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Championship Games 25/26
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When we had the game abandoned at The Valley 10 years ago, the red card their player got still earned him a suspension.1
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No problem with that, it’s not a head injury and it’s not as if he could have broken a leg in a bad challenge.fenaddick said:This is going to have boiled some Pompey heads
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I think the Blackburn game they should play the last 10 minutes with the lineups etc the same as the game, and they should aim to complete it as soon as possible, if they don't have midweek games surely they can get up there and complete it on Tuesday or something?0
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They still standBriston_Addick said:Blackburn's game with Ipswich abandoned with them leading 1-0 with 10 mins left. Ipswich had a player sent off too.
I'm pretty sure the goals are scrubbed from the record but what happens with the yellow and red cards?0 -
I agree with you, they don't even have to wait until Tuesday. Why couldn't they see if the weather improved overnight and go back today at midday and complete it behind closed doors?sam3110 said:I think the Blackburn game they should play the last 10 minutes with the lineups etc the same as the game, and they should aim to complete it as soon as possible, if they don't have midweek games surely they can get up there and complete it on Tuesday or something?
The rules are pretty stupid in England. The entire game gets replayed despite only a few minutes remaining, the guy who scored - his goal won't count, but the guy who got sent off - his red card and suspension does stand.
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Bristol city losing 2-0 to Oxford at half time the second goal was a screamer.3
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Crazy league. Got to love it.1
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Oxford jumping out of relegation spots with 3-1 against Bristol1
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This season's Championship is going to be brutal. No relying on there being 3 crap teams to survive.
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Watching this game and I honestly think Oxford will beat Sheffield United next week.stoneroses19 said:Oxford jumping out of relegation spots with 3-1 against Bristol
Wilder has a massive job on his hands to get them up the league.1 - Sponsored links:
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If ever a weekend demonstrated the total unpredictability of the Championship this was it. The 2 favourites for promotion Ipswich (if it stands) and Southampton both lose and just about all the teams fancied to struggle - Wednesday, Oxford, Preston, Blackburn, QPR, Hull and thankfully Charlton all win. Absolutely ridiculous.1
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Millwall escape with three points at the end there thanks to a save from 3 yards that their keeper knew nothing about.
The kind of nonsense that’s being going against us most of the season so far..!1 -
Will Smallbone coming on with a full head of hair had me double taking1
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Neither team looked particularly good. Then again in this league, there is barely anything between 15-20 teams1
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14,000??
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So far:DamoNorthStand said:Neither team looked particularly good. Then again in this league, there is barely anything between 15-20 teams
Middlesbrough - very good
Sheffield united - very bad
Sheffield Wednesday - bad but better than most expected
The other 21 teams are all pretty even.1 -
Can see Watford going down0
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Local derby with good Watford support.... would like to think we will easily surpass that figure against Blackburn who will bring next to nothing.soapy_jones said:14,000??
Small time.0 - Sponsored links:
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absolutely no way were there 14,000 inside that ground last nightsoapy_jones said:14,000??
Small time.
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Watched the last 20 minutes or so last night. Watford seemed to play with a belief that they are a great footballing side, which they certainly are not. They were passing it around with little urgency before the inevitable misplaced pass, which happened time and time again or the ball was fizzed into the forwards at 100mph and impossible to control.
They could, however, have scored late on when they actually got the ball into the box and a snapshot hit the Scum goalkeeper on the foot. The commentators were trying to claim it as a wonder-save, but the keeper knew absolutely nothing about it.
The standard of football from both sides was not a good advert for the Championship.0 -
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I am still erring on the side of leave it as it is.... but what I will say is when the league is as tight as the championship, it opens the riches of the premier league out to more of us.1
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Agree - I was thinking it looked 10k max.Elthamaddick said:
absolutely no way were there 14,000 inside that ground last nightsoapy_jones said:14,000??
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Even if it could benefit us I'd prefer them not to - it will mean the league phase mattering a bit less5
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I don’t hate the idea of a one off game between 6th and 7th, hosted by 6th, for the right to play 3rd. It broadens to the scope of rewards for every time from 1st down to 7th.
1st: you win the league
2nd: you get automatically promoted
3rd: you get your second leg at home and your first opponent (6th or 7th) has already played in the last few days
4th: you get your second leg at home
5th: you skip the extra playoff game but second leg is away
6th: you’re in with an extra game to play at home
7th; you’re in but the extra game is away from home
I don’t love the idea of a 5th v 8th game to decide who gets to play the team in 4th though.
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I'm against it going down to 7th and 8th but if it was introduced then i'd like to see:
Quarter finals (one off games)
5th v 8th
6th v 7th
Then two-legged semi finals.
Winner of QF1 v 4th
Winner of QF2 v 3rd0 -
Completely agree. You only need to look at American sports to see how meaningless the regular season is as a result of expanded playoffs.Leuth said:Even if it could benefit us I'd prefer them not to - it will mean the league phase mattering a bit less5 -
The National League experience shows that the momentum from winning games more than compensates for players being more tired after playing more games.
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