Relegation Thread 2017/18

[roversfan2001]

Yeah I don't agree about Kean being the worst ever employee of any club, even we've had worse in the past 8 years.

 

[DippyDon]

If any of the managers you've raised have won a game, they're instantly better than Dan Micciche is at this point.
I'd say we're almost certain to go down. We still need to play the top 5 and our run in is horrendous.
Bristol Rovers (H)
Bradford (A)
Rotherham (H)
Bury (H)
Blackpool (H)
Gillingham (A)
Blackburn (H)
Wigan (A)
Doncaster (H)
Southend (A)
Scunthorpe (H)
Shrewsbury (A)

I can see us winning maybe one game there, Bury.

 

[Hurrikeen]

Home
Portsmouth
Walsall
Blackpool
Gillingham
Wimbledon
Southend (TBA)

Away
Scunthorpe
Bury
Wigan
Oxford
Rochdale
Wimbledon
Northampton

Quite a favourable run in really. Only 2 in the top 6, majority are in the bottom 8. If we go down then we fully deserve to. Doyle is due back this weekend too which can only help.

 

[SoutheySWFC]

If any of the managers you've raised have won a game, they're instantly better than Dan Micciche is at this point.
I'd say we're almost certain to go down. We still need to play the top 5 and our run in is horrendous.
Bristol Rovers (H)
Bradford (A)
Rotherham (H)
Bury (H)
Blackpool (H)
Gillingham (A)
Blackburn (H)
Wigan (A)
Doncaster (H)
Southend (A)
Scunthorpe (H)
Shrewsbury (A)

I can see us winning maybe one game there, Bury.

Just one more relegation to go after this one and the League can rejoice....

 

[Hurrikeen]

If any of the managers you've raised have won a game, they're instantly better than Dan Micciche is at this point.
I'd say we're almost certain to go down. We still need to play the top 5 and our run in is horrendous.
Bristol Rovers (H)
Bradford (A)
Rotherham (H)
Bury (H)
Blackpool (H)
Gillingham (A)
Blackburn (H)
Wigan (A)
Doncaster (H)
Southend (A)
Scunthorpe (H)
Shrewsbury (A)

I can see us winning maybe one game there, Bury.

You've got to be looking at winning those home games at a minimum?

Aside from that, its difficult to see where your points are coming from.

 

[DippyDon]

You've got to be looking at winning those home games at a minimum?

Aside from that, its difficult to see where your points are coming from.

We have to be looking at it, but if we are going away to Rochdale and only looking for a point, I dread to think what we'll set up for in those games.

Just one more relegation to go after this one and the League can rejoice....

A few teams won't, where else can they bring 7,833 fans to a league game.

 

[UTS]

If any of the managers you've raised have won a game, they're instantly better than Dan Micciche is at this point.
I'd say we're almost certain to go down. We still need to play the top 5 and our run in is horrendous.
Bristol Rovers (H)
Bradford (A)
Rotherham (H)
Bury (H)
Blackpool (H)
Gillingham (A)
Blackburn (H)
Wigan (A)
Doncaster (H)
Southend (A)
Scunthorpe (H)
Shrewsbury (A)

I can see us winning maybe one game there, Bury.

Christ that is an awful looking run in as it stands. But teams scrapping for their lives can pull it out of the bag sometimes.

Can’t call our game at the moment (Bury). On current form we have a chance and MK Dons large pitch may help us... decent record at stadium MK too... have we ever lost there?!

 

[DippyDon]

Christ that is an awful looking run in as it stands. But teams scrapping for their lives can pull it out of the bag sometimes.

Can’t call our game at the moment (Bury). On current form we have a chance and MK Dons large pitch may help us... decent record at stadium MK too... have we ever lost there?!

In 11/12 we beat you 2-1 at home, then a draw and a loss for us since then.

 

[Fedora Dale]

Sat 10 Mar 3:00pm Rotherham United A
Tue 13 Mar 7:45pm Southend United H
Sat 17 Mar 3:00pm AFC Wimbledon H
Tue 20 Mar 7:45pm Fleetwood Town H
Sat 24 Mar 3:00pm Scunthorpe United A
Fri 30 Mar 3:00pm Shrewsbury Town H
Tue 3 Apr 7:45pm Bury A
Sat 7 Apr 3:00pm Portsmouth H
Tue 10 Apr 7:45pm Wigan Athletic H
Sat 14 Apr 3:00pm Peterborough United A
Tue 17 Apr 7:45pm Oldham Athletic H
Sat 21 Apr 3:00pm Bradford City H
Tue 24 Apr 7:45pm Plymouth Argyle H
Sat 28 Apr 3:00pm Oxford United A
Sat 5 May 5:30pm Charlton Athletic H

A busy schedule, 2/3 of which is at home. If we get a run going, we've a chance...

