I just feel like this is our year. The underlying stats don’t suggest that we are on an insanely lucky or over-achieving run. This is just who we are. We have key players still to come back, funds available in January and even a sustained bad run wouldn’t knock us out of contention.
If we are in the top 2 by christmas we will get promoted (1 Viewer)
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Their tactics were actually very effective. Overwhelm the midfield and bypass it by pumping long balls into the channels for their quick forwards to latch onto.
We also allowed Louza far too much time on the ball. Which obviously is something you just can't do against Watford as he'll dictate play and be a threat from distance.
That was the Mowbray year and every team he's managed before or since has a post Christmas slump, It's just a fact of life. hahahaha
Yeah, that Doumbia's assault on Thomas was worthy of a straight red on it's own, plus all the other late shoves and kicks, espcially on Sakamoto. They were just big lumps and bullies
Somebpdy has done this on twitter , the table that doenst include promoted teams since lampard joined , its good form for almost an entire season isnt it ?
I’ve saved this just to look at every 30 minutes or so for the next 6 months.
Nothing certain at all for me other than if we’re still in the autos conversation come Xmas, I think Doug will gamble and we’ll bring in reinforcements.
I don’t think that will mean lots of new faces, but a couple of quality additions.
I don’t think that will mean lots of new faces, but a couple of quality additions.
Yes, that's definitely better without the promoted teams.
I used to 'nick' the other table (with the promoted teams), from TWTD, an Ipswich fan forum - someone from Reddit pulled me up on that, saying it was funny that i was using their site, but it was the only place i could find with a date range.
58.5% win ratio and 1.95ppg is just astonishing.
I believe we can do it.
But I don't think we'll definitely do it. Long way to go.
If we're top two after the Christmas/new year games I think I might spontaneously combust.
Your greatest post ever
I'm going to make a 20 win paper raffle ticket style thing and then rip one off everytime we win . I've done it before and quickly scrapped it as we didn't win. But not this time!
The countdown starts now!
If we win on the 9th December at Preston, then I’ll start to believe we are going up.
Ah sorry , take them off then mate
On the front foot we are (so far) unstoppable. But as well as the anticipated ‘bump in the road’ to negotiate - that may be a longer one than we would have liked, I think somebody at some point is going to hand out a right shellacking to us.
After the Crew game we took 10 points from the next 16 games, this could be termed as a catastrophic collapse. Our only 2 wins in that run were against Bury and Blackpool.
From memory we were very reliant on Reda Johnson who suffered numerous injuries, and later Ben Turner on Loan who also got a long term injury. We also lost loanee Ryan Kent in January. And as said Armstrong's goals also dried up.
Our other forward choices included Marcus Tudgay, Marc Antoine Fortune and Darius Henderson.
Most of this is from memory with a little help from wiki so some of it may be wrong but it helps explain what went wrong.
Hmm....I would say top 2 and say 6 or 7 points clear of 3rd, then yes
I do think we need a little strengthening in January though, just for more depth
It's no longer possible to watch Premier League football & not imagine Cov City there next season.
We had Murphy, Armstrong and Maddison, didn’t we? Thought Tudgay and Henderson were a little later/the next season?
Up at 5.30 this morning to do a car boot, I may have gone a little over the top with the flask of level 6 arabica.
In all my years of car booting I've never had a 'sell out', wingy.
Reasonable day and got rid of some larger/heavier items which is always pleasing.
Had a good natter with some fellow Sky Blues too which is always a bonus.
I’m imagining VAR ruling all of our goals out because Haji is offside!
There is a different kind of pressure on the top team made even greater by the “unbeaten” tag. We’re handling it really well so far but sometimes it pays to lurk in around the top six and be ready for a late run.
Yes we’ll get promoted this season. I’ve been a bit “anti prem” for a long time and love the championship, but maybe it’s time.
Yes we’ll get promoted this season. I’ve been a bit “anti prem” for a long time and love the championship, but maybe it’s time.
Let’s not get complacent here. We’re doing amazing but we have a long way to go. And there’s still no massive gap in the top 10 .
The seven games after Sheff Utd will tell us an awful lot. Probably the toughest run by a long way. First real test tbh.
Think the first real test has been handling the absence of Rudoni for this length of time.