The Championship Thread 2023/2024

[FoyleFox]

15 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

I’m thinking about chucking a tenner on City NOT getting top two. Reason being I’m the worlds worst football gambler, so if I put this bet on, we’ll be fine! 😂

Does anyone know the odds at present?

It was 7/1 on not being promoted when I did it. I've got Leeds winning the league at 5/2. Hopefully, thats enough to secure our promotion. 

[StanSP]

20 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

I’m thinking about chucking a tenner on City NOT getting top two. Reason being I’m the worlds worst football gambler, so if I put this bet on, we’ll be fine! 😂

Does anyone know the odds at present?

Skybet have us at 11/2 to make the Play-offs. 

 

7/1 to not be promoted at all. 

 

[StanSP]

3 minutes ago, FoyleFox said:

It was 7/1 on not being promoted when I did it. I've got Leeds winning the league at 5/2. Hopefully, thats enough to secure our promotion. 

Oops, just seen this too. 

 

I've got Ipswich at 6/1 to win the league, and had Leeds at 10/3.

[filbertway]

27 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

 

If you think we're makeshift now, I think you're in for a big shock if we don't get promoted. 

He'll be claiming it was a "tactical retreat" by the board

 

[ramadaone]

45 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

I’m thinking about chucking a tenner on City NOT getting top two. Reason being I’m the worlds worst football gambler, so if I put this bet on, we’ll be fine! 😂

Does anyone know the odds at present?

Betfair has us at 2/9 to get promoted so you could lay it

£100 bet would mean losing £22 if we got promoted or winning £100 if we didn't

 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

6 minutes ago, filbertway said:

He'll be claiming it was a "tactical retreat" by the board

 

Special footballing operation. 

[CheeseHead]

4 hours ago, ramadaone said:

Betfair has us at 2/9 to get promoted so you could lay it

£100 bet would mean losing £22 if we got promoted or winning £100 if we didn't

 

In that case the 11/2 bet with Sky is a much better option

[ramadaone]

1 hour ago, CheeseHead said:

In that case the 11/2 bet with Sky is a much better option

Skybet have us at 11/2 to make the Play-offs. 

Betfair has us at 2/9 to get promoted so you could lay it

 

Not the same bet though ?

[Chrysalis]

On 17/03/2024 at 16:46, trugerkem said:

This commentator has his tongue well and truly wedged in Leeds a..e 

Honestly watching the opponents EFL streams their commentators show more neutrality and respect for us then sky, I am not kidding either.

[Chrysalis]

16 hours ago, Lillehamring said:

NO NO NO.

 

Someone said that our form in 2024 has been poor, I pointed out that (at that time) it was the equivalent of 69 points which was good enough for 6th place, and that 6th place in the EFL, generally, isn't poor  (i didn't say it was acceptable, just not 'poor').

 

 

 

And as of now our 2024 form is now up to 1.66 points per game, which is better than the 4th placed team last year.  Again, simply stating that this is not 'poor'.

I think I have never seen you criticise anything about the club this season.  I dont know your reasons but it seems you think we are doing the best possible and no mistakes have been made, I even remember you debating with me over Ndidi, you thought he should be dropped, I told you he was important, and now a couple of posts up you have him listed as a reason for our downfall.

 

I agree with Ric Flair 100%, you cant claim 19 points from 14 games would be acceptable by any measure.  It would show that for a final 1/3 of the season we have regressed heavily, and for a team fighting for autos, and a team with the biggest playing budget in the season its just not acceptable.

 

Now there was one guy in this thread a couple of months back he said he believed the gap wouldnt be closed because it was literally almost impossible for us to go on a bad enough run along side any of the chasing pack having a good run and if the gap got closed the manager and players would deserve any criticism thrown their way, I wonder if he stands by those words, cant remember who it was though.

[Chrysalis]

6 hours ago, FoyleFox said:

It was 7/1 on not being promoted when I did it. I've got Leeds winning the league at 5/2. Hopefully, thats enough to secure our promotion. 

Thats the odds. I got, was 6/1 on Sunday.

Sky bet have some weird triple bet they offer if you go to oddschecker.

 

Go to odds checker, add Leicester in the playoffs to basked.  Then add ipswich and leeds to basket as finishing in top 2, so 3 bets.  Then a 4th offer will appear, for all 3 to happen it offers some crazy odds of over 40/1, and you dont need to bet on the 3 individual options, however when I logged in the offer vanished.  At a guess it probably didnt let me bet as I already have one on the Leicester to be in playoffs.

Edited 21 March by Chrysalis

[HighPeakFox]

On 18/03/2024 at 08:16, RowlattsFox said:

I just want it over with, can't be arsed with the drama 

You support the wrong team. 

[RowlattsFox]

1 hour ago, HighPeakFox said:

You support the wrong team. 

I've been telling myself that for years. 

[Oasisedup]

 

8 hours ago, ramadaone said:

Betfair has us at 2/9 to get promoted so you could lay it

£100 bet would mean losing £22 if we got promoted or winning £100 if we didn't

 

Betfair Sportsbook have us 1/33 to get promoted?

 

Which is absolutely astounding when you look at the opinions on here.

