Tablewatch

[Crowbar6753]

Now 10th, eleven points clear of Huddersfield in 22nd and a 12 goal deficit away from the play offs.

1 Burnley 25 15 8 2 26 53
2 Sheffield United 25 15 5 5 21 50
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3 Blackburn Rovers 25 13 0 12 -1 39
4 Sunderland 25 10 7 8 9 37
5 Watford 25 10 7 8 2 37
6 Middlesbrough 25 10 6 9 6 36
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7 Norwich City 25 10 6 9 4 36
8 Luton Town 24 9 9 6 4 36
9 Millwall 24 10 6 8 3 36
10 Reading 25 11 3 11 -6 36
11 West Bromwich Albion 25 9 8 8 7 35
12 Swansea City 25 9 8 8 1 35
13 Queens Park Rangers 25 10 5 10 -3 35
14 Coventry City 24 9 7 8 1 34
15 Preston North End 25 9 7 9 -3 34
16 Birmingham City 25 8 8 9 0 32
17 Stoke City 25 8 6 11 -5 30
18 Hull City 25 8 6 11 -13 30
19 Bristol City 25 7 7 11 -3 28
20 Cardiff City 25 7 7 11 -8 28
21 Rotherham United 25 6 9 10 -8 27
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22 Huddersfield Town 24 7 4 13 -7 25
23 Blackpool 25 6 7 12 -10 25
24 Wigan Athletic 25 6 6 13 -17 24

Wow, this makes the WBA game pretty tasty, even more so with Gourlay being there. They are the form team in the league atm and will be a good benchmark of where we really are in this league.

[AthleticoSpizz]

We have four points where many predicted 0

The league table is a beautiful place right now.

[Sutekh]

Reading are now just 2 wins from beating last season’s points total of 41 (albeit a 6 point deduction from the 47 the team actually amassed) but when you compare tables it is the 41 points you see.

[Franchise FC]

Very strange that we’ve won as many games as all but the top three, but lost as many as all but the bottom three

[Royals and Racers]

Whilst there is is hardly any points difference between top half and bottom half as of today we have 21 matches to play.
11 home- 6 against top half, 5 against bottom half
10 away- 4 against top half, 6 against bottom half

[Stranded]

Whilst there is is hardly any points difference between top half and bottom half as of today we have 21 matches to play.
11 home- 6 against top half, 5 against bottom half
10 away- 4 against top half, 6 against bottom half

That's a pretty good mix - much rather have our "tougher" opponents at home where we are undoubtedly stronger this year.

[Sutekh]

Meanwhile in the table for most clinical (conversion of chances) Championship teams this season (courtesy of footmob)…

1. Sunderland - 59.46%
2. Wigan - 54.55%
3. Reading - 50.00%
4. Norwich - 50.00%
5. Middlesbrough - 49.08%
6. Birmingham - 47.50%
7. Blackburn - 47.06%
8. Bristol C - 46.34%
9. Burnley - 45.45%
10. Coventry - 45.00%
11. Hull - 43.18%
12. Sheff U - 42.86%
13. Rotherham - 41.67%
14. Luton - 41.67%
15. Blackpool - 40.54%
16. WBA - 36.73%
17. Swansea - 34.69%
18. Watford - 32.65%
19. Stoke - 32.56%
20. Preston - 30.30%
21. Huddersfield - 28.57%
22. Cardiff - 27.59%
23. QPR - 25.71%
24. Millwall - 25.57%

This probably is a sign though that Reading do not create or have very many shots, while the likes of QPR and Millwall will have a shed load but just aren’t very accurate.

[YorkshireRoyal99]

Surprised to see Blackburn that "low" considering they are actually 23rd for expected goals this season, with expected goals being 0.94. I thought in terms of short conversion they'd have been higher, having said that they've only scored 30 goals this season which is the 3rd worst in the top half, only behind Preston and QPR.

Coincidentally, Rotherham play Blackburn this weekend which is the bottom two of the expected goals table going up against each other. Expecting a boring game maybe?

