| PLay Offs then 13:00 - May 12 with 13482 views | TGRRRSSS |
Sheff Wed and Huddersfield, Fulham and Fakes.
Who do you want?
Other than Reading failing I don't overly mind but mate of mine is a big sheff wed fan so maybe for him I don't mind if they go up. |  | | |  |
| PLay Offs then on 21:45 - May 16 with 2481 views | DWQPR |
| PLay Offs then on 21:09 - May 16 by Rs_Holy |
We could do with Foolhan being out of the division next season... if they don't win the playoffs they'll go up automatically next season... unless their manager gets a better offer |
I reckon their manager will be offski and the parachute payments come to an end. Reckon the likes of Cairney will be grabbed by one of the promoted teams. Could be quite a miss for our cottaging friends. At least we aren't in a position whereby a number of our players could be poached! |  |
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| PLay Offs then on 21:46 - May 16 with 2480 views | eghamranger |
| PLay Offs then on 21:09 - May 16 by Rs_Holy |
We could do with Foolhan being out of the division next season... if they don't win the playoffs they'll go up automatically next season... unless their manager gets a better offer |
Fulham still with us next year. Most skillful team in the league, but didn't do well over the two legs.
Can see the manager going, cairney, and a couple of others, but they will get a few quid, so will rebuild.
Seriously hope reading don't make the prem... loads of fakes round my way. |  | | |
| PLay Offs then on 21:46 - May 16 with 2479 views | Toast_R |
I think the Fools bottled it when it came to the crunch. Daft Pen to give away and no one up front until Martin came on too little too late. Look forward to giving them a game next season. Reading dug out the result as they've been doing all season without being that great. Twunts. |  | | |
| PLay Offs then on 21:56 - May 16 with 2412 views | makaveli1882 |
Finished 3rd comfortably; 5th top scorers; only lost at home twice (I think) one being against us; just beat the inform team in the league over 2 leg.
Dislike the fakes as much as the next man but facts don't lie, will probably go up unless that clown in goal has a rob green moment. | | | |
| PLay Offs then on 22:34 - May 16 with 2248 views | daveB |
I thought Fulham played pretty well tonight, had so much of the ball and created some good chances but nothing up front. One of the most one sided playoff games since we beat Derby
I can't stand Reading, I hope they get stuffed in the final |  | | |
| PLay Offs then on 22:45 - May 16 with 2202 views | stevec |
| PLay Offs then on 21:56 - May 16 by makaveli1882 |
Finished 3rd comfortably; 5th top scorers; only lost at home twice (I think) one being against us; just beat the inform team in the league over 2 leg.
Dislike the fakes as much as the next man but facts don't lie, will probably go up unless that clown in goal has a rob green moment. |
Can't imagine it cost Reading too much to get hold of two strikers, Curmudgeon and Grabban, who have BOTH been promoted from this League before.
Cue mass influx of League One stooges.. 'we haven't got the budget' |  | | |
| PLay Offs then on 23:05 - May 16 with 2158 views | Northernr |
You want to watch that Reading team playing like that every week then good luck to you. |  | | |
| PLay Offs then on 23:29 - May 16 with 2123 views | CamberleyR |
| PLay Offs then on 21:56 - May 16 by makaveli1882 |
Finished 3rd comfortably; 5th top scorers; only lost at home twice (I think) one being against us; just beat the inform team in the league over 2 leg.
Dislike the fakes as much as the next man but facts don't lie, will probably go up unless that clown in goal has a rob green moment. |
"5th top scorers"
Yeah, and only 8 teams conceded more goals. Two 4-1 defeats, a Hawaii (5-0) at Fulham and that 7-1 shellacking at Norwich who's defence has been worse than theirs this season.
I look forward to them getting promoted and then battered every week as they break Derby's Premier League points record. |  |
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| PLay Offs then on 23:32 - May 16 with 2118 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| PLay Offs then on 21:56 - May 16 by makaveli1882 |
Finished 3rd comfortably; 5th top scorers; only lost at home twice (I think) one being against us; just beat the inform team in the league over 2 leg.