 

 

[john ridley]

Remember last year when right up to a couple of months to go we were outside odds for relegation. Shows sometimes the bookies haven't a clue.

[Parker Pen]

Leeds and Southampton next! Everyone’s grassing everyone else up I feel! 

[Parker Pen]

1 minute ago, Parker Pen said:

Leeds and Southampton next! Everyone’s grassing everyone else up I feel! 

Sorry wrong thread

[CheeseHead]

4 hours ago, ramadaone said:

Skybet have us at 11/2 to make the Play-offs. 

Betfair has us at 2/9 to get promoted so you could lay it

 

Not the same bet though ?

You're right, I figured the 2/9 as automatic promotion

[Number 6]

22 hours ago, Lillehamring said:

You can get the 'current' points per game to be any figure from 0.8ppg if you take the last five games, to 1.7 if you take the last 10 games, to 2 if you take the last 2 games  - so it doesn't really stand up as proof that we've bottled it.  before our brief poor run we won 4 in a row.

 

As for blowing a big lead - there is certainly an arrogance to believing that that only exists to show our superiority, the lead gave us breathing space to have got through a bad patch where things didn't go well, when we were missing two key members of the spine of our team. It's mental to think that people actually believed we might not have a little wobble, that fans assumed we'd just breeze through with a 13 point cushion.

 

People need to get some perspective and look at the bigger picture rather than panicking because of the impact of losing 3 straight games.

If we have 'bottled it' we only bottled it for 3 games - all of which we could easily have won, bottling it for me is giving up; it's not the same as having a tough run of games that didn't go our way but on another day could have easily been 3 wins.

Are Middlesbrough and QPR tough games now?

 

As I said, if we win the league then we've bottled nothing. If we limp to 95 points and come second, then we have. That would be just 33 points from 21 games this year.

 

In fact I think how we finish defines it now, if we hit 100 points but get second then I won't grumble too much.

[Lizzibee]

23 hours ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Ipswich shouldn’t be anywhere near the race for the top 2. The fact they are is an exceptional achievement.

 

Chelsea with what they’ve spent shouldn’t be mid table. It’s a disaster for them that they are. 
 

We shouldn’t finish anywhere outside the top 2, it can happen but clapping them off and saying fair play you bunch of international, highly paid flops shouldn’t happen either. 
 

call a spade a spade - anything less than top 2 would be disgraceful. Anything less than promotion would be a disaster. Sure it can happen but it bloody well shouldn’t and there shouldn’t be any excuse for it.

Why? Sorry for gatecrashing but like to keep up with the opposition.  We were LG1 but deliberately bought players with Championship pedigree and beyond and invested hugely with the coaching team (manager included) to get them where they need to be. Davis and Broadhead prime examples - way too good for league one but with the right coaching. Then we got in quality loan players to assist and there is real prospect that one of them is signing for us because of the ethos of the club and how it's developed him.
Sometimes results is more about the value of a team but the togetherness and with this team they learnt the hard way last year which has them in good stead
We are only exceptional because how we are set up and have developed
I woudl love nothing more than you and us to get promoted as Leeds are just way too arrogant
 

[weller54]

5 minutes ago, Lizzibee said:

Why? Sorry for gatecrashing but like to keep up with the opposition.  We were LG1 but deliberately bought players with Championship pedigree and beyond and invested hugely with the coaching team (manager included) to get them where they need to be. Davis and Broadhead prime examples - way too good for league one but with the right coaching. Then we got in quality loan players to assist and there is real prospect that one of them is signing for us because of the ethos of the club and how it's developed him.
Sometimes results is more about the value of a team but the togetherness and with this team they learnt the hard way last year which has them in good stead
We are only exceptional because how we are set up and have developed
I woudl love nothing more than you and us to get promoted as Leeds are just way too arrogant
 

If you go up what is the point?... apart from money of course!!

You'll get beat pretty much week after week!

What's to look forward to exactly for a team like Ipswich in the PL circus?

 

[mohammedsaqib]

I can see it now. We drop into the play offs, make the final and it’s billed as ‘the 100million PSR game’ 

[Wymsey]

Wrong thread - please delete.

Edited 21 March by Wymsey

[CosbehFox]

 

 

41 minutes ago, Lizzibee said:

Why? Sorry for gatecrashing but like to keep up with the opposition.  We were LG1 but deliberately bought players with Championship pedigree and beyond and invested hugely with the coaching team (manager included) to get them where they need to be. Davis and Broadhead prime examples - way too good for league one but with the right coaching. Then we got in quality loan players to assist and there is real prospect that one of them is signing for us because of the ethos of the club and how it's developed him.
Sometimes results is more about the value of a team but the togetherness and with this team they learnt the hard way last year which has them in good stead
We are only exceptional because how we are set up and have developed
I woudl love nothing more than you and us to get promoted as Leeds are just way too arrogant
 

It’s a compliment. On paper and budget, Ipswich shouldn’t be anywhere near the top two but they are. 

[CosbehFox]

33 minutes ago, weller54 said:

If you go up what is the point?... apart from money of course!!

You'll get beat pretty much week after week!

What's to look forward to exactly for a team like Ipswich in the PL circus?

 

What a dismissive, arrogant comment. 
 

What’s to stop them achieving what the likes of us or Brighton did