Last year at this stage I looked at the possibility of reaching the playoffs.

This season it seems more appropriate to focus on avoiding relegation.

 

I have looked at the last 18 seasons as for the previous season to that 4 teams were relegated.

 

Points require to guarantee avoiding relegation - 55 or more.

 

Points required to guarantee avoiding relegation excluding last season, which was exceptional at both ends - 53 or more.

 

Points required to make survival more likely than relegation - 49 or more.

 

Points which have always meant relegation - 42 or less. (Note that Portsmouth were relegated on 40 in administration - otherwise Barnsley would have gone down on 48).

 

Number of times the bottom 3 at the end of February have all been relegated - 8 (but this includes the last 5 seasons).

 

Number of times the bottom 3 at the end of March have all been relegated - 6.

 

Highest position at end of February to be relegated - 10th(!!) with 44 points.

 

Highest position at end of March to be relegated - 17th with 47 points..

We'll be lucky to take 3pts from those 4 games.

Last 10;

 

 

8 from 10

 

So realistically another 13 points, unless we can change (I can't see it)

 

 

Finish on 42

 

Going down

I still can't believe we've ended up in a relegation scrap. What the fuck happened to us??

I still can't believe we've ended up in a relegation scrap. What the fuck happened to us??

 

 

I think it might have covered, but, in summary;

 

 

Mismanagement from top to bottom

I still can't believe we've ended up in a relegation scrap. What the fuck happened to us??

 

Some players not good enough.  Some players are plenty good enough but don't seem to be arsed.  Some players are not good enough and still can't be arsed. 

 

The manager has no idea what how to address the above.

 

That's pretty much it IMO.

He fact we are even contemplating this is a disgrace

 

If this would've been mooted at the beginning of the season we'd have had the offending poster sectioned

we had this 'we're going down' crisis last year

 

be reet

 

i'm not rich man, but i'll give all those saying we're definitely going down 6/1

 

if you're that confident rather than just miserable, depressive bastards, you'll snatch my hand off

6/1?

Tightarse.

 

12/1 at the bookies.

6/1?

Tightarse.

 

12/1 at the bookies.

 

 

Hes not daft take money of all comers and then lay it off.  It will be the worst managerial fuck up ever if we go down with this squad and a benefactor who is still backing DF with money for loanees absolutely mind boggling shocking management bordering on neglect if he cannot turn this round.      

He fact we are even contemplating this is a disgrace

 

If this would've been mooted at the beginning of the season we'd have had the offending poster sectioned

Bang on. It's a fucking shite state of affairs that this is what our season comes down to

6/1?

Tightarse.

 

12/1 at the bookies.

 

 

hush

He fact we are even contemplating this is a disgrace

 

If this would've been mooted at the beginning of the season we'd have had the offending poster sectioned

 

 

It'd be a great power, to have posters sectioned

6/1?

Tightarse.

 

12/1 at the bookies.

 

 

Are these the same bookies who had us 4th favourites?

 

 

I never bet, but at 12/1, might have a shilling each way

we had this 'we're going down' crisis last year

 

be reet

 

i'm not rich man, but i'll give all those saying we're definitely going down 6/1

 

if you're that confident rather than just miserable, depressive bastards, you'll snatch my hand off

 

 

am I confident they'll go down?

 

No

 

Am I confident they'll stay up?

 

No

 

 

Am I a miserable, depressive bastard?

 

I hope not

 

Am I a realist?

 

I think so

Add Yeovilaway 22/3

do we play

 

yeovil away when ???

Are these the same bookies who had us 4th favourites?

 

 

I never bet, but at 12/1, might have a shilling each way

 

£30.

 

If we stay up, you're happy.

If we go down, that's your next Season Ticket covered.

He fact we are even contemplating this is a disgrace

 

If this would've been mooted at the beginning of the season we'd have had the offending poster sectioned

I think I remember saying somewhere on here back in October when we hadn't won one in 10 that we had a nasty whiff of Wolves about us. They had a similar mix of highly paid sorts who hadn't the stomach for it and some others who were supposedly signed as suited to the Division but were ultimately crap.  

am I confident they'll go down?

 

No

 

Am I confident they'll stay up?

 

No

 

 

Am I a miserable, depressive bastard?

 

I hope not

 

Am I a realist?

 

I think so

Exactly where I'm at BD.

 

Would never bet against Bolton anyway...but there's not a cat in hells chance I'd put money on us stopping up.

 

We tick every box of a team heading for the trap door.

 

Wolves written all over it.

Add Yeovilaway 22/3

Add Millwall 15/02.

Think the fact that most of these 'make or break' games are away is a good thing, we've won more away and the fans will be more supportive, hopefully!

£30.

 

If we stay up, you're happy.

If we go down, that's your next Season Ticket covered.

I'm in.. Not to win the money but I can pretend I am not bothered if we go down which unless you were a football fan you would believe

we had this 'we're going down' crisis last year

 

be reet

 

i'm not rich man, but i'll give all those saying we're definitely going down 6/1

 

if you're that confident rather than just miserable, depressive bastards, you'll snatch my hand off

Stick me down for a million! Always fancied a gaff in the leafy countryside.

Edited February 14, 201412 yr by jonnycooper

We do not look like a team that wants it at the moment. Half the fuckers know they're gone in the summer 'so they're not arsed about us!!ITK FACT.

£30.

 

If we stay up, you're happy.

If we go down, that's your next Season Ticket covered.

 

 

At 12/1?

We do not look like a team that wants it at the moment. Half the fuckers know they're gone in the summer 'so they're not arsed about us!!ITK FACT.

 

Sad but true.