Costero Poderoso
Well-known member
As the seasons now over and Training grounds and season ticket prices are now being discussed i just thought id look at the predictions i made before the season started. I thought we would be solid, but this is what i thought at the time
Blackburn, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Swansea I think will be the teams contesting the top two and expect all four to finish top 6.
QPR & Reading i think will be up and around the playoffs. will finish in the top ten at least
Barnsley
Fulham
Huddersfield
Luton
Middlesbrough
Nottingham forest
PNE
Stoke
West Brom
all of these teams will be mid table - some with sight on either play-offs and some steering clear of relegation places.
Bristol City
Hull
Millwall
Peterborough
all will finish in the bottom ten, at least one of them to go down
Birmingham, Derby, Sheffield Utd all in the bottom six at least two of them relegated.
Barnsley: had a good year but very low goal difference, and didn’t score many might struggle to replicate lowish mid table They definitely really struggled to replicate lowish mid table
Birmingham: club in crisis relagation battle ensues
Blackburn: probably should have been higher might come good next season they didn’t really – lack any consistency
Bournemouth: well run club decent team will be there or thereabouts the top 4
Bristol City: rank average will probably be the same next year
Cardiff: maintain momentum could be a contender next season – got that one wrong
Coventry: making steady progress wil be looking to improve
Derby: club in crisis if they don’t get a decent start I expect them in a relegation fight
Fulham: will expect to go back up but I expect mid table with a few flirtations at the playoffs and relegation at different points in the season, expected them to be very topsy turvy but have got the results and have steamrollered a lot of teams, not us though. They didn’t have enough ability in the first game to break us down, and I think we were the better team on the return fixture.
Huddersfield: didn’t score too many and had a pretty leaky defence can’t see much different for next season much better than I expected going forward but defensively about championship standard hence their position.
Hull: might get found out by better teams in the championship, not convinced they were as good as the league 1 table suggested
Luton: replicating what they did this year would be an achievement –and it has been, they looked good at bloomfield road but also got lucky but at their place they looked awful, if they manage to get promoted I can see them getting less than three points all season.
Middlesbrough: another rank average side would expect some occasional flirtations with the play-offs ultimately mid-table
Millwall: as Middlesbrough but worse
Nottingham forest: they don’t look like a great side but they might turn things around – and they have, its all just clicked for them
Peterborough: think they might go straight back down has been on the cards since the opening game of the season, the points deduction to Reading and Derby have flattered them, they will probably come back up again next year
PNE: finished reasonably strongly in the end but they will be in the lower reaches of the table
QPR: a team that you would expect to be up there, I think will hover around the play-offs – they sort of did without really being a proper contender
Reading: if they can improve their defence they might have another challenge they didn’t and payed the price
Sheffield utd: terrible season last year, for me odds on to go down again - oops
Stoke: another mid table finish
Swansea: missed out this year, will be strong next – completely and utterly wrong
West Brom: think they will struggle in the championship, will probably find a bit of form in the second half of the season – not far off
Blackpool: could be the dark horses, strong in defence, seem to have found their shooting boots in the last half of last season reasonably settled sqaud, I think pool could be top 8.
We flirted a couple of times with the playoff places but we just never got enough goals to really make an impression and the defence which has been plagued by injuries all season hasnt been as mean as the previous season i think we can say we have a championship defence though, i dont think we were good enough to justify a play off place, but its has been a mostly good season.
Blackburn, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Swansea I think will be the teams contesting the top two and expect all four to finish top 6.
QPR & Reading i think will be up and around the playoffs. will finish in the top ten at least
Barnsley
Fulham
Huddersfield
Luton
Middlesbrough
Nottingham forest
PNE
Stoke
West Brom
all of these teams will be mid table - some with sight on either play-offs and some steering clear of relegation places.
Bristol City
Hull
Millwall
Peterborough
all will finish in the bottom ten, at least one of them to go down
Birmingham, Derby, Sheffield Utd all in the bottom six at least two of them relegated.
Barnsley: had a good year but very low goal difference, and didn’t score many might struggle to replicate lowish mid table They definitely really struggled to replicate lowish mid table
Birmingham: club in crisis relagation battle ensues
Blackburn: probably should have been higher might come good next season they didn’t really – lack any consistency
Bournemouth: well run club decent team will be there or thereabouts the top 4
Bristol City: rank average will probably be the same next year
Cardiff: maintain momentum could be a contender next season – got that one wrong
Coventry: making steady progress wil be looking to improve
Derby: club in crisis if they don’t get a decent start I expect them in a relegation fight
Fulham: will expect to go back up but I expect mid table with a few flirtations at the playoffs and relegation at different points in the season, expected them to be very topsy turvy but have got the results and have steamrollered a lot of teams, not us though. They didn’t have enough ability in the first game to break us down, and I think we were the better team on the return fixture.
Huddersfield: didn’t score too many and had a pretty leaky defence can’t see much different for next season much better than I expected going forward but defensively about championship standard hence their position.
Hull: might get found out by better teams in the championship, not convinced they were as good as the league 1 table suggested
Luton: replicating what they did this year would be an achievement –and it has been, they looked good at bloomfield road but also got lucky but at their place they looked awful, if they manage to get promoted I can see them getting less than three points all season.
Middlesbrough: another rank average side would expect some occasional flirtations with the play-offs ultimately mid-table
Millwall: as Middlesbrough but worse
Nottingham forest: they don’t look like a great side but they might turn things around – and they have, its all just clicked for them
Peterborough: think they might go straight back down has been on the cards since the opening game of the season, the points deduction to Reading and Derby have flattered them, they will probably come back up again next year
PNE: finished reasonably strongly in the end but they will be in the lower reaches of the table
QPR: a team that you would expect to be up there, I think will hover around the play-offs – they sort of did without really being a proper contender
Reading: if they can improve their defence they might have another challenge they didn’t and payed the price
Sheffield utd: terrible season last year, for me odds on to go down again - oops
Stoke: another mid table finish
Swansea: missed out this year, will be strong next – completely and utterly wrong
West Brom: think they will struggle in the championship, will probably find a bit of form in the second half of the season – not far off
Blackpool: could be the dark horses, strong in defence, seem to have found their shooting boots in the last half of last season reasonably settled sqaud, I think pool could be top 8.
We flirted a couple of times with the playoff places but we just never got enough goals to really make an impression and the defence which has been plagued by injuries all season hasnt been as mean as the previous season i think we can say we have a championship defence though, i dont think we were good enough to justify a play off place, but its has been a mostly good season.
