Opposition fans back from the game - 24/25 page 225 onwards

[Nameless]

Trying to create a siege mentality is fine with all the small club bollocks, but following a match with Reading it just sounds so transparent and a bit desperate.

I did enjoy the insinuation that we are a big club.....arguably we’re middling in this league. Save that shit for Forest, Sheffield, Norwich etc etc.

Indeed, bizarre from him. Does he realise we’ve spent the last few seasons at the other end of this division ? If anything it is us other teams will have been surprised to see up the top !
Smacked of a bit of a preplanned ‘motivation’ for his lads....

[Snowflake Royal]

Of the Championship teams we must be on one of the longer runs of top two tier seasons....

I make it 5th, but didn't check everyone.

Derby: 86 - present
M'bro: 87 - present
B'ham: 95 - present
Watford: 98 - present
Reading: 02 - present
Stoke: 02 - present
Cardiff: 03 - present
QPR: 04 - present

[Franchise FC]

Of the Championship teams we must be on one of the longer runs of top two tier seasons....

I make it 5th, but didn't check everyone.

Derby: 86 - present
M'bro: 87 - present
B'ham: 95 - present
Watford: 98 - present
Reading: 02 - present
Stoke: 02 - present
Cardiff: 03 - present
QPR: 04 - present

Cardiff 03 ?
Still 5th

[Snowflake Royal]

Of the Championship teams we must be on one of the longer runs of top two tier seasons....

I make it 5th, but didn't check everyone.

Derby: 86 - present
M'bro: 87 - present
B'ham: 95 - present
Watford: 98 - present
Reading: 02 - present
Stoke: 02 - present
Cardiff: 03 - present
QPR: 04 - present

Cardiff 03 ?
Still 5th

You've lost me on Cardiff, may well have missed something, but if I have I'm not sure what.

[skipper]

Of the Championship teams we must be on one of the longer runs of top two tier seasons....

I make it 5th, but didn't check everyone.

Derby: 86 - present
M'bro: 87 - present
B'ham: 95 - present
Watford: 98 - present
Reading: 02 - present
Stoke: 02 - present
Cardiff: 03 - present
QPR: 04 - present

Cardiff 03 ?
Still 5th

You've lost me on Cardiff, may well have missed something, but if I have I'm not sure what.

They got promoted from League 1 into the Championship in 2003. Beating QPR in the playoff final.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Would be interesting to see where we'd come out in an average league position table this century...I'd estimate around 25th to 30th, we'd probably be ahead of Leeds, Brighton and Sheff U currently in the prem, but there's a few sides out there that had quite a few years up there such as Bolton, Charlton, Wigan etc

[Snowflake Royal]

Cardiff 03 ?
Still 5th

You've lost me on Cardiff, may well have missed something, but if I have I'm not sure what.

They got promoted from League 1 into the Championship in 2003. Beating QPR in the playoff final.

Yes, so they've been in the second tier or higher since the 2003/04 season. So since 2003.

[Pockets]

Would be interesting to see where we'd come out in an average league position table this century...I'd estimate around 25th to 30th, we'd probably be ahead of Leeds, Brighton and Sheff U currently in the prem, but there's a few sides out there that had quite a few years up there such as Bolton, Charlton, Wigan etc

https://twitter.com/stevechu75/status/1 ... 18627?s=19

[Snowflake Royal]

Would be interesting to see where we'd come out in an average league position table this century...I'd estimate around 25th to 30th, we'd probably be ahead of Leeds, Brighton and Sheff U currently in the prem, but there's a few sides out there that had quite a few years up there such as Bolton, Charlton, Wigan etc

https://twitter.com/stevechu75/status/1 ... 18627?s=19

26th... nice estimate MSR!!

[CountryRoyal]

I liked this one

Nothing Reading have put forward shows me any different . We'll probably lose now in all likelihood, but no way they'll be in top 6 end of season. There a mid table side come the final curtain

I mean he might be right about us not finishing top 6 but mid table?

We could lose the rest of our games and probably allow Derby to play another 5 games on top, and we’d still finish above them.

Shouldn’t be surprised tbf they have a 7 page Rooney out thread that isn’t a wind up.

[CountryRoyal]

Watford very complimentary of us which, saying best team they’ve played all season, we will be tough to beat if we get to the playoffs etc etc

It’s easy to be complimentary of the opposition after you’ve beaten them ultimately fairly comfortably and are about to be promoted.

[Davezk]

Watford very complimentary of us which, saying best team they’ve played all season, we will be tough to beat if we get to the playoffs etc etc

It’s easy to be complimentary of the opposition after you’ve beaten them ultimately fairly comfortably and are about to be promoted.

