The team that finish 6th

[Jedi boro]

I am. If you finish 3rd you deserve to go up. If you finish 4th you don't

But that’s just not true though.

 

[Frozen Horse]

6th place could be Millwall on a bit of a stumble, or it could be Blackburn holding on by their finger tips.

 

[Jedi boro]

Semantics these days. You can play to finish 4th knowing you have an equal chance to go up as 3rd. That’s the way it is.

Exactly there’s no difference between 3 and 4 apart from opposition faced.

 

[Capybara]

And if you start playing silly games trying to select who you play in the playoffs, you really don't deserve to go up.

 

[Support Your Local Team]

Do 3rd and 4th both get the 2nd leg back at home?

If so, we want to finish 3rd or 4th I'd say.

 

[Jedi boro]

Do 3rd and 4th both get the 2nd leg back at home?

If so, we want to finish 3rd or 4th I'd say.

Yes as I say no difference at all.

3rd or 4th is all that matters

3-6
4-5

 

[Zoophonic]

And if you start playing silly games trying to select who you play in the playoffs, you really don't deserve to go up.

Who says that? As long as we have a second leg at home in the semi I really don’t care who we play.

 

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

Relax, don’t over think it

It really doesn’t matter who finishes where and who we play

At our best we will win the play offs
Below our best and we probably won’t

And the bit about ‘teams on a run’ doesn’t matter. Runs end and start all the time.
If we are cack from now to the play offs, still make then start a run - all will be well.

Definitely, momentum is a much overused word in sport I think.

 

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

I am. If you finish 3rd you deserve to go up. If you finish 4th you don't

I disagree with this, all teams know the rules when the season kicks off.

 

[Angus]

Play offs just have that lottery aspect to them, an unlucky deflection, a piece of individual brilliance or a poor piece of refereeing all can have a disproportionate season deciding result.

All we can do is make certain we qualify, then make sure we give a proper account of ourselves and then the rest may come down to who the gods are smiling on that day.

 

[newyddion]

Yes as I say no difference at all.

3rd or 4th is all that matters

3-6
4-5

 

[Billywindsorsgoingbald]

And if you start playing silly games trying to select who you play in the playoffs, you really don't deserve to go up.

We did back in 2015, we wanted to play Brentford and didn't try to get a winner in our final game

 

[exeterboro]

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I would take those 5 and 6ths as they are, we get 3500 from Millwall as an away allocation and 6000+ from Blackburn in the playoffs. If we get Coventry I think they limit us to 2000 after only giving them to 2000 in the final regular game and Norwich, WBA, and Sund will keep us at under 2000. Preston won't give us that end maybe 3500 in the playoffs.
From a football perspective we just have to get our attitude right on the days and I don't care who we play, funnily enough if we get to Wembley their big pitch might suit us and our out wide pacey players.

 

[newyddion]

I would take those 5 and 6ths as they are, we get 3500 from Millwall as an away allocation and 6000+ from Blackburn in the playoffs. If we get Coventry I think they limit us to 2000 after only giving them to 2000 in the final regular game and Norwich, WBA, and Sund will keep us at under 2000. Preston won't give us that end maybe 3500 in the playoffs.
From a football perspective we just have to get our attitude right on the days and I don't care who we play, funnily enough if we get to Wembley their big pitch might suit us and our out wide pacey players.

Boro vs Blackburn semi then a Luton Final?

 

[Davey_C]

Are going to be dangerous because whoever it is are going to have to go on a run to take that spot so are going to be on form going into the play offs.
Looking at the fixtures for the different teams I have a sneaky suspicion that West Brom might sneak in.

Sunderland and dangerous? Not their team thats for sure

 

[Davey_C]

I would take those 5 and 6ths as they are, we get 3500 from Millwall as an away allocation and 6000+ from Blackburn in the playoffs. If we get Coventry I think they limit us to 2000 after only giving them to 2000 in the final regular game and Norwich, WBA, and Sund will keep us at under 2000. Preston won't give us that end maybe 3500 in the playoffs.
From a football perspective we just have to get our attitude right on the days and I don't care who we play, funnily enough if we get to Wembley their big pitch might suit us and our out wide pacey players.

Rules are different in the playoffs you dont have to offer more than 2k to the away team if you dont want

 

[Boro_Interlinked]

Gonna add something different to the thoughts.

Pukki, 2( in 1 game) and B Brereton 3 goals since start of January. That's about 18 games each . Both of them are off from their clubs on a free at end of season. Neither have nailed on contracts with new clubs although they will know whats going on behind the scenes. Neither of these are busting a gut , in order to avoid an injury and both have been their clubs star attackers up to now. Whilst they can still score if found free in the box , I'd say unconcious bias about avoiding all inury is holding them back, consequently their clubs results have stalled. I can't see either of these 2 making the play offs , also because the rest of their team mates are also not free scoring. I have to go fro Coventry, if they can avoid defeat against Blackburn next game they then have 2 home games vs Reading and Birmingham. They also have 2nd best scorer in div after Akpom and he just scored 2 last match. They also lost only once in 12 games. So regardless they play us last game . If they don't lose to Blackburn , they could take that last spot

 

[parmoboy]

My gut feeling is it will be Milwall finishing 5th and Sunderland 6th.

Millwall have an easy run-in on paper and Sunderland are now just going all out to win each game and do have some good attacking players, meaning they're going to score goals.

 

[the_holgate_roof]

Luton in the playoffs will be the big test!

But if we manage to beat them in the league down there, what a edge that would give us?

 

[exeterboro]

Rules are different in the playoffs you dont have to offer more than 2k to the away team if you dont want

I know that's why I put the teams who I think will give us more than 2k, possibly Millwall for the playoff might not give us 3500 but it's potentially there at the moment, yesterday they had Millwall fans in the same stand as Preston fans which they definitely won't do for the playoffs.