DoDTS
The PL League Boss⭐⭐
Reading recent posts people seem to be panicking after every defeat and greatly concerned about not beating sides at the top of the division, doom and gloom every where. I personally think we’re doing as well as can be expected, and better than I feared, here’s my thoughts
Firstly as a rough guide I would say;
80 points plus - automatic promotion
70 points plus – play offs
50 points or less – relegation.
If we were to win 23 and lose 23 we would have 69 points and on the verge of the payoffs.
If we were to draw all 46 we would likely be relegated.
Why then after winning at Northampton and losing at Forest, are the doom merchants so pessimistic, would they have preferred us to have played extremely well but drawn them both? I’ll take the extra point thanks!
Why are people so obsessed by the fact that we haven’t beaten any of the top sides yet? We have drawn only 1, won 8, so lost 6. We could have been unbeaten winning 5 and drawing 10 but would that have been any better, we would still only have 25 points. So if we have lost six who would you prefer to lose to sides at the bottom? Of the six Leeds and Forest were both 4-1 but we had our moments in those games, we weren’t totally outplayed, the other four were by a single goal and could have gone either way. So where’s the problem?
If we were to beat the bottom twelve sides home and away and lose to the top eleven we would have 72 points, probable play off position. We are consistently beating the lower clubs, concentrate on that. At this stage it’s about picking up points, any points, you don’t get any more for beating a top side that you do a bottom one (or is that what I’m missing?) I remember a few years ago getting very good results against top sides, but losing to those at the bottom and we ended having a poor year.
League positions are unimportant at the moment, just stay in the top pack till the new year. Then transfer window, bad weather, suspensions and injuries will play their part, and then their will be must win games, but I repeat at the moment we are doing fine, it’s long season, panic when you need to, not now.
Firstly as a rough guide I would say;
80 points plus - automatic promotion
70 points plus – play offs
50 points or less – relegation.
If we were to win 23 and lose 23 we would have 69 points and on the verge of the payoffs.
If we were to draw all 46 we would likely be relegated.
Why then after winning at Northampton and losing at Forest, are the doom merchants so pessimistic, would they have preferred us to have played extremely well but drawn them both? I’ll take the extra point thanks!
Why are people so obsessed by the fact that we haven’t beaten any of the top sides yet? We have drawn only 1, won 8, so lost 6. We could have been unbeaten winning 5 and drawing 10 but would that have been any better, we would still only have 25 points. So if we have lost six who would you prefer to lose to sides at the bottom? Of the six Leeds and Forest were both 4-1 but we had our moments in those games, we weren’t totally outplayed, the other four were by a single goal and could have gone either way. So where’s the problem?
If we were to beat the bottom twelve sides home and away and lose to the top eleven we would have 72 points, probable play off position. We are consistently beating the lower clubs, concentrate on that. At this stage it’s about picking up points, any points, you don’t get any more for beating a top side that you do a bottom one (or is that what I’m missing?) I remember a few years ago getting very good results against top sides, but losing to those at the bottom and we ended having a poor year.
League positions are unimportant at the moment, just stay in the top pack till the new year. Then transfer window, bad weather, suspensions and injuries will play their part, and then their will be must win games, but I repeat at the moment we are doing fine, it’s long season, panic when you need to, not now.
