End of the World

[AucklandRover]

Can we just get a grip and be a bit more patient.
I have hardly looked at Internet sport for the last few days.
We have friends who have just moved into a house with a huge, untended, three-tier garden.
A group of us have helped with the move, and we are now involved in internal alterations and decorating.
Meanwhile, my job has been the garden. (I'm a keen gardener, but useless with a paint-brush!)
I have been digging up roses, shrubs, vines, small trees, etc. from their old property and replanting them.
There is also a lot of clearance to be done. (Weeds grow twice as fast here as in the UK!)
I have been knackered every evening!

Anyway, I came back here to find nothing but doom and gloom.
We are not rock-bottom. (In fact, with glass half-full, we are only five points from the play-off positions!). We have 37 games left. Every team can beat every other team in this Division.
Do we REALLY have to go for worst-case-scenario in EVERY post?!

One last thought to prevent further depression.
GO, Biden!

[Saxo1man41]

Can we just get a grip and be a bit more patient.
I have hardly looked at Internet sport for the last few days.
We have friends who have just moved into a house with a huge, untended, three-tier garden.
A group of us have helped with the move, and we are now involved in internal alterations and decorating.
Meanwhile, my job has been the garden. (I'm a keen gardener, but useless with a paint-brush!)
I have been digging up roses, shrubs, vines, small trees, etc. from their old property and replanting them.
There is also a lot of clearance to be done. (Weeds grow twice as fast here as in the UK!)
I have been knackered every evening!

Anyway, I came back here to find nothing but doom and gloom.
We are not rock-bottom. (In fact, with glass half-full, we are only five points from the play-off positions!). We have 37 games left. Every team can beat every other team in this Division.
Do we REALLY have to go for worst-case-scenario in EVERY post?!

One last thought to prevent further depression.
GO, Biden!

its fairly bleak ahead of the in form boro.

[champs95]

its fairly bleak ahead of the in form boro.

if Rovers scruff a 1-0 win tomorrow it will do nothing to change my mind.

[Saxo1man41]

if Rovers scruff a 1-0 win tomorrow it will do nothing to change my mind.

i wish i could believe we were capable of that.

[AucklandRover]

"Bleak"? If you must, Saxo!
But what will it be if we beat them?
A chorus of "The Sun Has Got His Hat On", and a fast-track to the PL?

[Saxo1man41]

"Bleak"? If you must, Saxo!
But what will it be if we beat them?
A chorus of "The Sun Has Got His Hat On", and a fast-track to the PL?

if we won 1-0 with a solid defensve display, yes.

to be honest, if we somehow won and it was say 4-3 or something daft i wouldnt be happy. the reason? results like that cannot be acheived consistantly.

[AucklandRover]

But how can you even guess?
Did you put money on Coventry to beat Reading?

[champs95]

But how can you even guess?
Did you put money on Coventry to beat Reading?

No, but I put money on Arsenal beating Man Utd. I saw that coming. I made £80.
Millions of people every weekend put bets on and correctly predict scorelines.
One person used to win the pools every week by predicting multiple scorelines.
That's how betting works.

Reading losing at Coventry?
Are you sure you didnt see that one coming? It wasn't the first time a side down the bottom beats a side at the top.
Would you not say that IS the predictable thing? It happens almost every week at our level.
Reading were nothing special. I thought they got pretty lucky in honesty.
A combative side would have beaten them. They looked better than us, but that's saying nothing.
Was t the shock of the century? No.

I can predict this, if Lenihan plays tonight, they stand a very good chance. As he is a liability.

[AucklandRover]

No, but I put money on Arsenal beating Man Utd. I saw that coming. I made £80.
Millions of people every weekend put bets on and correctly predict scorelines.
One person used to win the pools every week by predicting multiple scorelines.
That's how betting works.

Reading losing at Coventry?
Are you sure you didnt see that one coming? It wasn't the first time a side down the bottom beats a side at the top.
Would you not say that IS the predictable thing? It happens almost every week at our level.
Reading were nothing special. I thought they got pretty lucky in honesty.
A combative side would have beaten them. They looked better than us, but that's saying nothing.
Was t the shock of the century? No.

I can predict this, if Lenihan plays tonight, they stand a very good chance. As he is a liability.

Are you willfully misunderstanding what I'm saying?
My point is that ANYTHING can happen in any game in this League, so predictions about the long-term make no sense whatsoever.

[champs95]

Are you willfully misunderstanding what I'm saying?
My point is that ANYTHING can happen in any game in this League, so predictions about the long-term make no sense whatsoever.

I put a bet on Arsenal beating Man Utd on Sunday. I won.
I put a small bet on Rovers not scoring last night and won.
Not that I'm advocating betting. Its a mugs game.
Sam Gallagher will not score double figures this season. That's another bet I think I would stand a very good chance at winning a few bob.
Wycombe will go down. There are a quite a number of things I would bet my life on happening.
While I agree you cant predict. Some things you can.
To me its not an unpredictable league. Its poor. That's what is getting confused.
There isn't that much to chose between top or bottom.
The only surprise to me is, folk act surprised after a club near the bottom beats a side near the top. Which has been going on on the Champ for decades. In most of my 44 years it has anyway.

A fairly simple way of looking at the final league table over the past few season tells me we finished 15th on 60 points in 2018/19. Then 11th with 63 points 2019/20 season.
Sadly we are not gaining as many points on average as previous seasons at this point. And I am not basing this one 10 games this season, but 9 last season aswell. I feel nearly 20 games is a fair stretch of time?
So I would suggest a fairly reasonable finish of 55 points and somewhere around 10-15th.
Is that all beyond the realms of possibility?

We can't go down. That would be a disaster of epic proportions. We probably wouldn't survive that one.
So as of now, avoiding relegation is the only priority.
My expectations hav. e been lowered to that. I was concerned last season. I was concerned at the start of this.
Take away that one solitary home win over Wycombe and its pretty woeful.
Anything will be an improvement.
Once a few players start coming back, things may improve.

I'll point out aswell, Auks. You yourself said pretty much prior to the previous 2 season where you thought they would finish. And got it pretty much spot on. By the time everything pans out, your suggestion of 6-11th may well be correct.
So predicting things can be pretty spot on.

What you are saying is, you cant just have this depressed view over the whole season. As it could improve. Which I appreciate and take on board.