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9 hours ago, Ani said:
The problem with that idea is that say it was Luton v Stevenage final they won’t work.
You can not leave booking the stadium till the Thursday the week before.
Of course you can. You move swiftly once the four play off sides are known and select two or three stadiums based on the geography. Combinations of Bradford/Bolton/Stockport/Stevenage would have means putting Old Trafford and Villa Park on standby. All very simple. Had Luton been in the play offs Wembley or one of the larger London grounds would have been in that mix.
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On 15/05/2026 at 16:48, Ratwhite said:
That Lincoln team, will do alreet in Championship. Could decent signings and could give it a good go. Theu dont know how to lose
The problem Lincoln may have is some of their better players being cherry-picked.
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Celtic are the footballing equivalent of cold puke. A set of fans who plumb the depths. Every bit as bad as United ... and Chelsea for that matter. Not much time for City but I would prefer them to win this than Chelsea
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Absolutely stupid venue for Bolton v Stockport. Should be one of the Manchester or Liverpool stadiums..
I will say 28/29K from Bolton and 14K from Stockport.
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Absolutely sickening. Scabby Celtic bastards.
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Absolutely brilliant.
Celebrate for the next 24 hours.
But this is not job done.
All of us from SS, through to the fanbase need to focus on that one last game against a tough opponent.
A chance for redemption after that Oxford debacle.
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Naturally we are all focused on the process of the play offs and how this result leads us in the second leg and (god willing) beyond. Had this been a normal game I suspect more of us would have been welcoming an increasingly rare clean sheet and going ahead in a game without then conceding an equaliser (lost count of the amount of times that has happened since Christmas, especially at home).
Kenny being absent is a big, big blow. However we have other attacking threat. As much as anything I think our fortunes rest upon the ability of our defence to concentrate and avoid dizzy moments and SS's ability to pick the right balance in midfield.
We can emerge from Thursday night with a Wembley showdown in our sights... but Bradford have been a different proposition at home all season. Work to do.
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21 hours ago, masi 51 said:
Adeboyejo Released at Mansfield
Luke Southwood released at Bristol Rovers too.
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I had no idea the season starts so late compared to recent years, the league season at any rate. It has generally been very early August and one year it was even late July. For clubs in the play offs that's a little blessing really. And it almost feels like days gone by when it was always later in August.
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With the way the remaining fixtures pan out - especially the Stockport game in hand - it looked a lot at first glance like we will finish 4th or 5th and play Bradford over two legs. Stockport 3rd to play Stevenage, Luton or Argyle.
Looking at the detail of next week, Exeter badly need a result against Bradford. Meanwhile Stevenage play the pie-men. Given the goal difference I don't think we can finish sixth.
Conclusion: Bradford or Stevenage over two legs seems far likelier than other scenarios.
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3 minutes ago, Marc505 said:
Linked with Blackpool, isn't he?
I think many of our cast-offs will be.
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5 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:
Pompey keeper just gave it to a Cov player for an open goal from 5 yards. Can't really blame the keeper, all he was trying to do was a Cruyff turn or something which would have looked far better than a boring clearance.
I somehow suspect all of the analysts will miss that simple detail when they present their post match dossier to the manager.
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16 minutes ago, Eddie said:
4th game in a row he’s been there.
I’m not sure they stay in the play offs if that stays the same for the rest of the season. If it stays like it is then they will be seriously looking over their shoulder, game in hand or not.
Be interesting to know how long their key defenders are out for.
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2 minutes ago, Eddie said:
Mansfield 👀
Stockport have got Wootton at centre back. Bit of an injury crisis.
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13 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:
Think the civil service as a whole.
True. Very true.
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21 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:
Begovic at Leicester hasn't had the memo from his manager Rowett yet.
The commentator said "you can't legislate for that" as if its not the manager's fault. Of course it is and of course you can legislate for it by not doing it.
How can an entire cadre of professionals engage in such harmful groupthink? They spend their lives scientifically looking for the "one per cent extra" that might give them the edge ... then have players passing it square 10 yards from goal.
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33 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:
Before you know it they'll be asking keepers to use their hands and defenders to mark attackers.
Or asking the keepers to catch crosses where possible and position themselves in such a way that it hugely lowers the chance of conceding a cheap goal by being beaten at the near post.
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4 hours ago, masi 51 said:
No we do not.....We just need to tell our defenders they are not prime 1990 Franco Barasi but lge1 Defenders who cannot pass wind. Nothing more nothing less
Ask defenders simply to defend. Its quite the concept. Someone in modern day game may catch on at some point. Same as someone might have a brainwave that passing it around in your own 18 yard box is just a tiny little bit risky.
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11 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:
"The draw equals the club record 17 draws in a season set in 1991/92".
I hope that is the only comparison we end up with between this season and that one!
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Absolutely unbelievable.
(anyone know if Desmond has a 3 match ban and thus out for the first play off leg?)
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2 minutes ago, boogs said:
Completely agree Re Stockport. Been saying for weeks that I do not want to meet them at all in any stage of the play offs.
They are the problem side. A bogey team for us but also a club on an upward trajectory with a carefully and pragmatically constructed squad.
When they played at Wembley v Luton I wanted them to win. Silly reason - law of averages would be that if they won that they would lose a play off final at Wembley. A load of bollocks no doubt ... yet somehow the way things tend to work in football.
Having said all of the above - we are really due results against them. What finer time.
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They need to keep the spirit of last night. It was a performance full of intent and tempo. Good teams in any league and any country begin to suffer when they play the game at a slow tempo and try to keep things safe. We can talk formations and team selection all we want but that intent and edge is so important. Bottle and it and keep it from now until the play offs are here.
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50 minutes ago, green genie said:
Trying to get excited for the “Devon derby”.
Oh for the 80’s with Brizzle City, Cardiff and Dockyard Derby with Pompey.
You will surely beat them on current form. I would normally be supporting Argyle in that game due to big family connections with Plymouth through Royal Navy stuff. There would be a silver lining if Exeter won this time though because it would be a big problem for the Blackpool
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2 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:
I'm firmly in the camp that we've got those results due in large part to being more "up" for them than previously. We can't say "we beat Wigan because they're terrible". As they'll finish above Vale, Northampton, Rotherham, Blackpool and Burton. They've all taken a load of points off us, we didn't score in 4 of the games and managed to concede 13 despite keeping 2 clean sheets. So to beat Wigan 3-0 is well above par, how many teams don't score against us in 4 consecutive games? (someone must know the last one).
Definitely a welcome change in attitude I reckon.
Hopefully they can translate the Wigan approach in to other local games - whoever they may be against next season. Hopefully not the current three - and if it is them, Salford and Oldham is not out of the equation to join them.
Ten days of attendnoncery…
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There are a lot of things in this world that "really aren't that simple" that people didn't think twice about doing years ago. It's called having a can-do attitude rather than pandering to bureaucratic inertia - something that is rife in this country.