General L1 23/24 - 5 Game Blocks

[Steve Gilbert]

2023/2024 Season
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Block 1 Cambridge (A) - 0 Carlisle (H) - 3 Derby (A) - 3 Barnsley (A) - 3 Charlton (H) - 3 Total out of 15: 12 Form: 1st/2nd Place Manager - Liam Manning​	Block 2 Vale (H) - 0 Fleetwood (A) - 3 Exeter (H) - 3 Stevenage (A) - 3 Shrewsbury (H) - 3 Total out of 15: 12 Form: 1st/2nd Place Manager - Liam Manning​	Block 3 Bristol Rovers (H) - 3 Blackpool (H) - 1 Wigan (A) - 0 Wycombe (H) - 1 Lincoln (A) - 3 Total out of 15: 8 Form: 7th Place Manager - Liam Manning​
Block 4 Orient (A) - 3 Cheltenham (A) - 0 Bolton (H) - 1 Peterborough (A) - 0 Reading (A) - 1 Total out of 15: 5 Form: Relegation Manager - Des Buckingham​	Block 5 Burton (H) - 3 Northampton (A) - 0 Cambridge (H) - 3 Derby (H) - 0 Charlton (A) - 3 Total out of 15: 9 Form: 6th Place Manager - Des Buckingham​	Block 6 Carlisle (A) - 3 Barnsley (H) - 0 Bristol Rovers (A) - 0 Pompey (H) - 1 Reading (H) - 1 Total out of 15: 5 Form: Relegation Manager - Des Buckingham​
Block 7 Blackpool (A) - 1 Wigan (H) - 3 Wycombe (A) - 1 Northampton (H) - 1 Orient (H) - 0 Total out of 15: 6 Form: Relegation Manager - Des Buckingham​	Block 8 Pompey (A) - 0 Cheltenham (H) - 3 Bolton (A) - 0 Vale (A) - 3 Shrewsbury (A) - 1 Total out of 15: 7 Form: Mid-Table Manager - Des Buckingham​	Block 9 Fleetwood (H) - 3 Burton (A) - 3 Peterborough (H) - 3 Lincoln (H) - 0 Stevenage (H) - 1 Exeter (A) - 3 Total out of 18: 13 Form: Play off winning form!! Manager - Des Buckingham​

Season Average PPB: 8 Season Average Form: 8th Place​

Past Seasons​

2nd place: 2022/23: 98 2021/22: 90 2020/21: 87 2018/19: 91 20/17/18: 96 Average = 92.4 PPB for 93 points = 11​	3rd place (+1 point): 2022/23: 95 (96) 2021/22: 89 (90) 2020/21: 80 (81) 2018/19: 88 (89) 2017/18: 87 (88) Average = 87.8 PPB for 88 points = 10​
6th place: 2022/23: 77 2021/22: 83 2020/21: 74 2018/19: 73 2017/18: 71 Average = 75.6 PPB for 76 points = 9​	20th Place: 2022/23: 46 2021/22: 40 2020/21: 48 2018/19: 50 2017/18: 51 Average = 47 PPB for 47 points = 6​

 

[Jster]

Interesting - after a very poor first block (the only win was before he joined), Des now has a block with more points than Manning's final block.

 

[Yellowecky]

I’m hoping for ten points from Block 6.

3-3-1-0-3.

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

I’m hoping for ten points from Block 6.

3-3-1-0-3.

Interesting, I’m hoping for eleven:

3-3-1-1-3

 

[m]

Surely we're all hoping for 15.

 

[Ewes]

I can’t see beyond 3 draws and 2 defeats at best from the next block of games.

 

[Basham Wonderland]

That's the spirit.

 

[Yellowecky]

Surely we're all hoping for 15.

There’s hope and then there’s fantasy!

If we gain 15 points from Block 6 I shall stop castigating Liam Manning!

 

[Carpy]

I can’t see beyond 3 draws and 2 defeats at best from the next block of games.

How the f**k did you come up with that based on the games in Block 6?

Carlisle (A)
Northampton (H)
Barnsley (H)
Bristol Rovers (A)
Reading (H)
Total out of 15:

 

[Banbury2018]

How the f**k did you come up with that based on the games in Block 6?

Carlisle (A)
Northampton (H)
Barnsley (H)
Bristol Rovers (A)
Reading (H)
Total out of 15:

I want/expect 10 points minimum.

 

[Marked Ox]

That's the spirit.

 

[Ewes]

How the f**k did you come up with that based on the games in Block 6?

Carlisle (A) Lose
Northampton (H) Draw
Barnsley (H) Draw at best
Bristol Rovers (A) Lose
Reading (H) Draw
Total out of 15:

 

[Foley]

I can’t see beyond 3 draws and 2 defeats at best from the next block of games.

Seriously? Reading and Northampton at home and Carlisle away and you can see no wins?
Presumably this is a wind up?

 

[Ewes]

Seriously? Reading and Northampton at home and Carlisle away and you can see no wins?
Presumably this is a wind up?

I guess we’ll see who is right at the end of the month. Bookmark this.

