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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject: CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFFS
The games are
Derby v Southampton
West brom v Wolves
bet 365 bet
West brom 12-5
Derby 5-2
Saints 5-2
Wolves 3-1
for me Saints beat Derby and Wolves beat West brom
and then for me Wolves to beat Saints and win promotion
anyone else.
Ta
I fancy Saints to win it as well. Will probably do a trixie on Southampton, Blackpool and Brizzle Rovers for an interest in all the games.
Will also be backing the away team in singles for every playoff game. This has proved most profitable in the past. Having been through them myself with Cardiff City, the pressure on the home sides is huge and away sides often capitalise. _________________ This is how it feels to be lonely, this is how it feels to be small, this is how it feels when your world means nothing at all.
Can't see us going up really as we aren't clinical enough in front of goal and Claus is a huge loss.
Oakley will score against us though and wouldn't be surprised if its the winner :x _________________ ROLL OF HONOUR
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I never liked the idea of a club finishing 10 or 12 points behind someone being given a second chance. Of the four though i fancy Wolves to creep through.
Play offs are a lottery, even more so when you have a local derby like Albion v Wolves
Just like to say that I think that the play-offs are one of the best things ever introduced. For one thing the season now lasts up to the final day for more teams than ever before, in the past I can remember meaningless mid-table games being played from the start of April! Obviously the Football League are happy to keep this system going, as they are getting a nice little earner out of it as well!
But as for teams that finish about 12 points or whatever above the last-placed team and start to moan a bit, well all I can say is "Tough S**t!" ALL the teams know the rules before they kick-off the season, and therefore know that only TWO teams are guaranteed automatic promotion (3 in League 2). I have no doubt that if the positions were reversed, they would be quite happy!
IMO if you finish 3rd you should be confident about finishing off the job and having a good day out at Wembley as well, (although history would suggest otherwise). But whatever happens this time, there are numerous examples of teams finishing 3rd and failing to go up, but coming back stronger a season or two later and getting promoted - so good luck to all of them.
As for a "lottery", I have to be a bit sympathetic to a team that gets knocked out in a penalty shoot-out, but again, it is in the rules. . . .
Yeah, I agree with that, everyone starts off on a level playing field at the start of the season and know the score when it comes down to play offs.
That has happened to us before, we went on a run of 9 winning games at the end of the season, came 2nd by 3 points and then got knocked out on pens to a side who got in the play offs on the last day of the season.
I never liked the idea of a club finishing 10 or 12 points behind someone being given a second chance. Of the four though i fancy Wolves to creep through.
hello alansouthcoast
i understand what your saying but i think the play-offs make the end of the season more exciting for fans off the clubs involved and neutrals
looking at the scots play-offs so far theres been ten games and 31 goals have been scored,exciting stuff.cheers.archie
I am a fan of the Play Offs for the reasons already stated but from a betting point of view they are not to be touched with a bargepole IMHO _________________ You're born with nothing, and better off that way,
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