Playoff's

[Haywood_6]

Two brilliant playoff Semi finals. My housemate is a Leeds fan and he's absolutely gutted at last night's result. Reminded me of our playoff heartache from years gone by. Kermogants chip at Cardiff, Watford after Knockaert missed the pen to take us to Wembley. We've achieved the unthinkable since then but there's still nothing like the excitement and emotion of the playoffs.

 

Who would you prefer to come up Derby or Villa?

 

[norwichfox]

Derby or Villa works for me. I suspect my Grandson wants Villa to come up as he is an STH, but I lose wind up points if they come up.

[whoareyaaa]

I would probably prefer Derby to come up as I can not stand Aston Villa and it would be good to see if Derby can eclipse there points total from the last time they was in the Prem. (plus Lampards a decent guy)

[Buce]

 

As long as they go straight back down again, I don't care.

[Guest]

Really hope it's Derby.

 

Villa have a Midlands superiority complex which requires a couple of decaces in the lower divisions to correct. The Rams are a team that we can have a rivalry with.

 

Plus the days when we stood in the kop and all that could be heard was "Baaaa" "Baaaaa" are great memories which need to be re-ignited.

 

p.s. (Why the 's?)

Edited 16 May 2019 by Guest

[Babylon]

Laughable the amount of crap we got for iffy accounting from the likes of David Conn who has a hard on for us, yet most people in the press completely ignoring Derby cooking their books to the tune of about £40m to avoid FFP.

 

The whole FFP set up is a joke.

[norwichfox]

4 minutes ago, FIF said:

Really hope it's Derby.

 

Villa have a Midlands superiority complex which requires a couple of decaces in the lower divisions to correct. The Rams are a team that we can have a rivalry with.

 

Plus the days when we stood in the kop and all that could be heard was "Baaaa" "Baaaaa" are great memories which need to be re-ignited.

Can't do that any more, the local sheep have played the racist card.

[murphy]

Villa please.

 

I really don't want Derby back, stay in obscurity where you belong.   Watching them get close and fail year on year is one of life's little pleasures.

[lgfualol]

6 points from Derby.

 

Villa are just boring though, who cares about Villa. 

 

I wanted Leeds to go up, at least there would be some more interesting games.

[Voll Blau]

Villa. If you're a Leicester fan and want Derby to win anything then you're weird.

[coolhandfox]

Derby so they can threaten their own record of 11 pts 

[Finnaldo]

Derby.

 

Villa were 'the big Midland club' before our ascendance, helps us a lot if they stay down. I've never liked them as a club anyway and Birmingham is shite, one trip a year to the West Midlands is enough for me.

 

I've also never really cared TOO much about the Derby rivalry. It's still an East Mids derby however and its been a few years since we've seen of them in the Prem.

 

Also, I'm sure it being advertised as 'the East Midlands derby' will boil a few Forest Fans' piss 

 

 

[Koke]

Derby for me.

 

We don't need another club challenging our top 10 positions. Wolves gate crashing it is bad enough, we don't need Villa as well.

 

Derby would just be relegation fodder and we will take our annual 6 points off then as usual.

[Finnaldo]

4 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Villa. If you're a Leicester fan and want Derby to win anything then you're weird.

 

Its funny seeing them fail year on year but if they don't come up then we'd never get any local derbies? 

 

And lets be honest, they're secondary rivals to Forest & Cov (although it may be a long time until we play them again, unless we get a Cup tie). If anyone of our three real rivalries come up it'd have to be Derby.

[David Guiza]

Villa. Richard Keogh own goal preferably.

 

Villa have been much the stronger side in recent weeks but I have an awful feeling that Derby are going to win it. Granted it was a nervy play off game, but Villa looked bang out of ideas for large parts against West Brom and Derby have a siege mentality after last night.  

 

Also, I know this is said with practically every promoted side, but both sides surely need massive change in terms of personnel going forward. Derby have got the definition of a Championship side with Nugent, Waghorn, Huddlestone, Davies, Keogh, Johnson etc and a few loan players who will be presumably return to their parent clubs. Villa have got two very good players in the middle and then a myriad of averageness and again one of their better players being a loanee. Given Chelsea's embargo you'd expect Abraham, Mount and Tomori to be used next season. 

