League One Relegation Thread

[The Alex]

Hopefully

 

[Murphy]

Might sound like an odd thing to say but Orient could have a lot worse of a run in that though. Both of those sides are prone to a rick, although I'd rather have had Sheff Utd away given their fairly patch home form.

I think they'll drop now mind, from a personal perspective I'd like the bottom four to stay as is now.

 

[RavenBish]

Notts County to become the new Tranmere?

You to finish 15th in League 1 from now until the end of time?

We won't do a Tranmere. They had to build an entire new team apart from Power and Fon Williams. We'll have C. Thompson, Hollis, Adams, Murray, Spencer and Noble who should all be very good players at League 2 level.

 

[RJM]

massive game on saturday really..just hope the right Crewe turn up!

 

[Inspector Todd]

You to finish 15th in League 1 from now until the end of time?

We won't do a Tranmere. They had to build an entire new team apart from Power and Fon Williams. We'll have C. Thompson, Hollis, Adams, Murray, Spencer and Noble who should all be very good players at League 2 level.

KR will take Spencer. I imagine Karl thinks they are great mates.

 

[Hurrikeen]

You to finish 15th in League 1 from now until the end of time?

Possibly for another 20 years, but I wouldn't say the end of time.

 

[PUSBCCFC]

Crawley have terracing. I like them.

Shocking support, though.

 

[RavenBish]

Possibly for another 20 years, but I wouldn't say the end of time.

Football will be played by robots in 20 years time anyway.

 

[LongEatonPie]

Where's all this hate for Notts come from, no one ever hated us, no one cared!
Spencer's come out today and said he is confident in us getting 2 wins. I know he has to say that but he doesn't even say "we will try" or "its going to be tough" or "I don't know what I am talking about"

 

[LondonOrn]

Possibly for another 20 years, but I wouldn't say the end of time.

This may sound a daft question, but (I'm thinking more long than short term) if you were to finally exit this division, would you rather it were via promotion or relegation?

Few things beat the euphoria of promotion in football of course, but you might end up doing a Yeovil, and relegation while initially painful might be a chance to finally rebuild the club after years of stagnation, and hopefully get the crowds back for a team that is winning more regularly.

 

[The Terminator]

Crewe, Notts and Orient should all go down for being so terrible, it's a shame one of us is going to wimper to safety

Jokes aside, that is what is going to happen the bottom 6 have been truly awful but only 4 can go down. From our perspective, we should've beaten you two weeks ago but didn't and we now regret it. But the bigger picture is over 40+ games previously, we've been run so badly its not a big suprise.

We've slashed ticket prices for this weekend against Sheffield United to £10, to draw in a bigger crowd - Good work, More people to boo the fuckers off the pitch.

Crewe and Crawley please win FFS to put us out of our mysery, I want us DOWN before the final day.

 

[Hurrikeen]

This may sound a daft question, but (I'm thinking more long than short term) if you were to finally exit this division, would you rather it were via promotion or relegation?

Few things beat the euphoria of promotion in football of course, but you might end up doing a Yeovil, and relegation while initially painful might be a chance to finally rebuild the club after years of stagnation, and hopefully get the crowds back for a team that is winning more regularly.

That wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been asked that question. However, funnily enough, the last time I was asked (or told) that a relegation would probably benefit us in the long term, we were using Tranmere as the base for discussion as they, like us, had been in L1 for some time (though not worthy of Platinum WABLO status like ourselves), and had just been relegated. I said “absolutely not”, as we would likely continue to plummet. Low and behold, the Trannies are now staring Vana-fucking-rama right in the boat race.

Whilst we may appear stagnant to outsiders (and I’m not daft enough to question that assumption), we’re better placed than we have been for a few years now. The new stand will finally be up and ready for the new season, we have a core of players that should be kept on for next season as we decided to offer 2yr contracts this season instead of the rolling 1 yr ones, and we’re in the midst of appointting new management – a decision which will be crucial in terms of next seasons expectations.

