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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Usher wide. on July 04, 2025, 02:04:04 pm
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Time to ‘test’ your knowledge, your mettle, your heart over your head.
10 points for correctly guessing I mean predicting a teams final placing.
5 points for correctly predicting a team in the top six.
The poster(s) who gain most points get a pat on the back & pay £10 to the Rovers academy, (you’re on trust).
Here’s mine.
Luton
Cardiff
Bolton
Blackpool
Huddersfield
Rovers
Best of luck.
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1.blackpool2. Luton 3. Cardiff 4.bolton 5. Huddesfield 6. Orient
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Rovers , Cardiff , Plymouth , Luton, Blackpool , Bolton .
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Rovers
Orient
Luton
Bradford
Huddersfield
Blackpool
Bottom 4
Wycombe
Peterborough
Port Vale
Lincoln
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Luton, Cardiff, Doncaster, Orient, Bolton, Huddersfield.
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Blackpool
Luton
Huddersfield
Bolton
Stockport
Plymouth
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Wigan
Luton
Huddersfield
Cardiff
Stockport
Plymouth
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Luton
Stockport
Cardiff
Bolton
Plymouth
Huddersfield
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Rovers top 6 all day long
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What has changed within the club?
Last season Grant was bullish from the off "we will win the league" at the end of the season he was saying "we will give league 1 a good go" which I thought ok, we are aiming mid table here. Today in his YouTube interview, he wants to win the league and wants the lads to believe.
He has a calm confidence we will be up there! :scarf:
Fingers crossed - may be time to stick a tenner on
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Yes, he's gone and said it now! Nowt like raising expectations although I suspect as fans, we'll remain a little less confident. Nothing wrong with aiming for the stars but, just getting into the play offs would be yet another big step forward. As a ball hasn't been kicked in anger yet, it'll be a while before we get over excited.
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Bolton
Cardiff
Luton
Reading
Wigan
Rovers
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Yes, he's gone and said it now! Nowt like raising expectations although I suspect as fans, we'll remain a little less confident. Nothing wrong with aiming for the stars but, just getting into the play offs would be yet another big step forward. As a ball hasn't been kicked in anger yet, it'll be a while before we get over excited.
We just need a “I think we can still catch Luton” coming out his mouth in the January meet the owners meeting haha
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Yes, he's gone and said it now! Nowt like raising expectations although I suspect as fans, we'll remain a little less confident. Nothing wrong with aiming for the stars but, just getting into the play offs would be yet another big step forward. As a ball hasn't been kicked in anger yet, it'll be a while before we get over excited.
We just need a “I think we can still catch Luton” coming out his mouth in the January meet the owners meeting haha
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Cardiff
Huddersfield
Reading
Bolton
Luton
Doncaster
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1st Rovers
2nd
To
23rd not arsed
24th Rotherham
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Plymouth
Luton
Huddersfield
Blackpool
Cardiff
Stockport
I think we will surprise a few but not play offs.
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Reading
Plymouth
Cardiff
Luton
Bolton
Stockport
Down
Mansfield
Northampton
Stevenage
Wimbledon
I think we'll have a good season and surprise a few but if I tip Rovers it's usually the kiss of death.
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Would love to be wrong, but with the squad as it is at the current time I just can’t see us troubling the top 10. Still think we are a striker short of the quality needed (Ironside was a passenger last season, Billy is nearly 40) and I’d still be concerned about the midfield. We don’t know how the new CB’s will go and barring JM it’s a completely new area of the team.
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Stockport
Cardiff
Bolton
Rovers
Luton
Plymouth
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Luton
Plymouth
Cardiff
Stockport
Bolton
Huddersfield
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Stockport
Relegated championship team
Relegated championship team
Hudds/Bolton
Hudds/Bolton
Relegated championship team
Rovers in 7th
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Luton
DRFC
Blackpool
Lincoln
Plymouth
Huddersfield
Relegated
Port Vale
Exeter
Burton
Northampton
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Reading, Stockport, Huddersfield, Bolton, Wigan, Rovers.
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Would love to believe we could be up there for top 6 but at present do we really have the goals to get close. Couple of very good loan players in that area of the pitch needed imo
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Personally I think we will score more goals from all over the pitch i.e defenders and midfielders scoring more than they have in recent years.
Expecting Billy to get his 10 and same with moly but expecting between 5 and 10 for the rest. Think we will score more from set plays too
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1) Reading
2) Luton
3) Wycombe
4) Leyton Orient
5) Huddersfield
6) Blackpool
I would’ve have gone with ‘uddersfield as certainties for promotion but Ive factored in their new manager/coach who is Lee Grant a rookie boss and also an ex goalkeeper. I can’t think of any ex keeper who’ve been good managers - perhaps Dino Zoff but he’s the exception.
