Championship thread 25/26! (170 Viewers)

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Strachan also said the best of the best from Scottish football would be able to dominate the championship and was worth splurging a few years of parachute money on.

That went well.

It's not as if the game being a hoodoo takes anything away from your performance, as some posters on here seem to think. It's quite possible for you to perform out of your boots in said fixture nevertheless, which I think just about everyone acknowledged anyway.

Given though that there's 3 possible outcomes to a game and only one outcome has been reached in the past 7, the coin flip analogy is a decent one. The odds of those games all going the way they did with flipping a coin would be slightly greater (with it's 2 options) than flipping a coin 11 times and getting heads every single time, or 2,187:1.

The last coin toss has no influence on the next one.

 

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[shmmeee]

We have a winning record but up until the recent burst of results over the last 3 years it was pretty much neck and neck, not enough to be considered a hoodoo at all...
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My best mate is a Boro fan and we always used to bet on the games, that stopped since we came back up cos he kept losing but before that it was basically pretty even IIRC

 

[TomRad85]

My best mate is a Boro fan and we always used to bet on the games, that stopped since we came back up cos he kept losing but before that it was basically pretty even IIRC

Yeh pretty much like our record against the Blunts, win at home and lose away. I would say it would be funny if we started regularly gubbing them like we have been Boro for a few years but hopefully we don't have to play them.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Yeh pretty much like our record against the Blunts, win at home and lose away. I would say it would be funny if we started regularly gubbing them like we have been Boro for a few years but hopefully we don't have to play them.

I mean we have taken the lead at Carrow Road three years running and lost every time. No hoodoo there, we just flapped it.

Another ground I hope we don’t see again any time soon.

 

[TomRad85]

Even our 'hoodoo' against Preston can be somewhat downgraded to a Deepdale hoodoo if we beat them in the upcoming game which i think we will quite comfortably. Lampard would have taken 7 points from 3 games against them if that happens.

 

[Shannerz]

The coin flip analogy is a decent one.

It's not.

A coin flip is chance, a football match is not.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Regarding your comment on this, whilst I have no idea how Leicester are structured, your interpretation on CCFC's structure and ownership of the Arena is interesting. It depends on what you constitute the football club to be - Covcityco Ltd (parent co) or Coventry City Football Club Ltd. The club posted the accounts of Coventry City Football Club Ltd not Covcityco Ltd and the football club operations all sit within Coventry City Football Club Ltd.

Covcityco Ltd owns the 4 stadium companies, Coventry City Football Club Ltd does not. I do not anticipate the way the operations of the arena are structured to change, so I expect the 4 stadium companies will continue to exist as they did under Frasers. I also think the existing lease arrangement over the Arena will continue - with Coventry City Football Club Ltd continuing to lease the Arena from Opco (Coventry Arena Opco Ltd, one of the stadium companies acquired). Ultimately in the Covcityco Ltd Group financial statements the lease expenditure in Coventry City Football Club Ltd and lease income in Opco will eliminate, so no impact in the Group accounts. But i'd expect the lease costs in Coventry City Football Club Ltd to remain moving forwards. I could be wrong on this operational point - we will need next years accounts to confirm this, but the one thing that is definitely factual is that Covcityco Ltd owns the 4 stadium companies and Coventry City Football Club Ltd does not.

Ultimately DK owns both Covcityco Ltd and Coventry City Football Club Ltd (DK owns 90% of Covcityco Ltd, which in turn owns 100% of Coventry City Football Club Ltd). The other 10% of Covcityco Ltd is owned by RCMA Group PTE Ltd (which is a company in DK's investment management group of companies), so for DK basically owns 100% regardless.

So on the one hand the football club does own the Arena, but on the other hand it does not. It all depends on how DK views the set up.

The comment was simply that the stadium ownership sits in the same group as the football club. Nothing more than that.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Even our 'hoodoo' against Preston can be somewhat downgraded to a Deepdale hoodoo if we beat them in the upcoming game which i think we will quite comfortably. Lampard would have taken 7 points from 3 games against them if that happens.

Draw away at Swansea and it’s the same return from another ‘hoodoo’ team.

 

[TomRad85]

I mean we have taken the lead at Carrow Road three years running and lost every time. No hoodoo there, we just flapped it.

Another ground I hope we don’t see again any time soon.

Norwich have just been better than us for most the time we've been in The Championship together unfortunately so that explains a lot of it. That has now flipped but its still a tough place to go and we went at a time where we were struggling and they were on the up. Just is what it is really. If we went there when Manning was around i'm sure we'd have stood a good chance of turning them over like every other team that went there.

 

[alexccfc99]

Norwich have just been better than us for most the time we've been in The Championship together unfortunately so that explains a lot of it. That has now flipped but its still a tough place to go and we went at a time where we were struggling and they were on the up. Just is what it is really. If we went there when Manning was around i'm sure we'd have stood a good chance of turning them over like every other team that went there.

