League One Playoffs 2026

[Dr Faustus]

Liverpool my first, everyone since so my record is:

LWLLWLLWL

[Alf Hartigan]

3 hours ago, SatanGreavsie said:

 4 and 8 for me

Even Reading, one of the greatest things ever in the end, was a fuck up really. Two down and a penalty coming up - at that stage you could repeat the game umpteen times and we'd not win.

Same here. As for that Reading game, as soon as Branagan saved that penalty everyone on the concourse at half time seemed to just know we were going on to win it. Best football memory ever for me.

As for the worst, got be Tranmere, we drove all the way home without anyone talking. Stoke and Oxford both tempered by a cracking night out in Enfield 😀

[Farnywhite]

2 hours ago, Dimron said:

I admit to being scarred by the play offs from the start... remember when we went down in the "relegation play off"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Football_League_Fourth_Division_play-off_final

Thankfully we don't do that anymore, then not long after came Tranmere and I vowed not to be part of it again! I went to the Watford game and I can only describe the atmosphere as "weird".

I enjoyed Liverpool even though we lost. We should have had Villa.

If we’re including that as well I went to aldershot so 13 with 4 wins it’s getting worse 😩

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Just now, Farnywhite said:

If we’re including that as well I went to aldershot so 13 with 4 wins it’s getting worse 😩

Aye, we mustn't forget Aldershot. 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Wembley:

Bristol City, cup. Lost.

Torquay, cup. Won.

Villa, f.a. cup semi. Lost

Liverpool, league Cup. Lost.

Tranmere, play off. Lost.

Watford, play off. Lost.

Not in attendanc: Oxford, Plymouth, Reading.

 

Cardiff:

Borough, league cup. Lost

Preston, play off won.

Overall, our record isn't great, and in my attendance, even worse.

[Rival Son]

Four and seven for me.

Starting with the Bristol City loss, the only one I’ve missed is the worst: Stoke. Had just split-up with the ex-wife, so my life was in a bit of turmoil. Watched the game in the pub and, while pissed off, was so glad I wasn’t there!

[DirtySanchez]

Missed Reading as I was at Uni at the time and had an exam the next morning 

Felt it best I didn't go as if we won, I'd get pissed and fuck up my exam 

So I went to a local pub, watched it and got pissed 

Threw up about half an hour before the exam 

It was all to do with Maps and Cartography and one of the questions was summat like "you're employed in a tourist office, what would you put on a map"

By this point I'm sweating alcohol and really can't be arsed, so drew a map of Bolton town centre, put Burnden in it and all the pubs in between, then just wrote 'We are premier league' 

Then left to chuck up again followed by going to the union bar for hair of the dog

[RUREADY2ROLL]

1 minute ago, DirtySanchez said:

Missed Reading as I was at Uni at the time and had an exam the next morning 

Felt it best I didn't go as if we won, I'd get pissed and fuck up my exam 

So I went to a local pub, watched it and got pissed 

Threw up about half an hour before the exam 

It was all to do with Maps and Cartography and one of the questions was summat like "you're employed in a tourist office, what would you put on a map"

By this point I'm sweating alcohol and really can't be arsed, so drew a map of Bolton town centre, put Burnden in it and all the pubs in between, then just wrote 'We are premier league' 

Then left to chuck up again followed by going to the union bar for hair of the dog

Did you pass

[DirtySanchez]

Just now, RUREADY2ROLL said:

Did you pass

Yes

My coursework for the module I'd done previously got me through 

Though in a meeting with my lecturer later he asked why I had done so badly in the exam whilst all my coursework was great

I just said exam nerves, it happens

He says, nothing to do with Bolton getting promoted the day before then

Me, no course not 

[Traf]

45 minutes ago, RUREADY2ROLL said:

Did you pass

he passed out

[Krimzon]

Bristol , Torquay , tranmere, Liverpool,  Reading , Villa , Watford , Preston, Boro , Stoke , 

Missed Plymouth & Oxford 

Seen 3 wins 7 defeats. 

Inbetweens ; 

Aldershot home, Bury home, Wolves home and away , Ipswich x 2 home only , West brom home, Barnsley home & away x 2 

5 wins 5 defeats 1 draw. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Krimzon

[Farnywhite]

5 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Aye, we mustn't forget Aldershot. 

