New Season - where will we finish?

[MrB]

The start is key for a number of reasons:
- we have a relatively easy start. I’d expect Cheltenham, Crawley and Macclesfield to be fighting off relegation and we play them in the first month.
- if we get off to a bad start then Ross and the team are immediately under pressure.
- thoughts of Justin start affecting the squad negativity rather than potentially galvanising them if we were to start strong.
- pressure on the board.

We shall see

When’s it ever been easy against Crawley?

P 10 W 3 D 0 L 7

Wow I got it totally wrong!! I thought we’d only played them about 6 times!,

[y o y o y]

Anywhere in the middle 8 will do.

[Chief crazy horse]

10th. The division is pretty poor in all honesty.

Not so sure about that if you're measuring it against us. I think we might get caught out by the pace in league two.

[Lucky7]

When’s it ever been easy against Crawley?

P 10 W 3 D 0 L 7

I think if I’m correct against Crawley
P6
W1
D0
L5

https://fussball.wettpoint.com/en/h2h/85320-1032.html

Fraid not Sir

won: 3
Games drawn: 0
Games lost: 7
Date Match Result Score Competition
01 Sep 2012 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 1-0 League One
23 Feb 2013 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town L 0-1 League One
21 Dec 2013 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town L 2-3 League One
18 Apr 2014 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 2-1 League One
26 Dec 2014 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town W 4-1 League One
21 Mar 2015 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 1-0 League One
10 Oct 2015 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 3-2 League Two
27 Feb 2016 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town W 2-0 League Two
26 Dec 2016 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town W 3-2 League Two
25 Mar 2017 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 3-0 League Two

[FargO]

Mid-table and that's ok for the first year back in the EFL.
We don't yet have the quality to do better - especially if Jobi is going to play a bit part in the campaign.

[MrB]

I think if I’m correct against Crawley
P6
W1
D0
L5

https://fussball.wettpoint.com/en/h2h/85320-1032.html

Fraid not Sir

won: 3
Games drawn: 0
Games lost: 7
Date Match Result Score Competition
01 Sep 2012 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 1-0 League One
23 Feb 2013 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town L 0-1 League One
21 Dec 2013 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town L 2-3 League One
18 Apr 2014 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 2-1 League One
26 Dec 2014 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town W 4-1 League One
21 Mar 2015 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 1-0 League One
10 Oct 2015 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 3-2 League Two
27 Feb 2016 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town W 2-0 League Two
26 Dec 2016 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town W 3-2 League Two
25 Mar 2017 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 3-0 League Two

At least we both got the D section right!!

[Lucky7]

https://fussball.wettpoint.com/en/h2h/85320-1032.html

Fraid not Sir

won: 3
Games drawn: 0
Games lost: 7
Date Match Result Score Competition
01 Sep 2012 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 1-0 League One
23 Feb 2013 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town L 0-1 League One
21 Dec 2013 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town L 2-3 League One
18 Apr 2014 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 2-1 League One
26 Dec 2014 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town W 4-1 League One
21 Mar 2015 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 1-0 League One
10 Oct 2015 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 3-2 League Two
27 Feb 2016 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town W 2-0 League Two
26 Dec 2016 Leyton Orient v Crawley Town W 3-2 League Two
25 Mar 2017 Crawley Town v Leyton Orient L 3-0 League Two

At least we both got the D section right!!

[LeapsAndBounds]

I am always the super optimist at this stage so I'm voting for us being champions. I think that we are a natural L1 team and we are going to get there this season.

[RicketyCricket]

10th. The division is pretty poor in all honesty.

Not so sure about that if you're measuring it against us. I think we might get caught out by the pace in league two.

Mainly thinking about the likes of Bradford, Plymouth, Mansfield compared to the rest, most of whom are pretty average. Agree though our lack of pace is a concern.

[tuffers#1]

We will finish 5th at the least .
Not sure we will go up but we will be solid

[F*ck The Poor & Fat]

We don’t know yet what the quality of L2 is. I expect it to be faster and more skilled than the NL, probably less brutal and with better quality refereeing clamping down on the thugs.

I don’t think 10th is unrealistic. And unsatisfactory. Will be exciting to find out, hopefully not painful.