(Snowballing a bit here)

[Sutekh]

POS. P W D L GD Pts
1 Burnley 34 22 10 2 40 76
2 Sheffield United 33 19 7 7 25 64
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3 Middlesbrough 34 17 6 11 16 57
4 Blackburn Rovers 34 17 4 13 0 55
5 Millwall 33 15 8 10 8 53
6 Luton Town 33 14 11 8 8 53
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7 Norwich City 34 15 7 12 11 52
8 Watford 34 13 11 10 3 50
9 Sunderland 34 13 10 11 11 49
10 West Bromwich Albion 33 13 9 11 8 48
11 Coventry City 33 13 9 11 3 48
12 Preston North End 33 12 9 12 -8 45
13 Bristol City 33 11 11 11 2 44
14 Reading 33 13 5 15 -10 44
15 Swansea City 33 11 9 13 -4 42
16 Hull City 34 11 9 14 -10 42
17 Stoke City 34 11 7 16 -2 40
18. Queens Park Rangers 34 10 9 15 -14 39
19 Birmingham City 34 10 8 16 -8 38
20 Rotherham United 33 8 12 13 -9 36
21 Cardiff City 34 9 8 17 -13 35
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22 Huddersfield Town 33 8 7 18 -17 31
23 Blackpool 34 7 10 17 -18 31
24 Wigan Athletic 33 7 10 16 -22 31

[Stranded]

Interesting* to see from the last 2 league tables on this thread, we have picked up just 8pts in the last 8 games.

However, the gap to the bottom 3 has grown from 11 to 13pts in that time.

[AthleticoSpizz]

We’ve lived the ‘lucky life’ like that over the past two or three seasons tbf, thanks to the shiteness of our rivals.

This season, we are doing enough to not worry too much about our shite rivals

That’s football

[Sutekh]

Given the 6 point deduction coming the club’s way (probably next week) thought I’d show the amended table now so we’re all prepared for the new look…

P Team GP W D L F A GD Pts
1 Burnley 34 22 10 2 68 28 40 76
2 Sheff Utd 33 19 7 7 55 30 25 64
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3 Middlesbrough 34 17 6 11 56 40 16 57
4 Blackburn 34 17 4 13 38 38 0 55
5 Millwall 34 15 9 10 43 35 8 54
6 Luton 34 14 12 8 42 34 8 54
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7 Norwich 34 15 7 12 48 37 11 52
8 Watford 34 13 11 10 41 38 3 50
9 Sunderland 34 13 10 11 49 38 11 49
10 Coventry 34 13 10 11 37 34 3 49
11 West Brom 33 13 9 11 44 36 8 48
12 Preston North End 34 12 10 12 30 38 -8 46
13 Bristol City 33 11 11 11 43 41 2 44
14 Swansea 34 11 10 13 47 51 -4 43
15 Hull 34 11 9 14 38 48 -10 42
16 Stoke 34 11 7 16 39 41 -2 40
17 QPR 34 10 9 15 35 49 -14 39
18 Birmingham 34 10 8 16 38 46 -8 38
19 Reading 33 13 5 15 38 48 -10 38
20 Rotherham 34 8 13 13 37 46 -9 37
21 Cardiff 34 9 8 17 25 38 -13 35
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22 Huddersfield 33 8 7 18 30 47 -17 31
23 Blackpool 34 7 10 17 33 51 -18 31
24 Wigan 33 7 10 16 30 52 -22 31

Also, given the likelihood that Reading will struggle badly for anything from their next three games (Middlesbrough, Sheff U and Millwall), the next three games for the five sides below Reading are:

Rotherham - 4/3 QPR (h), 11/3 Birmingham C (a), 14/3 Preston (h)
Cardiff - 4/3 Bristol C (h), 11/3 Preston (a), 15/3 WBA (h)
Huddersfield - 4/3 Coventry (h), 7/3 Bristol C (h), 11/3 WBA (a)
Blackpool - 4/3 Burnley (h), 11/3 Bristol C (a), 14/3 QPR (h)
Wigan - 4/3 Birmingham C (h), 7/3 WBA (a), 11/3 Burnley (a)

[Sutekh]

What the current Championship table looks like with a 6 point deduction applied to Reading

