If I recall rightly Fulham put 5 past Reading in the league game at Craven Cottage earlier in the season........ Gives you some idea what this league is like when we took 4 points off both those sides this season........
And two kicks look like Sarries will win. First a fantastic conversion from Farrell to give Sarries a 25-17 lead and then an easier penalty missed by Lopez for Clermont...
Looking at the match stats appears to be quite a defensive contest so far in the Championship playoff semi-final. HT Huddersfield 0 Sheff Wed 0 Possession Home 72% Away 28% Shots Home 4 Away 1 Shots on Target Home 0 Away 0 Corners Home 1 Away 0 Fouls Home 4 Away 7
I see no reason why the playoff system couldn't be extended to the final relegation spot in each division. Bottom two go down as they do now. Third bottom to sixth bottom play off just single matches at the ground of the higher placed team. The losers play a final at the ground of the higher placed team and loser goes down. This would have ****ed us this season but so many teams just play out meaningless games from March, especially in the Prem where there's little real incentive to push on once you reach 40 points.
Extra £2m prize money for every final league position place in PL. winners get £40m, 20th gets £2m. So moving from 16th to 15th could enable you to pay a fraction of some twat players over inflated wages. Estimated that Chelsea will make £146m through TV money this season, even Sunderland get £97m. Of course gates, merchandising, transfer income on top of this. Winners of the Championship get (prize, TV, solidarity payment)........£7.1m. Screwed system.
Your average Stoke or Watford player probably won't see any of that or at least not enough to be arsed. If you needed to guarantee 14th or higher to avoid the relegation playoffs , there's a real incentive and teams who finish mid-table every season have something to play for.
In a must win game Hull didn't have one shot on target. The Huddersfield v Sheff Weds match was rather uneventful to say the least.
I won't be going there mate, nor the other two horror trips to Sunderland and Middlesbrough for that matter. In fact I'm still deliberating whether or not to renew my season ticket.
I might do Boro just because I haven't before. Probably only if it's early enough in the season for me to be optimistic enough. Even if we are top of the league I'll miss probably half a dozen home games for one reason or another and I'm not too bothered about where I sit. Actually quite like moving around the ground and there's usually decent seats going on Twickets.