[faith1234]

PLAY OFFS defo we will do it for justin

[RedDwarf 1881]

I am always the super optimist at this stage so I'm voting for us being champions. I think that we are a natural L1 team and we are going to get there this season.

Not without 2 or 3 more decent signings we won’t.

[RedDwarf 1881]

We don’t know yet what the quality of L2 is. I expect it to be faster and more skilled than the NL, probably less brutal and with better quality refereeing clamping down on the thugs.

I don’t think 10th is unrealistic. And unsatisfactory. Will be exciting to find out, hopefully not painful.

At the moment, If somebody offered me a 10th place finish, I’d snap their arm off. After what we’ve been through, a 10th place finish in our first season back would be very good .

[RedDwarf 1881]

We don’t know yet what the quality of L2 is. I expect it to be faster and more skilled than the NL, probably less brutal and with better quality refereeing clamping down on the thugs.

I don’t think 10th is unrealistic. And unsatisfactory. Will be exciting to find out, hopefully not painful.

At the moment, If somebody offered me a 10th place finish, I’d snap their arm off. After what we’ve been through, a 10th place finish in our first season back in the EFL would be very good .

[Adz]

A perfect normal distribution!

Top - Champions 2 seasons running
2
4%
Play-offs
11
24%
Mid-table mediocrity
20
43%
Struggle to avoid drop
11
24%
Down
2
4%
Total votes: 46

[MrB]

We don’t know yet what the quality of L2 is. I expect it to be faster and more skilled than the NL, probably less brutal and with better quality refereeing clamping down on the thugs.

I don’t think 10th is unrealistic. And unsatisfactory. Will be exciting to find out, hopefully not painful.

“Thugs“..There certainly were some weren’t there

[O my gawd]

I went for play-offs because I like to be positive. In all honesty though I'll think we'll just miss out in 8th spot, but I don't like the term mediocrity if you finish 8th.
8th position after the summer we have had would be a successful season.

[VeganO]

Curiously both Four Four Two & When Saturday Comes have us as 14th in their season preview.
Mind you this is the same Four Four Two that predicted we'd finish 2nd in the season we went out of the league!

[PoundhillO]

Automatic promotion, once we sign a proven,quality striker and quality attacking midfielder .

[redintheface]

We don’t know yet what the quality of L2 is. I expect it to be faster and more skilled than the NL, probably less brutal and with better quality refereeing clamping down on the thugs.

I don’t think 10th is unrealistic. And unsatisfactory. Will be exciting to find out, hopefully not painful.

I genuinely don’t think there will be any let up in the physicality - certainly if the play off games between Forest Green, Mansfield, Newport and Tranmere were anything to go by! I agree that it is likely to be faster ( all teams are full timers) and would hope that the refereeing is better ( though I won’t hold my breath on that one).

[EH16]

We don’t know yet what the quality of L2 is. I expect it to be faster and more skilled than the NL, probably less brutal and with better quality refereeing clamping down on the thugs.

I don’t think 10th is unrealistic. And unsatisfactory. Will be exciting to find out, hopefully not painful.

At the moment, If somebody offered me a 10th place finish, I’d snap their arm off. After what we’ve been through, a 10th place finish in our first season back would be very good .

^ THIS. I really really don't understand why anybody would view a 10th place finish as unsatisfactory.

[ComeOnYouOs]

Mid-table for me, and if we get lucky with injuries ( ie we dont get many), we could just make a play-off place.

The first 11 is strong IMO, but the squad is thin, so injuries will hurt us badly.

however having said that, I believe we will bring more players in, so things may well work out better than mid-table.

i also expect a 'proper' manager/head coach will be brought in at some time, and again this will change things.

mid table is the lowest we'll be......this is league 2 not la liga remember

[RedDwarf 1881]

Mid-table for me, and if we get lucky with injuries ( ie we dont get many), we could just make a play-off place.

The first 11 is strong IMO, but the squad is thin, so injuries will hurt us badly.

however having said that, I believe we will bring more players in, so things may well work out better than mid-table.

i also expect a 'proper' manager/head coach will be brought in at some time, and again this will change things.

mid table is the lowest we'll be......this is league 2 not la liga remember

Spot on . This is what I think as well.

[Stan1972]

7th - Final play off spot