The Championship Thread 2023/2024

[tom27111]

4 minutes ago, FoxinNotts said:

It is mate. I’ve just put it in writing for you.

 

You've literally just typed out a list that includes 'Ultimate Honours' and 'Supreme Honours' 

 

You're actually expecting people to take that seriously? 

 

And how come nobody classes Newcastle winning the Championship as a major honour then?

[FoxinNotts]

2 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

You've literally just typed out a list that includes 'Ultimate Honours' and 'Supreme Honours' 

 

You're actually expecting people to take that seriously? 

 

And how come nobody classes Newcastle winning the Championship as a major honour then?

Not really. Just a bit of fun

[Bordersfox]

13 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

You've literally just typed out a list that includes 'Ultimate Honours' and 'Supreme Honours' 

 

You're actually expecting people to take that seriously? 

 

And how come nobody classes Newcastle winning the Championship as a major honour then?

You didn't seriously take that list seriously did you? 

 

I thought it was rather witty 

[Tuna]

Really worrying start for Beale at Sunderland...0-3 to Cov after the caretaker beat Leeds

[spacemunky]

So glad DAZN chose this Stoke/Millwall match to show. It's been an absolute classic. I only wish I'd have thought to record it, so I could watch it again.

[jayfox26]

If the 2nd half of the season goes similar to the 1st half, the top 4 could all reach 90 points. Bet that has never happened before 

[brucey]

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/saisonstarts/wettbewerb/GB2

 

Best first half-season (23 games) in the Championship:

Leicester 1st

Ipswich 6th

Leeds 31st

Southampton 32nd

[Lionator]

We haven’t even hit top gear yet. It’s coming but we’re only getting better 🤣

[UniFox21]

First time I've seen Ipswich look like a league 1 side. They were so poor today, very sloppy overall 

[ARTY_FOX]

Perfect day of results really. 

[Leicester_Loyal]

14 wins from 23 games sees us hit 100 points.

 

Still expect 92/93 to be enough,  12 wins needed.

[ARTY_FOX]

1 hour ago, spacemunky said:

So glad DAZN chose this Stoke/Millwall match to show. It's been an absolute classic. I only wish I'd have thought to record it, so I could watch it again.

I just assume thats like the opposite of the world cups. Instead of picking out beautiful Women that are in attendance its which set is the most deformed. 

[weller54]

20 minutes ago, Lionator said:

We haven’t even hit top gear yet. It’s coming but we’re only getting better 🤣

AFCON could very well derail us though.

[Guest nathan.]

3 minutes ago, ARTY_FOX said:

Perfect day of results really. 

Not really I think people are sleeping on Southampton.

 

They are on a 15 game unbeaten run and turning draws into wins.

[Lionator]

1 minute ago, weller54 said:

AFCON could very well derail us though.

It won’t. The ‘system’ is too strong, almost infallible now the players have confidence in it. Hopefully we will have Vardy back fit, and Casadei can fit in for Ndidi. We saw today that Yunus is more than able to fill in for Abdul albeit he’s a different player. 

[Lillehamring]

2 minutes ago, nathan. said:

Not really I think people are sleeping on Southampton.

 

They are on a 15 game unbeaten run and turning draws into wins.

And yet....

 

[ARTY_FOX]

8 minutes ago, nathan. said:

Not really I think people are sleeping on Southampton.

 

They are on a 15 game unbeaten run and turning draws into wins.

Yeah I include them in it. Putting them Leeds and Ipswich in their own mini league is good. We also, aren't losing like 6 more games than Southampton. 

 

We're separated from the pack. 

[Chrysalis]

58 minutes ago, jayfox26 said:

If the 2nd half of the season goes similar to the 1st half, the top 4 could all reach 90 points. Bet that has never happened before 

It did league one last season.  At least the top 3 were very high points totals.

 

I think the only way 90 is enough this season is if Leeds get second with Ipswich falling off significantly and Saints not keeping up with Leeds.  The last 6 PPG maths I did earlier in week indicates 91 would be enough but I think Leeds PPG will go up from that.

