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Plymouth have a really bad record away from home so far. No wins at all. Do I not hate games like that. Plymouth 11 0 4 7 7 19 -12 4 Two homes games this week, six points a must as it will put us right up there with Ipswich as I reckon they will lose against Leicester, and maybe only get a point with QPR as after a couple of defeats in a row they may be a bit fragile. Anyway, we cannot control their form, but with six points we go to 51...and if they fail to get more than say two points from their two games, we would be just three points behind them. Question is, can we get those six points from two games that on paper, look very winnable. Or, will we do the usual win one and draw one and drop two crucial points? Come on RM, get them points this week!

They have the second worst home record in the division, so most would say away banker. And let's be honest, it should be. But once again, it is only a matter of waiting until we see the line up and style of play/tactics. We have been keeping clean sheets of late and conceding far fewer in general. Think we will need to score 2 to win this one, and will indeed thus go for QPR 1 - 2 Saints. QP Rangers 10 2 3 5 10 16 -6 9

Indeed, but sadly he will tinker and will end up back to keep ball next game. This is why it is such a frustrating season. Yeah yea yeah, we are doing well and all that, but look at what could have been if he would eat humble pie and quit with the silly over passing stuff.

I suspect and would put pretty good money on Burnley and United being top 6 if not better once again. Not sure about Millwall. My point is that there will always be three clubs with bigger money than the other 21 that have just come down, but those 3 always struggle to stay up as the EPL is such a huge gulf of class apart now. This is why which ever of us goes up, will need to spend very big in the summer to even consider safety from relegation. The top 3 and bottom 3 will I think start to become the yo-yo teams every year.

The problem is the manager and the style of play book. This squad, with any of the other top 6 managers would have more points on the board now and a better GD. We are better than we think, we are just not going to be able to show it under RM.

I think this is a sign that the Championship is starting to become like the EPL. The three sides that have come down are coming down with better and better quads and on top of that the parachute payments, making it harder and harder for the others to get anywhere near them. The obvious exception being Ipswich, but every season there seems to be one of these. I did not think we would finish in the play offs, but if we do, I hope Leeds win second place as i think we would likely have a good chance against all the others.

They have a very good home record. It will be a tough one if they are indeed still in form and a draw would not be a bad result, though again I would say if we really do want to push on into the top 2, we have to be winning these games. Their only two home defeats were against Boro and Blackburn, which is a bit odd. Since the last of those two defeats they have won 3 and drawn 1 and lost 0. Let us hope their form is about to dip. Watford 10 5 3 2 21 10 +11 18

Well, 13/15 points so far on that list of 11 games. If we can do the same again from the next 5, I think we will be 3rd and pushing Ipswich.

These leftist woke LGBT people are just so easy going, tolerant and fair mined are they not.

Some one alluded to this being potentially the start of a bleak period for us, after the dropped points at Huddersfield. I tend to agree and think we will lose or draw this one and same again on Saturday for Cardiff's visit. Sorry, but I think this will be our season. Good runs, followed by blips and a point per game ratio for a few games. Until RM accepts we need to be more incisive and put teams to the sword (which he won't do enough), this will be our season I'm sorry to say.

Just saw on a Facebook post that in our promotion year of 1977, after 17 games we had this record P17 W9 D4 L4 GF26 GA18 PTS22 Position 3rd (two points for a win system of course) An almost identical record, save for the GD of course. I would have saved the image of the league table and posted it but still cannot figure out how to add pictures on this forum.

We are 4th IN-SPITE of RM. If we had a decent manager who played to our squads strengths we would be higher. Yes we are 9 games unbeaten, but two of those draws were against bottom 4 sides, games a top 2 side would win. I said at the start of the season we will finish 9th. Indeed, I may be wrong, we may well be top 6, but we will not go up. I also predict within 2 years from now we will have dropped this possession football stuff and gone back to a more traditional style.

To be honest, I am not sure anyone should bother. They are all pretty much the same in terms of how life will be for the normal working class person. Sadly, boycotting the vote does not matter either as the winners will not care if there is a 30% turn out or a 60% turnout. I cannot see anything other than a Labour win in some fashion, be it outright or coalition. Something has to change. We cannot keep going with the current government.

