Our next five games in February.

Reebok Trotter wrote:My only problem with Ngog is that he NEVER EVER looks committed to the cause. He always seems to play with a half-smile across his lips as if he is just happy to be here. Plus, he has a funny shaped head.

Tigermin wrote:
Yep there is that I suppose but then again my head is a bit odd,could that explain it !!!!!!!!!!!!!! bollocks Docs tomorrow it is then,frontal labotomy please Sir before Saturday if you please !!

Reebok Trotter wrote:Right then, we seem to be in a bit of a pickle at the moment. Losing to a team in the top four seems to have brought out a malaise of doom and gloom which probably wont go away until our results improve.

Lets look at February and our next five games to see if there is any light at the end of the tunnel.

Sat 9th Feb Home to Burnley. A Lancashire hotpot with a lot at stake. They beat us at the start of the season and are currently 7th in the table just one spot outside the play-offs. I can see this being a very close game with them just edging it by one goal. ( 0 points)

Sat 16th Feb away to Forest, 11th in the table and managed by Big Eck who doesn't have a particularly good record against us. By now, the urgency of our plight will be all too clear. The new signings have had time to get their fitness levels up to speed and we win a hard fought game 1-0. ( 3 points )

Tuesday 19th Feb away to Derby who are 9th in the table. Buoyed by our performance against Forest we earn a deserved 1-1 draw. ( 1 point )

Saturday 23rd Feb home to high flying Hull City ( currently 3rd in the table ) Steve Bruce will have them well organised and both sides cancel each other out with a 0-0 draw. ( 1 point )

Tuesday 26th Feb Peterborough at home. The rearranged match we have all been waiting for. After our tonking at London Road it's time for revenge against a side in the bottom three. 2-0 to us. ( 3 points )

So there you have it. 8 points from 5 games. No need to panic. Hardly play -off standard but neither is it relegation form.

We would be on 42 points going into March. Not great but something to work on. By March we should have Wheater and Holden back in the squad plus our new January buys should start making their presence felt.

By all means share your thoughts on here. It would be nice to read what others think, as an alternative to being told that Dougie and the team are shite.

NickFazer wrote:There are no fantastic teams in this division and we should be backing ourselves to win at home, Hull look good and I think they may well finish 2nd so I'm going for 3 pts at home to Burnley and Peterboro and a draw with Hull. At some point we need to win back to back games and we could sneak a win at Forest, can't see us getting anything at Derby. 10pts in total, mid-table mediocrity here we come.

Boggersbelief wrote:If your predictions ring true and we are on 53 after the Brighton game, I'd say we'll be around 5/6 points away from the playoffs.

With our final 7 games being - Huddersfield town. (h) 3 points
Wolves. (h) 3 points
Bristol city. (a) 1 point
Leicester city. (a) 1 point
Middlesbrough. (h) 3 points
Cardiff city. (a) 0 points
Blackpool. (h) 3 points

Would 67 points be enough for a play off place?