Remaining fixtures - Predictions

[JHRover]

The only games that I wouldn't be confident in are the dingles and away at Millwall. The rest we should be embracing and being confident of winning.

Some juicy looking games coming up elsewhere this weekend and next - Luton's next 3 are away at Sunderland, home v Watford and away at Millwall

Millwall are at West Brom next weekend and then host Luton, also host Preston soon

Norwich are at Stoke, then host Sheff Utd before coming to Ewood. Also at Middlesbrough soon.

I'm quite looking forward to 2.5 weeks of no league action to take a breather and let the others scrap it out and then hopefully we can deal with Birmingham.

 

[rigger]

29 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

Is there any update as to when the likes of Dack and Ayala are back? Experience in the run in will be crucial IMO.

Picking whichever players fit best into the system, we choose to play, will be crucial.

Edited March 16, 2023 by rigger

[superniko]

8 minutes ago, JHRover said:

The only games that I wouldn't be confident in are the dingles and away at Millwall. The rest we should be embracing and being confident of winning.

Some juicy looking games coming up elsewhere this weekend and next - Luton's next 3 are away at Sunderland, home v Watford and away at Millwall

Millwall are at West Brom next weekend and then host Luton, also host Preston soon

Norwich are at Stoke, then host Sheff Utd before coming to Ewood. Also at Middlesbrough soon.

I'm quite looking forward to 2.5 weeks of no league action to take a breather and let the others scrap it out and then hopefully we can deal with Birmingham.

 

100% - and how sweet will that fortnight be if we knew we already had 1 trip to Wembley in the bank!

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

Is there any update as to when the likes of Dack and Ayala are back? Experience in the run in will be crucial IMO.

Dack post international break at best. Not heard on Ayala

[wilsdenrover]

14 hours ago, R0verb0y said:

Copied from the "Championship - 22-23 thread" where I posted it in error.

My Predictions for us were:

Stoke City (A) D

Reading (H) W

Birmingham City (A) D

Norwich City (H) W

Huddersfield Town (A) W

Hull City (H) W

Coventry City (H) D

P. N.E. (A) L

YOU-KNOW-WHO (H) D

Luton Town (H) W

Millwall (A) D

We're - obviously - already two points down on where I hoped we'd be. Coincidentally, Luton Town, who I must subconsciously hate, have already got 4 points more than I tipped (wanted?!) them to have. And Millwall have 2 points more than I tipped

 

Quoted for @R0verb0y - if you click the three squares at the top right of the posts you don’t want on the Championship thread you can pick the ‘hide’ option there

hope that helps…

[R0verb0y]

28 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Quoted for @R0verb0y - if you click the three squares at the top right of the posts you don’t want on the Championship thread you can pick the ‘hide’ option there

hope that helps…

Almost certainly, @wilsdenrover.

I can't say more than that because I'm a 76-year-old whose wife & he decided not to have a family partly because any child might have inherited my disability.

Which was probably a sensible decision; but means I don't now have a smart-arsed grandson to raise his eyebrows to the skies whenever I encounter a - too complicated a computer-related problem for me to solve - but which would doubtless be  easy-peasy for him.

[R0verb0y]

Sorry, @wilsdenrover, 'scuse my lack of manners. Thank you.

[wilsdenrover]

5 minutes ago, R0verb0y said:

Sorry, @wilsdenrover, 'scuse my lack of manners. Thank you.

You’re very welcome - I don’t do things to be thanked but to try and be helpful 😀

but thank you for the thank you 😀

Edited March 17, 2023 by wilsdenrover

[R0verb0y]

Yebbut, my late Mum would be severely hacked off with me if she even suspected that I hadn't thanked you. 😉

[DeeCee]

51 minutes ago, R0verb0y said:

Almost certainly, @wilsdenrover.

I can't say more than that because I'm a 76-year-old whose wife & he decided not to have a family partly because any child might have inherited my disability.

Which was probably a sensible decision; but means I don't now have a smart-arsed grandson to raise his eyebrows to the skies whenever I encounter a - too complicated a computer-related problem for me to solve - but which would doubtless be  easy-peasy for him.

I have a smart arse grandson who's a Manure fan, despite 2 previous generations on both sides who support Rovers 🤦‍♂️

[wilsdenrover]

3 hours ago, DeeCee said:

I have a smart arse grandson who's a Manure fan, despite 2 previous generations on both sides who support Rovers 🤦‍♂️

I imagine there’s a connection between these things…

 

Edited March 17, 2023 by wilsdenrover

[rigger]

3 hours ago, DeeCee said:

I have a smart arse grandson who's a Manure fan, despite 2 previous generations on both sides who support Rovers 🤦‍♂️

Just disown him.

[DeeCee]

22 hours ago, rigger said:

Just disown him.

