Championship/L1/L2 & Conference - 2015/16

Orchard Rebel

Now Dougie Freedman is gone - Paul Williams in charge until the end of the season. Thought he had done ok given the FFP restrictions but the often turgid football and falling gates were unlikely to endear him to the trigger-happy Fawaz.

Forest have been on a downward spiral since the inexplicable sacking of Sean O'Driscoll on St Stepehn's Day 2012. I'm tired of the endless missed payments and winiding-up petitions which do so much harm to the club's reputation. The club needs restructuring off the field before it can succeed on it. Not holding my breath though....

Paully D

Hull cack themselves again tonight.

L1011

Brighton's flying on the radar - lots of media reports about it being Burnley, Hull and Boro at the top only and some including Derby but never Brighton - might have to end soon.

Iused2likebusts

L1011 wrote: »

Brighton's flying on the radar - lots of media reports about it being Burnley, Hull and Boro at the top only and some including Derby but never Brighton - might have to end soon.

Big games in the next two weeks. Hull v boro this week and then Brighton v burnley after the international break.

Kiwi_knock

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

I fancy Hull to get the second spot, Bruce has the experience of the close end of the season while Boro seem to be cracking up.

Well this prediction is going well after tonight.

K-9

It's actually more interesting than the PL at this stage which is saying something. Nobody wants to catch Leicester or maybe Spurs vs. nobody wants to get promoted automatically. I'd love to see Brighton do it.

rodge68

Derby 1 Florist 0..oh yeah....

Harry Palmr

Bolton Wanderers are gone, MK Dons and Charlton look doomed as well.

Crewe Alexander are relegated

Northampton Town go up to League One. Dagenham & Red look done heading to the Vanarama Conference

Johner

Burton doing their best to piss away automatic promotion. That's 2 loses and 2 draws in their last 4 games.

Kiwi_knock

Warnock has done some job with Rotherham.

Bad results for Cardiff and Ipswich, not capitalising on Sheff Wed's loss. It ends Ipswich's play-off challenge and gives Cardiff only an outside shot.

rodge68

Good win for The Rams, 2 on the spin !!

rodge68

Derby make the playoffs !! Happy Ram here..

acquiescefc

Dear neutrals, how on gods earth is this a yellow card offence @ 1:10

http://bit.ly/26epR9m

Johner

Massive win for Burton today with Walsall losing. Still going to go down to the wire but Burton in pole position now.

DVD-Lots

And with that win over Crewe, Oldham are safe!!!! It was a big ask for the legend that now is John Sheridan after 2 of the worst managers ( David Dunne, DAVID F***ING DUNNE!!!) to ever grace Boundary Park, in Shazza we trust. Hope we can hold on to him, rumours of Bolton sniffing around. Roll on 2016/2017 season, onwards and upwards.

Wilberto

DVD-Lots wrote: »

And with that win over Crewe, Oldham are safe!!!! It was a big ask for the legend that now is John Sheridan after 2 of the worst managers ( David Dunne, DAVID F***ING DUNNE!!!) to ever grace Boundary Park, in Shazza we trust. Hope we can hold on to him, rumours of Bolton sniffing around. Roll on 2016/2017 season, onwards and upwards.

You're safe from Bolton anyway. I reckon they'll snag our man Phil Brown instead. Hopefully not though.

Mint Sauce

MK Dons Relegated to League 1. Wimbledon in Playoff spot for League 1.

\o/

Johner

BURTON!!! 92nd minute winner!! One more point needed.

derm0j073

Sheff Wed make the play offs with a 3-0 win over Cardiff . It looked like they were running out of steam but Hopper has hit form , hope he can keep it going .

Beefy78

Pretty limp end of season for the Shrimpers, particularly in contrast to the dram of last year (seven straight wins to get up from midtable followed by a last day loss to drop out of the automotic promotion spots leading to a 122nd minute equaliser and a penalty shoot out win at Wembley ).

I toyed with going over to Bury for the last game on Sunday but couldn't be arsed. It's that kind of end of season I guess.

Disappointing that two of our starlets, Dan Bentley and Jack Payne, are out of contract and off in the summer. Bentley has been linked to Rangers and Payne to Sparta Rotterdam so it's possible they'll both leave for nothing.

Johner

Burton just need a draw away to already relegated Doncaster on Sunday and they are in the Championship. Although Burton could still lose by a goal providing Walsall don't win by more than one themselves and still go up. Hopefully it won't come down to goal difference and Burton will get the job done. Walsall have a tough away game against Port Vale anyway.

