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No 'big game' next season?

AFKABartram
AFKABartram Posts: 58,195
in General Charlton
Felt like a few years since we had a season without Palace or Millwall.

Won't use the term 'rivals' because it doesn't work like that, but who will be the:visitor to The Valley next season that you will be looking forward to most and really want to win ?

With Fulham, QPR and Brentford playing out a West London thing, i think its going to be a bit of a strange 'odd man out' season for us.
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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,527
    Wednesday obv
  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804
    Surely the big games will be against the teams competing for top spot against us?
  • JoshrewCAFC
    JoshrewCAFC Posts: 921
    Leeds for me - just a scum club with scummy fans
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,017
    I'll very much enjoy the three away trips to West London. Difficult to get excited about any of the home games - don't really feel there's anything extra at stake playing the London clubs.

    I think what would please me most would be for us to turn in a decent performance in one of the drab/predictable defeat games that I repeatedly drag myself along for despite knowing exactly what's going to happen. So on that basis, a convincing home win against Blackburn would be nice.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,508
    'Big games' are defined by the relative league positions of the teams playing the game .. top or bottom two playing each other with 'six points' at stake, surely BIG games .. so (e.g.) if we're top and MK Dons are second come next February, that would be a BIG game, despite the boycott ((:>)
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,954
    Huddersfield in the Cup.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,241
    Please come back Millwall !
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,135
    se9addick said:

    Please come back Millwall !

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  • BigRedEvil
    BigRedEvil Posts: 11,133
    Not having to play Palace or Millwall will probably do us a favour. We normally lose them games plus we get a tad obsessive about it which only results in more embarrassment for when we lose!
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Huddersfield in both the cups is my pick for next season.

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  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    MrLargo said:

    I'll very much enjoy the three away trips to West London.

    Might as well buy our own boat
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    For the home fixture against QPR, can we make them hand over the money up-front for their ticket allocation then hand it straight over to the FL as part of their massive fine they're yet to pay, without giving them the tickets?

    Similarly instead of paying QPR for the away match tickets, can we just ask the FL to give us tickets instead and we'll pay them directly.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,444
    edited June 2015
    Seasons 10/11 and 11/12 when we in the third tier of English football, were the last times we failed to play Palace or Millwall in a league game.

    Prior that it would be seasons 05/06 and 06/07 when we were in the premier league.

    The last time we failed to play against either side in the 2nd tier of English football would be Season 1997/1998.

  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,398
    It is going to be dull without Millwall in the league - I know we always bottle the result, but at least there is excitement around the fixture.

    Even the teams that have come up/gone down to join us are pretty bland - Burnley, Preston, Milton Keynes, Hull. Boring.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Fulham, as I have a few chums that are Fulham fans.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,444
    When the fixtures come out in the middle of June, the first games I look for are the games against Palace or Millwall. In a couple of weeks whilst I look forward to the new fixtures, there is not one game I'm excited about and looking forward to play. No new ground either this season.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,505
    The Millwall and Palace games are damp squibs anyway, apart from our poor results, the atmosphere is never very special anyway. The 'Amaraillo' game in 2005(?) was the last derby with a great atmosphere
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,462
    Ridiculous thread title when we have the good fortune to be in the same league as Sheffield Wednesday ( I mean the division of course not the general football scheme of things...)
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,053
    Let's just concentrate on putting a hatful past Franchise shall we.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,398
    killerandflash said:

    The Millwall and Palace games are damp squibs anyway, apart from our poor results, the atmosphere is never very special anyway. The 'Amaraillo' game in 2005(?) was the last derby with a great atmosphere

    Clearly wasn't at Palace in 2007 or Millwall in 2012.

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  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    killerandflash said:

    The Millwall and Palace games are damp squibs anyway, apart from our poor results, the atmosphere is never very special anyway. The 'Amaraillo' game in 2005(?) was the last derby with a great atmosphere

    The away games have had a cracking atmosphere. Well, in the away end anyway.
  • stonewallpenalty
    stonewallpenalty Posts: 3,842
    This year was a blinding atmosphere at the den apart from the last 10 mins. Not gonna miss them at all.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,505
    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    killerandflash said:

    The Millwall and Palace games are damp squibs anyway, apart from our poor results, the atmosphere is never very special anyway. The 'Amaraillo' game in 2005(?) was the last derby with a great atmosphere

    The away games have had a cracking atmosphere. Well, in the away end anyway.
    Other away games have had almost as good an atmosphere in the away end, but to me good atmosphere has to come from home and away supporters. Our home games against Palace and Millwall have all been like morgues
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,565
    It's a good observation that there are few big games just many tough ones that you win if you play well and lose if you don't. The Championship is riddled with clubs from boring towns but I suppose that's logical as the Premiership is dominated by the big cities. League 1 gave us interesting trips to Yeovil and Chesterfield but in the Championship without Millwall, Palace and country towns not much stands out unless Rotherham is your idea of a nice weekend away.
  • sunbury-addick
    sunbury-addick Posts: 1,931
    Brentford and Fulham brilliant for me, QPR is a rotten, strangely, old schlep from here
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,903
    If I could choose what home games I'd like to see they would be Wolves, Derby, Forest and Leeds. For me, they are the biggest and more enticing fixtures.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,903
    If I could choose what home games I'd like to see they would be Wolves, Derby, Forest and Leeds. For me, they are the biggest and more enticing fixtures.
  • sunbury-addick
    sunbury-addick Posts: 1,931
    Brentford and Fulham brilliant for me, QPR is a rotten, strangely, old schlep from here
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,135
    edited June 2015
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  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,135
    shirty5 said:

    Seasons 10/11 and 11/12 when we in the third tier of English football, were the last times we failed to play Palace or Millwall in a league game.

    Prior that it would be seasons 05/06 and 06/07 when we were in the premier league.

    The last time we failed to play against either side in the 2nd tier of English football would be Season 1997/1998.

    So the last time we didn't play them, we romped the league.
    I'll take that.

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