My reasons - Carlisle will be a long journey plus they’ve got new signing Armstrong available. Narrow home win in my view.
Northampton we rarely do well against, as evidenced in the away fixture. Reading are reasonable away from home and will bring noisy support. We may be higher up the league than both but I wouldn’t bet against us losing one/both matches against these fairly local rivals.

 

[SirAndyOfCrosby]

I guess we’ll see who is right at the end of the month. Bookmark this.

My reasons - Carlisle will be a long journey plus they’ve got new signing Armstrong available. Narrow home win in my view.
Northampton we rarely do well against, as evidenced in the away fixture. Reading are reasonable away from home and will bring noisy support. We may be higher up the league than both but I wouldn’t bet against us losing one/both matches against these fairly local rivals.

- Carlisle have only won 3 at home all season (all to Midlands sides) and the likes of Orient, Bristol Rovers, Cheltenham and Exeter all won there - apparently despite the distance. And their new centre forward hasn't scored a League goal since August.

- Historical record v Northampton is irrelevant. We should have got a result there two weeks ago despite a poor performance (and one of their best of the season, apparently).

- Reading have 1 win (and 6 points) from 12 away games this season. They are atrocious away from home. And when we went there last month (without Rodrigues) they looked, for my money, absolute relegation fodder.

Perfectly reasonable to expect 7 points from these 3 games.

And it should really be all 9.

 

[werthersoriginal]

10 or 11 from the block is hardly wild fantasy!

 

[Steve Gilbert]

I guess we’ll see who is right at the end of the month. Bookmark this.

My reasons - Carlisle will be a long journey plus they’ve got new signing Armstrong available. Narrow home win in my view.
Northampton we rarely do well against, as evidenced in the away fixture. Reading are reasonable away from home and will bring noisy support. We may be higher up the league than both but I wouldn’t bet against us losing one/both matches against these fairly local rivals.

It sounds like you’d be unhappy if you were wrong, strange for an OUFC fan.

 

[Foley]

I guess we’ll see who is right at the end of the month. Bookmark this.

My reasons - Carlisle will be a long journey plus they’ve got new signing Armstrong available. Narrow home win in my view.
Northampton we rarely do well against, as evidenced in the away fixture. Reading are reasonable away from home and will bring noisy support. We may be higher up the league than both but I wouldn’t bet against us losing one/both matches against these fairly local rivals.

Which would be relegation form.
So you think that we ate that bad a team clearly

 

[BDJ]

'Blocks of games' remind me of KR. I don't want to be reminded about KR.

 

[WE Yellow]

5 game blocks were definitely an Appleton thing

 

[MJB]

'Blocks of games' remind me of KR. I don't want to be reminded about KR.

Apples for me, Clive.

 

[Basham Wonderland]

I guess we’ll see who is right at the end of the month. Bookmark this.

My reasons - Carlisle will be a long journey plus they’ve got new signing Armstrong available. Narrow home win in my view.
Northampton we rarely do well against, as evidenced in the away fixture. Reading are reasonable away from home and will bring noisy support. We may be higher up the league than both but I wouldn’t bet against us losing one/both matches against these fairly local rivals.

I bookmarked your post.

Would you like to revise your January predictions?

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

10 points from Block 6 should be an absolute minimum now.

There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be able to make it a 11 point block either. Any more is ambitious, but 11 would be superb

 

[Steve Gilbert]

With the Pompey game now on 30th that game falls into this block of 5 games with Reading being the 1st game of the next block.

 

[NorthWestOx]

Current PPG would see Bolton become champions on 98pts.
Peterborough grabbing 2nd on 92pts.
Portsmouth and Derby both on 90pts.
We come in 5th on 87pts.
Barnsley in 6th on 85pts and Stevenage 7th on 81pts.

Currently, the top 7 are pulling away as Blackpool are on target for 8th on 72pts.

I can't see Bolton maintaining their PPG, they've already got a lot of fixtures to fit in and they are also still in 2 cups.
They've only got 5 free mid-weeks and one of those is required for last saturday's game.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

Blocks updated with the Northampton game now rearranged.
Block 8 looks very tough with 4 out of 5 away games with 2 of them being Pompey and Bolton plus Vale which we never seem to do very well when we play there. 2 winnable games with Shrewsbury away and Cheltenham at home though.

 

[CCYellow]

4 out of 5 away games

Are you sure? That's not allowed under fixture scheduling rules.

Lincoln (H) is between Port Vale and Shrewsbury away.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

Are you sure? That's not allowed under fixture scheduling rules.

Lincoln (H) is between Port Vale and Shrewsbury away.

Lincoln will be rescheduled as it falls on an international weekend, that’s why I have left it out.

 

[Ewes]

I bookmarked your post.

Would you like to revise your January predictions?

Nope. Sadly. Predictions haven’t gone quite the way I thought but overall form has.

 

[Ewes]

I bookmarked your post.

Would you like to revise your January predictions?

 

[Steve Gilbert]

You were wrong, we got 2 more points than you predicted so you must be happy?