Championship thread 25/26! (64 Viewers)

Ipad Boro · 2026-04-03T15:56:13+0100

Warwickhunt said:
As I said in a earlier post! Playing Morris and Macree after stepping off a long haul is a mistake as they were running through treacle 2nd half

Who the hell else would we have played in the midfield 3? Hackney, Whittaker and Casteldine are injured.
Browne could have played despite playing games for Ireland as he wasn't long haul, and indeed he did, but other than that we'd be looking at Gilbert who is an emergency player really and McCabe from the kids who last played as a sub God knows when.

Millwall would have ripped that apart all game. Despite our midfield being severely reduced for the game it was still better than what we had otherwise. Take any championship club's top 5 midfielders out of the engine room and they'd be weak as piss in the centre of the park sadly. Just a combination of bad luck that our options were so depleted, but hopefully that "evens itself out" as they say going into the playoffs, with injuries galore for the other sides involved.

I'm not banking on it though!

shepardo01 · 2026-04-03T15:56:38+0100

castellon_skyblue · 2026-04-03T16:00:17+0100

It’s hard not to laugh at Middlesbrough. I didn’t manage it.

TomRad85 · 2026-04-03T16:01:34+0100

shepardo01 said:

Stat merchants. We'll celebrate our title and our bucket loads of goals while they get milked dry over their xG and how many touches they get in the opposition box.

CraigSBA · 2026-04-03T16:04:46+0100

CovRes · 2026-04-03T16:05:38+0100

CovveeBreak said:
Chris Norwich

I was at school with his sister.

robbiethemole · 2026-04-03T16:06:27+0100

Ipad Boro said:
Who the hell else would we have played in the midfield 3? Hackney, Whittaker and Casteldine are injured.
Browne could have played despite playing games for Ireland as he wasn't long haul, and indeed he did, but other than that we'd be looking at Gilbert who is an emergency player really and McCabe from the kids who last played as a sub God knows when.

Millwall would have ripped that apart all game. Despite our midfield being severely reduced for the game it was still better than what we had otherwise. Take any championship club's top 5 midfielders out of the engine room and they'd be weak as piss in the centre of the park sadly. Just a combination of bad luck that our options were so depleted, but hopefully that "evens itself out" as they say going into the playoffs, with injuries galore for the other sides involved.

I'm not banking on it though!

sorry not sorry............................ no tears from us mate we've been fucked over too many times to give many fucks!!!!

robbiethemole · 2026-04-03T16:07:53+0100

CraigSBA said:

wankers!!, wankers!! wankers!!! hoooooo are ya????

Mercian In Anglia · 2026-04-03T16:09:54+0100

CovRes said:
I was at school with his sister.

Did they invite you to the wedding?

Otis · 2026-04-03T16:10:18+0100

Liquid Gold said:
I sort of don’t want Millwall to do it.

They’d steal some of our thunder

WGAFF

Who Gives A Flying F*ck.

Brighton Sky Blue · 2026-04-03T16:10:48+0100

CraigSBA said:

We did catch them some day to be fair. 7 days later to be exact but who’s counting?

mrtrench · 2026-04-03T16:10:48+0100

Boing Boing... Baggies winning so far for a double-bubble :

A) Leicester losing so increasing the gap for their safety.

B) Wrexham losing.

But I see Wrexham have pulled one back since I started typing. Sad face emoji.

Ipad Boro · 2026-04-03T16:14:19+0100

TomRad85 said:
Stat merchants. We'll celebrate our title and our bucket loads of goals while they get milked dry over their xG and how many touches they get in the opposition box.

xG whilst far from the accurate stat of how well a team does almost certainly indicates fairly accurately one of 2 things; if your goals scored are far exceeding it, it shows that whilst the rest of your side could be average, overall your strikers are clinical.and superb at this level, like Hull for example. If they're far below it, then it shows whilst most of your outfield players are top notch, your strikers are pretty pathetic, like ourselves.

At least our xG shows the midfield aren't doing much wrong, especially given their depletion today. And our performances are decent too. As for strikers though, Good God...

We just need to throw the kitchen sink worth of cash at the striking department for next year and hope that's the final piece of the jigsaw sorted. Can't imagine many strikers at this level not wanting to play for us next year too as they know they'd have tonnes more opportunities to score bucketloads and make a name for themselves than at most other clubs in this league now, unlike in the last summer's recruitment.

Armstrong never is and never was the answer though and certainly not for the had your pants pulled down figure that players get touted for in January.

AOM · 2026-04-03T16:14:44+0100

Their owners can't wait to rename them to the Birmingham Peaky Blinders

Mercian In Anglia · 2026-04-03T16:16:14+0100

AOM said:
Their owner can't wait to rename them...
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FUUUUCCCCCKKKKIIINNNNEEEELLLLLLL

shepardo01 · 2026-04-03T16:16:39+0100

Hamer scoring and then involved twice in Sheffield United's second...

oakey · 2026-04-03T16:17:02+0100

Hull look like a pub team

mmttww · 2026-04-03T16:17:11+0100

pls let him rename them the Birmingham Blinders!

AOM · 2026-04-03T16:17:34+0100

Mercian In Anglia said:
FUUUUCCCCCKKKKIIINNNNEEEELLLLLLL

Second hand embarrassment

clint van damme · 2026-04-03T16:18:56+0100

covcity4life said:
Playoffs still on as a plan b

Like us, they'd probably have taken that start of the season. But a bit of an anti climax when youve Ben up there for so long.

