RoboCCFC90
Well-Known Member
It's almost impossible to vote (head and heart), looking at the fixtures and the table, there are some positives to consider.
With 19 games to go City have it all to play for, the current bottom 8 teams, 6 of the teams currently placed 9-16 and then 5 from the top 8.
City have to look at averaging 2ppg from now on, 38 points, that would take us to 78 points overall, I believe that will be enough for playoffs.
Looking again at the fixtures, we have to beat all the teams in the bottom 8 (24) and ideally beat the 6 teams from 9th - 16th (18) that would be a total 42 points (total 82). We can afford a few draws in this. The teams around us in the top 8 are then a free hit, the more points we pick up then great, but if we start to lose to the teams below us we will need to make this up against the teams in the top five.
Over the last ten league games we have won 6, drawn 3 and lost 1, a total of 19 points, so apply this form to our remaining 19 games and this is just shy of 2ppg.
The league is so tight, but if City keep up their current form over ten games or can improve on that they will give themselves every chance.
The fixtures in this league are not easy at all so I'm reluctant to assume that beating the teams below us is a realistic possibility, add to that unless we win most of our games April represents a real challenge where we play Leeds, Southampton, Birmingham and Ipswich in 14 days.
Answers as to whether we will make it on a postcard please.
With 19 games to go City have it all to play for, the current bottom 8 teams, 6 of the teams currently placed 9-16 and then 5 from the top 8.
City have to look at averaging 2ppg from now on, 38 points, that would take us to 78 points overall, I believe that will be enough for playoffs.
Looking again at the fixtures, we have to beat all the teams in the bottom 8 (24) and ideally beat the 6 teams from 9th - 16th (18) that would be a total 42 points (total 82). We can afford a few draws in this. The teams around us in the top 8 are then a free hit, the more points we pick up then great, but if we start to lose to the teams below us we will need to make this up against the teams in the top five.
Over the last ten league games we have won 6, drawn 3 and lost 1, a total of 19 points, so apply this form to our remaining 19 games and this is just shy of 2ppg.
The league is so tight, but if City keep up their current form over ten games or can improve on that they will give themselves every chance.
The fixtures in this league are not easy at all so I'm reluctant to assume that beating the teams below us is a realistic possibility, add to that unless we win most of our games April represents a real challenge where we play Leeds, Southampton, Birmingham and Ipswich in 14 days.
Answers as to whether we will make it on a postcard please.