Coventry City v Luton Town - Championship playoff final - 27th May 2023 - Wembley Stadium (17 Viewers)

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

are we classed as the home team for this?

Read somewhere we are, fuck knows why

Alphabetical my be.

 

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[Ccfcisparks]

Im fully shitting myself.

Im confident and i think we can win it but fuck me its going to be the worst feeling i think any of us have experienced as a supporter if we lose

I genuinely feel sick imagining the journey back if we lose

I think I'm more confident for this than I was for Boro

 

[shmmeee]

I think I'm more confident for this than I was for Boro

That what makes me so nervous. Was convinced we were out at Boro. Stupid brain keeps telling me we could do this now. And it’s the hope that kills you.

 

[SkyBlueSoul]

I'm terrified, everyone talks about wanting to get to finals but they're the worst games to have to sit through. I keep daydreaming about winning and having to rein it in, a defeat would be horrific.

Genuinely not sure which way it'll go which makes it worse.

 

[Grendel]

Article today said it’s £240 million for the winner and nothing for the loser

 

[SkyBlueSoul]

There's normally an agreement between the teams that the loser keeps the ticket money seeing as it would be peanuts to the winner.

 

[Tile Hill Phil]

Off piste Luton story, but I went there once when we won 4-1 (iirc) mid 70s, the days of silk scarves, and pinching them from opposition fans, like badges of honour. My main memory of the game there was a very drunk, very angry Scottish City fan on the terracing by me, incensed that we had just sold Colin Stein (hope the timeline makes sense, otherwise my brain needs a visit to the doctor).

Think that was one of my first away games as a kid. I remember a load of us running past a load of shops and throwing stones at the windows. A woman copper in the ground said we were worse than the Chelsea lot that were there the previous week.

 

[play_in_skyblue_stripes]

In my opinion - this game is far bigger than 87 given the implications for the future of this club (and that's not diminishing anything about the memories of 87 either).

I agree with you Danny Thomas on the vast majority of your posts but not this one.
That was a real trophy and very significant at the time and of course a brilliant match.

Financially this is more significant of course. If we did make up it would setup us up for a few years as a stronger club. We would very ,very likely to go straight back down unless someone else buys Doug out almost immediately.

 

[San Francisco]

I think I'm more confident for this than I was for Boro

So am I. Still think it'll be close though.

 

[its a buzzard]

So am I. Still think it'll be close though.

Country mile close. 3-0.

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[Mucca Mad Boys]

Biggest game in the clubs history?

With the riches of the premier league at stake, I think it is.

Older fans will disagree, but I never had the privilege of watching us in the Prem when I was younger. Next Saturday means everything to me.

 

[Deleted member 9744]

I agree with you Danny Thomas on the vast majority of your posts but not this one.
That was a real trophy and very significant at the time and of course a brilliant match.

Financially this is more significant of course. If we did make up it would setup us up for a few years as a stronger club. We would very ,very likely to go straight back down unless someone else buys Doug out almost immediately.

My initial reaction was not to agree with Danny Thomas on this. However the more I have thought about it, the more I am convinced he is right.

Winning the FA Cup was great. However, I would have given up that amazing day to have stayed in the Premier League over the last 20+ years. So getting back to the Premier League would mean more to me than winning the Cup ever did.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Winning a major trophy taking second place to collecting some cash. Have we sunk so low?

 

[shmmeee]

Winning a major trophy taking second place to collecting some cash. Have we sunk so low?

The Championship Play Off is a pretty major trophy.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

The waiting is the worst part.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

The Championship Play Off is a pretty major trophy.

No it isn't

 

[Deleted member 9744]

The Championship Play Off is a pretty major trophy.

The trophy itself is not the important thing. It's that opportunity to compete every week in the top league against some of the best players in the world.

 

[fatso]

Guys Guys Guys......
......Relax!

Just cast your minds back to the end of last September and the beginning of October, we were bottom of the league, people were talking about possible points deductions and even relegation.

If someone would of told you back then that we'd be in the play off final, you'd of thought they were mad .....

And yet here we are!
We have nothing to lose, victory would be a massive bonus of course, but whatever happens we've had our most successful season for years.

Sisu gone!
Wasps gone!
New owner in!
New tenancy agreement inplace!
Loads more season tickets sold!
Leicester going down!

Whatever happens on Saturday, we're already winners

 

[San Francisco]

The possibility of being actually able to shit on the v*lla is reason enough.

