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EFL to end season this week - City likely to be promoted (3 Viewers)

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SkyBlue Snowflake

Active Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #141
SlowerThanPlatt said:
Let’s be honest for a minute anyone with any respectable wealth wouldn’t sign up to an internet forum to tell strangers how great they are. I think you are living in a make believe fantasy and it’s not your first account on here
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Yes well thanks for your rather boring input in which I only just managed to stay awake reading, but this is my only account on here unlike you I have a rather busy life, but like I said thanks for your input....
 
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steve cooper

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #142
Sick Boy said:
Fucking hell imagine if was based on the halfway point of the season, there can’t be much chance of that, surely??
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I really can't see how they could do that, for example Fleetwood played Portsmouth twice in the league in the second half of the season. On 10th March (game 35 for both teams) and previous to that, on 22nd Feb (game 31). Not all teams play everyone once in half a season, so that would defeat the whole object. The fairest way is an average PPG based on home and away results as being suggested.
 
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SkyBlueSam01

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #143
Hi all - long time reader, first time poster etc.

I just wanted to sign up firstly, to express a great big hearty 'fuck off' to @SkyBlue Snowflake

And secondly, to put to bed any of this nonsense about not celebrating promotion back to the Championship. As a 24yo Sky Blue this will be our greatest footballing achievement in my lifetime, and if we don't celebrate it suitably can someone please explain to me what I have been wasting the last two and a half decades watching the likes of Reece Brown and Nathan Clarke for?
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #144
SkyBlueSam01 said:
Hi all - long time reader, first time poster etc.

I just wanted to sign up firstly, to express a great big hearty 'fuck off' to @SkyBlue Snowflake

And secondly, to put to bed any of this nonsense about not celebrating promotion back to the Championship. As a 24yo Sky Blue this will be our greatest footballing achievement of my lifetime, and if we don't celebrate it suitably can someone please explain to me what I have been wasting the last two and a half decades watching the likes of Reece Brown and Nathan Clarke for?
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Is it hard to type with big elephant hands?
 
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SkyBlueSam01

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #145
Liquid Gold said:
Is it hard to type with big elephant hands?
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Its the trunk that gets in the way the most
 
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SkyBlueSam01

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #146
SkyBlueSam01 said:
Its the trunk that gets in the way the most
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Not to mention this big thing on my face
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • May 8, 2020
  • #147
The not celebrating promotion stuff is just bollocks
 
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RegTheDonk

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #148
marcusp said:
The funniest comment from the sunderland forum. You can probably guess what some of the others think

I mean I'm no authority on this, but I'll just throw something out there - maybe they should consider voting to promote clubs with the largest fanbases and by definition keep more people happy? It would be for the greater good.
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I did chuckle at that one, and a few others.

To be fair, most on are there are being level headed and saying they don't deserve promotion and us and Rotherham should go up.
 

RegTheDonk

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #149
better days said:
I have heard that ppg is likely to be the way it's decided
We will be one of the few clubs in L1 and 2 who don't have to worry quite so much about financial implications as promotion to the Championship will make it much easier to get any funding needed to get through till fans are allowed again
Interesting developments in the Premier League where apparently the FA have the power to insist on 3 being relegated and they have agreed with the PL to do so if the relegation threatened clubs try to torpedo the plans for games to be played at neutral grounds
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Those relegated from the PL shouldn't sniff too much, they'll have a parachute bounty - while everyone esle in the Champ would most likely have to make do as best they can with no crowds till maybe next year. In some ways, if we aren't back in Cov, it would level the playing field a bit for us and give us a better chance of staying up.
 
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thekidfromstrettoncamp

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #150
Sick Boy said:
Fucking hell imagine if was based on the halfway point of the season, there can’t be much chance of that, surely??
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Like i said earlier vested interest will come into play.
 

RegTheDonk

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #151
Grendel said:
How is it our lowest point ever?
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He probably means recently - sinking to the bottom division and playing outside of Cov. In all honesty, it's the lowest point I've witnessed in my lifetime.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • May 8, 2020
  • #152
Going to expect the worst before getting excited
 
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clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #153
Sick Boy said:
The not celebrating promotion stuff is just bollocks
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Won't be the same as completing the season and celebrating at the game obviously but I'll definitely be raising a glass! Waited too long for this not to and got to spend my furlough money on something!
 
