Promotion Odds

Either spend a £1 lose a £1

Next season however.

 

It's 261/1 over here in Estonia. Just put on a cheeky 1€ for us to get promoted. Thanks for the heads up!

 

66-1 is ridiculously low.

6th placed Doncaster are going at 1.73 ppg, which is equal to 80 points over the season. (I know the actual points total is likely to be a bit lower, but still high 70s I'd expect, which is a very high scoring season).
If we win every game we will finish on 87, so in other words we can only afford to drop 7 points in 20 games, just to make the playoffs. As much as I'd love it to happen, it won't sadly.
If we win the next 10 in a row and the top 6 start to implode then we might be able to talk.

 

250 - 1 to finish top 6 before Accy Game, its a very very long shot, but worth a tenner, would pay for the train fair to Wembley and a few Shandies..

 

Just need a couple of defeats on the bounce then people will stop being silly.


On the other hand this would have surely been a promotion season if Edin had employed Hopkin the first time round instead of Collins.
Imagine if we'd have had a fit squad, a proper pre season and a manager that knew his arse from his elbow! Makes me sick to think what we could have achieved.

 

If we keep playing like we are for the rest of the season, then it will almost certainly feel like a massive opportunity missed!

 

It already does for me. When looking at the way this team has performed over the past 5 matches, I would say we are 100% a top 6 team. But it is far too late now, the opportunity has been missed. Next season however.......

 

Looking at this season as a 'missed opportunity' is like a lottery win compared to talk of 'dropping out the football league' which was the message board concensus only 6 weeks ago. I'm more than happy to wait till next year.

 

Much depends on who we might lose from this match-winning side over the next few weeks. And any replacements are unlikely to hit the ground running.

 

However much I love the optimism, given our currently league position I’m more concerned by relegation than promotion.

As much as another 3 wins could lift us high up the table, 3 defeats could see us firmly in the bottom four.

At this stage I’ll still be looking for anything 20th and upwards. However ask me at the end of Jan/mid Feb and I might have a different opinion!

 

The problem seems to be the sheer scale of the gap between relegation zone and playoffs.

It looks pretty insurmountable.

 

If you believe that, I think you need to change your name from Pink Dolphin to Pink Sparkly Unicorn....!

 

Put a tenner on it.

Up the fecking bantams.

 

Take O’B Jnr out, lose Payne and an injury to a defender or two and I’m less convinced we’re top six. The depth of the squad is appalling. Being out of the cup is a blessing in disguise

 

Totally agree @Mike Hunt - potentially losing one or both of Payne and Luke O’Brien would be a disaster. Coupled with our track record in previous january windows, albeit with Edin and Abbott gone, it’s a concern if we’d even get decent replacements in given budget and suitable player availability constraints. It’d be bad enough possibly losing either player in terms of just having the player/s no longer available, but I also worry it could set the squad psychologically backwards. It’s obvious both have been absolutely key during our recent impressive turnaround. That’s not to dismiss the others, but clearly they make us tick.

 

Just think!

If Payne, Miller, O'Brien and Ball go back, and NKP or McGowan get suspended/suffer an injury, we could well start with this line up:

-------------Brunker-------------

-----Patrick-------Doyle--------

J O'Brien---O'Connor----Mellor

Chicksen-NKP-Isherwood-Caddis

Sweet dreams!

 

City fans are thick, If you hadn't realised that over the last 18 months