Thedelldays Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 (edited) looking highly unlikely we will get a playoff spot..who would you fancy to join us from the CCC..? peterbro' are down - will be a good team with gary johnson in charge plymouth are almost down - will be half decent...picked up under mariner.. scunny - would struggle if they went down palace - god knows, if they got a takeover, COULD be a tough opponent QPR - if they go down, would be very hard to beat with warnock in charge wednesday - will be ok and could attract decent players at league 1 level watford - we always seem to farking struggle against that lot hmmmmm could be alot tougher than we thought next season..:confused: IMO I would hope plymouth and scunny join the posh Edited 5 April, 2010 by Thedelldays added watford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc_saint Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 You've left Watford out of that mix. They dropped into the bottom three for a little while today and are on an awful run. Plus they had Cleverley carried off today and he's one of their better players. Harley was also sent off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 (edited) Watford? Edited 5 April, 2010 by Pugwash Damn - beat me to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintkiptanui Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 Watford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 5 April, 2010 Author Share Posted 5 April, 2010 watford added Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 plymouth and scunny please As you said above - can see P'Boro being a good side next season. I rate Gary Johnson highly and the job he has done at BC is top draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 I think we should be focussing on letting other teams worry about us. Hopefully Mr Cortese will spend some more of the guvnors money and we shall be the team to watch, no matter who comes down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAZZA 92 Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 The teams that have the nicer pitches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 Aren't Watford near admin? if we could have as many teams start on -10 as possible it might help. So Watford and Crystal palace and Posh I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu0x Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 Interesting, I was just looking at the bottom of the Championship table for the same reason and thinking the opposite - ie there's no teams there that I think we wouldn't handle. QPR (on the off chance they get their acts together) and Palace are the toughest, but neither of them will get relegated so it's fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 P'boro, Plymouth and S****horpe wouldn't pose a massive threat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amesbury Saint Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 Portsmouth - for financial irregularities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TijuanaTim Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 Darren Ambrose - I want him to 'join us' ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat from Poole Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 If Plymouth and Watford stay up but Sheff Wed and Palace go down, and Leeds don't go up into the CCC, there'll be quite a few big clubs in Div 3 next season, and getting in the top 2 would be arguably harder than this season. I really do think we need Leeds to go up this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madsent Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 I'd like QPR and Crystal Palace to be relegated. Would be the ultimate hat-trick for Paul Hart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat from Poole Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 I'd like QPR and Crystal Palace to be relegated. Would be the ultimate hat-trick for Paul Hart. Colin will keep QPR up sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 If Plymouth and Watford stay up but Sheff Wed and Palace go down, and Leeds don't go up into the CCC, there'll be quite a few big clubs in Div 3 next season, and getting in the top 2 would be arguably harder than this season. I really do think we need Leeds to go up this season. I would also like to see Millwall out of our division. Agree about the big clubs in L1 next season.I don't think Sheff Weds will come down though.How much of an issue Palace are depends if they sort their finances out.Certainly P/boro with Gary Johnson in charge will be well organised. We could also find ourselves facing a number of "local" matches where we are viewed as a big local scalp next season.Added this this years 'local' fixtures (Exeter,Yeovil,Gills[?],Brighton,Swindon,Bristol Rovers) we might also have Plymouth coming down,and the possibility of Bournemouth and even Aldershot coming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 I'd like QPR and Crystal Palace to be relegated. Would be the ultimate hat-trick for Paul Hart. Brian Laws only has two to his name,possibly Sheff Weds and Burnley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 Imo it'll be P'boro, Scunny and Plymouth, as already said by numerous people on this thread. None of those teams should pose a huge threat to us, although we can't be complacent. The CCC will be strong with those teams gone, can't think of many more weak teams (disregarding financial irregularities) apart from Blackpool and Doncaster, but they're both having great seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 does it matter? With a pre-season behind us and a settled group of players, surely we will walk the league anyway ffs. But plymouth and palace i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintBobby Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 does it matter? With a pre-season behind us and a settled group of players, surely we will walk the league anyway ffs. But plymouth and palace i think I agree with this. I know "we will walk this league" is now an in-joke, but surely..