At the end of the season if we make the play offs that will have been a massive achievement for us we have 9 games to get another 8 points which will have us at the magic 15 points every 10 games that Coleman used to speak about. If we get alot more than 8 points out of the next 9 games then il get really carried away
If we only get 8 points from the next 9 games, we will have seriously derailed, surely. I am expecting us to win every other game (based on home form alone). Sure we may drop the odd one at home, but we should pick up the odd one away. Even during an average/poor period I would want us to be picking up 13-15 points over a 10 match run, otherwise we will drop off the pace. To get promoted/top 6, we could probably only afford one of those runs during the whole season.
The difference this season is we've not gone on a run of defeats. The odd setback as always followed with a good result. The defence is solid and we're hard to beat as all defeats have only been by the odd goal. Under Pressley the defence would take risks trying to get attacks moving leading to errors and soft goals. Mowbray's defenders defend and know their jobs. This is highlighted by the difference in Aaron Martin, he was excellent again yesterday.
We've lost 3 games, all by the odd goal, 2 of them against current top 3 teams. In each game, one looked offside, one was a dubious penalty, and one was because of a mistake.
We need to fear no-one IMO