Automatic Promotion Chase

[Pilchards]

Looking at that penalty Ipswich got yesterday.

The players just know how to con the officials. That’s 3 in a row for them and it’s ones we would never of got because our players don’t know how to spin around when an opponent puts an arm on their body.

[S-Clarke]

32 minutes ago, Pilchards said:

Looking at that penalty Ipswich got yesterday.

The players just know how to con the officials. That’s 3 in a row for them and it’s ones we would never of got because our players don’t know how to spin around when an opponent puts an arm on their body.

More of a pen than the one against Boro, the biggest complaint I had with that is the Charlton GK diving over the ball.

How bad were Charlton though? That game gave me PTSD of that Forest home game under Jones, constant aimless long balls with no real plan. Ipswich weren't amazing last night by any means, and WBA will put up more of a fight I think.

[Tom57]

3 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

Even though Wednesday are sat down there with no wins in what feels like years, they've always put up a fight in every game I've seen them play. They don't really have a squad, but they've always given it a go. Definitely deserve credit, they've gone down with a bit more dignity that Leicester weirdly.

I guess their target is a win in the next two, just so they don't finish the season on negatives.

Their next game is against Oxford Utd which could be interesting because, as you said SW won't want to end on minus points and Oxford Utd would look more winnable than West Brom (their final game) but Oxford Utd HAVE to win to avoid relegation (as well as Charlton losing against Hull). So they'll probably both really be going for it. Then again I've just noticed the Charlton game is at 12:30, so Oxford could be relegated by then anyway!

[benjii]

3 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

More of a pen than the one against Boro, the biggest complaint I had with that is the Charlton GK diving over the ball.

How bad were Charlton though? That game gave me PTSD of that Forest home game under Jones, constant aimless long balls with no real plan. Ipswich weren't amazing last night by any means, and WBA will put up more of a fight I think.

Inshallah, West Brom will go for it.

[Lord Duckhunter]

I’m hoping it’s Millwall, Hull & Middlesbrough. Start of the season we wanted autos, but failing that you’d pick play offs with no relegated or promoted team in, and no one with parachute payments. The last time any of them were in the top flight was 10 years ago, they’ve all been bang average for years. The weakest 3 in the play offs for years, and unbelievably we haven’t won a game against any of them yet this season.
 

Can anybody seriously believe we won’t beat millwall or hull once over 3 games this season, I fucking don’t. So that’s the final sorted. We’re too good for Middlesbrough over 2 legs as well. 
 

Wrexham are shit as well,especially if it’s at Wembley. 
 

Provided it’s not Ipswich, we’re nailed on imo. 

[LGTL]

3 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I’m hoping it’s Millwall, Hull & Middlesbrough. Start of the season we wanted autos, but failing that you’d pick play offs with no relegated or promoted team in, and no one with parachute payments. The last time any of them were in the top flight was 10 years ago, they’ve all been bang average for years. The weakest 3 in the play offs for years, and unbelievably we haven’t won a game against any of them yet this season.
 

Can anybody seriously believe we won’t beat millwall or hull once over 3 games this season, I fucking don’t. So that’s the final sorted. We’re too good for Middlesbrough over 2 legs as well. 
 

Wrexham are shit as well,especially if it’s at Wembley. 
 

Provided it’s not Ipswich, we’re nailed on imo. 

I agree. I know it’s split with some fans, but I’d absolutely rather face Millwall than Ipswich. The others are irrelevant really. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

19 minutes ago, LGTL said:

I agree. I know it’s split with some fans, but I’d absolutely rather face Millwall than Ipswich. The others are irrelevant really. 

I think Millwall will shit the bed at Wembley. We will take them apart. Ipswich, I’m not so sure, they’re well beatable, but they’ve had a bit of success the past 3 or 4 years, so as a club will handle it a bit better imo. The ideal scenario is Hull pulling off a surprise in the semi and knocking out the third placed side (unless it’s us of course). 

[S-Clarke]

9 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I think Millwall will shit the bed at Wembley. We will take them apart. Ipswich, I’m not so sure, they’re well beatable, but they’ve had a bit of success the past 3 or 4 years, so as a club will handle it a bit better imo. The ideal scenario is Hull pulling off a surprise in the semi and knocking out the third placed side (unless it’s us of course). 

I agree that you'd have certainly taken a playoff battle with Boro/Wrexham/Millwall at the start of the season, facing a Cov, Leicester or Ipswich would be more challenging (Well, Leicester on paper had they turned up this year). It would be a 'nicer' group than the last playoff round up we had.

If Ipswich beat WBA at the weekend then any 2nd dream is dead, so how I'd see it panning out are 2 legs against a somewhat dispirited and out of steam Boro. I think Ipswich will finish on 85 by winning 2 of their last 3, which is all they need to do as their GD will never be overtaken by Millwall even if they win their last 2. From here it would take an almighty bottle for Ipswich to fail IMO. They can even afford to lose to us as long as they pickup a win at WBA and at home to a QPR side with their flip flops on.

Edited 6 hours ago by S-Clarke

[Hawkswood]

6 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I’m hoping it’s Millwall, Hull & Middlesbrough. Start of the season we wanted autos, but failing that you’d pick play offs with no relegated or promoted team in, and no one with parachute payments. The last time any of them were in the top flight was 10 years ago, they’ve all been bang average for years. The weakest 3 in the play offs for years, and unbelievably we haven’t won a game against any of them yet this season.
 

Can anybody seriously believe we won’t beat millwall or hull once over 3 games this season, I fucking don’t. So that’s the final sorted. We’re too good for Middlesbrough over 2 legs as well. 
 

Wrexham are shit as well,especially if it’s at Wembley. 
 

Provided it’s not Ipswich, we’re nailed on imo. 

This is pretty much bang on for what Im thinking.