 

[Marked Ox]

Sat 10 Mar 3:00pm Rotherham United A
Tue 13 Mar 7:45pm Southend United H
Sat 17 Mar 3:00pm AFC Wimbledon H
Tue 20 Mar 7:45pm Fleetwood Town H
Sat 24 Mar 3:00pm Scunthorpe United A
Fri 30 Mar 3:00pm Shrewsbury Town H
Tue 3 Apr 7:45pm Bury A
Sat 7 Apr 3:00pm Portsmouth H
Tue 10 Apr 7:45pm Wigan Athletic H
Sat 14 Apr 3:00pm Peterborough United A
Tue 17 Apr 7:45pm Oldham Athletic H
Sat 21 Apr 3:00pm Bradford City H
Tue 24 Apr 7:45pm Plymouth Argyle H
Sat 28 Apr 3:00pm Oxford United A
Sat 5 May 5:30pm Charlton Athletic H

A busy schedule, 2/3 of which is at home. If we get a run going, we've a chance...

They'll be knackered by the end of that.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Sat 10 Mar 3:00pm Rotherham United A
Tue 13 Mar 7:45pm Southend United H
Sat 17 Mar 3:00pm AFC Wimbledon H
Tue 20 Mar 7:45pm Fleetwood Town H
Sat 24 Mar 3:00pm Scunthorpe United A
Fri 30 Mar 3:00pm Shrewsbury Town H
Tue 3 Apr 7:45pm Bury A
Sat 7 Apr 3:00pm Portsmouth H
Tue 10 Apr 7:45pm Wigan Athletic H
Sat 14 Apr 3:00pm Peterborough United A
Tue 17 Apr 7:45pm Oldham Athletic H
Sat 21 Apr 3:00pm Bradford City H
Tue 24 Apr 7:45pm Plymouth Argyle H
Sat 28 Apr 3:00pm Oxford United A
Sat 5 May 5:30pm Charlton Athletic H

A busy schedule, 2/3 of which is at home. If we get a run going, we've a chance...

What is the depth of your squad? Those three a week games will probably mean some players go off the boil a bit and others may get injured.

 

[Fedora Dale]

What is the depth of your squad? Those three a week games will probably mean some players go off the boil a bit and others may get injured.

Not actually too bad. Probably a centre-back short of being able to make 11 changes (Keith Keane and Niall Canavan both injured long-term, although Calvin Andrew is on his way back shortly, and could probably do an emergency job there )

 

[Lance Stoe]

We will be in this next season. Berkeley Boys don’t want to go back to League 2 with dross like Morecambe.

 

[SoutheySWFC]

We will be in this next season. Berkeley Boys don’t want to go back to League 2 with dross like Morecambe.

Their main lad sparked you out in the Berkley and did you at Morecambe on the beach between his cockle picking shifts

 

[Lance Stoe]

Never been to Morecambe geez. Morecambe fans were so docile we even let them in the Iron Bar. Accrington, Crewe, N, Wycombe, Colchester, Southend, Gillingham, Barnsley, Bristol Rovers, Notts Co, Crawley, Stevenage, Oldham, Burnley, Cheltenham, Walsall, Blackburn, Preston, Exeter, Pompey, Plymouth, Charlton, Coventry, Leicester, Cambridge and Burton. These clubs can’t touch us. Add Birmingham, Villa, Yeovil and Man Utd to that as well as Port Vale

 

[THE LAST WALTZ]

Never been to Morecambe geez. Morecambe fans were so docile we even let them in the Iron Bar. Accrington, Crewe, N, Wycombe, Colchester, Southend, Gillingham, Barnsley, Bristol Rovers, Notts Co, Crawley, Stevenage, Oldham, Burnley, Cheltenham, Walsall, Blackburn, Preston, Exeter, Pompey, Plymouth, Charlton, Coventry, Leicester, Cambridge and Burton. These clubs can’t touch us. Add Birmingham, Villa, Yeovil and Man Utd to that as well as Port Vale

Oi Stoe,
Don't put the pikey boys in with that lot.
We are double bastard hard!

 

[Lance Stoe]

Sorry geez. Glad you lot are staying up. Good posters. Sheffield posters need to take a page out of your lads books

 

[womble76]

Few other clubs getting dragged in now.

 

[EricSabin]

Vital point for us with 10 men away at Bristol Rovers today, seems like the clubs in trouble picked up some good results

 

[Hooped Wizard]

Who do we all think will drop anyway?

