Playoff Thread

Death or Glory · 08-05-2008 08:36AM #1

The most exciting football of the entire season is to be had with these sets of matches starting this weekend

Championship

Watford v Hull City
Crystal Palace v Bristol City

League One

Southend v Doncaster Rovers
Leeds United v Carlisle United

League Two

Wycombe Wanderers V Stockport County
Darlington v Rochdale

I'm going for Watford, Leeds and Darlo

Let the drama commence!

Xavi6 · 08-05-2008 08:38AM

Come on the mighty Wycombe! If my jersey wasn't back in Ireland I'd be wearing it this weekend.

Death or Glory · 08-05-2008 08:40AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Come on the mighty Wycombe! If my jersey wasn't back in Ireland I'd be wearing it this weekend.

It's a class shirt alright!

_blank_ · 08-05-2008 08:41AM

Love the play-offs.

I hope Bristol City and Hull are in the final for the big prize.

Did anyone else used to play with Hull back in the earlier years of Champo Manager?

Xavi6 · 08-05-2008 08:42AM

Death or Glory wrote: »

It's a class shirt alright!

Mine's from the 1993 FA Trophy Final. Has the date stitched under the crest and everything. From the days of Martin O'Neill and Steve Guppy.

I'll be supportin Leeds as well cause the oul fella's a fan. Again, I've a good few of their jerseys at home.

Mr Alan · 08-05-2008 08:43AM

****ing jersey collectors

Death or Glory · 08-05-2008 08:44AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Mine's from the 1993 FA Trophy Final. Has the date stitched under the crest and everything. From the days of Martin O'Neill and Steve Guppy.

I'll be supportin Leeds as well cause the oul fella's a fan. Again, I've a good few of their jerseys at home.

Haven't Wycombe got a lad called Torres who's their star player? Remember seeing a segment about him on ITV's The Championbship last year

Xavi6 · 08-05-2008 08:47AM

Mr Alan wrote: »

****ing jersey collectors

Awwww you're in some mood this morning. First the Arse/Pool thread, now this. Is there something you wanna talk about?

What's wrong with collecting jerseys anyway?

Death or Glory wrote: »

Haven't Wycombe got a lad called Torres who's their star player? Remember seeing a segment about him on ITV's The Championbship last year

They do indeed. Sergio Torres is his name. Midfielder and bit of a hot head from what I gather.

gucci · 08-05-2008 09:10AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Come on the mighty Wycombe! If my jersey wasn't back in Ireland I'd be wearing it this weekend.

But i bet you didnt forget to bring this shirt with ya.....:D:D

sorry....really bored,must go do some work now

Xavi6 · 08-05-2008 09:12AM

gucci wrote: »

But i bet you didnt forget to bring this shirt with ya.....:D:D

sorry....really bored,must go do some work now

Oh no I'm getting one of those on Saturday...... in pink and extra small :cool:

Mitch Connor · 08-05-2008 10:00AM

i'm hoping Hull can get their act together and get pomotion - then Campbel can stay on loan there and get some premiership experience.

Mushy · 08-05-2008 12:49PM

Wanna see Bristol City, Leeds(obviously) and, I dont know, maybe Wycombe or Darlington go up.

If Bristol dont go up, and Leeds do, it'll be a fun weekend away for me, meting up with friends from there:D

Roll on Monday for the Mighty Whites.

Mr.Nice Guy · 08-05-2008 01:23PM

I think Crystal Palace will be promoted. Warnock has the experience and Morrisson seems to be in good form.

ROCKMAN · 08-05-2008 01:53PM

ever seen a thread and username so suited

Death or Glory · 08-05-2008 02:02PM

Kingp35 · 08-05-2008 07:54PM

I usually love the Play Offs but I hate them when Leeds are involved. I'm already very nervous about Monday night. We have to get a lead to bring to Carlisle because they have an excellent home record. Hopefully the 40k in Elland Road will be too much for Carlisle to handle and they will bottle it.

I think the Championship final will be between Palace and Hull. Watford have been awful lately and I think Warnock has done a great job with Palace and they will be just too much for Bristol City.

Would like to see Wycombe to get up from League Two but I think any of the three could win that one.

SantryRed · 09-05-2008 09:19AM

Right, well I'm not very confident that we're gonna get anywhere against Hull in the semis. I've been at about 6 or 7 games this season and near the start of the season you could see the goals where flowing freely. Selling King to Wigan was a bad move on Aidy's part because I reckon we'd be planning for the Premiership already if he had of played out the season.
Was at West Brom and Blackpool in the past month and in both games, even though we got draws in both, we were outrun completely for parts of the game.

