The Official Championship Run-in thread

[Geo V]

WBA shot themselves in the foot tonight (again) by managing to turn a 2-0 lead (and strol)l into a 3-2 defeat away to Burnley FFS! This table is amazing at the moment and I am gutted we are not in the top 10 and in with a shout. The table at the moment is (possies that count that is)

1 Birmingham City 44 25 8 11 65 41 24 83

2 Sunderland 44 25 7 12 68 45 23 82

3 Derby County 44 24 9 11 60 44 16 81

4 West Bromwich Albion 44 20 11 13 71 52 20 71

5 Preston North End 44 21 8 15 63 51 12 71

6 Wolverhampton Wanderers 44 20 10 14 53 55 -2 70

7 Southampton 44 19 12 13 72 52 20 69

8 Stoke City 44 18 15 11 58 39 19 69

9 Colchester United 44 20 9 15 69 51 18 69

10 Sheffield Wednesday 44 19 11 14 67 62 5 68

19 Leicester City 44 12 14 18 47 60 -13 50

20 Barnsley 44 15 5 24 53 77 -24 50

21 Hull City 44 12 10 22 49 65 -16 46

22 Leeds United 44 13 6 25 45 69 -24 45

23 Southend United 44 10 12 22 45 73 -28 42

24 Luton Town 44 9 10 25 50 75 -25 37

Sunderland have two easy games at home to Burnley and away to Luton so I see them going up automatically. I think Birmingham are fooked and will need the play-offs as they have two other play-off sides to play and unfortunately that may mean Derby go up.

We`ve talked about the bottom of the table to death but I now think Leeds will go down. They`ll beat Ipswich but I cant see them getting anything at Derby. Hull have got the easiest run in as they end up with a home game at Plymouth and first go away to Cardiff who now have nothing to play for. We should get the point we need on Saturday but I dont think that we need any more points herein.

The next couple of weeks will be the most exciting in the Championship thats for sure and should make some good TV.