League Table 2014/15

Looks very very good.

An awesome position in which to finish the year.

Unreal

Looking forward to an epic Fresh Prince gif

WWDWWW. Longest ever unbeaten streak!

swoon

Under Merrick we have now won 8/21 games away. Under Ricki we won 16/79.

Awesome effort boys

That's incorrect.

The Phoenix's longest undefeated streak is 7 matches from 4 September 2009 - 25 October 2009, Rounds 5 - 11, D D D D D D W

Nope. Our best longest undefeated streak was DDDDDDW 7 games in 2009. The W in that was a memorable 6-0 that disappointingly wasn't 7.

But hey 16 points in this 6 game streak still going vs 9 points in those 7 games... This is about our best streak....

If it is about our best streak, then yes, I agree, but Doloras said longest ever unbeaten streak, not best streak...

Meanwhile, __IF__ Perth happened to beat the Victory  3 - 0 tommorrow (or by more than that) we'd go 2nd. 

(I am hoping/betting on/predicting it will be a 1-1 draw)

Personally I predict Victory to win at home to Perth as they've been great at home this year. Should be great game though. Still think we're more likely to finish ahead of Perth than Victory. Also, City are bigger threat to us from below than Sydney.

I think Victory are the stronger of the two, but can't see us getting up and beating Perth for a top two finish. City look to be finding their mojo.

We'll see what Roar are made of on Sunday.

I am a heavily addicted smoker but am feeling compelled to look at that league table more often than having cigarettes.

And you know we're all just waiting for one thing... TX...

Really? 

Hypothetical... IF we had beaten CCM at Eden Park we'd be on 27 points. If MVC beat Perth, that would see the top of the table as:

Perth 29

Victory 28

Nix 27

after 13 rounds.

I know we didn't beat CCM, but my point is we are currently one goal scored in that game off being RIGHT in the mix for the top two, and it's 1/2 a game off the halfway point of the season.

There is a long way to go and I absolutely can see us in the top 2 at the end of the season. I am not saying we will be, NUFC's balls, etc. Just that I think saying you can't see it is overly pessimistic.

I believe.

Still early days yes, but as you'll see on the table and from the last podcast, Perth have the stingiest defence (along with theTards).

We were unlucky to concede against them in rnd 1, but were played off the park in rnd 7.

Now we are half way and they have some big matches coming up so we are in with a sniff if they bottle these and/or pick up injuries.  Otherwise I think they and the Tards will finish higher than us.

Mama, take the wooden spoon away

We don't need it any more

We're a long way up in finals contention

knock knock knocking on Victory's door

Merrick 8/21

Ricki 15/77

Geenacre 1/2

How about 2009/10 vs 2014/15?

That was when RoF was feared by visitors with our sticky grass, and I think we had a good run of draws away, but would still be interested to see the number of away wins then.

I wonder if Biff Tannen is making loads of money off the Phoenix results at the moment...

This should be re-named the fap thread

About as fap-tastic as PAX hits in 09/10.

If we get to have a play-off at home then watch the fap-ometer hit fap-a-licious.

So FeverBot is a Fapmachine?

Apparently we have already equalled our record for most away wins in a season.

08/09 - P10 W2 D1 L7

09/10 - P14 W3 D5 L6

10/11 - P15 W2 D2 L11

11/12 - P13 W4 D3 L6

12/13 - P13 W2 D2 L9

13/14 - P14 W4 D2 L8

14/15 - P7 W4 D0 L3

Wow - that is very impressive.

Confidence must be at level 11 in the club.

SACK RICKI!!!

Were we picked for wooden spooners by the pundits at the start of the season?

That happens every year, doesn't it?

Sometimes we are 2nd to bottom.

So, would we rather Victory beat Perth so we can close the gap on first, Perth beat Victory so we are closer to overhauling Victory, or a draw so neither team gets much further away from us?

A draw would be good. I feel that Perth is still overachieving so I would rather they won  than the Victory.

I concur

Draw best result, Victory win second and Perth win third for me. Perth are bound to fall down the table a bit, I reckon it'll be easier to overtake them than overtake Victory. 

Dour 0-0 draw with 2 red cards per team and 4 broken legs please.

They have recruited a very good squad, are really dangerous at set pieces (huge area of weakness in the A-League) and Perth is a horrible trip for teams to make. The only way I see them fading is if they are hit with injuries to key players. Much like us, they haven't had their depth tested.

Possible counter view: A Perth win is the best result, because they might be going to be deducted points for salary cap breaches, so three points to them might actually end up meaning zero points out of the game. 

Failing that a draw is best for us.