Well done boys

[Robert N. LiM 6,299]

Really didn't think at the start of this season we'd make the play-offs.

We are, as DW said a while ago, in the 'interesting positions'.

On the ball, City.

[Capt. Pants 5,013]

The performances have been below par a lot of the season.

Finishing 22 pts behind Ipswich is a bit eye-watering at the moment.

 

 

 

 

[cambridgeshire canary 7,799]

I would say the thought of this side in the Prem is scary but hey, given how we have played the last couple matches I do think we don't have too much of a chance and getting through the playoffs..

[Cantiaci Canary 610]

Extremely pleased with this.

I seem to recall that virtually all the pundits (including our own local media) predicted mid table ... as did the majority of our supporters on social media.

I hoped for playoffs and I'm thrilled that we got there.

Come what may from here.

We're better than WBA but not so sure about Leeds & Soton! 

Roll the dice!

[S_81 1,102]

A real achievement given the state of earlier in the season

[TheBaldOne66 768]

6 minutes ago, Cantiaci Canary said:

Extremely pleased with this.

I seem to recall that virtually all the pundits (including our own local media) predicted mid table ... as did the majority of our supporters on social media.

I hoped for playoffs and I'm thrilled that we got there.

Come what may from here.

We're better than WBA but not so sure about Leeds & Soton! 

Roll the dice!

The table says we are not better than WBA doesn’t it?

[AJ 1,359]

Given the massive slump when Sargent and Barnes were out, our incredible home form since Christmas has been brilliant. The boys deserve a shot at glory. I can't see us getting past Leeds but then I couldn't see us reaching the playoffs so who knows. A bit like the cup, love a bit of end of season drama, at least we've got at least one (or two for those on the club cabbages) more game to cheer

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 4,622]

22 minutes ago, Capt. Pants said:

The performances have been below par a lot of the season.

Finishing 22 pts behind Ipswich is a bit eye-watering at the moment.

That's because Ipswich have been excellent and have exceeded all expectations, rather than us underachieving.

73 points with this group is a solid return; I'd have probably tipped somewhere in the mid-60s as par before a ball was kicked.

[Terminally Yellow 2,614]

21 minutes ago, Capt. Pants said:

The performances have been below par a lot of the season.

Finishing 22 pts behind Ipswich is a bit eye-watering at the moment.

Honestly who gives a **** about Ipswich? It's absolutely ridiculous you are on here your team having finished 6th (and far, far higher than most of us predicted, myself included) and here you are crying like a **** about "below par performances" and 22 pts behind them. 

Come back when you fancy supporting the club, rather than the endless whine and moan. 

[Pyro Pete 2,354]

Pleased to be in the top six, considering where we were back in Oct/Nov.

I just hope the players turn up in the play-offs.

[Midlands Yellow 4,682]

12 minutes ago, Terminally Yellow said:

Honestly who gives a **** about Ipswich? It's absolutely ridiculous you are on here your team having finished 6th (and far, far higher than most of us predicted, myself included) and here you are crying like a **** about "below par performances" and 22 pts behind them. 

Come back when you fancy supporting the club, rather than the endless whine and moan. 

Not like you to get aggressive. 

[Terminally Yellow 2,614]

Just now, Midlands Yellow said:

Not like you to get aggressive. 

Not like you to be a ****.

[Terminally Yellow 2,614]

Wait yes it is.

[Branston Pickle 4,150]

27 minutes ago, Pyro Pete said:

Pleased to be in the top six, considering where we were back in Oct/Nov.

I just hope the players turn up in the play-offs.

We need a huge upturn in performance levels from the less than average fare we served up today - not great to go into the play-offs on the back of a defeat to a relegated side + two poor home draws….

[......and Smith must score. 1,600]

5 minutes ago, Branston Pickle said:

We need a huge upturn in performance levels from the less than average fare we served up today - not great to go into the play-offs on the back of a defeat to a relegated side + two poor home draws….

I expect Leeds fans are thinking much the same about their team

[Ian 1,212]

8 minutes ago, Branston Pickle said:

We need a huge upturn in performance levels from the less than average fare we served up today - not great to go into the play-offs on the back of a defeat to a relegated side + two poor home draws….

Today was very much the performance of a team not wanting to overdo it before the playoffs IMO.

[GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary 2,035]

8 minutes ago, ......and Smith must score. said:

I expect Leeds fans are thinking much the same about their team

None of the playoffs sides are in particularly good form

Its all irrelevant now, new competition starts here, slate wiped clean...

[Branston Pickle 4,150]

12 minutes ago, Ian said:

Today was very much the performance of a team not wanting to overdo it before the playoffs IMO.

…and the two matches before that?  We’ve stuttered into the playoff, and should probably be grateful we play Leeds as they are on worse form.   But we’re there, and that’s the main thing - you have to be in it to win it!

