Playoffs, Promotion, and Relegation.

Lovebite scores the winner??? Finally something involving Fulham (even though remotely) doing some damage to Brentford.

Sunderland and Leceister with huge wins. Newcastle only managed a draw v West Brom. However, Hull with the big choke today. They had Burnley at home and lost 0-1. Hull now trail by 2 with Spurs and ManU left to play...oops

 

And the 'Ha's have been re-relegated, with authority, by Citeh.

 

And if QPR does get knocked down to League 1, does that mean Millwall would stay up? I suspect they will come to a resolution that keeps QPR in the Championship, but it would be interesting if Millwall was resurrected. I imagine their fans would rather like the role of playing zombies.

 

Thanks for the clarification Don. I didn't realize the "Football League" was the Championship along with League 1 and League 2. QPR going down to the Conference Premier league (I assume that is where they would end up) would have quite a domino effect. Someone would have to make space for them. Would that club move up or down? And so on from there. League 1 and League 2 could both end up with four promoted teams. To go the the other direction the Championship could only relegate two teams but then someone expecting to get into the Conference Premier league would be squeezed out.

 

I THINK that number of teams promoted never changes, only number of teams relegated. I believe that this year the conference south had 21 teams instead of 22 and only relegated 1 team instead of 2. Conference north and south for those not familiar are 1 ring below conference premier. I think it may be possible(though unlikely) that the championship would only carry 23 teams next season and only relegate 2 teams next season to get back to 24 teams.

 

Fernandez strikes me as one of those owners with more money than sense. He'll probably pay it...because he can.

 

Our neighbors travel to Middlesbrough Friday knotted at 1-1 with drama that I was unaware of. Brenford's manager Mark Warburton has done an amazing job by getting them promoted last year and now in the playoffs this campaign. The Bees play a nice brand of football, but apparently their owner is an idiot and thinks he knows better. Warburton is gone as soon as Brentford's season is over no matter the result.

 

We get to play QPR next season. Woo hoo.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/32742194

 

We get to play Brentford as well (along with QPHa means 4 true Derby matches!!). Middlesbrough dismantled the Bees 3-0 to reach Wembley.

League 1 saw the highest scoring match in playoff history as Swindon Town and Sheffield United drew 5-5 (Swindon advanced 7-6 on agg). Didn't seem that long ago when Sheffield was in the Prem (pretty sure they were the casualty in the whole West Ham Tevez debacle), now they can't even get out of the third division.

 

And Mark Wharburton will be out of work for about, oh, two seconds.

 

Norwich v Boro and Swindon v Preston North End to see who is coming and going to our division

 

Although I don't really care what happens to the denizens of Loftus Road, I'm happy that they gave Chris Ramsey the permanent gig, if for no other reason than to bring some diversity to the touchline. I hope he succeeds wildly...but not at our expense.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/19/qpr-appoint-chris-ramsey-permanent-head-coach

 

Does anyone know if either of these will be televised state-side?

 

Not sure about Sunday's League 1 match (FoxSoccer or Fox2 used to broadcast it, so would expect them again), but Monday's Norwich v Boro match is on Bein at 10:00 am EST.

 

And then there was two. Sunderland managed their 9th 0-0 draw and 17th draw overall (both EPL records) to survive leaving only Newcastle and Hull City for the final spot. The Tigers will have to beat (a draw does them no good) ManU at home. If Hull manage to do that the epic collapse of Newcastle might ironically be finished off by former manager Fat Sam and West Ham, where because of their terrible GD it would be a must win or be dropped situation.

 

I just goggled 'who'll be broadcasting...' Up popped Bein tv. Last night they had an ad they were showing League 2, 1, and Championship finals on tv. Only problem is they had the dates wrong (1 day late). So it's shrug the shoulders time and hope for the best.