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The other games today 2018/19


Greg

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I've kind of ignored as much as possible the promotion picture in the champo, while our own status is not determined yet. Looking at it now with Fulham winning and Wolves drawing you would put a pretty high wager on Wolves and Cardiff going up but it's the playoff spots that are the most interesting. Villa really need to get promoted this season I feel, from an FFP perspective, from a financial one (with another year of parachute payments over), from their manager's perspective who will probably be sacked if they don't go up. Fulham are the form team and they too probably need to go up this year, if they want to hold onto their manager as well as players like Sessesgon and Cairney and be able to sign Mitro in the summer of course. Derby have been up there most of the season but are in horrendous form at the moment. Boro after appointing Pulis probably thought they would bounce straight back. Then you've got a host of clubs just behind that could be a wild card in it.

 

Think it's been a weak year in the champo this season, with the three relegated clubs performing relatively poorly, two of them of course in the relegation fight. A few of last year's better teams such as Reading, Sheff Wed and Norwich has also been struggling. The points total to survive which was 51 last season is not going to be close to what is required this with Burton and the Mackems already unable to reach that. So for a team like Villa for example, if they mess up the playoff, that could really kill them, especially when you look at the three teams that are likely to come down, all will be a threat next year.

 

 

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