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1) Reading
2) Luton
3) Wycombe
4) Leyton Orient
5) Huddersfield
6) Blackpool
I would’ve have gone with ‘uddersfield as certainties for promotion but Ive factored in their new manager/coach who is Lee Grant a rookie boss and also an ex goalkeeper. I can’t think of any ex keeper who’ve been good managers - perhaps Dino Zoff but he’s the exception.
Mike Walker did okay with Norwich City, but then failed with Everton
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Nuno Espírito Santo.
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Predicting a top 6 seems to me akin to expressing a fairly devout faith in the cause rather than making a truly reasoned judgment
If the Rovers team were unchanged from 2024/25 we could at least make some estimation of their likely performance for this coming season. As it is, anyone expecting them to get into the top 6 must be expecting them to be stronger, but without seeing the new team playing.
If people had studied League 1 last season they would have some knowledge of how 17 of the teams competed against each other plus knowledge of the 3 other League 2 promotees.
It would also be necessary to make a judgment of the variation in strength of those 20 teams.
No doubt McCann is better informed than most of us, but his optimism is surely aimed principally at the encouragement of his players.
I’d say that the champions of the league below ought to be capable of a half-way finish in the league above, but that only a team that had finished very comfortably ahead of second place would be an obvious serious contender for a top 6.
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Predicting a top 6 seems to me akin to expressing a fairly devout faith in the cause rather than making a truly reasoned judgment
If the Rovers team were unchanged from 2024/25 we could at least make some estimation of their likely performance for this coming season. As it is, anyone expecting them to get into the top 6 must be expecting them to be stronger, but without seeing the new team playing.
If people had studied League 1 last season they would have some knowledge of how 17 of the teams competed against each other plus knowledge of the 3 other League 2 promotees.
It would also be necessary to make a judgment of the variation in strength of those 20 teams.
No doubt McCann is better informed than most of us, but his optimism is surely aimed principally at the encouragement of his players.
I’d say that the champions of the league below ought to be capable of a half-way finish in the league above, but that only a team that had finished very comfortably ahead of second place would be an obvious serious contender for a top 6.
Lot of truth in this.
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Predicting a top 6 seems to me akin to expressing a fairly devout faith in the cause rather than making a truly reasoned judgment
If the Rovers team were unchanged from 2024/25 we could at least make some estimation of their likely performance for this coming season. As it is, anyone expecting them to get into the top 6 must be expecting them to be stronger, but without seeing the new team playing.
If people had studied League 1 last season they would have some knowledge of how 17 of the teams competed against each other plus knowledge of the 3 other League 2 promotees.
It would also be necessary to make a judgment of the variation in strength of those 20 teams.
No doubt McCann is better informed than most of us, but his optimism is surely aimed principally at the encouragement of his players.
I’d say that the champions of the league below ought to be capable of a half-way finish in the league above, but that only a team that had finished very comfortably ahead of second place would be an obvious serious contender for a top 6.
Both Wrexham and Stockport's finishes last season are in contradiction to that last paragraph, FR.
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Whilst we weren’t runaway champions we gradually improved over the season and in the last few games were at our strongest. If we had played like that all season we would have been much clearer winners, so we should have momentum. We stumbled upon the winning formula in those last few games though and my nagging worry is that we are going to revert, but in Grant we trust.
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Our defence was more solid in those last games with a vastly improved and experienced keeper.
Those were the reasons we did better alongside such as Crew finding his legs at the same time as he took time to get to grips with the tempo of the game compared to what he was used to before the loan.
Plus we signed a consistent goal scorer on loan. Four of those players, our best players in that period have left since the end of the season.
Hopefully the rumours about Crew are true.
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I’m hopeful about the Tottenham lad, however can’t help but feel we need a proper striker who can make his mark in this league !!
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Predicting a top 6 seems to me akin to expressing a fairly devout faith in the cause rather than making a truly reasoned judgment
If the Rovers team were unchanged from 2024/25 we could at least make some estimation of their likely performance for this coming season. As it is, anyone expecting them to get into the top 6 must be expecting them to be stronger, but without seeing the new team playing.
If people had studied League 1 last season they would have some knowledge of how 17 of the teams competed against each other plus knowledge of the 3 other League 2 promotees.
It would also be necessary to make a judgment of the variation in strength of those 20 teams.
No doubt McCann is better informed than most of us, but his optimism is surely aimed principally at the encouragement of his players.
I’d say that the champions of the league below ought to be capable of a half-way finish in the league above, but that only a team that had finished very comfortably ahead of second place would be an obvious serious contender for a top 6.
Both Wrexham and Stockport's finishes last season are in contradiction to that last paragraph, FR.
I agree that money does come into it, but it’s difficult for us to really know exactly how much and to judge the relative impact. There have been a lot of instances where it has not achieved anything at all - Gillingham at the bottom end and Man U and Spurs at PL level. And of course Bradford, perpetual underachievers.
It adds another imponderable factor to the business of forecasting who will finish where, thus strengthening the general case against our ability to speculate accurately.
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Luton
Stockport
Bolton
Huddersfield
Blackpool
Wycombe