Let's put this into perspective, Smith's games in green, Bruce's in Red.
Better performances, more points, more goals against much harder opposition.
If we play anything like our best We should flatten all of the next 6 teams we play even taking into account our shit luck recently and teams only seeming to turn up against us... only real challenge should be QPR but iirc a loss was a pretty unfair result earlier in the season, so we should do them at home. They have a really leaky defence with the only negative goal difference in the top half (battered by Albion 7-1 not helping), so feel we can slot 2 or 3 past them at home.
Concerning Preston. They are struggling to take points against teams around them recently, losing to hull and shef wednesday recently, sure they beat forest but got battered by the scum 3-0. We are playing great away from home atm and would be surprised if we don't beat them by 2 or 3 goals.