My instinct is that Southend, ourselves and Walsall have just done about enough to be fairly comfortable now, although we’ve still only won once this year we seem to be getting some decent draws and realistically with 46 points a couple more wins should do it.

Oxford are seemingly the club in free-fall, sleeping their way to relegation, trying to get a ‘big name’ manager in whilst neglecting their current slide.

Blackpool have overachieved for me this season, it was a it of a fluke they got promoted so I thought they’d drop but they seem to get the odd win here and there. They should be fairly confident of avoiding the drop.

Wimbledon are a difficult one, another team who seem to get the odd win here or there but not enough, in big trouble.

Oldham will never go down,

I’m surprised to see Northampton still down there, thought JFH was a fantastic appointment tbf. Should they stay up I think they’ll make ample progress next year. Seem to be doing just about enough atm.

Fleetwood are gone I think, can’t buy a win and appointment John Sheridan on the basis of his success at Oldham, forgetting failures at Chesterfield in this league and Notts County the league below. Gone I think.

Rochdale have 3-4 games in hands over the rest, should be fine now I think.

MK Dons are gone, what’s gone on there? Bit like us after getting relegated from the championship a second time. A series of bad managerial appointments and complacency from the board who just presumed we’d continue to be a top league 1 saw us go down 2 years after been in this league.

Bury are improving but it’s probably too late now, should stick with Ryan Lowe in league 2.

13. Southend
14. Walsall
15. Rochdale
16. Blackpool
17. Doncaster
18. Northampton
19. Oldham
20. Oxford
——-
21. Wimbledon
22. Fleetwood
23. Bury
24. MK Dons

 

[Hurrikeen]

I'm still not totally confident. Once Doyle is back starting he might have the goals in him to keep us up.

We do have a favourable fixture list though.

 

[womble76]

I know this is all about opinions etc but I doubt we Will go down. We need perhaps 11 more to get to 52. That' from 10 games. Look over the season and that' pretty much What we have been getting. Also look at form since Xmas and last 6 even and we stay up. Bookies don' often get I wrong and none of them have us going down. We shall all have to wait and see.

 

[Laticsbiffo]

Bookies have had us going down for 7 out of last 9 years.....haven't gone yet and hopeful that I'm not tempting fate.I don't think we'll succumb this year either, although every team down there seems to have perked up a little recently, including us.
I'd be more worried if I were Oxford, hitting exactly the wrong form at the moment. Think Bury have left it too late (dreadful managerial decisions by their board this year), although for 40 minutes on Saturday they looked a really useful team. MK deserve to go out of existence, never mind the league. The other 2 positions, not sure about. 2 weeks ago I would have said that Rochdale have too much to do, but they have started the recovery work very impressively indeed. Fleetwood under new boss John Sheridan looking harder to beat. That's exactly how he started with our two great escapes. 1. Stop losing. 2. Pilfer the odd win by hook or by crook. AFC Wimbledon have 4 games against fellow struggler, including ourselves and a couple away to top 3 sides. These will be the defining games for them. It's going to be very tight indeed this year.

 

[UTS]

We are down. It’s not necessarily because of recent results but we’ve simply left ourselves with too much to do.

Lee Clark is largely to blame but the chairman sanctioned these signings and then hired Chris Lucketti which in hindsight was just a terrible decision.

If we can keep financially stable, off load some high earners but keep a decent core of our squad I’d be more than happy with a season in league two if we can be challenging in the top half.

 

[NorfolkWomble]

As Laticsbiffo says we've got 4 games against fellow strugglers, worth noting we are awful against teams in the bottom 4, we always have been under NA. Really hope we don't fuck it, I know it doesn't mean much to some people but the thought of staying up whilst MK go down is a pretty happy one for me.

 

[Hooped Wizard]

I don’t think many people would have predicted Fleetwood, MK Dons or Oxford to be struggling at this stage of the season back in August.

 

[Hurrikeen]

Our remaining games:

Home

Portsmouth
Walsall
Blackpool
Gillingham
Southend
Doncaster

Away

Wigan
Oxford
Rochdale
Wimbledon
Northampton

 

[SoutheySWFC]

Can see you getting 14 points from that lot....

 

[joethegill]

If you've got a bit of time on your hands, then this calculator on a Grimsby site can give a sort of idea about how things will end up

https://thefishy.co.uk/football-calculator.php

I had Bury, MK Dons, Fleetwood and Northampton dropping.

 

[EricSabin]

Last game of the season at Sixfields - Northampton v Oldham