Sheff U at home is now MASSIVE

[Crowthorne Royal]

......With Sheff U winning at Cardiff yesterday our home game with them has so much significance to the promotion race.
By the time we take on Sheff U we could easily be 5th.
Sheff U have 2 home games before we play them and we have 1 away game at Cov. I don't expect us to get anything at Cov after watching that utter sh*te against C.Palace. Even before the red card we looked woeful and our heralded new 4-3-3, take responsibility on the ball etc looked a million miles away as we constantly hoofed the ball anywhere against a team who'd won 1 of the last 13 or something similar!!

So assuming Sheff U win x 2 and Cardiff win x 2, that make us 5th. We would need to beat Sheff U just to get to within 1 point of them.

Worrying times for a top 2 finish. We'll just about make the play-offs I think, but with in form sides like Sheff U, Burnley & Cardiff in wait, it will be Championship football again next year.

Before I get dodded.....I will be there against Sheff U, singing away, supporting my team and not watching it cosily on TV. BUT my opinion of the current rabble is that we are poor - end of.

[LoyalRoyal22]

If we play how we played at Doncaster against Coventry, then there is no reason why we cant get 3 points. But if we dont put in a peformance it could be simliar to the palace game. I wouldnt write off Coventry.

[CMRoyal]

By the time we take on Sheff U we could easily be 5th.
Sheff U have 2 home games before we play them and we have 1 away game at Cov. I don't expect us to get anything at Cov after watching that utter sh*te against C.Palace. Even before the red card we looked woeful and our heralded new 4-3-3, take responsibility on the ball etc looked a million miles away as we constantly hoofed the ball anywhere against a team who'd won 1 of the last 13 or something similar!!

So assuming Sheff U win x 2 and Cardiff win x 2, that make us 5th. We would need to beat Sheff U just to get to within 1 point of them.

Surely in this scenario the pressure's off? We'd just be left to limp over the playoff line.

[The Cap]

Looking in the 'rags' this morning Sheff U. are clearly targeting Brum for an auto place. Blackwell's that confident, we don't even seem to figure in his thinking. Arrogance or confidence? Maybe both 'cos they are clearly playing well. All the indications are that they will come to the Mad Stad in confident/arrogant mood. But as we all know by now, when Reading play the better sides we do seem to raise our game. Both on the pitch and off it!

[seahawk10]

Throwing in a 'dull and uninspiring' would have added a bit of cachet to your post. Things can turn around in a flash in this game. One game we can look dire and the next we look dump and then some magic happens and we look great. We are still in a good position to finish strong.

There is little doubt that we lack the quality that we had in '05-'06. Schards made a great point about us sticking with a 4-4-2 all year. Teams adjusted to us and tried different formations while we stuck with the sam tried and true since in the end we had the best players. We don't have the best players this year. But with some guile and a bit of luck we can still win promotion.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Every game we have left is massive, HTH

[SteveRoyal]

Incorrect. Every game from now until the end of the season is massive.

[Jerry St Clair]

Perhaps, but not massive enough for me to be arsed to go.

[Gordons Cumming]

A typical optimistic thread by Crowthorne Royal.

[Dick Habbin's hairdo]

I'll be controversial - seeing as I have a prediliction for it now and have a new best buddy in Fine Rain - win both Blades and Bluenose and avoid defeat in the others and we are up.

I've given up on Cardiff who were my e/w for an auto.

Bastard next door neighbour is a wolf.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

I've a feeling we will win this one.

They are playing 3 days before vs Barnsley - Yorks derby and they both need the points - likely to be a very physical game

[Elm Park Old Boy]

Let's be honest, being able to play both your main promotion rivals, at home, during the run-in would normally be seen as a gift.

[Cookie]

But with some guile and a bit of luck we can still win promotion.

Guile. Where can you get some of that?

[Arnie_Pie]

But with some guile and a bit of luck we can still win promotion.

Guile. Where can you get some of that?

Street Fighter 2

[Ian Royal]

I'm not sure where we finish in the play off positions really matters to us a great deal. I can't see 4 teams overhauling us. I'm pretty certain we won't make second now so it's just wait and see what happens and who we draw in the play offs.

[seahawk10]

But with some guile and a bit of luck we can still win promotion.

Guile. Where can you get some of that?

Street Fighter 2

Did I make a grammatical error? Guile = insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity*. Or is that just an american word and doesn't translate into the queen's english?

*Taken from:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=guile

I am feeling murked by an inside joke that I don't get.

[Alan Partridge]

But with some guile and a bit of luck we can still win promotion.

Guile. Where can you get some of that?

Did I make a grammatical error? Guile = insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity*. Or is that just an american word and doesn't translate into the queen's english?

*Taken from:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=guile

I am feeling murked by an inside joke that I don't get.

No we are just rubbish

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

You make your own luck by playing well. We're not doing that at the moment.

We need someone to turn round the rot, we've tried the loan signings, we've not got a manager who can change it. Time for certain players who have let us down (Hunt, Kebe, Doobs for example) to step up a repay the faith the manager has shown in them...

[Sun Tzu]

You make your own luck by playing well. We're not doing that at the moment.

We need someone to turn round the rot, we've tried the loan signings, we've not got a manager who can change it. Time for certain players who have let us down (Hunt, Kebe, Doobs for example) to step up a repay the faith the manager has shown in them...

There is so much in that to disagree with !

If you make your own luck by playing well how come the biggest praise that teams get is by playing poorly and still winning (see Brum for much of the season...)
The 'rot' has seen us lose 3 in 11, and 1 away. It's frustarting that of the points we've dropped there have been a couple of games where we just should not have dropped them (Charlton and Forest) and an extra 5 points would make things hugely different. Sadly we can;t go back and reclaim them
We've barely tried the loan signings, Kitson made a big difference at Doncaster but it's a bit concerning (and predicatable) that Little hasn;t figured in any meaningful way yet.
The manager has made a significant change - to formation and personnel which has produced mixed results.
As for players letting us down - Kebe ? Don't think so. Doobs ? Unfair, for every mistake he's made crucial tackles / blocks. Hunt ? No contest....

[loyalroyal4life]

You make your own luck by playing well. We're not doing that at the moment.

We need someone to turn round the rot, we've tried the loan signings, we've not got a manager who can change it. Time for certain players who have let us down (Hunt, Kebe, Doobs for example) to step up a repay the faith the manager has shown in them...

There is so much in that to disagree with !

If you make your own luck by playing well how come the biggest praise that teams get is by playing poorly and still winning (see Brum for much of the season...)
The 'rot' has seen us lose 3 in 11, and 1 away. It's frustarting that of the points we've dropped there have been a couple of games where we just should not have dropped them (Charlton and Forest) and an extra 5 points would make things hugely different. Sadly we can;t go back and reclaim them
We've barely tried the loan signings, Kitson made a big difference at Doncaster but it's a bit concerning (and predicatable) that Little hasn;t figured in any meaningful way yet.
The manager has made a significant change - to formation and personnel which has produced mixed results.
As for players letting us down - Kebe ? Don't think so. Doobs ? Unfair, for every mistake he's made crucial tackles / blocks. Hunt ? No contest....

I am sure little will have some sort of impact from now until the end of the season!!

S.Hunt should be kept away from the 16, his performances are bad for morale