The Championship Thread 2023/2024

[Lillehamring]

1 hour ago, Clever Fox said:

Hull and Preston both beathen tonight losing more ground on us. We just have take care of our own business tomorrow against Rotherham.

Not sure anyone below southampton can realistically be called a threat anymore.  west brom are closer to relegation than to us!

[Tuna]

Preston have really started to struggle lately.

Edited 22 December 2023 by Tuna

[Clever Fox]

5 minutes ago, Lillehamring said:

Not sure anyone below southampton can realistically be called a threat anymore.  west brom are closer to relegation than to us!

While I agree, You can never say never in football. I seem to remember us going on a lte surging run to the playoffs in ONeills time I think it was.

 

Anyone of the top 10 dropping points is a bonus.

[Lillehamring]

2 minutes ago, Clever Fox said:

While I agree, You can never say never in football. I seem to remember us going on a lte surging run to the playoffs in ONeills time I think it was.

 

Anyone of the top 10 dropping points is a bonus.

It's a bonus, but 19 points means they'd have to win 7 games more than us with the same number of draws.  I just don't see us losing 7 games, even if west brom or hull miraculously won every game they play from now until the end of the season

[Finnegan]

Ipswich and Leicester wins today please. Extra bonus if QPR steal a point or three. Come on Santa. 

[Reg Vardy]

We have the bottom 4 to play at home in our remaining fixtures, starting today…..assuming we should win those, we would need 8 wins from 20 fixtures to achieve 90 points…..starts today….c’mon….

[Nolucklcfc]

Ipswich win or preferably draw would be ideal 

[Nolucklcfc]

Hopefully the club put the Ipswich game on in the concourse and not the prem 😅

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Still think I want Leeds to win this. Ipswich 6 points (hopefully!) off the top and been done twice by Leeds and they might start to wobble.

 

Bring me the 8th title.

[Aus Fox]

Draw

Ipswich win

Leeds win

in that order of preference, in reality there is no bad result for us, but it would be nice for both teams to drop points.

Edited 23 December 2023 by Aus Fox

[coolhandfox]

Don't really care.

 

Take care of our own business in the next 24 games it will not matter what other clubs do.

[goose2010]

Ipswich are 3/1 to beat Leeds, seems massive odds. 

 

Rotherham being 20/1 to beat us is crazy too. 

[ftfagos]

Given our performance against Yorkshire teams 20/1 is worth a nibble. True odds in a two horse race should be nowhere near that. 

[Vlad the Fox]

31 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

Ipswich are 3/1 to beat Leeds, seems massive odds. 

 

Rotherham being 20/1 to beat us is crazy too. 

It might be worth a punt as leeds will be tired after winning the world club cup last night.

[JimJams]

Take the positives whatever the result. Ipswich win and there's a bigger gap to be made to Leeds. Draw and we can create a bigger gap to both. Leeds win and we can create a bigger gap to 2nd. And while that's seen as the less favourable outcome by many, I think that's because they've forgotten about Saints, who could keep the gap to 3rd the same regardless of the Leeds/Ipswich result if they pick up a win for themselves.

 

[KFS]

55 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Don't really care.

 

Take care of our own business in the next 24 games it will not matter what other clubs do.

Fair enough. If we’re top of the tree with 61 pts at the halfway mark I think we can be prettt confident, though 

[Noahfence]

I’m just glad we’re able to watch this massive game with not much care either way! 

[Bourbon Fox]

3 hours ago, Finnegan said:

Ipswich and Leicester wins today please. Extra bonus if QPR steal a point or three. Come on Santa. 

Surely a boring nil-all at Elland Road with a couple of red cards each?!

[brucey]

12 minutes ago, Bourbon Fox said:

Surely a boring nil-all at Elland Road with a couple of red cards each?!

I'll settle for just a Morsy yellow card..

[Fox forever]

16 minutes ago, KFS said:

Fair enough. If we’re top of the tree with 61 pts at the halfway mark I think we can be prettt confident, though 

Is it 6 points for a win today 😂

[sm1]

Win win situation for us, either both or one of Leeds and Ipswich will drop points.

[Noahfence]

Farke doesn’t like rotating does he? Guess todays game is probably a poor example to pick but barely changes the team 

[KFS]

29 minutes ago, Fox forever said:

Is it 6 points for a win today 😂

Well todays not the half way mark is it brotha 

[Fox forever]

6 minutes ago, KFS said:

Well todays not the half way mark is it brotha 

It will be at 5 pm

[Jobyfox]

12 hours ago, Clever Fox said:

While I agree, You can never say never in football. I seem to remember us going on a lte surging run to the playoffs in ONeills time I think it was.

 

Anyone of the top 10 dropping points is a bonus.

I’m usually the biggest pragmatist going when it comes to these type of conversations, but I really think that it’s 2 from 4 now in terms of automatic promotion.

 

For a team 5-10 to get automatic promotion they’d have to rely on not one team’s form collapsing, but four. I don’t think that’s going happen. If our form dropped to the extent that, say, West Brom caught us then I think they’d actually be the least of our problems. As it’s likely there would already be another 2 to 3 teams ahead of us. 
 

These things are always interesting for added security, but ultimately the only form that matters is our own