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clint van damme

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #154
Sick Boy said:
Going to expect the worst before getting excited
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There's going to be all sorts of protests and appeals.
Posh owner on about it and to be honest he has a case but at the end of the day we're 7 clear of 3rd, game in hands and only lost 3 times all season. If you don't complete or void then we have to go up.
 
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Ring Of Steel

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #155
RegTheDonk said:
He probably means recently - sinking to the bottom division and playing outside of Cov. In all honesty, it's the lowest point I've witnessed in my lifetime.
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No, I mean arguably our lowest point ever. Even in the 30s when we hit the bottom division we were pulling in 15-20,000 and never averaged under 10k- for some games we had 40k, plus we owned our own ground and had no history of top division football so it was more 'normal'. The only other season we were in the bottom division was 58/59 when we got 17k per game, and again we owned our own ground. That was generally felt to be our 'lowest ebb', however in 2017 we were down to crowds well under 10k, did not own a ground, the ongoing SISU stuff was happening, we went through god knows how many players, we'd bounced from Northampton to the Ricoh only for that to get sold to Wasps- and we were in a time when the financial disparity between divisions was higher than ever, it was as if the club lurched from one catastrophe to the next, and we never knew if the club would continue to exist, let alone climb back up the divisions.

There are only really two competitors for our lowest ever point since we joined the professional league- the 30s and that one season in the 1950s- but in both other occasions we had a ground, good support, and we did not have constant threats to our very existence, so I would say that when we hit rock bottom in 2017 that was the absolute lowest. It was only really Robins coming back and a day out at Wembley which gave any hope at all. There is no hard & fast answer, just opinion, but taking everything into account for me, 2017 was the lowest ever in terms of league, support, morale, stadium and the very future of the club.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #156
clint van damme said:
There's going to be all sorts of protests and appeals.
Posh owner on about it and to be honest he has a case but at the end of the day we're 7 clear of 3rd, game in hands and only lost 3 times all season. If you don't complete or void then we have to go up.
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Yep that’s bang on
 
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SkyBlue Snowflake

Active Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #157
SkyBlueSam01 said:
Hi all - long time reader, first time poster etc.

I just wanted to sign up firstly, to express a great big hearty 'fuck off' to @SkyBlue Snowflake

And secondly, to put to bed any of this nonsense about not celebrating promotion back to the Championship. As a 24yo Sky Blue this will be our greatest footballing achievement in my lifetime, and if we don't celebrate it suitably can someone please explain to me what I have been wasting the last two and a half decades watching the likes of Reece Brown and Nathan Clarke for?
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Oh dear I've made a strange and a odd one sign up, my sincere apologies to everyone
 
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robbiekeane

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #158
Ring Of Steel said:
The point is just bollocks. Its been negativity all the way through, slating players, calling Robins a twat etc- now we should apparently not celebrate promotion because of something which may or may not happen and because we are afraid of the Championship.
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Sorry, who said that last bit?

And who has been slating players and calling robins a twat "all the way through". Jesus christ mate, you're obviously an intelligent guy/girl but this kind of mindset really fucks me off. When good things happen, you're happier about the opportunity to try and point score with people who don't filter their emotions on a match thread than you are about the actual good news! Baffling
 
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covcity4life

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #159
Foeget points scoring. Its genuinly sad if city fans havnt enjoyed this season
 
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clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #160
covcity4life said:
Foeget points scoring. Its genuinly sad if city fans havnt enjoyed this season
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It's certainly going to be one to tell the grand kids about. All sorts of nonsense going on.
 
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baldy

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #161
SkyBlue Snowflake said:
Haven't you got a tic toc dance to organise
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oh dear...you’re really not funny at all are you? Sad sad little troll - oh & learn to spell too,if you’re not sure,ask your carer
 
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Flying Fokker

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #162
Ring Of Steel said:
No, I mean arguably our lowest point ever. Even in the 30s when we hit the bottom division we were pulling in 15-20,000 and never averaged under 10k- for some games we had 40k, plus we owned our own ground and had no history of top division football so it was more 'normal'. The only other season we were in the bottom division was 58/59 when we got 17k per game, and again we owned our own ground. That was generally felt to be our 'lowest ebb', however in 2017 we were down to crowds well under 10k, did not own a ground, the ongoing SISU stuff was happening, we went through god knows how many players, we'd bounced from Northampton to the Ricoh only for that to get sold to Wasps- and we were in a time when the financial disparity between divisions was higher than ever, it was as if the club lurched from one catastrophe to the next, and we never knew if the club would continue to exist, let alone climb back up the divisions.