Dislike the fakes as much as the next man but facts don't lie, will probably go up unless that clown in goal has a rob green moment. |
Every time I've seen them this season has convinced me more just how bang average they are. Tonight confirmed it. How the hell are they in the final!! Incredible. |  | | |
| PLay Offs then on 01:09 - May 17 with 2053 views | rbrb999 |
As for me, thank goodness Fulham are not going up. Had they gotten promotion can you imagine say for example we play at home to Bolton one Saturday and Fulham kick off same day/time against Man U.
What would that do to our attendance?! |  | | |
| PLay Offs then on 07:18 - May 17 with 1908 views | daveB |
| PLay Offs then on 01:09 - May 17 by rbrb999 |
As for me, thank goodness Fulham are not going up. Had they gotten promotion can you imagine say for example we play at home to Bolton one Saturday and Fulham kick off same day/time against Man U.
What would that do to our attendance?! |
same as normal, it never really affected our attendance when they were in the prem before | | | |
| PLay Offs then on 07:54 - May 17 with 1853 views | Northernr |
| PLay Offs then on 01:09 - May 17 by rbrb999 |
As for me, thank goodness Fulham are not going up. Had they gotten promotion can you imagine say for example we play at home to Bolton one Saturday and Fulham kick off same day/time against Man U.
What would that do to our attendance?! |
Nothing. | | | |
| PLay Offs then on 08:13 - May 17 with 1826 views | paulparker |
How the fcuk did Reading win that last night, talk about lucky ,
I honestly think they are going up now, they are one of the worst teams ive ever seen make the play offs , they will blend in will with the rest of the premier league dross like Burnley, Stoke, Bournemouth, West Ham, WBA,
as for Fulham I think that's them done with now, Cairney will leave so will Sessganon (sp) Martin back to Derby and the manager to West Ham |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
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| PLay Offs then on 09:14 - May 17 with 1770 views | DejR_vu |
| PLay Offs then on 23:29 - May 16 by CamberleyR |
"5th top scorers"
Yeah, and only 8 teams conceded more goals. Two 4-1 defeats, a Hawaii (5-0) at Fulham and that 7-1 shellacking at Norwich who's defence has been worse than theirs this season.
I look forward to them getting promoted and then battered every week as they break Derby's Premier League points record. |
Even if they do get a good hiding every week and get relegated with zero points, as funny as that would be, they'd come down with wheelbarrows full of money. Assuming they've been paying attention to the QPR blueprint and do the opposite, they will be another club ahead of us for years to come. Gutting. | |
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| PLay Offs then on 10:22 - May 17 with 1702 views | stevec |
| PLay Offs then on 09:14 - May 17 by DejR_vu |
Even if they do get a good hiding every week and get relegated with zero points, as funny as that would be, they'd come down with wheelbarrows full of money. Assuming they've been paying attention to the QPR blueprint and do the opposite, they will be another club ahead of us for years to come. Gutting. |
At least we'll be able to hear 'U RRR's' in the Premier League.
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| PLay Offs then on 10:33 - May 17 with 1690 views | Drewster |
| PLay Offs then on 10:22 - May 17 by stevec |
At least we'll be able to hear 'U RRR's' in the Premier League.
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Oh great, something to look forward to then.
I live just outside Reading and it's going to be unbearable round here now, especially if they win, which I suspect they will.
