Third of the way to safety (1 Viewer)

[skybluetony176]

What a start to the season.

 

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[Tea & Busquets]

What a start to the season.

hope we continue like this, be a Leicester city esque prem winning equivalent to the championship

 

[PVA]

It took us until early December to reach this many points last season, 16 games in.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Literally all I care about atm is survival

 

[SBT]

Anyone else no longer thinking about safety?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Anyone else no longer thinking about safety?

As MR has just said, one game at a time. Get to the magic 50 in good time and then the rest is what we make of it

 

[wingy]

Anyone else no longer thinking about safety?

Keep wearing a mask and was wash your hands.lol

 

[Sky_Blue_Daz]

The Liverpool team of the 80s first target was to reach 40 points as quickly as possible , I’ll go along with that theory

 

[clint van damme]

Literally all I care about atm is survival

Are you in the jungle?

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Anyone else no longer thinking about safety?

There’s always a team in this league that starts well then plummets in the 2nd half of the season. Let’s hit the 50 point mark then we can re-assess where we are.

great start, it’s going to be special if we keep it up

 

[aloisijohnnyaloisi]

hope we continue like this, be a Leicester city esque prem winning equivalent to the championship

Apart from we haven't thrown loads of money at it.

 

[Tea & Busquets]

Apart from we haven't thrown loads of money at it.

leicester didn’t really either compared to other title winning teams is my point. I think is getting promoted would be borderline on the same level as that.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

There’s always a team in this league that starts well then plummets in the 2nd half of the season. Let’s hit the 50 point mark then we can re-assess where we are.

great start, it’s going to be special if we keep it up

Spoil Sport

 

[fernandopartridge]

leicester didn’t really either compared to other title winning teams is my point. I think is getting promoted would be borderline on the same level as that.

Yes they did, £100m +

 

[NorthernWisdom]

Anyone else no longer thinking about safety?

tbf, even I'm starting to wonder if my prediction of 16th is pessimistic. We do have quite a shallow squad though.

 

[stevefloyd]

As MR has just said, one game at a time. Get to the magic 50 in good time and then the rest is what we make of it

Booooooo...if we get to safety too quick what do we have to look forward to

 

[stevefloyd]

There’s always a team in this league that starts well then plummets in the 2nd half of the season. Let’s hit the 50 point mark then we can re-assess where we are.

great start, it’s going to be special if we keep it up

Don't forget when the knuckle draggers get into full swing we will be playing on a ploughed pitch and our beautiful football will be temporarily lost for a while

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Booooooo...if we get to safety too quick what do we have to look forward to

A promotion party

 

[stevefloyd]

A promotion party

YEEE HAAAAAA

 

[hill83]

Don't forget when the knuckle draggers get into full swing we will be playing on a ploughed pitch and our beautiful football will be temporarily lost for a while

Proper pitch this year. Done properly unlike the old one.

 

[Tea & Busquets]

Yes they did, £100m +

they spent only 30m when factoring in all the selling that they did that year. i get what you mean though, it would be a much greater feat for us having spent so little in outright transfer fees.

 

[skybluesam66]

We always finish stronger under MR.

 

[stevefloyd]

Proper pitch this year. Done properly unlike the old one.

I hope so becuase Stans started ok but then with 2 teams playing on it it started cutting up and with the kick run and catch merchants abusing it I fear a little but wow the football, the battling for each other and the crowd support is exceptional the only thing missing atm is goals but hopefully they will start coming ....long may it continue

 

[SBT]

As MR has just said, one game at a time. Get to the magic 50 in good time and then the rest is what we make of it

I understand why MR is publicly managing expectations, but I think we will be setting our sights on a lot more than 50 points.

Forest are 14 points behind us, Derby will soon be 17 points behind us. The odds of us being relegated are tiny.

If nothing else, it’s much more fun to be focused on how high we can go instead!

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I understand why MR is publicly managing expectations, but I think we will be setting our sights on a lot more than 50 points.

Forest are 14 points behind us, Derby will soon be 17 points behind us. The odds of us being relegated are tiny.

If nothing else, it’s much more fun to be focused on how high we can go instead!

I agree, but the point is get safety in the bag as early as you can before thinking about pushing on.

 

[SBT]

I agree, but the point is get safety in the bag as early as you can before thinking about pushing on.

Do you not think we’d be approaching games differently if that was our mindset? When safety was our main goal last season we were set up quite conservatively in games where our main priority was not to lose (Birmingham and Wycombe at home etc). Worked great for us then, but they’d feel like huge missed opportunities now if we’re legitimately capable of a top 10/top 6 finish. We look great, we should go for it!

 

[AFCCOVENTRY]

Take each game as it comes and enjoy it. We’re not going to be in a relegation fight. Back end of last season we made teams above us look average.

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Take each game as it comes and enjoy it. We’re not going to be in a relegation fight. Back end of last season we made teams above us look average.

Interestingly if you include the back end of last season, our last 16 games read 10 wins 1 draw 5 defeats, 31 points from 48. That’s nearly 90 points over a 46 game period.

I’ve watched us long enough now not to get too excited, but it’s really difficult at this point

 

[Torquay Sky Blue]

Both Cardiff and Middlesbrough would of beaten us last season purely by bullying us off the park. We've learned how to stick up for ourselves this season (that doesn't mean Dabo flying in both feet off the ground for whatever reason) and combined with the fact we can actually play football, things are happening for us.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Do you not think we’d be approaching games differently if that was our mindset? When safety was our main goal last season we were set up quite conservatively in games where our main priority was not to lose (Birmingham and Wycombe at home etc). Worked great for us then, but they’d feel like huge missed opportunities now if we’re legitimately capable of a top 10/top 6 finish. We look great, we should go for it!

I've not phrased that well, sorry. Last season it was about just ending the season safe, this time get to the safety threshold quickly then push on. Robins did say this season was about 'having some fun' to be fair

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Is still happily take 15th

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

tbf, even I'm starting to wonder if my prediction of 16th is pessimistic. We do have quite a shallow squad though.

I actually think we have quite a bit better cover than last season. Striker depth is another level compared to last season (that from a Max fan!) Midfield - now that Allen has stepped up, leaves us with Sheaf and Kelly in 'reserve' Rose / Kane as back up in defence. I'm happy. Others not even mentioned, such as JJ, Eccles, Shipley etc Provided a load of injuries don't happen together, I think we're ok - definitely more depth than last season.

 

[steve cooper]

There’s always a team in this league that starts well then plummets in the 2nd half of the season. Let’s hit the 50 point mark then we can re-assess where we are.

great start, it’s going to be special if we keep it up

Huddersfield, Blackburn or Birmingham. It won't be us