Nobody still believes surely ? (1 Viewer)

[hill83]

Just looked and next week Oldham play Bury and Port Vale play Swindon. They obviously all can't pick up 3 points.

IT'S ON BOYS.

 

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[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

If our form between now and the end of the season is better than Chelsea, Newcastle and Sheffield United and the other teams just outside the relegation zone go into crash mode then yes, we will most definitely stay up.

 

[higgs]

1pt out of Swindon bury and Shrewsbury isn't exactly survival form

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[Otis]

If our form between now and the end of the season is better than Chelsea, Newcastle and Sheffield United and the other teams just outside the relegation zone go into crash mode then yes, we will most definitely stay up.

That's the spirit!!!

 

[skybluedan]

Thanks for that Dan:emoji_stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: glad the wife was at work she might have thought it was a bit strange me putting that channel on

My pal just took the remote off a barmaid in a pub full of blokes and changed the channel
He's not happy

 

[Liquid Gold]

I voted yes but there is no chance we're staying up. I just wanted to ruin your vote like Lee Burge ruins my life.

 

[oucho]

Even though Oldham lost today and we therefore closed the gap by a point, we are in fact further from safety than before kickoff because we require more than 2 points per game and obviously only won one today, so the required runrate has increased.

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Even though Oldham lost today and we therefore closed the gap by a point, we are in fact further from safety than before kickoff because we require more than 2 points per game and obviously only won one today, so the required runrate has increased.

Spot on. Before today's match we had to win all but 3 of our remaining games. Today's was one of the three .

 

[oucho]

I know it was only a point, but luckily for us Oldham, Bury and Swindon all lost.

Why was that lucky for us? Our single point means that, with an average of two points per game required before kick-off today, we're further away from achieving the final safety mark than ever, even though the current points gap has shrunk by one.

You admit we are down so surely the results of others sides at this point is irrelevant?

 

[oucho]

Spot on. Before today's match we had to win all but 3 of our remaining games. Today's was one of the three .

I think we could just survive with 7 wins and 2 draws from here = 23 points, plus the 26 we have = 49. I suspect that would be enough.

Still, winning 7 out of 11 = more than 60% of the remaining matches. We've won 5 out of 35 so far = 1 in every 7 matches played i.e. less than 15% win ratio. Even if we QUADROUPLE that win ation over the final 11 games, it STILL won't be enough to keep us up.

So no, I do not believe.

 

[oscillatewildly]

Hahahahahahahaha! No, seriously stop it!!! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Nurse! My sides!! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I stopped, hahahahahahahaha, believing, hahahahahahahahahahahaha, we, hahahahaha, would have, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah, any, hahahahahahahaha, chance of, oh hang on! Any chance, where were we? Of staying up????? At the end of hahahahahahahahaha, fucking September 2016!!! I wasn't too far wrong, was I ??!!!

 

[oscillatewildly]

IT'S A 'NO' FROM ME!!!!

 

[Nick]

You seem happy?

 

[oscillatewildly]

You seem happy?

I truly never thought 'happy' would play a part in this seasons events. The op's post has just killed me tho!

 

[CovisGod]

I truly never thought 'happy' would play a part in this seasons events. The op's post has just killed me tho!

Why ? Nobody including me has said we think we'll stay up, infact I've said the exact opposite.

I just wondered how many still were clinging on to that bit of hope,

Not many by the looks of things

 

[scottccfc]

I'm 100% sure we are down but doesn't mean we can't "enjoy" what's left of the season

 

[Liquid Gold]

I know this is a strange way of thinking of it but I hope we lose the next couple and actually be done. I don't see us staying up at all and I'd rather it be over with than win a few and start to have some hope then just miss out.

 

[lapsed_skyblue]

Moving on... maybe the next poll should be "Can we avoid finishing in bottom place?"

 

[Houchens Head]

"Nobody still believes surely?"
Why? What did Shirley have to say about it then?

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

We're staying up until in my book until its mathmatically impossible.

 

[italiahorse]

We're staying up until in my book until its mathmatically impossible.

You need to watch a match then.
This team will be lucky to get another 10 points.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

You need to watch a match then.
This team will be lucky to get another 10 points.

I'd snap your hand off for the 10 points!

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

Has anyone seen us over the last half dozen games ? We are worse than shit

 

[Cov kid 55]

If only we had a manager like that Tony Mowbray we wouldn't be in this position!