All the 'fans' who traded in their Reading shirts for Man U shirts over the last couple of years will miraculously crawl out of the woodwork now. |  | | |
| PLay Offs then on 10:57 - May 17 with 1667 views | stowmarketrange |
Hopefully Sheffield will thrash them at Wembley in the final.I don't want 'uddersfield to go anywhere after their game against allowed candle face to escape the drop,so it's definitely Wednesday for me.And it would p@ss off the lids fans that the champions of Europe didn't make it to the premier league instead. |  | | |
| PLay Offs then on 11:11 - May 17 with 1650 views | Konk |
I wouldn’t want to watch Reading every week for all sorts of reasons, but I can’t really blame them for playing the way they did against us. We smashed them 5-0 at our place earlier in the season and in the 3 ½ times we’ve played them since, they’ve set-up the same way and we’ve only scored once. I think it’s self-evident that Stam has recognised we’re a much better footballing side and that we can murder teams if we’re given time and space, so they’ve restricted both and looked to capitalise on any chances they get. We’re a pretty small side that can be outmuscled against more physical teams, and with no height or aerial presence in the side, we can really only play one way, which as we showed against Reading, isn’t always enough against a well-organised, physically stronger and bigger team. We were unfortunate that Atwell was sh it and didn’t spot the handball in the build up to their goal on Saturday, but although we were also unlucky that the officials didn’t spot Kermogant punching the ball a split second before Kalas’s handball, they equally should have scored a sitter when Swift had an open goal. I can’t say I wish Reading good luck in the final, but I also can’t be (too!) bitter about the way they approached both games. I’m pretty sure I’ve been relaxed about us time-wasting at times in the past, and in both games against Shaktar Donetsk, we were almost comically out-footballed, but came away with a win and a draw after superbly disciplined performances and a huge collective effort. And I can’t remember being too apologetic about it. It happens.
We’ve rightly had a lot of plaudits for some of the football we’ve played this season, but if one game summed up our season it was Brighton at home: dominated for an hour, missed a penalty at 0-0, went 1-0 up and then watched a wilier, stronger, well-organised Albion side run out 2-1 winners. The difference between the 2 sides was Dunk and Murray. It’s been obvious all year that we’ve lacked a physically imposing Centre back and a bit of class/mobility up front, and when we failed to address either issue in January, we seriously damaged our prospects of promotion. And that’s exactly what we missed last night. Aluko, Ayite and Kebano all have plenty of pace and trickery, but none of them is the most composed of footballers when it comes to finishing or the final ball.
I’m personally not that fussed about the Premier League: we have 5,000 day trippers or away fans dotted around the ground, tickets are more expensive, I have to talk about football to the Fantasy League Liverpool/Man Utd/Arsenal/Chelsea fans at work, Man Utd acquaintances who’ve never been to Manchester gloating because they’ve turned over the mighty FFC, mere survival is success. I can’t get excited about games against the wealthiest clubs, and Stoke, WBA, Burnley, Bournemouth, Swansea and Watford are no more exciting a prospect for me than Villa, Sheff Utd, Leeds or PNE. I have also barely thought about Chelsea since our relegation — I’m a happier, less bitter person without two games a season against that lot. The games against Rangers and Brentford are better days out than our games against Chelsea — which must surely be amongst the most one sided local rivalries in World football in terms of results and therefore one side barely giving a fu ck about the other. For me, the best thing about promotion would have been the increased prospects of keeping hold of Jokanovic (vital), Cairney (highly desirable) and seeing a bit more of Sessegnon before he inevitably moves on. If we have to raise funds to get 2 decent Centre forwards and a stronger Centre back, then I’d sell Sessegnon with a decent sell-on clause — not even a regular starter, he’d be far less of a loss in the short term than Cairney and would probably go for similar money. We have one of the smallest squads in the division and only good fortune with injuries stopped us having to scratch around to fill gaps.
Even though we ultimately came up short, this has been a really enjoyable season; we’ve played some great football, scored loads of goals, the manager and players have developed a strong bond with the support, and we’ve turned a corner. Last season we finished 20th on 51 points with a goal difference of -13, scoring 66 goals; 36 of which came from Dembele and McCormack. We lost both in the summer, but we’ve come back with 9 players scoring 5 goals or more and I love seeing goals spread throughout the side. This year we’re joint top goal scorers with Newcastle and Norwich on 85 and a goal difference of +28; when you consider we've also missed 9 penalties, that's pretty remarkable. That’s great progress and at times we’ve been brilliant to watch. If we can keep hold of Jokanovic, our better players and recruit 3-4 quality players in the summer then I think we’ll have another good year.
