End of Season Points Target - For Fun

[ianmcm]

A little over 40% of the way through the campaign, the Shrimps seem *just* on target for a total of 75, if they sustain their current average rate of points per game. In the seasons from 2014-15 (excluding 19/20 obviously) that would always have been enough to reach the playoffs - admittedly in seventh place in 2015-16.

Given the usual imponderables, i.e. assuming the manager stays (hopefully the current speculation is just that) and barring serious injuries to key personnel or transfers out, I reckon they can make 75+. How likely do you think they are to do it?

Obviously 47 would be a minimum figure, given that that seems to guarantee safety, but there are more grounds for ambition, given the start and putting the usual 'game at a time' / 'on to Bolton' / 'we go again on Tuesday' assurances aside.

In any case, the Board must be pretty happy with the current position, one would imagine.

[Alan]

I will go for a total of 64.

[black morse]

74 points for me. We need to win as many as possible over the next few games s most clubs have a 'dip' somewhere in the season.

[AndyReifman]

I will go for a total of 64.

Think somewhere in the low 60s is probably about right. We've been playing fantastic, and I don't even think we're "riding our luck" that much, but there's definitely a sense for me that at some point the last several years of barely avoiding relegation will come to roost and we'll drop some easy points.

[Westgate Wanderer]

I wonder how many football league chairmen turned up at training on Christmas Day with bacon rolls for their squad! The togetherness on and off the pitch is clearly there and worth points in itself imo. I reckon on 66 points or more

[adrict3]

I'm going for 78.

[RapidShrimp]

109, with the only 3 points dropped from now until May being v Newport.

Okay... more realistically, I’ll say 73, but seriously the way we are playing, we can beat anyone at this level! Equally, though, we’ve already let slip a lot of ‘easy’ points against the sides near the foot of the division (that’s just how football and league two works!!) so low seventies would be exceptional