Championship - 2022/23

For me there’s pretty much been daylight between us and the play-offs for 3 or 4 weeks, it was just obscured by the games in hand mixing everything up. We need in more draws in games involving our rivals but it’s pointless if we don’t take advantage.

 

8 straight wins and we are right back in it.

 

Precisely.

"Physician heal thyself".

 

Gino's called at 8am but is still in a queue waiting for an appointment.

 

It's a good thing if we don't make the playoffs, that'll eliminate any doubt as to whether Bilic will be here next season (he should already have been sacked) as well as meaning we don't have to have our pants pulled down for carthorse Davis.

 

Absolutely. It's the oldest cliche in the book, but it does feel the season starts now!

 

Plenty of points will be dropped around us, and in the playoffs, it’s just whether or not we’re good enough to make it count.

Sheff Utd have

Norwich, west Brom, Sunderland, Burnley, Luton and Blackburn left.

Boro have

Burnley, Norwich and Luton.

Blackburn have

Sheff Utd, Burnley, Norwich, Luton and Millwall.

Millwall have

Norwich, West Brom, Luton again and Blackburn.

Luton have

Sheff Utd, Sunderland, Watford, Millwall again, Boro and Blackburn.

Watford have

Luton, Coventry and Sunderland.

Sunderland have

Norwich, Sheff Utd, Luton, Burnley, West Brom and Watford.

Norwich have

Millwall, Sunderland, Sheff Utd, Blackburn, Boro and West Brom.

West Brom have

Sheff Utd, Millwall, Sunderland and Norwich.

Coventry

Watford, Blackburn and Boro.

Making up 4 points shouldn’t be difficult with the games we have left, but it’s also Watford we’re talking about. We have the easiest run of games left against many teams that have nothing to play for. Really is no excuse to not make the playoffs. Gino will pull the trigger and sack Bilic if we lose or draw on Saturday.

 

I'm sure we'd all very much like to think that; unfortunately, it's not the reality of the situation as reported:

 

Yep, we need to go on a good run-in.
I'm not worried at all... If we finally start to click we've got every chance, but if we don't then we won't deserve the POs and I'm OK with that for now.

 

Probably for the best.

 

Very interesting, I wish I had seen this earlier

 

Hull beating West Brom, come on Hull!

 

Good stat . Someone put some work into that

 

Pure speculation of course, but fun to indulge in nevertheless , but it might imply that the following teams would comprise the top 6…

Top 3
Burnley
Sheff Utd
Boro

Postions 4-6( in any order)
Watford
WBA
Millwall

 

Yikes.

That's awful.

 

Not the first Blackpool fan to be killed as a result of football violence - I remember this day back in 1974 very clearly.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-28888465

 

There's a video that has been released that sadly shows there was no innocence on either side. Why on earth do adults still do this in the name of football tribalism?

 

Violence has no place anywhere.

 

We’re in 10th place now. The same position we were in when Bilic took over.

 

So Bilic left us higher up the table yet on day one Wilder has us in down in 10th?

 

1 point ahead of Luton and 3 points behind Burnley when Bilic took over.

Now 6 points behind Luton and 26 behind Burnley.

That went well Gino.

 

Loooool, how?

 

I’m fairness we were 6 points off Norwich in second, but considering we beat Burnley in those first 10 games it’s an incredible achievement to have let them get that far ahead.