Oh, and I think Reading are massively trolling you lot with those URRRRRRRRRRRRRZ! Advertising boards. It’s the Z that does it. Kwazy. [Post edited 17 May 2017 12:29]
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| PLay Offs then on 11:52 - May 17 with 1590 views | MrSheen |
| PLay Offs then on 11:11 - May 17 by Konk |
I wouldn’t want to watch Reading every week for all sorts of reasons, but I can’t really blame them for playing the way they did against us. We smashed them 5-0 at our place earlier in the season and in the 3 ½ times we’ve played them since, they’ve set-up the same way and we’ve only scored once. I think it’s self-evident that Stam has recognised we’re a much better footballing side and that we can murder teams if we’re given time and space, so they’ve restricted both and looked to capitalise on any chances they get. We’re a pretty small side that can be outmuscled against more physical teams, and with no height or aerial presence in the side, we can really only play one way, which as we showed against Reading, isn’t always enough against a well-organised, physically stronger and bigger team. We were unfortunate that Atwell was sh it and didn’t spot the handball in the build up to their goal on Saturday, but although we were also unlucky that the officials didn’t spot Kermogant punching the ball a split second before Kalas’s handball, they equally should have scored a sitter when Swift had an open goal. I can’t say I wish Reading good luck in the final, but I also can’t be (too!) bitter about the way they approached both games. I’m pretty sure I’ve been relaxed about us time-wasting at times in the past, and in both games against Shaktar Donetsk, we were almost comically out-footballed, but came away with a win and a draw after superbly disciplined performances and a huge collective effort. And I can’t remember being too apologetic about it. It happens.
We’ve rightly had a lot of plaudits for some of the football we’ve played this season, but if one game summed up our season it was Brighton at home: dominated for an hour, missed a penalty at 0-0, went 1-0 up and then watched a wilier, stronger, well-organised Albion side run out 2-1 winners. The difference between the 2 sides was Dunk and Murray. It’s been obvious all year that we’ve lacked a physically imposing Centre back and a bit of class/mobility up front, and when we failed to address either issue in January, we seriously damaged our prospects of promotion. And that’s exactly what we missed last night. Aluko, Ayite and Kebano all have plenty of pace and trickery, but none of them is the most composed of footballers when it comes to finishing or the final ball.
I’m personally not that fussed about the Premier League: we have 5,000 day trippers or away fans dotted around the ground, tickets are more expensive, I have to talk about football to the Fantasy League Liverpool/Man Utd/Arsenal/Chelsea fans at work, Man Utd acquaintances who’ve never been to Manchester gloating because they’ve turned over the mighty FFC, mere survival is success. I can’t get excited about games against the wealthiest clubs, and Stoke, WBA, Burnley, Bournemouth, Swansea and Watford are no more exciting a prospect for me than Villa, Sheff Utd, Leeds or PNE. I have also barely thought about Chelsea since our relegation — I’m a happier, less bitter person without two games a season against that lot. The games against Rangers and Brentford are better days out than our games against Chelsea — which must surely be amongst the most one sided local rivalries in World football in terms of results and therefore one side barely giving a fu ck about the other. For me, the best thing about promotion would have been the increased prospects of keeping hold of Jokanovic (vital), Cairney (highly desirable) and seeing a bit more of Sessegnon before he inevitably moves on. If we have to raise funds to get 2 decent Centre forwards and a stronger Centre back, then I’d sell Sessegnon with a decent sell-on clause — not even a regular starter, he’d be far less of a loss in the short term than Cairney and would probably go for similar money. We have one of the smallest squads in the division and only good fortune with injuries stopped us having to scratch around to fill gaps.
Even though we ultimately came up short, this has been a really enjoyable season; we’ve played some great football, scored loads of goals, the manager and players have developed a strong bond with the support, and we’ve turned a corner. Last season we finished 20th on 51 points with a goal difference of -13, scoring 66 goals; 36 of which came from Dembele and McCormack. We lost both in the summer, but we’ve come back with 9 players scoring 5 goals or more and I love seeing goals spread throughout the side. This year we’re joint top goal scorers with Newcastle and Norwich on 85 and a goal difference of +28; when you consider we've also missed 9 penalties, that's pretty remarkable. That’s great progress and at times we’ve been brilliant to watch. If we can keep hold of Jokanovic, our better players and recruit 3-4 quality players in the summer then I think we’ll have another good year.