P Team GP W D L F A GD Pts
1 Burnley 38 24 12 2 74 29 45 84
2 Sheff Utd 38 22 7 9 59 33 26 73
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3 Middlesbrough 39 20 7 12 71 46 25 67
4 Luton 39 18 13 8 48 35 13 67
5 Millwall 39 17 10 12 48 40 8 61
6 Blackburn 38 19 4 15 43 43 0 61
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7 Norwich 39 16 9 14 52 42 10 57
8 Coventry 39 15 12 12 47 41 6 57
9 West Brom 38 15 11 12 47 39 8 56
10 Preston North End 39 15 11 13 37 44 -7 56
11 Watford 39 14 13 12 45 42 3 55
12 Sunderland 39 14 12 13 53 46 7 54
13 Stoke 39 14 9 16 52 45 7 51
14 Bristol City 39 12 13 14 46 47 -1 49
15 Swansea 39 13 10 16 54 59 -5 49
16 Birmingham 39 13 9 17 43 50 -7 48
17 Hull 39 12 12 15 43 53 -10 48
18 QPR 39 11 9 19 38 60 -22 42
19 Rotherham 38 9 14 15 41 51 -10 41
20 Reading 39 13 7 19 41 59 -18 40
21 Cardiff 38 10 9 19 30 44 -14 39
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22 Huddersfield 39 10 9 20 36 55 -19 39
23 Blackpool 39 8 11 20 41 61 -20 35
24 Wigan 39 8 13 18 34 59 -25 34

[AthleticoSpizz]

^ that’ll be one of our most exciting end of seasons for a while.

Yippee

[JR]

After today’s games

Championship
Team P W D L F A GD Points

1 Queens Park Rangers 16 9 3 4 25 17 +8 30
2 Blackburn Rovers 17 10 0 7 22 18 +4 30
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3 Burnley 16 7 8 1 29 15 +14 29
4 Sheffield United 16 7 5 4 26 16 +10 26
5 Millwall 16 8 2 6 22 19 +3 26
6 Norwich City 16 7 4 5 23 18 +5 25
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7 Reading 16 8 1 7 19 23 -4 25
8 Luton Town 15 6 6 3 20 14 +6 24
9 Swansea City 15 7 3 5 20 22 -2 24
10 Preston North End 17 5 7 5 11 14 -3 22
11 Rotherham United 15 5 6 4 18 17 +1 21
12 Bristol City 17 6 3 8 25 26 -1 21
13 Sunderland 16 5 5 6 21 20 +1 20
14 Birmingham City 16 5 5 6 16 15 +1 20
15 Watford 15 5 5 5 19 20 -1 20
16 Hull City 16 6 2 8 20 31 -11 20
17 Stoke City 16 5 4 7 17 20 -3 19
18 Blackpool 16 5 4 7 21 25 -4 19
19 Wigan Athletic 16 5 4 7 17 24 -7 19
20 Cardiff City 15 5 3 7 12 17 -5 18
21 Middlesbrough 16 4 5 7 19 21 -2 17
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22 Coventry City 13 4 4 5 12 14 -2 16
23 West Bromwich Albion 16 2 8 6 20 22 -2 14
24 Huddersfield Town 15 3 3 9 16 22 -6 12

Next games (to World Cup) - 3rd (a), 8th (a), 10th (h), 15th (a), 16th (a)

How on earth have QPR fallen so dramatically from being at the summit after 16 games!?

[tidus_mi2]

After today’s games

Championship
Team P W D L F A GD Points

1 Queens Park Rangers 16 9 3 4 25 17 +8 30
2 Blackburn Rovers 17 10 0 7 22 18 +4 30
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3 Burnley 16 7 8 1 29 15 +14 29
4 Sheffield United 16 7 5 4 26 16 +10 26
5 Millwall 16 8 2 6 22 19 +3 26
6 Norwich City 16 7 4 5 23 18 +5 25
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7 Reading 16 8 1 7 19 23 -4 25
8 Luton Town 15 6 6 3 20 14 +6 24
9 Swansea City 15 7 3 5 20 22 -2 24
10 Preston North End 17 5 7 5 11 14 -3 22
11 Rotherham United 15 5 6 4 18 17 +1 21
12 Bristol City 17 6 3 8 25 26 -1 21
13 Sunderland 16 5 5 6 21 20 +1 20
14 Birmingham City 16 5 5 6 16 15 +1 20
15 Watford 15 5 5 5 19 20 -1 20
16 Hull City 16 6 2 8 20 31 -11 20
17 Stoke City 16 5 4 7 17 20 -3 19
18 Blackpool 16 5 4 7 21 25 -4 19
19 Wigan Athletic 16 5 4 7 17 24 -7 19
20 Cardiff City 15 5 3 7 12 17 -5 18
21 Middlesbrough 16 4 5 7 19 21 -2 17
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22 Coventry City 13 4 4 5 12 14 -2 16
23 West Bromwich Albion 16 2 8 6 20 22 -2 14
24 Huddersfield Town 15 3 3 9 16 22 -6 12

Next games (to World Cup) - 3rd (a), 8th (a), 10th (h), 15th (a), 16th (a)

How on earth have QPR fallen so dramatically from being at the summit after 16 games!?

