Playoffs

[radcliffe white]

Barnsley will finish 5th they’ll have enough to beat Northampton at home

the other place will be interesting Blackpool probably favourable fixture at reading 

[gonzo]

2 hours ago, deeane Koontz said:

 

@gonzo is giddy as fuck for this 💪

There'd be no windows in town left for me to clean the day after

[radcliffe white]

7 minutes ago, gonzo said:

There'd be no windows in town left for me to clean the day after

Blackpool or Lincoln would be a fruity fixture on a Friday/Saturday night 

[Whitesince63]

Well we will finish 3rd because even if Posh beat us they won’t overcome our goal difference, so it’s going to be one of Blackpool, Lincoln or Oxford, hard to see how it could be Barnsley given their GD is worse than the others. I just don’t want Blackpool, any of the others will do.

[radcliffe white]

2 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Well we will finish 3rd because even if Posh beat us they won’t overcome our goal difference, so it’s going to be one of Blackpool, Lincoln or Oxford, hard to see how it could be Barnsley given their GD is worse than the others. I just don’t want Blackpool, any of the others will do.

They have a game in hand 

[Hoppy]

Anyone know what time final is I'm looking at train times 

[onefinfrandsen]

Just now, Hoppy said:

Anyone know what time final is I'm looking at train times 

3pm

[Hoppy]

41 minutes ago, onefinfrandsen said:

3pm

Thanks 

[Marc505]

Has that actually been confirmed yet?

[radcliffe white]

5 minutes ago, Marc505 said:

Has that actually been confirmed yet?

Don’t think they’ve been confirmed on EFL website yet 

[Whitesince63]

1 hour ago, radcliffe white said:

They have a game in hand 

True but they’d have to win it well but yes, possible. 🙂

[Traf]

1 hour ago, radcliffe white said:

They have a game in hand 

Away at Cheltenham.

A 2-0 win there and a 2-0 win against us puts them third.

[TrickyTrotter]

8 minutes ago, Traf said:

Away at Cheltenham.

A 2-0 win there and a 2-0 win against us puts them third.

Ferguson has stated he's playing a reserve team Tuesday. Given Cheltenham's position in the relegation zone, the EFL and the other teams at the bottom need to kick off.

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/peterborough-united/darren-ferguson-ready-to-play-completely-different-peterborough-united-team-against-cheltenham-after-derby-county-make-no-mistake-in-automatic-promotion-race-4598838

[Tonge moor green jacket]

I'm not so sure he will.

Mind games.

[Zico]

13 minutes ago, TrickyTrotter said:

Ferguson has stated he's playing a reserve team Tuesday. Given Cheltenham's position in the relegation zone, the EFL and the other teams at the bottom need to kick off.

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/peterborough-united/darren-ferguson-ready-to-play-completely-different-peterborough-united-team-against-cheltenham-after-derby-county-make-no-mistake-in-automatic-promotion-race-4598838

We have squads for a reason 

He's saving his best players for the play offs 

Teams can kick off all they like, but they can fuck off 

They might win anyway

[ZiggyStardust]

29 minutes ago, Traf said:

Away at Cheltenham.

A 2-0 win there and a 2-0 win against us puts them third.

Any two wins for them would put them 3 points above us, no need for goal difference to come into it.

[TrickyTrotter]

19 minutes ago, Zico said:

We have squads for a reason 

He's saving his best players for the play offs 

Teams can kick off all they like, but they can fuck off 

They might win anyway

They may win, but teams are required by EFL rules to play full strength teams.  

Each Club shall play its full strength in all Matches played under the auspices of The League unless some satisfactory reason is given. In the event of the explanation not being deemed satisfactory the Board shall refer the matter to a Disciplinary Commission which has the power to impose such penalties as it shall think fit.

[Cheese]

1 hour ago, Whitesince63 said:

True but they’d have to win it well but yes, possible. 🙂

If they only win their game in hand 1-0, then beat us 1-0, they go above us.

[maaarsh]

Am I going mad or something - they're only 3 points behind with a game in hand - they beat us next week then a draw mid week is enough to go above us. Basically if we lose next week it's pretty unlikely we stay 3rd.

[Zico]

53 minutes ago, TrickyTrotter said:

They may win, but teams are required by EFL rules to play full strength teams.  

Each Club shall play its full strength in all Matches played under the auspices of The League unless some satisfactory reason is given. In the event of the explanation not being deemed satisfactory the Board shall refer the matter to a Disciplinary Commission which has the power to impose such penalties as it shall think fit.

We rested Sheehan and started Jerome against Shrewsbury 

That's not full strength

If Ferguson and his staff say players have knocks and they don't want to risk them, or they are knackered and therefore not at full strength, then that should be good enough reason 

Otherwise it's pointless have a 23 man squad 

[Leyther_Matt]

33 minutes ago, maaarsh said:

Am I going mad or something - they're only 3 points behind with a game in hand - they beat us next week then a draw mid week is enough to go above us. Basically if we lose next week it's pretty unlikely we stay 3rd.

They play midweek before they play us which will make it all a bit clearer beforehand

[Cheese]

39 minutes ago, maaarsh said:

Am I going mad or something - they're only 3 points behind with a game in hand - they beat us next week then a draw mid week is enough to go above us. Basically if we lose next week it's pretty unlikely we stay 3rd.

They play Tuesday, so if they win that they'll be level with us when we play them.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

48 minutes ago, Zico said:

We rested Sheehan and started Jerome against Shrewsbury 

That's not full strength

If Ferguson and his staff say players have knocks and they don't want to risk them, or they are knackered and therefore not at full strength, then that should be good enough reason 

Otherwise it's pointless have a 23 man squad 

You're right, but that's a bit different to changing an entire 11.

That might raise a few eyebrows amongst the efl.

[Wanderlust]

1 hour ago, TrickyTrotter said:

They may win, but teams are required by EFL rules to play full strength teams.  

Each Club shall play its full strength in all Matches played under the auspices of The League unless some satisfactory reason is given. In the event of the explanation not being deemed satisfactory the Board shall refer the matter to a Disciplinary Commission which has the power to impose such penalties as it shall think fit.

That's bollocks though isn't it? .

Isn't "resting players" not a satisfactory reason?

Lots of teams have rested players during the season/"rotated their squads".

Would the EFL have to...

a) prove that the players brought in were not as good as the players rested? (that would be hilarious especially if the manager just said he'd been watching them all week in training and he'd selected the best players that week)

or b) prove that the players rested didn't need a rest (good luck with that)

You can neither define nor prove "full strength".

 

[DirtySanchez]

15 minutes ago, Wanderlust said:

That's bollocks though isn't it? .

Isn't "resting players" not a satisfactory reason?

Lots of teams have rested players during the season/"rotated their squads".

Would the EFL have to...

a) prove that the players brought in were not as good as the players rested? (that would be hilarious especially if the manager just said he'd been watching them all week in training and he'd selected the best players that week)

or b) prove that the players rested didn't need a rest (good luck with that)

You can neither define nor prove "full strength".

 

Sounds like it's more the EFL wanting to look like they are making a stance but know full when this is what will happen 

Otherwise they could just bring in a rule like the pizza cup with the number of starting players having to had played in the previous match