Play Off Chase

[2Morrow]

4 Points off sixth

45 points to play for (15 Games left)

Plausible again? Or ready for another crumble?

I fall on the side that a club with the resources we have at our disposable should really be able to do it.

 

[LGTL]

Nine teams going for one spot really. Unlikely but possible I guess. 

[Saint Troy]

2 minutes ago, LGTL said:

Nine teams going for one spot really. Unlikely but possible I guess. 

11 perhaps with the two with a game in hand! 

[Crab Lungs]

Entirely possible but … I fear we are some way off the top five in the league, going on our showings vs them. Could squeak in though…

[CB Fry]

We need to win a serious number of games. 

"4 points off sixth" is written like that's not much.

It's fucking loads, especially when there are 7 other teams above us and closer than we are.

We win our next 2 in a row - 5 wins out of 6, 4 straight wins, 49 points - and we will still be way off sixth. Maybe we'd be 8th, more likely 9th or 10th.

It's not impossible but the run we need to go on is very difficult. It will be relentless.

[SNSUN]

The last 3 (for a sample size) 6th place finishers finished on 69, 73 and 68 points. 

So we possibly need 25 to 30 points to finish 6th. 9 to 10-ish wins from 15 games, possibly 8 with some draws. I think it's beyond us unless we remain consistent and keep finding ways to win. Consistency and dropping points have been our achilles heel this season. I think only Wrexham and Derby have dropped more points than us from winning positions, both play off hopefuls. 

[LoyalSaintSO50]

Still got hope. Some winnable games coming up. Today was the one I thought we’d come unstuck and at half time didn’t see us winning. Then, bullet header, keep the faith 😇

[Chez]

14 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

We need to win a serious number of games. 

"4 points off sixth" is written like that's not much.

It's fucking loads, especially when there are 7 other teams above us and closer than we are.

We win our next 2 in a row - 5 wins out of 6, 4 straight wins, 49 points - and we will still be way off sixth. Maybe we'd be 8th, more likely 9th or 10th.

It's not impossible but the run we need to go on is very difficult. It will be relentless.

But once you start winning it can become a habit.

If you have decent players, a decent plan and the all important confidence, then you can become unstoppable. One defeat and it could all go to shit mind, but maybe it never happens. Maybe.

[goodymatt]

6 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

The last 3 (for a sample size) 6th place finishers finished on 69, 73 and 68 points. 

So we possibly need 25 to 30 points to finish 6th. 9 to 10-ish wins from 15 games, possibly 8 with some draws. I think it's beyond us unless we remain consistent and keep finding ways to win. Consistency and dropping points have been our achilles heel this season. I think only Wrexham and Derby have dropped more points than us from winning positions, both play off hopefuls. 

We are averaging 63.8 points over the season so far and that includes 2 big stretches where we only won 1 game. 70 plus points doesn’t feel beyond us if we can avoid going on a third shocking run. But can we?!

[Football Special]

17 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

We need to win a serious number of games. 

"4 points off sixth" is written like that's not much.

It's fucking loads, especially when there are 7 other teams above us and closer than we are.

We win our next 2 in a row - 5 wins out of 6, 4 straight wins, 49 points - and we will still be way off sixth. Maybe we'd be 8th, more likely 9th or 10th.

It's not impossible but the run we need to go on is very difficult. It will be relentless.

Agreed, ultimately we're still bottom half of the table, no point looking too far ahead until we at least get into top half of the table , see where we are end of the month 

[StrangelyBrown]

Possible, but unlikely given the run we would need to go on.

Having said that we've made a good start - I thought we needed 10 wins from 16. 1 down with 15 to go.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

With the number of teams still involved in a play off chase, a few are going to suffer a drop in form at some point. Smaller squad size will play a part too. Teams are taking points of each other as well. 

[Scummer]

I could see us getting to 70 points, that's basically a continuation of the points per game we've achieved since Tonda took charge

[Sir Ralph]

We have plenty of winnable games in the next few months. Beat Leicester on Tuesday and we have a nice run, subject to players having the right mentality 

[Gloucester Saint]

It’s a long shot still but win the next couple and it gets interesting.