Oh, and I think Reading are massively trolling you lot with those URRRRRRRRRRRRRZ! Advertising boards. It’s the Z that does it. Kwazy. [Post edited 17 May 2017 12:29]
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Unlucky last night, but if Reading go up, I'm sure you wouldn't change places in a few months' time.
Last year of parachute payments next season? How much is it? |  | | |
| PLay Offs then on 12:18 - May 17 with 1551 views | TacticalR |
@Konk 'We’re a pretty small side that can be outmuscled against more physical teams, and with no height or aerial presence in the side, we can really only play one way, which as we showed against Reading, isn’t always enough against a well-organised, physically stronger and bigger team'
We have the same problem, but we are in a bit of a no man's land as in a lot of games our skill level hasn't been that great either, so we have resorted to long ball football without the players who can receive that kind of ball.
When we played away at Reading they played the kind of possession football where they just hang on to the ball without doing anything, i.e. basically trying to hide the ball. The funny thing was that yesterday Reading showed some flashes of brilliance on the counter-attack.
@Konk 'The difference between the 2 sides was Dunk and Murray. It’s been obvious all year that we’ve lacked a physically imposing Centre back and a bit of class/mobility up front, and when we failed to address either issue in January, we seriously damaged our prospects of promotion. And that’s exactly what we missed last night.'
We had Dunne and Austin in those positions to see us through against Wigan in the playoffs in 2014.
We agree that the Premiership is a terrible place which is why you see our club doing everything it can to avoid the playoff places. |  |
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| PLay Offs then on 12:26 - May 17 with 1528 views | paulparker |
The Prem is Sh1t
West Brom, West Ham , Stoke, Burnley Watford, Bournemouth all have hardly won a game for about 6 weeks but all find themselves in the top half of the table despite being the most boring teams on the planet and sacking off the cups
im bored to tears with the last few weeks of it , nothing and I mean nothing is going on in the best league in the world ( copyright sky sports)
Man utd don't care , Everton are on the beach , and soton fans are bored with a bloke who gets to a cup final
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| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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| PLay Offs then on 12:35 - May 17 with 1507 views | simmo |
| PLay Offs then on 12:26 - May 17 by paulparker |
The Prem is Sh1t
West Brom, West Ham , Stoke, Burnley Watford, Bournemouth all have hardly won a game for about 6 weeks but all find themselves in the top half of the table despite being the most boring teams on the planet and sacking off the cups
im bored to tears with the last few weeks of it , nothing and I mean nothing is going on in the best league in the world ( copyright sky sports)
Man utd don't care , Everton are on the beach , and soton fans are bored with a bloke who gets to a cup final
id rather be in the championship or league 1 all day long |
Exactly, my entire motivation for getting to the PL is based on the fun a promotion winning season in the Championship would be coupled with the fact we can go up, pocket the money to spend on youth, infrastructure and cover debts, then come back down and have a go at this league again without the financial issues we have now.
Fúck being a 'mainstay' in that league finishing between 8th and 16th celebrating the fact we get to rub shoulders with shit cnts like Chelscum and United with their weapon supporters and sycophantic media following. I've said it before but at that point I would put much more of my efforts into following local non-league teams and Rugby League. |  |
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| PLay Offs then on 12:40 - May 17 with 1490 views | Phildo |
I wonder what the Fulham dietitian has said to Chris Martin. It looks like Derby are getting two players back? |  | | |
| PLay Offs then on 12:45 - May 17 with 1477 views | Konk |
| PLay Offs then on 12:40 - May 17 by Phildo |
I wonder what the Fulham dietitian has said to Chris Martin. It looks like Derby are getting two players back? |
The tubby fu cker has gone to great lengths to maintain his body weight during his time with us. It takes a lot of dedication - training all day and never dropping below a stone overweight. Hardcore. He and Darren fu cking Bent are gonna be having some serious fall outs over the last plate of sandwiches at Derby's Christmas do. | |
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