Top 6 - Christmas Period Points/Mileage Breakdown

[vientianescfc]

The reason I did this was because I was curious to how we compared to the rest of the top 6.

WBA:
L - Away - Stoke - 83miles rtn
W - Home - Bristol City - 0 miles
W - Home - Scunthorpe - 0 miles
L - Away - Ipswich - 314mile rtn

Watford:
W - Away - Sheff Wed - 300miles rtn
D - Home - Cardiff - 0 miles
L - Home - QPR - 0 miles
W - Away - Southampton - 164 rtn

Bris C:
W - Home - Barnsley - 0 miles
L - Away - WBA - 180miles rtn
W - Away Burnley - 398miles rtn
W - Home - Cov - 0 miles

Stoke:
W - Home - WBA - 0 miles
D - Away - Barnsley - 156miles rtn
D - Away - Plymouth - 482miles rtn
D - Home - Hull - 0 Miles

Charlton:
D - Home - Hull - 0 miles
D - Away - Norwich - 228miles rtn
D - Away - Leicester -236miles rtn
L - Home - Colchester - 0 miles

Summary

Team	Miles on the clock	Points
WBA	397	6
Watford	464	7
Bristol	578	9
Stoke	638	6
Charlton	464	3

Ipswich - DLLW - 4pts - couldn't be arsed to do there mileage as they only scraped into the top 6 yesterday.

Looking at that it becomes clear just how important those three points at the Whingers really were! Also the fact that we really did get screwed royally in the mileage stakes! Doing 60 miles more than Bristol and 241(!) more than the Whingers!

Bristol City - almost as badly screw on the milage as us - had a very good Christmas period - dunno if they've got what is needed to see it home and all teams have a slump at some point!

But really considering the amount of travelling and 4 games in just over a week - the 6 pt haul even in comparison to the rest at the top is a decent return.

As nice as it would be to beat Newcastle the disturbance of an FA Cup run with the lack of numbers in our squad is a worry! Since the way we play pressurising and out working the opponents just won't happen if they are knackered . . much like yesterdays performance sounded.

One very pleasing thing to see is we are still unbeaten in 10 games - whereas all other team in the top 6 lost at least once.

[Thank you from Moorlander1]

It might be more interesting to have given us Hull,s milage over the same period,after all they seemed the brighter side yesterday. It really is buncam all this about travelling it really is. They travelled to Plymouth 2 days before the game.

[Lakeland Potter]

"buncam" - an excellent new word Moorlander. It isn't in the dictionary - but it should be! ;D

[vientianescfc]

Hull:
D - Away - Charlton - 434 miles
W - Home - Wolves
W - Home - Sheff Wed
D - Away - Stoke (obviously!) - 260 miles

They actually did more miles that us - however . . there last away trip was on the 22nd then two nice cushy home games, Christmas at their homes etc then a trip down to Stoke yesterday!

Sure they had one less day but they had 9 days of relaxing at their home ground.

The Whingers basically got the best deal when it came to the Christmas period - 2 home games and a local derby - but still they only got 6 pts.

So there you go!

[Menorca Stokie]

PiiBaa, You really do need to get out more young man.

[vientianescfc]

only took about 10 minutes .. ..

I get out plenty