| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs 16:45 - Feb 10 with 8210 views | dmm |
EFL clubs will next month vote on an expansion of the Championship playoffs to six teams after being given approval to pursue the radical change by the Football Association’s board. https://www.theguardian.com/fo
Do we really need any more football matches? |  | | |  |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 10:11 - Feb 11 with 1635 views | terryb |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 09:10 - Feb 11 by TheChef |
Exactly.
And another case of taking something that works perfectly fine, and breaking it.
Getting to the point I'd watch more Isthmian League matches given the choice, if only the pitches had a chance to dry out... |
The problem with the Isthmian League (Souuthern & Northern Premier also) is that only two teams are promoted. The champions & play off winners. I'd have a lot more sympathy for the National League's three up campaign if they extended the same to the leagues below them.
I assume that any expansion in the Championship would be applied to League One & League Two. I still can't understand why League Two still promotes four teams.
It is a no from me, but I'm certain that it will be implemented. |  | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 10:37 - Feb 11 with 1557 views | DannyPaddox |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 22:51 - Feb 10 by Match82 |
Doesn't the Scottish League have some weird things like that? |
The Scottish Leagues are to vote soon to see if they want goal-difference introduced to separate teams level on points at the end of a season rather than the current system of the divination and interpretation of charred chicken bones. |  | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 11:30 - Feb 11 with 1448 views | Spaceman_P |
Nah mate |  | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 12:14 - Feb 11 with 1372 views | Juzzie |
So when this is implemented, then what? What's the next great idea that they'll come up with? (because they will)
How far down the table can they go before it become even more ridiculous? At this rate Sheff Weds might have a chance of promotion. |  | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 12:31 - Feb 11 with 1347 views | kensalriser |
Maths isn’t my strong suit, so I’d be intrigued to see someone’s workings to demonstrate how this could improve the chances of promotion when the number of teams promoted via the playoffs stays the same. [Post edited 11 Feb 12:31]
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| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 12:45 - Feb 11 with 1323 views | DannyPaddox |
We’re talking 2 (TWO) extra fixtures in the season and if they made the play off semi-final one leg we’re talking no extra fixtures. Currently if you finish in the top quarter of the league you’re in the play-offs. The new system would mean if you finish in the top third of the league you’re in the play-offs. Adds a scintilla more randomness to what is already a random league. To be honest I’m not too bothered either way on this but there’s some hysterical reaction against it on this thread. | | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 12:47 - Feb 11 with 1316 views | Mick_S |
How about this chuffin’ bonkers idea:
The top 3 teams go up; ie the three best teams. Like the 3 worst teams come down.
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| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 12:49 - Feb 11 with 1311 views | TheChef |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 12:47 - Feb 11 by Mick_S |
How about this chuffin’ bonkers idea:
The top 3 teams go up; ie the three best teams. Like the 3 worst teams come down.
I’m ahead of my time. |
Utter woke nonsense. |  |
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| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 13:20 - Feb 11 with 1247 views | slmrstid |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 10:11 - Feb 11 by terryb |
The problem with the Isthmian League (Souuthern & Northern Premier also) is that only two teams are promoted. The champions & play off winners. I'd have a lot more sympathy for the National League's three up campaign if they extended the same to the leagues below them.
I assume that any expansion in the Championship would be applied to League One & League Two. I still can't understand why League Two still promotes four teams.
It is a no from me, but I'm certain that it will be implemented. |
"I'd have a lot more sympathy for the National League's three up campaign if they extended the same to the leagues below them"
To be fair they do relegate quite a lot of teams, but as they start feeding into the regional leagues its natural that the leagues below will have less teams coming up when the next level splits into 3/4 separate leagues, as otherwise the maths just doesn't work and you'll be relegating a third of the league to give the leagues below more promotion spots! |  | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 13:30 - Feb 11 with 1228 views | DannyPaddox |
I’ll throw this one into the ring. Serie B in Italy do a similar thing as to what is being proposed eg. Top 2 automatic with 3rd to 8th having a play-off. BUT if there’s a gap of 14 or more points between 3rd & 4th then 3rd goes up automatically and there are no … repeat no play-offs. | | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 13:31 - Feb 11 with 1227 views | jonath1 |
The Italian leagues have deep play offs for both promotion and relegation. Perugia, my Italian team ( you don't have one?) have gone both up and down quite often via them. I quite like it, as it maintains interest longer onto the season, but I understand the reasons against.
Money distribution between leagues, and maybe a wages cap, feel more pressing to me. | | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 13:46 - Feb 11 with 1188 views | KensalT |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 13:30 - Feb 11 by DannyPaddox |
I’ll throw this one into the ring. Serie B in Italy do a similar thing as to what is being proposed eg. Top 2 automatic with 3rd to 8th having a play-off. BUT if there’s a gap of 14 or more points between 3rd & 4th then 3rd goes up automatically and there are no … repeat no play-offs. |
Has it ever panned out that way?
Serie B is a 20 team league. A 14 point gap from 3rd to 4th can't happen very often | | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 16:31 - Feb 11 with 1046 views | JohnBurkeQPR |
Can they make it so they can expand it to 16th? | | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 16:40 - Feb 11 with 1021 views | LongsufferingR |
Obviously the PL will never go for it but I'd like to see us go back to how it used to be with the side finishing one above the relegation spots in PL joining in with the sides finishing 3,4 and 5 in the Championship. That was how Chelsea hilariously got relegated in 1988 |  | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 16:51 - Feb 11 with 984 views | Ned_Kennedys |
From a QPR point of view you vote in favour.
Very very unlikely we will finish top 2 and big odds in finishing top 4 either whereas lower playoffs is more realistic based on our finances and finishes over the last decade.