 

[CovInEssex]

Still can't fathom this is actually happening

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

The possibility of being actually able to shit on the v*lla is reason enough.

€50 fine. Each time!

 

[CCFC_Irish]

The stars have aligned in the last 18 months for Coventry. It is going to come down to who wants in more.

 

[SkyblueDad]

Don’t care what the so called experts say pound for pound we the better team, of course Luton have their strengths but we have the ability to counter act that and the forwards to get at them at the business end of the pitch. Weeks rest to get our lot fitter than they might have been the last match and importantly a decent bench which may include Palmer you never know.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Don’t care what the so called experts say pound for pound we the better team, of course Luton have their strengths but we have the ability to counter act that and the forwards to get at them at the business end of the pitch. Weeks rest to get our lot fitter than they might have been the last match and importantly a decent bench which may include Palmer you never know.

Over 46 games they were clearly better

 

[SkyblueDad]

Over 46 games they were clearly better

You continue with your on going negativity, would you swap squads then ?

 

[procdoc]

Over 46 games they were clearly bette

You continue with your on going negativity, would you swap squads then ?

The league table doesn’t lie though, they’re the favourites and we will need to be at our very best.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

You continue with your on going negativity, would you swap squads then ?

What negativity it’s a fact over the whole season they did better. Get back in your Pokéball

 

[Tommo1993]

Brother in law likes to think he supports Man Utd. Says we’ll beat Luton because they’re shit. Assured him that no team gets to a final or the cusp of promotion on the count of being shit. But I suppose he’s already completely ignorant of football as a sport.

 

[DazzleTommyDazzle]

Over 46 games they were clearly better

That's statistically true, but doesn't take into account the fact that they had a pitch they could play on from the start of the season.

I think that form over the last few months is pretty similar between the two teams and I think that that's more relevant.

 

[theferret]

You continue with your on going negativity, would you swap squads then ?

It's not being negative, it's just reality. They are a very good side and very difficult to beat. To only have lost 8 of 46 Championship games all season says that quite clearly.

Of course we can beat them, but they are rightly favourites.

 

[SeaSeeEffCee]

Expecting us to lose, not because of anything to do with the game really just because it’s seemed such an impossibility that we’d ever get back for so long. Hard to believe that we could actually be a Premier League club in five days time.

 

[croatskyblue]

It’s not negativity..

in the last 10 years the team finishing 3rd has won 4 times, the teams in 4th and 5th 3 times, and the team in 6th never won.

Lots gets written about ‘momentum’ but unless one of the teams was on a really crazily good/ bad run that doesn’t seem to matter either according to the stats.

anyway it’s a one-off football match with not too much difference in form going into it- and as they finished significantly higher of course they’re favourites.

there’s a bit too much complacency creeping in which I don’t like- just because the name “Luton Town” doesn’t instill as much nervousness as other names we could have faced, they’re still a really strong, effective, well drilled side and we will have to be bang on form to win this.

we CAN win, but it’s probably going to be really tough and tense and they’re favourites for a very good reason.

 

[croatskyblue]

Winning a major trophy taking second place to collecting some cash. Have we sunk so low?

There are a whole generation of people who don’t care about the FA Cup and don’t understand how big it was then. It’s very understandable for them to say that this is bigger than the FA Cup

I would not swap that day for a win on Saturday myself but it’s very over the top to say this is a low and run down it’s importance when it’s by a massive distance the biggest match a load of our supporters have and maybe will ever experience.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

There are a whole generation of people who don’t care about the FA Cup and don’t understand how big it was then. It’s very understandable for them to say that this is bigger than the FA Cup

I would not swap that day for a win on Saturday myself but it’s very over the top to say this is a low and run down it’s importance when it’s by a massive distance the biggest match a load of our supporters have and maybe will ever experience.

I would but only cause Saturday is now and 1987 was then

 

[croatskyblue]

I would but only cause Saturday is now and 1987 was then

I don’t understand why BOTH can’t be seen as our biggest matches, they are part of our history and we had two decades of garbage. A club is the product of its heritage so by trying to say one isn’t worth as much as another is stupid.

Mourinho valued league cup wins as much as champions league wins and I remember Clough talking about how he’d sent out full strength teams for a local cup final. That is surely the mentality, we want to win everything we can.

we are not a team led by those guys but we should savour every big match and every big occasion as that’s how tradition and support is built, not say some are not as important as others

I still wouldn’t swap 87 for this Saturday though !!