We need to lose five and 3rd place needs to win five straight to knock us out of the automatic places. We aren't losing five between now and the end of the season. Rovers (or whoever finishes 3rd) aren't winning every one of those games we hypothetically lose. We have squad depth and a full transfer window.

We are already up. Promotion in the bag by Dec 31st. Just be professional for a few months and that's it. It's done. Absolutely effing unreal.

Chickens…

Don’t count them

If I was pace I’d be tapping up whichever Chinese betting company fancies a premier league shirt next and getting the shirt out before the masses head off to Bene in July

Last I heard no team has won promotion with 53 points since 3 points for a win was introduced.

PS. You have obviously forgotten our 2nd half of the season collapse in the 'Gazza' season.

We are up. Just a formality now until the end of the season.

The lowlife....in 3rd, yet, as close to relegation as they are to catching us !

I won’t believe we’re up till it’s mathematical - but that’s just the way I am.

This team is not going to collapse.

Why do football fans do this cautious charade? We're already up.

We should certainly go up from here, however let's just maintain our calm and keep chalking up the victories.

The real interest is who between Burnley/Sheff Utd will lift the title come May.

Definitely not up but results went our way this evening. Watford’s squad is a mess and Norwich don’t seem to fancy it. They are the two main challengers for autos imo. Rovers no chance not even thinking about them.

bfcmik wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:52 pm

Last I heard no team has won promotion with 53 points since 3 points for a win was introduced.

PS. You have obviously forgotten our 2nd half of the season collapse in the 'Gazza' season.

We always play better in the 2nd half

Lose it from here and we deserve to stay down.

bfcmik wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:52 pm

Last I heard no team has won promotion with 53 points since 3 points for a win was introduced.

PS. You have obviously forgotten our 2nd half of the season collapse in the 'Gazza' season.

Totally different and much deeper squad this time around, and dare I say it a better manager as well.

Stupid post. Don’t count in anything until April. But it is very exciting.

Spiral wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:54 pm

This team is not going to collapse.

Why do football fans do this cautious charade? We're already up.

It’s just nonsense. We are up as are Sheffield. We could even be officially promoted by March if we keep up our current form.

We’re not up, but it’s most definitely ours to lose.

Easy with that kind of talk , take each game as it comes and let the points talk in May what we will have .

We have some hard games coming up. See where we are after those. Although, I am usually a glass half empty person and even I can't see this team collapsing.

bfcmik wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:52 pm

Last I heard no team has won promotion with 53 points since 3 points for a win was introduced.

PS. You have obviously forgotten our 2nd half of the season collapse in the 'Gazza' season.

This is no flakey Stan team. Tonight was a massive win against a rugby team. Brilliant!

bfcmik wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:52 pm

Last I heard no team has won promotion with 53 points since 3 points for a win was introduced.

PS. You have obviously forgotten our 2nd half of the season collapse in the 'Gazza' season.

As entertaining as the first half of that season was, it was built on sand to some extent. We conceded a fair few goals but clicked up front, inspired largely by Super Glen.

I think we are much more controlled this season, less reliant on one player and much, much more consistent.

When are people going to realise we are the Man City of this league.

Sheffield are Liverpool.

The rest are Nottingham Forrest or southamptons haha.

The nerves will kick in at some stage, as might injuries and suspensions

There is a promotion party booked for the 18March.
Venue Ewood Park.

Inchy wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:50 pm

If I was pace I’d be tapping up whichever Chinese betting company fancies a premier league shirt next and getting the shirt out before the masses head off to Bene in July

China does not allow betting companies on the mainland

What you are talking about is betting companies which target the Chinese population - and as numerous detailed investigations by respected journalists have shown that is a rather opaque situation as to who control these organisations.

the difference in income to a club like ours could be almost negligible - see last years shirt sponsor (who would likely be our go to next year or the deal to beat) yet the Premier League is still fighting a legal battle with PPTV (part owned by the Chinese government for reneging on a deal which cost the Premier League over £350m in lost revenues

there mare many reasons why that deal was cancelled, and betting advertising to the Chinese population is likely some way down the list but it will have contributed to the issue

On our way. But not done it yet.
Can still remember my Dad waffling on, years later, about giving Ipswich the league title everyone apparently thought we'd won all those years ago.

Good stuff to watch though.

Does this mean we can concentrate on the Cup ?

MrTopTier wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:03 pm

There is a promotion party booked for the 18March.
Venue Ewood Park.

Wouldn’t that be beautiful, bloody hell.

I bet you’d have 7-8000 Blackburn fans there maximum. They’d rather stay at home than witness it.

We have a great chance, but I know there'd be some pretty derogatory threads about any other team's fans saying the same thing.

Chester Perry wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:03 pm

China does not allow betting companies on the mainland

What you are talking about is betting companies which target the Chinese population - and as numerous detailed investigations by respected journalists have shown that is a rather opaque situation as to who control these organisations.

the difference in income to a club like ours could be almost negligible - see last years shirt sponsor (who would likely be our go to next year or the deal to beat) yet the Premier League is still fighting a legal battle with PPTV (part owned by the Chinese government for reneging on a deal which cost the Premier League over £350m in lost revenues

there mare many reasons why that deal was cancelled, and betting advertising to the Chinese population is likely some way down the list but it will have contributed to the issue

I’m just guessing here, but I think Inchy might have been posting in jest.

MrTopTier wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:03 pm

There is a promotion party booked for the 18March.
Venue Ewood Park.

I'm sure East Lancs plod will relish that prospect.

