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Playoffs Guaranteed Minimum - Good Friday

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  • For anyone that wants to have a go predicting the rest of the results: https://www.worldfootball.net/table_calculator/eng-league-one/

    This is what I ended up with:


  • cafc_se7
    cafc_se7 Posts: 2,277
    A couple of injuries to key players and we may not make it. Currently we look good for it though.
    Catching up on this thread so may have already been said but this could happen to any team around us. 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,605
    our next 5. 

    Brum a 
    Exeter h 
    Orient a 
    Barnsley h
    Stockport a 

    7 points out of that lot and we will of done well i think. 
    Win both home games, we will win at least one away and draw another so 10 points from those five I reckon.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,298
    our next 5. 

    Brum a 
    Exeter h 
    Orient a 
    Barnsley h
    Stockport a 

    7 points out of that lot and we will of done well i think. 
    Win both home games, we will win at least one away and draw another so 10 points from those five I reckon.
    love the confidence. brum a is a free hit 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,653
    our next 5. 

    Brum a 
    Exeter h 
    Orient a 
    Barnsley h
    Stockport a 

    7 points out of that lot and we will of done well i think. 
    Win both home games, we will win at least one away and draw another so 10 points from those five I reckon.
    love the confidence. brum a is a free hit 
    No such thing as a free hit otherwise NJ would go in with 5 strikers & a rush goalie. 🙂
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,653
    For anyone that wants to have a go predicting the rest of the results: https://www.worldfootball.net/table_calculator/eng-league-one/

    This is what I ended up with:


    Far too soon to be making those predictions & I very much doubt whether you'd end up 10th with 77 points !
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,742
    edited February 12
    I suppose it can be called a free hit as it is one that won't derail us if we lose as expected. But we can get something from the game of course. We have beaten them once already this season and football can be funny like that.
  • Manic_mania
    Manic_mania Posts: 2,262
    I'd call it a free hit in the sense that everyone around us still has to play them as well (except Wrexham) and they all have as much chance of beating them as we do 
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,892
    They will be more nervous of us than they might have been. 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,742
    They can afford to lose quite a few which probably makes them less nervous. The free hit aspect probably takes pressure of us so it shouldn't be a nervy game.

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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,605
    I suppose it can be called a free hit as it is one that won't derail us if we lose as expected. But we can get something from the game of course. We have beaten them once already this season and football can be funny like that.
    I don’t expect us to lose, have as good a chance of winning at St Andrews as we do anywhere.
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,233
    I don't think we will do it, but us to get top 2 at 50/1 with betvictor looks a bit too big. Going to lump it and take part of it off as the season progresses. We are only 9 points off, and a few more wins will get us right up there
  • For anyone that wants to have a go predicting the rest of the results: https://www.worldfootball.net/table_calculator/eng-league-one/

    This is what I ended up with:


    Far too soon to be making those predictions & I very much doubt whether you'd end up 10th with 77 points !
    Is it?

    What's the difference between doing the above as a bit of fun and someone doing a full season prediction at the start of the season, or saying yes we will get in the playoffs at the end of the season now? I'm just showing my workings as to where I think we'll finish.

    I just went through and predicted all the remaining scores. Will they all be correct, absolutely not, especially if my performance in the weekly prediction league is anything to go by. I'd probably recommend going for the exact opposite on that basis.

    As for will 10th end up with 77 points, you're almost certainly right, no probably not. But as I said I went through all the scores, that's how it ended up. Will there be more surprise results than I predicted and some teams end up on a lower amount of points, probably.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    Chizz said:


    Amazing what you can do if you manage to string several 5-0 wins together. Have to feel a bit sorry for Birmingham though. 
    Everyone: "Best season ever" 
    Golfie: "We missed being in the play-offs by 27 points"
  • Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch
    Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch Posts: 1,790
    edited February 15
    Looking ahead, the teams in 5th & 6th - Huddersfield & Orient - both play 3 times in the next week and a half.

    The teams just below play only once - 7th (us, play Exeter), 8th (Bolton, play Orient), 9th (Reading, play Birmingham).

    We should be much fresher than Orient when we play each other in a fortnight, given their 3 games before then are Wrexham away, Bolton away & Birmingham away.

    Huddersfield's 3 games should harvest points, as should our game.

    Pick the bones out of that lot !!

  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,798
    After 31 games played…

    2017/18: 48pts -> 71pts (6th)
    2018/19: 54pts -> 88pts (3rd)
    2020/21: 44pts -> 74pts (7th)

    2024/25: 50pts -> ?
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,964
    A dreadful day for us results wise.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,605
    Top two out of reach personally. Shrews will give Huddersfield a game on Tuesday for sure. Barnsley now out of it in my opinion.
  • My attempt at predicting results showed us nabbing the last playoff space - but that is also based on rose tinted glasses

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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,653
    I'll give you a shout after we play Huddersfield on March 29th. 8 games to play by then - 3 of them against teams immediately above us in 6th, 5th & 4th  ! 

    Still think we'll fall a but short. Previously I've said 8th -10th, but probably end up 7th on GD !
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 1,633
    A dreadful day for us results wise.
    Think the aim definitely now is Play-Offs. Would like it, but if we miss out by a point of two cannot fault that. The defense seems in a good place now just need to focus on the attack. 

    If we can buy players of a Gilbert quality in the summer we'll be pushing for Auto next year (if we are still in League One).
  • Orient is a big game now. 
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,828
    We were alwaya going to lose today .

    Our promotion sides have game changing strikers and I think we will therefore not go up .
  • Orient is a big game now. 
    Every game is a a big game now 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,903
    Orient is a big game now. 
    It always was going to be a big game. Ditto Stockport a week later. I can see both being quite tense, with neither team wanting to lose.
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 2,982
    probably not now, though they have got a lot closer than I thought possible at the beginning of the season.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,486
    edited February 15
    msomerton said:
    probably not now, though they have got a lot closer than I thought possible at the beginning of the season.
    Because we lost narrowly to Birmingham, with our rivals still to face them... Dear god almighty!! 
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,118
    I'll give you a shout after we play Huddersfield on March 29th. 8 games to play by then - 3 of them against teams immediately above us in 6th, 5th & 4th  ! 

    Still think we'll fall a but short. Previously I've said 8th -10th, but probably end up 7th on GD !
    Despite having  better goal difference than everyone currently below us in the league? 
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,926
    3 days ago we were going for the autos, now people question the playoffs all together after a 1-0 loss to the league leaders...