 

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Update from todays games

 

Played 23, remaining 23
Leics 58 Last 6 16 PPG 2.67
Ipswich 52 Last 6 13 PPG 2.2
Leeds 45 Last 6 13 PPG 2.2
Southampton 45 Last 6 14 PPG 2.33

 

Predicted table based on current points and last 6 PPG

 

Leics              119
Ipswich          102
Southampton 99
Leeds              96

Points needed for autos 100

Edited 23 December 2023 by Chrysalis

[jayfox26]

15 minutes ago, Chrysalis said:

It did league one last season.  At least the top 3 were very high points totals.

 

I think the only way 90 is enough this season is if Leeds get second with Ipswich falling off significantly and Saints not keeping up with Leeds.  The last 6 PPG maths I did earlier in week indicates 91 would be enough but I think Leeds PPG will go up from that.

 

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Update from todays games

 

Played 23, remaining 23
Leics 58 Last 6 16 PPG 2.67
Ipswich 52 Last 6 13 PPG 2.2
Leeds 45 Last 6 13 PPG 2.2
Southampton 45 Last 6 14 PPG 2.33

 

Predicted table based on current points and last 6 PPG

 

Leics              119
Ipswich          102
Southampton 99
Leeds              96

Points needed for autos 100

Sorry I only meant championship not league 1. Yeh league one often gets a few teams getting high points tallys

[Daggers]

[murphy]

4 hours ago, tom27111 said:

 

How are you classing it as a major honour though? 

 

I genuinely need you to explain your thought process. 

 

It isn't a major honour, that's a factual statement. I don't know how you can even contest it?

 

It isn't even a debate.

I'm gonna chime back in here, without having scrolled back.

 

In the honour list for LCFC it will read in order: PL champs, FA Cup, League Cup x3 then 2nd and 3rd tier titles.  I would squeeze the Community shield in there too.  All are major honours in my view, although there is an obvious hierarchy of importance.

 

Let me ask you this:  The FA Cup is considered a superior trophy to the League Cup, does that mean that The League Cup is not a major honour?   Cus it bloody is in our house and i was jumping around like a loon when we won it.  Would you consider that new European conference thing that we got knocked out of a major honour?  It is the third tier of European competition but if we would have won it, nobody could tell me that it wasn't a major honour.

 

When I was a kid, I had a tour of Filbert Street and was amazed to see a trophy room (room, not cabinet), stuffed with trophies.  This is pre Boro League cup win and had all manner of silverware.  Presentations for pre season tournaments and local matches v Oadby Town and the like.  These are not major honours.

 

You are asking those of us that care about collecting silverware and expanding our honours list to justify it being a major honour but let us not forget that you called it literally nothing.  I think your exact words were that there is "literally no difference between first and second place".  Well bollards to that kind of thinking.  If we get something big and shiny, contested nationally and with our name engraved upon it, it is a major honour and worth having.  Champions of any league is a major honour imo and if we win this one, we will have the record number of second tier titles.  It isn't nothing.

 

 

 

Edited 23 December 2023 by murphy

[Koke]

13 points between 1st and 3rd. 

 

6 points between 6th and 15th. 

 

 

[Blarmy]

Second isn’t as good as winning, a simple fact in all sports and always has been. Proving to be better  than everyone else can inspire, breed confidence and a winning mentality and can also attract players that might otherwise go to team that won.

 

Second is for losers, literally. I’m a Leicester fan and want us to win by as big a margin as possible.
 

[99.1% BLUE]

5 hours ago, fuchsntf said:

Just love this…

 

Anon: Let's keep some perspective despite an excellent Leeds performance - it says something that a team with a huge wage bill, parachute payments etc are so thrilled to beat newly promoted, hugely financially inferior Ipswich to cut the gap to *seven* points.

We will be as thrilled to widen the gap won’t we!?

 

[Paninistickers]

Anyone getting that feeling that Southampton are gonna be the one to slide into second? 

 

Coming up on the rails nicely whilst Ipswich and Leeds concentrate on each other