Charlton ,
Portsmouth , West Brom .
Agree Portsmouth home form is key for them , they play Southampton tomorrow.

The odd goal from Tymon , Cabango, Burgess. And Stamenic would help .

 

[Baron Goblet]

Can see us getting to 63 points

Wrexham making the play offs

Wednesday relegated

Cannot see west brom going down

Oxford and Portsmouth maybe

 

[malc]

Can see us getting to 63 points

Wrexham making the play offs

Wednesday relegated

Cannot see west brom going down

Oxford and Portsmouth maybe

 

[malc]

A month ago I would have agreed with you about West Brom 5 defeats in 6
Confidence is low .
No new manager bounce ,
Not so sure now
Oxford look in big trouble .
The other team could be anyone of
West Brom, Blackburn , Portsmouth , Charlton .

Wrexham have had a good transfer window with 2 attacking addictions to the squad .
Will they make the playoffs ?

 

[malc]

Blackburn look likely to appoint
Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neil as manager .
He will combine the National job with playoff games to come after those he will be full time manager .


Charlton with important wins appear to be staying up .
To be fair to Nathan Jones he has done well to keep them up .

 

[LaJollaJack]

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back on topic after the usual derailment by the usual miz types.....

we are massively on the up - the buzz in the camp is huge, on and off the pitch - with proper jacks

a final flourish will cap off this season of massive transformational change, in so many ways

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