I’m still on a high from the game Sunday but now time for a reality check, only 17 games until the end of the season and there is the little question of promotion.
The stats for the automatic promotion over the last six season are below
With Cardiff now on 51 points after Sunday and with only 17 games left, what is it going to take for that all important top two finish maybe 12 wins? That would give them an 87 points finish more than enough in the past but depending on how teams around the Bluebirds are doing at the time. More than 12 should nail it but manager Dave Jones still has top of the table in his mind for the Bluebirds.
Based on today’s Championship table Cardiff will not be facing many top of the table teams in the run-in to the end of the season. However, that means nothing unless you win them, in the past have been shaky up against lower league opposition. There is no such thing as a dead cert in the Championship as results has shown that before . Third place Cardiff will face QPR, Forest Millwall and Leicester who are up there at the moment but anyone could hit the wall and see there form plummet. He are the 17,
Scunthorpe home - Burnley home - Nottingham Forest away - Leicester home - Hull away - Ipswich home - Crystal Palace away - Barnsley home, Millwall away - Derby home - Doncaster away - Sheffield Utd away - Portsmouth home - QPR home - Preston away - Middlesbrough home - Burnley away
The two standout games among the fixtures left are top of the table QPR (home) and second place Forest (away) (based on today’s table) and they should be tasty encounters. They and Cardiff could drop away from the promotion race there is a long way to go but I expect most Championship fans and pundits reckon these there will be there and there about come the end of the season.
From the boardroom to the lowest fan, nobody involed with Cardiff want to go through the heartache of the play-off again. Blackpool last season was heartbreaking more so than other play-off’s, because we were just one game, 90 minutes away from the promise land of the Premier League. If it was to be more of the same the play-off’s this season we all would be up to the challenge.
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