Play-Offs

[annie1954]

Please don’t remind me of that Grimsby match. The buggers ran on the pitch and the ref bottled it and blew for FT too early.

I will never forget that game

 

[Barling Magna]

Yes of course, silly of me to forget. I suppose the word soccer was derived from 'Association Football', a term that distinguished it from Rugby Football, the sport of gentlemen!

Ah, I never heard that. Makes sense though. Although perhaps soccer should be pronounced sosher?

 

[WestyReturns]

Pretty incredible the last few weeks we've gone on a good run and some of our competition has fallen apart. Suddenly this has become really possible. Even York and FGRs form has nosedived.

 

[londonblue]

Always good when a nearby tram loses points.

No it's not. It usually leads to a derailment.

 

[Realist]

A win Tuesday against a Boston side who lost 4-1 yesterday and rochdale lose to York and we will be in the play off positions. Rochdale obviously have games in hand but have to win them.

Gateshead look shot to bits. They've taken like 2 points out of the last 30!

Altrincham have suspensions and key players injured.

A real test of credentials will be this week against a team fighting for their lives and against a team who want a top 4 finish.

No they have taken 8 from the last possible 30.

The reason Gateheads been so bad is because they lost two of the best players from the starting line up, the main goal scorer and their best midfielder. Silly decision tbh.

 

[RHB]

No they have taken 8 from the last possible 30.

The reason Gateheads been so bad is because they lost two of the best players from the starting line up, the main goal scorer and their best midfielder. Silly decision tbh.

The irony here is that we lost, not two, but three of our best players from our starting line up. Even with handicap we are still chasing down Gateshead.

 

[SouthendSpence]

No they have taken 8 from the last possible 30.

The reason Gateheads been so bad is because they lost two of the best players from the starting line up, the main goal scorer and their best midfielder. Silly decision tbh.

And more recently, 1 out of possible 18.

I don’t know the details but with an average gate of 1,190 perhaps they needed to cash in while they could?

 

[Strykr]

And more recently, 1 out of possible 18.

I don’t know the details but with an average gate of 1,190 perhaps they needed to cash in while they could?

Loanee recall wasnt it?

 

[Bratislava Blue]

Fans fear for Shay deal - The Non-League Football Paper

FC Halifax Town could lose a shot at the EFL amid plans for a second rugby league club to play at The Shay.

www.thenonleaguefootballpaper.com

I don't have access to the full story but the headline doesn’t read well for one of our play off contenders.

 

[ColinMorrisWalksOnWater]

It's all over the back page of the NLP.

Long story short:

Calderdale Council, who own the ground have agreed to sell the ground and the owner wants them to share the ground with two Rugby League clubs, meaning the ground would be shared between three clubs.

Three is the crucial part as this breaks EFL rules and would prevent them from being promoted should they win the play offs or win the NL in future years.

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

Interesting how the use of language changes and evolves. Back in the 50s I always had the annual 'Boy's Book of Soccer' as a Christmas present and it was a British annual of course. I don't think the Americans had ever heard of it back then.

@blues exile It is, 'cos I'd always thought of Soccer as an Americanism. But somewhere on SZ there is a picture of a large advertising hoarding between the East Stand and the big old South Bank advertising 'soccer' coverage in the Southend Standard (if memory serves me).

I'm sure someone will know which thread it's on, probably the Memory Lane one?

EDIT: Sorry forgot which thread I was on!

 

[Rob1920]

No they have taken 8 from the last possible 30.

The reason Gateheads been so bad is because they lost two of the best players from the starting line up, the main goal scorer and their best midfielder. Silly decision tbh.

Funny what that does to a team. Specially when your star centre back also kills his career.. hence our abysmal form early in the season.

 

[Somerset Ex-TTB]

Any statto’s on here know how far away from the play offs we were after 38 games last season? I reckon we are nearer this year.

 

[Barling Magna]

• Saturday at 7:50 AM

Today's requirements in priority order:

1. Shrimpers must beat Eastleigh.

2. Tamworth must not lose at Gateshead, and preferably win.

3. Barnet must defeat Altrincham.

4. Oldham and Halifax must draw.

5. Must take my cat to the vet.


That went well, except the vet said my cat Molly has a broken bone in one of her back paws - a broken metatarsal would you believe. She will now be renamed Molly Beckham.

 

[Smiffy]

Any statto’s on here know how far away from the play offs we were after 38 games last season? I reckon we are nearer this year.

After 38 games last season we were 7th with 60 points. So we were 4 points better off last season. Not including the 10 point deduction of course.

 

[Blues4LifeDan]

• Saturday at 7:50 AM

Today's requirements in priority order:

1. Shrimpers must beat Eastleigh.

2. Tamworth must not lose at Gateshead, and preferably win.

3. Barnet must defeat Altrincham.

4. Oldham and Halifax must draw.

5. Must take my cat to the vet.


That went well, except the vet said my cat Molly has a broken bone in one of her back paws - a broken metatarsal would you believe. She will now be renamed Molly Beckham.

Have you got this week's lottery numbers mate?

 

[Barling Magna]

After 38 games last season we were 7th with 60 points. So we were 4 points better off last season. Not including the 10 point deduction of course.

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That looks as though it does not include the 10 point deduction?

17 wins = 51 points and 9 draws = 9 points. Total 60 points. Minus 10 = 50 points.

We gained 15 points from our last 8 games finishing on 65 points.

15 points from our last 8 games this season would give us 71 points. Enough for the 7th place? Perhaps....

 

[Somerset Ex-TTB]

That looks as though it does not include the 10 point deduction?

17 wins = 51 points and 9 draws = 9 points. Total 60 points. Minus 10 = 50 points.

We gained 15 points from our last 8 games finishing on 65 points.

15 points from our last 8 games this season would give us 71 points. Enough for the 7th place? Perhaps....

This makes more sense and from what I remember, that we came from much further behind. So after 38 games last year we were 8 points adrift, as we would have had 50 points, and Altrincham would of been in 7th place with 58.

We are currently just the 1 point off and surprisingly only 4 points worse off (excluding the 10 point deduction)

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

15 points from our last 8 games this season would give us 71 points. Enough for the 7th place? Perhaps....

How does one get 15 points from 8 games I thought.

Win 5 lose 3 of course - that would answer the quesion of whether we can expect to go unbeaten for the remainder of the normal season.

After that the calculations get a bit more tricky.

Win 4 say (12 points) draw 3 lose 1? Sounds tough.

These are the only two combinations that I can come up with.

If we win 3 (9 points) & 5 draws then that only equals 14 points.

This highlights to me the need for other teams to continue to trip up to give us some "room to manouevre".

Of course I am happy with our current postion but that doesn't stop me from wishing that a couple of those recent draws had been wins.

 

[Somerset Ex-TTB]

Given our recent form, I don't think 4 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat is impossible, or even 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats to be honest (16 points). Looking at our fixture list.

You would hope we will win against Braintree, Ebbsfleet, Solihull and Wealdstone, with 3 of those being at home and Ebbsfleet away.

That leaves Boston, Oldham, Sutton and Gateshead. Getting 1 win and 1 draw and 2 defeats from those 4 doesn't seem impossible, especially with Sutton, and Gateshead's form.

Obviously football doesn't work like that at all though!