We ain’t up till we’re up. Don’t risk a jinx.

We are certainly riding infront of the curve.

Once we go north of the 75 point mark then it’s as good as done. Usually a mid 80s points haul is more than enough for automatic regardless. I think the points required will be a lot less this season due to how close it is.

Going off some threads on here lately, a lot on here would rather we stayed in the Chumpionship.

So they'll be hoping we collapse.

Maybe but there is no way any of that dross below us is going to catch us apart from Sheffield Utd maybe but I don’t think they’re as good as us despite putting a hatful past us (bad day at the office). Swansea won 4-0 tonight but I can’t see anything other than a win for Burnley against them.

agreenwood wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:05 pm

I’m just guessing here, but I think Inchy might have been posting in jest.

Probably, but there are plenty of others who will believe this is the way to go

We are much further clear of 3rd than Fulham managed last season, it is actually others underperforming, a side on 53 pts is not unheard of. Every side other than us or Blades is projecting under 72 points, normally that wouldn’t get in the playoffs.

So yes, we’ll be up. Only 2 sides will beat 80 and we’ll need only mid table form from here.

Good to win the league though - I’m sure we will.

There was a lot of scepticism in the summer but I honestly always saw us having a successful season and I reckon every one of my posts here since Kompany's arrival back that up. I felt as if it was just a case of us all getting our tickets, strapping in and enjoying the ride!

With every transfer the project just seemed to progress and progress and become clearer and clearer. And then the Huddersfield game (wow) and I wrote on here most weekends for the first few weeks that I was yet to see a side better than us. I still stand by that. We're an immense Championship side.

It would take a crumble of massive proportions for us not be top two - and Kompany, although a very intelligent man, doesn't know the meaning of the word. Up the Clarets.

Fortunately we have a manager who is vastly experienced in title run ins - Kompany demands winners, he wont let them drop standards

Unless one of the teams below Blackburn (can’t include
Blackburn) go on a phenomenal run and we lose 6 or more
of our remaining games then we should make it back up the top league.
I just hope we do it in style and actually win it.
If so it will be an absolute fantastic achievement.

MrTopTier wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:03 pm

There is a promotion party booked for the 18March.
Venue Ewood Park.

I agree http://www.uptheclarets.com/messageboar ... h#p1968976

It would take something absolutely momentous to not go up automatically. I’m their most cynical of supporters but there’s no reason to doubt it.

Even if VK left tomorrow, and Michael Jackson was put back in charge until the end of the season, I still can’t see the chasing pack catching us.

Win promotion at deadwood, lift the title at home against Sheff utd please

MrTopTier wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:03 pm

There is a promotion party booked for the 18March.
Venue Ewood Park.

That would be unreal if we did that. Imagine the scenes.

It's not out of the realms of possibility either. Win that, be 25 points clear of third and we'd be mathematically up.

I don’t know if anyone heard Glenn Little on Radio Lancs commentary tonight. He was saying as much as the OP.

He sees big similarities with his Championship winning side, even going as far as saying their record 106 points could be under threat!

Spiral wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:48 pm

We need to lose five and 3rd place needs to win five straight to knock us out of the automatic places. We aren't losing five between now and the end of the season. Rovers (or whoever finishes 3rd) aren't winning every one of those games we hypothetically lose. We have squad depth and a full transfer window.

We are already up. Promotion in the bag by Dec 31st. Just be professional for a few months and that's it. It's done. Absolutely effing unreal.

Steady on now.

Good video regarding the top two:

https://youtu.be/uharkAxH440

If PPG returns elsewhere were to stay as they are, we would only need another 19 points from 21 games to go up automatically.

Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:04 pm

On our way. But not done it yet.
Can still remember my Dad waffling on, years later, about giving Ipswich the league title everyone apparently thought we'd won all those years ago.

Good stuff to watch though.

Spot on there. Before Easter we were home and dry according to the pundits and look what happened over 14 games we lost 8 points to Ipswich or these days 13points
P14 W3 D7 L4 Pts 13 and Ipswich
P14 W8 D5 L1 Pts 21

RVclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:28 pm

If PPG returns elsewhere were to stay as they are, we would only need another 19 points from 21 games to go up automatically.

We could potentially have more than that by Mid Feb

Remember when we were leading up to the home game against Swansea and we thought it was going to be the biggest test all season and one of the most difficult games we'd play, then we battered them 4-0?

Yeah, we're up.

Vinnie tried being fly tonight by resting Zaroury and Jay away at one of the most physical sides in the league (this type of team supposedly being our Achilles heel), bang in the middle of winter, with a team full of young, relatively inexperienced players, and we still managed to find a way to win, and we kept another clean sheet, and it was a rubbish game but we didn't have to work overly hard for the win, and there were no injuries and the squad rotation worked out fine in the end, and we have a serial winner as a manager and we're trying to buy the best striker in the Championship.

What part of any of this makes someone think, "now now, hold your horses, it's not over 'til it's over?" As a team we're at the point, much like City of the last few years, where against almost every team in the league we can go out, get the job done inside 60 minutes, then manage the rest of the game with an eye on the next one. We have such control over games (one goal conceded in how many minutes of football now? and that was due to a wild a kamikaze pass) that we could go the whole season without ever seeing this team in fifth gear. Maybe we get to something like the quarter finals of the FA Cup and we draw someone like Newcastle, then we are pushed to our limit without being out-played and out-classed like we were against UTD — maybe then we see what fifth gear looks like, but we're smoking teams and making it look easy, and when games are a bit closer or we play bad, we still find a way to win.

We're up.