There are only really two competitors for our lowest ever point since we joined the professional league- the 30s and that one season in the 1950s- but in both other occasions we had a ground, good support, and we did not have constant threats to our very existence, so I would say that when we hit rock bottom in 2017 that was the absolute lowest. It was only really Robins coming back and a day out at Wembley which gave any hope at all. There is no hard & fast answer, just opinion, but taking everything into account for me, 2017 was the lowest ever in terms of league, support, morale, stadium and the very future of the club.
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Agreed, just one small point. The early 80’s saw some pretty shit crowds at Hr. Some below 10k. That was all due the recession. The low crowds recently are entirely due to the ridiculous situation we find ourselves in while the vast majority of clubs fan base remains stable.
 
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covcity4life

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #163
clint van damme said:
It's certainly going to be one to tell the grand kids about. All sorts of nonsense going on.
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"Relegation fodder" for to league champs!!

Oh you meant covid...
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #164
covcity4life said:
"Relegation fodder" for to league champs!!

Oh you meant covid...
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both!
And playing in Brum and against Brum!
 

jordan210

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #165
As a Coventry fan we all know disappoint well.

So im not going to get excited by this until its official.
 
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covcity4life

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #166
clint van damme said:
both!
And playing in Brum and against Brum!
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Hopefully next season is remkable sucxess stoey too

But this time set in coventry
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #167
Just think, this time next year we could be heading to the PL.*

If we get awarded the title and storm a very strange Championship next year.

(Yes I know it is a nonsense post but let's try and be positive.)
 
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Ring Of Steel

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #168
Flying Fokker said:
Agreed, just one small point. The early 80’s saw some pretty shit crowds at Hr. Some below 10k. That was all due the recession. The low crowds recently are entirely due to the ridiculous situation we find ourselves in while the vast majority of clubs fan base remains stable.
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but we were in the top division in the 1980s? I don’t just mean levels of support, I mean the whole state of the club

edit- didn’t read your post properly, sorry, yes you’re right.
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2020
  • #169
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Just think, this time next year we could be heading to the PL.*

If we get awarded the title and storm a very strange Championship next year.

(Yes I know it is a nonsense post but let's try and be positive.)
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it probably is nonsense but stranger things have happened. And dreaming is what football is all about.
 
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chiefdave

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #170
clint van damme said:
Posh owner on about it and to be honest he has a case but at the end of the day we're 7 clear of 3rd, game in hands and only lost 3 times all season. If you don't complete or void then we have to go up.
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Posh owner is arguing against PPG isn't he as that has them finishing 5th (they're currently 6th). Past actually playing the games what alternative system is he proposing that has them going up, which seems to be the only thing that will satisfy him, and what makes him thinks the teams that miss out when they get leapfrogged by Posh are just going to accept it?
 
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Grendel

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #171
chiefdave said:
Posh owner is arguing against PPG isn't he as that has them finishing 5th (they're currently 6th). Past actually playing the games what alternative system is he proposing that has them going up, which seems to be the only thing that will satisfy him, and what makes him thinks the teams that miss out when they get leapfrogged by Posh are just going to accept it?
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He’s a twat
 
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Otis

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #172
Sick Boy said:
Going to expect the worst before getting excited
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I am the same with sex.

And that's just with myself.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • May 8, 2020
  • #173
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Just think, this time next year we could be heading to the PL.*

If we get awarded the title and storm a very strange Championship next year.

(Yes I know it is a nonsense post but let's try and be positive.)
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After Leicester winning the PL nothing would surprise me
 
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clint van damme

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #174
chiefdave said:
Posh owner is arguing against PPG isn't he as that has them finishing 5th (they're currently 6th). Past actually playing the games what alternative system is he proposing that has them going up, which seems to be the only thing that will satisfy him, and what makes him thinks the teams that miss out when they get leapfrogged by Posh are just going to accept it?
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along those lines and like I say, given their form and run in I can see why hes unhappy but you cannot employ an equation that bumps the team top with a 7 point lead and a game in hand, its just not reasonable.
 

Ring Of Steel

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  • May 8, 2020
  • #175
clint van damme said:
along those lines and like I say, given their form and run in I can see why hes unhappy but you cannot employ an equation that bumps the team top with a 7 point lead and a game in hand, its just not reasonable.
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reminds me a bit of when people accused Villa of “relegating us”- actually no, it was the previous 37 games that did that... similarly this guy is saying that PPG would rob them of promotion- actually no, it was the previous 35 games that did that
 
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