After today's games

It's crazy that only a few weeks ago some were worried that we'd have to get something from these last 2 games to survive. Now we are going into them as the form side who could potentially finish 8th!!

As @Sarge has said, why the hell not? Winning is a habit worth keeping over the summer and into next season.
 
unification said:
Oh to f**k Luton’s party up.

???

It won’t happen but just imagine ...
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Well, you don't know that. Burton away shouldn't be an easy game for them, and neither should their last game against us. If they were to only get two draws, and Portsmouth and Barnsley won their remaining games, Luton would finish third. Even if they won one and lost the other, two big wins for Barnsley could take them above Luton on goal difference. Just like Norwich, Luton really are making a meal of becoming champions.
 
Scotchegg said:
It's crazy that only a few weeks ago some were worried that we'd have to get something from these last 2 games to survive. Now we are going into them as the form side who could potentially finish 8th!!

As @Sarge has said, why the hell not? Winning is a habit worth keeping over the summer and into next season.
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7 games ago was Bradford at home,if wed have lost that we would've been just 1 point above them and second from bottom.
 
Scotchegg said:
It's crazy that only a few weeks ago some were worried that we'd have to get something from these last 2 games to survive. Now we are going into them as the form side who could potentially finish 8th!!

As @Sarge has said, why the hell not? Winning is a habit worth keeping over the summer and into next season.
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I think it would have been a pretty reasonable assessment by the some you speak of
 
Ricky Otto said:
I think it would have been a pretty reasonable assessment by the some you speak of
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Not really. I predicted, on this site, in early March that we'd end the season in 12th position. OK, I'm an optimistic sort of person, but I was actually just looking at the form table, and over the previous 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 games we'd pretty consistently been above 12th in the form table. So yes, we'd had an awful start, but most people on here weren't looking at what other teams were doing, just at us. Not much of a surprise there, but the form table looks at everyone...and we were mostly doing better than half the division, even though we were still in and around the relegation zone.
 
Jon-ioualways said:
Not really. I predicted, on this site, in early March that we'd end the season in 12th position. OK, I'm an optimistic sort of person, but I was actually just looking at the form table, and over the previous 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 games we'd pretty consistently been above 12th in the form table. So yes, we'd had an awful start, but most people on here weren't looking at what other teams were doing, just at us. Not much of a surprise there, but the form table looks at everyone...and we were mostly doing better than half the division, even though we were still in and around the relegation zone.
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Not sure how any of that would make people unreasonable for thinking we were in a relegation scrap when embedded in the relegation zone after 36 / 46 games regardless of your own personal optimism
 
As I said, ALTHOUGH I'm optimistic, I relied on what the form tables were telling anyone who cared to consult them. That for the 30 games up to the beginning of March we were actually doing better than half the teams in our division. That's not optimism or opinion--that's fact. And I don't mean Donald Trump's version of "fact" either. Five games isn't much to base a prediction on, but 30 games is. So it seemed to me that we would be likely to keep that form going and work out way up the table. And that's just what happened. Of course, we could have had some major injuries, or got rid of Karl Robinson...but then that also could have happened to any of our rivals.

For what it's worth, over the past 30 games (from now) we've been averaging better than all but about 5 teams.
 
Jon-ioualways said:
As I said, ALTHOUGH I'm optimistic, I relied on what the form tables were telling anyone who cared to consult them. That for the 30 games up to the beginning of March we were actually doing better than half the teams in our division. That's not optimism or opinion--that's fact. And I don't mean Donald Trump's version of "fact" either. Five games isn't much to base a prediction on, but 30 games is. So it seemed to me that we would be likely to keep that form going and work out way up the table. And that's just what happened. Of course, we could have had some major injuries, or got rid of Karl Robinson...but then that also could have happened to any of our rivals.

For what it's worth, over the past 30 games (from now) we've been averaging better than all but about 5 teams.
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Sure. All good stuff. Don’t disagree with any of your optimism and analytics. Terrific.

As I say though, I think you’re stretching credibility to then suggest that people who thought we were in a relegation battle were unreasonable.

Your assessment was entirely predictive. There was obviously hope from those stats and it boded well. But nothing more. Because averaged over 36 games against other teams in the league we had verifiably proven ourselves to be a bottom four team.

I’ll leave it there. The good news is we are now flying and the threat is dissolve.
 
Our end of season run compromises the awful start to the season which would suggest our middle bit wasn’t play-off level!
 
Hoped to do it to Middlesbrough back in the seventies. 40000 in Ayresome Park. Got done over 4-1. Mind you, it wasn't a surprise.
 
Having watched the highlights of the Luton v Wombles game, it's worth pointing out that Luton battered the Wimbledon goal. Once again the Wombles owed their point to the heroics of Ramsdale in goal, really an exceptional loan player. Luton will come out of the traps at speed against us - probably worth absorbing the first 10 to 15 mins of pressure before we up the tempo down the wings. I heard from a Luton source that the fans have somewhat fallen out of love with Hylts.
 
The league is full of complete dross teams with no consistency. All but the top 3 or 4 have been woeful at times but also put great runs together. The league concertina'd all season. Fans of every team are probably guilty of overoptimism if their team put together a run early doors. Ours came at the end and gave us time to reflect on what might have been. We have momentum to build on next year although likely with a completely different team. We have been guilty twice of storming finishes but such dire starts that we finished just short. We need to get people on longer contracts where possible, see if we can sign some of the loanees again and try and keep the team as intact as possible. Get the business done early and work with what you have got. Hard to take much positives from our final league position after the initial hype, but the last 8 have been really fun for supporters and help fog the first 34 games :) Went "large" on us finishing top half @ 11/10 and almost wrote it off at times, but the cream always rises to the top. COYY
 
FalmouthOx said:
The league is full of complete dross teams with no consistency. All but the top 3 or 4 have been woeful at times but also put great runs together. The league concertina'd all season. Fans of every team are probably guilty of overoptimism if their team put together a run early doors. Ours came at the end and gave us time to reflect on what might have been. We have momentum to build on next year although likely with a completely different team. We have been guilty twice of storming finishes but such dire starts that we finished just short. We need to get people on longer contracts where possible, see if we can sign some of the loanees again and try and keep the team as intact as possible. Get the business done early and work with what you have got. Hard to take much positives from our final league position after the initial hype, but the last 8 have been really fun for supporters and help fog the first 34 games :) Went "large" on us finishing top half @ 11/10 and almost wrote it off at times, but the cream always rises to the top. COYY
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It was the first 12 games that were awful.
Hardly the first 34.
So first 12 games 5 points
Next 25 games 34 points
Last 7 games 19 points.

WIth regard to the Division being full of dross, this is Division 3 and it is pretty much like all seasons (maybe missing the real quality of the past 2 to 3 seasons at the top and the really awful teams at the bottom)
 
Foley said:
It was the first 12 games that were awful.
Hardly the first 34.
So first 12 games 5 points
Next 25 games 34 points
Last 7 games 19 points.

WIth regard to the Division being full of dross, this is Division 3 and it is pretty much like all seasons (maybe missing the real quality of the past 2 to 3 seasons at the top and the really awful teams at the bottom)
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the middle teams though are consistently inconsistent but rarely consistently woeful
 
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