Championship thread 25/26! (78 Viewers)

[David O'Day]

I don't think we've got a player as effective in the press as O'Hare.

if BTA was fit for the home we probably would have

 

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[Otis]

Anyone know if we have QPR next after the Norwich game?

 

[skybluegod]

BTA?

BTA has a lot of energy but I'm not sure he is as tactically intelligent as O'Hare in his pressing ability. Definitely as useful a player but just not in the same way for me.

 

[BaldyJ]

Bored of reading how every game ‘we must win’. Some folk seem to think we need 54 points from the final 18 games

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

The relegation , playoff and title races are all exciting.

Great league but I never ever want to be in it again ideally!

Given how much you're rimming Wrexham, there's a reasonable chance you'll be watching it again next year.

 

[Liquid Gold]

Norwich isn’t a must win in that it’ll have a huge impact on the season necessarily but it’s a fantastic opportunity to give us the sort of cushion we haven’t had since the start of December.

 

[Mercian In Anglia]

That has to have rocked QPR ready for next week.

yeah, if you are QPR who's the last team you want to see next after a result like that?

 

[covcity4life]

Given how much you're rimming Wrexham, there's a reasonable chance you'll be watching it again next year.

Don't be a cuck

 

[sc1940]

I forgot they have a game in hand as well. Who’s that against?

Played the same games as us ATM, If we win on Monday we will be 11 points ahead of them

 

[SkyblueTexan]

Big result this. Beats the wind out of Ipswich sails and shows others they’re vulnerable and can be beaten.

Hope they have a wobble now

 

[mark82]

Bored of reading how every game ‘we must win’. Some folk seem to think we need 54 points from the final 18 games

That'd be nice, and a lot less stressful.

 

[covcity4life]

Hope they have a wobble now

No philogene no points!

 

[Tommo1993]

We were running out of steam too tbf. The break after the Blues game was just what we needed.

Think the contrast was stark. We were admittedly low on juice but I do think they looked good anyway.

 

[mark82]

Hope they have a wobble now

Don't see it. But it's in our hands, just need to keep doing our own job well.

 

[BaldyJ]

That's be nice, and a lot less stressful.

It just wouldn’t be Coventry City though would it. We don’t tend to do things the easy way.

 

[AFCCOVENTRY]

Hope they have a wobble now

After Preston at home they’ve got 5 away games in a row.

 

[SkyblueTexan]

I forgot they have a game in hand as well. Who’s that against?

Think it’s against Ipswich. Nice. Hope they cancel each other out with a draw.

 

[bigfatronssba]

After Preston at home they’ve got 5 away games in a row.

Away for pretty much the whole of February

 

[Liquid Gold]

Why the talk of the Leicester manager being sacked?

I thought everybody knew they couldn’t afford to pay him off.

 

[alexccfc99]

Do Norwich fancy playing the Under 14s being as we’re in direct competitions with their rivals?

 

[quinn1971]

Norwich isn’t a must win in that it’ll have a huge impact on the season necessarily but it’s a fantastic opportunity to give us the sort of cushion we haven’t had since the start of December.

Def not a must win but when mboro & Ipswich slip up you have to take advantage, win and it gives us a bit of space again, we win 10 out of 18 then ipswich have to win 14 out 18 to catch us, that’s some gap to make up,

 

[Liquid Gold]

Def not a must win but when mboro & Ipswich slip up you have to take advantage, win and it gives us a bit of space again, we win 10 out of 18 then ipswich have to win 14 out 18 to catch us, that’s some gap to make up,

It’s a ga that’s been made more important than usual because of the impact 3 points could have.

Some people call that a must win.

Some people like to say there no such thing as a must win and the league is decided over 46 games not one.

I’d rather just go with the former.

 

[jordan210]

Bored of reading how every game ‘we must win’. Some folk seem to think we need 54 points from the final 18 games

Im not going to complain if we get 54 more points

 

[Fergusons_Beard]

Went to Utd Ipswich game (got given corporate tickets).

