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***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20
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flibbertyjibber
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What can they do bar cancelling the season though?
cpr
International Coach
Well, if you expand the Prem to 22 for next season, you can pretty much do all promotions without relegation (Bury going allows for 3 up from L2)
Expand the play offs to 8 teams and run them over a week. No one hits a financial penalty for relegation, no one who was in the running for promotion misses out on a chance.
Expand the play offs to 8 teams and run them over a week. No one hits a financial penalty for relegation, no one who was in the running for promotion misses out on a chance.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Honestly there's so many valid points I can make but amongst them all, how the **** do you promote a 4th team via PPG when 4th wouldn't automatically go up in normal times?
I'm sure i don't need to explain the fixture list and how it works to anyone in here. So if you want to know why I will be justifiably pissy if we go down on this basis, go look at the table, the fixtures played and the fixtures to come. If you can tell me thats not a ****ing joke with a straight face then go **** yourself.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Could be a can of worms re: methodology as well I guess. Current way of doing things, bollocks as it is, is fairly straightforward. Once you start introducing variables etc. to any sort of predictive analysis of remaining games it would create loads of possible nodes of scrutiny. Not saying this isn't a reason for doing it, but I'd be drawing my knives for a fight if I was on the receiving end of such a thing.
Always found it weird that 4 went up in League Two anyway (I know that worked in your favour last year.)
You had some huge fixtures coming up didn't you?
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Next three were Lincoln (h), Wimbledon (a), MK (H). Lincoln weren't really in trouble but definitely winnable for us in our form at home, the other two were huge. Quite frankly indefensible to send us down on PPG in this context
Agree on the four up tbh. We finished 6th so still might well have gone up anyway tbh.
Agree on the four up tbh. We finished 6th so still might well have gone up anyway tbh.
Matteh
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Used to be just 1 and before then just 1 if a board agreed to the team that won the Conference was worth promoting.
Very very slowly the current system for League 2 relegation is getting better. And as GIMH knows the Conference can be a bastard to get out of once you're in it.
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Cancelling the season, whilst not ideal, is a considerably better outcome though.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
League to league the gap is massive. There are clubs in the conference that would have no business saying efl never mind playing in it.
But generally the top bunch in the conference would settle comfortably in League Two. I don't think anyone has ever gone straight back which tells its own story. That was a terrible Macc side by football league standards last year. Still don't know how they beat us to the title the year before. And yet they stayed up. So yeah 3 and 3 seems right.
Matteh
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Top half of the Conference is usually EFL standard. The bottom half, less so. Remember going to Tamworth where there were more away fans than home fans somehow. Was also that run of teams getting promoted twice in succession too.
We only drew with Macclesfield away last season and they were shite. No idea how we didn't beat them as they didn't pose a threat but we just pissed around in the second half. Will blame that game for us not going up.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Cbf right now but hit me up on messenger for some tales about your squad, I worked with one of your players other halves last season.
Personally from a combination of things she said and just generally looking at form, knew you weren't going to go up from about March and would have fancied us against you in the play offs. But it's mad as in the two league games I'd say Mansfield were the best team I saw.
Personally from a combination of things she said and just generally looking at form, knew you weren't going to go up from about March and would have fancied us against you in the play offs. But it's mad as in the two league games I'd say Mansfield were the best team I saw.
Matteh
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I saw us play twice against Coventry as the new step-dad is a fan of them. We blew a lead against their 10 men at our place, another 2 points dropped unnecessarily. The game at the Ricoh though might be one of the best games I've seen Mansfield play. Stuff just worked, they weren't utterly frustrating and then fired one in to win 1-0.