Rival Watch

[tidus_mi2]

It’s certainly a very even league this year. No one outstanding at all - but also the teams at the bottom are relatively strong as well

Fifteen points is the entire points spread of the league after fifteen games (for most).

This time last year the gap between 1st and 24th was 24pts and the team in 17th was 8pts off the play-offs (so not much different there)

Does seem the big difference is no one appears to be running away with it this season.

[West F]

An interesting weekend of matches which highlighted how tight the table is and how there are no givens in league one. Including the Thursday night result, this round of matches ended with all of the top seven clubs losing.

[windermereROYAL]

An interesting weekend of matches which highlighted how tight the table is and how there are no givens in league one. Including the Thursday night result, this round of matches ended with all of the top seven clubs losing.

6, Bolton were 7th before yesterday

[Snowflake Royal]

So, only 1 team below us with a game in hand, but 5 points behind.

Five teams in the top half with at least one game in hand... which may be supressing the top points a touch.

But in one round of fixtures we've moved up 3 places is it?

Tough next fixture, but a good amount of time for Leam to get his mesaage across, drill some changes and get some fitness back. With only a few, not very first XI crucial players away on International Duty.

We shouldnt immediately shit the bed again if we get a poor performance and/or result against Rotherham. After that we have a run of about 7/8 games playing mostly bottom half teams.

Struggle in that run and we're in genuinely real trouble. But put a string of results together and we're probably comfortable and top half.

Bit of a worry that a fair few of those teams down there look like the sort of teams to pull themselves together and move up the table.

[Sutekh]

Next Reading game is Saturday November 22 (home v Rotherham)

Games between now and then in L1 (and of interest elsewhere).

Tue 11 Nov

Franchise v Swindon (Vertu Trophy)

Sat 15 Nov

Burton v Blackpool
Leyton Orient v Exeter
Lincoln v Doncaster
Luton v Rotherham
Port Vale v Wycombe

Thu 20 Nov

Peterborough v Stockport

Current table:

[windermereROYAL]

So we definitely drop one place with the potential to be 20th again after next weeks games, Orient v Exeter, one of them will pass us, Doncaster get a draw at Lincoln, they go above us, less likely is Blackpool winning by 4 at Burton.
Rotherham at Luton should give us a clue how difficult our game will against them, they`ve won 4 of their last 6 and drawn the other 2.

[Snowflake Royal]

So we definitely drop one place next week with the potential to be 20th again after next weeks games, Orient v Exeter, one of them will pass us, Doncaster get a draw at Lincoln, they go above us, less likely is Blackpool winning by 4 at Burton.
Rotherham at Luton should give us a clue how difficult our game will against them, they`ve won 4 of their last 6 and drawn the other 2.

I know it doesn’t necessarily make sense. But I'd rather it was 5 of 7 when they played us. I tend to think a team like Rotherham (mid-table, poor start) probably isn’t going to sustain that good run too long. Whilst if they arrive 4 in 7 after Luton that's more ordinary and they're more capable of then bouncing back.

[stealthpapes]

It’s certainly a very even league this year. No one outstanding at all - but also the teams at the bottom are relatively strong as well

Fifteen points is the entire points spread of the league after fifteen games (for most).

This time last year the gap between 1st and 24th was 24pts and the team in 17th was 8pts off the play-offs (so not much different there)

Does seem the big difference is no one appears to be running away with it this season.

yeah, I'd be mildly shocked if most seasons weren't like this. My memory from 2023-24 was that we had a midtable that shambled along doing just enough to stay out of trouble.

[stealthpapes]

We shouldnt immediately shit the bed again

are you new here?

[WestYorksRoyal]

Fifteen points is the entire points spread of the league after fifteen games (for most).

This time last year the gap between 1st and 24th was 24pts and the team in 17th was 8pts off the play-offs (so not much different there)

Does seem the big difference is no one appears to be running away with it this season.

yeah, I'd be mildly shocked if most seasons weren't like this. My memory from 2023-24 was that we had a midtable that shambled along doing just enough to stay out of trouble.

Normally there's a couple at the bottom well adrift too, but not this time.

[tidus_mi2]

This time last year the gap between 1st and 24th was 24pts and the team in 17th was 8pts off the play-offs (so not much different there)

Does seem the big difference is no one appears to be running away with it this season.

yeah, I'd be mildly shocked if most seasons weren't like this. My memory from 2023-24 was that we had a midtable that shambled along doing just enough to stay out of trouble.

Normally there's a couple at the bottom well adrift too, but not this time.

Yeah, that looks to be it this season, there aren't any extremes at either end of the table so the gap across the division is smaller. Would suggest that the quality between the teams is much tighter, definitely going to be a lot harder to guess who goes up and down.

[Snowflake Royal]

We shouldnt immediately shit the bed again

are you new here?

I didn't say wouldn't