Swansea well placed for play off place now

[Father Dougal]

Won 6 drawn 1 lost 0 in last 7 games. Only 3 points off play offs so would fancy them to sneak in again as they seem to have a habit of doing that. I remember only a month or go there was some talk of swansea having a new manager by the time they played us as Martin was under pressure from their fans. Yet a month or so later they could be in the Premier league. Wonder if they like him now?

Ps all that talk of cardiff not "getting" the Derby etc......maybe just maybe swanseas recent run and our home performances v Stoke and Sunderland indicate they are actually just much better than us and actually our performance v them (first 25 mins apart) was superior to its normal level at our home games and maybe the players did raise their game after all?!

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Swansea well placed for play off place now

Won 6 drawn 1 lost 0 in last 7 games. Only 3 points off play offs so would fancy them to sneak in again as they seem to have a habit of doing that. I remember only a month or go there was some talk of swansea having a new manager by the time they played us as Martin was under pressure from their fans. Yet a month or so later they could be in the Premier league. Wonder if they like him now?

Ps all that talk of cardiff not "getting" the Derby etc......maybe just maybe swanseas recent run and our home performances v Stoke and Sunderland indicate they are actually just much better than us and actually our performance v them (first 25 mins apart) was superior to its normal level at our home games and maybe the players did raise their game after all?!

They'd still have to keep up that run. Fair enough if they do, but it'll more likely end.

Teams on winning runs have to end somewhere. Similarly, teams on horrific losing runs have to end somewhere as well.

[ToTaL ITK]

Re: Swansea well placed for play off place now

no

[the other bob wilson]

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If there was still six games left, yes they might well still do it, but I reckon there’s too many in contention for them to do it even if they win their last two matches and if what we produced against them was us rising to the occasion then were even worse than I thought we were.

[Dave Blue]

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Some were commenting how poor Swansea were. I thought they were the second best team to come here this season.

[UNDERHILL1927]

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Mad to think that had we beaten them in the derby we would have gone above them

[The Lone Gunman]

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Mad to think that had we beaten them in the derby we would have gone above them

That is mad to think because it's not true.

[Father Dougal]

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That is mad to think because it's not true.

It's not true however I do remember when we were 1 up at Rotherham I had worked out some way we could potentially be above them if we beat them. Probably involved quite a few results though!

Swansea started the season well, then totally collapsed and now having a storming end. Cardiff for our part are probably one of the most consistent teams in the league. We haven't had a good spell at all and never dropped much less than a point a game. We've just been a point a game ish all season from August really and none of the managerial changes have really changed it either way.

[The Lone Gunman]

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It's not true however I do remember when we were 1 up at Rotherham I had worked out some way we could potentially be above them if we beat them. Probably involved quite a few results though!

Probably did. City went into the derby seven points behind the Jacks.

[The Lone Gunman]

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Cardiff for our part are probably one of the most consistent teams in the league.

That's not really true. Let's not forget that City went on a dreadful run of 12 league games without a win between November and February.

[Father Dougal]

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Probably did. City went into the derby seven points behind the Jacks.

That's it. We were 4 points behind them before Rotherham game. Had we held on there Wed have been 1 point behind them. If they failed to beat Bristol next day (and Swansea were in terrible form) we could have been 1 point behind them going into the Derby.

However we obviously got 0 points from Rotherham and they then beat Bristol to go 7 clear of us.

[UNDERHILL1927]

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Probably did. City went into the derby seven points behind the Jacks.

Close enough, memory isn’t what it used to be

[goats]

Re: Swansea well placed for play off place now

Won 6 drawn 1 lost 0 in last 7 games. Only 3 points off play offs so would fancy them to sneak in again as they seem to have a habit of doing that. I remember only a month or go there was some talk of swansea having a new manager by the time they played us as Martin was under pressure from their fans. Yet a month or so later they could be in the Premier league. Wonder if they like him now?

Ps all that talk of cardiff not "getting" the Derby etc......maybe just maybe swanseas recent run and our home performances v Stoke and Sunderland indicate they are actually just much better than us and actually our performance v them (first 25 mins apart) was superior to its normal level at our home games and maybe the players did raise their game after all?!

I think every team around above them lost yesterday, millwall seem to have fallen off the cliff along with Watford and Norwich. If they sneak in, they will win it no question…..they were lucky Blackburn conceded a 94th minute goal too else they’d have two more points.
They must be the most fortunate club in the world yet they wanted their manager gone just before we gave them their annual 3 points here…..

[fugsyphil]

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12th with two games left is anything but well placed for a top 6 finish 🙈

[Forgotmyoldaccount]

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They are a club who always hire progressive managers and normally reap the rewards.

When they were complaining about tippy tappy boring 0-0 football, I was wishing it was us!