Crawley aiming for the play-offs (1 Viewer)

[RoboCCFC90]

"Crawley Town Manager John Gregory says his side can still make the play-off's this season.

The Red Devils are 13 points off Peterborough with 5 games in hand on some other teams in the league."

Firstly is John Gregory mad or do they have a chance? Looking at some of the teams they are yet to play:

Leyton Orient
Wolves
Brentford
Sheffield United
Preston
MK Dons

Among the others are most other Clubs bar us in truth (but then at this stage of the season any Club can be dangerous as we all have something to play for), but it raises a question and one I had slightly written off before reading this. We have one game in hand and we are eleven points off, with Posh to play again, so if we won our game in hand against Bradford and beat Posh we could be five points off Posh.

Therefore my question is, are the play-offs out of reach yet?

Now I know some will say probably say "no chance" but wait a minute lets take into account that Posh will have one eye on their JPT Final at Wembley, the fact that Posh aren't the most consistent bunch in the world, Lee Tomlin who was one of the best players in this league has joined Middlesborough, they still have to play three out of the six top six sides in the league and that Britt Assombalonga has struggled with fatigue at Southend last season and is looking like to struggle this season.

Admittedly when you look at John Gregory's comments it also implies that if Crawley are thinking about it then so must be every Club between them and sixth place of which there are seven.

Can we really rule it out with thirteen games to go?

Edit: I'd like to also add that even despite our small blip should we win our game in hand against Bradford we will have a better points per game ratio then anyone outside the top six.

 

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[skybluesam66]

would need 11 wins - so no

 

[Hobo]

With the high density of fixtures this month we need Champions form and take it to the end of the season to have any chance. February's form was a big blow.

Think it will be just beyond us.

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

"Crawley Town Manager John Gregory says his side can still make the play-off's this season.

The Red Devils are 13 points off Peterborough with 5 games in hand on some other teams in the league."

Firstly is John Gregory mad or do they have a chance? Looking at some of the teams they are yet to play:

Leyton Orient
Wolves
Brentford
Sheffield United
Preston
MK Dons

Among the others are most other Clubs bar us in truth (but then at this stage of the season any Club can be dangerous as we all have something to play for), but it raises a question and one I had slightly written off before reading this. We have one game in hand and we are eleven points off, with Posh to play again, so if we won our game in hand against Bradford and beat Posh we could be five points off Posh.

Therefore my question is, are the play-offs out of reach yet?

Now I know some will say probably say "no chance" but wait a minute lets take into account that Posh will have one eye on their JPT Final at Wembley, the fact that Posh aren't the most consistent bunch in the world, Lee Tomlin who was one of the best players in this league has joined Middlesborough, they still have to play three out of the six top six sides in the league and that Britt Assombalonga has struggled with fatigue at Southend last season and is looking like to struggle this season.

Admittedly when you look at John Gregory's comments it also implies that if Crawley are thinking about it then so must be every Club between them and sixth place of which there are seven.

Can we really rule it out with thirteen games to go?

Edit: I'd like to also add that even despite our small blip should we win our game in hand against Bradford we will have a better points per game ratio then anyone outside the top six.

We haven't got a game in hand on Peterborough though, they have also played 33. So if we beat them it would be an 8 point gap and we would need to make up 8 points in the remaining 12 fixture (no games in hand on Peterborough)

Reality is we would need 10 wins from 13 to even have a sniff, more than likely to need 11 wins though which would definitely put us in the mix but even then may not be enough. It won't happen but as long as it is mathematically possible some will always hold the hope.

 

[RoboCCFC90]

We haven't got a game in hand on Peterborough though, they have also played 33. So if we beat them it would be an 8 point gap and we would need to make up 8 points in the remaining 12 fixture (no games in hand on Peterborough)

Reality is we would need 10 wins from 13 to even have a sniff, more than likely to need 11 wins though which would definitely put us in the mix but even then may not be enough. It won't happen but as long as it is mathematically possible some will always hold the hope.

You are correct about the game in hand, therefore I apologise on that.

I will always hold some hope until it's mathematically impossible.

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

It's frustrating because after the top 5, the other 19 teams are mostly terrible.

 

[RoboCCFC90]

It's frustrating because after the top 5, the other 19 teams are mostly terrible.

Including us?

 

[covcity4life]

its manic march mania! time to win 6 on the trot!

 

[stupot07]

No chance - 33-34 point needed from 13 games to get to the magic 74-75 point mark.

Our defence is not tight enough to put that kind of run together.


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[SkyBlue_Bear83]

Including us?

Yep, on our day we can be good and other days are equally bad. Pretty much like every team between 6th-14th, if any team can get put a run together going into the end of the season they would fly into the top 6 because everyone else around them is so inconsistent. That's why I think Sheffield Utd have a genuine chance of sneaking 6th now.

Bradford went on a run of something like 1 win in 20 and still sit 13th, Peterborough have been relatively poor since December and are in 6th. Swindon and Walsall are both on poor runs yet still find themselves in 7th and 8th. Port Vale have lost 7 of the last 10 yet are still 11th, our form has been patchy at best since the back to back losses vs Rotherham and Tranmere and we're in the top half(would be 7th)