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Leicester Loyal said:
3 more wins and I reckon you're up. Surely even Leeds can't bottle it from here?! Be great to have you back in the Prem, we'll finally be able to go to Elland Road for £30 or less too!
Never underestimate the ability of a Leeds team to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory; even the great Revie side managed it on more occasions than I care to remember and this team is nowhere near as good as that one!I'd like to think you're right about the 3 wins but 80 points to seal an automatic promotion spot feels a bit optimistic to me; 4 wins and a couple of draws might do it though, especially if one of those wins was against Fulham a week on Wednesday....
JNW1 said:
Never underestimate the ability of a Leeds team to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory; even the great Revie side managed it on more occasions than I care to remember and this team is nowhere near as good as that one!
I'd like to think you're right about the 3 wins but 80 points to seal an automatic promotion spot feels a bit optimistic to me; 4 wins and a couple of draws might do it though, especially if one of those wins was against Fulham a week on Wednesday....
We'll call it 3 wins (including a win against Fulham) or 3 wins + avoid defeat to Fulham. Fulham have Brentford, Leeds, Forest and WBA in their next 6 games, they should definitely lose one or two of those.I'd like to think you're right about the 3 wins but 80 points to seal an automatic promotion spot feels a bit optimistic to me; 4 wins and a couple of draws might do it though, especially if one of those wins was against Fulham a week on Wednesday....
Leicester Loyal said:
JNW1 said:
Never underestimate the ability of a Leeds team to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory; even the great Revie side managed it on more occasions than I care to remember and this team is nowhere near as good as that one!
I'd like to think you're right about the 3 wins but 80 points to seal an automatic promotion spot feels a bit optimistic to me; 4 wins and a couple of draws might do it though, especially if one of those wins was against Fulham a week on Wednesday....
We'll call it 3 wins (including a win against Fulham) or 3 wins + avoid defeat to Fulham. Fulham have Brentford, Leeds, Forest and WBA in their next 6 games, they should definitely lose one or two of those.I'd like to think you're right about the 3 wins but 80 points to seal an automatic promotion spot feels a bit optimistic to me; 4 wins and a couple of draws might do it though, especially if one of those wins was against Fulham a week on Wednesday....
DaveyBoyWonder said:
Best run in of any team, top of the league, on a roll, goals coming from all over the place... 99% chance we'll mess this up 
I'm not going to get excited until after the Fulham match. Win and I imagine we'll have a decent gap to 3rd, lose and it could be squeaky bum time.However Cardiff this weekend which isn't always a good place for us.
Killer2005 said:
I'm not going to get excited until after the Fulham match. Win and I imagine we'll have a decent gap to 3rd, lose and it could be squeaky bum time.
However Cardiff this weekend which isn't always a good place for us.
Don't think I'll be happy until we mathematically can't be caught. Even then I'll still be waiting for our friends at the FA/EFL to give us a points deduction. Last season I got carried away. This season I'm just trying to keep quietly confident*However Cardiff this weekend which isn't always a good place for us.
- ABOUT THE FACT WE'RE GOING UP AS CHAMPIONS!
I'm in this weird sort of half and half mindset of believing we're going up but not daring actually believe it until it's done... It's very strange!
Just got my Blackburn away ticket yesterday... This is the first time I've done away games (I'm a home ST holder) and I'm absolutely loving it so far.
Just got my Blackburn away ticket yesterday... This is the first time I've done away games (I'm a home ST holder) and I'm absolutely loving it so far.
Well I thought our destiny was in our own hands but I hadn't reckoned on coronavirus!
Hate to say it but I can see a scenario where it's not possible to complete the fixtures for this season before the 2020/21 season's due to start and if that turns out to be the case I think there's every chance the 2019/20 results will simply be expunged from the records. Therefore, come August the new season starts as if the current one hasn't happened which means we're still in the Championship - really hope I'm wrong but I can see it happening. And if it does will Bielsa and some our better players stick around for another season in the 2nd tier? Not sure they will to be honest....
Hate to say it but I can see a scenario where it's not possible to complete the fixtures for this season before the 2020/21 season's due to start and if that turns out to be the case I think there's every chance the 2019/20 results will simply be expunged from the records. Therefore, come August the new season starts as if the current one hasn't happened which means we're still in the Championship - really hope I'm wrong but I can see it happening. And if it does will Bielsa and some our better players stick around for another season in the 2nd tier? Not sure they will to be honest....
As I said in the Liverpool thread, it's far too early to tell. There has been far too much football been played for this season to just be expunged. If it was barely 50% perhaps but with the season getting towards the end I think they'll try and avoid this. I personally think they'll postpone the Euros and the season will finish later.
Given that we are way over 50% through the season and we have played everyone at least once, I would say either call a guillotine, declare the season finished on whenever the last day normally is, and promote as-is, with play-offs for 3rd place in July, or alternatively use result statistics from the first meet of the season between teams to inform a pools panel. The sort of thing you get when most games are snowed off in winter (remember those days!)
I would have thought totally voiding a season after 37 of 46 games would be legally very dubious and would depend on what the contracts actually say.
I would have thought totally voiding a season after 37 of 46 games would be legally very dubious and would depend on what the contracts actually say.
grassomaniac said:
As I said in the Liverpool thread, it's far too early to tell. There has been far too much football been played for this season to just be expunged. If it was barely 50% perhaps but with the season getting towards the end I think they'll try and avoid this. I personally think they'll postpone the Euros and the season will finish later.
My preference would certainly be to finish the current season properly (i.e. play all the fixtures) before starting the next; if that means the 2020/21 season starts late then so be it as far as I'm concerned. Declaring current positions as final wouldn't work in my view; for example, Aston Villa are in the Premier League relegation zone but have played a game less than most of the teams around them and, if they win that game, they'll be out of the bottom three. Therefore, to relegate them based on their current position would be grossly unfair IMO. By the same token, I think voiding the current season would be unfair as well; Liverpool have almost won the Premier League already and it would also be unfair on teams like us and WBA who have a cushion in the automatic promotion places and have occupied those positions for weeks.
So I think the only fair solution is to finish the 2019/20 season and, if necessary, delay the start of the next one. Given the situation in mainland Europe I'm not sure they'll be ready to start their new domestic competitions any sooner than us so hopefully there'll be a consensus and common sense will prevail....
seeing as there's no footie going on at the moment I though that the below may amuse (even if it is a, likely, pearoast). I don't 'do' football and even I found it a quick amusing read.
https://www.planetfootball.com/nostalgia/a-tribute...
https://www.planetfootball.com/nostalgia/a-tribute...
If the season re-starts could they not schedule games every 48 hours? It might be unprecedented but so are the current circumstances. If they did this across the board no team would gain an advantage over any other team and they would be able to finish the season in two and a half weeks.
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Puggit said:
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