‘It’s not for me to tell anyone’ – Millwall boss gives response to question about Championship play-off picture
Millwall are in a play-off place with only 10 Championship matches remaining, but manager Gary Rowett is not concerning himself with how many teams are still viable contenders for a top-six spot.
Norwich could have jumped back above the Lions yesterday but lost 1-0 at home to Sunderland.
Rowett’s side have a three-point advantage over eighth-placed West Bromwich Albion while Coventry and the Black Cats trail them by four and five points respectively.
“You can usually work out roughly what a team need to get in there,” Rowett told the South London Press. “If you are seven or eight points off it now then you just need to go on a good run, don’t you? You need to win three or four games on the spin – but any side is capable of that in this division.
“It’s really hard to put a tally on it or give a definite ‘this is what you need or this is who is in it or this is who is out of it’ because it’s not for me to tell anyone whether they have a chance of the top six.
“If you look historically, like I said before, one season 69 points got in there and another one you might need 75 or 76. You might need 79, who knows? You’ve got to get your head down, keep trying to pile the points up and worry about the next game coming along rather than looking around and working out permutations of what could happen in the last 10 games.”
Rowett tuned in to watch Norwich’s match on Sunday.
“I tend to watch them (Championship matches on TV) anyway, regardless of who it is and regardless of the situation,” he said. “They are in our division and it is a chance to watch another game. But I wasn’t sat there glued to the screen and praying that Sunderland could score or win the game, I wasn’t really bothered what happened.
“It’s almost that you have got to look after your own results and not worry too much about everyone else’s. The result kept us in the top six and that was the only real bearing of it.
“Sunderland played well and it was quite an entertaining game.”
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