| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs 19:29 - Feb 13 with 1055 views | LondonSaint76 |
The Football League are holding an EGM - Extraordinary General Meeting - of the 72 FL Clubs on March 5th to vote on a proposal to expand the current format of the Championship Play-Offs for next season from 4 to 6 Clubs. This would mean the 7th & 8th placed finishers getting to join the Play-Off lottery.
As I understand it, 8th would play 5th in a one-off ‘eliminator’ game staged at the home ground of the 5th placed team. Likewise, 7th would play 6th at the 6th placed team’s home ground. After that, it reverts to the current format with whoever is left. Think I am right in saying this would mirror the National League’s current Play-Off structure.
Anyway, keep an eye out for the result of the vote in March 5th - as I understand it, this is only for the Championship starting next season, not L1 or L2 which will mean all three FL Divisions would have different promotion & relegation criteria.
Be interested to see what others think about this. |  | | |  |
| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 19:37 - Feb 13 with 1016 views | shotters |
I'm sure it will get voted through, if you were a chairman why wouldn't you?
Personally speaking it seems rather absurd that a team finishing 8th could get promoted at the end of the season, but at lot of the decisions nowadays just leave me feeling more and more disconnected from the game in general |  |
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| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 19:48 - Feb 13 with 982 views | HytheFerrytales |
All it really does is give the 8th placed team chance to fluke their way to Wembley and then beat the team that finished 3rd, a mere 24 points above them, in the regular season.
That was the Sheff U/Millwall gap last year. |  | | |
| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 19:49 - Feb 13 with 965 views | kingslandstand1 |
Awful idea. So someone who finishes 8th could go up before someone who finishes 3rd. It's bad enough as it is despite the excitement it causes. It's the principle for me that just because you may have had a bum run towards the end of the season you sh1t out, whereas a just about scrape in to 8th and you make it |  |
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| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 19:50 - Feb 13 with 961 views | kingslandstand1 |
| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 19:48 - Feb 13 by HytheFerrytales |
All it really does is give the 8th placed team chance to fluke their way to Wembley and then beat the team that finished 3rd, a mere 24 points above them, in the regular season.
That was the Sheff U/Millwall gap last year. |
That's where I was coming from, but no doubt it'll be a money maker for someone at the fans expense | |
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| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 20:00 - Feb 13 with 959 views | shotters |
| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 19:50 - Feb 13 by kingslandstand1 |
That's where I was coming from, but no doubt it'll be a money maker for someone at the fans expense |
Just gives Wrexham a better chance of getting promoted
I think those in power in the prem are desperate to see them at the top table, just think of all of those "soccer" fans in the US and the money that can be made from Hollywood FC | |
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| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 20:08 - Feb 13 with 943 views | HytheFerrytales |
| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 19:50 - Feb 13 by kingslandstand1 |
That's where I was coming from, but no doubt it'll be a money maker for someone at the fans expense |
Yep...that's what it is...from a pure reward for a great season it probably would be right just to allow 3 play 4. That ain't happening. I vaguely recall that did happen in some European leagues in the past.
Also didn't some leagues have relegation play offs where the highest team in the traditional relegation slot got to play the team above them to decide the last team going down? | | | |
| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 07:44 - Feb 14 with 707 views | saintmark1976 |
It’s not April the first is it ? | |
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| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 10:12 - Feb 14 with 655 views | davidargyll |
The presumption must be that somehow or other the current system is unfair to the chasing pack, which is arguable at best. Don't really see it myself, the implication being that the 7th or 8th club may be able to hack it in the PL, which given the current situation with promoted teams is fanciful, to put it mildly.
i suppose it will mean more ticket sales at the end of the season but cannot see any other plus points. | | | |
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| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 21:05 - Feb 14 with 500 views | NYC_Saint |
In the US the playoffs across baseball, nfl and nba have all been expanded over the last 5 - 10 years. It creates more games and more revenue opportunities. Typically the teams limping into playoffs in the expanded formats are cannon fodder for the stronger teams.
The interesting scenario here though would be an 8th place team would only have to win two games and on two game aggregate semi final to make it to the premier league. That's not totally impossible, especially if they have a late surge in form getting them into eighth at the end of the season: However, an eighth placed championship team would be destroyed in the premier league. So I'm not sure it really makes sense. | | | |
| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 12:15 - Feb 15 with 338 views | arfurdent |
| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 21:05 - Feb 14 by NYC_Saint |
In the US the playoffs across baseball, nfl and nba have all been expanded over the last 5 - 10 years. It creates more games and more revenue opportunities. Typically the teams limping into playoffs in the expanded formats are cannon fodder for the stronger teams.
The interesting scenario here though would be an 8th place team would only have to win two games and on two game aggregate semi final to make it to the premier league. That's not totally impossible, especially if they have a late surge in form getting them into eighth at the end of the season: However, an eighth placed championship team would be destroyed in the premier league. So I'm not sure it really makes sense. |
but would third or fourth placed teams do any better? Basically the prize is the parachute payments. |  |
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| Clubs to vote on expanding the Play-Offs to 6 Clubs on 14:55 - Feb 15 with 288 views | sledger |
the fa need to spark up some interest as the premier league is a borefest with the six entitled clubs dominating the top places and the rest trying to get enough points to stay on the gravy train | | | |
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