15 games left we are on 48 points I recon we are going to have to win



McGregor said:
Tuesday 11 February 2020
League One
19:45Sunderland

Rochdale
Saturday 15 February 2020
League One
15:00Oxford Utd

Sunderland
Saturday 22 February 2020
League One
15:00Sunderland

Bristol Rovers
Tuesday 25 February 2020
League One
19:45Sunderland

Fleetwood
Sunday 1 March 2020
League One
12:00Coventry

Sunderland
Saturday 7 March 2020
League One
15:00Sunderland

Gillingham
Tuesday 10 March 2020
League One
19:45Bristol Rovers

Sunderland
Saturday 14 March 2020
League One
15:00Blackpool

Sunderland
Saturday 28 March 2020
League One
15:00Southend

Sunderland
Saturday 4 April 2020
League One
15:00Sunderland

Shrewsbury
Friday 10 April 2020
League One
15:00Wimbledon

Sunderland
Monday 13 April 2020
League One
15:00Sunderland

Peterborough
Saturday 18 April 2020
League One
15:00Burton A

Sunderland
Saturday 25 April 2020
League One
15:00Sunderland

Accrington
Sunday 3 May 2020
League One
15:00Rotherham

Sunderland

I see us only losing 2 at most out of those remaining fixtures, how many we win is anyone's guess, but really aside from Peterborough, Rotherham, and maybe Coventry, we simply should be beating them comfortably.


Minus Bury of course. We must have an re arranged game missing there?
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Just got me crystal ball out, 26pts from that lot.
 
mr chuckles said:
At least 12 of the 15 games if not more to do it, 12 wins would give us 84 points. Barnsley finished 2nd on 91 points last season but that was over 46 games not 44
Are we good enough to win 12 from 15?
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Last season has nowt to do with this season's required point given that the top teams this season aren't pulling away as much. Barnsley already had 6 more points than current 2nd place this season after 30 games. I'd reckon the points for 2nd will be nearer 80 points than 90. At the current rate of points per game this is roughly what each team would get. The last game of the season could be interesting.

Rotherham 82
Coventry 80
Portsmouth 79
Wycombe 78
Peterbro 74
Sunderland 73
Fleetwood 71
Ipswich 70
Oxford 69
Doncaster 68
 
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mr chuckles said:
At least 12 of the 15 games if not more to do it, 12 wins would give us 84 points. Barnsley finished 2nd on 91 points last season but that was over 46 games not 44
Are we good enough to win 12 from 15?
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No- we dont have a goal scorer, I will say it again but we go up next season and piss it
 
Although we need too. I don’t think we’ll go up this season. Just think Rotherham, Portsmouth and Coventry are the best teams in this league. I think we’ll be much better equipped next season
 
mr chuckles said:
At least 12 of the 15 games if not more to do it, 12 wins would give us 84 points. Barnsley finished 2nd on 91 points last season but that was over 46 games not 44
Are we good enough to win 12 from 15?
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we probably wont have to as there was really only 4 teams with a chance of automatic promotion last year but this year there are 8.. stands to reason promotion rivaks are going to take points off each other as we have expereienced the last 2 weekends
 
This League One reminds me a bit of the 95/96 Division 1 when we got promotion under Reid - all the top teams finished with many fewer points than usual and we didn’t have a really high scoring striker. We were, however, much stronger compared to most of that division than we are this year.
 
80 points will be enough for second place at least I think. Still think it'll be play offs mind, this month will be season defining.
 
We are in a worse position but playing better(Imo) and no other competitions to distract us.

It should be close and hopefully be in our hands against Rotherham last game of the season.
 
gipetto said:
Portsmouth have looked average when I've seen them too, yet many on here are holding them up on a pedestal, despite them being only 2 points ahead of us. The same goes for Coventry, they very nearly drew against Bolton the other day and are only 3 points ahead of us. Both clubs have had their managers for 4 seasons, Parkinson is less than 6 months in the job and still working on the side, getting us playing how he wants us to play. We'll continue to improve as the new players bed in and I think we'll finish stronger than the teams around us.
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Fair enough
 
mr chuckles said:
At least 12 of the 15 games if not more to do it, 12 wins would give us 84 points. Barnsley finished 2nd on 91 points last season but that was over 46 games not 44
Are we good enough to win 12 from 15?
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To do it, we need to be much more prolific in front of goal. We also still have the 'away teams FA cup final' factor which in my opinion goes against us rather than for us. Even the officials seem to have this "I won't be swayed by your big crowd" attitude. But hopefully we can do .. I want out this league this season.
 

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