Ipswich awful but Sheffield Utd played well.

Great result for us.


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[fernandopartridge]

if BTA was fit for the home we probably would have

He isn't imo, O'Hare's pressing won us those games against Fulham and Sheffield United the season before his injury

 

[jordan210]

Every game is a must win until we have done the job. Then we can lose them all

 

[RoboCCFC90]

Think it’s against Ipswich. Nice. Hope they cancel each other out with a draw.

Ipswich’s game in hand is against Pompey as it got postponed due to the weather.

 

[mark82]

Think it’s against Ipswich. Nice. Hope they cancel each other out with a draw.

Ipswich have Portsmouth, Hull have Watford (which may have been a much more difficult game in the original slot).

 

[JSL]

Just look how important beating Boro away was! If we had lost, we would now be second, allbeit with a game in hand

 

[Ipad Boro]

Don't really care what boro or ipswich do we focus on ourselves and win games. We beat Norwich monday boro will think they won a game 3 0 and gained no ground that will start playing on there brains

Nah, tbh you could win 10-nil on Monday and we'd still be over the moon with this weekend.

The point is, we don't think we're catching you. You do what we do in our away games of late, grind out a result, and the points will keep coming for you. Perhaps not at the rate that you were racking them up earlier in the season, but enough. Plus you might only be 3 points ahead at the mo, but aside from the game in hand now, you have have the biggest gimme going of the Hoodoo game against us AND the massively superior GD which means we'd feasibly need to gain an extra point? So in our minds, wiping off the game at the CBS we need to get 7-10 more points than you in 16 games, depending on your result on Monday. We're very good...but not overhaul you by up to 10 points in a third of a season Good!

Ipswich on the other hand are a different matter entirely. The 5 point gap now wipes out their game in hand nicely and we're also beginning to claw back the GD too, only 4 goals off them now. Our remaining fixture list is also a good chunk better than theirs. As for our head to head with them, we're up for it, ideally we want to do the double over them this year in the whole "parachute club my ar$e" vein. True, they could beat us, they're at home, but unlike our game against yourselves we have no fear of them whatsoever.

True, we could have done without Hull & Millwall winning, but Ipswich are still the main threat in our eyes.

Promotion is everything. As for the title, not many of us could actually give a monkeys.

 

[jordan210]

Just look how important beating Boro away was! If we had lost, we would now be second, allbeit with a game in hand

Thats why the two loses to Ipswich was a pain. As both 6 pointers.

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Don't be a cuck

I'm not the one sucking off other teams!

 

[ProfessorbyGrace]

The way I see it, we are playing for 2nd right now. I just really, truly hope we don’t fall away and end up in the playoffs, it’d be disastrous.

Ipswich or ‘Boro are not going to let up, and unless we dig in and rediscover that dazzling form, 1st is a pipe dream and 2nd is unrealistic. The pack will be closing in, but onwards and upwards.

 

[Gint11]

The way I see it, we are playing for 2nd right now. I just really, truly hope we don’t fall away and end up in the playoffs, it’d be disastrous.

Ipswich or ‘Boro are not going to let up, and unless we dig in and rediscover that dazzling form, 1st is a pipe dream and 2nd is unrealistic. The pack will be closing in, but onwards and upwards.

Playing for 2nd or do you mean as long as we’re top 2.

I mean, I’ve said recently I think Ipswich will win the league but they lost today and we can go 11 clear of them if we win Monday. I’m not so sure now.

 

[quinn1971]

It’s a ga that’s been made more important than usual because of the impact 3 points could have.

Some people call that a must win.

Some people like to say there no such thing as a must win and the league is decided over 46 games not one.

I’d rather just go with the former.

Exactly, until we’re up that gap will never be big enough but winning Monday would be huge, if we’d of beaten Ipswich think the gap would of been 16, could be 11 after Monday, considering some were saying we’d bottle it, that shows some character,