Play-Offs Thread

[thewwfc]

I'm pretty much binning off our chances.

Charlton have done the double over us already this season, one game of which was an absolute smacking (4-0), and whilst I don't expect things to be that bad again, Mike Dodds has seemingly sapped all the attacking flair out of us.

Whereas Charlton have been on a tearing run of form and their confidence will be right up there.

I'm going to say 3-1 Charlton on aggregate.

I think the more entertaining match-up will be Orient/Stockport - in this case, both sides are on absolutely cracking form, and I suspect those games will be far more entertaining to watch than ours v Charlton.

Such a shame that we have gone so shite of late, it would be great to have 4 teams in form to make it a better competition, but we are where we are.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Hoping that Stockport go up as the league is already looking very Northern

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

Hope Charlton do it as would just be extremely weird to face Nathan Jones/Luke Berry etc.

NJ has a pretty poor record in big games though especially playoffs, always felt his character played a part in that as he’s just a very tightly wound individual which sometimes you don’t want in games where a calmer head is required.

Despite being a better manager imo than Edwards, I can’t imagine us putting in the performance we did in the playoff final under NJ for that reason, especially how careful and calmly the penalty shoot out was managed.

 

[folletto]

Hope Charlton do it as would just be extremely weird to face Nathan Jones/Luke Berry etc.

NJ has a pretty poor record in big games though especially playoffs, always felt his character played a part in that as he’s just a very tightly wound individual which sometimes you don’t want in games where a calmer head is required.

Despite being a better manager imo than Edwards, I can’t imagine us putting in the performance we did in the playoff final under NJ for that reason, especially how careful and calmly the penalty shoot out was managed.

That is my biggest concern. He's ended up doing an excellent job this season but there's been a few big games we have completely frozen in. Peterborough and Wrexham away spring to mind, where a win would have brought us right into the automatics hunt and we lost both 3-0 and looked lost. That being said, the Wycombe away game was a big game and we won 4-0 so you never know

 

[thewwfc]

We've fucked all our big games since Dodds came in so I wouldn't worry about it.

Our home game v Wrexham was a classic six pointer and we froze,
obviously we got done 4-0 at home v Charlton, and we blew it away to Orient.

Hope Charlton do it as would just be extremely weird to face Nathan Jones/Luke Berry etc.

Well I didn't want to be facing Lu'un next season either (although there's a 95% chance that that will be the case).

Reason being, a small but significant percentage of our fanbase are dicks and think that Bloomfield jumped into another role, rather than being pushed - so he's likely to get a bunch of completely undeserved stick when we play Lu'un next season, and I will cringe more than I ever have at a football game.