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    1 hour ago, Hairy Canary said:

    I want us to go up without playing them at all. Southampton in the semis and West Brom at Wembley please.

    Firstly, no first day at Wembley for them. Second we go up and they stay down. Third our 15 years becomes 16 for certain (baring cup draw).

    I don’t buy this West Brom have an easy last two games. Sheffield away is a tough game for them. Wednesday are out of the bottom 3 for first time in months and a last home game win will see them safe. I wouldn’t fancy it. 

    However hard Sheff Weds is for WBA , Birmingham is potentially harder for us.

    I can see WBAs goal diff trumping us

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    1 minute ago, Well b back said:

    I would have thought based on their results against the binners and Soton, they would want the binners, but then you are also gambling that you may get Leeds by accident.

    After watching Southampton tonight we'll be falling over each other to face them

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    This is awful....for different reasons Leeds or Ipswich away in second legs are my 2 worst nightmares.

    Only 2 ways of avoiding this are a) slipping out of the playoffs altogether (still not putting that past us) or b) finishing 5th and playing Southampton

    Ncfc fixtures  Swansea (h) Birmingham (a)

    WBA fixtures Sheff Weds (a) Preston (h)

    We may match them but just cant see us bettering WBAs points over these games..

     

     

  6. Posted · Edited by GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary

    19 minutes ago, Hairy Canary said:

    Definitely Leicester. Firstly it pretty much takes one automatic spot and halves the binner’s chances but mostly because I’d like to play Southampton in the playoffs. Their style can be a bit open and I fancy us against them. We just need to finish 5th

    Southampton undoubtedly would be our best opponent (and least stressful)

    Unfortunately i dont see us bettering WBAs results over the last 2 games.

    Not beating Bristol C could be damaging down the line for this...

  10. Posted · Edited by GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary

    32 minutes ago, sgncfc said:

    Not really - because at some stage in the next 5 to 10 years or so both of these clubs will be relegated. As will Brighton. As will Bournemouth etc etc.  And none of them will win anything in the meantime, or even get close. The "excitement" is in winning enough games to do it all again next season and go through the same purgatory. Then relegation is seen as a disaster when it's really just a part of the game. Then they have to bounce back or rebuild, demanding the return of their "rightful place" at the trough, and so the cycle continues. The only people benefitting are agents and players. 

    The ludicrous reaction to the once mighty Man Utd almost succumbing to a good Champs team in a semi-final is witness to their entitlement. Embarrassed to win a semi-final? How patronising they are - all of them; Sky, the BBC, the FA and everyone associated with the incompetent officials.

    I said 6 years ago (to much ridicule, as I recall)  that Championship clubs should have the option of selling their PL place on promotion to a billionaire club and I stand by that. The PL only want billionaire clubs and eventually that is what they will have. In the meantime, let's take their money, build facilities and communities and stay in the top 6 of the Championship where the football is at least interesting and entertaining (sometimes).

    What else can we do ?

    You'd would hope that after being in the premier league for a decade you'd be in a position to try to challenge for a Europa Conference league spot through finishing 7th/8th. 

    I went to all 6 UEFA cup games in '93 and sadly have accepted in was a once in a lifetime thing...I'd love to just have one more chance to experience that

    I also suspect we'd need to be in and stay in the premier league for a number of seasons before the club considered ever expanding the City stand

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    2 minutes ago, Robert N. LiM said:

    The question is, how would I feel about this prospect being removed by them going up automatically... I can't say I want that to happen, but I guess it would be a consolation. 

    And of course if they do end up in the top two, that will probably mean they've taken enough points off Hull and Coventry to secure our place in the top six.

    May you live in interesting times...

    Ipswich will probably drop points to the team we dont need them to drop points against and beat the team we we dont need them to beat...

    It might all become a little clearer after the Coventry v Hull game tomorrow...

