wakey Posted March 29 Author Share Posted March 29 26 minutes ago, Arrested development said: Nob Enders ? Can't remember a win against them recently already asked. Not Preston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Cheese Posted March 29 Site Supporter Share Posted March 29 41 minutes ago, Arrested development said: Nob Enders ? Can't remember a win against them recently We've played them 6 times since we did the treble over them in 2000/01. Drawn 3, lost 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter desperado Posted March 31 Site Supporter Share Posted March 31 Leeds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Feelgood Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Options are getting thin now. Sheffield Wed ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakey Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 2 hours ago, desperado said: Leeds? correct. Not beat them in 10 games since the 5-1 in 2014. Lost the last seven. Wish I'd picked a different run, bit depressing this one. Full list Chelsea - 19 games Middlesbrough - 11 Leeds - 10 Man U - 9 Wigan - 8 Sheff Wed - 7 Brentford - 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter desperado Posted March 31 Site Supporter Share Posted March 31 (edited) For best endings (as in winning/not losing runs) to the season, the 21/22 must be up there Edited March 31 by desperado Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt. Aldo Raine Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 On 29/03/2024 at 10:15, Dr. Feelgood said: Rotherham. Have we EVER beaten those fckrs ? Yes, but we haven't beaten them away from home in 18 attempts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakey Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 1 hour ago, desperado said: For best endings (as in winning/not losing runs) to the season, the 21/22 must be up there not exactly what you mentioned, but already had this to hand. First half v second half of the season for past 4 years. 2020/21 P W D L Pts ppg first half 23 7 7 9 28 1.22 second half 23 16 3 4 51 2.22 Total 46 23 10 13 79 1.72 2021/22 P W D L Pts ppg first half 23 7 5 11 26 1.13 second half 23 14 5 4 47 2.04 Total 46 21 10 15 73 1.59 2022/23 P W D L Pts ppg first half 23 10 7 6 37 1.61 second half 23 13 5 5 44 1.91 Total 46 23 12 11 81 1.76 2023/24 P W D L Pts ppg first half 23 15 3 5 48 2.09 second half 18 7 7 4 28 1.56 Total 41 22 10 9 76 1.85 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter desperado Posted March 31 Site Supporter Share Posted March 31 Seems as good a place as any to put it, covering 10 game runs this season. Makes a good point that this last 10 game poor run has coincided with Baxter and Charles being injured. I realise some folk will say but others have had injuries and that Charles was already going off form and @Johnnyrotten will say Charles won’t make a difference against Portsmouth & Peterborough even if he is fit 🤣. But for me it’s pretty clear we’ve missed one of the best keepers and best goal scorers in L1. If we can get them back fit and injury-free I think it would make a massive difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyrotten Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 25 minutes ago, desperado said: Seems as good a place as any to put it, covering 10 game runs this season. Makes a good point that this last 10 game poor run has coincided with Baxter and Charles being injured. I realise some folk will say but others have had injuries and that Charles was already going off form and @Johnnyrotten will say Charles won’t make a difference against Portsmouth & Peterborough even if he is fit 🤣. But for me it’s pretty clear we’ve missed one of the best keepers and best goal scorers in L1. If we can get them back fit and injury-free I think it would make a massive difference. Even if Charles is fit against Pompey and Posh I expect he won't score from open play 😀 I still hope he's fit though, coz we need as many potential scorers as possible for the run in / play offs. And I'd be chuffed to bits to see him score the winner in the 96th minute at Posh to secure promotion. We've missed those 2, no doubt. But there's a flaw in those "10 game" stats. The last block is 3 homes and 7 aways! And the aways include 3 bogey grounds plus another top 6 challenger. How many points do folk realistically think we would have got from those 10 at any time, given our general inconsistency? Maybe we should have beaten Charlton and Exeter, but no more than we should have beaten Reading, Carlisle, Burton etc when we were "on form". I still say our recent form is typical of the season, I don't know when we expected the results to be better against the same calibre opposition. Undefeated at home since mid December, a 4-1 away win, a 5-0 home win. if we'd started the season with the same home form we'd be a lot closer to Derby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter desperado Posted March 31 Site Supporter Share Posted March 31 (edited) 1 hour ago, Johnnyrotten said: Even if Charles is fit against Pompey and Posh I expect he won't score from open play 😀 I still hope he's fit though, coz we need as many potential scorers as possible for the run in / play offs. And I'd be chuffed to bits to see him score the winner in the 96th minute at Posh to secure promotion. We've missed those 2, no doubt. But there's a flaw in those "10 game" stats. The last block is 3 homes and 7 aways! And the aways include 3 bogey grounds plus another top 6 challenger. How many points do folk realistically think we would have got from those 10 at any time, given our general inconsistency? Maybe