I have to concede a lack of in depth knowledge here in terms of how we set up and where RS plays. I don't think he is the same type as KS or SA, so I can really only see AA being dropped, but that would not make any sense in terms of giving us more firepower. Will RM therefore change his set up in someway to accommodate them both and thus we have to lose some creativity?

Good manager Darren Moore. He will soon make them harder in defence. Add this to the fact we don't hammer teams and seem more to win by the odd goal and it looks likely something like 0-1. I really wish we could start to put teams like this to the sword. 0-3 by half time sort of thing, ending 1-4 would be nice. It might all come down to whether or not RS is fit enough to play at least 30 minutes. Starting him from the off might be hard....who would we drop to fit him in?

I have noticed this kind of thing happen to Saints a lot over the years. Fixture list luck. We never get it. We never get to play teams when either they are off form or we are on form, it is usually the other way around, as you have pointed out. It can make a huge difference to a seasons points tally.

Well, that was IMO, the hardest of the 11 fixtures i posted about. So, really now from the last 9 of those 11, we should be on for at least 7 wins. I don't wish to disrespect the opposition, but we should be winning all of them really.

Totally agree. West Brom this weekend is gonna be crucial to some degree. If we can actually win that game it starts to give us some daylight between us and them and many of the other contenders. Gonna be a big ask to win that game, but hell, we really need to. I am not gonna say it is a must win as of course it is way to early for that, but it would show intent and start to put teams on the back foot and fear us when they come to play us.

Ipswich play their game in hand tonight at Rotherham. I wonder if the draw (almost defeat) at Brum on the weekend was a sign of the wheels coming off a little? Hopefully they will drop points tonight, even though I cannot really see anything other than them winning.

Interesting games this. Had we have been at full strength I think we would have gotten a draw at least. Two sides on form yes, but West Brom are not great away from home, but sadly we are not great at home. West Brom have are 12th in the away form table as below, but we are not much better at home lying currently in 13th. 12 West Brom 7 2 3 2 11 8 +3 9 Sadly, I have to say i truly believe we will lose this one. Who ever comes in to replace JB will be one of our error prone players (Holgate) or someone out of position (Charles). We will have to be at our very best and push for 95 minutes to get anything out of this, unless we are lucky and West Brom have one of their off days away from home, which they do seem to do.

He told us in 1997. No doubt everyone will deny it and say silly things, but think, for the first time in your lives, think. How could he say this 22 years before it actually happened? I am sorry, but he has been proven right about a great many things. It is just fashionable to pass him off as a nutter as some of what he says about Archons etc. are a bit beyond the pale.

Season defining moment next week against WBA. Shame we will not be at full strength as likely that will cost us. They are hitting form. Cannot see us winning that one sadly.

Seems the wheels have come off at Norwich somewhat. I thought they were fancied to be top 6 at least.

I lost interest in the world cup 20 years ago and it gets more so with each one passing. Mainly because i know England will flatter to deceive as our players are gutless prima donnas who do not have a winning mentality. I also lost interest as each time they just ignore England as a host nation despite our superb facilities. They hate us and we will not host another world cup in my lifetime. It's been to other countries twice since 66 and never to us even once. Utter disgrace of a set up and nothing to do with football at all hence for me it is not a competition I have any interest in.

Millwall have a pretty poor home record so far this season as below. Millwall 7 2 1 4 7 11 -4 7 I hope they do not get some kind of new manager bounce this weekend as really, we should be winning this game. That said, in a way it might be good for us if they appoint Nathan Jones in the next 24 hours as i believe he is the type of guy who will go out to prove a point and have every one wound up too much, which in turn will mess them up and see a red card etc. I don't believe this myth about Millwall being a tough place to go. I went there a few times in the 80's and never felt their home support was all that. Come out hot from the blocks and get an early goal and we will have the crowd on their backs. Things seem to be coming together a little for RM, so I have a feeling we will win this one something like 0-1 or 1-2.