Chmapionship Week 36: 10 games to go

I really can't wait for the last ten games of this Championship season - it's shaping up to be an absolute stormer.

Big news this week (aside from Cardiff unveiling another slightly less disastrous badge) was Ian Holloway's (inevitable) sacking at Millwall.

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Difference	Points
1	Bournemouth	36	19	9	8	74	39	35	66
2	Derby	36	19	9	8	68	39	29	66
3	Watford	36	20	6	10	72	44	28	66
4	Middlesbrough	36	19	9	8	54	26	28	66
5	Norwich	36	19	8	9	70	39	31	65
6	Brentford	36	19	5	12	58	46	12	62
7	Ipswich	36	17	10	9	56	39	17	61
8	Wolves	36	16	10	10	50	44	6	58
9	Nott'm Forest	36	14	11	11	59	51	8	53
10	Blackburn	36	13	12	11	46	45	1	51
11	Sheffield Weds	36	12	13	11	32	34	-2	49
12	Charlton	36	11	15	10	41	45	-4	48
13	Leeds	36	13	8	15	39	46	-7	47
14	Birmingham	36	11	13	12	42	52	-10	46
15	Cardiff	36	11	11	14	43	48	-5	44
16	Reading	36	12	8	16	39	54	-15	44
17	Huddersfield	36	11	9	16	45	62	-17	42
18	Bolton	36	11	8	17	43	55	-12	41
19	Brighton	36	9	13	14	41	45	-4	40
20	Rotherham	36	9	13	14	37	53	-16	40
21	Fulham	36	11	6	19	47	64	-17	39
22	Wigan	36	7	10	19	32	48	-16	31
23	Millwall	36	7	10	19	31	60	-29	31
24	Blackpool	36	4	10	22	29	70	-41	22

I wrote last week how Millwall (and Holloway) could consider themselves a little unlucky to be in the relegation zone, particularly when there are far better candidates sitting outside - yes I mean you Charlton and Leeds.

But even so, Millwall have not been a good team this year, getting just a 42.8% share of shots on target per game. They've done ok in the overall shot share at 50%, but failing to get them on target is a real millstone.

Position	Team	Shots for total	Shots against total	Corsi/TSR	shots on target for total	shots on target against total	Shots on target share	Shooting % For	Save %	PDO
14	Birmingham	488	568	0.462	156	183	0.46	26.91	71.59	98.5
10	Blackburn	554	498	0.527	171	172	0.499	26.9	73.83	100.73
24	Blackpool	398	611	0.395	125	195	0.391	23.19	64.09	87.28
18	Bolton	458	553	0.453	156	187	0.455	27.57	70.59	98.16
1	Bournemouth	591	436	0.576	214	131	0.62	34.57	70.23	104.8
6	Brentford	525	511	0.507	194	176	0.524	29.91	73.85	103.76
19	Brighton	535	466	0.535	157	138	0.532	26.11	67.38	93.49
15	Cardiff	451	500	0.474	137	147	0.482	31.38	67.35	98.73
12	Charlton	376	564	0.4	129	171	0.43	31.8	73.69	105.49
2	Derby	484	454	0.516	169	148	0.533	40.25	73.65	113.89
21	Fulham	470	563	0.455	146	189	0.436	32.18	66.14	98.32
17	Huddersfield	522	516	0.503	183	175	0.511	24.59	64.56	89.15
7	Ipswich	536	487	0.524	189	139	0.576	29.63	71.94	101.57
13	Leeds	424	555	0.433	123	170	0.42	31.7	72.95	104.65
4	Middlesbrough	545	397	0.579	177	114	0.608	30.5	77.2	107.7
23	Millwall	470	477	0.496	127	170	0.428	24.4	64.71	89.11
5	Norwich	583	349	0.626	199	122	0.62	35.19	68.02	103.21
9	Nott'm Forest	532	483	0.524	162	156	0.509	36.42	67.32	103.73
16	Reading	467	461	0.503	148	162	0.477	26.36	66.68	93.03
20	Rotherham	489	499	0.495	158	161	0.495	23.42	67.07	90.5
11	Sheffield Weds	481	442	0.521	129	135	0.489	24.81	74.82	99.62
3	Watford	526	515	0.505	197	168	0.54	36.55	73.82	110.37
22	Wigan	439	424	0.509	118	141	0.456	27.13	65.96	93.09
8	Wolves	475	490	0.492	150	164	0.478	33.34	73.17	106.51

So Holloway has left the Den and I saw some Blackpool fans on twitter even (half-jokingly I suspect) wondering if he could be persuaded to come back to Bloomfield Road.
Sadly, I don't think even Ian Holloway's magic can save the Seasiders from the Oyston treatment.