10-game segments (it's baa-ack!)

Luckily its not how you start but how you finish.

We badly need goals and from all over.

Think its only 3 different scorers at the minute? Awful return

Hope Hopkin can get his own backroom men in and soon

 

2 home goals in 5 games is reflective of the worrying times we currently endure.

 

Good work, very interesting to see the first 10 was actually the same as the more recent 10 - kind of surprised, actually, because I felt we'd gone backwards if anything results-wise.

I'm willing to throw my hat in the ring and say we'll get far more than the standard 7 points from the next 10 games - I'll double that, and then some, and say we grab an optimistic 18 points.

 

Jon I love your optimism.

By my reckoning there are permutations..

4 wins, 6 draws, no defeats
5 wins, 3 draws, 2 defeats
6 wins, 0 draws, 4 defeats.

Fixtures : Plymouth (22) away, Walsall (13) home, Scunthorpe (20) home, Sunderland (2) away, Rochdale (17) away, Accrington (11) home, Shrewsbury (15) home, Barnsley (5) away, Southend (14) home and Burton (16) away. ( Position as of tonight, in brackets).

6 of these games are before new reinforcements **may be** brought in. I'm sorry but I struggle to see beyond 12 points in this period.

But, I'm more than happy for you to be correct!!

 

Pretty much agree with you - but a hard fought win at Plymouth, and there are winnable games there... momentum will be everything if we're to get such a high points haul - we'll have to beat virtually every beatable team.

So I'm going:

Wins: Plymouth, Southend, Scunthorpe, Rochdale, Shrewsbury
Draws: Accrington, Walsall, Burton
Losses: Sunderland, Barnsley

W-D-W-L-W-D-W-L-W-D

It's not like I'm even going for consecutive wins

But I agree it's optimistic

 

Should it not be?
10 Game Segments... Its baaaaa-aaad !!!!

 

It is grim reading so far and performances have matched the low points tally sadly.

Practically 8 points behind at the minute with our goal difference

 

This is where the Peterborough game could play a massive role ...........

City put in a decent performance, and things will 'look' brighter again. However - Another thrashing could see a 'punch drunk' side having to face Plymouth Away

 

Momentum can actually get you going in the right direction. It is important to put this match into perspective for the players. Yes mistakes were made by both players and manager, and against a rampant Luton side who have been great at home. We mustn’t beat ourselves up. We need to go to Peterborough with confidence, we want to win or at least a draw, but if not we move on.

We have to keep believing we can get out of this, at some point we will get some momentum, let’s hope it is sooner rather than later.

 

To give ourselves the best chance of escape,we have to improve the players discipline.Losing two major players prior to one of the hardest away games is just asking for trouble.

You start to make a little progress and then lose two players for discipline issues and it's just shooting ourselves in the foot.

I've seen posts saying Hopkin is always changing the players.How can he not do that? We have a poor,unbalanced squad.The thing that makes that worse is losing numbers minimising options.

We have to stop losing players through suspension,losing through injury is bad enough!

 

Spot on. Luton was always going to be a tough game but having to make more switches due to suspensions was never going to help. The players also have to take their responsibility for that over the course of the season.

December could easily decide our fate this early. A continuation of current form and we'll probably be too far gone even before the January window opens. We simply have to start improving and picking up wins. Avoid defeat against Plymouth and we go into two winnable home games - how big they could be. Being in the FA Cup 3rd Round could be a welcome confidence boost as well.

 

17 points against an estimate of 18!

Not bad

 

Well sir, as I said I'd be happy to see you right. Damn right I'm happy.

So I doff my hat off to you and look forward for your reasoned predictions for the next 10.

 

Well, I don't think we'll match December's excellence, but I reckon we'll bag 15 points from the next 10 - bang on the money in terms of what we'll need to guarantee survival with a perfect 1.5 points per game.

That would leave us with a nailbiting run in, but assuming we can hold it together after the nightmarish Portsmouth-Peterborough-Luton trio without players or fans throwing in the towel even if we lose all three, there's a real opportunity for points.

Wins: Fleetwood, Plymouth, Oxford, Blackpool
Draws: Wycombe, Walsall, Charlton
Losses: Portsmouth, Peterborough, Luton

 

Would be a good draw at Wycombe they are having a good season

 

Should be a few goals in it, two teams with very high aggregated goals.