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[Football] The Championship this midweek



Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
55,575
Back in Sussex
The top five are all at home on Tuesday night:

Birmingham v Nottm Forest
Brighton v Rotherham
Burnley v MK Dons
Cardiff v Hull
Charlton v Huddersfield
Leeds v Ipswich
Middlesbrough v Brentford
Preston v Bristol City
Bolton v Sheff Wed
Reading v Derby

QPR v Blackburn (Wednesday)

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fleet

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Jul 28, 2003
12,222
It looks like such an easy game to extend our lead at the top - so why does that worry me?
 




TSB

Captain Hindsight
Jul 7, 2003
17,666
Lansdowne Place, Hove
Because there is no such thing as an easy game in the Championship and we are due a poor performance....

We were pretty crap against Blackburn and Huddersfield but got four points.
I reckon we're due a huge dose of bad luck and a scoring blank..

...But I think that'll come at Bolton.
 


Wrong-Direction

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Mar 10, 2013
13,395
I feel a 1-0 loss coming, but that's just because I'm still hungover, I'll go for a 3-0 stuffing to the good guys!
 






highway61

New member
Jun 30, 2009
2,628
Reading v derby will be interesting one
 






Simster

"the man's an arse"
Jul 7, 2003
54,110
Surrey
Another MoM performance from Chris O'Grady then please.

He could turn himself into an Albion legend yet!
 


casbom

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Jul 24, 2007
2,581
Rotherham are yet to win a league game...

We are yet to concede a goal at the Amex...

We have scored in every game we've played this season....

Something surely has to give!
 


Machiavelli

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Oct 11, 2013
16,560
Fiveways
Rotherham are yet to win a league game...

We are yet to concede a goal at the Amex...

We have scored in every game we've played this season....

Something surely has to give!

We have scored first in every game we've played this season. Not sure why something has to give in the Rotherham game. But it will at some point. Let's enjoy it while it lasts.
 




pasty

A different kind of pasty
Jul 5, 2003
30,179
West, West, West Sussex
Mental that after just six matches, even we lose and every other result goes against us, we'll still be top!
 




Danny-Boy

Banned
Apr 21, 2009
5,579
The Coast
Interesting that the Championship has more unbeaten teams than any of the other divisions right now. Could this season buck the trend ?

Hell of a load of draws though already. Maybe the "3 Points for a Win" formula is finally wearing off. I remember how awful it was before that came in.:facepalm:
 




sdmartin1

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Sep 23, 2008
1,258
Interesting that the Championship has more unbeaten teams than any of the other divisions right now. Could this season buck the trend ?

I think that emphasizes the point that this division is so tight, although there are more teams unbeaten there are so many draws where neither side is better than the other on the day. Steve Bruce summed it up pretty well post match on Saturday. A lot of games can be settled by one mistake or one bit of quality. All the games we've won so far have been by a one goal margin.
 




CP 0 3 BHA

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Nov 28, 2003
2,256
Northants
It's a bit like that home game against Barnsley a couple of years ago - we were on a good run, they were bottom, had just sacked their manager - and the inevitable happened.
 


Gully Forever

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May 9, 2011
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Because there is no such thing as an easy game in the Championship and we are due a poor performance....

Well, i hope the game against Hull wasn't classed as a really good performance, because The pundits are claiming that hull dominated most of the 2nd half. And totally Shite in the 1st!.
 




Stat Brother

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Jul 11, 2003
73,375
West west west Sussex
On Saturday there was a quiet period in the second half when The Albion were getting bogged down and it felt like the team needed reminding:-

"we are top of the league".

It'll be good to keep reminding Rotherham just how up against it they will be tomorrow.
 


el punal

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Hate playing the teams in the relegation zone. They're always gonna put up a fight.

That generally happens towards the end of the season, when desperation takes over. Having said that, I agree with you on this one. Look at us last January when we played Ipswich, we were 19th and they could have gone top if they had beaten us. We turned in probably the best performance of the season and won 3-2. It's a funny, old game Saint.
 



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