The Football League Thread 2024/25 Championship, League 1, League 2

Mr. Guappa · 18-05-2023 10:32pm

5-5 this is some craic

ShamoBuc · 18-05-2023 10:55pm

Unreal by Sheffield Wednesday.

omega man · 18-05-2023 10:57pm

So glad I watched that match, was unreal.

cj maxx · 18-05-2023 10:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120614665#Comment_120614665

It was some comeback from 4~0

Tom Mann Centuria · 18-05-2023 11:25pm

Chefs kiss to the season seeing Peterborough choke from four nil up.

Plenty of grudge matches next season. No love lost between, Cambridge, Northampton, Stevenage, Oxford and Peterborough. All relatively close to each other. Lots of wannabe hooligans turn out for some of those fixtures, almost (but only almost) a shame Milton Keynes went down or they would have completed the set.

castletownman · 19-05-2023 2:10pm

I don't think I can remember a Championship play-off featuring two teams that I'd be delighted to go up. No yo-yo team or anything like that.

Coventry- were a solid Premier League outfit when I first started watching football, have gone through awful financial turmoil since but seem to have recovered. The odd Irish player over the years. Under-rated city from what I have been told, and historically significant.

Luton- old-school ground. On the rise the last few seasons. Had it's share of financial difficulties too. Just missed out on the PL gravy train when relegated in the last First Division season so be great to see another newcomer.

Mr.Crinklewood · 27-05-2023 4:47pm

Game on....

Mr.Crinklewood · 27-05-2023 5:03pm

Luton captain Tom Lockyertaken off.....seemed to fall / collapse.

Replays didn't look nice

Was conscious leaving pitch

Flaneur OBrien · 27-05-2023 5:13pm

Very good goal from Luton there.

0-1

ctrl-alt-delete · 27-05-2023 5:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120647441#Comment_120647441

Excellent assist and finish.

Luton seem well on top here.

Mushy · 27-05-2023 5:17pm

Itll be amazing if Kenilworth Road is in the premier league

Flaneur OBrien · 27-05-2023 5:33pm

If games were won in the first 45, Luton would be in the PL next season, they’ve been superb this half. Coventry haven’t done anything.

Tom Mann Centuria · 27-05-2023 5:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120647456#Comment_120647456

Not the size but it's a god awful stadium, in a horrible part of a horrible town.

They reckon they'll have to spend 10 million to get shot of the "executive boxes" portacabin stand which has no character whatsoever and upgrade their floodlights.

Mushy · 27-05-2023 5:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120647517#Comment_120647517

No character....would fit in with the pl so. Be great to see it happen, fans right at the pitchside.

Tom Mann Centuria · 27-05-2023 5:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120647569#Comment_120647569

It'll only be in the short term anyway. If they do go up, they'll be moving to a new stadium in a year or three.

ctrl-alt-delete · 27-05-2023 6:18pm

Great goal from Coventry to level it.

Mushy · 27-05-2023 6:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120647592#Comment_120647592

Is a stadium in the plans? Or would they even commit if not in pl?

Great goal there. Much deserved too.

Tom Mann Centuria · 27-05-2023 6:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120647698#Comment_120647698

Yeah Coventry the better team so far 2nd half. Luton have said they'll be in a new stadium by 2026 regardless of league apparently, according to BBC Look East the other day.

Mushy · 27-05-2023 6:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120647707#Comment_120647707

Probably needed in fairness.

Coventry winning would be a great throwback to collecting the stickers in the 90s...way too often the shiny would be the Coventry crest

Tom Mann Centuria · 27-05-2023 6:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120647721#Comment_120647721

Two throwback teams, wouldn't begrudge either of them. Both been through hardships of one sort or another.

Flaneur OBrien · 27-05-2023 6:30pm

Father in law is a Luton Town supporter, my Mrs and the rest of her family are West Ham supporters, so I want Luton to go through for the familial Derby’s next year 😂

y0ssar1an22 · 27-05-2023 7:37pm

we wont complain about peno's

y0ssar1an22 · 27-05-2023 7:51pm

luton promoted to PL for 1st time in their history. 6-5 on peno's

cj maxx · 27-05-2023 7:51pm

You could tell from your mans face he was going to miss it

Hammer Archer · 27-05-2023 8:03pm

Always feels extra unfair when it goes to sudden death. That is gutting for Coventry.

Mpanzu joined Luton when they were in the Conference in 2014 and will now be playing in the Premier League next season.

Did you smash it · 27-05-2023 8:04pm

A playoff final between a club who were non league 11 years ago versus one that was in the fourth tier 5 years ago. It’s a great thing about English club football that other European major leagues don’t see at all.

Mushy · 27-05-2023 8:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120648150#Comment_120648150

Both got promoted from League 2 in 2018, some story. Should've just cancelled penalties and relegate an extra team

Flaneur OBrien · 27-05-2023 8:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120648258#Comment_120648258

See ya Everton!

steinbock123 · 27-05-2023 9:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120648146#Comment_120648146

to be fair Luton did finish 10 points ahead in third place, so over the course of the league I think they deserved it.

cj maxx · 27-05-2023 10:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120648146#Comment_120648146

Sadly I think several of the team which have won promotion won't see game time , such is the new money they've earned expect they will bring a raft of new players in.

dfx- · 28-05-2023 12:51am

Coventry will have a long way back depending on what business they do and getting over it. There's a decent list of teams who lose the playoff and dangle near relegation.

Hamer, Gyokeres will go and McNally, Panzo, Doyle and the two young wing backs will go back to their parent clubs. Huge losses.