[Finnegan]

Villa please. I work with a couple of decent Villa fans. I don't hate them as a club, they're not our rivals. I was largely too young to appreciate the Brian Little saga. 

 

I like Forest and Derby being in the lower leagues out of sight and out of mind. Tickles me after years of them singing "it's forest and Derby, you're all on your own" that Forest and Derby are together in the tinpot league and we're all on our own in the Prem

[Babylon]

3 minutes ago, Koke said:

Derby for me.

 

We don't need another club challenging our top 10 positions. Wolves gate crashing it is bad enough, we don't need Villa as well.

 

Derby would just be relegation fodder and we will take our annual 6 points off then as usual.

If you'd watched Villa you wouldn't be worried about them just yet. They've got a lot of rebuilding to do.

[woddyuk]

Last time Derby came up via the playoffs they set a record for the lowest ever Premier League points in a season Lets hope they do they again ? 

 

Seriously though Villa are the bigger "threat" regarding attracting players, fanbase  etc. We dont really want a resurgent Villa anymore than a resurgent Leeds.

 

I think Derby actually "need" to come up because they are in more financial trouble than Villa. If they stay in championship they could be the next Bolton or Coventry. Which on the face if it we'd p*iss ourselves at, but in reality we need all need "rivals".  Spurs/Arsenal Utd/Liverpool, Celtic/Rangers etc. 

 

The plus therefore is at least one other midlands club will join ourselves and Wolves. 

I'd prefer Derby as the East Midlands club and so we can put four or five past them like we normally do in recent history.  (And we can both laugh at Forest) . 

If it were Villa there'd by a west midlands masturbation love in, on the local news between them and Wolves. 

I'd also like to see Grealish and Terry fail again more than seeing  Lampard miss out. 

 

 

[Col city fan]

Villa for me. Can’t stand Direby

[string the Eskimo]

Genuinely don't mind. Both Midlands sides so a local away game guaranteed next season. Both clubs seriously underfunded so a big struggle to whoever comes up. But looking forward to the game ( probably more than the fa cup final) For me it's the best team wins on the day.

[Bluetintedspecs]

Villa need to spend more time languishing in mediocrity for me. Derby the lesser of 2 mehs.

[Voll Blau]

1 hour ago, Finnaldo said:

 

Its funny seeing them fail year on year but if they don't come up then we'd never get any local derbies? 

 

And lets be honest, they're secondary rivals to Forest & Cov (although it may be a long time until we play them again, unless we get a Cup tie). If anyone of our three real rivalries come up it'd have to be Derby.

For full disclosure, I currently live in Derby so I guess I'm biased. Always have seen them equally as our biggest rivals with Forest though.

 

I'm perfectly happy seeing them stay in the doldrums with Forest for the reasons @Finnegan mentioned - just give me the odd Cup game against both. Besides, watching Villa come up and try and claim in wild disillusionment that they're still the biggest club in the Midlands in spite of us and Wolves being streets ahead will be quite funny.

[Footballwipe]

Have to say, aside from the "who do you want" how bloody brilliant is playoff football (particularly the second legs)

 

The utter drama, tension, incidents, goals, game and ultimately season changing moments. I find myself ambling through the season now when (non-LCFC) TV games don't mean anything, to get to this time of year, when it means everything. Look at us in 2010 and 2013, look at the last couple of nights. It is mayhem and I absolutely love it.

 

In terms of going to away games it'd be Derby, but I don't think I could take them having a good season and potentially finishing above us, so it has to be Villa. Think Derby will do it, mind.

[Stadt]

Villa’s fans are so weird. They’re obviously the biggest club in the Midlands but their delusion knows no bounds. I’d rather them than Derby but Brummies are odd  and being Villa makes it worse. Prefer Birmingham City.

[Danizen]

Derby please. 

 

Villa are absolute cvnts.

 

Derby are so irrelevant and inoffensive and the 'rivalry' between us has never really existed.