#3308

It’s the mopping up of journalists into one place it isn’t so much the national journalists It’s the wider context within jorunalism of what they are doing particularly local sports journalism.

There is a far more interesting argument that Neil good have but, I don’t think he has the intelligence for it and also being at The Sun doesn’t really give him any purchase in the debate. Basically this:

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#3309

Cheers

#3312

My El Pastyco ticket is being booked for me as I speak. Beyond fucking excited.

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#3313

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#3314

Increasingly looking like it’s West Brom and Leeds with a decent advantage over Fulham in terms of top two, and the rest looking like they’ll have to settle for playoffs (with some outsiders like Blackburn still in with a shout there)

FiveThirtyEight projecting Leeds have a 96% chance of going up. All very encouraging, performances, lack of injuries, balance. Logically no reason to worry and this really should be it - but my concern is that it’s only a five-point lead over Fulham and a bad result or two can change everything. Huddersfield and Cardiff away are banana skins and then all of a sudden you can be third with a defeat at home to Fulham - Norwich and Sheffield United won at Elland Road last season and those were ultimately costly. Think the pressure and anxiety around the club when it comes to points like this is a bit of an albatross.

Conversely, we could beat Fulham and end up about 11 points clear going into the last international break with only six games left then. Surely, surely, then…

#3316

Nobby Braut Aaaland

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#3317

That game at Elland Road will be it if you win. Massive, massive game and I’ve just found out I’ll be fucking working in fucking London so can’t do the away day.

Atm yeah you’ve hit a run of form but there’s 10 games left and nobody is averaging 2 points per game this season. 5 points (or 6 to WBA) is an injury, a keeper error or a dodgy referee performance from being closed in this league, same for anyone down to about 12th making the playoffs

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#3318

Don’t get why you’re worried, mate. Nailed on at this point.

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#3319

Yeah we are going to beat you in that match, sorry.

#3320

Juan Braut Raaland

#3321

Who are the Huddersfield fans here? I’d like an apology for that clown you loaned us. Crikey. That was probably his worst showing yet.

#3322

Apparently there’s an £8m option to buy. If that gets taken up, I’m done with the sport :frowning:

#3323

FiveThirtyEight can’t be wrong

#3324

It’s because he’s only on loan. Trust me, it’s worth paying the fee, and then he’ll blossom next season.

#3325

Felt compelled to look up who you were talking about, and

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#3326

just had a look at the Championship predictions on FiveThirtyEight:

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basically i think they’re saying that Brentford are most likely to win the playoffs? have they seen our record in the playoffs? absolutely no chance do we beat Forest over two legs either, given we lost home and away in the normal season matches.

also apparently there’s still a chance we could get relegated. imagine that (i am).

#3327

We have been in the playoffs four times and lost in comical fashion all four times. But… we are good at smothering better teams so maybe we’ll make the final before shitting the bed?

#3328

You god damn liar.

#3329

think we’re on eight comical failures out of eight, looking forward to adding to that assuming we even make the playoffs this season, which at our current rate (4 points from 5 matches i think?) we won’t

losing at Wembley to Yeovil in the playoff final after missing out on automatic promotion in the last minute of the final match was probably the most disappointed i’ve ever been as a Brentford fan - even when we got relegated to League Two in like 2007 before Easter because we were hilariously shit (and we’d bottled promotion the season before in the playoffs obviously) that wasn’t too bad because it was so inevitable.

would be so Brentford if our last match at Griffin Park was a playoff defeat

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#3330

You’ve got to buy him and him then be bad for that to be a possibility. If you do, and he is, then I will accept the tag of being a god damn liar.

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