Play off place virtually guaranteed

[coaxingstar71]

After last night results we are now virtually guaranteed a play off place. Derby can equal us on points but they would have to make up a 25 goal deficit.

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

GET IN!

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

After last night results we are now virtually guaranteed a play off place. Derby can equal us on points but they would have to make up a 25 goal deficit.

That's the way to approach a season. Avoid relegation. Guarantee play-offs. Guarantee promotion. Guarantee winning the league. It happened 2 years ago. The final step will be a little harder to take.

 

[Whiston Blade]

Get in!!!!!! playoffs, every United fan's nightmare.

 

[Snowman]

After last night results we are now virtually guaranteed a play off place. Derby can equal us on points but they would have to make up a 25 goal deficit.

Forgive me if I remain depressed and underwhelmed by the prospect.

 

[Carlton Blade]

Play offs have been a guarantee since we got to 74 points. There aren't 4 teams getting past that number

 

[Worksop II]

Ha - you fuckers would have given your left bollock to be in the Playoffs at the begining of the Season

So looking on the bright side, if that is where we end up

1/ We get more games

2/ Bollocks are all in tact

 

[Bayingblade]

 

[SwissBlade]

So now we know that the the season will end in one of two ways:

a) Automatics

or

b) 2 or 3 extra games after a long hard season which result in us being in this division again next year.

If we reach the play offs i'd play the U23's or the Womens team

 

[Revolution]

Playoffs were mathematically guaranteed after we beat Leeds.

 

[North East Blade]

Obviously if we don’t make autos it will be hard not to feel deflated but if we did end up in the Playoffs why can’t we change our bad history in them we now have someone we didn’t have before and that’s Mr Wilder

 

[TomHeffernan]

Playoffs were mathematically guaranteed after we beat Leeds.

So Wilder said but I think he was ill informed

 

[coaxingstar71]

Playoffs were mathematically guaranteed after we beat Leeds.

How so?

 

[sitwell]

Obviously if we don’t make autos it will be hard not to feel deflated but if we did end up in the Playoffs why can’t we change our bad history in them we now have someone we didn’t have before and that’s Mr Wilder

All the teams who are likely in the playoffs ,Bristol ,Villa and Wba I reckon or even FLDC all concede plenty of gaols and are quite attacking open teams. We are capable of beating any of them.

 

[coaxingstar71]

I stand by what I said at the start of this season, which is that if we got in the play-offs, it would be a fantastic achievement.

For me anything beyond that is a huge bonus and I will look back on this season with immense pride regardless of how it pans out now.

 

[Aston max]

I would love to know the last team with our budget that did as well as we have this season
My only concern is if we don't go up some of the premier League teams come looking for CW

 

[BushBlade]

I stand by what I said at the start of this season, which is that if we got in the play-offs, it would be a fantastic achievement.

For me anything beyond that is a huge bonus and I will look back on this season with immense pride regardless of how it pans out now.

Realistically, if we’d finished 7th or 8th I’d be saying CW has done a great job. To get us to the playoffs is why his peers voted him manager of the season.

 

[dc_blade]

I said at the beginning of the season that we’d be in the mix for the play offs. In my heart I thought we’d be in a scrap for 6th and maybe fall a bit short.

When we beat Derby on Boxing Day I really started to believe and had a sneaky look to see if I could see a path to us getting ~75 points. I thought it looked hard but doable.

Now? It’s been an incredible season, but let’s be right: it will be gutting if we don’t go up.

 

[coaxingstar71]

Realistically, if we’d finished 7th or 8th I’d be saying CW has done a great job. To get us to the playoffs is why his peers voted him manager of the season.

Quite so. Of course if we miss out on automatic I'll be disappointed and if we find a new way to fuck it up in the play offs, I'll be very disappointed, but overall I'll still be delighted with the progress we've made.

It's all about expectation isn't it. We've done really well and there have been some superb performances along the way. We've earned the right to be where we are and naturally that raises expectations.

 

[Smirth]

So shall we just write the season off if we don’t finish 2nd?

Stop going on about the past, this is a completely different team to any of those in the past. There’s no reason why we couldn’t win the playoffs if we end up in them.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

All this start of the season stuff is bollocks.

At the start of the season I thought we'd finish about 10th, same as last season.

But It's not the start of the season anymore. We're now challenging for automatic promotion.

If we finish 3rd I'll be absolutely gutted.

 

[Topplayersleave]

If we finish third I'll be gutted as well, because we won't go up through the play offs.
Not losing will become more important than winning, although what we'd hope to achieve by finishing second in a two horse race would be I don't know.

And before anybody says this team and manager are different, they're not, we've already seen it in a few games over the last month or so, when the pressure has been on they've completely changed their normal game.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

After last night results we are now virtually guaranteed a play off place. Derby can equal us on points but they would have to make up a 25 goal deficit.

A 0-0 draw on Saturday with Millwall should sort it then?

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Summat to cheer us up 8.30 my fav.

 

[blade too long]

Wilder has achieved what we realistically could have hoped for
going up automatically would be the stuff of dreams for our outlay
and its also now a realistic possibility

heady stuff
3rd year running a big improvement

 

[Fanny magnet]

If we finish third I'll be gutted as well, because we won't go up through the play offs.
Not losing will become more important than winning, although what we'd hope to achieve by finishing second in a two horse race would be I don't know.

And before anybody says this team and manager are different, they're not, we've already seen it in a few games over the last month or so, when the pressure has been on they've completely changed their normal game.

I don't think you will I think you'd be gutted if we went up

 

[blade too long]

even if we only finish third we will have finished higher than Wednesday ever have in 20 years out of the prem this century