Indeed let's see our metal if we make the playoffs- fingers crossed

[Snowflake Royal]

Watford very complimentary of us which, saying best team they’ve played all season, we will be tough to beat if we get to the playoffs etc etc

It’s easy to be complimentary of the opposition after you’ve beaten them ultimately fairly comfortably and are about to be promoted.

It is indeed. But you wouldn't see half the teams in the division doing it to us in the same circumstances.

Can you imagine a Forest or Wednesday fan saying that if they were second?

[bcubed]

Watford very complimentary of us which, saying best team they’ve played all season, we will be tough to beat if we get to the playoffs etc etc

It’s easy to be complimentary of the opposition after you’ve beaten them ultimately fairly comfortably and are about to be promoted.

It is indeed. But you wouldn't see half the teams in the division doing it to us in the same circumstances.

Can you imagine a Forest or Wednesday fan saying that if they were second?

Well quite

I'll take the plaudits when they come

[Sutekh]

No problem with Watford fans generally. See them pretty much like ourselves following a provincial club that’s had a bit but not really all that much success down the years and are fairly used to being put through the mill by the club.

[RoyalBlue]

No problem with Watford fans generally. See them pretty much like ourselves following a provincial club that’s had a bit but not really all that much success down the years and are fairly used to being put through the mill by the club.

Agreed. I've lived within 10 miles of Vicarage Road for many years and therefore have got to know numerous Watford fans pretty well. Generally a far better bunch than the Fake Hoop fans living in the area who, with a few exceptions, tend to be arrogant tossers, desperately trying to live off past glories. Our daughter also played for their Women's team for a few years so we got to know the club pretty well and the nice, family/community-orientated club image that they project is exactly what they are about.

However, I think they are now more a PL than Championship Club, evidenced by the way they were able to keep most of their squad post relegation, including a player worth £40M, and look likely to bounce straight back up. They've also managed to redevelop Vicarage Road over the past few years to make it more suited to top tier football.

[St Pauli]

No problem with Watford fans generally. See them pretty much like ourselves following a provincial club that’s had a bit but not really all that much success down the years and are fairly used to being put through the mill by the club.

Agreed. I've lived within 10 miles of Vicarage Road for many years and therefore have got to know numerous Watford fans pretty well. Generally a far better bunch than the Fake Hoop fans living in the area who, with a few exceptions, tend to be arrogant tossers, desperately trying to live off past glories. Our daughter also played for their Women's team for a few years so we got to know the club pretty well and the nice, family/community-orientated club image that they project is exactly what they are about.

However, I think they are now more a PL than Championship Club, evidenced by the way they were able to keep most of their squad post relegation, including a player worth £40M, and look likely to bounce straight back up. They've also managed to redevelop Vicarage Road over the past few years to make it more suited to top tier football.

Yeah +1.

Have a mate who lives in Brizzle who is a Watford fan. Was magnanimous yesterday and complimentary of Olise and Ejaria. Fair play to Watford as a club and fanbase.

[WestYorksRoyal]

No problem with Watford fans generally. See them pretty much like ourselves following a provincial club that’s had a bit but not really all that much success down the years and are fairly used to being put through the mill by the club.

Agreed. I've lived within 10 miles of Vicarage Road for many years and therefore have got to know numerous Watford fans pretty well. Generally a far better bunch than the Fake Hoop fans living in the area who, with a few exceptions, tend to be arrogant tossers, desperately trying to live off past glories. Our daughter also played for their Women's team for a few years so we got to know the club pretty well and the nice, family/community-orientated club image that they project is exactly what they are about.

However, I think they are now more a PL than Championship Club, evidenced by the way they were able to keep most of their squad post relegation, including a player worth £40M, and look likely to bounce straight back up. They've also managed to redevelop Vicarage Road over the past few years to make it more suited to top tier football.

I'm not sure. Our infrastructure off the pitch is comparable to theirs, and you could say the same for Palace and a couple of others too. These teams have just had some recent success and recruited well, like Stoke, Wigan, Bolton, Swansea and Blackburn did for a while. Realistically, they're only a few years of bad decision making from being at our level, and we're several years of good development behind them.

Most relegated sides can keep some of their best players for a year, but you have to go back up early otherwise you spend paying for it.

[morganb]

Has anyone had a look at the mood of the Barnsley fans after today's result - doom and gloom or still content as they are still in the play off places?

[Zip]

Has anyone had a look at the mood of the Barnsley fans after today's result - doom and gloom or still content as they are still in the play off places?

Mostly saying play offs are are still guaranteed