Looking good

[Bladesway]

Now whilst I agree with this, I am almost (almost, but not quite 100%) convinced that last year cannot be topped and we may have exhausted our search for the perfect fuck up.

How can you top being almost certain for automatic promotion only for your top striker to be sent down (unique situation 1) and then being on the receiving end of the opposition missing their first three penalties (has it happened before or unique situation 2) only for your goalkeeper to miss the final penalty to stay down? It can't be done and so, I believe we have peaked and may now resort to being a normal club that just gets promoted and relegated like any other without the drama and pain that we appear to crave.

Last season was our "4 minute mile" and "man on the moon" in one fell swoop, we will hopefully never see it's like again.

Next up the first team to get 100 points and not get promoted?

 

[Revolution]

How can you top being almost certain for automatic promotion only for your top striker to be sent down (unique situation 1) and then being on the receiving end of the opposition missing their first three penalties (has it happened before or unique situation 2) only for your goalkeeper to miss the final penalty to stay down? It can't be done and so, I believe we have peaked and may now resort to being a normal club that just gets promoted and relegated like any other without the drama and pain that we appear to crave.

Isn't it obvious how we can top this? We are going to finish unbeaten, yet draw so many games we won't go up automatically, and you know what happens next.

 

[Darren]

Isn't it obvious how we can top this? We are going to finish unbeaten, yet draw so many games we won't go up automatically, and you know what happens next.

Time for a list of unwanted records we hold:

1. Number of play off final defeats
2. Most points without getting automatically promoted (joint)
3. Only club relegated with a positive goal difference (I think)
4. Most seasons in the top division without qualifying for Europe.

Any more?

 

[Revolution]

It would be hard to check, but I would assume that we hold the record for relegations achieved despite not being in the relegation places at the start of the last match.

There's also missing promotion by the tightest margin (in 1950 when the Pigs pipped us on goal average).

 

[Darren]

It would be hard to check, but I would assume that we hold the record for relegations achieved despite not being in the relegation places at the start of the last match.
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How many of those have we had. I can only think of 3 - 1981, 1994 and 2007 - any more?

 

[Grecian2000]

Isn't it obvious how we can top this? We are going to finish unbeaten, yet draw so many games we won't go up automatically, and you know what happens next.

Bollocks I'd never considered that.

However, now I'm thinking about it we've got a whole new stream of uniqueness we can tap into.

How about we go unbeaten, finish 9 points clear of third, but are deducted 10 being the first team to fall foul of the new financial regulations and being made an example of. The team to get promoted instead are Pompey having spent all the season in admin with no points deduction (think of the fans) and used in excess of 100 players all on monthly contracts.

 

[Rodders]

On a slightly-related tangent, Coventry have never finished in the top 6 of any league since the 1960's. Grim.

 

[Darren]

On a slightly-related tangent, Coventry have never finished in the top 6 of any league since the 1960's. Grim.

I think I would take their 34 consecutive years of top flght football from 1967-2001 and 1 top six finish in that period as opposed to our 11 years of top flight football and our 11 top 6 finishes (all but 1 outside the top flight) in that period...

 

[Silent Blade]

On a slightly-related tangent, Coventry have never finished in the top 6 of any league since the 1960's. Grim.

They finished 6th in 1969-70

 

[Pinchy]

On a slightly-related tangent, Coventry have never finished in the top 6 of any league since the 1960's. Grim.

But we enjoyed every minute.....

 

[TarquinDelouche]

Isn't it obvious how we can top this? We are going to finish unbeaten, yet draw so many games we won't go up automatically, and you know what happens next.

What happens next is we draw each of the playoff semi's, go through on penos then draw the final, losing... on penos, our reserve goalkeeper (Long having sprained his wrist slipping in a salad cream puddle in the street the night before) scoring, before the penalties going to ball boys - one of whom finally fails to score against stand-in keeper Lee Croft. Ched Evans having scored one. For them.

 

[Pinchy]

But we enjoyed every minute.....View attachment 5372

Never mind that silly pair of Covs. What about me?



See you soon......