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54 points - or 47?

54 points - or 47?

twickerspne

twickerspne

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While heartened by the last 2 results - I would not be complacent. Whatever conspired it to be this way, Peterborough were relegated on 54 points in 2012-13 . 47 points has been the average number of points required. And ‘only’ that…
 
Teams Like us Bristol City , Reading , Stoke , Swansea , & Hull will be between 12th and 16th these are not making play offs or going down this season. Worse sides like Lashers Cardiff etc will be.
 
As I’ve said before the bottom 3 are currently averaging less than a point a game and that is unlikely to change much now.

We are all but safe and even with our woeful recent form should make that 54 points easily as well as suggested above.
 
An underachieving team, manager and club. Looking down not up. In the most average Championship with no one to be scared of except maybe The Dingles.

A football team who couldn’t score, on million pound contracts. Who now garner praise for merely not playing badly at Deepdale.

Who were rightly destroyed by Burnley, Spurs, WBA, Millwall, and so on. Who, on a 4 game unbeaten run, have scored one goal from open play.

PNE the brave. Surviving only to play out another season of inconsistency and unfathomable madness in the Championship.
 
twickerspne said:
While heartened by the last 2 results - I would not be complacent. Whatever conspired it to be this way, Peterborough were relegated on 54 points in 2012-13 . 47 points has been the average number of points required. And ‘only’ that…
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You have to be a real saddo to even be thinking that relegation is a possibility
 
twickerspne said:
While heartened by the last 2 results - I would not be complacent. Whatever conspired it to be this way, Peterborough were relegated on 54 points in 2012-13 . 47 points has been the average number of points required. And ‘only’ that…
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The 3 who went down in 2013 were already the bottom 3 after 34 games, and had a few more points at that stage than this year's shower. Even then, they didn't catch anybody.

We're not being overhauled by anyone in the current bottom 3.
 
I was listening to the Not The Top 20 podcast the other day and they were talking about a data analyst who crunches the numbers with great accuracy.

Apparently, we have a zero per cent chance of being relegated.

And a zero per cent chance of going up.

About what most of us had expected back in August - just wish it hadn't been so painful getting here.
 
Staffordwhite said:
I was listening to the Not The Top 20 podcast the other day and they were talking about a data analyst who crunches the numbers with great accuracy.

Apparently, we have a zero per cent chance of being relegated.

And a zero per cent chance of going up.

About what most of us had expected back in August - just wish it hadn't been so painful getting here.
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I look at this from time to time, pretty much agrees. Gives us 61 points / 12th which is pretty much what we're on target for at present.

To make the playoffs we'd likely need to average a bit over 2 points a game from here. Not impossible for a decent side but we aren't one.

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IanBogie9 said:
An underachieving team, manager and club. Looking down not up. In the most average Championship with no one to be scared of except maybe The Dingles.

A football team who couldn’t score, on million pound contracts. Who now garner praise for merely not playing badly at Deepdale.

Who were rightly destroyed by Burnley, Spurs, WBA, Millwall, and so on. Who, on a 4 game unbeaten run, have scored one goal from open play.

PNE the brave. Surviving only to play out another season of inconsistency and unfathomable madness in the Championship.
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Great post.

An underachieving team and UNPROVEN (incompetent?) manager at this level I’d say.

I’ll be happy when we’ve passed 54 points.

IMHO the rest of the season must be about finding a successful formula which produces attacking threat, goals, wins and solidity too in preparation for a good start to the next campaign.

Lowe has the chance in the next few matches to prove whether he has what it takes to manage at Championship level. He’s displayed some very worrying signs that he’s not, particularly over the last few weeks - tactical nativity, passing ALL blame from himself onto others (players, other staff and even fans), sowing division, inability to coach a team to do the very basics, body language and total lack of involvement from the dugout, gaslighting etc etc.
 
We’ll probably end up having a good run towards the end of the season, we’ll all get excited, renew our season tickets and the crapness will return next season. And Peter will remain in his job.
 
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