Championship 2024/2025 Season Thread

[foxfanazer]

Hell of a free kick from Hamer

[LcFc_Smiv]

Hamza was celebrating before it even got past the keeper

[foxfanazer]

Coventry get battered everywhere they go...

 

 

Although we'd almost certainly lose to these

Edited 28 March by foxfanazer

[whoareyaaa]

Hamza made his debut for Bangladesh  never knew they had a team 

[whoareyaaa]

1 minute ago, foxfanazer said:

Coventry get battered everywhere they go...

 

 

Although we'd almost certainly lose to these

100%

[Sol thewall Bamba]

24 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

Hamza made his debut for Bangladesh  never knew they had a team 

Tbf they never knew who he was before he declared he wanted to play for them

[Super_horns]

Who ever comes 3rd will probably win the play offs unless they don’t turn up .

Burnley and Sheffield U grind out results each week whilst Leeds are very strong at home although could bottle it like last season at Wembley .

[Super_horns]

57 minutes ago, LcFc_Smiv said:

Hamza was celebrating before it even got past the keeper

Well he tried not to!

[foxfanazer]

10 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Who ever comes 3rd will probably win the play offs unless they don’t turn up .

Burnley and Sheffield U grind out results each week whilst Leeds are very strong at home although could bottle it like last season at Wembley .

Burnley have only conceded 11 goals all season so far

[Leicesterpool]

Makes a good weekend when Cov lose

[Super_horns]

16 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Burnley have only conceded 11 goals all season so far

Burnley v Sheffield U in the last two weeks of the season will be big 

[StanSP]

1 hour ago, whoareyaaa said:

Hamza made his debut for Bangladesh  never knew they had a team 

Really? 

[OntarioFox]

That's a proper costly loss for Cov potentially, WBA and Bristol City do the business and they're out the playoffs despite their "league-winning form".

 

Though I'm torn really since Bristol have Burnley, who I'd love to pip Leeds to the automatics (again). 

 

Really is a far more interesting league than the Prem. So much to play for still in April.

[The Doctor]

God, Meslier makes Danny Ward look competent.

[Jattdogg]

Bloody leeds

[Lionator]

6 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

Bloody leeds

Bottlers

[Paninistickers]

Deserved point for the Swans..

 

Really interesting to see a mid ranking championship team. They looked fit,.neat, tidy, coached. Basically a team full of McAteer level of good attitude and fitness and talent. And they ain't bad. 

 

We need to be desperately careful next year not to play (or even involve) the poisonous long in the tooth dead head pensioners BdcR Ayew Coady Vesty

 

 

[Spiritwalker]

5 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Deserved point for the Swans..

 

Really interesting to see a mid ranking championship team. They looked fit,.neat, tidy, coached. Basically a team full of McAteer level of good attitude and fitness and talent. And they ain't bad. 

 

We need to be desperately careful next year not to play (or even involve) the poisonous long in the tooth dead head pensioners BdcR Ayew Coady Vesty

 

 

Every team we play this season play with more energy and seem so much fitter than us. 

[LCFCJohn]

Whilst Leeds chucking it away is funny, we could really do with the out the way next season given they have tended to have our number recently! 

[Super_horns]

As usual the Championship is being unpredictable and anything could happen .

[Paninistickers]

31 minutes ago, Spiritwalker said:

Every team we play this season play with more energy and seem so much fitter than us. 

I'd love to see our stats. It's gotta be a banker that we collectively cover the least miles, the least sprints, the least recovery runs etc 

 

As said above, championship teams.lack.class but plenty of them are super fit. I remember one of our players last year,.maybe Coady, saying how Sunderland were all 21 year old lads and ran us off the park 

[The Doctor]

 

[Fox92]

Must be so much pressure at Leeds to go up. No other explanation as to why they usually bottle it.

[LcFc_Smiv]

17 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Must be so much pressure at Leeds to go up. No other explanation as to why they usually bottle it.

I would imagine, just like here, there's complacency embedded throughout the club. This is the same manager and a not to dissimilar playing squad that folded last season. I've said it before on this thread that players like Ampadu, Rodon, Struijk and James get such high praise from commentators and pundits a-like but they always fail to deliver when it matters for their club and fans. It obviously doesn't help when you have Meslier who can be sublime or throw one in every few weeks.

[oxford blue]

On 29/03/2025 at 17:46, Paninistickers said:

I'd love to see our stats. It's gotta be a banker that we collectively cover the least miles, the least sprints, the least recovery runs etc 

 

As said above, championship teams.lack.class but plenty of them are super fit. I remember one of our players last year,.maybe Coady, saying how Sunderland were all 21 year old lads and ran us off the park 

This does seem very likely. I have averaged age of a few typical teams (excluding goalie) and it s around 29. It must be one of the oldest teams across all the divisions. Technical expertise in the oldies may counteract their runs etc but there is not a huge amount of that evident either in current squad.