Half way through the season, a very successful calendar year finished (just read we got 92 league points in 2023)… nail your colours to the mast, where will we finish this season?

None of this “depends what we and others do in the window” - there are always variables and that’s all too sensible.

I’m 100% convinced we go up, I’d like to think as champions (not only because I’ve got a decent amount on us at 8/1 to win the league) but I think Derby will push us all the way.

2nd for me, with Derby as Champions and then Barnsley through the play offs.

11 minutes ago, L/H White said:

3️⃣ 🐎 🏃🏼 

27 minutes ago, L/H White said:

 

14 minutes ago, Jol_BWFC said:

3️⃣ 🐎 🏃🏼 

That said 

 

7 hours ago, Traf said:

Love it.

Like I said in another thread I referred to Portsmouth they’ve had a bad time with injuries and they’ve dealt with it, suspensions are our own fault in particular GT who can’t seem to tackle properly.and also I may add some of our poorer performances have been whilst the likes of santos & co have been playing

sorry was meant reply to 63

 

Edited February 19, 20242 yr by radcliffe white

All true White and Pompey have done well and whilst I know you make your own luck they do seem to have had more than their fair share of late winners and penalties. That’s how it goes sometimes and I know all teams get injuries but we do seem to have had misfortune all at the same time.

Play offs, get beat at home and draw the away game at Derby.

24 minutes ago, Whitestar said:

Play offs, get beat at home and draw the away game at Derby.

If we're meeting in the play-offs I'd see the final being the most likely

Assuming its Pompey and Barnsley going up automatically, can see both finishing third and fourth

Can't see anyone finishing above either into third or one of us falling down to sixth

Changed my mind after the last 2 results. Playoffs now as we simply can't find a way in these big games and I fear it will be the same against Barnsley and Derby. Happy to be proved wrong.

2nd.

Maybe some will say I'm naive, but for me, if I resign myself to this just being a playoff lottery season, why bother? 

We're over the shit horrible bogey fixtures, and we're going up. 

7 hours ago, TM Trotter said:

2nd.

Maybe some will say I'm naive, but for me, if I resign myself to this just being a playoff lottery season, why bother? 

We're over the shit horrible bogey fixtures, and we're going up. 

I love your optimism but Derby and Barnsley away are very much bogey fixtures

Playoffs and bottle it in the semi again because this team doesn't have the minerals.

7th 

I can't see anything other than us finishing in the play-offs and then going out meekly.

This is based purely on our performances over the last few weeks.  We are in a bad run of form at present and there's no hiding from that.

Of course, this could all change and by God I hope it does.  After two quick successive defeats in local games Evatt and the players will be hurting.  It's on them now to see what they're made of.

2nd

1 hour ago, Farrelli said:

I love your optimism but Derby and Barnsley away are very much bogey fixtures

Just had a look at Barnsley and you're right. Only time I've been over there, we tonked their 10 men...

I'd forgotten our hideous Derby record after a few beers.

Fuck!

2nd or bust.

Not a chance this lot can get through a playoff situation

2 hours ago, Farrelli said:

I love your optimism but Derby and Barnsley away are very much bogey fixtures

From seeing the home games, I think we are much the better team.

But we need to go out and prove it.

Both winnable imo, but can understand why folk have zero confidence in the team right now.

22 minutes ago, Greg_BWFC said:

From seeing the home games, I think we are much the better team.

But we need to go out and prove it.

Both winnable imo, but can understand why folk have zero confidence in the team right now.

From memory we made hard work of beating 10 men derby and we just about survived a late onslaught, Barnsley had great opportunities to beat us just poor finishing 

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Edited February 28, 20242 yr by L/H White

As I’ve been saying for some time we haven’t been playing well now for a couple of months. 

Eventually your luck runs out, and this normally happens away from home, as has been proven. 

We’ve won 4 of our last 10 league games FFS, all against bottom half teams of course. 

I think we’ll finish 4th, but even that won’t happen if we can’t deal with these difficult fixtures ahead.

the top 2 has long gone 

our stats against the top 6 over the last 3 seasons are terrible 

we still have to play, Pompey, Barnsley, Derby, Stevenage and Posh

strong possibility we vanish out of the playoffs to

Are we winning 9 of these fixtures?

 

Cambridge H

Barnsley A

Exeter A

Oxford H

Derby A

Shrewsbury H

Stevenage A

Reading H

Bristol A

Pompey H

Port Vale H

Peterborough A 

9 minutes ago, L/H White said:

the top 2 has long gone 

 

Nah, 2nd place has not gone as it's still in our own hands.

It's going, but it's certainly not gone.

2 minutes ago, burnden said:

Are we winning 9 of these fixtures?

 

Cambridge H

Barnsley A

Exeter A

Oxford H

Derby A

Shrewsbury H

Stevenage A

Reading H

Bristol A

Pompey H

Port Vale H

Peterborough A 

2 maybe. And a couple of draws

2 minutes ago, DazBob said:

Nah, 2nd place has not gone as it's still in our own hands.

It's going, but it's certainly not gone.

it's gone mate

15 minutes ago, L/H White said:

the top 2 has long gone 

our stats against the top 6 over the last 3 seasons are terrible 

we still have to play, Pompey, Barnsley, Derby, Stevenage and Posh

strong possibility we vanish out of the playoffs to

Said pretty much in Barnsley thread