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How many points did we have after 9 matches?

 

EDIT: 16

 

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/25-september-2016/

Drew with Villa this weekend last year, should have won it and saw the game out. In the midweek game coming up we beat Norwich 4-3 with the two injury time goals. We were well on our way towards the top at this stage of the season.
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Oh dear... 'Lawrie' Grayson

Thought I would 'classify' and colour code Sunderland's fixtures (Aug & Sep) according to finishing position last year of the opposition: treating the top eight (including two relegated sides) as RED (least likely to beat), next eight as AMBER, and remaining seven (including promoted sides) as GREEN. Opposition sides moves up or down a category depending if home or away, i.e. if playing a RED team at home it becomes an AMBER fixture; and a GREEN team away becomes an AMBER fixture.

 

Whilst a bit random, it should give, based on last year's form/squads, a sense of how well they should be doing at the end if Sept given the relative difficulty of the start. So:

Derby H points predicted: 1 Got: 1

Norwich A predicted: 1 Got: 4

Sheffield Wed A predicted: 1 Got: 5

Leeds Hpredicted: 2 Got: 5

BarnsleyA predicted: 2 Got: 5

Sheffield Utd H predicted: 5 Got: 5

Nottingham Forest H predicted:8 Got: 5

Hull A predicted:9 Got: 6

Cardiff H predicted: 12 Got: 6

Ipswich A predicted: 12 Got:

Preston A predicted: 12Got:

Presuming on average the points total for an average Championship side would see three points for Green games, 1 point for Amber and 0 for Red. 12 points by end of Sept would signal mid-table mediocrity. Less = trouble ahead. More = on course for top half.

There are 5 out of 16 Red games, 3 of 15 Amber, and 3 of 15 Green games. So relatively speaking more difficult first 11 eleven games.

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It's great aint it. Only hope they have is for us to get beat so they can feel better about themselves somehow, comfort blanket threads ahoy on rtg.

 

2 away games in 4 days...Ipswich and Preston if they lose them that's 1 win in 11 a quarter of a season. Blackburn won 14 games last season and went down

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It's great aint it. Only hope they have is for us to get beat so they can feel better about themselves somehow, comfort blanket threads ahoy on rtg.

 

2 away games in 4 days...Ipswich and Preston if they lose them that's 1 win in 11 a quarter of a season. Blackburn won 14 games last season and went down

 

:thup: they'll not be that worried though after all Grayson is better than Rafa, so they're in good hands. I see there's already serious macktracking going on over there.

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