The Football League Thread

Don't you think it'd be a little sad to finally be leaving the Rochdale League, though? You've been there for decades, after all

Edging slowly to automatic promotion, hoping each game the team doesn't **** up

To be the first pub team to get to the Premier League would be unreal.

Sheffield Wednesday are the first club to have built a 'social networking' site for Wednesday fans

It is pretty certain that you will go up now. It is just a case of when that will be. Sort of a shame from a selfish point of view as I would've liked another trip to SJP next season, a truly awesome football ground. From what I've seen I think it's fair to say though that Newcastle have not been the world beaters that a lot of idiot pundits predicted but they have been efficient and got results even when not playing well, very similar to Birmingham last season and look at them now. Regardless of having the most expensive squad in the league by a fair margin Newcastle have shown great character to be where they are now. They could easily have crumbled under huge pressure and expectation and Hughton has so far has proven a lot of people wrong about his ability to manage this expectation.

Hope we can throw a spanner in the works next Tuesday and go on to win the playoffs. Unlikely but who knows? I was going to say that stranger things have happened but being honest I would probably wrong. To be the first pub team to get to the Premier League would be unreal.

That is what happens when clear cut chances aren't taken. Should have been 3-0 up at half time but fair play to the blades, they came out second half and dominated it though they didn't create much for all the posession and balls launched into the box. Unfortunately they got the goal that their pressure deserved at the end to deny us the win. Shame we couldn't hang on. Bring on Newcastle on Tuesday with Billy back to (hopefully) convert the chances.

I heard we were awful in the first half. They must have got a telling off at half time for the second half to be so different. Did our new keeper have much to do, if so did he look ok? I've always rated him.

Simonsen looked decent, off the top of my head I can remember two good saves that he made and was pretty solid. Blades came out fighting second half and worked really hard especially Montgomery. I think we tried to sit back on the lead and soak up the pressure but we couldn't hold out unfortunately for us. I now think the playoffs are beyond us both now with Cardiff winning today and us sharing the points yesterday.

You might laugh, but Reading are still in with a chance of play-offs, especially with our games in hand

Under McDermott we've won 8 out of the last 9 and arguably have the strongest midfield in the whole league. I don't see why we couldn't scrape a 6th finish.

Then again, it was only a few months ago we were 4 points adrift in the relegation zone.... lets not do a Brendan Rodgers and get carried away with ourselves!