League Table 2014/15

Since 07 really.

pretty much look forward to our games all week, next 3 weeks will be tough

9 wins I tell you, 9 wins, no I'm serious, 9.

Yes that's wot I'm trying to say 9, 1 short of Perf, 1 more of Melb No Victory.

07/08 - DLLWDWLLLLWLDD - 13pts - LWDWLLL - 20pts (21 games)

08/09 - DLLDLWDWLLWWWL - 18pts - DWLWLDL - 26pts (21 games)

09/10 - LWDLDDDDDDWLWD - 17pts - WLDLDWWWLLWWW - 40 pts (27 games)

10/11 - DWLLWDLWLDLLWL - 15pts - LWDLWLWDWLWLWWLW - 41 pts (30 games)

11/12 - DWLLLDDWLWWLWL - 18pts - WLWWWWLLWWDLL - 40pts (27 games)

12/13 - WDDLLLWDWLLDWL - 16pts - LLLDWLLDLWLWL - 27pts (27 games)

13/14 - LDDLDLDLLLWWWD - 14pts - WLWWLWLDDLLLL - 28pts (27 games)

14/15 - LWWLWLLWWDWWWW - 28pts

Words cannot express how fudgeing awesome this season is...

Central Coast Mariners 2 Melbourne City 0

		P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
	Perth Glory	13	10	2	1	11	32
	Wellington Phoenix	14	9	1	4	14	28
	Melbourne Victory	13	7	4	2	12	25
	Adelaide United	13	7	2	4	7	23
	Sydney FC	14	4	7	3	0	19
	Melbourne City	13	4	4	5	-4	16
	Brisbane Roar	13	3	3	7	-5	12
	Central Coast	14	2	6	6	-9	12
	Newcastle Jets	14	1	5	8	-16	8
	Western Sydney	11	0	4	7	-10	4

We are 16 points ahead of 7th place. 16 fudgeing points!

now we know how it's been the last couple of years.

Going into the three week break in second spot as we are now (well, today, as two games are still to be played) must have excellent impact on player morale. I remember the unbeatable Phoenix 12 months ago before Riera got injured - this time we have a much greater depth to the squad while a lot was riding on Riera alone then.

This is a good time to have a break.

We get back Burns, hopefully Krishna, and the guys will all have a well earned recharge.  I thought we were scrappy and lacked a good first touch  - we must have been tiring from 3 games in 8 days for pretty much most of the starting XI.

Roar were equally scrappy and there was a lot of wayward aerial stuff from both sides.

Boyd will be champing at the bit and Roly will be fully energised.

Rodriguez will be hungry to show what he can do playing further up the pitch as he was today and Manny will be itching to reprise his wing back skillz again.

any chance still of Perth losing points for their illegal stuff?

I watched Fox Sports News late last night.

Their lead was something  along the lines of "Could this be a football fans nightmare. A league title going overseas?" Or something  along those lines.

Fudgeing get in !

That's how I felt every bloody year we did not win the league.

If it benefits the Tards, quite possibly. If it benefits us, no chance

One of the travelling Brisbane fans said in the Backbencher, that he wouldn't mind if the Nix or Perth won the league this season, as long as it wasn't Sydney, WSW, Melb V or C. That's assuming Brisbane don't get to the finals.

If Perth lose this game against Adelaide and then lose a couple of points for irregularities, that could make it very intense and interesting. In the past the top two have broken away from the chasing pack, but here we are with 4 teams all on each others radar.

Perth Glory 1 Adelaide United 2

		P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
	Perth Glory	14	10	2	2	10	32
	Wellington Phoenix	14	9	1	4	14	28
	Adelaide United	14	8	2	4	8	26
	Melbourne Victory	13	7	4	2	12	25
	Sydney FC	14	4	7	3	0	19
	Melbourne City	13	4	4	5	-4	16
	Brisbane Roar	13	3	3	7	-5	12
	Central Coast	14	2	6	6	-9	12
	Newcastle Jets	14	1	5	8	-16	8
	Western Sydney	11	0	4	7	-10	4

Now if Victory lose, it would be brilliant and WSW are desperate for a win and a potential banana skin for the Victory.