You're not by any chance, trying to wind up CC4L, are you? It won't work, he's not talking about TM any more. I don't think we'll stay up, but just want us to play football on the ground, and move forward over the remainder of the season.

 

[Warwickhunt]

Has anyone seen us over the last half dozen games ? We are worse than shit

We were not that good?

 

[Dimi_Konstantflapalot]

I don't believe it, but you have to think in baby steps. Win next week and others lose and we close the gap.

Small steps. We now need to aim for two wins on the bounce. Two wins, see where we are, see if the gap is closing.

We can't think in terms of having to win 8 games. Just concentrate on baby steps and set out to win each game as it comes up. We need to steer clear of looking at the big picture.
If we look at the table it all looks nigh on impossible.

Obviously a win next week would be massive, because Bradford are right up there pressing for the play-offs and beyond.

Don't look at the size of the task in hand, just let us take one game at a time.

Astonishing optimism, I really admire it. What you say is logical, and I'm sure it's what RS is saying to that rabble. At least I hope it is...

 

[Gazolba]

You'd have to be insane to think we can suddenly become good enough to win 7 or 8 of our remaining games.
Every player would have to go in a phone booth, spin around and turn into Superman.
Or was that Wonderwoman?

 

[AVWskyblue]

You're not by any chance, trying to wind up CC4L, are you? It won't work, he's not talking about TM any more. I don't think we'll stay up, but just want us to play football on the ground, and move forward over the remainder of the season.

You could only wind cc4l up by 1)taking his play station away 2)confiscating his dirty mags or 3)ripping down his naked Mowbray poster from his nursery bedroom wall

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[stevefloyd]

I cling on to hope but dont see enough goals in this team to fire us to safety... poor recruitment has cost us dearly

 

[Otis]

Why was that lucky for us? Our single point means that, with an average of two points per game required before kick-off today, we're further away from achieving the final safety mark than ever, even though the current points gap has shrunk by one.

You admit we are down so surely the results of others sides at this point is irrelevant?

So, other results are irrelevant? Don't get that logic at all, Oucho.

I thought we all agreed to a man that the only way we can stay up is if other sides crumble and fail.

IF 50 is the magic number, Oldham only have to get 11 points from 10 games. Bury 10 points from 10 games.

That's 3 wins, 2 draws, 5 defeats for Oldham and just 3 wins, a draw and 6 defeats for Bury.

So not even anything like average form.

Other results are very relevant because we need teams to fail spectacularly. Even then 50 points for us may not be good enough

 

[Gazolba]

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Other results are very relevant because we need teams to fail spectacularly. Even then 50 points for us may not be good enough

Unfortunately, Coventry are bottom of the form table and have been for weeks. There is no sign whatsoever of anything turning around.
Our relegation rivals are all picking up more points than us.
We don't just need a win here and there, we need a spectacular upturn in form such that a team of no-hopers suddenly becomes a promotion quality side and players who could not buy a goal suddenly start scoring like Messi or Suarez.

 

[Hobo]

We need to start playing like we did against Shrewsbury about a month ago and sustain it until the end of the season.

The gods picked the team yesterday not Slade.

 

[rupert_bear]

Listened to bits of yesterdays game and we sounded the better team and shooting in at times BUT Shrewsbury did miss a penalty so will be miffed they didn't win 1-0. To stay up we need to win all our home games and can't score for toffee. Can't let an improved performance which it was hide the Slade factor who simply should no longer be here.
Going to be very interesting if this burke leads us out at Wembley what our fans reaction will be towards him as I suspect we will be down and out by then.

 

[stevefloyd]

Lets hope he is a bit of a hero by then

 

[oucho]

So, other results are irrelevant? Don't get that logic at all, Oucho.

I thought we all agreed to a man that the only way we can stay up is if other sides crumble and fail.

IF 50 is the magic number, Oldham only have to get 11 points from 10 games. Bury 10 points from 10 games.

That's 3 wins, 2 draws, 5 defeats for Oldham and just 3 wins, a draw and 6 defeats for Bury.

So not even anything like average form.

Other results are very relevant because we need teams to fail spectacularly. Even then 50 points for us may not be good enough

See Gazolba reply above. Other rrsults are in practice irrelevant because at the moment it seems very unlikely we'll get to the current 39 point safety mark, never mind some notional higher safety post of 50 or so. It's irrelevant because we won't be getting close to safety.