Played Norwich away at the wrong time unfortunately

To counter that, we got a bit lucky going to The Riverside when they were in-between managers and to WBA when they were clearly being managed by someone incompetent, when their home record under Mason was actually alright

 

[CrawleySkyBlue]

The comment was simply that the stadium ownership sits in the same group as the football club. Nothing more than that.

Fair enough - just want to make sure people understand how the club is set up

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Played Norwich away at the wrong time unfortunately

To counter that, we got a bit lucky going to The Riverside when they were in-between managers and to WBA when they were clearly being managed by someone incompetent, when their home record under Mason was actually alright

I would argue that actually Boro were a tougher proposition under Viveash than Edwards, their tails were up and they played brilliantly.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

I would argue that actually Boro were a tougher proposition under Viveash than Edwards, their tails were up and they played brilliantly.

Yep they missed that chance at 3-2 wanna blame anyone blame Conway and then anyone that thinks you didn’t need a striker to replace him

 

[Grendel]

Strachan also said the best of the best from Scottish football would be able to dominate the championship and was worth splurging a few years of parachute money on.

That went well.

It's not as if the game being a hoodoo takes anything away from your performance, as some posters on here seem to think. It's quite possible for you to perform out of your boots in said fixture nevertheless, which I think just about everyone acknowledged anyway.

Given though that there's 3 possible outcomes to a game and only one outcome has been reached in the past 7, the coin flip analogy is a decent one. The odds of those games all going the way they did with flipping a coin would be slightly greater (with it's 2 options) than flipping a coin 11 times and getting heads every single time, or 2,187:1.

We went I think 28 consecutive games from the first ever at Villa Park before winning - it’s just a statistical anomaly in the same there is almost zero chance of winning a lottery

 

[Chris1987]

If it's the Blunts then £7/8 million at the very least

Can't see them spending that much unless they get decent money from player sales. They're skint

 

[covcity4life]

I don't get the love in at all but i'd rather Boro than Ipswich and if in play offs i'd rather them than Southampton, Wrexham, Birmingham... If the season ended with either two parachute teams somehow going up or one parachute and one American wank stain team, that would be mildly disappointing. Ultimately i'd really love it if Millwall and Hull came up with us, largely because i think they'd both be terrible and we'd only have to find one existing Prem team to shit the bed to stay up.

It's definitely fair to think ahead. 2 weaker teams promoted with us increases our chances of staying up next year which is huge

 

[baldy]

Fair enough - just want to make sure people understand how the club is set up

I fell asleep after the first mention of the word CovCity Co to be honest

 

[Lamps]

Wrong. The ground and the training ground are owned by Leicester City Football Club Limited. The arrangement is no different in reality to what we now have with the CBS.

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We're in 2026 now. Thats up to summer 2024. They released money to the club. Why don't you go on their forum and look....or even ask the question.

 

[Evo1883]

Blues lost 1 of their last 41 at home

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Blues lost 1 of their last 41 at home

KRO!

 

[Evo1883]

KRO!

Go on the boys in royal blue

 

[AFCCOVENTRY]

Boro formation change is interesting

Looks like 3 at the back and wing backs now

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

If they keep Boro out with Jonathan Panzo at the back, fair fucking play.

 

[Nick]

Boro formation change is interesting

Looks like 3 at the back and wing backs now

Sweeper to cover ayling?

 

[Ipad Boro]

Blues lost 1 of their last 41 at home

Quite true.

1 loss at home this season, to Hull in October, a 3-2 that Hull got on top in after Brum went down to 10 men for most of the second half.

No losses at home whatsoever last season.

Their last loss at home before that came against Cardiff in April of the 23/24 season.

Yet for some reason I feel chill. Maybe I'm just a tad bananas....

 

[Evo1883]

Quite true.

1 loss at home this season, to Hull in October, a 3-2 that Hull got on top in after Brum went down to 10 men for most of the second half.

No losses at home whatsoever last season.

Their last loss at home before that came against Cardiff in April of the 23/24 season.

Yet for some reason I feel chill. Maybe I'm just a tad bananas....

No they werent great against us at st andrews , we were just shite .. theyre a funny side

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

No they werent great against us at st andrews , we were just shite .. theyre a funny side

Even with a completely ravaged squad we should've won that one.

 

[Nick]

Looks properly foggy

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Looks properly foggy

Its the smoke from the chimneys

 

[Nick]

Brum pressing them. Just forced a save

 

[Liquid Gold]

I hope Hellberg gets the front of his car nicked

 

[Noble]

Boro looking shaky, get into them

 

[Nick]

Ayling all over the shop

 

[clint van damme]

Ayling all over the shop

Ailing Ayling

 

[Evo1883]

Blues started strong