The Championship Thread
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da fuq
Vital Champions League
One team will make a late run to get into the playoffs
One team will drop out
Which two teams do you think they will be
Our January window is looking better and better and better and better and better
Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
Our January window was a result of us having no money.
A little detail that Derby have never allowed to come between them and spending.
Hence why every win they collect puts more pressure on the EFL to deduct points for their absolutely flagrant breaches of FFP rules.
Every win makes it harder for them to put it off till next season.
Derby are brilliant at home and shite away.
We are shite at home but brilliant away.
But they are worse away than we are at home- by some distance.
In reality, we are shite against teams who play us at our own game and are effective at doing it. We make a mistake, lose a goal and that's game over. We aren't lucky enough with officials to be able to get the decisions that allow us to turn a tight game into a hardly deserved 1-0.
But we are still better at home than they are away, even with £100k Rooney.
We have every chance of doing them at their place.
A little detail that Derby have never allowed to come between them and spending.
Hence why every win they collect puts more pressure on the EFL to deduct points for their absolutely flagrant breaches of FFP rules.
Every win makes it harder for them to put it off till next season.
Derby are brilliant at home and shite away.
We are shite at home but brilliant away.
But they are worse away than we are at home- by some distance.
In reality, we are shite against teams who play us at our own game and are effective at doing it. We make a mistake, lose a goal and that's game over. We aren't lucky enough with officials to be able to get the decisions that allow us to turn a tight game into a hardly deserved 1-0.
But we are still better at home than they are away, even with £100k Rooney.
We have every chance of doing them at their place.
Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
Wednesday have several. Rhodes and Fletcher as well.
But they are on their knees at the moment
da fuq
Vital Champions League
They will smash us
Our players looked shot with no confidence
Even when Carvs and Bostock came and righted the ship
We still didn't look like we had a goal in us
Sorry my mistake we didn't sign any players in Jan ...
seasider red
Vital 1st Team Regular
On their knees or not, at best we'll make hard work of it, at worst we'll start the game in our usual conservative fashion, hand the initiative to them, get them on the front the foot, and make them look good.
Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
You are overreacting to a very poor performance
We looked poor for some of the time at Boro as well and still got two goals and a point.
Just a few days before that we put in a masterful performance at Cardiff and should have won by the same scoreline as Millwall did.
Literally with you we are only as good as our last game. Beat Wednesday and you'll be giddy again.
I agree with you on the window. January was poor. What we all wanted we couldn't afford. But where we did spend money it was ill advised and on players who have added nothing. No question there. Other teams signed players that have had an Impact. We are relying on two forgotten men (Bostock and Carv) to do the same.
But in the right circumstances this team does have something about it. Derby away is exactly the kind of game they enjoy.
We just have to sort the defence out and ensure we don't concede first, and don't capitulate when we do. Capitulation after a goal (by either side) has been a huge weakness and that is down to inexperience.
Sow should be back soon and I think we have now passed the cumulative yellow card amnesty without problems
yugo23
Vital Youth Team
It blows my mind that we spent more than 13 m on talented, yet unproven Portuguese player, only to become broke few transfer windows later.
That's why I suspect there was definitely something very shady going on with the agent.
da fuq
Vital Champions League
Its not one game though is it pope
We have been having a bit of a nightmare
The last 6 games we have got 6 points?
Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
Yes, but we have only played really badly twice. Charlton and Millwall. One was very much the manager's fault.
One indifferent performance at Boro. We should have and deserved to beat QPR- see my comments about not getting the luck with officials in tight games. Fulham would win that game. So would Derby. They have the players that can either make the magic or can create it by conning officials.
Cardiff, West Brom were excellent performances.
Yes, we are dipping below the average points we need.
But Fulham got dicked 0-3 at home to Barnsley the other week.
Preston threw away a lead at home to lose 1-3 to QPR on Saturday.
We have had indifferent results for 6 games and our lead over 7th has grown to 5 points.
That tells you that it's not just us.
Remember when we were fighting relegation under Warburton and demolished both Reading and Huddersfield at this time of the season?
Welcome to the Championship
mr ron
Vital Champions League
We've been playing badly all season according to many opposition fans, won a fair few games while doing so. We have turned around dodgy runs quickly so far this season, this ones dragging a bit but we've shown we can do it a result against Wednesday hopefully we can keep in the top 6 for till the end.
paz1967
Vital Football Legend
weve played poorly nearly every game, all season, with genuinelly 2 or 3 90minute performances. cant cross, cant pass, 6 defenders and one one trick pony upfront. im shocked if people think weve only played poor 2 or 3 times. I fell asleep during half the first half of the season wishing the transfer window was here lol Back 4 n keeper have kept us anywhere near that top end
