January

[sufcintheprem]

I looked at January a while back when Cardiff were top of the pile and thought that we'd do well to get anything out of it. Given how we were playing at the time, I thought we could easily go the month without a point and then have the slimmest chance of staying up. As it is, December was a good one by our modest standards and we have a 100% record in January in spite of playing two of the best teams in the division.

I feel we have rode our luck slightly to have that record but nonetheless, we've demonstrated that we can beat anyone. Annoyingly, this now means that we'll all start to raise hopes and expectations to possibly get torn down again. If we beat Derby, in the last two months, we'll have held in-form Preston and Plymouth and beaten Southampton, West Brom, Cardiff and Derby. If we do the unthinkable, we might add Birmingham to that list.

The real point here, is that in a thread recently, we mentioned how we had a lot of 'easy' home games in the latter part fo the season and this seemed to be where we expected to pick up the poitns we would need to survive. I can't imagine anyone predicted us to pick up 6 points already so, in theory, our chances of staying up must have improved considerably.

Do people reckon that we have genuinely started playing to our potential and are about to embark on a hot streak or that we've been getting breaks recently we weren't getting before and it will still be horrendously tight?

 

[overseas shrimper]

Quote[/b] (sufcintheprem @ Jan. 15 2007,10:46)]Do people reckon that we have genuinely started playing to our potential and are about to embark on a hot streak or that we've been getting breaks recently we weren't getting before and it will still be horrendously tight?

I cannot honestly see a hot streak coming. I'd have to go with "we've been getting breaks recently we weren't getting before and it will still be horrendously tight".

 

[Jam_Man]

To be honest I thought 4 points out of January would be an achievement, we already have 6.

I think 2 points from Derby and Birmingham will be reasonable, but who knows we could do ok against Derby.

Personally I think we have found some form and confidence and self belief. However I dont think we are good enough to put on a sustained run.

If we can get a win out of the next two I would be delighted, after then we have a decent couple of months with a lot of games against teams in the bottom half which will make for some exciting games!