Playoffs, your thoughts

[Curryisgreat]

Part of me wants the play-offs just so that Zamora can score a last minute winner in the final!

I wouldn't enjoy them until that moment though...

 

[sully]

We're not out of relegation danger, yet.

Sorry to disappoint, but we are. There is no scenario where we can end up with only 2 or less teams below us at the end of the season.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

For the first time since we moved to the Amex I feel that we are actually equal to anyone in this division. Bring it on, whatever it is!

 

[dazzer6666]

Would love to be top 2, would love a Wembley outing, pretty confident it'll be one or the other with the squad and management team we've got. Won't be hugely distressed if we don't go up - can see us smashing it next season if not.

 

[Paris]

Part of me wants the play-offs just so that Zamora can score a last minute winner in the final!

I wouldn't enjoy them until that moment though...

Zamora is the man for the big occasion(richest one-off match). The Championship Play-offs master. Has one player had a bigger impact in this mini competition over the years? Give him 15 minutes and he could hand us the ticket to the promised land. Imagine if it's us versus Derby in the final. The faces of their players as he strips off to come on in the 75th minute. A tear starts to trickle down Richard Keogh's cheek

 

[NooBHA]

I have a feeling we could still be in the top 2. CH has made the top 2 before when he won the league with Newcastle.

He also made the play offs with Birmingham and I think it is how you approach the play offs that determine success. I don't think he approached the play offs right with Birmingham. You need to be bold and really go for it when you reach the play offs, especially the semi final.

I can't remember how the scores went but Birmingham went so far behind before mounting a late comeback in the last 20 mins of 2nd leg. I think he will have learned from that. Also, Birmingham had over achieved making the play offs with the squad he had and on paper and in play, the other teams had all been better teams during the season.

This Brighton squad is a lot better than the Birmingham squad so I think he would be a lot bolder and take the game to the opposition a lot more than Birmingham did. That said all the clubs that make the play offs this year will all be very good sides so it will be hard to call.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

The thought of it makes me feel unwell

 

[Randsta]

3rd time lucky surely.....then lose @ Wembley

 

[Stat Brother]

Sorry to disappoint, but we are. There is no scenario where we can end up with only 2 or less teams below us at the end of the season.

You can go by whatever newfandled math-bleeding-matics you like, but we're not out of relegation trouble until this threads says so FACT:-

http://www.northstandchat.com/showt...ams-That-Can-t-Catch-Us-We-Can-t-Catch-Thread

 

[Lush]

The thought of it makes me feel unwell

Me too. I'm not sure my heart can take it.

 

[Diego Napier]

This is not a good way to feel, but sadly I am with you

IG, you have a history of glass-half-empty, Eeyoristic negativism

; just because we're in such an exciting position, why change the habit of lifetime?!

 

[Dolph Ins]

I would really really like to see us at Wembley. I have seen England there a couple of times but with very few away supporters there was little atmosphere. But yes an absolute lottery

 

[Acker79]

I wouldn't feel too confident about it. Our form on sky is pretty poor. We get occasional victories, but we'd need to win at least two out of three games. I'm not convinced we'd have it in us. Especially if I show up (our past play off successes have been in games I've not attended (swindon, bristol), the ones I've gone to (county, palace, derby) we've lost. If we don't sneak into the automatic spots, I will probably listen to the games on the radio.

 

[dr415414]

I don't get the correlation between being on Sky and poor form. What's being on TV got to do with it? Can someone explain to me how that affects how a team plays? Surely it's just coincidence. Same goes for comments about play off performances. Different players,different manager. People are even referring to the play off win against Brizzle. What has that got to do with anything? Different era! Too much is read into these things

 

[BensGrandad]

It would also of course ge 3rd time at Wembley losing twice if we make it.

 

[Acker79]

It would also of course ge 3rd time at Wembley losing twice if we make it.

Fourth.

1983 final draw
1983 replay loss
1991 play off loss
??2016 play off?? ?

 

[origigull]

I would really really like to see us at Wembley. I have seen England there a couple of times but with very few away supporters there was little atmosphere. But yes an absolute lottery

Its all self, self, self with you then. You should have gone in 1983 or 1991. it got to be top 2. Be bold and take the bull by the horns and it could really happen. Have faith.

 

[Acker79]

I don't get the correlation between being on Sky and poor form. What's being on TV got to do with it? Can someone explain to me how that affects how a team plays? Surely it's just coincidence. Same goes for comments about play off performances. Different players,different manager. People are even referring to the play off win against Brizzle. What has that got to do with anything? Different era! Too much is read into these things

It shouldn't matter, but our form on Sky is too poor in comparison to not being on sky for it to be a coincidence. This season alone there is a clear difference

2w 2d 3l - 1.14 points per game on tv
14w 12d 2l - 1.93 points per game not on tv

Why? I don't know, attitudes? People thinking too much about a larger audience (potential for bigger teams to spot them and garner interest) and becoming distracted? Not adapting well to the different kick off time? Not reacting well to the TV dictated pre-match timing? Superstition and the knowledge that the team they are playing for have a bad history on tv? Football gods enjoy making us play bad when more palace fans can watch?

Or of course it could just be coincidence, but it it's an extraordinary one if so.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

A glorious day at Wembley beckons.

 

[pasty]

Having experienced a winning and losing final, on the whole I think I hate the play-offs.

Winning the play off final is the best way to get promoted. I'd rather go up via the play offs than automatic.

Losing the play off final, or worse, losing the semi's to "them" is by far and away the worst way to not get promoted. I'd rather finish 7th and miss out than lose at Wembley.