  12. Posted

    16 minutes ago, BigFish said:

    Play-off are pretty much a lottery and probably will be decided by the famous moments rather than form or tactics. Looking at it honestly I am not confident we have enough to get through the three games but we have given ourselves a chance. Southampton does look the least stressful option, which raises the question wouldn't you prefer them in the final? Unless of course you only want a big day out (as we all do)

    We've got to get there first...I'd think we'd have more of a chance in a one off game at a neutral venue vs Leeds as opposed to 2 legs, the second leg at elland road

  13. Posted

    57 minutes ago, Capt. Pants said:

    Leeds away to QPR on Friday. If they win that it really piles the pressure on Leicester and Ipswich.

    You'd fancy Binners to be 3rd now and our best chance of reaching Wembley is if we're 6th.

    Twists and turns to come yet. It's be a bonkers season in all competitions. We just need to look after ourselves, and a bit better than we did against Bristol.

    If offered 5th now and 2 games against Southampton ,I'd take it.

    For purely footballing reasons we'd have the best chance vs Ipswich but if it turned out to be Leeds in 3rd,I just cant see us overcoming them over 180 mins.

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    19 minutes ago, Well b back said:

    Interesting summing up re WBA, who have lost twice to Soton, won and drawn against both Ipswich and Leeds. ( conceding just 1 to each of Binners and Leeds ) WBA rely on their excellent defence, so will be the most likely team to knock Leeds out as Leeds struggle against teams that can defend well, which was not dissimilar to us under Farke.

    Maybe WBA will try to engineer a 6th place finish in that case !?.

    Even more reason for us to finish 5th. Let WBA beat Leeds or Ipswich in the semis, then we beat them in the final!

  16. Posted · Edited by GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary

    What tonight showed is that we really must try to finish 5th incase its Leeds who do end up in 3rd

    Their firepower over 180 mins would just be too much for us.

    I'd take Southampton all day long at the moment.

    I suspect WBA know this too...

  17. Posted · Edited by GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary

    Hopefully they see this through then beat QPR on Friday

    With Ipswich not playing at Hull until Saturday night, it could well be our result vs Swansea earlier in the day that determines quite how much hunger Hull will have in that match

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

    Given how the table is shaping up if Huddersfield win one or two and Birmingham fail to win their next, and given we have them as the last match of the season for us and them it's possible they would need to beat us in order to stay up.

    In this scenario.. I don't know, guess I would feel a bit bad if we sent them down never really had much against them.

    Payback for 2002 at Cardiff...

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  20. Posted

    1 minute ago, Hairy Canary said:

    It’s about losing the emotion of the moment which in my opinion is worth all of that and more. No other sport has it and what lifts football above all the rest.

    As I say if VAR’s weren’t making mistakes then there would at least be an argument to be had, but they are just as fallible and we’re having just as much controversy as before, if not more.

    ...but there'd be no 'emotion' attached to that goal had the linesman spotted it and put his flag up

    The fault lies there.

    ...and having not spotted it,thats where VAR comes in.

    Yes, it would have been a nice 'story' but offside is offside

  21. Posted

    Just now, Hairy Canary said:

    I agree.

    Which is worth more. The acceptance that occasionally human officials get things wrong or getting it clinically correct and losing the emotion of the game? I know where I stand.

    What if we were on the wrong end of an offside that wasnt given in a game like that?

    It  feels an injustice because the linesman didnt spot it and didnt raise his flag, what if he had?

    Dont well drilled defences who work on an offside trap all week deserve to be rewarded too?

  22. Posted

    27 minutes ago, Hairy Canary said:

    Absolutely this, 100%.

    Of all sports on the planet only football generates emotions like the Coventry 4th goal, a memory that would have stayed with those young supporters in attendance for their whole lifetimes. Football has paid a very heavy price and sold its soul to the alter accurate decision making and has instead ended up with more controversy rather than less.

    Quite simply if the lino thought the Coventry player was offside his flag would have gone up straight away, there would have been a few disappointed groans and that would have been that. As for the Forest game, all it’s done is raised the spectre of possible corruption.

    Its a total disaster, particularly for those attending the game.

    ...but it was offside

    That the linesman didnt put his flag up shows that he wasnt good /accurate enough to spot it.

  25. Posted · Edited by GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary

    Birmingham will definitely need something on the last day....we'd better get the job done this Saturday

    Alternatively , we've waited 22 yrs to get some revenge for that playoff final defeat. This could be it

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