[Archived] Championship

[philipl]

Pathetic 11,180 crowd for PNE v WBA- a game that would have seen the Nobenders into the top two had they won.

Anyway there is a problem with the search system on the new board. I know we have a thread on the Championship (Div 2 in proper money) somewhere but when you search, you get the individual posts with the word included, not the topic. I gave up after ten pages and started a new thread. Candidate for merger if the existing one can be found anywhere.

[DE.]

Poor old Ipswich. Unluckiest team in the football leagues at the moment.

[chocky]

Newcastle, West Brom and P.N.E. in the play offs...it's about time they did it...

[joey_big_nose]

Newcastle, West Brom and P.N.E. in the play offs...it's about time they did it...

How many teams from Lancs can you have in the Prem?! I don't think anyone from Lancashire is going down this year, and if PNE come up we would be in the bizarre position of having eight local derbies within 40 miles which must be some sort of record?!

THey might as well rename the Premiership the Lancs-London Combination division.

[philipl]

If PNE don't make it this year, there is always the improbable sight of Blackpool sitting in the play-off places. Holloway is doing a remarkable job building on Tony Parkes' legacy; a thumping 3-0 win over Sheff U tonight.

Suddenly from there being a ten point gap from 1st to 4th, ten points now cover the top 20 clubs in the Championship after tonight's games (assuming West Brom don't salvage anything in the remaining minutes against Swansea). It is also 3 points covering the top 9 with QPR in tenth a point behind with a game in hand.

[Hughesy]

Newcastle will walk the league... yes they are having a stutter but it was always going to happen.

Boro.. could be an automatic if they get the right man in.

Play offs - Cardiff, West Brom, Preston & 1 other........cant see Blackpool hanging in there!

[waggy]

with 4 points covering the top 10,anyone could come up.forest were in the bottom 4 when we played them now they are 7th

[tcj_jones]

I have a feeling that Newcastle and 'Boro (should Strachan sign) will get the top two spots with West Brom, Cardiff, Sheffield United and Preston filling the play-off places.

[philipl]

It is desperately close- any of the top 20 could go on a good run and get into the mix. Look how quickly Forest have raced up that League.

It is Newcastle's promotion unless two other teams have the strength and consistency and that cannot be ruled out. If Hughton's squad comes under pressure, I don't know how resilient they will be- they looked a well-beaten side at Forest.

Apart from having a dumb manager, QPR could challenge for automatic promotion and Forest don't have a bad squad by any means.

However, promotion at the first attempt for all of last year's relegated trio still looks the best bet.

[LeChuck]

It's very unusual for two relegated sides to fill the top two spots, usually one of the established Championship clubs gets in there.

I've got a feeling it might be Cardiff this year, they've been knocking on the door for a while now. I'll take West Brom to go up as champions with them. Probably someone like Boro or Newcastle for the play-offs.

[DE.]

Derby 1-0 up against QPR.... Savage with the assist, Dickov with the goal

[den]

North End make £9m loss.

Loans from Hemmings keeping them afloat, while their Chairman admits that the fans expectations for them to continually fight for promotion are unreal.

Attendances at Deepdale have dropped this season and a couple of days ago their chief executive was telling Radio Lancs that the big Prem clubs are killing them [he did add that he meant Man u and Liverpool - not Burnley and Rovers]. More and more fans were finding it easier to support Man Utd because it's easier to watch the live games of a successful club via the armchair on a weekly basis, than it is to actually pay to attend PNE. He called them glory hunters.

[Fife Rover]

North End make £9m loss.

Loans from Hemmings keeping them afloat, while their Chairman admits that the fans expectations for them to continually fight for promotion are unreal.

Attendances at Deepdale have dropped this season and a couple of days ago their chief executive was telling Radio Lancs that the big Prem clubs are killing them [he did add that he meant Man u and Liverpool - not Burnley and Rovers]. More and more fans were finding it easier to support Man Utd because it's easier to watch the live games of a successful club via the armchair on a weekly basis, than it is to actually pay to attend PNE. He called them glory hunters.

He's absolutely right! And what will they all do when one by one all except about the 6 or 7 richest/biggest clubs have all disappeared into bankruptsey, and these few "elite" have all cleared off to join yet another "get even richer quicker" league organised by another set of greedy b*****s and followed by the entire media ('cause that's where the money is) circus, and it all moves off into the sunset as far as British football as we once knew and loved it is concerned?

But then what do we all care anyway?

[Majiball]

Bloody hell den, I've just spat coffee all over my screen, 9 million!!

[cn174]

Forest are destroying WBA at the Hawthornes. Our win against them is fast becoming one of our best victories of the season!

[Tris]

Forest are destroying WBA at the Hawthornes. Our win against them is fast becoming one of our best victories of the season!

And what a goal this was!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX8f8wEig48

[Ricky]

Not a bad volley was it. My mate is a forest fan and was at the game tonight. He's coming to watch the rovers villa game on thursday, thinking he may have seen a better game tonight

[Hughesy]

Forest have been in great form, a very good run of results for them. Billy Davies doing a very good job!

[Blue n White Rover]

And what a goal this was!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX8f8wEig48

Morten-esque

Where them days have gone I'll never know.

[philipl]

Forest's last defeat was against us!

And somebody ran down our victory saying Posh were better than Forest!!!

[Presty On Tour]

All ex Rovers in action at Pride park

Kuqi scoring the only goal

Savage almost getting killed by Pintado by the corner flag who recieved a red card and a police escort.

Mceveley has also seenred earlier in the game.

[ewoodpo]

Blackpool are just outside the play-offs I would like to see them come up. It would give us another Lancashire Derby also, when they would come to Ewood they would bring a few fans as well wirh it being so close.

[mellison24]

Blackpool are just outside the play-offs I would like to see them come up. It would give us another Lancashire Derby also, when they would come to Ewood they would bring a few fans as well wirh it being so close.

Turn the premier league in to 'the NW division' haha. We're already 2/5 there!

[Exiled_Rover]

I'm on the other side - f' all these NW teams. Get them all down besides us.

[ewoodpo]

I'm on the other side - f' all these NW teams. Get them all down besides us.

Now now do you not think the more local teams in the league the better?