Still dont think we will make the play offs but after another amazing win away at Portsmouth we are just 5 points from it. I might believe it next week if we beat top of the table Blackburn next week though. With a certain Mr Dack coming back to town who is currently one of the players of season in league 1.
The irony is that the last game of the season is you at home to..............................Plymouth. Will we both still be up there and will that be a decider? Gulp. Very good result for you people today.
Don't worry. If you need the result you'll probably get it. We've put in some impressive performances away from home in the past few months, but don't seem to be able to control home games to the same extent. Anyhow, not only do I think that promotion would be a disaster for us, making the objective of getting to the playoffs pointless, I fancy a trip to the Stadium of Light next season. That will be a hell of a trip for you guys.
We've done Hartlepool and Carlisle loads of times in recent seasons so can't see Sunderland being much of a stretch. Every away game is a long way from here, even our nearest league rival is a 250 mile round trip. Plenty down here think promotion this season would be a disaster with a swift relegation to follow but you can't tell me you want to lose and not have a go. So what if you come straight down again. As long as your Board don't start splashing cash they don't have then what's to lose.
More or less agree with most of this. The supporters are happy, we've had a good up turn from where we were looking likely of going (L2). I'm happy where we are and the Stadium of Light and what was looking like Hull at one point would be the icing for me. Don't see the point in turning a positive in to a negative by back to back promotion and relegation.
This is one of those strange ones really. I'd like to think that the players would give everything to get to a playoff final, and obviously get promoted - if they don't then they should move on to the next stage of their lives (after football) without delay. But I have to agree with brb that at the moment as a club we're better off where we are, and distractions of glamorous away games aside (looks like Accrington's looking more likely next season as well - bizarrely a game I genuinely enjoy going to, not least because it's local for me), we're just not ready for the Championship, and promotion followed by almost inevitable relegation would probably set back any longer term hopes of being promoted and being able to stay up. On that basis I'd see the play-offs as an unnecessary extension to the season. Anyhow, good luck for the rest of the season. Wherever we both end up our journeys this season have followed similar paths from abject depression to at least almost certain at least mid-table security.
Championship? bring it on. It's always nice to get promotion with the fan base and finances to do well, the trouble is will we ever be in that position? possibly but probably not in my lifetime. As you get older the future gets shorter, if it lasts for 1 year and back down so be it, I waited over 40 years to see our first foray into championship/league 1, I haven't got another 40 years to wait.
We have done the Championship and everything whilst there was going swimmingly. Then the World Cup bid won by the Russians happened and we were selected in advance to host some of the games in the South West. Bring in some money people and that nice Mr Holloway came to town also riding on a pile of bullshit. WE borrowed this and that and the so called money men went walkabout when we didn't get the competition leaving Argyle up **** creek without the proverbial, That nice Mr Holloway who loved us so much he was signing copies of his book whilst all the time having just penned his new contract with Leicester. The dream for me was to see my club playing in the top league just once in my lifetime. We were getting there before all the promises of fortune arrived even if it was slowly season on season. We ended up back in league 2 and sitting in a position to go out of the league altogether. I think that was my shot at the stars gone as I'm like you a bit long in the tooth to see it happen again. So despite the fact we also aren't ready for promotion yet I would still vote for it if it was on. Personally I don't think we will make it this time so it is unlikely to arise. If we dropped out of that league at the first shout then so be it. We are highly unlikely to see our Chairman spend his cash so we are unlikely to get into debt again. That would be a good thing by the way as I don't want Administration again in my lifetime either.
..................... just to clarify - sensiblegreeny is talking about Plymouth ! ( I didn't realise that Scally was also their Chairman )
Thinking a head to that last game of the season, does anyone know (grumpygit?) when Plymouth last beat us on our home turf? Another question...why is the match a 5:30pm kick-off? - whatever the reason this is stupidity, supporters from both clubs will have a whole day drinking
brb, since when have the FA taken supporters into consideration? You have to remember that it is only the Premier league that demands any consideration and that's due to the fact that they don't even need supporters at all.
Last couple of seasons the EFL leagues have had fixtures at peculiar days and times which each league staggered but League One has generally had the nicest kick off times out of the three. Looks like it's our turn to have it later.
