Matches The run in

[stokeu]

So here's our remaining matches, mapped against the current form table

42 points to play for, how may will we realistically get?

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Venue	Month
1	Barnsley	6	5	1	0	15	4	11	16	Away	April
2	Sheff Wed	6	5	1	0	13	4	9	16	Home	April
3	Bolton	6	5	0	1	14	2	12	15	Home	April
4	Wycombe	6	5	0	1	11	3	8	15
5	Derby	6	4	1	1	14	6	8	13	Home	March
6	Shrewsbury	6	4	1	1	7	4	3	13
7	Peterborough	6	4	0	2	9	7	2	12	Away	April
8	Burton Albion	6	4	0	2	8	8	0	12
9	Plymouth	6	3	2	1	11	6	5	11
10	Lincoln City	6	2	4	0	5	1	4	10	Away	March
11	Ipswich	6	2	3	1	12	5	7	9
12	Charlton	6	3	0	3	7	7	0	9
13	Portsmouth	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8	Home	April
14	Fleetwood Town	6	2	1	3	5	7	-2	7
15	Port Vale	6	1	2	3	5	10	-5	5	Away	April
16	Cambridge Utd	6	1	2	3	4	10	-6	5
17	Cheltenham	6	1	2	3	4	10	-6	5	Home	March
18	Accrington Stanley	6	1	2	3	3	9	-6	5	Home	May
19	Exeter	6	1	1	4	3	6	-3	4
20	MK Dons	6	1	1	4	5	14	-9	4
21	Morecambe	6	1	1	4	6	17	-11	4	Away	March
22	Oxford Utd	6	0	1	5	3	10	-7	1
23	Forest Green	6	0	1	5	2	11	-9	1	Away	April
24	Bristol Rovers	6	0	1	5	2	12	-10	1	Home	February

 

[yellowbow]

Mini revival and 15 points. I’ve decided, for the sake of my sanity, to look at everything through rose tinted glasses….

 

[EastStandKieran]

I'm only going to look at the league table when I'm pissed that way my eye sight will be a bit blurry and 36 might look like 86

 

[ECYellow]

6 point cushion with every team other than FGR having games in hand.

Saturday is humongous!

 

[Symp59]

We are going down I sing we are going down .

 

[YellowSubmarine]

6 point gap.

Accrington have 3 games in hand.
Burton & Cheltenham have 2 games in hand.
Morecambe, MK Dons & Cambridge have 1 game in hand.

& there was people suggesting we was play off contenders only a few weeks ago..

 

[Cotswolds Cowboy]

6 point gap.

Accrington have 3 games in hand.
Burton & Cheltenham have 2 games in hand.
Morecambe, MK Dons & Cambridge have 1 game in hand.

& there was people suggesting we was play off contenders only a few weeks ago..

The one thing that might help us is that teams at the bottom are there for a reason and rarely go on unbeaten runs
One or two sides might do it but we'd have to be unlucky for 4 or 5 sides to do it even if we continue our abject run
But it's a pretty poor position to be in to have to look for small mercies that might save our skin

 

[Frustrated Yellow]

The one thing that might help us is that teams at the bottom are there for a reason and rarely go on unbeaten runs
One or two sides might do it but we'd have to be unlucky for 4 or 5 sides to do it even if we continue our abject run
But it's a pretty poor position to be in to have to look for small mercies that might save our skin

It comes to this, scratching for small mercies. Thank you KR.

 

[SouthOxonOx]

The one thing that might help us is that teams at the bottom are there for a reason and rarely go on unbeaten runs
One or two sides might do it but we'd have to be unlucky for 4 or 5 sides to do it even if we continue our abject run
But it's a pretty poor position to be in to have to look for small mercies that might save our skin

That is completely true although we are sat on 36 points which obviously won't be enough. We have to play a few of them yet and they are the games that are going to count. That's why the Cambridge defeat was so bad. I think the vegan lot at the bottom are gone so only 3 places realistically to fill.

 

[Symp59]

If we continue our run we will be filling one of those spaces. Let's hope that doesn't happen we must get a win soon

 

[yellowbow]

It comes to this, scratching for small mercies. Thank you KR.

Oh I think TW also deserves some of the credit

 

[Bornyellow]

See I look at that and think we’ll stay up, but my god we have to win Saturday or I’ll start to loose hope.

 

[Sarge]

enough to stay clear of the drop zone places by a few points I reckon

 

[Notaswindonfan]

I’m struggling to see where the next goal will come from let alone 3 points.

 

[Bornyellow]

I’m struggling to see where the next goal will come from let alone 3 points.

This is the issue atm, we simply have to find a way to win Saturday no matter how then hopefully we can build from there. If we can find some kind of form at home I think we’ll be fine… only just.

 

[Yellowmania]

Somebody else posted about some of the teams we’ve got to play at home, eg Sheffield Wednesday & Derby, selling out their ticket allocation and getting into the home end.
It happened at Accrington with Bolton fans and assume there was trouble.
I hope the club is doing some due diligence on new people registering. Only so much they can do on postcodes though I suppose.

