EFL to end season this week - City likely to be promoted (21 Viewers)

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SkyBlueDom26

SkyBlueDom26

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Doesn’t there have to be 2 votes? Just because we agree to say end the season and put the top 2 up with play offs doesn’t the championship have to agree?
 
Skyblueweeman

Skyblueweeman

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Kingokings204 said:
It has to be decided within the next week. Whatever way you cut it as the deadline is 25th and that’s Monday so they can be dithering idiots like now but in the end they will run out of time.
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I think that deadline has been pushed back now. I think the leagues need to let UEFA know by 17th June what their plans are.
 
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skybluesam66

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shmmeee said:
I’m sure being a football fan isn’t supposed to involve waiting for so many meetings to finish.

Admin, the Ricoh, this, seems our fate is decided in meeting rooms as much as football pitches recently.
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Halftime Orange

Halftime Orange

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It is getting tedious the EFL having meetings about when they will have the next meeting. They should just put their foot down for everyone's sake and call it quits because it is just delaying the inevitable.
No point arguing and pondering over what might have happened, who would have finished in the playoffs, went down. Act of god (or china) happened so finish it
1st 2nd and 3rd go up, others go down and start a fresh when all this has blown over and we are at the Winchester (Championship)

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Liquid Gold

Liquid Gold

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fernandopartridge said:
Some fans on twitter suggesting that teams like Cov are scared of playing out the season as they've got "a lot to lose", ignoring the trajectory Cov are on. The only thing we've got to lose is a club record points tally based on current form.
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Win one game and we're 10 points clear. We'd need to lose probably 5 games out of 10 to even have a chance of finishing in the playoffs and we've lost 3 times all season.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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fernandopartridge said:
Some fans on twitter suggesting that teams like Cov are scared of playing out the season as they've got "a lot to lose", ignoring the trajectory Cov are on. The only thing we've got to lose is a club record points tally based on current form.
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They’d be right, we’d be mad to vote to continue when we can have the title now.

that’s not to say we’d Not be happy to play on. We’re happy to go with whatever the majority says
 
tisza

tisza

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fernandopartridge said:
Some fans on twitter suggesting that teams like Cov are scared of playing out the season as they've got "a lot to lose", ignoring the trajectory Cov are on. The only thing we've got to lose is a club record points tally based on current form.
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assume it's fans of teams about 3 wins behind us with only 9 games left to play.
After 34/35 game WPPG should be fairly accurate - maybe a couple of teams buck the trend (up and down).
Still think all fans of any club in our position would vociferously object to anything but automatic promotion if the season wouldn't be played out to the full.
 
Frostie

Frostie

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fernandopartridge said:
Some fans on twitter suggesting that teams like Cov are scared of playing out the season as they've got "a lot to lose", ignoring the trajectory Cov are on. The only thing we've got to lose is a club record points tally based on current form.
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Think I'm right in saying if we won all our remaining matches we'd equal the League 1 points record too - just as likely as the collapse they're predicting.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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Frostie said:
Think I'm right in saying if we won all our remaining matches we'd equal the League 1 points record too - just as likely as the collapse they're predicting.
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It’s interesting that they’d think a team that far ahead of 3rd with a game in hand and losing just 3 all season would bottle it.
 
SkyblueTexan

SkyblueTexan

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fernandopartridge said:
Some fans on twitter suggesting that teams like Cov are scared of playing out the season as they've got "a lot to lose", ignoring the trajectory Cov are on. The only thing we've got to lose is a club record points tally based on current form.
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Empty vessels (such as the fans on twitter you spoke of) make the most noise and should know better. Unlike DM who has gone on and on about finding some kind of backdoor to get into the Championship (while dragging other teams into his schemes), we've been very calm and collected through this whole arduous process of learning the fate of League 1. In the very beginning we were ready to play out the season. But as days have turned to weeks and weeks potentially to months, it seems sensible to find a way to end the season in a fair and just manner where more than 75% of matches have been played. That's not called being scared. That's being practical. With so many other leagues ending their season and finding a way to determine who is promoted/relegated, our expectations for League 1 to do the same is only natural. It's not like League 1 will be the only league that rewards those who deserve it and punishes those who don't. At some point we've got to draw the line, find closure and give credit where it's due. This cannot drag on forever as the financial repercussions of that are far worse (as more teams fold or lay off staff to keep afloat). For teams/fans who feel aggrieved that they didn't get a shot at promotion/playoffs (assuming there is no playoffs or that their team wasn't chosen for it), all I can say is that life isn't fair sometimes. We've had more than our fair share of pain and misfortune over the years (I think there's even another thread on this forum about that). So if we get promoted based on PPG (weighted/unweighted), I really think we've deserved it this season. We were on a 14 match unbeaten run at the time the season was cut short. I think we could have even extended that run (especially after beating Portsmouth, Sunderland, Ipswich and getting a respectable point vs Rotherham). So I don't buy the argument about being scared. We halted Portsmouth's winning run, Ipswich were in freefall after January, Wycombe lost their way after we hammered them in Dec, Sunderland even found a way to lose to Bristol Rovers just before this COVID-19 crisis to ruin their playoff chances, Rotherham lost to Rochdale in March just before this crisis...We were the team leading the form tables as well at that time. All things considered we damn right deserve to be promoted to the Championship as we've consistently been the best team throughout the season and there cannot be any arguments about that.
 