Wilberto

Beefy78 wrote:

Disappointing that two of our starlets, Dan Bentley and Jack Payne, are out of contract and off in the summer. Bentley has been linked to Rangers and Payne to Sparta Rotterdam so it's possible they'll both leave for nothing.

They said after the Sheffield United game on TV that Payne wad "very close" to signing a new contract. I guess that was all lies so in an attempt to ward others off him!

Strange choices of teams though, particularly for Bentley. I had him joining QPR down as a banker. Ah we still have Ted Smith anyway!

Harry Palmr

José Riga resigns as Charlton boss

rodge68

Bad injury for George Thorne of Derby..He will be a major loss for playoffs...
A bad tackle in the 84th minute of a match where there was nothing at stake...

Johner

Burton are up! What a nervy game that was yesterday but at least they got over the line!

Johner

Just realised Dozen Wicked Words closed his account a while back, shame to lose a good poster. League 1 football for him and the Cobblers next season after romping League 2.

markest

Jus thought i'd show you some quotes from the team that finished 13 points behind us.


Oxford United manager Michael Appleton says his side have been "the best team" in League Two this season.

The U's won 3-0 against Wycombe on Saturday to seal second place in the table and return to the third tier for the first time since 2001.

"This will cheese off a few Northampton fans but this year's been fantastic and all credit to them," he said.

"I genuinely believe, overall, what the players have achieved over 60 games has been magnificent."

Paully D

Derby blowing it again this year. Hull 2-0 up at Derby at half time.

Harry Palmr

Listening to this, it sounds like Derby have no thrust at all.

irishguitarlad

3-0

blueser

Paully D wrote: »

Derby blowing it again this year. Hull 2-0 up at Derby at half time.

They're getting a reputation now, fairly or not, as end of season"bottlers". Done it again today.

Iused2likebusts

Shackell left burnley as he wanted to make it back to the premier league.

Johner

Barnsley are thrashing Walsall, Brighton and Walsall came so close to going up automatically and neither have been able to land a blow in their first leg.

thebaz

blueser wrote: »

They're getting a reputation now, fairly or not, as end of season"bottlers". Done it again today.

Derby will need a new manager this summer - Roy Keane could be the man to lift that bottler tag - need something to propel them up

rodge68

thebaz wrote: »

Derby will need a new manager this summer - Roy Keane could be the man to lift that bottler tag - need something to propel them up

Derby were shocking bad by all accounts..luckily I missed it...and I genuinely thought we would beat them no bother....
Roy Keane at Derby, no thanks...

citytillidie

Just ahead of start of the 2nd legs tonight.

Away goals only count after Extra time just like the League Cup Semi Finals

eagle eye

Hope Brighton can turn this around tonight. It wouldn't be so bad if they got beat by Hull but to lose out to a team that were 14 points behind you in the league is just unfair imo.

Utopia Parkway

Knockaert could have had 4 in the first 17 minutes.

derm0j073

Brighton look like men on a mission, well deserve the lead. Wednesday haven't turned up.

Utopia Parkway

1-1 with virtually Wednesday's first attack of the game after 28 minutes. Was a foul in the build as well. Brighton having no luck in this tie whatsoever.

Kiwi_knock

Shouldn't have been a goal, Brighton still look up for it.

SantryRed

Wednesday have been awful but easily could have gone in 2-1 up on the night!

eagle eye

You'd wonder how that could be 1-1 after that first half. They have to do better in front of goal. They have it in them to pull this one out of the fire but unfortunately their finishing is more than likely going to prevent that.

SantryRed

As a Watford fan, I really hope Wednesday go up. They're no where near the required quality of the PL imo. I think it'd be a short stay.

blueser

SantryRed wrote: »

As a Watford fan, I really hope Wednesday go up. They're no where near the required quality of the PL imo. I think it'd be a short stay.

I don't think either of them are, to be honest. Hull look the best bet of the 3 (I think Derby can be discounted!) left to stay up. They've got a few players with PL experience.

Richard Hillman

Dreadful second half. Very low quality.

Kiwi_knock

Wednesday shut up shop effectively in the second half, Brighton just lacking the quality to open up the defence.

Hippo

As a Wednesday fan, that was most enjoyable, eventually! Brighton unlucky, especially in the first half and with the goal. Excellent control of the game in the 2nd half. Hull definitely favourites now, and maybe if we get up to the Premier League we won't be good enough, but I'd be very happy to take the chance.

Paully D

I'd love to see Wednesday go up but I think Hull will beat them unfortunately.

acquiescefc

I hope Hull are massive favourites for the final, so pressure is off.
We matched them in the away game itll be tough but hey owt is possible after this season.