So a big incentive for finishing 7th or 8th is a positive as far as I can see and benefits QPR. |  | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 16:51 - Feb 11 with 982 views | nick_hammersmith |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 13:30 - Feb 11 by DannyPaddox |
I’ll throw this one into the ring. Serie B in Italy do a similar thing as to what is being proposed eg. Top 2 automatic with 3rd to 8th having a play-off. BUT if there’s a gap of 14 or more points between 3rd & 4th then 3rd goes up automatically and there are no … repeat no play-offs. |
Imagine if it was 13pts that year and you lost in the playoffs, to the team in 8th!
You'd go mental!!! |  | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 16:57 - Feb 11 with 967 views | slmrstid |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 13:46 - Feb 11 by KensalT |
Has it ever panned out that way?
Serie B is a 20 team league. A 14 point gap from 3rd to 4th can't happen very often |
The rule used to be 10 points or more and in 2006-07 Napoli and Genoa played out a very convenient 0-0 draw on the final day of the season to be promoted in 2nd and 3rd and be 10 points ahead of 4th place Piacenza.
Nothing untoward about it I am sure.
That was the season Juventus were in Serie B too from the Calciopoli scandal.
There were 22 teams in the league that year too. | | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 16:58 - Feb 11 with 965 views | Northernr |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 16:51 - Feb 11 by Ned_Kennedys |
From a QPR point of view you vote in favour.
Very very unlikely we will finish top 2 and big odds in finishing top 4 either whereas lower playoffs is more realistic based on our finances and finishes over the last decade.
So a big incentive for finishing 7th or 8th is a positive as far as I can see and benefits QPR. |
Of course, true, although as Steve points out higher up we still wouldn't have made it once in the last ten years.
In fact, since we were relegated from the Prem in 1996, we have played 23 seasons at this level and finished 8th or above on two occasions - 1st in 2010/11 and 4th in 2013/14 which were both good enough for promotion under the current set up. |  | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 17:39 - Feb 11 with 897 views | KensalT |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 16:51 - Feb 11 by Ned_Kennedys |
From a QPR point of view you vote in favour.
Very very unlikely we will finish top 2 and big odds in finishing top 4 either whereas lower playoffs is more realistic based on our finances and finishes over the last decade.
So a big incentive for finishing 7th or 8th is a positive as far as I can see and benefits QPR. |
Where will this extra round of games be squeezed into an already packed schedule?
And will fans really want it if it means more 3-game weeks?
There's a discussion trending on Twitter about all the empty seats at PL games this week:
"Empty Seats Spark Fan Anger at Midweek Premier League Matches
Visible empty seats appeared during this week's midweek Premier League fixtures at venues like Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (59,773 of 62,850) and Everton's new Hill Dickinson Stadium (around 50,196), despite overall high attendance averages over 41,000. Fans blame steep ticket prices of £55-£75, grueling schedules like five-hour drives home at 2-3am, clashing TV slots, and winter timing for turning people away. While season ticket lists remain long and away tickets cap at £30, supporters call for price freezes amid cost-of-living pressures and question if the league prioritizes broadcasters over its loyal crowds." [Post edited 11 Feb 17:49]
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| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 17:48 - Feb 11 with 873 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Plus, if a team finishing eighth in the Championship ever did manage to go up via the PO, could you imagine how shite they'd be in the Prem.
They'd be guaranteed a relegation spot and the only question would be: could they avoid the lowest points total. |  |
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| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 18:14 - Feb 11 with 807 views | daveB |
I can see where they are coming from on this, the difference in quality between 6th and 8th is not usually a lot and gives more teams a chance of going up especially when 3 of the top 6 is usually filled by parachute teams.
It'll never happen but if you did 4 up 4 down you could have top 3 go up and then an extended playoffs which feels slightly fairer.
I'm intrigued by it but I was intrigued by VAR and that's been proven to be a shitshow so I'm inclined to say leave it as it is. |  | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 19:32 - Feb 11 with 698 views | Ned_Kennedys |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 17:39 - Feb 11 by KensalT |
Where will this extra round of games be squeezed into an already packed schedule?
And will fans really want it if it means more 3-game weeks?
There's a discussion trending on Twitter about all the empty seats at PL games this week:
"Empty Seats Spark Fan Anger at Midweek Premier League Matches
Visible empty seats appeared during this week's midweek Premier League fixtures at venues like Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (59,773 of 62,850) and Everton's new Hill Dickinson Stadium (around 50,196), despite overall high attendance averages over 41,000. Fans blame steep ticket prices of £55-£75, grueling schedules like five-hour drives home at 2-3am, clashing TV slots, and winter timing for turning people away. While season ticket lists remain long and away tickets cap at £30, supporters call for price freezes amid cost-of-living pressures and question if the league prioritizes broadcasters over its loyal crowds." [Post edited 11 Feb 17:49]
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There’s would only be two extra games in total at the end of the season (7th/8th plays away at 5th/6th) so no disruption to the normal 46 game season at all. | | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 19:55 - Feb 11 with 666 views | daveB |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 19:32 - Feb 11 by Ned_Kennedys |
There’s would only be two extra games in total at the end of the season (7th/8th plays away at 5th/6th) so no disruption to the normal 46 game season at all. |
It's basically like the NFL where you have playoffs to get into the playoffs | | | |
| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 20:55 - Feb 11 with 559 views | PunteR |
Would Remy still be available for the playoffs? |  |
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| EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs on 22:21 - Feb 11 with 483 views | kensalriser |
Probably, but you'd need to coax him out of retirement. He's 39 now, so barely older than Steve Cook. | |
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