| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:24 - Feb 10 with 1356 views | Pippin1970 |
No thanks. |  | |  |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:39 - Feb 10 with 1257 views | ZapatasMoustache |
Article makes it sound virtually a done deal. I suppose it doesn't hurt the teams in 3rd and 4th - on average it should reduce the quality of the opposition (and they would be more tired) - but it does seem daft to be giving a team finishing 8th a chance of promotion. The Championship is very internally competitive, but it's really not producing Prem-plausible teams that low down the table. |  | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:46 - Feb 10 with 1202 views | TJS |
The proper way to do it would be to scrap second legs altogether.
Match day 1
5th at home to 8th
6th at home to 7th
Match day 2
3rd at home to lowest ranked team remaining from match day 1
4th at home to highest ranked team remaining from match day 1
Final at Wembley
This would effectively give some sort of additional benefit for every place achieved higher than 8th. |  | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:54 - Feb 10 with 1123 views | BouncebackIpswich |
Terrible idea IMO, would be all done for entertainment but it could well lead to teams going up that have no chance of staying up at all, potentially more Luton's that will be worse off for going up. |  | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:54 - Feb 10 with 1134 views | Radlett_blue |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:39 - Feb 10 by ZapatasMoustache |
Article makes it sound virtually a done deal. I suppose it doesn't hurt the teams in 3rd and 4th - on average it should reduce the quality of the opposition (and they would be more tired) - but it does seem daft to be giving a team finishing 8th a chance of promotion. The Championship is very internally competitive, but it's really not producing Prem-plausible teams that low down the table. |
100% agree but almost every sporting body jumps at anything that brings in more income (and more games). |  |
| |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:59 - Feb 10 with 1089 views | TJS |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:54 - Feb 10 by BouncebackIpswich |
Terrible idea IMO, would be all done for entertainment but it could well lead to teams going up that have no chance of staying up at all, potentially more Luton's that will be worse off for going up. |
I’d still prefer to stick with current format. Top six is enough to keep interest going for most top half sides until about March. | | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:02 - Feb 10 with 1073 views | Swansea_Blue |
As long as they don’t do that weird thing they do in Scotland that I still don’t understand |  |
| |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:09 - Feb 10 with 1006 views | Illinoisblue |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:02 - Feb 10 by Swansea_Blue |
As long as they don’t do that weird thing they do in Scotland that I still don’t understand |
This. Scotland prem is the most Mickey Mouse tinpot league of all with that ridiculous split they do. |  |
| |
Login to get fewer ads
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:10 - Feb 10 with 1006 views | SitfcB |
‘The EFL is understood to have gained the backing of its rights holder Sky Sports‘
Of course they have.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Just another money making exercise. |  |
| |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:11 - Feb 10 with 989 views | J2BLUE |
The Championship is perfectly balanced. Nine teams get rewarded or face relegation. Many more have something to play for right up to the 46th game. There is zero reason to bring this in apart from money.
Sporting bodies need to be careful not to devalue the product. For example, I love the group stages of international tournaments, but the best third placed nonsense makes the group stages fairly pointless. Sometimes less is more. |  |
| |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:12 - Feb 10 with 973 views | algy |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:54 - Feb 10 by Radlett_blue |
100% agree but almost every sporting body jumps at anything that brings in more income (and more games). |
And that's what it's all about - money. It will mean fewer "meaningless" matches with teams in with a chance of promotion for longer. Hate the term used, to me every football match has meaning and is worth winning (and attending where possible), regardless of the consequences. But it's designed to increase attendances overall as some will be more likely to attend and satisfy the armchairs watching sky increasing viewing figures and ad revenue for them. It's a league competition, everyone plays every other team home and away and the points gained determine position and ups and downs. That's how it was when I started, pity it ever changed. | |
| Never forget that for ITFC the game changed in April 2021. |
| |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:12 - Feb 10 with 970 views | TJS |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:02 - Feb 10 by Swansea_Blue |
As long as they don’t do that weird thing they do in Scotland that I still don’t understand |
I think that weird split thing was designed on the assumption of it ever only being a two horse race in Scotland and is finally going to cause problems this season. | | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:22 - Feb 10 with 908 views | Parky |
Football is almost dead, another step towards killing it. | | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:30 - Feb 10 with 835 views | quirkie |
I got an idea, lets expand the play offs to 24 teams, and let each team play each other home and away over 9 months and the top 3 get promoted.
