Not a chance. If they win their next 3 games then the teams above them will average about 5 points as well so they wouldn't even be in the top half. The league looks tight but jumping above 12 teams needs a sustained run of 10 games at over 2ppg. To get to 70 points which is what is needed as a minimum to make the playoffs would require over 2ppg for the rest of the season.i think anyone from Birmingham up could win 2,3 games and all of a sudden feel they have an outside chance of the play offs as there is a lot of football still to play
I said the same thing about us 6 or 7 games ago. We were on an incredible run and it would require it continuing just to get to 70 points by the end of the season and I wasn't sure if it was realistic. I said we'd have to become one of the best teams in the division and at the time I was sceptical. That run has continued and I'm delighted to be proved wrong. I'd still expect us to have a bad run at some point because it is the championship so I wouldn't be as quick to be looking up at Sheff Utd as I would be down and making sure we just make the playoffs which I now think we will.
Conversely to my 1st point. It would far be easier for us to close a 10 point gap to Sheff Utd than for Birmingham to close a 10 point gap to the playoffs. We can do that just by Sheff Utd imploding but Birmingham would need 12 teams to implode and that's just impossible. I don't think anyone below Norwich have much of a chance of being close to the playoffs.