The Football.....

[AndyRM]

I'm starting to get The Fear big style.

Hope you have an absolutely miserable evening @swl

 

[MarkF]

James Hanson out injured. My favourite player and Bradford's iconic number 9. Everything is going Millwall's way, they bid £500k for him last summer but he is a permanent fixture in Idle's pubs so was always unlikely to go there.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I'm starting to get The Fear big style.

Hope you have an absolutely miserable evening @swl

Oh that was sweet. Was it three nutmegs?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Barnsley have beaten Walsall to reach the League 1 play off final. That's three in a row where the team that scraped into the last place of the play offs has beaten the team that just missed out on promotion.
Brighton Accrington and Walsall all missed out on automatic promotion on goal difference, to lose out to the team that ended up around 10 points below them!

 

[AndyRM]

Oh that was sweet. Was it three nutmegs?

At least.

Losing to a training ground free kick is a tae in the baws.

We pished 3 great chances away too.

That's my Sunday ruined.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

 

[AndyRM]

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He looks like he's laying an egg!

Do you reckon there was a deflection? Looked that way on TV.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Could have - but it was going straight at him for the last few yards from where I was watching.

 

[Seevio]

Interesting stuff about expanding the league. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36335384

Not sure where I stand on this.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I've always thought the play offs were better than just the top 2 or top 3 going up. Clubs like Accrington have something to aim for in the season. If it wasn't for the play offs we'd have lost out on promotion by 5 goals going from 2nd to 4th on the final day. If we lose tomorrow night at least the play offs gave us another chance of promotion.

That's why I couldn't understand why you liked the play off system.

As I said, imo it's utter rollocks, stupidly unfair and serves no real purpose whatsoever.

 

[Accy cyclist]

That might be because they approach the tie with an unreasonable sense of entitlement while the team that gets into the last play off berth have a greater freedom to play.

Also,the teams who finish top of the play offs have "home advantage" for the second leg. Which is proving to be a disadvantage.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Interesting stuff about expanding the league. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36335384

Not sure where I stand on this.

I can see the logic of 100 clubs re gaining extra match revenue.

Maybe better to increase the EPL to 22 teams (spreads the big bucks a little further) and do 4 up and 4 down promotion/relegation.

And also lift the other three divisions to 26 clubs. That sorts increased match day revenue without creating an extra division.

That gets to the target 100 clubs mooted and ensures that more of the massive TV money from the EPL gets filtered down via the parachute system.

 

[Accy cyclist]

That's why I couldn't understand why you liked the play off system.

As I said, imo it's utter rollocks, stupidly unfair and serves no real purpose whatsoever.

I suppose i like the play offs because it gave us another chance and something to aim for at the start of the season. Maybe if it hadn't have been there our players would've tried a bit harder to beat Stevenage on the last day of the season. I still think the play offs are good, though having suffered defeat twice to teams who finished below us i'd like to see something a bit fairer.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Interesting stuff about expanding the league. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36335384

Not sure where I stand on this.

"Accrington owner Andrew Holt believes the new structure, if approved, would have costly financial implications for many lower league clubs.

Holt said the Lancashire club would not be voting in favour of the proposal.

He said: "We don't want to lose any games. We'd rather play 50 home games. because we need revenue.

"If we're going to play 20 times a year it's hardly worth having a stadium. I can't see any sense or any logic in the proposals.

"It's just not going to get our support. I need them coming up with better ideas where we can get more games on and generate more revenue for our clubs.

"These bottom clubs don't have a lot of revenue and we need to build it, not reduce it."

 

[AndyRM]

Could have - but it was going straight at him for the last few yards from where I was watching.

Just watched a replay - looks to me like it was going straight at his right leg and took a knock which megged him.

To be honest he looked nervy all night. When he bombed out like Neuer in the first half I was worried.

Gutted to lose to a training ground free kick. Roll on Sunday...