Therefore it’ll come as no surprise to you that I’d take promotion all day long. Yes, we could well do a Yeovil, yet we could also survive like Rotherham seemingly have done, and many other clubs before us. Whilst it’s more likely that Jimmy Spencer will win the Ballon d’or during his career than seeing Boundary Park getting crowds of 13k+ again, if we did get promoted, I’d have no doubts that the home crowd would increase significantly if we did manage the unthinkable. What I am trying to say is that we wouldn’t do a Yeovil. We may well come down the year after, but we wouldn’t plummet like Yeovil are doing, and may do further – of course this is all my opinion.

Regardless of this….

WABLO

...so the above is irrelevant.

 

[Judge Red]

We all have a divine right to stay up above Crawley.

Well, you could always catch a plane from Gatwick

 

[The Terminator]

We have now put on free coach travel to Swindon for the last day of the season as well, gonna be a hell of a relegation party in the next few weeks

 

[devilofajob]

The issue with Crawley isn't actually the football team, it's the lack of fan support home or away, a small ground and the lack of proper 'big match' feel about playing against a team in that situation/support. Isn't your highest following 250 this season?

Nearly that bad, but not quite!
294 to Colchester in the league, and over 300 to Norwich in the COCup.
Considering the dire footie we've occasionally played I'm surprised we get double figures sometimes.
Anyway, for Posh this Saturday it may be our biggest as I believe we've currently sold about 300.
MASSIVE!

 

[The Terminator]

PLEASE SEND US DOWN TOMORROW SO WE CAN ABUSE ALL THE STAFF THAT WE HAVE

 

[The Iron]

I wouldn't be surprised if Leyton Orient and Notts County both win tomorrow, which would certainly make the final weekend of fixtures very interesting indeed for the teams still fighting for survival.

 

[Youpies]

I feckin love posh right now. Tuesday game for Colchester is massive. Fail to win and its in our hands. we just need to match or better the results of those below us

 

[valefan16]

Cheerio! Good luck to all involved, ideally the bottom four go down for locality!

 

[joethegill]

The bottom 4 right now is the worst possible outcome. Fuck all you northern pisspot teams. How the bloody hell are Crewe not down already?!

 

[jamesslater01]

Wow, that was a hard one to take. If Colchester don't beat Swindon on Tuesday, a win for us over Coventry (what a game that'll be!) would see us stay up.

 

[Bottega Don]

See you later lads, we're finally mathematically safe.

 

[SkyBlueElephant]

More twists and turns again, going almost as I expected it to do.

 

[Fedora Dale]

The bottom 4 right now is the worst possible outcome. Fuck all you northern pisspot teams. How the bloody hell are Crewe not down already?!

Looks like Southend may be coming up. Time to dust off the pedalos?

 

[Judge Red]

Wow, that was a hard one to take. If Colchester don't beat Swindon on Tuesday, a win for us over Coventry (what a game that'll be!) would see us stay up.

You sure about that? If we beat Coventry, as things stand it's possible to be relegated - and drag Coventry down with us (I think so anyway). I admit it's a very unlikely scenario but I think it's actually possible. Don't rely on that as my head is still spinning after today's game.

EDIT: Oops! I stand corrected.

 

[SkyBlueElephant]

You sure about that? If we beat Coventry, as things stand it's possible to be relegated - and drag Coventry down with us (I think so anyway). I admit it's a very unlikely scenario but I think it's actually possible. Don't rely on that as my head is still spinning after today's game.

EDIT: Oops! I stand corrected.

Yep if you win, Colchester don't win Tuesday and other teams down the bottom also win it will be Yeovil, Colchester, Orient and Coventry going down.

The math is simple for Crawley, win and you stay up, lose and you will go down.

 

[Youpies]

For Crawley it's win and hope others around them don't win

 

[valefan16]

For Crawley it's win and hope others around them don't win

If Crawley win they'd go above Coventry so only reliant on Col U ballsing up once in their two games.

 

[jacobncfc]

Fucking hell it's kind of in our own hands.

 

[joethegill]

Looks like Southend may be coming up. Time to dust off the pedalos?

I wouldn't be surprised if southend cocked it up for bury to sneak up, and millwall managed to overturn rovrum.