Skybluefaz

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SkyblueTexan said:
Empty vessels (such as the fans on twitter you spoke of) make the most noise and should know better. Unlike DM who has gone on and on about finding some kind of backdoor to get into the Championship (while dragging other teams into his schemes), we've been very calm and collected through this whole arduous process of learning the fate of League 1. In the very beginning we were ready to play out the season. But as days have turned to weeks and weeks potentially to months, it seems sensible to find a way to end the season in a fair and just manner where more than 75% of matches have been played. That's not called being scared. That's being practical. With so many other leagues ending their season and finding a way to determine who is promoted/relegated, our expectations for League 1 to do the same is only natural. It's not like League 1 will be the only league that rewards those who deserve it and punishes those who don't. At some point we've got to draw the line, find closure and give credit where it's due. This cannot drag on forever as the financial repercussions of that are far worse (as more teams fold or lay off staff to keep afloat). For teams/fans who feel aggrieved that they didn't get a shot at promotion/playoffs (assuming there is no playoffs or that their team wasn't chosen for it), all I can say is that life isn't fair sometimes. We've had more than our fair share of pain and misfortune over the years (I think there's even another thread on this forum about that). So if we get promoted based on PPG (weighted/unweighted), I really think we've deserved it this season. We were on a 14 match unbeaten run at the time the season was cut short. I think we could have even extended that run (especially after beating Portsmouth, Sunderland, Ipswich and getting a respectable point vs Rotherham). So I don't buy the argument about being scared. We halted Portsmouth's winning run, Ipswich were in freefall after January, Wycombe lost their way after we hammered them in Dec, Sunderland even found a way to lose to Bristol Rovers just before this COVID-19 crisis to ruin their playoff chances, Rotherham lost to Rochdale in March just before this crisis...We were the team leading the form tables as well at that time. All things considered we damn right deserve to be promoted to the Championship as we've consistently been the best team throughout the season and there cannot be any arguments about that.
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Excellent.
 
fernandopartridge

fernandopartridge

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SkyblueTexan said:
Empty vessels (such as the fans on twitter you spoke of) make the most noise and should know better. Unlike DM who has gone on and on about finding some kind of backdoor to get into the Championship (while dragging other teams into his schemes), we've been very calm and collected through this whole arduous process of learning the fate of League 1. In the very beginning we were ready to play out the season. But as days have turned to weeks and weeks potentially to months, it seems sensible to find a way to end the season in a fair and just manner where more than 75% of matches have been played. That's not called being scared. That's being practical. With so many other leagues ending their season and finding a way to determine who is promoted/relegated, our expectations for League 1 to do the same is only natural. It's not like League 1 will be the only league that rewards those who deserve it and punishes those who don't. At some point we've got to draw the line, find closure and give credit where it's due. This cannot drag on forever as the financial repercussions of that are far worse (as more teams fold or lay off staff to keep afloat). For teams/fans who feel aggrieved that they didn't get a shot at promotion/playoffs (assuming there is no playoffs or that their team wasn't chosen for it), all I can say is that life isn't fair sometimes. We've had more than our fair share of pain and misfortune over the years (I think there's even another thread on this forum about that). So if we get promoted based on PPG (weighted/unweighted), I really think we've deserved it this season. We were on a 14 match unbeaten run at the time the season was cut short. I think we could have even extended that run (especially after beating Portsmouth, Sunderland, Ipswich and getting a respectable point vs Rotherham). So I don't buy the argument about being scared. We halted Portsmouth's winning run, Ipswich were in freefall after January, Wycombe lost their way after we hammered them in Dec, Sunderland even found a way to lose to Bristol Rovers just before this COVID-19 crisis to ruin their playoff chances, Rotherham lost to Rochdale in March just before this crisis...We were the team leading the form tables as well at that time. All things considered we damn right deserve to be promoted to the Championship as we've consistently been the best team throughout the season and there cannot be any arguments about that.
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Good post, surely a weighted adjustment should be applied for playing all home games in another team's ground in any case...

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robbiethemole

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fernandopartridge said:
Some fans on twitter suggesting that teams like Cov are scared of playing out the season as they've got "a lot to lose", ignoring the trajectory Cov are on. The only thing we've got to lose is a club record points tally based on current form.
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the feckers ain't from the North East by any chance, are they????
 
tisza

tisza

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Brighton Sky Blue said:
It’s interesting that they’d think a team that far ahead of 3rd with a game in hand and losing just 3 all season would bottle it.
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can't be Posh or Pompey fans talking about bottle.
Pts won after falling behind
Coventry City 19pts (1st),
Pompey 4pts, Posh 3 pts (21st& 23rd) - both sides haven't won a game the 13 times each they've conceded 1st this season - sounds like a real bottle problem :)

Our stat doesn't suggest "bottle" is a problem :)
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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tisza said:
can't be Posh or Pompey fans talking about bottle.
Pts won after falling behind
Coventry City 19pts (1st),
Pompey 4pts, Posh 3 pts (21st& 23rd) - both sides haven't won a game the 13 times each they've conceded 1st this season - sounds like a real bottle problem :)

Our stat doesn't suggest "bottle" is a problem :)
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All done without a single home game
 
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