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Frankly, I think there’s potentially 8 wins in us. It allows for 2 losses v Burnley and Sheff U, 2 draws v Sunderland, WBA and Boro, for arguments sake. That leaves home wins at Pompey and Stoke. Away wins at Oxford, Derby, Hull, Plymouth, Luton. Then one win against Sunderland, WBA or Boro...

Our form had been dropping off that February, losing key fixtures against playoff rivals Norwich, WBA and then PNE. There was the FA Cup run that added 4 extra games to a congested period to our season. Fixture congestion aside, the squad was depleted and both Sakamoto annd Sheaf’s injuries...

Yes, this is true. 3 of those games are at home and of our remaining 6 away fixtures, 5 are against bottom teams in the bottom 7 and Sheff U. It’s not ridiculous to expect 5 wins. Our home games are more difficult on paper but the fact we’re home is an advantage against the likes of Stoke...

We’ve definitely emerged as the form team in the pack and arguably have the easiest run in because our away fixtures are potentially kind. All the teams around us have been inconsistent and the current incumbents (WBA and Blackburn) are looking shaky. WBA have the toughest run in of everyone...

Agreed! Super computers will always have a flawed methodology because it relies on the inputs. If it’s predicting us to finish on 68 points, why does it expect us to slow down our run rate to 1.5 PPG for the remainder of the season? Probably because our PPG for the season is 1.47 which includes...

It’s a bit random, but a Chelsea website posted the following. In short, an Opta ‘super computer’ reckons we’re most likely to end the season in 5th place...

It was an interesting insight but the big caveat that the stats don’t show is that Lampard hasn’t had our (still) top scorer at his disposal, Haji Wright. We’re just overall a better outfit at both ends of the pitch under Lampard. A key difference is that we’ve massively improved on scoring...

The team is a lot better overall this season and even last season where we were on course to beat 22/23’s points total before only picking up 4/24 points from Easter Monday! Grimes will really help fill that void that Hamer left because he’s so good at dictating the tempo, keeps the ball moving...

If there were two teams I could choose to beat in the division to go up, it would be Sunderland and Sheffield United. The pettiness of singing ‘it could’ve been you’ to COH and Hamer is what football banter is all about. Again, beating Sunderland is always funny.

Robins wouldn’t even make it back to the changing room before being sacked if he did that. He’s going to be under a lot of pressure for that game and fighting for his survival so it’s going to be 100% business from his end. If he loses to Watford by 2 or more goals, again… he’ll probably be sacked.

Shit! Sorry to pry, did you use the same address for the Oxford and CCFC?

It feels like he rushed into his next role and if he gets sacked soon, it really damages his reputation. Much in the same way, ironically, Lampard took on his ill-fated 2nd spell at Chelsea. The narrative around MR will be ‘how did he not get Cov promoted with Vik and Hamer?!’ He’ll likely need...

In fairness, Stoke’s team is pretty tragic so it wouldn’t surprise me he’s being cautious. My gut instinct is that Robins would struggle to replicate his success with us at another Championship club. His authority was so high before he got to the Championship, he was unassailable in this role...

That solves one problem at least!

Exactly, Sunderland are probably out of reach but considering we’ve got them at home soon, there’s an outside chance we could catch them. Though I wouldn’t bet on it. Putting past results against Sunderland aside, on form alone, Sunderland would hate to meet us in the Playoff semi-final. I’d...

With our current form, Haji’s injury could be a blessing bf in disguise. He comes back at the right time to be match fit for the playoffs but fresh enough because he’s missed a good 1/3 of the season. Whereas Vik was visibly tired in the playoffs back in 22/23 where both he and Hamer needed...

The team has earned the right to feel confident because they are starting to perform at a level in line with the hype going into this season where we were fancied to finish top 4. We’ve got a good run-in too so the reasonable expectation now is to finish in the top 6 and we’re well in control...

We played excellently on Saturday and in all honesty, we should’ve ended 3 or 4 that weekend. That calibre of performance would beat most teams in the league. The underlying point was that if we keep winning games, the GD will take care of itself. On points, we will overtake WBA on Saturday if...

Agreed but GD isn’t worth fixating on because it’s always a nice to have. If we win the next 3 our GD will be +7 at a minimum and the GD will largely take care of itself because the teams around us are playing themselves/the top 4 teams. If we play the way we did at the weekend against Oxford...

I don’t think we need to worry too much. We’re one GD behind Blackburn & Bristol, 4 behind Norwich and finally 9 behind WBA. WBA have some tough away fixtures coming up so we could easily get close to parity. If we keep the wins coming we’ll break into the playoffs this weekend as I can’t see...