This originates from something I saw on social media and thought it was interesting and absolutely pointless at the same time. Consecutive runs, or the opposite.....

Excluding Welsh cup games, our best consecutive runs are as follows:

Wins - 9 (1946/47 under Bill McCandless)
Draws - 5 (4 occasions: 1990/91 under Len Ashurst, 1997/98 under Russell Osman, 2000/01 under Bobby Gould (we drew all of his first 5 games in charge) and 2006/07 under Dave Jones)
Defeats - 8 (2021/22 under Mick McCarthy, somewhat ironically achieved by defeat to Neil Warnock's Middlesbrough - under Warnock we achieved 8 wins in a row, our second best ever winning run)

However, what about those seasons where we didn't manage that many consecutive results, where we struggled for any semblance of form, good or bad? I've had almost one message about this very stat in the past, so I thought I'd do some research as I'm sure you're all eager and desperate for this information.

In 1986/87 we followed up one result (win, loss or draw) with a different result on 43 occasions from 57 games. Our longest streak was 3 consecutive wins. We managed 2 successive wins on 4 occasions, 2 successive draws on 3 occasions and 2 successive defeats on 5 occasions. Here's the list of results:

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At the opposite end of the spectrum was the 1946/47 promotion season, where we followed up a result with a different one on only 16 occasions, as follows:

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