For me our players

[Sammy Chung was King]

Have plenty to play for, new contracts, keeping themselves in the managers thoughts, but most of all making sure that when we play Burton at home in the last game, we are not guests in our own stadium.
What i mean is having to watch another team celebrate promotion, while your team is just going through the motions. The players need to make sure when it comes to that game, they have something to play for.
Anyway here's what i see us getting from the games left-

SHEFF UTD(H)-DRAW
Barnsley(a)-WIN
MILLWALL(H)-LOSE
swindon(a)-LOSE
SHREWSBURY(H)-WIN
Bradford(a)-LOSE
PETERBOROUGH(H)-LOSE
Colchester(a)-WIN
BLACKPOOL(H)-DRAW
Rochdale(a)-WIN
Bury(a)-DRAW
WIGAN(H)-LOSE
Chesterfield(a)-DRAW
COVENTRY(H)-LOSE
Crewe(a)-WIN
Scunthorpe(a)-DRAW
BURTON(H)-DRAW

So that would be 16 points out of a possible 51 points.***I must have been tired 21 points out of 51.

[Not Now Kato]

I like your optimism     

[SydneyRover]

Barnsley have just won their 7th game on the bounce!

[dickos1]

16 points from 17 games
Crackers

[drfc1951]

I see us getting about 24 points starting with 3 on Saturday.

[GazLaz]

Oh dear. I wouldn't mind buying at 16 points.

[The Red Baron]

I make it 21 points, which is probably not far off what we'll end up with.

[The Red Baron]

16 points from 17 games
Crackers

Why crackers? Although I make it adding up to 21.

[DonnyOsmond]

It is 21.

[eastender]

Crikey only 1 more Home win to look forward to , happy day's 

[The Red Baron]

Crikey only 1 more Home win to look forward to , happy day's 

But our home form is wretched and we are playing some teams with excellent away records.

I think we'll win two or three of the home games, but we could win four at least away.

I actually think it's a pretty futile exercise predicting individual results other than the next game. However I think 21 points is a reasonable estimate of what is possible.

Hope it isn't as low as 16, because we could be in for an arse-nipping end to the season.

[donnievic]

I'm going for 28 points

[eastender]

 when we play Burton at home in the last game, we are not guests in our own stadium.
What i mean is having to watch another team celebrate promotion, while your team is just going through the motions. The players need to make sure when it comes to that game, they have something to play for.

It could get worse if survivals at stake , like at Leicester , watching another team celebrate Promotion after relegating us.

[keith79]

41-45 for me

[IDM]

 when we play Burton at home in the last game, we are not guests in our own stadium.
What i mean is having to watch another team celebrate promotion, while your team is just going through the motions. The players need to make sure when it comes to that game, they have something to play for.

It could get worse if survivals at stake , like at Leicester , watching another team celebrate Promotion after relegating us.

Sorry to be pedantic but Leicester didn't relegate us.  Not getting enough points over 46 games did for us. 

I believe the play offs are well out of our reach (unless we have a drastic winning streak soon), but I am not worried about a relegation battle, not yet.

[dickos1]

Of course it s crackers
Fergie has been in charge for 17 games and we've got 25 points, even though we've had a few poor runs under him
Yet for the next 17 games were predicting were going to do considerably worse?

[The Red Baron]

41-45 for me

Is that from the remaining games or the season total?

If the former then, sir, you are the greatest optimist in Christendom and I like a pint of what you're drinking!

If the latter, time to set the Sat Nav for Accrington and Morecambe.

[The Red Baron]

Of course it s crackers
Fergie has been in charge for 17 games and we've got 25 points, even though we've had a few poor runs under him
Yet for the next 17 games were predicting were going to do considerably worse?

I repeat my question - why crackers? The teams we play are by and large better than what we've faced at home so far.

We've played all the bottom four at home and we've played two of them away as well. We have still to play four of the current top six at home.

I think 16 points is on the low side and actually Sammy's game by game analysis gives us 21.

To get to 25 points from the next 17 games would actually require us to improve our performance levels, and I don't see much likelihood of that happening. 20-21 is a pretty good shout.

[dickos1]

By the same token you could say that the teams we face away are easier fixtures than what we've faced so far
Remember also ferguson had games at the beginning where we got hammered which were before he sorted them out
Even with no improvement on the next 17 games we would only just miss out on the playoffs by 4 or 5 points
So a slight improvement could get us close

[dickos1]

We've already played all of the top 9 away from home, and 4 of them we've already played twice
So I can't see how you can suggest our remaining fixtures are tougher

[The Red Baron]

Unfortunately I don't really expect us to beat any of the top nine home or away. The only top nine side we've beaten is Southend. Of the others, the best we've done is drawn.

I do think the Blunts might be an exception because of their poor form and our returnees. But based on results you'd go draw.

As I said earlier, I think we'll win 2-3 at home and 3-4 away. That will give us something between 15 and 21 points. Throw in a few draws and we could get to around 25-26 from the remaining games. Or we could dip below my forecast and gain somewhere around 18-20.

21 is IMO a pretty good estimate.

[dickos1]

Therefore if you're suggesting we could manage 25-26 points why should we forget about the playoffs?

[drfchound]

Crikey only 1 more Home win to look forward to , happy day's 

If it is going to be that bad i can see only around 3000 home fans in for the last game.

[IDM]

Therefore if you're suggesting we could manage 25-26 points why should we forget about the playoffs?

25-26 points sees us finish on 61-62.  Nowhere near enough.  Need to add on at least another 10 if not 14 points to that.

[The Red Baron]

Therefore if you're suggesting we could manage 25-26 points why should we forget about the playoffs?

That's a top end estimate. 62 will be nowhere near enough.

[graingrover]

Just a thread to illustrate certain mind sets really!

[dickos1]

Therefore if you're suggesting we could manage 25-26 points why should we forget about the playoffs?

25-26 points sees us finish on 61-62.  Nowhere near enough.  Need to add on at least another 10 if not 14 points to that.

We won't need 76 points to get in the playoffs last season was 69,
So if we maintain our form under ferguson we will reach 61 points, a slight improvement and we will be in the brink of the playoffs
I'm not suggesting it's going to happen  but all this talk of putting it to bed and moving on is just nonsense

[BillyStubbsTears]

Dickos

69 points last season was one of the lowest ever tallies for the play-offs. It won't be that this year. It's shaping up to be something like the usual mid-70s required to make 6th place.

[dickos1]

I don't see how you can come to that conclusion Billy
After 30 games last season sheff United were 5th with 49 points this season after 30 games Coventry are 5th with 49 points
6th place has 2 points difference,
After 32 games Chesterfield were in the bottom half, they made the playoffs, that's why it's a nonsense to right it off yet

[i_ateallthepies]

Have plenty to play for, new contracts, keeping themselves in the managers thoughts, but most of all making sure that when we play Burton at home in the last game, we are not guests in our own stadium.
What i mean is having to watch another team celebrate promotion, while your team is just going through the motions. The players need to make sure when it comes to that game, they have something to play for.

I hope to Christ when it comes to that game they don't 'have something to play for' SCwK