2025 mid-table thread

[thewwfc]

The very essence of glory.

A reminder of the rules:

• First team to hit the beach, whereby you're too crap to stand any chance mathematically of going up, but you're not crap enough to be able to go down.
• In the event of a tie, the winner is crowned by having the GD that is closest to zero, to reflect TRUE mediocrity.
• If that's still a tie, then the team closest to the sacred mid-table havens of 12th or 13th.
• ...and if that STILL hasn't decided it, then the team with the most draws.

Still very open at this stage of course, but Exeter are the current favourites, lodged firmly in 12th, with a tasty near-zero GD.

They might want to stop swinging from wins to defeats though, and get more draws on the board.

Lincoln lost their old reputation for draw specialists a little bit over the last season or so, but never rule them out if they can rediscover the wonderful sense of result equality they once had.

Very much anyone's game right now, however.

 

[E10rifle]

I will laugh my tits off when Bolton win it.

 

[Muzzle]

I will laugh my tits off when Bolton win it.

What do you mean when? we are already there mate, give us that trophy now, the players seem to be on a metaphorical beach right now

 

[Conker]

Before the season started I’d have been buzzing to win the mid-table trophy.

 

[denzel ecfc]

The very essence of glory.

A reminder of the rules:

• First team to hit the beach, whereby you're too crap to stand any chance mathematically of going up, but you're not crap enough to be able to go down.
• In the event of a tie, the winner is crowned by having the GD that is closest to zero, to reflect TRUE mediocrity.
• If that's still a tie, then the team closest to the sacred mid-table havens of 12th or 13th.
• ...and if that STILL hasn't decided it, then the team with the most draws.

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Still very open at this stage of course, but Exeter are the current favourites, lodged firmly in 12th, with a tasty near-zero GD.

They might want to stop swinging from wins to defeats though, and get more draws on the board.

Lincoln lost their old reputation for draw specialists a little bit over the last season or so, but never rule them out if they can rediscover the wonderful sense of result equality they once had.

Very much anyone's game right now, however.

I don't think we are favourites as we are too close to the playoffs. Someone like Wigan or Blackpool have a better chance

 

[EricSabin]

We won this last year. Life comes at you fast.

 

[folletto]

Think we will win this. We are nowhere near good enough to challenge for playoffs but equally have a decent enough squad to usually get a result against the bottom sides.

 

[Stocky]

I can see us winning this. The talk is 50 points and let's step up the development of the academy players plus the young players we've brought in from home and abroad.

We're not financially ready to mount any challenge for the Championship, we need to keep bringing through more and more of these sellable assets. Talk already that Ethan Pye may go for over a million in the summer. We need to keep on this path and the rest of this season could be a great opportunity to take it up a notch.

 

[ForzaCounty]

I can see us winning this. The talk is 50 points and let's step up the development of the academy players plus the young players we've brought in from home and abroad.

We're not financially ready to mount any challenge for the Championship, we need to keep bringing through more and more of these sellable assets. Talk already that Ethan Pye may go for over a million in the summer. We need to keep on this path and the rest of this season could be a great opportunity to take it up a notch.

Nah mate. I enjoy showing showing how humble we are as much as you, but we're not going to be troubling 12th this season.

 

[Stocky]

Nah mate. I enjoy showing showing how humble we are as much as you, but we're not going to be troubling 12th this season.

I don't think we'll be far off 12ish to be honest. We're in a slightly false position in my opinion. Don't think there's much between us and a Charlton, Blackpool, Wigan etc. A few results here and there but we're in that middle range of teams particularly with Barry going. Nothing wrong with it but we're not a play-off team in my opinion.

 

[AmberAndy]

Wigan way too poor for these heady heights, surely between Exeter, Lincoln and Mansfield?

 

[AdamStag]

Wigan way too poor for these heady heights, surely between Exeter, Lincoln and Mansfield?

We’re still to new to this league to really work out the lay of the land, that there’s currently 16 teams somehow worse than us is both interesting but somehow concerning also, like how?

Is this league worse than normal? do sides that come up have a first season and drop down? obviously not all can be applied….

You offer me 12th now and i’d be delighted.