2025 promotion thread

[EnglishRed]

He's been shite so far this year imo. But then again hes not got really good competition until Burton comes back but that won't be till next season.

As bad as he was on Tuesday that's a harsh assessment. He's not really found his form since coming back from injury though.

I think we will make the play offs but we do need to weather this bad patch of form we are in. Automatic promotion was always a bit of a stretch for us- there is a reason three successive promotions hasn't been done before. The good thing is that there aren't too many clubs in the top half that have looked consistently good either- Leyton Orients form recently has been impressive but they haven't really played anyone decent so it'll be interesting to see how they get on against Stockport, Lincoln and Bolton in Feb.

Definitely all to play for. If someone gets on a good run they can really threaten that second spot.

 

[chief]

Stockport have won this season's UNDER THE RADAR award. Well in the mix now.

 

[folletto]

It feels nice to actually be excited and nervous at this stage of the season, we are usually guaranteed mid table mediocrity by now. Us and Orient definitely the form sides but Bolton are likely to do well under Schumacher.
Bit worried about our run of games coming up though. We have 5 tough games in the next 6 (Peterborough, Birmingham, Orient, Stockport and Barnsley). I know Peterborough are crap right now but they’re a bogey team for us, haven’t beat them in the last 12

 

[denzel ecfc]

We have 5 tough games in the next 6 (Peterborough, Birmingham, Orient, Stockport and Barnsley).

And one easy one...

 

[folletto]

And one easy one...

Only on paper. You'll no doubt beat us

 

[GEORGE]

There's only one team that will go up and stay there and that is Birmingham City. Streets ahead of the rest. Maybe with much investment maybe Bolton & Huddersfield could survive.

 

[folletto]

There's only one team that will go up and stay there and that is Birmingham City. Streets ahead of the rest. Maybe with much investment maybe Bolton & Huddersfield could survive.

I agree the gap is massive between League One and Championship but Oxford have done ok, so it's possible. Wrexham would invest heavily if they went up presumably (FFP dependent) and I'm not even that convinced by Birmingham although again assume they will bring in Top half Championship quality players in the summer. Really not sold on Davies as a manager, it's ok in League One when you're head and shoulders above the rest of the league in quality and you can rely purely on that but it's a different story in the Championship, where it'll be more of a level playing field.

We were crap last time we went up and came straight back down and only went down in the last minute of the season. If we'd have kept Conor Gallagher the whole season we'd have stayed up.

 

[SF_]

Birmingham are a given. Hoping Wrexham & Stockport join them to freshen up that league with some new fixtures. Local too.

Wouldn't complain with Charlton or Orient. Good London trips.

 

[Hudders]

Little over a month ago after beating Wycombe away we were about 13 clear of Charlton , still plenty of games left for them or someone else to nail second spot.
We will do well to stay in the play off picture on current form but hopefully that picks up again like it did when we had a bad run early in the season, admittedly this hasn’t had the feel of a promotion season at all for us so far.

 

[Pilot_Phonic]

Birmingham are a given. Hoping Wrexham & Stockport join them to freshen up that league with some new fixtures. Local too.

Wouldn't complain with Charlton or Orient. Good London trips.

Honestly, I hope we don't go up as I know we'll have to come straight back down. No chance are we even remotely ready to go up again. Be good to go to Deepdale as i've never been (I remember the 0-5 thrashing you gave us in the 90s when Moyes was in charge!)

 

[SF_]

Honestly, I hope we don't go up as I know we'll have to come straight back down. No chance are we even remotely ready to go up again. Be good to go to Deepdale as i've never been (I remember the 0-5 thrashing you gave us in the 90s when Moyes was in charge!)

Yeah, that Moyes team was stupidly good for this level, reached the Championship (Div 1) play-off final the following season.

 

[Pilot_Phonic]

Yeah, that Moyes team was stupidly good for this level, reached the Championship (Div 1) play-off final the following season.

Nightmares!

 

[SF_]

Nice. Don't remember us being so longball, but guess we were playing to the pitch. Gregan was such a boss.

Is that Mike Dean as ref??