jon francis 0 Posted February 23, 2006 Right here are my predictions forus and the teams we are competing with and what I think will genuinlyn hppen.Norwich IpswichPalace away d Leicester home wStoke home w Preston away lLeeds away L Millwall home wSheffield united home w Palace away lburnley away W Hull home wLeicseter home w Luton away lPreston away l Stoke home wSheffield Wednesday away w Brighton home wQPR home w Watford away lCardiff away w Derby home wWolves home w Plymouth away dThats a total of 71 points Thats a total of 66 pointsLuton Town WolvesLeeds away l Hull away wMillwall away w QPR away lleicester home w Stoke home wDerby home w Cardiff home wBrighton away w Reading away lIpswich home w Sheffield wednesday home wWatford away l Plymouth away dCoventry home w Coventry home wPlymouth away d Watford home lsheffield united home d Preston away lBurnley away l Brighton home wThats a total of 68 points. Norwich away l Thats a total of 69 points.Cardiff#watford away l Crystal Palacesheffield wednesday home w Norwich home dwolves away l leeds home dplymouth away d stoke away dqpr home w ipswich home wsouthampton away l leeds away lreading home l derby away dsheffield united home l watford home lcrewe away d leicster away wnorwich home l Crewe home wcoventry away l Burnley away dTotal of 60 points for Cardiff ( tough run in) Saints home d Sheffield united away l 72 points for palace. (play off place) PNEReading away lIpswich home wBrighton away lSheffield wednesday away dPlymouth home wCoventry away dNorwich home wLeiscter away lwolves home wHull away dleeds home lThats a total of 70 points. So by my reckoning its guna be us and palace that sneak the two final play off places. I tried not to be biased also I promise. So this proves its all to play for for the boys. We can do this with our support. Im sure of it!That means palace 5th Norwich 6th Preston 7th Wolves 8th Luton 9th Ipswich 10th Cardif 11th Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Citizen Journalist Foghorn 0 Posted February 23, 2006 But Preston also have 2 more games to play - they play 13 not 11 !?!?!?!? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lucky green trainers 0 Posted February 23, 2006 i did this with green & yella tinted specs back in jan & predicted city 2 make the playoffs - got slagged by some posters for being unrealistic. on reflection, they were right.who knows though, hope you''re right. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kidderminster Canary 0 Posted February 23, 2006 If you are correct and I sure hope you are, the final match against Wolves sould ge a good un, a repeat of our last play of season but with a more satisfactory play off final I hope.I was expecting the Wolves game to be important and chose it as one of my 5 hat trick matches way back in July. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gazban 0 Posted February 23, 2006 Your being well harsh on Preston, theyve had a superb run which does not look like halying yet you have them losing or drawing all their away games, yet have us winning or drawing ours. VERY wishful thinking IMO. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0peteddMMyyyy0Falseen-USTrue 0 Posted February 23, 2006 Jon I am more interested in how you will feel if the unlikely scenario which you feel might result after two fortuitous results against the Divisions lesser lights doesn''t transpire, will you be calling for Worthy''s head if City don''y make the play offs after the money spent assembling the team. Should City have been better placed after last season.Preston and Palace will be at least 10 points clear of City. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bailojnr 0 Posted February 23, 2006 Thats incredably optamistic (sp?). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ernie 0 Posted February 23, 2006 Can''t see Preston dropping that many points, especially not losing to Brighton!!Really hope that you are right and would be happy if we managed that many wins in our run in, but still don''t think it would be enough to make the play-offs.It would for me however, show enough improvement to keep worthy in the job for next season and hopefully lead to a successful campaign next year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rossi 0 Posted February 23, 2006 Jon, I hope like every fan that you are right, and i do not want to criticise the hours that you have spent looking into your crystal ball, but this season has been one disappointment after another. If you are so convinced then i would talk to your local bookmaker, I''m sure he would give you great odds. Yes anything could happen but look at it another way....there is no way we deserve a play off place in the same way that we did not deserve to remain in the prem. Yes we were close, and we may be close again, but Waghorns six points short article a few days ago is clearly the way he sees it.If Norwich are to creep into the play offs then not only do they need a team already there to have a monumental slip up, and to catch and pass the four teams between us and the play offs. In terms of slip up I cant see Palace or Preston slipping up to the extent they would need to for us to catch them and if they did the teams above us would be going hammer and nail as well. Mathematically possible, but so is winning the lottery, it doesnt mean that you will though. 10 out of 10 for optimism. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Citizen Journalist Foghorn 0 Posted February 23, 2006 [quote user="gazban"]Your being well harsh on Preston, theyve had a superb run which does not look like halying yet you have them losing or drawing all their away games, yet have us winning or drawing ours. VERY wishful thinking IMO.[/quote]he has actually missed 2 preston games off the list. He has only listed 11 games whereas they have 13 to go... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ealing Canary 0 Posted February 23, 2006 71 points is incredibly low to get into the playoffs.As posted a few weeks ago it''s been 75/76 points minimum to get into the playoffs the last 5 seasons.That said, I hope you''re right, will be one hell of an exciting run in! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alex Harvey-Jones 0 Posted February 23, 2006 That''s a pretty optimistic set of results for us. I would be surprised if we can win that many games. Still I would be delighted to be proved wrong!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chris Meadows 0 Posted February 23, 2006 65 pts is a more realistic return in my eyes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sing up the river end 0 Posted February 23, 2006 [quote user="Islington Canary"]71 points is incredibly low to get into the playoffs.As posted a few weeks ago it''s been 75/76 points minimum to get into the playoffs the last 5 seasons.That said, I hope you''re right, will be one hell of an exciting run in![/quote]Actually 73 points would of got you in the play offs in 2 of the last 5seasons(2002/2003 and 2003/2004).That said I think at the best we willend on 70.Thats with a good run something not likely to happen.Makethat 73 if we win tomorrow though :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