we should have beaten Charlton and Exeter, but no more than we should have beaten Reading, Carlisle, Burton etc when we were "on form". I still say our recent form is typical of the season, I don't know when we expected the results to be better against the same calibre opposition. Undefeated at home since mid December, a 4-1 away win, a 5-0 home win. if we'd started the season with the same home form we'd be a lot closer to Derby. First part of the season we were in much better form in my view. The general picture, feel, results, performances and some results that we hadn’t been picking up in previous seasons: Wycombe away, a local rival win at home with Blackpool, comfortable win at home against Derby, some other good away wins and runs of form that cemented our place as top challenger for promotion. While I accept the usual Wigan/Blackpool/Derby aways were always going to be tricky in this 2nd half of season (and this Is the bit I understand we disagree on) with the form we’d had in the first part of season still relatively fresh and with our main striker/keeper available we’d have stood a much better chance of turning some of those bogey games into points. The Blackpool game Coleman had a stinker. And despite the previous record you state, the Derby and Wigan games were that close, arguably with us the better side, with the better chances, Charles very much could (and that’s all we can say) have made the small/marginal difference. Otherwise what would he have been in the side to do? Evatt wouldn’t have dropped him would he because he hasn’t previously had (in your opinion) as good a record? Why couldn’t one of those games have been like a Plymouth, Barnsley, Peterborough game when Charles has scored against top opposition? It’s all hypothetical nonsense really, but I’m not having it that Charles chances of scoring differ that much depending on opposition, that his ability level only takes him to a certain level of team in L1. I’m guessing, but wasn’t it Denmark he scored against for NI?! And I think the pre-game odds, hopefully when he’s playing against Bristol Rovers and Portsmouth won’t be much different and will back me up on that. Edited March 31 by desperado Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arrested development Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 I wanna see from GW 30 how our form stacks up with your rest of the top 6 because I think we've all dropped points , I bet there's only two teams in the top 6 form table in that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiggyStardust Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 1 hour ago, Arrested development said: I wanna see from GW 30 how our form stacks up with your rest of the top 6 because I think we've all dropped points , I bet there's only two teams in the top 6 form table in that time. Last 10 Games Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Lincoln City 10 8 2 0 26 3 23 26 2 Portsmouth 10 8 2 0 20 6 14 26 3 Derby 10 7 0 3 16 6 10 21 4 Barnsley 10 5 3 2 17 17 0 18 7 Peterborough 10 5 0 5 19 17 2 15 13 Bolton 10 3 4 3 17 14 3 13 FWIW, Reading are 5th in the form table over the last 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter desperado Posted April 5 Site Supporter Share Posted April 5 Similar situation to what we faced in 92/93. Win our last 5 games……. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakey Posted April 6 Author Share Posted April 6 11 hours ago, desperado said: Similar situation to what we faced in 92/93. Win our last 5 games……. Just checked ... that's our longest winning run to end a season. Won the last 4 on 5 separate occasions, but only time we've won last five. (so far 😁) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayjayoghani Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Think we won 15 of the last 19 games that season so we probably had more momentum then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakey Posted April 6 Author Share Posted April 6 1 hour ago, jayjayoghani said: Think we won 15 of the last 19 games that season so we probably had more momentum then. This is our run at the end of that season. Went 13 unbeaten before the Bradford loss then won last five. We were 8th at the start of this run. 20 Feb 1993 Blackpool A D 1 1 27 Feb 1993 Hartlepool United A W 2 0 06 Mar 1993 Leyton Orient H W 1 0 09 Mar 1993 Mansfield Town H W 2 1 13 Mar 1993 Port Vale A D 0 0 20 Mar 1993 Exeter City H W 4 1 23 Mar 1993 Burnley A W 1 0 27 Mar 1993 Fulham H W 1 0 30 Mar 1993 Rotherham United H W 2 0 03 Apr 1993 Mansfield Town A D 1 1 06 Apr 1993 Stockport County H W 2 1 10 Apr 1993 Wigan Athletic A W 2 0 12 Apr 1993 Swansea City H W 3 1 17 Apr 1993 Bradford City A L 1 2 24 Apr 1993 Chester City H W 5 0 27 Apr 1993 AFC Bournemouth A W 2 1 30 Apr 1993 Hull City A W 2 1 04 May 1993 Stoke City H W 1 0 08 May 1993 Preston North End H W 1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayjayoghani Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 When I was over at Xmas met up with the guy who gave the penalty away against Preston on the last day. Didn't mention it 🙂 He's a big Bolton fan btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter desperado Posted April 6 Site Supporter Share Posted April 6 22 minutes ago, jayjayoghani said: When I was over at Xmas met up with the guy who gave the penalty away against Preston on the last day. Didn't mention it 🙂 He's a big Bolton fan btw. I know Si (Burton) well, often have a laugh about that! He is a big Bolton fan, often seen home and away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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