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Offline spangley1812

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2018, 03:30:38 PM »
Quote from: London Villan on March 18, 2018, 02:38:10 PM
Have any of the semi-final play off dates been announced?

Date

Championship (A) 1st Leg

Friday 11 May 2018

Championship (B) 1st Leg

Saturday 12 May 2018

Championship (A) 2nd Leg

Monday 14 May 2018

Championship (B) 2nd Leg

Tues 15 May 2018
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Offline footyskillz

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2018, 03:44:10 PM »
Quote from: Brassneck on March 18, 2018, 02:24:09 PM
Quote from: Newby on March 18, 2018, 02:19:38 PM
Get to the final and lose, or win, it doesn’t leave any manager a particularly long transfer window.  That said, win the final and you get maximum exposure, rather that than finish second?

Winning the final is the best way to go up - The problem is that the odds are against you as it becomes a bit of a lottery.

I'd like to think that our players are best equipped for it, given their experience but you never can tell with them.

I don't see play offs as a lottery but understand people view as such. This I guess is mainly due to factors such as luck and chance. Not only this but the fact penalties could be used to decide outcome. 
It was Reading a pen kick away from being in Prem not Huddersfield last season


 However the teams in play off earn right to be there and it depends on organisation and nerve as much as anything else. Consistency and momentum is what brought any team in to the 3rd to 6th places in league .(ahead of finishing lower)  There of course is quality  players in team  that finish in these playoff places. Maybe too some luck or bad luck in injuries and results or fixture runs / changes.

I see play offs as high pressure stakes and the  biggest matches of the season.

The tension watching though would be very high and due to expectations this could hinder.
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Offline appyarryampton

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #17 on: March 18, 2018, 04:25:58 PM »
The play offs are definitely a lottery.
In fact how often does the third placed team go up?
It is just like the league cup semi's and final - Anyone remember Bradford?
I think the third place team are often subconsciously gutted they never made the top two.
If we go through the play offs we are better having a blip now and maybe winning the last 5 games so we are in form rather than accumulating points through inconsistency and scraping third/fourth place.
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Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #18 on: March 18, 2018, 04:32:52 PM »
Quote from: spangley1812 on March 18, 2018, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: London Villan on March 18, 2018, 02:38:10 PM
Have any of the semi-final play off dates been announced?

Date

Championship (A) 1st Leg

Friday 11 May 2018

Championship (B) 1st Leg

Saturday 12 May 2018

Championship (A) 2nd Leg

Monday 14 May 2018

Championship (B) 2nd Leg

Tues 15 May 2018

I bet we get the sodding Friday night game.
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Offline Richard E

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2018, 04:34:11 PM »
Quote from: cdbullyweefan on March 18, 2018, 04:32:52 PM
Quote from: spangley1812 on March 18, 2018, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: London Villan on March 18, 2018, 02:38:10 PM
Have any of the semi-final play off dates been announced?

Date

Championship (A) 1st Leg

Friday 11 May 2018

Championship (B) 1st Leg

Saturday 12 May 2018

Championship (A) 2nd Leg

Monday 14 May 2018

Championship (B) 2nd Leg

Tues 15 May 2018

I bet we get the sodding Friday night game.

Away to Middlesbrough.
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Online ChicagoLion

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #20 on: March 18, 2018, 04:41:40 PM »
Could be Mill wall away twice in a week, which is nice .
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Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #21 on: March 18, 2018, 04:42:00 PM »
It bloody will be Millwall or Middlesbrough won't it? Hoping for Preston as it's the only ground that I won't have been to among teams in the top ten.
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Offline spangley1812

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #22 on: March 18, 2018, 05:07:58 PM »
And the Final is on Sat 26/05/2018
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Offline Gareth

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #23 on: March 18, 2018, 05:12:01 PM »
I have this horrible vision of being sat at Wembley watching Traore run the length of the pitch at break neck speed to score ‘the most valuable goal’

Think I’ll keep hoping for a Cardiff implosion :-)
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Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #24 on: March 18, 2018, 06:17:54 PM »
Quote from: spangley1812 on March 18, 2018, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: London Villan on March 18, 2018, 02:38:10 PM
Have any of the semi-final play off dates been announced?

Date

Championship (A) 1st Leg

Friday 11 May 2018

Championship (B) 1st Leg

Saturday 12 May 2018

Championship (A) 2nd Leg

Monday 14 May 2018

Championship (B) 2nd Leg

Tues 15 May 2018


So as I thought 3 day turnaround.

Not hugely promising given how we struggled v QPR and SB is hardly going to make too many changes given what is at stake in the games.
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Offline levico

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #25 on: March 18, 2018, 06:30:55 PM »
Quote from: spangley1812 on March 18, 2018, 05:07:58 PM
And the Final is on Sat 26/05/2018

How does that work then? Aren’t the League 1&2 finals on the Saturday and Sunday?
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Offline spangley1812

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2018, 06:35:06 PM »
Quote from: levico on March 18, 2018, 06:30:55 PM
Quote from: spangley1812 on March 18, 2018, 05:07:58 PM
And the Final is on Sat 26/05/2018

How does that work then? Aren’t the League 1&2 finals on the Saturday and Sunday?

They have swopped them around this year due to the World Cup
League 1 on the Sunday and League 2 on Bank Holiday Monday
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Offline Tugby Villain

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #27 on: March 18, 2018, 08:13:41 PM »
Quote from: spangley1812 on March 18, 2018, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: London Villan on March 18, 2018, 02:38:10 PM
Have any of the semi-final play off dates been announced?

Date

Championship (A) 1st Leg

Friday 11 May 2018

Championship (B) 1st Leg

Saturday 12 May 2018

Championship (A) 2nd Leg

Monday 14 May 2018

Championship (B) 2nd Leg

Tues 15 May 2018

BUM!!!  Need us to be in the A Leg, as I'm reffing a Cup Final on the Tuesday! 
Is the A Leg 3rd vs 6th or 4th vs 5th?
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Online Richard

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2018, 08:53:08 PM »
Based solely on last season Fulham (6th) v Reading (3rd) was the first game
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Offline eamonn

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Re: Play offs what if.....
« Reply #29 on: March 18, 2018, 10:07:22 PM »
The Championship should get the flagship Bank Holiday Monday slot surely?
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