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It feels like the investment is ever nearer!!
Southampton expelled from play-offs (Hull promoted)
- Thread starter The Pasty Kid
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Next season in the Championship the play-offs will go down to the 8th placed team which will make things interesting.
Over the last three seasons the difference between 3rd and 8th place has been 14 points, a staggering 24 points, 21 points, 12 points and 13 points.
The exact format is to be ratified this summer but so far it's this ...
Over the last three seasons the difference between 3rd and 8th place has been 14 points, a staggering 24 points, 21 points, 12 points and 13 points.
The exact format is to be ratified this summer but so far it's this ...
- 3rd and 4th qualify for the semi-finals.
- 5th vs 8th, and 6th vs 7th in one-off eliminator ties at the home of the side who finishes higher up the league.
- The winners of the eliminator ties progress to the semi-finals, to face 3rd and 4th in the format that currently exists - two-legged ties with the second leg at the home of the side that finishes higher up the league.
Also, the vast majority of tactical work in professional football is now classroom based. It’s just so unbelievably stupid from Southampton because they’d have beaten Hull yesterday.
I do hope the lad who did the filming is being supported. This isn’t on him, it’s on Tonda Eckert. The lad who did the filming was probably just chuffed to be working for Southampton and he was following the instructions of his boss.
The two points of interest were stated in the reports: was acertain player training and likely to be included in the team, and how they were set up in preparation for the game against Boro. Neither of these could be determined from watching games against a different opposition.
No we wouldn’t. It’s meaningless in any case. A couple more games but only money grabbing and still only three go up. You will never convince me that a team 10 points behind in the table can get lucky over two games and win promotion. I would love to see a season without play offs for fairness but it won’t happen, too much money involved.Bravo, refreshing to see someone standing up for the play-offs
It'd almost be worth having a season without play-offs, just to underline to the misery-guts who sneerily begrudge clubs that finish 7th from going up, quite how bad football used to be without them.
From about early March in most leagues every game would be a meaningless dead rubber for all but about four or five clubs at the top and the relegation scrappers. 50-60% of the league with absolutely nothing to play for 2-3 months.
40 years they've been going, 40 years saved from the turgid pointlessness of months of stalemate football... yet STILL there are folk who just don't get it
If it'll shut them up good and proper give us a one season with no play-offs, they'll soon remember howit all was.
I would like 4 up and 4 down throughout the football pyramid (including non-league), with no play offs. That would minimise dead rubber games and be more fair and reflective of the season as a whole.Bravo, refreshing to see someone standing up for the play-offs
It'd almost be worth having a season without play-offs, just to underline to the misery-guts who sneerily begrudge clubs that finish 7th from going up, quite how bad football used to be without them.
From about early March in most leagues every game would be a meaningless dead rubber for all but about four or five clubs at the top and the relegation scrappers. 50-60% of the league with absolutely nothing to play for 2-3 months.
40 years they've been going, 40 years saved from the turgid pointlessness of months of stalemate football... yet STILL there are folk who just don't get it
If it'll shut them up good and proper give us a one season with no play-offs, they'll soon remember how
I’m always so torn on this. On one hand, The Play Offs are fantastic, they produce such drama and they provide great entertainment once the regular season is over, but on the other hand, I agree, it does feel wrong that a club can finish 10-15 points behind another and go up ahead of them. The worst example was last season, although they didn’t go up Bristol City finished closer to ourselves from a points POV than they did to Sheff Utd, yet the two sides met in the Play Offs, so they were closer to getting relegated than they were to finishing 3rd.
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When we look at how our beloved club is being run - the below article regarding Southampton - Kieran Maguire pulls no punches
www.bbc.co.uk
Southampton must be 'careful' with finances, says Kieran Maguire
Southampton must be "very careful" over their debts and fiscal position, says football finance expert Kieran Maguire.
www.bbc.co.uk
As was suggested in a paper yesterday, do Southampton change their nickname of Saints to Sinners!!.
