They have lost every game in 2013 yet remain in the top six We have just won three on the bounce and have won every match since Peterborough except for the 1-1 draw at Ipswich, yet we remain in the bottom three. We were tantalisingly out of it though until Wolves snatched that late equaliser. It's a long time since we had a situation like this where we just expect to go out and win every match. We could have easily lost that today but we didn't and that speaks VOLUMES for the current management team's motivational skills, not to mention the team's gargantuan efforts. We are not, I repeat NOT NOT NOT, going down
It's incredible how the results are going. Everybody around us are getting results as well. To go on this run and STILL be in the bottom 3, is just weird. I don't think 50 points will be enough at all
No, maybe 53 or 54 to be safe but that is achievable and it is inconceivable to think that EVERYONE will keep winning around us. If so we will find three teams currently in the top ten going down. Completely bonkers!
you gotta remember though, if all the teams at the bottom are winning teams else where must be losing and soon they will be caught up. If i was a Millwall fan I would be getting worried, even more so hudders
For me, the key thing is that 4-6 weeks ago it looked like 3 from 4. The gap from the rest looked massive. All of a sudden there are 8 or 9 teams bang in it. That's what we needed, to drag others into the battle. Wolves, Brizzle and Bolton up next. Every one a 6 pointer. For me, 5 points from them will see us out the bottom 3
Any team from 8th position downwards could be relegated. The gap between Man City and Man Utd is the same as the gap between Barnsley in 21st and Blackburn in 8th. So I would say with 15 games to go, any team from 8th downwards could be relegated.
Crazy division indeed - and todays/last nights results must have been the maddest of the year so far. Not one of the top 6 won - yet every one of the bottom 3 did! Mental - I love this division!
Mental just about covers it. We all like to have a moan about our teams, big or small, successful or perennial strugglers. But the key thing is that nothing stays the same. Even Man Utd tasted life in the Second Division once and it will happen again (well, maybe!!). The only certainty in football is the absolute UNcertainty of it all. We go up, we go down, we stagnate. You never know what you are going to get, especially supporting a team like Barnsley. This is why I love it, absolutely love it and why it is so painful to miss so much of it because of where I have lived over the years.
I share your pain at living away from tarn, including Lane End (High Wycombe) in your neck of the woods not very far from Princes Risborough, and also having had to put up with living in the dramatic mountainous region of Cambridge for almost 25 years!! But I agree with your post about this division.
I love this division just about covers it. Fantastic league, praying we stay in it, believe we will too.
My exile has been self-inflicted - best part of 39 years in the RAF and RAF Civil Service. Even though I am free of that now I am still in Risborough but maybe not for much longer. Like all other exiles I have pounded the motorways on a few given Saturdays every season, plus a few late night midweek trips, only to make the return journey (usually) miserable but (now and then) very happy. I will still do it though, whenever possible. Thank goodness for Barnsley Player. Without internet coverage on a Saturday afternoon I would have to go and watch Wycombe Wanderers with a radio pressed to my ear for score updates (which is exactly what I used to do, except it was Gloucester City or Cheltenham Town that used to get my patronage)
So basically we've made up just 4 points and climbed only 2 places, despite taking 13 from 15. Everybody's scrapping like ****
Well, we have to go where our careers take us! And you do live in a lovely part of the UK - the Chilterns are really attractive. Cambridge is just flat! When I was in Wycombe, WW were a non-league side and their ground was by the hospital. I was lucky enough to play on the astroturf at Bisham Abbey most weeks! As you say, thank God for Barnsley Player. Sorry for digressing from your original thread!
I really think Udders are gonna be in the bottom 3, with brizzle and posh. Ipswich or Wolves maybe. 3 from that 5.
The players must be thinking what on earth is going on. They play out of their skins, go on an unprecedented winning run and still after a massive away win they look at the league table and see themselves still in the bottom three. Mental.
We're in the ascendency though. Look at the points we've made on Ipswich, wolves, Bolton, Birmingham...
If 1 team wins 1team loses. I said last week before the Blackpool game any side beliw 40 was introuble/possibly/looking over shoulder.6 points between us and 8 other teams now (I think and I'm not checking cos I'm off to sleep)