Town must capitalise on kind run of fixtures
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Town reporter Steven Chicken, and podcast pal David Hartrick, belatedly talk through Town’s win over Hull City, the improved form of Juninho Bacuna, Elias Kachunga and others since the Cowleys came in, and look at who might be candidates for getting loaned out or even sold if the club were to reduce their playing squad.
We also look ahead to the game against Blackburn, reflect on the Cowleys’ Q&A at the Gas Club, and discuss Florent Hadergjonaj’s best position.
“THEY’VE brought an intensity, they’ve brought a different style of thinking, they’ve clearly worked with a few individuals like Bacuna who we know has had one or two personal issues and they’ve given him the space and the room not just physically but also in his mind to be able to deal with things better.
“You just hope it continues. You just hope that the good mood, the good feeling continues.
“If Town are going to be free of that relegation zone come Christmas, because one loss and they could drop back in there where they are at the moment...”
“YEAH, they’re only out of it on goal difference.” “IT’S a false position. They’ve got to keep this momentum going, but that’s the other thing about the Championship. Lose a game Saturday, it’s all right, you’ve got another Tuesday or Wednesday to put it right.”
“IT’S worth saying that this run, as we’ve highlighted before... Town started the season with basically the hardest run of games that they were going to get. I think I looked at it at the start of the season based on the promotion betting odds and that run of four or five games was the hardest spell, and this that they’re in now is the easiest spell that they’re going to have all season. Obviously that’s going to come around again once we get the other side of Christmas and we’ll be back on that difficult run again.
“But even still, they hadn’t won in any of their first nine and they had one point from their first eight, so it’s still a hell of a turnaround, whatever you want to say about how easy the fixture list is or all of that.”
It’s a false position at the moment, Town have now got to keep this momentum going
“It’s exciting times really.”