A weekend of nothing?

In some ways you could look at this last weekend as a missed opportunity to progress up the league.

A win against Bolton on Saturday would have left us sitting pretty in seventh place in the table, and we would have only been one point off of sixth place such is the way that results fell. It wasn't to be though, although I do feel that if Ryan Taylor didn't balls up then we could have pushed on and claimed all three points against The Trotters.

However, you could look at it another way and say that rather than last weekend being a missed opportunity it could just as easily leave us with our foot wedged in the door with regard to progression up the Premier League table.

No ground was lost on those teams directly above us. Bolton stayed the same distance away, whilst we actually managed to gain ground on both Sunderland and Liverpool due to their defeats to Everton and West Ham respectively.

Of course qualifying for Europe will be harder now than it was before due to Birmingham winning the League Cup yesterday, that's even if Europe was on the agenda for us in the first place to be fair, but it's still not all lost. The aim from here onwards should be to aim to finish as high as we possibly can.

With Premier League survival all but guaranteed it is perhaps a bit of an anti-climax that we don't really have much to aim for. Top six is perhaps a bit of a stretch, but there is no reason why we shouldn't be aiming for it.

It's important that the team tries to keep their season alive. It would be an awful shame if, after having such a good season so far, the performances were to dilute and we found ourselves just coasting towards the end of the season.

It seems a bit strange talking of top six finishes whilst our Premier League safety is yet to be guaranteed, but aiming for the top six is certainly a better goal to aim for than just survival. The fact that I can write that with ten games left still is testament to how well the team have done and just how crazy this season has been.

The weird thing is that it could have been even better as well!