 

[bicesterox]

Next 10 days for the bottom 8 as it stands tonight
Tomorrow
OXFORD v Bristol R, BURTON v ACCRINGTON, Exeter v CAMBRIDGE, Fleetwood v MORECAMBE, FGR v Lincoln, Ipswich v MK DONS, Portsmouth v CHELTENHAM

28 Feb
Derby v CHELTENHAM, Lincoln v MK DONS

4 Mar
MORECAMBE v Bolton, CHELTENHAM v Fleetwood, P.Vale v MK DONS, ACCRINGTON v FGR, Ipswich v BURTON, CAMBRIDGE v Portsmouth, Lincoln v OXFORD

7 Mar
CAMBRIDGE v MORECAMBE, CHELTENHAM v Lincoln, Ipswich v ACCRINGTON

Some big games there

Now, if the bottom 8 carried on getting the PPG that they have for the season so far, the only change would be Accrington and Morecambe swapping places, we would get 50 points, unfortunately that is never going to happen and on current form of last 7 games we would be lucky to get to 38 points let alone 50.

Tomorrow is MASSIVE,

 

[ECYellow]

@Colin B & @Thecurraghofkildare can you brush of your abacuses and rev up the dot counting bus for our remaining home games??

In light of today’s relief I firmly believe those ST holders that have been staying away and those casual supporters who’ve not bothered will return.

Can we, as a fan base really make a positive difference for the run in?

 

[Colin B]

@Colin B & @Thecurraghofkildare can you brush of your abacuses and rev up the dot counting bus for our remaining home games??

In light of today’s relief I firmly believe those ST holders that have been staying away and those casual supporters who’ve not bothered will return.

Can we, as a fan base really make a positive difference for the run in?

Funnily enough myself and @Thecurraghofkildare only exchanged PMs over the last couple of days, saying we'd only had the Arsenal game to dot count this season! It'll be a pleasure to do a bit of dot counting, and crowd forecasting, for some of the upcoming games.

 

[ECYellow]

Funnily enough myself and @Thecurraghofkildare only exchanged PMs over the last couple of days, saying we'd only had the Arsenal game to dot count this season! It'll be a pleasure to do a bit of dot counting, and crowd forecasting, for some of the upcoming games.

Top man Colin! I’m convinced it helped galvanise and push attendances up last season.

Derby 10k? let’s have a bloody good go at it!

 

[The Curragh Of Kildare]

Likewise, I can't wait to get behind a real attendance push again - we all need to unite and get behind the team now, and hopefully we can see season tickets holders returning en masse (although that won't affect the dots!) and there are some big matches on the horizon where with a re-energised fanbase we should be cracking 10,000.

 

[OX14]

Top man Colin! I’m convinced it helped galvanise and push attendances up last season.

Derby 10k? let’s have a bloody good go at it!

Announce a replacement manager and we will surely hit 10k anyways. The fans staying away because of Karl weren't just season ticket holders.

 

[Colin B]

Top man Colin! I’m convinced it helped galvanise and push attendances up last season.

Derby 10k? let’s have a bloody good go at it!

100%. Derby, Sheff Wed, Bolton, Pompey, all should be 10,000+ games now, maybe even Accrington on the last day?

I'll do a count up for Derby and start a thread in a few days time. Let's see what we can do!

 

[nick68]

Can people stop citing that Accrington have 3 games in hand without referencing who those games are against;

Ipswich (A)
Portsmouth (H)
Plymouth (H)

They also don't play on 1st April as Bolton are in the PJT final so another game in hand away to Bolton at that point.

Whilst it would be foolish to assume they'll lose all 4 of those games it would take a dramatic change in form for them to get many points from them.

 

[Yellowmania]

No doubt the Derby fans will swell our attendance in the home stands. I suppose every pound counts but bloody annoying if you’re sat near any.

 

[stokeu]

2 down, 0 points. Maybe I'll update the table.... sighs....

 

[Deleted member 808]

0 points between now and end of season. We just can't score

 

[Londox]

I just can't see where the next point is coming from at the moment. Some point to the quality in our team, but it's devoid of confidence, tactical ideas, steel. I'm fully prepared that we could drop this season, I'm pinning a lot of my hope on a new manager bounce (which should have come last summer)

 

[Cotswolds Cowboy]

I'm optimistic
The atmosphere will be much better at home in the next few games and hopefully a new manager will play people in their correct positions
A couple of lucky goals would do wonders for the team's confidence
Fingers crossed

 

[stokeu]

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Venue	Month
1	Sheff Wed	6	5	1	0	13	4	9	16	H	April
2	Barnsley	6	4	2	0	14	3	11	14	A	April
3	Portsmouth	6	4	1	1	10	4	6	13	H	April
4	Wycombe	6	4	1	1	10	5	5	13
5	Fleetwood Town	6	4	1	1	5	2	3	13
6	Ipswich	6	3	3	0	12	3	9	12
7	Shrewsbury	6	3	2	1	8	5	3	11
8	Bolton	6	3	1	2	13	5	8	10	H	April
9	Plymouth	6	3	1	2	10	8	2	10
10	Lincoln City	6	2	4	0	5	3	2	10
11	Burton Albion	6	3	1	2	6	8	-2	10
12	Accrington Stanley	6	2	3	1	4	4	0	9	H	May
13	Derby	6	2	2	2	10	10	0	8	H	March
14	Peterborough	6	2	1	3	8	9	-1	7	A	April
15	Cheltenham	6	2	1	3	3	11	-8	7	H	March
16	Port Vale	6	2	0	4	6	9	-3	6	A	April
17	Bristol Rovers	6	1	2	3	4	5	-1	5
18	Exeter	6	1	2	3	4	5	-1	5
19	Morecambe	6	1	2	3	2	8	-6	5	A	March
20	Charlton	6	1	1	4	2	7	-5	4
21	Cambridge Utd	6	1	0	5	2	8	-6	3
22	Forest Green	6	0	2	4	3	11	-8	2	A	April
23	MK Dons	6	0	2	4	4	14	-10	2
24	Oxford Utd	6	0	1	5	2	10	-8	1