On top off that Also went to Ipswich away Barry knight . 🤮

[SatanGreavsie]

1 hour ago, Farnywhite said:

On top off that Also went to Ipswich away Barry knight . 🤮

Yeh, did both as well as all the others. Barry Knight sill haunts, but at least we knew we had the moral high ground (pitch invasion that was anything but friendly, while the bloke on the Tannoy taunted us. You'd think the FA would have done summat, but their Sheepshanks ruled that roost.....so no).

Aldershot I remember the angry crowd in the car park "addressing" the board who were holed up in that suite at the Manny Road. Then some pillock lobbed a brick through the windscreen of the Aldershot team coach and the driver was being treated for schrapnel. "yeh" I thought, "there's me thinking it was all the fault of the board, the manager and the players. But no, the real culprit all along was the Aldershot team coach driver. Poor sod". I do remember trudging back to the bus station to get back to Howfen and thinking that as Burnley had just survived in the league by the skin of their sixth finger, that could be us next year. Fortunately, I was very wrong...

[SatanGreavsie]

11 hours ago, RUREADY2ROLL said:

You must have done them all since 1958 then; fortunately I missed Tranmere and Watford

Aye - hadn't thought of it like that. After the passing of the late lamented Rembrandt I don't know he have anyone here who went to 58? I know Casino had meant to, but he had a 21st do that day.

[RUREADY2ROLL]

1 minute ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Aye - hadn't thought of it like that. After the passing of the late lamented Rembrandt I don't know he have anyone here who went to 58? I know Casino had meant to, but he had a 21st do that day.

His younger brother apparently 

I was 4 in 1958; five later in the year. Not even born for the 53 final

[Alf Hartigan]

13 minutes ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Yeh, did both as well as all the others. Barry Knight sill haunts, but at least we knew we had the moral high ground (pitch invasion that was anything but friendly, while the bloke on the Tannoy taunted us. You'd think the FA would have done summat, but their Sheepshanks ruled that roost.....so no).

Aldershot I remember the angry crowd in the car park "addressing" the board who were holed up in that suite at the Manny Road. Then some pillock lobbed a brick through the windscreen of the Aldershot team coach and the driver was being treated for schrapnel. "yeh" I thought, "there's me thinking it was all the fault of the board, the manager and the players. But no, the real culprit all along was the Aldershot team coach driver. Poor sod". I do remember trudging back to the bus station to get back to Howfen and thinking that as Burnley had just survived in the league by the skin of their sixth finger, that could be us next year. Fortunately, I was very wrong...

I remember being in the protests on the car park after. I was only 17 and the police charged at us making us run towards town. Somebody put a window in on Manchester Road (can't remember if it was me, but if it was it was by accident m'lud). Next thing I knew a copper had got me round the neck and when I looked round it was my brother in law. He pushed me away and said 'just fuck off home now'. Think I was back home in Morris Green 20 minutes later.

[Johnnyrotten]

1 hour ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Yeh, did both as well as all the others. Barry Knight sill haunts, but at least we knew we had the moral high ground (pitch invasion that was anything but friendly, while the bloke on the Tannoy taunted us. You'd think the FA would have done summat, but their Sheepshanks ruled that roost.....so no).

Aldershot I remember the angry crowd in the car park "addressing" the board who were holed up in that suite at the Manny Road. Then some pillock lobbed a brick through the windscreen of the Aldershot team coach and the driver was being treated for schrapnel. "yeh" I thought, "there's me thinking it was all the fault of the board, the manager and the players. But no, the real culprit all along was the Aldershot team coach driver. Poor sod". I do remember trudging back to the bus station to get back to Howfen and thinking that as Burnley had just survived in the league by the skin of their sixth finger, that could be us next year. Fortunately, I was very wrong...

Yes I was in the angry crowd (but wasn't angry, just pissed off, it all felt inevitable), it was just something to do rather than going straight home on a Sunday afternoon.  Protesting to the windows seemed a useful activity at the time, in hindsight the occupants of the boardroom were probably having a brew and discussing where they were going on holiday.  Utterly pointless but not protesting would have felt like meek surrender.

As  you say we could have easily had a "Burnley" season, it was grim in Div 4 and I'm still grateful we got out of that league not once but twice in my lifetime despite being fairly dreadful for much of those seasons, the only 2 years in our history we've been there.