Simples. |  |
| |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:31 - Feb 10 with 825 views | Sharkey |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:11 - Feb 10 by J2BLUE |
The Championship is perfectly balanced. Nine teams get rewarded or face relegation. Many more have something to play for right up to the 46th game. There is zero reason to bring this in apart from money.
Sporting bodies need to be careful not to devalue the product. For example, I love the group stages of international tournaments, but the best third placed nonsense makes the group stages fairly pointless. Sometimes less is more. |
I don't think it would be a bad idea to have four up four down between the Championship and L1, as with L1 and L2. (I don't expect many people will agree.) |  | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:32 - Feb 10 with 821 views | PhilsAngels |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:46 - Feb 10 by TJS |
The proper way to do it would be to scrap second legs altogether.
Match day 1
5th at home to 8th
6th at home to 7th
Match day 2
3rd at home to lowest ranked team remaining from match day 1
4th at home to highest ranked team remaining from match day 1
Final at Wembley
This would effectively give some sort of additional benefit for every place achieved higher than 8th. |
That's very American.
However I say go back to three up three down | |
| |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:32 - Feb 10 with 820 views | Scuzzer |
Why change something that is working perfectly well?
Garbage. |  |
| |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:36 - Feb 10 with 799 views | Stourbridgeblue |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:02 - Feb 10 by Swansea_Blue |
As long as they don’t do that weird thing they do in Scotland that I still don’t understand |
That's called highland dancing and yes - it is weird ! |  |
| |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:41 - Feb 10 with 768 views | bsw72 |
Imagine how well the 8th best team in the championship will get on in the Premier League.
It’s almost like money is the be all and end all in professional football these days, surely not?!? |  | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:50 - Feb 10 with 709 views | armchaircritic59 |
Just when you think the powers that be have come up with enough total stupidity, they just keep outdoing themselves. Hey, why not scrap the league altogether and just have a series of knock out matches? If it was up to me I'd scrap the playoffs altogether, top 3 go up automatically, that's it. Award success and consistency over failure. | | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:55 - Feb 10 with 670 views | algy |
A knock out cup is a knock out cup and a league is a league and never the twain shall meet. | |
| Never forget that for ITFC the game changed in April 2021. |
| |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:56 - Feb 10 with 670 views | BrayBlue |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:46 - Feb 10 by TJS |
The proper way to do it would be to scrap second legs altogether.
Match day 1
5th at home to 8th
6th at home to 7th
Match day 2
3rd at home to lowest ranked team remaining from match day 1
4th at home to highest ranked team remaining from match day 1
Final at Wembley
This would effectively give some sort of additional benefit for every place achieved higher than 8th. |
But that wouldn’t give Sky the two extra matches they so obviously desperately need as they have so little football to show these days!
Regards,
JK | | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 19:54 - Feb 10 with 485 views | FrimleyBlue |
I still think it should be top 3 going up only anyway.
I know we went up via play offs once. But to think with this a team in 8th could get promoted over 3rd is crazy |  |
| |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 08:08 - Feb 11 with 226 views | thebooks |
Should scrap the play-offs. All football will end up like the Champions League, just showpiece games for the sake of it. |  | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 08:17 - Feb 11 with 205 views | NedPlimpton |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:46 - Feb 10 by TJS |
The proper way to do it would be to scrap second legs altogether.
Match day 1
5th at home to 8th
6th at home to 7th
Match day 2
3rd at home to lowest ranked team remaining from match day 1
4th at home to highest ranked team remaining from match day 1
Final at Wembley
This would effectively give some sort of additional benefit for every place achieved higher than 8th. |
Doesn't the national league do something like this and it's not worked out particularly well for those finishing higher in the league?
I know that was the case with York last year where Oldham just gained so much momentum from the first game whereas York hadn't had a match for a couple of weeks after the league finished
Not too keen on this |  | | |
| |
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.