That's 12pts in 23 games, that's absolutely horrific.

[Orion1871]

After today’s games

Championship
Team P W D L F A GD Points

1 Queens Park Rangers 16 9 3 4 25 17 +8 30
2 Blackburn Rovers 17 10 0 7 22 18 +4 30
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3 Burnley 16 7 8 1 29 15 +14 29
4 Sheffield United 16 7 5 4 26 16 +10 26
5 Millwall 16 8 2 6 22 19 +3 26
6 Norwich City 16 7 4 5 23 18 +5 25
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7 Reading 16 8 1 7 19 23 -4 25
8 Luton Town 15 6 6 3 20 14 +6 24
9 Swansea City 15 7 3 5 20 22 -2 24
10 Preston North End 17 5 7 5 11 14 -3 22
11 Rotherham United 15 5 6 4 18 17 +1 21
12 Bristol City 17 6 3 8 25 26 -1 21
13 Sunderland 16 5 5 6 21 20 +1 20
14 Birmingham City 16 5 5 6 16 15 +1 20
15 Watford 15 5 5 5 19 20 -1 20
16 Hull City 16 6 2 8 20 31 -11 20
17 Stoke City 16 5 4 7 17 20 -3 19
18 Blackpool 16 5 4 7 21 25 -4 19
19 Wigan Athletic 16 5 4 7 17 24 -7 19
20 Cardiff City 15 5 3 7 12 17 -5 18
21 Middlesbrough 16 4 5 7 19 21 -2 17
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22 Coventry City 13 4 4 5 12 14 -2 16
23 West Bromwich Albion 16 2 8 6 20 22 -2 14
24 Huddersfield Town 15 3 3 9 16 22 -6 12

Next games (to World Cup) - 3rd (a), 8th (a), 10th (h), 15th (a), 16th (a)

How on earth have QPR fallen so dramatically from being at the summit after 16 games!?

That's 12pts in 23 games, that's absolutely horrific.

And could've been worse for them if Reading knew how to hold on to a 2-0 lead.

[MR.CYNICAL]

So we only gained 2 points in March

[tidus_mi2]

So we only gained 2 points in March

1pt

[Sutekh]

What the current Championship table looks like with a 6 point deduction applied to Reading

P Team GP W D L F A GD Pts
1 Burnley 38 24 12 2 74 29 45 84
2 Sheff Utd 38 22 7 9 59 33 26 73
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3 Middlesbrough 39 20 7 12 71 46 25 67
4 Luton 39 18 13 8 48 35 13 67
5 Millwall 39 17 10 12 48 40 8 61
6 Blackburn 38 19 4 15 43 43 0 61
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7 Norwich 39 16 9 14 52 42 10 57
8 Coventry 39 15 12 12 47 41 6 57
9 West Brom 38 15 11 12 47 39 8 56
10 Preston North End 39 15 11 13 37 44 -7 56
11 Watford 39 14 13 12 45 42 3 55
12 Sunderland 39 14 12 13 53 46 7 54
13 Stoke 39 14 9 16 52 45 7 51
14 Bristol City 39 12 13 14 46 47 -1 49
15 Swansea 39 13 10 16 54 59 -5 49
16 Birmingham 39 13 9 17 43 50 -7 48
17 Hull 39 12 12 15 43 53 -10 48
18 QPR 39 11 9 19 38 60 -22 42
19 Rotherham 38 9 14 15 41 51 -10 41
20 Reading 39 13 7 19 41 59 -18 40
21 Cardiff 38 10 9 19 30 44 -14 39
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22 Huddersfield 39 10 9 20 36 55 -19 39
23 Blackpool 39 8 11 20 41 61 -20 35
24 Wigan 39 8 13 18 34 59 -25 34

Game on