Relegation thread

[Optipez]

I thought I'd be able to read this thread from the comfort of mid table , but we've started our annual race to the bottom , just a month later this year.
Three home league wins in 2016, one this season.
Absolutely hammered by Newport at the weekend, top scorer injured, one clean sheet, club for sale , chairman disinterested, fan base shrinking by the week and nobody in the squad with the character to lift the rest of the team or the crowd.
Lose badly tomorrow and Sheridan will be under severe pressure. He's slated the team publicly, had them in on Sundays chopped and changed but we're getting worse and in truth haven't played well all season.

 

[The Terminator]

I thought I'd be able to read this thread from the comfort of mid table , but we've started our annual race to the bottom , just a month later this year.
Three home league wins in 2016, one this season.
Absolutely hammered by Newport at the weekend, top scorer injured, one clean sheet, club for sale , chairman disinterested, fan base shrinking by the week and nobody in the squad with the character to lift the rest of the team or the crowd.
Lose badly tomorrow and Sheridan will be under severe pressure. He's slated the team publicly, had them in on Sundays chopped and changed but we're getting worse and in truth haven't played well all season.

All that sounds soooooooooooo familiar.

 

[The Terminator]

Here is our complete record since our takeover in 2014 - Note how many home defeats in only two years

Home record since summer 2014:
Played: 55
Won: 17
Drawn: 10
Lost: 28

Away record since summer 2014:
Played: 52
Won: 18
Drawn: 17
Lost: 17

 

[mowgli]

28 home defeats bloody hell.

 

[Trapdoor]

For comparison, our home record since summer 2014....

Played: 54
Won: 14
Drawn: 20
Lost: 20


So in that time Orient have got 61 points at home (including a relegation season)... While Exeter have managed 62 points.

 

[Sestonpoolie]

Can't be bothered to check the stats,but I bet Pools home defeats outdo your two easliy

 

[dedwardp]

We've lost 46 of our last 100 home league games, winning just 30. All in all, we've lost 96 of our last 201 league games which is pretty depressing, 225 points from 214 games.

 

[Chief Rocka]

Can't be bothered to check the stats,but I bet Pools home defeats outdo your two easliy

Funny that cos I thought the same but this is our record.

Home
Played 54
Won 18
Drew 13
Lost 23

67 points.

 

[Vanni]

Far too many sides with a better away record this year me thinks

 

[Si Robin]

Play like we did tonight much more often and this will become our home. Col U were shite, and they absolutely battered us.

 

[The Terminator]

28 home defeats bloody hell.

Now 29 and 8 in a row - The club record keeps growing!

 

[AdamStag]

I wonder if this league has gone mad.

Moving up 10 places in 2 games, more away wins than home.

Since the beginning on 2015
home - w10 d13 l9 - 43 points
Away - w12 d7 l12 - 43 points

 

[thewwfc]

As the Football League Paper just pointed out for us:

What a difference a month has made for Wycombe:

22 Oct - 21st in League Two
23 Nov - 8th, one point off play-offs
DWWW

and next month could be LLLL and down in the drop spots, who knows - that may be a bit melodramatic but easily possible if we do a York.

 

[AdamStag]

As the Football League Paper just pointed out for us:

What a difference a month has made for Wycombe:

22 Oct - 21st in League Two
23 Nov - 8th, one point off play-offs
DWWW

and next month could be LLLL and down in the drop spots, who knows - that may be a bit melodramatic but easily possible if we do a York.

Have you seen them? In the relegation zone of the conference

 

[thewwfc]

ah, no, I did not know that, I don't generally look at the Conf table. That's a real shame, it's horrible when teams go on the slide and can't stop (Stockport, Grimsby, Portsmouth, there's probably many more).

 

[shoddycollins]

I wonder if this league has gone mad.

Moving up 10 places in 2 games, more away wins than home.

Since the beginning on 2015
home - w10 d13 l9 - 43 points
Away - w12 d7 l12 - 43 points

It's just really tight, something I said before was that nobody outside of the top seven is even on what would normally be considered top-half form. This was a couple of weeks ago, things may have changed a bit.

 

[Trapdoor]

This could prove to be the tightest season L2 has seen in years. 54 points needed to stay up?

 

[jacobncfc]

Hello

 

[jacobncfc]

For comparison, our home record since summer 2014....

