The playoff race
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Was looking at the table after their victory last night & was thinking that they would be safe, seeing as they have a much better goal difference to the teams above them & have games in hand - just 1 draw would put them 19th...........but then I looked at their next 3 fixtures - Pompey, Wigan & Peterborough !! They also have Plymouth to play too. Only "easy" games are against Oxford & Bradford with a six pointer against Oldham. Only time will tell how things look for us & them by May 5th.palarsehater said:with rochdale's fortunes changing good chance they may need that last game to stay up so does become quite a tough game, for playoffs i think its paramount we win the next 2 which after the last 3 performances we should.
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Awesome poem.1968CAFC said:This present management and team
Can beat anyone in this league.
We can go up with Wigan and Blackburn.
we lost ground due to KLs lack of tactical skills.4 -
Rochdale in good run of form. I thought that would see them clear & safe by the time Charlton play them. I then took a look at their fixtures. They have to play Portsmouth & Wigan at home, followed by Peterborough away then Oldham, Bradford & Plymouth at home, Oxford away & Charlton at home. If their home form hold up , they may be ok & take points off Charlton’s play off rivals.palarsehater said:with rochdale's fortunes changing good chance they may need that last game to stay up so does become quite a tough game, for playoffs i think its paramount we win the next 2 which after the last 3 performances we should.
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I know nothing about football. You don't get beat 5-0 by Blackpool and go up.TalBHAndreBA said:I thought we had challenging fixtures till the end of the season, but Peterborough have an even harder run in than us. I would expect Peterborough not to make the top 6. I'm unsure of Rotherham, as they are in bad form at the wrong time. Apart from the current top 3, I expect us and Plymouth to make the top 6, and I'll throw an outsider in the mix as well, which is Bradford. They've got two games in hand compared to most teams up there, and could go on a run, plus Grayson has a good record at this level.
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A lot of people seem to think we need to pretty much win every game now until the end of the season.
We are currently 6th, with a game in hand, and still have to play Portsmouth,Shrewsbury and Scunthorpe,
I'm sorry, but at some point teams around us will lose, no team is going to manage 6 wins in a row
My prediction:
AFC Wimbledon : L
Scunthorpe : W
Shrewsbury : W
Blackburn : D
Portsmouth : D
Rochdale : W
And I think that will be enough to clinch 6th, I think even another loss and we could still manage it.
I can't see any team around us winning more then 4 games between now and the end of the season
A good point away from home today on a terrible pitch
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4 wins needed to make sure I think. AFC, Scunthorpe are the easiest. Win 50% of the rest and we are there. Beating Shrews and Pompey would be good for play off confidence.1
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Why do you think we'll lose at Wimbledon but draw at Portsmouth?charltonaddickedmatt said:A lot of people seem to think we need to pretty much win every game now until the end of the season.
We are currently 6th, with a game in hand, and still have to play Portsmouth,Shrewsbury and Scunthorpe,
I'm sorry, but at some point teams around us will lose, no team is going to manage 6 wins in a row
My prediction:
AFC Wimbledon : L
Scunthorpe : W
Shrewsbury : W
Blackburn : D
Portsmouth : D
Rochdale : W
And I think that will be enough to clinch 6th, I think even another loss and we could still manage it.
I can't see any team around us winning more then 4 games between now and the end of the season
A good point away from home today on a terrible pitch
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I still have no idea how it will pan out. We SHOULD beat AFC & Rochdale & have a decent chance beating Scunny - but as Greavsie once said..."its a funny old game". How many people had Utd beating City at half time ? We will probably lose on tues & beat Pompey & Blackburn. I still think we need another 10 points - 3 wins & a draw. As I said, I've no idea in which order they will come but we are in a darn better place than we were a month ago.1
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How good is it actually being in a race for promotion? Every game til the end of the season are cup finals.2
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Fair play to Rotherham winning yesterday against an in form Fleetwood. That win probably secured their play offs place. They’ve got Wigan next week and if they wouldn’t have won I would have believed that we could overtake them.
I still think we need a minimum of ten more points and a bit of luck. I actually back Wimbledon to beat most teams when they are playing at home.
If we can get a win on Tuesday night, that will probably result in Scunthorpe needed to win on Saturday and not accepting a point against us.
Lots of twist and turns will happen over the next 4 weeks. Two wins against Wimbledon and Scunny will put us in a very healthy position going into our toughest matches of the season.
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Need to win at Wimbledon to give us the edge over the chasing pack really. Lose that and i think it'll be tough given our run in.2
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I think it's between us, Plymouth and Portsmouth for the last two places now.0
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We're not good enough I'm afraid.0
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One game at a time. Huge game Tuesday0
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Lose on tuesday and the belief will drain away. We need nothing less than three points.0
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We're good enough to make the top 6 and anything is possible in the play offs (cup football).bolloxbolder said:We're not good enough I'm afraid.
Lincoln just beat Shrewsbury in the Checkatrade Final.1 -
We've beaten 4th & 5th place in the last couple of weeks, we are clearly good enoughbolloxbolder said:We're not good enough I'm afraid.
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The playoff stumble is more accurate1
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Glad you never played in the same team as me.bolloxbolder said:We're not good enough I'm afraid.
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Reality is hard to deal with but good to dream I suppose.1
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Their first defeat at Wembley this season. Their second will be when they lose toCovered End said:
We're good enough to make the top 6 and anything is possible in the play offs (cup football).bolloxbolder said:We're not good enough I'm afraid.
Lincoln just beat Shrewsbury in the Checkatrade Final.CharltonPortsmouth in the playoff final0 -
just though id look at away allocations for playoff rivals incase we get there i have no idea what demand would be;
shrewsbury ( cant find info but 15% is 1481)
rotherham 2500
plymouth 2022
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The ideal scenario is us finishing 4th & Pompey finishing 5th0
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Huge congratulations to Ryan Edwards (Plymouth)
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Might as well delete this thread if we're going to play like this for the rest of the season. So frustrating0
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oh well, fuck that then.
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Still 6th on goal difference. But no more games in hand.0
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Said it before we're not good enough. Bottlers.1
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Opponents in the top nine of the league highlighted in bold:
Plymouth: Portsmouth (H), Northampton (A), Rochdale (A), Rotherham (H), Scunthorpe (A), Gillingham (A) (3/6)
Charlton: Scunthorpe (H), Shrewsbury (A), Portsmouth (A), Blackburn (H), Rochdale (A) (4/5)
Portsmouth: Plymouth (A), Bradford (A), Charlton (H), Bury (A), Peterborough (H) (3/5)
Peterborough: Rochdale (H), Blackburn (A), Shrewsbury (A), Fleetwood (H), Portsmouth (A) (3/5)
Scunthorpe: Charlton (A), Walsall (H), MK Dons (A), Plymouth (H), Bradford (H) (2/5)0
