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didnt even know the NRL used those playoffs at all , thought they used the normal ones took me ten minites to figure out what the weird word were.

when nfl teams do this, the better team craps out and loses to the 6th seed. like they take their eye off the ball, were the team that played the extra game the week before is still firing. rugby league has a "Repechage" (dunno what thats french for) bracket, to give the better team a second bite at the cherry when they balls up in that way.

just looked it up and it sez " ... and the two seasons they had it like this, only one team kept their status in their current division (charlton)" looking at some of the results, it were probably us that performed worst, we finished 21st in the third division , but ultimately lost to aldershot who finished 6th in division four in 1987 in the final https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Football_League_play-offs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Football_League_play-offs the third vs forth division playoffs had a worse outcome the next year where swansea (6th four) beat torquay (5th four) because rotherham (21st three) lost to swansea in the semis it also says they were re-sizing the divisions during this time. which may have unbalanced the expected outcomes, but you can see why they closed the shop. the german (and maybe the belgian and french) playoffs are like this *now* and the higher division "3rd from bottom" team nearly always wins out and keeps its place.

just draw lots to decide who goes up.

? thats two people (out of two) making weird dyslexia or aphasia type mistakes while complaining about my reasoning for figuring out that its kevin ratcliffe in a photo. yeah, its kevin ratcliffe.

maybe.

i thought it were some "fringe" city player like david white or paul lake or someone like that that folk cant remember what they look like (even tho paul lake worked at bolton , (i think) ,"its not paul stewart.. what does andy hinchcliffe look like ?" "nope" that it werent him made me look up squad lists. that these AI search engines were going "len cantello (wtf , how did it work that out?)" , "bryan robson (yeah)" "player unknown" (fuck off) "big sam" (obvs) etc, Didnt help. AI overlords hobbled by real live human folk not knowing the answer. i *think* i know.

the goalkeeper should run towards the ball as soon as the whistle goes, like its an Old XFL kickoff. he either commits an infringment or saves the shot .

that goalkeeper shouldve been bounced out the minute he started screaming at harry mcguire in that pre season friendly. that he's dropping clangers himself every half an hour since then is pretty funny .

you'd think someone like clayton donaldson wouldve done that miles before. or maybe keith andrews .

lol dennis politic scored for the non-army (professional , privately owned) version of steaua bucharest in the uefa cup tonight. i missed that. paid nearly a million in monopoly money for him too (euromarks , rubles , whatever) bin losing a lot lately though.

i think i'd rather have rooney back than that sly shithouse that fucked them over. he werent even that good.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c6py7r94vlno

that theyre delaying this for some reason. luckily he didnt kill loads. but if some legalese bullshit sez they cant put him in prison for more than 10 minutes. then what ? no one died. the tram / car accident man from earlier in the year (which did kill someone) got 12 years recently. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3qdj0qdp7o so im not expecting more than that , but "they'll" want to do more than 12 year (or whatever) with this one even though no one died.

theres summat on the bbc's website about far easterners sacking off following united coz they dont win anymore. polar opposite to that ^^