TomRad85 · 2026-04-03T16:19:43+0100

AOM said:
Their owners can't wait to rename them to the Birmingham Peaky Blinders

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They really should be humbling themselves after this season. Such an embarrassing football club.

Ipad Boro · 2026-04-03T16:20:45+0100

robbiethemole said:
sorry not sorry............................ no tears from us mate we've been fucked over too many times to give many fucks!!!!

Why would you be sorry?
Today's result just cements your promotion and pushes you closer to the title, not that either were in doubt IMHO mind.

You've not been fucked over by us mind, we've done everything in our power to get you up for a few seasons now

Should we not get through the playoffs though, I'd like Millwall and Hull to go up with you as I still don't want any parachute teams to do it.

It would be a breath of fresh air for the Prem, one in the eye of the supposed "Big Clubs" coming down and give uus more hope of getting up next year into the bargain.

shepardo01 · 2026-04-03T16:20:48+0100

Bristol City's second goal.... Oh dear.....

Mucca Mad Boys · 2026-04-03T16:21:00+0100

hill83 said:
commentator still saying best footballing team in the championship

This is what’s irritated me about Boro and why I don’t even want them to go up. They may even end up finishing 4th place, Ipswich will have too much at home.

Besides, what metrics are they better than us?
- scored 21 more goals
- better home record
- better away record
- higher than them in the xG table
- they’ve conceded 1 less goal…

The love in has been a bit embarrassing, frankly.

Otis · 2026-04-03T16:21:17+0100

clint van damme said:
Like us, they'd probably have taken that start of the season. But a bit of an anti climax when youve Ben up there for so long.

Is Ben Up a sequel of sorts to the Ben Dover series?

djr8369 · 2026-04-03T16:21:49+0100

AOM said:
Their owners can't wait to rename them to the Birmingham Peaky Blinders

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Ffs

Mercian In Anglia · 2026-04-03T16:22:15+0100

Some gems from Foxes Talk:

Absolute gift that even Daka couldn’t miss….. need a cleanie now

Preston really are shite aren’t they

These are properly on the beach

These are so bad. Like 80% of opposition you see in this league. How did we get it this wrong?

I hope all these chances missed don't cost us

Shouldn't count unless it's 3 inches over, imo.

TomRad85 · 2026-04-03T16:22:27+0100

Ipad Boro said:
xG whilst far from the accurate stat of how well a team does almost certainly indicates fairly accurately one of 2 things; if your goals scored are far exceeding it, it shows that whilst the rest of your side could be average, overall your strikers are clinical.and superb at this level, like Hull for example. If they're far below it, then it shows whilst most of your outfield players are top notch, your strikers are pretty pathetic, like ourselves.

At least our xG shows the midfield aren't doing much wrong, especially given their depletion today. And our performances are decent too. As for strikers though, Good God...

We just need to throw the kitchen sink worth of cash at the striking department for next year and hope that's the final piece of the jigsaw sorted. Can't imagine many strikers at this level not wanting to play for us next year too as they know they'd have tonnes more opportunities to score bucketloads and make a name for themselves than at most other clubs in this league now, unlike in the last summer's recruitment.

Armstrong never is and never was the answer though and certainly not for the had your pants pulled down figure that players get touted for in January.

I believe our xG is actually higher than Boros anyway. Unfortunately for you and something i think people seem to forget is creating is only part of the battle, the hardest part is sticking the ball in the net, which we're also pretty good at.

Noble · 2026-04-03T16:23:34+0100

AOM said:
Their owners can't wait to rename them to the Birmingham Peaky Blinders

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The state of that

shepardo01 · 2026-04-03T16:24:49+0100

Ipad Boro said:
Why would you be sorry?
Today's result just cements your promotion and pushes you closer to the title, not that either were in doubt IMHO mind.

Should we not get through the playoffs though, I'd like Millwall and Hull to go up with you as I still don't want any parachute teams to do it.

It would be a breath of fresh air for the Prem, one in the eye of the supposed "Big Clubs" coming down and give uus more hope of getting up next year into the bargain.

I feel for you lot... Can't be nice.
We still have play some serious football and personally I think we'll stutter at some point in the run in.... Not many of our lot ...if any.... have been in this position before.

I'm nervous as hell ..... We aren't used to this!!

PaulPUSB · 2026-04-03T16:25:01+0100

Why are Ipswich not playing this weekend?

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TomRad85 · 2026-04-03T16:25:08+0100

I just love football right now. Not only are we going up, I get the cherry on the cake of my 3 most hated divisional rivals, Lesta, Blunts and Birmingham all being absolute steaming turds. I've been waiting a long time for a season as delicious as this.

Sky Blue Goblin · 2026-04-03T16:26:54+0100

AOM said:
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Please Doug, when you do sell up for the love of all that is holy, refuse to sell to a yank

Sky Blue Goblin · 2026-04-03T16:27:09+0100

PaulPUSB said:
Why are Ipswich not playing this weekend?

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Southampton in fa cup

Noble · 2026-04-03T16:27:17+0100

PaulPUSB said:
Why are Ipswich not playing this weekend?

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Guessing they were scheduled to play Southampton who are in the cup?

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