Tom Mann Centuria · 28-05-2023 8:18am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120648937#Comment_120648937

They'll be severely hamstrung by not owning their ground, hope Ashley gives them some kind of decent deal (though I think we all know he won't)

kksaints · 28-05-2023 8:40am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120648150#Comment_120648150

Don't know about this tbh, the Italian system has a lot of playoffs with some former Serie A teams who end up in Serie C (usually through financial issues) trying to get back up and much traditionally smaller clubs who are better run. For example one of the promotion semi finals to Serie A is between Bari who were in Serie D in 2018 and Sudtirol who are having their first season in Serie B this year.

Did you smash it · 28-05-2023 8:42am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120649182#Comment_120649182

Serie C is the third tier. Luton have got up from the 5th tier in around a decade.

Mr.Crinklewood · 28-05-2023 8:42am

Lockyer's dad tweeted this..

https://twitter.com/sl_cardiff/status/1662535112783802368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1662535112783802368%7Ctwgr%5Eee1ed98906b1a1b169594c0dc61714bc1abfdc77%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-17831755581589895069.ampproject.net%2F2305051745001%2Fframe.html

Flaneur OBrien · 28-05-2023 8:48am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120648616#Comment_120648616

I’m not sure about this. Apparently a big part of Lutons recruitment is chemistry between players and personalities in the dressing room.

it’s one of those, it’s worked for the last 9 years, so why change it straight away?

kksaints · 28-05-2023 8:49am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120649186#Comment_120649186

That's because clubs almost never get relegated to the fifth tier in Italy and usually restart in the fourth tier Serie D like Bari did. Plus from Serie C down is regionalised and has multiple divisions so Serie C has 60 teams compared to League ones 24. Essentially due to league formats Serie C is third and fourth tier combined.

Did you smash it · 28-05-2023 9:00am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120649197#Comment_120649197

So do you have any teams that were serie D and made it to serie A? Spezia, I think is one , but they did it with a billionaire sugar daddy. Hoffenheim, did it, also with a billionaire sugar daddy.

teams are a lot more upwardly and downwardly mobile in the English league. It’s a really good feature of it rather than other top european leagues were it’s more predictable.

Even in the prem; west ham, Villa, Leeds and Newcastle have all being relegated within recent memory. Historically big teams. Seldom seen in the other top European leagues especially Italy where 6 (inter, Juve, ac, Roma, lazio, Napoli) of the 7 sisters just dominate season in, season out. Unless they get relegated for off field irregularities of course.

kksaints · 28-05-2023 9:56am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120649216#Comment_120649216

Salernitana, Monza and Cremonese have all played fourth tier since 2000. Just with regards your other point with regards historically big clubs getting relegated which while rare in Italy although I'd slightly disagree on the point with the likes of Sampdoria, Bologna, Hellas Verona, Torino and Genoa all spending time in Serie B and lower in Hellas case. It's more common in recent years for traditional giants in Germany with clubs like Bremen, Stuttgart, Schalke, Hamburg, Kaiserslautern, Koln and Gladbach all having gotten relegated and spent time in the 2 Bundesliga. Basically my point is that English exceptionalism is rarely that exceptional when you look through other leagues. There's a lot more commonality than people think, they're just less exposed to other countries football albeit nowhere near to the same extent as years ago.

Did you smash it · 28-05-2023 10:31am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120649323#Comment_120649323

It is exceptional to see teams climb to the summit after previously dropping from the summit to the fourth or fifth tier in the matter of a 5-11 years (the climb) though. For two teams who have gone through this to meet in a playoff final just wouldn’t happen in another major league in Europe.

pavb2 · 28-05-2023 11:07am

Agreed I think the Championship is the most entertaining league in Europe

dfx- · 28-05-2023 12:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120649145#Comment_120649145

It has gone well so far, they have agreed a 5 year deal on the previous terms as anchor tenant with no rugby or other sports.

It looks like the new owner is not like SISU so far and haggling over small sums to spend as little as possible and threatening court every other minute.

It would've been spectacular to see Coventry go up within six months of them being bought out.

cj maxx · 28-05-2023 7:26pm

It’s good to see Parma back up to Seria B and doing well. Currently in 4th

jacool · 28-05-2023 7:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120651459#Comment_120651459

Agreed. In the complicated play-offs the first two matches are over and the teams that came 7th and 8th have been eliminated by the teams that finished 5th and 6th.

Now its gets like the English play-offs so its 3rd vs 6th and 4th vs 5th over two legs, meaning Parma travel to Cagliari on Tuesday before hosting them at the weekend. Get though that tough tie, then its more than likely Bari in a one off final. They are moving to Puma for the kit next year. Just remains to see if it'll be in Serie A or B.

Tom Mann Centuria · 29-05-2023 4:21pm

Barnsley have been fúcked over by the officials.

ctrl-alt-delete · 29-05-2023 5:41pm

Some contrast of emotions there, absolute joy and absolute agony.

ShamoBuc · 29-05-2023 5:45pm

The most cruel finish to a game- going to be a very long time for Barnsley fans to get over that.

Tom Mann Centuria · 29-05-2023 7:00pm

Completely unjust, not that that's Wednesdays fault, and they deserved it for keeping Peterborough in League One.

adaminho · 29-05-2023 7:17pm

The brother is a Wednesday fan and bumped into Graham Rowantree in aldi before the match whilst wearing his jersey, congratulated him on his final win and he turned around and said good luck on yours later! Just waiting on the 22nd of June to see when the family derby fixtures are!

ShamoBuc · 05-08-2023 5:37pm

Opened a new thread, but will just continue this instead.

Wrexham look like they will be involved in the goals again this year - lost 3-5 at home.

QPR are going to leak a serious amount of goals. Only survived by a point last year, can't see them not going down this year.

The Football League Thread 2024/25 Championship, League 1, League 2

Comments