Playoffs

[19bluebirds27]

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Imagine being a Wednesday fan and having to turn up the 2nd leg 4 down.
Also seeing the neighbours getting promotion and taking the pish.

Once you’re in that league you need to be prepared to spend time there as it’s unforgiving - many a big club has struggled to get out of it quickly.

[cyril evans awaydays]

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Even more galling for Sheffield Wednesday that it was their victory against Derby a week earlier that meant that Peterborough snuck into the final place in the play-offs at all.

[Trigger]

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My goodness it reads like this message board

Get the owners out
The whole squad needs releasing
Total reset on the club
Fan of 67 years stopping
Manager is out of his depth

They’ve only just missed out on automatics and had one bad game in the play offs.

Funny when you see it as an outsider

It's ridiculous but all too common in the short term outlook of a football fan.

They just finished with a record point tally for 3rd. Any other year they would be up and fans optimistic about the championship with a good core of players. Worrying if someone will poach the manager or better players.

Lose 4 nil and I saw one fan ripping up his 2nd leg ticket. It can't help that Sheff U have gone back to the prem.

It can't be good for us.

[blue matt]

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People saying Flint and Vaulks would be good for us, shocks me how people forget how rubbish they are.

Flinty and Warnock back stuff of dreams for some

[Dorcus]

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Even more galling for Sheffield Wednesday that it was their victory against Derby a week earlier that meant that Peterborough snuck into the final place in the play-offs at all.

That's what I thought. The irony of it. I bet they wish they hadn't beaten Derby now.

[BLUETIT]

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That's what I thought. The irony of it. I bet they wish they hadn't beaten Derby now.

What were the 2 results of the actual league games between the 2 sides this season (I can’t be arsed looking)

[Dorcus]

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I think off the top of my head... Peterborough 2:0 Wednesday: Wednesday 1:0 Peterborough.

[Majorblue]

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You can slam the concept of the playoffs on so many fronts but you cannot deny that they bring a certain drama to the game.
Besides all are aware of the consequences of not gaining an automatic promotion place at the start of the season.
I'm all for them but will obviously whinge with the best of them should we find ourselves in a similar position.
That's the burden of following football in that it will almost always kick you in the nuts.

[Dorcus]

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You can slam the concept of the playoffs on so many fronts but you cannot deny that they bring a certain drama to the game.
Besides all are aware of the consequences of not gaining an automatic promotion place at the start of the season.
I'm all for them but will obviously whinge with the best of them should we find ourselves in a similar position.
That's the burden of following football in that it will almost always kick you in the nuts.

I absolutely adore the playoffs. Best ever innovation in football IMO

[splott parker]

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I absolutely adore the playoffs. Best ever innovation in football IMO

Interestingly, the play offs, then known as test matches, were introduced in the 1892-93 season. As is now, it was a way of determining promotion & relegation and, as the play offs that we know now were originally, involved the bottom sides of the division above as well as the top sides in the division below.

1987 was a revival of a system almost a hundred years before.

[Dorcus]

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Interestingly, the play offs, then known as test matches, were introduced in the 1892-93 season. As is now, it was a way of determining promotion & relegation and, as the play offs that we know now were originally, involved the bottom sides of the division above as well as the top sides in the division below.

1987 was a revival of a system almost a hundred years before.

Germany operate a similar system I believe

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Bollocks to them. I couldn't give a rat's arse if they're a big club or not. Suppose, just hypothetically, that Liverpool had just lost 4-0 at Peterborough in a play-off first leg. I doubt you'd feel sorry for them. So does your feeling sorry extend to all supposed "big" clubs or just some of them?

Sheffield Weds , Newcastle , Sunderland

Genuine big clubs from the past who don't have all the Welsh, Cockney and Surrey hangers on

Liverpool .....bollocks to them