EFL Play-Offs 2024/25

I went to bed at full time, thank feck.
Himself whispered 'Orient' as I slipped out the bedroom.
Romantic barsteward 🤣🤣

EugenesAxe said:

Everyone seems to be shitting themselves about playing Orient all of a sudden

I'd be shitting myself if we had to beat Burton, with the importance of the match. We have bean beaten by lesser sides over the years. Form is relevant right now, as it breeds confidence, however as every team in the playoffs has got to them over a 46 game run, they all feel they have a good chance.

2 wins could significantly change the course of our clubs history. 

Orient's win other than the obvious great organisation, tireless running and tackling as well as taking a clear cut chance, showed the necessity of taking and scoring penalties whilst keeping cool in front of hostile Stockport fans. I hope we don't need them, nevertheless, I am sure we have been practising just in case

Chunes said:

I'm genuinely surprised. Thought Stockport were a dead cert for the final. Fair play Orient. 

Exactly. Feel sick.

I had a feeling Orient would do it - they came into the play offs on brilliant form, and had to keep going to make sure they beat Reading to the last spot. If we beat Wycombe, they will be tough opponents. If we don't, they'll go up.

Bailey said:

I think if you were a Stockport fan you would probably declare that the teams finishing deserted them at the very moment they needed it. I thought that Stockport were the better side in the second half and in extra time, with the two misses coming from route one. Disappointing for them but they have had a fantastic season.  

and let down by the officials with a horrific offside decision.

I'd imagine most (if not all) Orient fans will be cheering Wycombe on tonight. 

We got a bit of stick from their supporters for our "over exuberant" celebrations when we scored our late goals at Brisbane Rd, mockingly saying we treated it like we'd won the league. Well, hopefully we can repeat it at Wembley, so they can see what 40,000 "nutters" looks like.

On a personal note, I'm glad they beat stockport. Now we just need to make sure we don't make the same mistake.

Wasn't it rumoured he'd turned us down? Before Micky Apples was appointed maybe?

killerandflash said:

Callumcafc said:

killerandflash said:

Bailey said:

I think if you were a Stockport fan you would probably declare that the teams finishing deserted them at the very moment they needed it. I thought that Stockport were the better side in the second half and in extra time, with the two misses coming from route one. Disappointing for them but they have had a fantastic season.  

You suspect that this was their big chance, as smaller clubs who just miss out often lose their best players and/or their manager. Challinor must be on the radar of Championship clubs.

I don’t think Challinor leaves them for at least another year unless a properly established and ambitious Championship club came in.

He already turned down numerous L1 jobs when Stockport were a L2 club.

The Championship is one the most brutal leagues in the world for managerial longevity, there are always vacancies coming up and it can be hard to turn down.

This season Bloomfield left Wycombe for Luton, while Selles left Reading for Hull. Ainsworth previously left Wycombe for QPR, while our Jones left Luton for Stoke.

That went well for all of them.

killerandflash said:

LargeAddick said:

killerandflash said:

Callumcafc said:

killerandflash said:

Bailey said:

I think if you were a Stockport fan you would probably declare that the teams finishing deserted them at the very moment they needed it. I thought that Stockport were the better side in the second half and in extra time, with the two misses coming from route one. Disappointing for them but they have had a fantastic season.  

You suspect that this was their big chance, as smaller clubs who just miss out often lose their best players and/or their manager. Challinor must be on the radar of Championship clubs.

I don’t think Challinor leaves them for at least another year unless a properly established and ambitious Championship club came in.

He already turned down numerous L1 jobs when Stockport were a L2 club.

The Championship is one the most brutal leagues in the world for managerial longevity, there are always vacancies coming up and it can be hard to turn down.

This season Bloomfield left Wycombe for Luton, while Selles left Reading for Hull. Ainsworth previously left Wycombe for QPR, while our Jones left Luton for Stoke.

Our Jones left Luton for Southampton.

They were a Championship club when he left, I was just thinking of L1 managers jumping upwards.

Another good example is Paul Hurst who took Shrewsbury to Wembley in 2018 (beating us in the semis), but after losing then left to take over at Ipswich. Shrewsbury were never L1 promotion contenders again.

Spotted that and amended my post. Hoped no-one would notice ....

charltonkeston said:

Callumcafc said:

Betfair says 61% Charlton, 39% Wycombe. We have an advantage but it’s still far from over. For context, same place has Stockport at 67% and Orient at 33%.

The bookies rarely lose money even in a 2 horse race. They have to offer odds to get people to part with their money. What I've seen of the betting, we are 2-1 and they are 4-1, not really that tight.
They have lost twice in the league and drawn once this season with us and failed to score on two recent matches.
We will win because we are the better team, we are playing at home and their current form isn't as good as ours. I know that is being big headed but we have beaten better teams this year. 

Never doubted it

Pelling1993 said:

Just gone for a 2.5 hour wank. Not helped one bit 😂

Gonna be a bit sore then

DRAddick said:

Just watched the Orient highlights. Stockport should have had at least one penalty which was blatant. What with the offside in the first leg, Orient have definitely had the luck of the decisions. But then Stockport had plenty of good chances in both games and it shouldn't have got to penalties. 

Stockport can have no complaints really, they had some shocking decisions at Orient, that's true, but all they have to do is win a home game and they made a right bollocks of it.

They gave away a criminal goal early on and then missed some golden chances to win the game and paid the price.

I met a few Irish lads in the pub before the last Wembley play off & have kept in contact with them since. They been over for a few games, was due to met up for the Exeter home game back in Feb. We didn’t meet and said to them in a WhatsApp message see you at WEMBLEY.