This was the first time I have seen Reading over 90 minutes. Despite all that possession I thought they were woeful in terms of giving the ball away and (given their recent form) have to believe it was a "bad day at the office"
Such is the tightness of the league that loss has dropped them...
Was just looking at tonights news and whichever way you look at it this is a banker home win, but there are always upsets I guess
The other 2 would be great draws, but if I had to pick winners I'd prefer Derby and Wendy (subject to change!!)
Yes they were 12th I believe. I just don't get it with Derby, going on a run of wins against mostly crap teams is nowhere near as impressive as most of those around them.
If they are going to challenge for top 2, as many seem to think, they can't afford to drop more than another 13/14 points...
Pretty well agree with that exept Derby (I'll be accused of getting boring about this one). The same argument you apply to Hudd's can be levelled to Derby. They've been showing good form but then only 1 of their last 10 games have been against teams in the top 10, which they drew. Their form is...
As I said, at this stage (I do it most years) it's generally between 4 and 10 points too high ("upsets") but if predicting likely results is difficult then predicting upsets is fricking impossible.
Assuming "upsets" are even across the board (which they aren't) then knock 6 or so points off...
I agree and right now our meeting at the Amex at the end of Feb is likely to be a classic 6 pointer. Regardless of the outcome of that game the fixture list has thrown up a sequence of 7 games for Reading 5 of which are against the other teams in top 6. If they get through that lot still on our...
Cheers Trigg .... try opening this. As for points I agree ... as I said I generally run 4-10 too high at this point but also the points dropped to more "sensible" levels tend to even out across all challengers
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9AyBEUiKUi0cGhTNi1Wb1c2YVU/view?usp=sharing
At the risk of being hosed here's an early run out of predictor. Really difficult to be objective with our results but done it with half an eye on what's needed.
It's dynamic ... meaning it is allowed to change :)
End column (89) is how many points a team can drop and still make what is likely...
Reading are away at Derby on the 21st and that will be an interesting one. I've got it down as a Derby win but I still don't think that will impact on Reading taking 3rd spot. If Reading were to win that though it could really throw the cat amongst the pigeons
I get some of that and I'm not suggesting Narch and Villa will make the ground up, just using them as examples of good looking squads on paper
I just think we (and I do include myself) the bookies and media get a bit carried away with Derby just because we expect them to be there or there...
I don't think they look stupid but I'm struggling to understand the basis of them, and have had the debate with Triggar too.
I can't disagree they look stronger on paper than most but then so do the likes of Narch and Villa. They have been in good form but in that 10 game unbeaten run they only...
Reading or Leeds, can't see anyone else getting close. Bemused by those who think Derby given how far back they are and the way the fixture list has thrown up a much trickier 2nd half