Championship - 2020/2021

[BenTheFox]

3 minutes ago, Koke said:

 

After years of top flight football they were trying to move on to the next level. Sunderland, Leicester, Southampton, Boro etc all moved stadium around that time. In hindsight, it was a bad move for Cov but at the time they believed it'd propel them to bigger things. 

That is a fair point. My counter would be Roker Park, Filbert Street, The Dell and Ayresome Park were all falling apart whereas Highfield Road looks a decent ground even by today's standards. 

[Tuna]

 

This has gone on longer than brexit.

[Koke]

Barnsley's winning run comes to an end with a 0-0 at home to Derby. 

 

Had a look at Derby's team. I dont recognise any of their players bar Wisdom and Forsyth. 

[Wymsey]

13 hours ago, Koke said:

Barnsley's winning run comes to an end with a 0-0 at home to Derby. 

 

Had a look at Derby's team. I dont recognise any of their players bar Wisdom and Forsyth. 

Am surprised that you never heard of Colin Kazim-Richards, who played for a few football league sides such as Blackburn and Brighton in the past.

[Fox92]

Wasn't Kasim-Richards the Coca Cola signing for someone Possibly Brighton.

 

I'm sure I remember that.

[CosbehFox]

On 10/03/2021 at 12:19, BenTheFox said:

That is a fair point. My counter would be Roker Park, Filbert Street, The Dell and Ayresome Park were all falling apart whereas Highfield Road looks a decent ground even by today's standards. 

It was in a shithole. Hillfields where it was located was basically Leicester's Highfields. If they wanted to push more than football, they couldn't stay there. No parking and no venue hire. It only held 24,000 as well

[David Guiza]

33 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

It was in a shithole. Hillfields where it was located was basically Leicester's Highfields. If they wanted to push more than football, they couldn't stay there. No parking and no venue hire. It only held 24,000 as well

Yep, used to park there occasionally as it's about the closest you can to the Uni without paying. The sort of area where you're the odd one one out if you haven't got a St George's cross in your window. One extreme to the other though with the Ricoh.

 

There's so much empty space around Warwick Uni and beyond that would have served as a better location, thus making it far more accessible to the M69/M40/M42 but I imagine there must have been some reason against that area. 

[The Bear]

Barnsley v Birmingham the other week.....

 

https://streamable.com/c1zrdd

 

[Koke]

7 hours ago, The Bear said:

Barnsley v Birmingham the other week.....

 

https://streamable.com/c1zrdd

 

 

22 "no nonsense players" on display. 

 

[Leicester_Loyal]

Ivan Toney now at 26 goals and 9 assists in 34 games, madness.

[Corky]

The Championship will have a problem soon, looking at the fixture list. Rotherham's match is off this weekend- they are already three matches behind and all of those have been rearranged for midweeks. Including the midweeks when matches are already scheduled, there seems to be no space for Rotherham v Coventry to take place.

[Fox92]

16 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Ivan Toney now at 26 goals and 9 assists in 34 games, madness.

Read an interview with him the other week and we let him go, which I didn't know. 

 

Brentford seem to know how to spend on strikers. Tony, Watkins, Maupay, Hogan....

[StanSP]

Barnsley winning 3-2 now. What a run they're on. 5 points ahead of 7th. 

[Kingleicester]

Ahh **** off watford, don’t want that shitty club Coming up, on the + side derby right in the relegation mix, would love Rooney to take them down, I’m amazed he has walked into that club as a manager tbf 

[Vacamion]

 

The Cardiff keeper waved at the ball as it went past him.  Bizarre goalkeeping.

 

 

[Fox in the North]

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

Barnsley winning 3-2 now. What a run they're on. 5 points ahead of 7th. 

Huge result against Bournemouth. Would be great if Brentford could sneak the top 2 and Barnsley came up through the play offs. All for unfamiliar teams mixing it up.

[Fox92]

2 minutes ago, Fox in the North said:

Huge result against Bournemouth. Would be great if Brentford could sneak the top 2 and Barnsley came up through the play offs. All for unfamiliar teams mixing it up.

Barnsley would be so good coming up. The away day there is class.

[BenTheFox]

Blues look to be in deep shit. I thought Karanka was a good appointment in the summer but they're dreadful. 

[Koke]

Derby have only scored 25 goals this season (in 36 games)

 

11 from open play 

11 set pieces

2 own goals

1 penalty 

 

Unreal stats

 

Edited 13 March 2021 by Koke

[Tuna]

Barnsley putting so called bigger clubs to shame with their performance this season.

[Corky]

They've got Wycombe and Sheffield Wednesday in the next week, great chance to consolidate their top six place before the break. Bournemouth play Swansea on Tuesday too.

[Super_horns]

Big win today !

 

Late free kick winner.

 

Went right through the keeper.

[StanSP]

8 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Big win today !

 

Late free kick winner.

 

Went right through the keeper.

Dafuq was the keeper doing

 

[Unabomber]

Pearson with a good win 

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

Dafuq was the keeper doing

 

Keeper defo got Watford on the coup - reminiscent of Ben Hamer at Huddersfield with Maddison scoring