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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.

 

Quite the opposite, positive energy is being poured into every aspect of the club at the moment, morale has rocketed as I know having spent time with the VP staff. Major tyre pumping job going on. I think you confuse negativity with realism, the world in which I operate.

 

Yes @Fordy117 made a comment of if Payne is sold he hoped it would be in the last week of the transfer window, and someone said they hoped it would be early in the window so we could get someone in, Barnsley, Southend, Burton and Shrewsbury before the window closes, I'm with @Fordy117 hope if he leaves its on the last day of the window.

 

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.

 

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!

 

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

 

placed this bet after Peterborough away, feeling quite confident...

 

well at least there’ll be a few happy bantams tonight that scunthorpe won again. how dare mccall do that to us if it means we’re back in the relegation zone.

 

Put a tenner on it.

Up the fecking bantams.

 

You make @Fordy117 and @Park bantam sound rational.

 

He's right though Bronco. There were a couple on here who didn't want us to hammer Scunny, I seem to remember one of them didn't even want us to beat them at all, for fear of upsetting. McCall. Well, I tell you what, I bet he didn't give us a second thought as they beat Coventry and put us back in the bottom 4 today

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

Totally agree with you and Ollylondon Bantam, Dennis. We are in a relegation battle, end of. Forget play off hopes and all the nonsense about odds and the like.
Julian said weeks ago the sole and only aim is to finish fifth from the bottom this season. He repeated that aim in an interview as recently as three days ago in the Yorkshire Post and that is what everyone is focussed on. Yes we have done very well recently and by rights should be a point better off at least but others may say the same.
On another thread several weeks ago I said I believed 54 points will be needed to stay up, I am now wavering to say I think the last relegation spot could go down with a record points collection, certainly 54 becomes questionable in my mind.
As you say Dennis much will depend on the window and especially who or what wage burden we can unload and who comes in but DH has made his views clear on this. Much as the likes of Fordy want Stefan to spend he is already fulfilling his promise to invest (his words) simply by keeping us afloat after his partner's blunderings. Big money has been put in through the summer and recently to prop up the mess so we can't have it all ways.
Sorry to you guys who have put money on the play-offs, survival is the only game in town this season.

 

Hopkin would rather play Goldthorp than Wright. Wright won't be playing for us again, by the looks of it.

Or did I miss something?

 

That's the trouble when you miss a game because in our case Shrewsbury were at home to Stoke in the FA Cup, lose at Barnsley and we could be 22nd, we can only take one game at a time but the way we were playing Shrewsbury at home would have given us a chance to start pulling clear of the bottom 4.

 

Give your head a shake wum.

 

Rochdale in deep trouble now.

Talk about a losing run.