Played: 54
Won: 14
Drawn: 20
Lost: 20


So in that time Orient have got 61 points at home (including a relegation season)... While Exeter have managed 62 points.

Ours in that time:-

Played: 54
Won: 15
Drawn: 13
Lost: 26

58 home points. You two don't know how lucky you are.

 

[AdamStag]

It depends on your outlook - as a Mansfield fan I instinctively look to see how far we are from relegation (7 points) then the playoffs (1 point) and automatic (8 points).

I wonder how many more of you do this? I always have a philosophy of wanting to obtain 50 points then go from there

 

[mowgli]

It depends on your outlook - as a Mansfield fan I instinctively look to see how far we are from relegation (7 points) then the playoffs (1 point) and automatic (8 points).

I wonder how many more of you do this? I always have a philosophy of wanting to obtain 50 points then go from there

Same as that mate try and get 50 points asap and see what happens after that. Ainsworth had for a couple of seasons giving us a points target before the season started but thank fook he's stopped doing that now.

 

[Vanni]

Don't know about you, but I'm not surprised York are struggling once again. They were the definition of abysmal last year and they didn't get any decent players in during the summer so it's hardly a surprise they're having another poor season.

As for L2, I'm with Trapdoor as it doesn't look 42 points or something like that will keep you up this year. I'm also thinking the two sides to eventually go down will be two sides who are currently in an upper mid/midtable position. One positive to be had when clubs are down with the bottom 4-6 come January is that they'll know they've got to make a massive effort to stay up and so look to the transfer market, that is if funds permit*. OTOH, the sides in midtable will think they'll more or less safe and generally tend to disregard the squad improvement the sides below them have made.

*but let's be honest here - 90% of clubs in real danger of relegation to NL footy always manage to find the funds for new players, though sometimes they would be gambling with their club's future.

 

[thewwfc]

you may be right, but anyone from Lu'un on down would have to be a mentalist to think they're safe.

 

[Sestonpoolie]

Ours in that time:-

Played: 54
Won: 15
Drawn: 13
Lost: 26

58 home points. You two don't know how lucky you are.

Notts co.are only apprentices at being shyte compared to Pools

 

[shoddycollins]

Notts co.are only apprentices at being shyte compared to Pools

I don't know, a few seasons back they sent Mike Edwards up to Carlisle on a fact-finding mission, keen to discover the secret of being consistently shite. He returned with a dossier and Greg Abbott and while they no longer have need for Abbott he taught them everything they need to know about throwing in the towel in the second minute of games. They also went and brought in Liam Noble because finishing games with 11 men on the pitch was seriously getting in the way of losing.

Always keen to help though, when we heard that Hartlepool goalkeepers weren't flapping enough at corners we sent Tony Caig over there to school them in the art.

Never let it be said that Carlisle United don't step in to help their fellow clubs when we hear they're not in enough trouble. #footballfamily If it weren't for us and James Berrett and Mark Beck, Yeovil might still be in the Championship.

 

[AmbiguousBon]

Never let it be said that Carlisle United don't step in to help their fellow clubs when we hear they're not in enough trouble. #footballfamily If it weren't for us and James Berrett and Mark Beck, Yeovil might still be in the Championship.

If it wasn't for Carlisle's wonderful generosity in giving us a certain Patrick Madden we wouldn't have got to the Championship in the first place!

More than made up for it with Mark Beck though, worst striker I've ever seen in the football league, utter, utter shyte.

 

[shoddycollins]

If it wasn't for Carlisle's wonderful generosity in giving us a certain Patrick Madden we wouldn't have got to the Championship in the first place!

More than made up for it with Mark Beck though, worst striker I've ever seen in the football league, utter, utter shyte.

Basically we've been the guiding hand behind Yeovil's league history, we even gave old boy Francois a call last season to get down there and save you from relegation, with the only stipulation being that if he ever has to take a penalty against us, he puts it into the crowd.

 

[Glasshalffullpools]

50 points is either way too much or way too little for safety ....if safety is your priority you just have to look at the points gap between you and 23rd and NEVER assume anything

 

[daviejones]

50 points is either way too much or way too little for safety ....if safety is your priority you just have to look at the points gap between you and 23rd and NEVER assume anything

Has 50 points ever been way too little for safety? Sure, it's gone a bit over in the past, but generally that's a good mark to aim for.

 

[rudebwoyben]

We got relegated with 51 points. I think that's a record.