Effing get in!! Long way to go but I can't see us going too far backwards from here

Knock knock knocking of Glorys Door.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gazW7MOqHzQ

Just look at that lovely black line go. It's like the vapour trail of a rocket heading for Planet Awesome in the galaxy Fudge Yeah!

The worm has turned in exactly the right direction!

Going to need bigger graphs!

At the risk of massively jinxing us we are currently looking very, very good - not just for the play-offs, but for where we will finish in the play-off spots.

This table shows the the points gained by the top 6 teams in the 4 seasons of the A-League which have had 27 games:

In the next table I have extrapolated our current position (28 pts) out to the end of the season based on four different assumptions about the number of points we will get in the last 13 games:

As you can see even if our form over the last 13 games now bombs and is as bad as our average points for those games over the last two seasons (13 pts), we will still end up with 41 pts, which according to history would likely see us finish not just in the top 6 but the top 4.

If we do better than that and can gain the average number of points we've gained in the last 13 games over the past 5 seasons (18 pts), we will end up on 46 pts, which would definitely see us finish in the top 4, and possibly in the top 2.

If we do even better than that and can gain the average number of points we've gained in the last 13 games over the 3 seasons we made the play-offs (22 pts), we will end up on 50 pts, which would almost certainly see us finish in the top 2 but probably just short of being minor premiers.

Finally, if we continue to gain points at our current rate we will end up on 54 pts, which would definitely see us finish in the top 2 and also be a good chance at minor premiers.

Of course, this is all based on history and doesn't account for form in the 2014/15 A-League. It could be a record breaking year. The current 3rd and 4th place teams (Melbourne Victory and Adelaide) are on course to set records for the number of pts those two teams finish on.

Regardless, a top 4 place (and a home elimination final on the 1st or 3rd of May) now looks almost guaranteed and we will be right in the mix for the top 2.

This just makes it harder for me to win loadsamoney from the TAB.

(saveloys and red soup for a while yet)

Stop it TX.

Just stop it.

Unless of course you're going to add in a FPOB gif. 

Fresh Prince #antijinx gif...

(the basketball being the jinx)

This season at Fortress Westpac:

Round 1: Loss 1 - 2 Glory, Crowd 7,767

Round 3: Win 4 - 1 Jets, Crowd 7,802

Round 5: Win 1 - 0 We're Still Winless, Crowd 7,008

Round 8: Win 5 - 1 Melb City, Crowd 7,410

Round 12: Win 1 - 0 We're Still Winless, Crowd 8,608

Round 14: Win 3 - 0 Roar, Crowd 10,267

P 6: W:5 D:0 L:1, GF: 15, GA: 4, GD: +11, Average crowd 8144

Current streak: 5 wins.

Plus Eden Park:

P:1 W:0 D:1 L:0, GF:1 GA:1 GD:0 Crowd 11,051

Is that you, stato?

that's like Viagra on viagra

Western Sydney Wanderers 1 Melbourne Victory 2

		P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
	Perth Glory	14	10	2	2	10	32
	Wellington Phoenix	14	9	1	4	14	28
	Melbourne Victory	14	8	4	2	13	28
	Adelaide United	14	8	2	4	8	26
	Sydney FC	14	4	7	3	0	19
	Melbourne City	13	4	4	5	-4	16
	Brisbane Roar	13	3	3	7	-5	12
	Central Coast	14	2	6	6	-9	12
	Newcastle Jets	14	1	5	8	-16	8
	Western Sydney	12	0	4	8	-11	4

Get in  8)

No wonder the WSW fans turn their backs on their team. Perhaps they players got sick of it as no one was watching the actual game?

Second place for the entire break!!

Best attack. Best defence. Fudge me.

Yep, those two stats don't lie.

We have to accept it. We are right up there in contention for the title. 

Let's enjoy the ride.

This feels strange.