Carlsberg season....

[Geordie Blade]

Wow, Stoke and Hull got promoted automatically with 79 points. They must have been shit seasons.

The low automatic threshold could actually suggest that the league was stronger that year. When a few teams run away with the top places, it tends to indicate that the rest of the league was very beatable, and the top teams were pretty much guaranteed to win most matches. When the top places have lower totals, it suggests that the midtable teams were tough to beat, and that you had to work very hard to get three points. So it doesn't necessarily follow that it would have been easier to get promoted in those seasons.

 

[BushBlade]

The low automatic threshold could actually suggest that the league was stronger that year. When a few teams run away with the top places, it tends to indicate that the rest of the league was very beatable, and the top teams were pretty much guaranteed to win most matches. When the top places have lower totals, it suggests that the midtable teams were tough to beat, and that you had to work very hard to get three points. So it doesn't necessarily follow that it would have been easier to get promoted in those seasons.

It could be either. It could be 24 shit teams with little to choose between them or 24 good teams with little to choose between them versus 22 shit teams and two good ones or 22 good teams with 2 execellent ones.

 

[HibbyBlade]

Wednesday going down is unlikely, but them losing a play-off they are favourites to win would be great. Against someone like a resurgent Reading who have stormed their way up the table in the previous months.

This is all after we automatically go up in 1st place obviously.

 

[Geordie Blade]

It could be either. It could be 24 shit teams with little to choose between them or 24 good teams with little to choose between them versus 22 shit teams and two good ones or 22 good teams with 2 execellent ones.

Yes, that was my point (hence the words "could" and "doesn't necessarily mean...")!

 

[Darthblade]

For me ....... the "Carlsberg season" would have to be .......

a) blades promoted automatically ( can't bear the thought of play-offs even with Tufty here)
b) cheating cockneys get relegated and a hastily convened commons select committee decide that they have to pay £200m for the use of their "new" stadium this season.
c) pigs, dirty Le**s scum and the dingles are relegated in the first of a record breaking 3 seasons in a row relegation treble
d) Gareth Ainsworth gets taken out on the touchline in the last game of the season with a wild thigh-high lunge which breaks his knee, hip & pelvis ( televised on Sky so it can be re-watched over and over)

THAT ....... is a Carlsberg season to remember !!

UTB & FTP

 

[blademark]

For me ....... the "Carlsberg season" would have to be .......

a) blades promoted automatically ( can't bear the thought of play-offs even with Tufty here)
b) cheating cockneys get relegated and a hastily convened commons select committee decide that they have to pay £200m for the use of their "new" stadium this season.
c) pigs, dirty Le**s scum and the dingles are relegated in the first of a record breaking 3 seasons in a row relegation treble
d) Gareth Ainsworth gets taken out on the touchline in the last game of the season with a wild thigh-high lunge which breaks his knee, hip & pelvis ( televised on Sky so it can be re-watched over and over)

THAT ....... is a Carlsberg season to remember !!

UTB & FTP

Sorry mate, just can't see the Ainsworth thing happening !

 

[Geordie Blade]

a) blades promoted automatically ( can't bear the thought of play-offs even with Tufty here)
b) cheating cockneys get relegated and a hastily convened commons select committee decide that they have to pay £200m for the use of their "new" stadium this season.
c) pigs, dirty Le**s scum and the dingles are relegated in the first of a record breaking 3 seasons in a row relegation treble
d) Gareth Ainsworth gets taken out on the touchline in the last game of the season with a wild thigh-high lunge which breaks his knee, hip & pelvis ( televised on Sky so it can be re-watched over and over)

That's all pretty realistic but, for 'c)', we'll just have to get the Football League change the rules to allow three relegations from League Two by 2019/20. Perhaps you could add:

e) Brian Deane, Bob Booker and Derek Geary voted as new Chief Executives of FIFA, the FA and the Football League respectively, and we'll let them work out the details.

 

[BusheyBlade]

e) Brian Deane, Bob Booker and Derek Geary voted as new Chief Executives of FIFA, the FA and the Football League respectively, and we'll let them work out the details.

I don't know, all that Bladey Bladeness could cause Pinchy to spontaneously combust.