Games are: Blackpool v Nottingham Forrest (1st Leg right now, 2nd Leg on Tuesday) Leicester City v Cardiff City (1st Leg tomorrow, 2nd Leg on Wednesday) Final is the 22nd at Wembley.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs Yea, it'd be hard to not root for them to come back up. They were a force in the top flight for 15 years, both domestically and in Europe.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs Second game about to start, if you are up is a good way to wait till the EPL games start.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs Yes they were. Cardiff must not lose at home to advance to the playoffs. Question for you ChileanNole, do you think Cardiff can stay up if they make the Premiership? We are getting some foreign financing (Asia I believe).
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs I think you can if you manage to hold on to some of the talent like Joe Ledley. Or sale some of their young talent and bring some more experienced players for cheap. Maybe try to buy players from Hull and Pompey. If you do get the Asian financing it would be interesting to watch the moves they make. In any case, playing big EPL games at Millennium Stadium can only help to generate more money and it would be awesome to see. Definitely rooting for either them or Forest to win the playoff.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs My goal is that I want Cardiff to be at least a Europa team in time.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs We'd be the first non English club to make it if we do. 10 years ago, I'd thought it would be Celtic or Rangers.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs some info on the new investors They are Malaysian businessmen Dato Chan Tien Ghee and Vincent Tan. The investment will clear debt from new Ninnan Park and they want to make us a name in the Far East.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs So Ledley is staying? There were rumors linking him to a bunch of EPL teams.... Did they say how much money they plan on spending? IS this all assuming you guys get promoted?
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs Everton, WHU, Blackburn, and Celtic are the favorites to get him. He will be out of contract in July and will leave anyway. They said they will not be sugar daddies, but they will spend.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs Yeah that's the whole reason I want to see them in it. I was pissed when they lost to Pompey in the FA Cup Final a year or so ago. I personally want to see Rangers and the faggit bhoys in the EPL. Even if they had to start in the colaship, it would greatly benefit those teams.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs If Rangers and Celtic tried to join the English system, the Scottish FA and just about every club in England will raise hell to make sure it never happens.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs Why did it say in the Gamecast that Forest need to win 2-0 to advance? Is there no away goal rule?
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs But then 1-0 would make it 2-2 agg. and then they have an away goal. Then I assume there is no away goal rule?? Would there be ET if the game finished 1-0.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs Blackpool scored and takes 3-2 agg lead. Gonna be a fun 30 minutes
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs "That is the first goal Forest have lost in nine games at the City ground."
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs There are streams available in case anybody wants to watch instead of follow via gamecast.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs Forest scored! 2-1 as i turned it on! Atsmosphere is insane.
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs http://atdhe.net/19144/watch-notthingham-forest-vs-blackpool
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs I'm at my parents and they have FS+. Atmosphere is electric
Re: League Championship Promotion Playoffs Still plenty time to score 2. This is the Colaship we're talkin about