LEAGUE 2

 

LEAGUE 1

 

CHAMP

 

As things stand in each of the three leagues. Any predictions on who you think will go up, or anyone you really hope doesn't go up?

4 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Are we due a sacrificial sacking of a manager any time soon? I think that’s about par for the course, isn’t it?

They’ve had Bowyer for quite a while now without going anywhere really which ties in with what Cas was saying further up about them revising their ambitions 

Bowyer will be gone within a week.

20 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

I note the BBC now list prem results, championship results then bloody womens scores before L1 and L2. 

Yep. They certainly do.

BBC attempts Social Engineering experiement shocker.

31 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

I note the BBC now list prem results, championship results then bloody womens scores before L1 and L2. 

Really is an insult to the professional game , but not the only example.

1 hour ago, MickyD said:

Are we due a sacrificial sacking of a manager any time soon? I think that’s about par for the course, isn’t it?

 

1 hour ago, Steejay said:

Bowyer will be gone within a week.

Yep, failure to make the play-offs will cost Bowyer his job.

4 hours ago, Steejay said:

Bowyer will be gone within a week.

Bowyer should be kept on, but that's not the Gary Neville way despite him pontificating loud & long about ethics in football. Long may his hypocrisy continue.

He'll join Mowbray at Blackburn, Hodgson at Watford, Warburton at QPR who are all not having contracts renewed. Michael Appleton has just been sacked at Lincoln, a year after having them at Wembley in the play off final.

I doubt Sean Dyche will be unemployed for long, though Mike Jackson is making his apparently inexplicable sacking seem less questionable. 

 

Appleton to Salford then… 

11 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

I note the BBC now list prem results, championship results then bloody womens scores before L1 and L2. 

The bbc (and sky etc) should show they are serious by letting the women commentate on the big games like fa cup, big pl ties, champs league, world cup etc 

But they don't 

Which I find odd

7 hours ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Bowyer should be kept on, but that's not the Gary Neville way despite him pontificating loud & long about ethics in football. Long may his hypocrisy continue.

He'll join Mowbray at Blackburn, Hodgson at Watford, Warburton at QPR who are all not having contracts renewed. Michael Appleton has just been sacked at Lincoln, a year after having them at Wembley in the play off final.

I doubt Sean Dyche will be unemployed for long, though Mike Jackson is making his apparently inexplicable sacking seem less questionable. 

 

Mowbray will take over at Hibs imo. Not ITK but defo worth a fiver of anyones money. What you think @Leyther_Matt? 

13 hours ago, Marc505 said:

Hmm he does still come across like he's got double standards to me. I agree with a lot of what he says when he starts going into one about the state of the game, yet on the other hand he's part responsible for ripping apart the (albeit meagre) history Salford City had up to the point he arrived, and destroying the integrity of the National League on the whim of just having a football club to play with. 

I'm intrigued by ffp etc. Or does it not apply in the bottom tier?

Can't keep making such losses, whether it's allowed or not. When the plug is pulled what happens...

I thought Appleton had gone out of choice- must have mis-heard the radio.

42 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Mowbray will take over at Hibs imo. Not ITK but defo worth a fiver of anyones money. What you think @Leyther_Matt? 

I think his stock is high enough that he’s probably got himself on the Championship merry go round to be honest 

6 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

I think his stock is high enough that he’s probably got himself on the Championship merry go round to be honest 

Agree he’s definitely a good enough operator just wonder if he will want to get himself a more longer term project and can’t see where he will get that in the championship currently. 
 

My other shout for hibs job would be Kevin Thompson with Scott brown coming in as his assistant. 

1 hour ago, Escobarp said:

Mowbray will take over at Hibs imo. Not ITK but defo worth a fiver of anyones money. What you think @Leyther_Matt? 

Micky mouse not fancy it? 

41 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I thought Appleton had gone out of choice- must have mis-heard the radio.

The quotes all suggested it was mutual, Appleton had cancer at the start of the season, which may or may not be a factor.  He's from the North West so wouldn't be surprised if he gets a job nearer home (Salford obviously).  Plays proper football, a good manager for Lincoln and Oxford amongst others.

In the Mowbray interview he was talking about not seeing his family enough and seeing his little lad about once a week for 5 years and missing him grow up. I’d be very surprised if he takes on another gig. 

2 hours ago, radcliffe white said:

Micky mouse not fancy it? 

Think he applied but was deemed unfit for a pub league with a Europa league semi finalist playing within it 😎

So Championship playoffs are:

Huddersfield vs Luton

and

Nottingham Forest vs Sheffield Utd 

Forest look good but has missing 2nd knocked them

Going for Sheffield to get promoted 

18 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

Forest look good but has missing 2nd knocked them

Going for Sheffield to get promoted 

That would make for an exceptionally dull PL. Fulham, Sheff Utd and Bournemouth back up having just been relegated? Yawn

6 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

That would make for an exceptionally dull PL. Fulham, Sheff Utd and Bournemouth back up having just been relegated? Yawn

Yep the neutrals will want Luton something different 

34 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

Yep the neutrals will want Luton something different 

Or Forest, haven't been there for a generation 

Bristol Rovers winning 7-0 and they'll go up automatically if things don't change 

Would be a feel-good story if that humongous cunt Barton wasn't in charge

2 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

Bristol Rovers winning 7-0 and they'll go up automatically if things don't change 

Would be a feel-good story if that humongous cunt Barton wasn't in charge

Unbelievable Jeff 

still 5 mins left. If they concede or Northampton score then they drop back into the playoffs

Some biggish clubs in the play offs that will see themselves as league one sized clubs:

Swindon v Port Vale

Mansfield v Northampton.

Hoping for a Mansfield - Vale final as that would give us a decent away game to make up a bit for Forest Green and Exeter coming up with their tiny grounds.