Edited May 4 by Branston Pickle

[sgncfc 1,330]

I do agree that Wagner deserves some credit for getting us to 6th from where we were in November; but the reason we were where we were was because Wagner is a poor coach/manager who couldn't cope. That came on top of an equally dire second half of last season. He should have gone. He still should, because he proves with almost every game that he is not tactically up to it.

Ask yourself one question? Do we have better players than other teams? With the exception of Leicester, maybe Southampton and maybe Leeds the answer is yes. So top 6 is really our minimum achievement, not an outstanding one.

[Cantiaci Canary 610]

1 hour ago, TheBaldOne66 said:

The table says we are not better than WBA doesn’t it?

No ... if we hadn't had the Sargent, Barnes, Sainz and Rowe injuries we would've finished comfortably above them.

[TheBaldOne66 768]

Just now, Cantiaci Canary said:

No ... if we hadn't had the Sargent, Barnes, Sainz and Rowe injuries we would've finished comfortably above them.

But we didn’t did we? If we’d won more games we’d have finished higher you can say what you like, the table doesn’t lie

[yellowrider120 917]

1 hour ago, Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man said:

That's because Ipswich have been excellent and have exceeded all expectations, rather than us underachieving.

73 points with this group is a solid return; I'd have probably tipped somewhere in the mid-60s as par before a ball was kicked.

So how come you openly praise Ipswich and get away scot free?. I simply call for some 'sportsmanship and credit' in our responses to what they have achieved yet get both barrels from some usual suspects!!

[Capt. Pants 5,013]

2 hours ago, Terminally Yellow said:

Honestly who gives a **** about Ipswich? It's absolutely ridiculous you are on here your team having finished 6th (and far, far higher than most of us predicted, myself included) and here you are crying like a **** about "below par performances" and 22 pts behind them. 

Come back when you fancy supporting the club, rather than the endless whine and moan. 

Bad day?

[Coneys Knee 1,050]

I said before, that being in the play offs this year feels like a no lose situation. Go up and we get the money (the only reason for wanting to get promoted for me), we also get to pi$$ on Ipswich’s parade. Don’t go up and we get another shot in the championship (an entertaining league where we’ll get to see us win some games), we keep our unbeaten record against that lot in tact and we get to laugh at them getting smashed every week and and seeing their faces as the realisation of what it’s like to be a small club in the prem starts to hit home.

This feels like a free hit to me so I intend to enjoy it for what it is.

Edited May 4 by Coneys Knee

[Conrad 235]

1 hour ago, Ian said:

Today was very much the performance of a team not wanting to overdo it before the playoffs IMO.

I would agree, if it wasn't the norm for an away match.

[Virtual reality 860]

The play offs were the realistic target and it’s been achieved so job done.I think the fact that Ipswich have been promoted automatically has taken the shine off it but hopefully we somehow win these playoffs 

[KiwiScot 1,684]

Against all common sense at the time we've made it. Sargent was badly needed back

[Christoph Stiepermann 1,261]

Wagner brought some good perspective in his post match press conference. We finished 13th last season, the place was really unhappy after watching 2 relegation seasons and a mid table season, we made a profit of 20m on transfers and let go one of our best ever strikers and improved 7 places and finished in the play offs.

I know it's been rocky at times and some of the performances have been really poor but few clubs at this level can't point to 10 odd terrible performances this season and we've had a bad injury crisis at one point and a severe lack of depth outside of the first 11 to contend with. We've dropped some points we shouldn't have but have also gained some points in games where we looked dead set to lose, Wagner's made some really poor decisions but also some really good ones.

I think we're about where we deserve to be, if we had better luck with injuries or if Wagner was faultless in his tactics and mid game decisions we would have been a very comfortable 5th but the end result would have been pretty much the same. 

I'm happy and weirdly confident about our chances in the play offs. We're good when it comes to a promotion race and Leeds have completely fallen apart. We're better on our day than West Brom and Southampton have a young team and play a style of football that can be exploited so no reason not to be confident. I'm also reading nothing into todays result, it was obvious we were playing well within ourselves. 

[essex canary 623]

We have given ourselves a chance thanks to 37 points from the last 15 home games, 10 points from 4 games in August plus those crucial wins at Hull and Preston. The remaining 25 matches yielded only 20 points.

[Duncan Edwards 2,424]

2 minutes ago, essex canary said:

We have given ourselves a chance thanks to 37 points from the last 15 home games, 10 points from 4 games in August plus those crucial wins at Hull and Preston. The remaining 25 matches yielded only 20 points.

You’ve cracked this points for winning and drawing lark, haven’t you?

Also worth pointing out that our haul of 73 points across the 46 game season was the 6th best in the division and, as such, they’ve invented this league table system…remarkable.

And finally, Ipswich took no points from 6 games. If they’d replicated that form for the whole season, they’d have been relegated. 🙄