West Brom vs Derby - Championship Playoff final, KO 3pm

Necronomicon

Well, who'll win the £60 million pound prize? Bookies have West Brom as favourites, I'd have to go for them as well. Although Billy Davies is due some luck in the playoffs.

Who's your money on?

ROCKMAN

60M thats pressure!
My money on west brom as well i think philips will be the different in blinding form at the moment

cruiserweight

Derby: Bywater, Mears, Leacock, Moore, McEveley, Fagan, Oakley, Seth Johnson, Pearson, Howard, Peschisolido.
Subs: Camp, Edworthy, Jones, Macken, Barnes.

West Brom: Kiely, McShane, Perry, Sodje, Robinson, Koumas, Greening, Gera, Koren, Kamara, Phillips. Subs:
Daniels, Clement, Ellington, Chaplow, Carter.

Thanx 4 The Fish

My money is also on West Brom. They have a much better squad and I would say they are better prepared for the premiership.

besty

I put a few quid on Derby. Decent odds and a solid team. Some good early chances for both sides.

Nalz

West Brom have a great defence on paper, but they always conceed, Derby might sneak it

PHB

Disappointed to see that Jones didn't start, I guess he wanted more steel in midfield with Johnson.
Happy to see that either McShane or Jones will get promoted today.

leninbenjamin

tight enough, but Brom having more joy through Koumas mainly. Phillips shaved the crossbar which was about the best chance so far. Derby lumping it forward a bit too much, just handing brom possession back.

the number of empty seats though tis atrocious for an affair like this, whole sections empty, ****ty to see. weren't the clubs looking for extra tickets? is that just because of the "club Wembley" crap?

Necronomicon

Fairly even first half, but West Brom finished the stronger. Phillips almost finished off a great move, hit the crossbar.

Wouldn't be surprised to seet his one go all the way to penos.

dodgey69

its generally the underdog who goes up in the playoff final though, so if thats the case derby should win!!!!

ROCKMAN

just showed replay of WBA peno claim , Great tackle , Ref/linesman got it right

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Is it 0-0?

ROCKMAN

yes 0-0

Zebra3

It's 1-0 Derby. Poor game. McShane asleep for Derby's goal.

Peski and Philips missed the best first half chances.

smackbunnybaby

an idea of how the game is going from bbc minute by minute:

1632: One of those snazzy graphics comes up on screen. Derby have had "0%" of the play in their attacking third over the last five minutes. It could be a long last 15 minutes if they are to win this in the 90.

ellington has been brought on for mcshane to make a 3 man forward line.good to see a manager at least acknowledge they need to go for broke now instead of the last ten minutes

eirebhoy

West Brom would easily have the best central defence in the championship if they played McShane in the centre. He's not a right back at all. Him and Davies could have a great partnership.

PHB

Come on Derby

Necronomicon

2 minutes of added time left of the 4. Pressure by WBA, couple of free kicks in dangerous areas.

Chardee MacDennis

congrats to Derby. Think West Brom would be more suited to the prem but we'll see how Derby get on now.

PHB

Woo

I think Derby will do well. They play decent enough football, a good enough mix for them to get away from fear football and have a chance of staying up.

Big season next year for Jones and Barnes

Im_No_Superman

Why are they wearing those gammy coca cola tshirts when getting th trophy?! Maybe its just me but I would want my jersey on show especially for photos and stuff.

leninbenjamin

Im_No_Superman wrote:

Why are they wearing those gammy coca cola tshirts when getting th trophy?! Maybe its just me but I would want my jersey on show especially for photos and stuff.

coke probably insist.

delighted for Derby, they really worked their socks off all over the pitch. Bywater's completely gone nuts. Brom played better overall, but they just really failed to take their chances, and they had some good ones.

as said before dunno why Brom play McShane in RB, he really is at his best in the centre, he looked pretty weak at times today.

~Rebel~

If Derby can hang onto their better players and build a bit i could see them doing ok next year. Congrats to them anyway! Feel sorry for West Brom though, have a very good team.

therecklessone

Excellent, another Park for me to visit next year...

St James'
Ewood
Goodison
Villa
Upton
Fratton
and now Pride.

mike65

Glad the see Derby go up, Brom would be just too much.

Mike.

Necronomicon

Glad I'm not a betting man!

Fair play to Derby, definately have been the 3rd best team this season. If West Brom hold onto the majority of their squad I think they'll push for automatic next season.

MisterAnarchy

I met a friend of mine last nigh who had a little wager on the match.
He must have had a premonition or crystal ball.
He placed one sole bet .
€20 on Pearson to score the only goal of the game and derby to win 1-0.
Odds of 110-1.:eek: :eek:
Unbelievable

eirebhoy

Probably a Celtic fan backing Pearson for the craic?

patmac

Billy Davies must be pushing Keano for championship manager of the season having lead an under funded Derby to promotion he deserves a huge amount of credit.

MisterAnarchy

eirebhoy wrote:

Probably a Celtic fan backing Pearson for the craic?

Nope he doesnt support Celtic.
He used to support Liverpool but is being converted to Derby by his brother.

GuanYin

Chuffed for Billy Davies. He put the ghosts of his previous two failures behind him and finally got there.

Congrats Derby!

A Dub in Glasgo

Billy Davies has one of those faces that needs a slap

Imagine, an SPL reject winning Derby £60m!!!