Hope the form book goes out the window as it usually does in the play offs and we have a day out in Wembley in two weeks time:D

Going to go with Watford, Leeds and Wycombe to win them.

Kingp35 · 09-05-2008 08:56PM

Decent game so far between Southend and Doncaster. Really commited match with lots of hard tackles. Some good passing football as well. Either of these teams will give Leeds a real game if we get through.

0-0 so far.

Mushy · 09-05-2008 09:44PM

First game of playoffs finishes 0-0 then. Maybe its better I didnt go watch it...now back to me study:(

Shall be torture Monday night...getting nervous now.

LuckyLloyd · 10-05-2008 06:22AM

Is there any chance that 40k at Elland road becomes a disadvantage if things don't go the way of Leeds after a half - hour? Given the stature of the club and the hugeness of the occassion - isn't all the pressure on your own players? And is a huge home attendance a help or a hindrance in that regard? I remember watching Forest at home to Yeovil last year and for want of a better term they bottled it despite the big home support.

Death or Glory · 10-05-2008 09:43AM

2 best footballing sides in the league my arse- worst game of football I've seen in a while, we'd dick either of em in the final.

As for luckylloyds comments above, the reason I think we won't bottle it is we've got players who've played in front of big crowds before (Richardson, Douglas, Freedman, Prutton, Huntington & Michalik have all played in front of over 50k crowds in big pressure games).

Carlisle won't turn up

Mint Sauce · 10-05-2008 11:05AM

may not be a leauge side, but the real wimbledon, AFC wimbledon won the play offs from the ryman leauge to the conference south last weekend at the the third attempt, also happens to be their 3rd promotion in the 6 seasons they have been formed

:D

LuckyLloyd · 10-05-2008 11:12AM

irish-stew wrote: »

may not be a leauge side, but the real wimbledon, wimbledon AFC won the play offs from the ryman leauge to the conference south last weekend at the the third attempt, also happens to be their 3rd promotion since in the 6 seasons they have been formed

:D

How many divisions are between them and league football now?

Mint Sauce · 10-05-2008 11:26AM

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

How many divisions are between them and league football now?

they will be on level 6 of the pryamid for next season, currently made up of conference north and conference south, they'll be playing in south, 2 more promotions then to reach the leauge, leauge 2 (division 4)

Kingp35 · 10-05-2008 11:55AM

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Is there any chance that 40k at Elland road becomes a disadvantage if things don't go the way of Leeds after a half - hour? Given the stature of the club and the hugeness of the occassion - isn't all the pressure on your own players? And is a huge home attendance a help or a hindrance in that regard? I remember watching Forest at home to Yeovil last year and for want of a better term they bottled it despite the big home support.

I don't think so. As Death or Glory said we do have players that have played in front of big crowds before so there is experience in the squad. Also our last match was in front of 38k so the young lads now know what it's like. It's rare for the Leeds fans to ever get on the players backs, sure last season when we were getting hammered 0-4 at home the fans never stopped cheering the team on. Can't wait until Monday, we better get through so I can go to Wembly for the first time!

Crystal Palace and Bristol City is the first match up today in the Championship Play offs. Palace have done remarkable to get into the play offs after being down the bottom for a while and everyone is saying they will get to the final. I think they probably will as well but would love to see Bristol City do it. They need a good result today though to have a chance.

Death or Glory · 10-05-2008 12:05PM

Originally Posted by Kingp35

It's rare for the Leeds fans to ever get on the players backs

LOL! Go tell Dan Harding, Stephen Crainey, Frazer Richardson and Tresor Kandol that!

Kingp35 · 10-05-2008 12:25PM

Death or Glory wrote: »

It's rare for the Leeds fans to ever get on the players backs

LOL! Go tell Dan Harding, Stephen Crainey, Frazer Richardson and Tresor Kandol that!

I meant the team as a whole and there is no way the fans will get on their backs in a game as big as a Play Off semi final.

Kandol doesn't get abuse anymore.

Death or Glory · 10-05-2008 12:34PM

He did from me the other week, the sh*t bastard!

In all seriousness though, I expect the atmosphere to be white hot...... the lads have a couple of giant banners planned too, just to remind the FL and Mawhinney how much we love em

cournioni · 10-05-2008 01:04PM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Come on the mighty Wycombe! If my jersey wasn't back in Ireland I'd be wearing it this weekend.

Being a City fan, shouldn't you be supporting your home town team of Stockport?!

Pride Fighter · 10-05-2008 04:27PM

Bristol City vs Crystal Palace

Bristol got the away win 2-1

StickyMcGinty · 10-05-2008 07:38PM

Neil Warnock is everything i hate in a manager

on SSN whining apu

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