The job is shit. Pay is crap and it consumes your life and leads to your family getting death threats plus you have to spend most of your time in London. Also politics just does less these days than 50+ years ago as so much is globalised and down to things outside of your control. So all that’s...
Well that’s the other side is you’re hoping no one else picks up form, which seems unlikely. Ultimately we have 4-6 points to make up once games in hand and goal difference is accounted for. So we need to be that much better than 5-10th. It’s a big ask.
70pts really means we need 12 from this block of 5 (9 from the next four), 7 from the block of Derby, 3 of the Top 4, Portsmouth, 12 from the last five.
Thats why I think we can only afford to not win one of the next four.
Sure anything can happen. Just saying I think a draw is a decent result given their home form, but really you’d want us to be winning if we’re looking at playoffs.
Because we need to win the majority of this block of six. If we drop points here we need to pick them up in harder games like Sheff Utd and Sunderland. We can maybe afford to not win one of the six IMO.
First half Watford was probably the best. First half Blackburn was some of the worst but the two goals killed them and then we were OK once we went 541 I thought.
We’ve played more than everyone around us and would pretty much need this purple patch to carry it for most of the rest of the season. I can’t see it happening, not least because we’re winning without playing particularly well but never say never.
I don’t see 433 as one up top. I don’t like 541/451 as the midfield tends to compress and isolate the striker but 433 you get people up and around him. I trust EMC to do that far more than Sakamoto or Rudoni.