Play-Offs Thread

[masi51]

None of us understands this either, trust me.

One of two major mistakes we’ve made this season - #1 pissing off Bloomfield and forcing him out and #2, not so much even just Morley, but we broke our record transfer fee not once but twice on a couple of Danes who between them have featured for a total of maybe 60-90 minutes.

Absolute insanity.

To think both Morley and Celeb Taylor could not a game and we also sent Conway out to Crewe who won three player of the season awards and then went on to concede 70 odd goals
Thankfully both Morley and Conway will be back next season.


Humpheries was excellent for you last season.....Any chance you can get him back for next season?

 

[thewwfc]

To think both Morley and Celeb Taylor could not a game and we also sent Conway out to Crewe who won three player of the season awards and then went on to concede 70 odd goals
Thankfully both Morley and Conway will be back next season.


Humpheries was excellent for you last season.....Any chance you can get him back for next season?

Well we haven't been helped by Ipswich coming straight back down to the Championship.

I think Humphries is possibly more a "good L1 level" than he is "gunning for promotion in the Championship" level player.

That said, Ipswich have put out a piece on how well he's done on loan for us, and I feel they wouldn't have done that (i.e. raising his profile on their site) if they were just going to bin him off at the end of the season and let him sign for us.

 

[The Terminator]

Today will take a huge effort from our squad, we've had a few injuries in the last month despite winning 6 games which has meant we've had to change shape to a 3-4-1-2. On Saturday a better side in Stockport managed to find the holes in that, if we're lucky we can get Jack Currie to start so we can go back to 4-3-3, Wellens has always lied and played games when it comes to injuries though.

Subs will be important if it goes to extra time and penalties, I'm hoping our encounter earlier in the season with Derby which went all the way to pens puts us in good experience for this.

Not much more to say, will be a loud Edgeley Park and the 1k or so of ourselves in the corner will likely have to give as much as the players.

Not the end of the world if we do lose though, its a minor miracle we got 6th to begin with given everything the squad has had to go through this season and the start we had.

 

[thewwfc]

Charlton-Orient final then. Commiserations Stockport.

 

[CTFC - Devils]

Great play off tie. Commiserations to Stockport. Both teams deserved it across the 2 legs but the 2 sitters at the end of normal time and extra time for Stockport will make it harder to swallow.

 

[Throbber_for_Dunk]

Oof. That's gotta sting for Stockport, even if the bigger picture is still positive.

Imagine there was more excitement in the last ten minutes of that than there'll be in 90 tomorrow!

 

[masi51]

Stockport will rue to regret last night, by far the best team we faced last season including Birmingham

 

[The Terminator]

We’ve done what we usually do and (somehow) reach the final.

Olafe had the game at his mercy on 90mins as Omar Beckles really struggled by the end, we ran out of steam and slumped over the line, having said that, Wellens has us well drilled for pens, we beat Derby on pens earlier in the season to face Man City and I was more nervous for that.

We’ll probably lose the final as we usually do, lost our last 4 finals.

Penalties, as fair as they are will always be a cruel way to end these games. Stocks only lost 3 times since Jan and did t even lose in normal play last night and miss out.

 

[AdamStag]

Well with stockport here that’s another 4/6 points mansfield get next season!

 

[Trapdoor]

Will there be vultures circling the stockport players now? Can imagine a few Championship and L1 clubs will be making good offers.

 

[Davidimp]

Stockport pay very good wages for league one, we were in talks with Moxon , but Stockport offered far more than we could.
But I agree some could well join championship sides

 

[Davidimp]

If Leyton Orient do go up I think they owe the officials from the first leg a drink or two