Football League play-offs

[Shaggy]

Great interview from Nigel Pearson, looks like they have a very difficult situation on their hands with Kermorgant

[Leyton388]

kermorgant going to get beasted in the dressing room. The manager says it all there!

[Ben_Itez]

Just watched the highlights without knowing the score....another cracking game!!

What a complete an utter knobhead that Kermorgant is. What on earth was he thinking?

Great interview from Nigel Pearson, looks like they have a very difficult situation on their hands with Kermorgant

Only showed a snippet of it, what did he say? He seemed quite gracious in defeat though.

[Ben_Itez]

Yes, I think that's exactly the reason the rule was introduced, to encourage the away team to attack. Before it applied in Europe then the away team in the first leg tended to be incredibly negative and try to shut down the game.

PS Want some random golf clubs?

Yeah i forgot about how incredibly negative the away side could be, especially in European games, in the first leg.

Leicester would have gone through on the away goals tonight....but would we have seen such an attacking game?

What golf clubs you got? I'm a bag short if anything......got a complete set but my woods are pretty rubbish. Also don't you live in London, it'd be pretty expensive to post them up here, no?

Of course im very grateful for the offer and pretty interested too

[Neil Young]

Yeah i forgot about how incredibly negative the away side could be, especially in European games, in the first leg.

Leicester would have gone through on the away goals tonight....but would we have seen such an attacking game?

What golf clubs you got? I'm a bag short if anything......got a complete set but my woods are pretty rubbish. Also don't you live in London, it'd be pretty expensive to post them up here, no?

Of course im very grateful for the offer and pretty interested too

I'll have a look and see what they are - last time I looked half of them had been nicked. I'll dig it out and we can PM.

Good point about postage - maybe it depends on how soon it is before I head up to the north-west for a work meeting. Nothing scheduled at the moment but that might change soon.

[dww]

Pleased for Dave Jones, seems a good bloke and has had some **** to put up with.

His teams play good football too. In fact the three coming up will be a bit of a pleasant change stylistically this year no matter who wins the play offs.

[Ben_Itez]

I'll have a look and see what they are - last time I looked half of them had been nicked. I'll dig it out and we can PM.

Good point about postage - maybe it depends on how soon it is before I head up to the north-west for a work meeting. Nothing scheduled at the moment but that might change soon.

Okey doke

[BillobShaisley]

I didn't realise that away goals dont count in the play-offs looked on teletext after the fulham game and assumed they'd lost then watched the highlight later and penalties!

I realy hope Cardiff make it but them and Blackpool have bene the form sides during the league run in so anything might happen. If Cardiff dont go up they'll probably go into administration, so a huge game coming up at Wembley. Cardiff is a real sleeping giant, a year in the prem and they could fill a 40k stadium week in week out and Cardiff as a city is going places too. So glad Swansea didn't make the play offs as that would have just been a big fight waiting to happen.

[BillobShaisley]

His team mates have totally snubbed him!

Classless ****s.

[Broner]

Classless ****s.

In fairness he was a total idiot for trying **** like that in such an occasion.

Play offs are massive.

[BillobShaisley]

Whatever, he could have blasted it wide or placed it and had it saved. It's a lottery and he failed. not sure the stats would indicate his style of penalty ultimately is any riskier than other approaches.

A team should win or lose together and to snub him shows IMO a lack of class. He didn't get sent off or give away a cynical penalty etc.

[Shaggy]

I agree, the lad has been treated like he killed someone. He missed a penalty, it doesn't matter how. And anyway I don't see those sort of pens as all that ****ing stupid...they're more commonplace now and they often go in. He just missed, big deal. I thought Pearson's interview was excellent apart from the implication that Kermogant was about to become an outcast.

[Broner]

I agree, the lad has been treated like he killed someone. He missed a penalty, it doesn't matter how. And anyway I don't see those sort of pens as all that ****ing stupid...they're more commonplace now and they often go in. He just missed, big deal. I thought Pearson's interview was excellent apart from the implication that Kermogant was about to become an outcast.

Didn't get that impression tbh. He just said pens are a lottery, cruel way to go out etc.

As for the penalty, i just don't think you can be trying fancy dinks like that knowing the stakes are so high. The chances of it not coming off are far higher than if you were to smash it. Thought it was completely selfish.
Everyone sees it differently though.

Oh and how distraught was that young lad who missed the last pen for Leicester, ****ing hell

[Shaggy]

Yeah Waghorn, felt gutted for him. Especially when the Cardiff players were all hurdling him to celebrate wildly just yards away.

[Broner]

Mark Kennedy dealt with it well though. Tried to pick him up and offered a few words of encouragement. Showed a bit of class there.