The thing is, you're never going to win every game in a season, so those dropped points are going to come somewhere. The consistency with which we put away the teams we should be putting away is remarkable. You can bet your life, come the end of the season, there'll be someone up there ruing points dropped against poor teams - Lincoln lost at home to the Gas earlier in the year, for example, and Hull lost at Burton on the weekend. It doesn't seem like we'll have those regrets (touch wood). The only team in the bottom half, who were in the bottom half when we played them, that we haven't beaten is Swindon. The other two are Gillingham and Blackpool, who were both looking decent in the early stages of the season when we came up against them.
74 points are very likely to be enough to make the play offs.
Potentially although 74 points has been good enough in the last 10 years to achieve at least 6th spot and I don't see any reason why this season would be different - no-one is running away with the title and no-one is marooned at the bottom - it's a fairly standard mid-season table. Not every team near the top will continue to achieve their current PPG, it's then a question of whether any lower ranked teams pick up significantly.
We're currently 9 points off Hull in second with two games in hand. I know there's teams below them who also have games in hand etc., but I think anyone finishing above Hull will be going up automatically.
It really isn't a problem as it's a league and not one off games, teams drop pts regardless....As an example of why it matters not we were bottom 3 so must have beaten teams above us to get to where we are now.
