A Barrow-load of laughs - Division 4 2020/21

[Satchmo Distel]

This is the reasoning, although I can't see much logic there.

https://twitter.com/HumbersideSport/status/1390654245574266880

[DCI Harry Batt]

Absolutely ludicrous people.

[Satchmo Distel]

They are getting laughed at in the comments, understandably. They opposed the Super League but want this protection from being relegated on merit?

[Nesta]

So, to follow the logic, no relegation from any of the EFL divisions then? That'll give 22 teams in league two, 25 in league one and 27 in the championship, assuming the premier league is not willing to swell to 23 clubs.

Fucking clowns.

[tee rex]

Salford's game v Orient has been delayed an hour. If they are still in play-off contention after the other games are done, there will be some serious ranting.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

So, to follow the logic, no relegation from any of the EFL divisions then? That'll give 22 teams in league two, 25 in league one and 27 in the championship, assuming the premier league is not willing to swell to 23 clubs.

Fucking clowns.

Or alternatively, the real unfairness down the pyramid is that neither Gloucester or Fylde, or Dorking, are being promoted into the National League next season after their seasons got curtailed. In the spirit of such fairness they should promote two of those and Southend and Grimsby could volunteer to replace them in South and North next year.

[Satchmo Distel]

Salford's game v Orient has been delayed an hour. If they are still in play-off contention after the other games are done, there will be some serious ranting.

Isn't it going to be hard to make the pitch playable in an hour? Salford need the win no matter what happens elsewhere; it's the ones above them who would gain an advantage by playing later.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Exeter City in the playoff places AS THINGS STAND as Jeff likes to yell...

[elguapo4]

Salford finish 8th . Surely they should be in the 2nd Division by now.

[ad hoc]

If I have anything akin to a second team in the English professional game it's Cambridge Utd so this afternoon's result went some way to mitigating the previous football news. Just seen pictures of the players standing on the roof of the turnstiles celebrating with the fans in the car park, which gave me a bit of a positive buzz

[Gangster Octopus]

Congratulations to the otfers on here who've been promoted today.

[Gangster Octopus]

By the way ad hoc, when did Sheffield Wednesday last play Cambridge United in the league?

[Logan Mountstuart]

Congratulations to Simon G. And yes, you are West Country. I saw many a Cheltenham - Gloucester City Derby in my time from the other side. You've come a bloody long way since then. And Michael Duff is now very justifiably a club legend.

As a bloke from Stroud, I'm also happy for Forest Green. I still don't quite understand the hate. Although I do think the ground move to a soulless place by the M5 is a massive shame.

Please remind me people why they are the devil incarnate?

[Discordant Resonance]

Commiserations, Rogin - apart from Forest Green, all seem perfectly decent clubs in the playoffs, and only Tranmere have first-hand knowledge of the third tier since the Eighties.

[ad hoc]

By the way ad hoc, when did Sheffield Wednesday last play Cambridge United in the league?

Been a while. I saw us play a few times in the second division when I was a teenager.

[Discordant Resonance]

Congratulations to Simon G. And yes, you are West Country. I saw many a Cheltenham - Gloucester City Derby in my time from the other side. You've come a bloody long way since then. And Michael Duff is now very justifiably a club legend.

As a bloke from Stroud, I'm also happy for Forest Green. I still don't quite understand the hate. Although I do think the ground move to a soulless place by the M5 is a massive shame.

Please remind me people why they are the devil incarnate?

Presumably the owner rubbing people up the wrong way - if he was actually from the area, suspect there would be fewer objections.

[Greenlander]

Yes, big congratulations to everyone coming up but especially Cheltenham who ensure we have some form of westcountry rival next season.

It could be worse, back in the late 80s we had to make do with West Brom.

[Satchmo Distel]

By the way ad hoc, when did Sheffield Wednesday last play Cambridge United in the league?

1983-84, 2nd tier, the last of four consecutive seasons. 1977-78, 3rd tier, seems to have been their first meeting. They avoided each other in the Beck era.

[ad hoc]

Yeah we just missed each other in 91.

[longeared]

We played each other in the League Cup about five years ago, Cambridge equalised with virtually the last kick (plus ca change) and won in extra time. We also met in the FA Cup in 91, though I'd rather not talk about that, and again in the same competition a couple of years later when we ended up going to the final.

[jwdd27]

Scunthorpe go down to a division-leading 24th defeat of the season, equalling our previous worst at this level in 1975, when we had Neil Warnock flying down the wing.

3 years ago (and 4 years ago) we were preparing for the League 1 Play Offs, after a 5th (and 3rd) place finish. A swift descent since then, but the only way is up. Apart from down, that's also an option.

[Janik]

Or alternatively, the real unfairness down the pyramid is that neither Gloucester or Fylde, or Dorking, are being promoted into the National League next season after their seasons got curtailed. In the spirit of such fairness they should promote two of those and Southend and Grimsby could volunteer to replace them in South and North next year.

Or even it isn’t unfair at all that there is promotion/relegation where both Divisions involved have played enough of a season to regard it as valid, and promotion/relegation ceases at the level where the Division below has voided its competition.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I know we have the same argument every year about the playoffs, but the one irrefutable thing is that they seem to keep Exeter's seasons exciting right up to game 46 almost every single bloody year.

[Janik]

We played each other in the League Cup about five years ago, Cambridge equalised with virtually the last kick (plus ca change) and won in extra time. We also met in the FA Cup in 91, though I'd rather not talk about that, and again in the same competition a couple of years later when we ended up going to the final.

I was at that league cup tie. My first recollection was Wednesday won very easily, like 7-0. But no, thinking back harder, that was against Sunderland. I take it you are right and Cambridge did win the one I was at. But aside from knowing I’ve seen these two clubs play each other, and that Wednesday’s shirt numbering system was rubbish, I don’t recall anything else about the game.

[Gangster Octopus]

Scunthorpe go down to a division-leading 24th defeat of the season, equalling our previous worst at this level in 1975, when we had Neil Warnock flying down the wing.

He was bloody rubbish wasn't he. I'd vaguely wondered who we'd infected with him.

Still, he was a great manager for us...