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GlennMiller
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Today's been a great day and one which we, as long suffering Rotherham fans, rarely get to enjoy. However, rather than indulging in comments about the game, we are once again distracted by the Thurcroft Two who insist on bringing the spotlight back to their sad, look at me lifes and interrupting/distracting any decent conversation.

Can we try a new tactic? On this thread, in the absence of moderators, I would be grateful if gwru and TH didn't comment. If they do, I urge other posters to just ignore what they say. Let's see if we can achieve a sensible debate.

The theme of the thread is, given today's performance, what do posters consider our potential is in the Championship? Until visiting NYS, Bristol City were a top six team with Premiership aspirations. They were made to look ordinary by the favourites for relegation. I personally think we could achieve mid table status with the addition of a decent striker and a left back in January - assuming the return of some of our key injured, and the injection of the confidence that performances like today brings.

Stand by for adverse posts from Toot and Floot but please resist the temptation of responding to them. This thread is a TH/gwru free zone!

 

 

 



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Mid table for me

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At the start of the season I would have been delighted if anyone had told me we would finish fourth from bottom. We are currently fifth from bottom. Even if you added back Wednesdays deducted six points we would still be fifth from bottom. Realistically I can see some of those below us improving, but i can also see a couple of those above us having poor runs. From what I've seen Millwall and Birmingham are no great shakes. I will settle for finishing where we are now thanks very much. It would be our highest league finish since Ronnie Moore was the manager. I still think it will be very difficult to stay out of the bottom three, but I rate us as having more than a fighting chance of doing it.

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This is a very difficult question for me. I tend to agree with Smiler that anything above the bottom three would be a great achievement. However, i also feel on occasions we can surprise teams as we did today. When you look at this league it says there is not a lot between a lot of teams. The sixth from top are only 9 pts better than the nineteenth in the league. Yet between nineteenth and twenty fourth there are nine points. I might have under estimated us by saying we can only grind points out by winning games via set pieces and keeping it tight. Today we had seventeen shots at goal to only four from top six at start of play Bristol City. There are better people than me assessing our performance but i am sure they will be working hard at getting us higher up that pitch on a more regular basis. I will say with some additions in January which T.S has indicated he will fund then we could finish around twentieth.

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Im not holding my breath at the new additions in jan But blackman needs to go back Any incomings will be loans

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I would gladly settle for finishing where we are now, however with a bit of luck with regards to injuries, suspensions etc in the second half of the season, then possibly a couple of places higher. I think our current position is a realistic ambition and it would be a great achievement. I can't see Derby or Forest staying where they are so we have to hope a couple more teams can be dragged into the mire. 



-- Edited by realmiller on Saturday 12th of December 2020 11:50:41 PM

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Most teams enjoy a good spell at some point in the season and often those starting well, will at some point run out of steam. I would like to think that we have yet to reach our full potential which, after today's showing is clearly there. I just hope we can kick on from here and build a nice little points tally taking us over the Christmas period and see how we can strengthen in January.

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I am sorry to inform you it is not the Glenmiller site. Nice to see you are breaking the one rule again please write a short reply but then again you make your own up.

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Just one thing to add, which is that there may yet be time for st least one club in the division to suffer a points deduction. I dont wish it on anybody (although you reap what you sow) but can see it happening, and some of the clubs in the bottom half of the table are the likeliest candidates.

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I suspect there will be 7 clubs involved in the relegation battle. Wednesday; Wycombe, Derby, Forest, QPR, Millwall and us. I can't see Wycombe avoiding the drop so there will be 2 places between 6 candidates. Of those 6, you'd think that Forest and Derby would be able to mount a decent survival campaign, however, I'm not sure if Derby's FFP offence has been fully dealt with? A points deduction for them could be disastrous. If we can suck Millwall and QPR into the survival battle, we stand a good chance of avoiding the drop. A few more performances like yesterday's would do us no end of good!

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Mid table easily if we stop worrying about the opposition and concentrate more on what we have.

Saturday was a good example of this, Bristol are doing well and are a good team but we played our own game and looked what happened. We wont win every week but if we compete like we did Saturday regardless of the result not many will be able to complain.

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i would be very happy with 5th from bottom, we need a lot of luck and we must not lose to the other teams in the bottom 7 as those are the games that mathematically will relegate us. That is why the QPR and Coventry games were so disappointing and why the Derby games over the next month are so important. We need at least 3 players for me to stand a chance

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