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 5 April, 2010 Share Posted 5 April, 2010 Imo it'll be P'boro, Scunny and Plymouth, as already said by numerous people on this thread. None of those teams should pose a huge threat to us, although we can't be complacent. The CCC will be strong with those teams gone, can't think of many more weak teams (disregarding financial irregularities) apart from Blackpool and Doncaster, but they're both having great seasons. I'll agree with that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsbridge Saint Posted 6 April, 2010 Share Posted 6 April, 2010 Posh is a given, Plymouth will make for a couple of south coast derbys and Scunny have a nice pitch and should be beatable home and away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockportsaint Posted 6 April, 2010 Share Posted 6 April, 2010 Would be quite happy with the current bottom three of Posh, Plymouth and Sheff Wed. Posh already down. Plymouth are not exactly strong at present, you could argue that they have overachieved by getting to the CCC and that they are a "natural" League 1/Div 3 team. Wednesday look pretty run down at the moment, after 2 yrs+ management by the genius that is Brian Laws (according to Deloittes). Would also prefer Wednesday for purely selfish, geographical reasons. Think Palace would be stronger than Wednesday, once out of Admin. Watford are one of those annoying teams that we always struggle against, for no logical reason. With the playoffs receding into the distance, we should also be taking a glance at League 2/Div 4: Currently we'd be playing the following next season: Rochdale, Notts County and Bournemouth for definite. Currently only Rochdale look nailed on to come up, although County and Bournemouth are 9/6 points clear at present. And then one of: Rotherham, Aldershot, Chesterfield or Bury. However the following are only at worst 5 points away from 7th: Northampton, Port Vale, Morecambe and Dagenham/Redbridge. On current form http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D3/runin.html it's likely to be one of: Northampton, Aldershot, Morecambe, Rotherham. Personally I'd hope for Morecambe out of that lot - never been there, close to me, and Saints have *never* played them, although we haven't played most of the other playoff contenders in my lifetime, and i'm in my mid-forties. Think if the "Shots" come up, tickets would be very hard to come by, their ground only holds 1100 away fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottery st mary Posted 6 April, 2010 Share Posted 6 April, 2010 Posh, Plymouth and Sheff Wed all have big money problems.....Like many others... The Chairman at Posh is not as rich as first suggested and his ploy..Barry Fry more to the point... of continually spouting to the press and over valuing many of his players has back fired..They will struggle to get some on big wages off their wage bill.. Barry Fry will scouring the non league again....To be fair he used to be good at that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
positivepete Posted 9 April, 2010 Share Posted 9 April, 2010 Peterborough might not be a threat if there is any substance to this http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/apr/09/darragh-macanthony-peterborough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheff Saint Posted 9 April, 2010 Share Posted 9 April, 2010 Sheff Weds will likely have a very difficult season if they come down. £30 million in debt they'll either continue to carry that and as such have no money still, or they'll be forced into admin which would at least carry a 10 point penalty, and still doesn't garentee them money. Peterbrough will be tough under Johnson, but beatable. S****horpe are proving a bit yo yo so i'd expect the to be around the top 6. Beatable though. Plymouth have picked up under Mariner and i wouldn't like to call how well they'll do. Doubt they'll run away with it but could be anywhere from automatic to mid table, IMO Watford and Palace, really depends what happens financially. Either way, assuming we keep all but the odd player, i think we should have the perfect platform to get through the whole season very well compared to any of that lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broncoboy Posted 9 April, 2010 Share Posted 9 April, 2010 I think next season we will hopefully have wised up a bit. It is never easy to get out of a league like this. Hopefully AP will inject a bit more grit and pace A good start is essential never our strongest attribute and then consistency Oh well NC will give him to October I am sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toomer Posted 9 April, 2010 Share Posted 9 April, 2010 Not fussed as who ever drops down as we have got beat them and we should have a side that can beat anyone in league 1 with a few additions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 9 April, 2010 Share Posted 9 April, 2010 I think next season we will hopefully have wised up a bit. It is never easy to get out of a league like this. Hopefully AP will inject a bit more grit and pace A good start is essential never our strongest attribute and then consistency Oh well NC will give him to October I am sure You mean Jaidi, Fonte, Hammond and Harding aren't gritty enough and Puncheon, Waigo, Antonio and Semi aren't pacey enough for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Porter Posted 9 April, 2010 Share Posted 9 April, 2010 You mean Jaidi, Fonte, Hammond and Harding aren't gritty enough and Puncheon, Waigo, Antonio and Semi aren't pacey enough for you? He said more grit and pace, we haven't got the perfect team no one has there is always room for improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Porter Posted 9 April, 2010 Share Posted 9 April, 2010 I haven't been to Peterboro, Plymouth and S****horpe so they'd all be good. QPR, Palace and Watford where all decent aways over the last few seasons so wouldn't be too unhappy with those either - Sheff Wed was a shocking game so would prefer not having to go there again. In terms of who we would get the most points from next season I'd say Watford and Plymouth joining Peterboro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broncoboy Posted 9 April, 2010 Share Posted 9 April, 2010 You mean Jaidi, Fonte, Hammond and Harding aren't gritty enough and Puncheon, Waigo, Antonio and Semi aren't pacey enough for you? Good point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Under Weststand Posted 9 April, 2010 Share Posted 9 April, 2010 If I had a choice it would be QPR as they've been controlled abysmally for the last couple of years & probably Watford, I hate Watford for that 7 goal nightmare in the milk cup & their standard of football. But I really think its about time that we just concentrated on Saints and let other teams worry about us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarnetSaint Posted 10 April, 2010 Share Posted 10 April, 2010 In an ideal world, the Skates for their financial irregularities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxfordshire_saint Posted 10 April, 2010 Share Posted 10 April, 2010 Palace, because Danns, Ambrose, Speroni and all their decent youngsters will be subject to a fire sale if they haven't been taken over and they will just be a shell of a club. Plus, I don't like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony F Posted 10 April, 2010 Share Posted 10 April, 2010 In an ideal world, the Skates for their financial irregularities. Yup - agreed - at some stage in the next few months they'll fail the next liquidity test (obviously) and be dropped two divisions from the Prem instead of just one :-) And all their vaguely decent players scarper, of course.... And they have zero points after their first 10 games in League one.... Well, it was a great dream while it lasted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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