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Acceptable? A draw would be optimistic, forget acceptable.
If anyone out there thinks we can make the play offs, they’ve not been watching the previous 35 league games. To recap, we have 11 league games remaining and we have to run into our season best form to have any hope of making the play offs. We have two senior central midfield players only, a striker who has scored once in the last 17 games, a captain who is clearly injured and who would be evens bet for making the rest of season intact, our best defender away for 2 games at crucial time, a keeper who nobody knows will be available for next few games and a back up who has never played a minute of league football and games to come in the remaining 11 league games that include the second and fourth placed sides, and fundamentally a squad that has shown at no stage this season they have the backbone, commitment and desire to get promoted. So it could happen, yes. Sure.
Quote from: Chris Black come back on March 18, 2023, 08:39:03 amIf anyone out there thinks we can make the play offs, they’ve not been watching the previous 35 league games. To recap, we have 11 league games remaining and we have to run into our season best form to have any hope of making the play offs. We have two senior central midfield players only, a striker who has scored once in the last 17 games, a captain who is clearly injured and who would be evens bet for making the rest of season intact, our best defender away for 2 games at crucial time, a keeper who nobody knows will be available for next few games and a back up who has never played a minute of league football and games to come in the remaining 11 league games that include the second and fourth placed sides, and fundamentally a squad that has shown at no stage this season they have the backbone, commitment and desire to get promoted. So it could happen, yes. Sure.No point in turning up then CBcb for remaining 11 games then. Roll on the Cricket season. It’s not about the last 35 games though is it. They have gone and we have 50 points. It’s what we do in the last 11 games that counts. So have Sutton Utd, Barrow and Swindon Town all given up also. Let’s just finish the season now shall we.Congratulations to Salford you are in the play offs with Bradford, Stockport and Northampton.That was easy wasn’t it you didn’t have to play the last 10 /11 games Look at Bristol Rovers last season. Came from nowhere to get top 3 Port Vale came with a late run to get a play off place. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.
Quote from: Campsall rover on March 18, 2023, 08:57:26 amQuote from: Chris Black come back on March 18, 2023, 08:39:03 amIf anyone out there thinks we can make the play offs, they’ve not been watching the previous 35 league games. To recap, we have 11 league games remaining and we have to run into our season best form to have any hope of making the play offs. We have two senior central midfield players only, a striker who has scored once in the last 17 games, a captain who is clearly injured and who would be evens bet for making the rest of season intact, our best defender away for 2 games at crucial time, a keeper who nobody knows will be available for next few games and a back up who has never played a minute of league football and games to come in the remaining 11 league games that include the second and fourth placed sides, and fundamentally a squad that has shown at no stage this season they have the backbone, commitment and desire to get promoted. So it could happen, yes. Sure.No point in turning up then CBcb for remaining 11 games then. Roll on the Cricket season. It’s not about the last 35 games though is it. They have gone and we have 50 points. It’s what we do in the last 11 games that counts. So have Sutton Utd, Barrow and Swindon Town all given up also. Let’s just finish the season now shall we.Congratulations to Salford you are in the play offs with Bradford, Stockport and Northampton.That was easy wasn’t it you didn’t have to play the last 10 /11 games Look at Bristol Rovers last season. Came from nowhere to get top 3 Port Vale came with a late run to get a play off place. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings. Not looking ahead too positively to the cricket season either. Arguably Yorkshire are in worse position this season than last. Given Root, Brook and Bairstow are totally verboten seemingly, we've got probably the weakest batting line up for two decades. The overseas signings are a mystifying bunch.
Talk of us being 12/1 shots for the playoffs if we draw today is away with the fairies.7th place this year is likely to attain something like 75 points. If we draw today, we need 24 points from the final 10 games to hit that. We've managed a run like that four times in the last 20 years.Under Moore when we had the second best first half to a season in our history.Under Ferguson where we got automatic promotion from this division.Under O'Driscoll when we won the L1 playoffs.Under Penney when we won this division.The current squad might surprise us, but is anyone going to put their hand up and say they think we are as strong, relative to the division, as those 4 were?
Quote from: Chris Black come back on March 18, 2023, 11:00:09 amQuote from: Campsall rover on March 18, 2023, 08:57:26 amQuote from: Chris Black come back on March 18, 2023, 08:39:03 amIf anyone out there thinks we can make the play offs, they’ve not been watching the previous 35 league games. To recap, we have 11 league games remaining and we have to run into our season best form to have any hope of making the play offs. We have two senior central midfield players only, a striker who has scored once in the last 17 games, a captain who is clearly injured and who would be evens bet for making the rest of season intact, our best defender away for 2 games at crucial time, a keeper who nobody knows will be available for next few games and a back up who has never played a minute of league football and games to come in the remaining 11 league games that include the second and fourth placed sides, and fundamentally a squad that has shown at no stage this season they have the backbone, commitment and desire to get promoted. So it could happen, yes. Sure.No point in turning up then CBcb for remaining 11 games then. Roll on the Cricket season. It’s not about the last 35 games though is it. They have gone and we have 50 points. It’s what we do in the last 11 games that counts. So have Sutton Utd, Barrow and Swindon Town all given up also. Let’s just finish the season now shall we.Congratulations to Salford you are in the play offs with Bradford, Stockport and Northampton.That was easy wasn’t it you didn’t have to play the last 10 /11 games Look at Bristol Rovers last season. Came from nowhere to get top 3 Port Vale came with a late run to get a play off place. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings. Not looking ahead too positively to the cricket season either. Arguably Yorkshire are in worse position this season than last. Given Root, Brook and Bairstow are totally verboten seemingly, we've got probably the weakest batting line up for two decades. The overseas signings are a mystifying bunch.Disagree Sorry. YCCC have a very strong squad for a 2nd Div Club this season even without our England Players.Providing we get no major long term injuries or at least no more than 1 to our best players and any other injuries are very short term then we should win the 2nd division title. The 2nd Div while not dismissing it is no where near as strong as the 1st Div. Sorry folks this should really be in Off Topic. Just replying to CBcb’s post. Any further Cricket I will post in Off Topic.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 18, 2023, 10:46:43 amTalk of us being 12/1 shots for the playoffs if we draw today is away with the fairies.7th place this year is likely to attain something like 75 points. If we draw today, we need 24 points from the final 10 games to hit that. We've managed a run like that four times in the last 20 years.Under Moore when we had the second best first half to a season in our history.Under Ferguson where we got automatic promotion from this division.Under O'Driscoll when we won the L1 playoffs.Under Penney when we won this division.The current squad might surprise us, but is anyone going to put their hand up and say they think we are as strong, relative to the division, as those 4 were?BST I am not saying for one minute that we will make the play off’s. I am just saying there is no way we should give it up as a goal to aim for with 33 points to play for. Yes we will need to produce top 3 form, possibly championship winning form in these last 11 games. However unlikely it is, it is possible. Doing it for 11 games is very different to doing it over 46 games.
In hindsight, a draw would have been acceptable.