Tick tock, tick tock ……. the countdown to the end of the season is starting to feel ever closer, with an edginess that comes with Cardiff City position. Only 12 games to go plus a possible 3 extra for the teams who fell into the dreaded Play-offs! Who wants that? May does seem a long way off
Every Cardiff City fan I have spoken to doesn't want to be stuck with the play-offs again, it’s been well proven it’s the biggest lottery of them all. Before last season many Cardiff fan often sighted the Stoke play-off game has there worst experience they have have has a City fan, closely followed by the FA Cup Final defeat against Portsmouth.
It is now the Blackpool Play-off Final which occupies the mind of many a Cardiff fan and know one wants that again. Take last season Blackpool finished sixth in the league table but via the play-offs one the prize of promotion.
Automatic promotion must by the goal, a top two finish the target with Cardiff City boss Dave Jones entering in to it by saying he wanted the top spot off QPR.
The deadly 12
Saturday, 5 March Ipswich, home 5:20pm (live on Sky)Tuesday, 8 March Crystal Palace, away 8:00pmSunday, 13 March Barnsley home, 3:00Saturday, 19 March Millwall, away 15:00Saturday, 2 April Derby, home 15:00Saturday, 9 April Doncaster, away 3:00Tuesday, 12 April Sheffield United, away 7:45Saturday, 16 April Portsmouth home 3:00Saturday, 23 April QPR, home 12:45Monday, 25 April Preston, away 3:00Saturday, 30 April Middlesbrough, home 3:00Saturday, 7 May Burnley, away 12:45
Based on the league table we have today, a run-in looking like above would have any fan jumping for joy. The Bluebirds only QPR from the top 6 and with home advantage and Millwall and Burnley chasing a play-off spot. The rest are in the bottom half of the table which I find more worrying because of the patchy history playing teams at the lower end of the table. The Ipswich game is not just another league game it must be treated has a cup final.
Win them all and there should be ok unless Swansea was to do the same. In the upcoming week they must play Nottingham Forest, plus a number of play-off contenders and a sprinkling of relegation threaten teams in need of points just has bad as the promotion chasers.
Yes I’m bricking but there is a part of me up for the fight and of course, third time lucky, BLUEBIRDS
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