Told him he'd out of the will 👍

[ItsRoverZ]

I'm already 2 for 2 with how I thought the games were going to go  here's my predictions 

Stoke (A) = Loss

Reading (H) = Win

B'ham (A) = Draw

Norwich (H) = Win

H'field (A) = Loss

Hull (H) = Win

Coventry (H) = Win

Nobbers (A) = Loss

Dingles (H) = Draw

Luton (H) = Win

Millwall (A) = Draw

[pick32]

B'ham (A) = W

Norwich (H) = D

H'field (A) = W

Hull (H) = W

Coventry (H) = L

Nobbers (A) = W

Dingles (H) = L

Luton (H) = L

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

19 minutes ago, pick32 said:

B'ham (A) = W

Norwich (H) = D

H'field (A) = W

Hull (H) = W

Coventry (H) = L

Nobbers (A) = W

Dingles (H) = L

Luton (H) = L

We’re only going to win 1 home game out of 5 and lose 3 ? How many games have we lost at home so far ?

[Cherry Blue]

Looking back to last year we were 6th but by the Final Table we'd fallen short and Notts Forest joined the 4 playoff teams. In Mar-22 & the Final Table the three teams with highest GD ended up in Premiership. 

	2021-22						2021-22
	Mar-22						Final Table
	Team	P	GD	Pts			Team	P	GD	Pts
1	Fulham	37	58	77		1	Fulham (P)	46	63	90
2	Bournemouth	36	28	69		2	Bournemouth (P)	46	35	88
3	Luton	38	14	63		3	Huddersfield (Q)	46	17	82
4	Huddersfield	39	8	63		4	Nottm Forest (P)	46	33	80
5	Sheff Utd	38	12	61		5	Sheff Utd (Q	46	18	75
6	Blackburn	39	10	61		6	Luton Town (Q)	46	8	75
7	Middlesbrough	37	8	59
8	QPR	38	6	59
9	Nottm Forest	36	18	58
10	Millwall	38	3	57
	2022-23
	TODAY
	Team	P	GD	Pts
1	Burnley	37	45	83
2	Sheff Utd	37	25	70
3	Middlesbrough	38	27	67
4	Luton	38	11	64
5	Blackburn	37	1	61
6	Millwall	38	8	60
7	Norwich	38	11	57
8	Coventry	38	10	57
9	West Brom	37	8	55
10	Watford	38	5	55

[philipl]

A team with a good run-in forcing their way into the play-offs invariably does better in the lottery than one which has just missed out on automatic.

Boro could end up in both categories this season!

I should be solely focused on the Rovers but got a sneaking wish for Sheffield United to blow-up and miss out on automatic promotion for genuine points not collected rather than a points deduction.

 

[Sweaty Gussets]

 

Next round of fixtures. A win at B'ham would be massive considering most of the other teams around us are playing each other. 

[Bohinen1983]

B'ham (A) = D

Norwich (H) = D

H'field (A) = L

Hull (H) = W

Coventry (H) = W

Nobbers (A) = L

Dingles (H) = L

Luton (H) = W

Millwall (A) = L

71 Points

Think we're a bit soft mentally, unless we bounce back strongly on Saturday I fear it could fizzle out for us.

[G Somerset Rover]

8 minutes ago, Bohinen1983 said:

B'ham (A) = D

Norwich (H) = D

H'field (A) = L

Hull (H) = W

Coventry (H) = W

Nobbers (A) = L

Dingles (H) = L

Luton (H) = W

Millwall (A) = L

71 Points

Think we're a bit soft mentally, unless we bounce back strongly on Saturday I fear it could fizzle out for us.

Two huge differences this year; firstly, no death spiral Mowbray. Secondly, we had no goalscorer for the second half of last season, but this time round it looks like Ben is fit and has got his Diaz back.

I'm quietly confident.

Edited March 21, 2023 by Gavlar Somerset Rover!

[philipl]

Did the prediction thing in the LT which is actually from the Mirror. 

The advantage/disadvantage of the game is you don't see the league positions until all the games are predicted. 

In my guesses Rovers finished 4th 4 points behind Boro and 6 points ahead of Coventry and Norwich tied 7th. Luton 5th Millwall 6th so the Gregg Broughton Derby in the play offs.

Dingles get the new points record and Sheffield United comfortably make 2nd.

The one surprise was Blackpool overtaking Cardiff and surviving.

Deliberately didn't enter any crazy results so I guess the outcome reflects the relative difficulties on paper of the remaining fixtures.

 

 

[philipl]

Win 4  draw 5 lose 0 gets Rovers to 78 points with only a slight increase over 1.6 points per game we are currently averaging. 

[Sweaty Gussets]

Inside view: How Blackburn Rovers' rivals view the play-off race | Lancashire Telegraph

We aren't fancied to make the PO's by the journo's of our rivals. 

Edited March 25, 2023 by Sweaty Gussets

[wilsdenrover]

58 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

Inside view: How Blackburn Rovers' rivals view the play-off race | Lancashire Telegraph

We aren't fancied to make the PO's by the journo's of our rivals. 

We’re 4 points clear of 7th with a game in hand after 80% of the season.

We’re top of the form table (last six games)

We have the second best home record in the league

Three of our four remaining games against play off rivals are at home.

I don’t know how a journalist can look at that and not have us in their predicted top six. 

 

Edited March 25, 2023 by wilsdenrover