Into the Lion's Den D2 2017-18

[The-Reverend]

Good old Nottingham Forest, always liked them now they've equalised.

[Satchmo Distel]

Obviously no complaints if it stays like this. Burton deserve to survive and neither us nor Bolton do.

[The-Reverend]

Forest doing Cough jnr a favour.

Somehow Ipswich are beating 'Boro pushing Derby to 5th as it stands.

[delicatemoth]

An undetected foul throw for the ages in Cardiff-Reading

[Kevin S]

Derby are the only top six side winning, in fact. Norwich four down at Sheffield Wednesday so will finish below Town for the first time since (I think) 2010.

[The-Reverend]

Bolton get 2 in 2 minutes, to get them out of it at Burtons expense as it stands.

[Kevin S]

Drama! Bolton have scored two at the death and Burton are probably going down!

Edit: fast work Rev.

[Kevin S]

Defeat at Sunderland means Wolves finish on 99.

[The-Reverend]

We get Burton comms on Radio Derby, so tend to get it before the online stuff.

Preston 2-1 up now.

[tee rex]

All over for Burton. Shame.

[Kevin S]

Bamford goal

[Kevin S]

Right at the end of added time, Boro snatch the draw at Ipswich and get Villa as a result, so Derby have Fulham.

[Stumpy Pepys]

This is doing my blood pressure no good

[Stumpy Pepys]

Aaaaaarrrgggghhhh!!

[The-Reverend]

Oh goody that means Fulham for Derby.

[Kevin S]

You're safe SP. And breathe.

[longeared]

Never mind all the promotion and relegation excitement, Atdhe Nuhiu has scored a hat trick.

[Jobi1]

An undetected foul throw for the ages in Cardiff-Reading

Fooled me too (on the TV thread) but the replies to that tweet show it was actually taken from the right place, sadly!

[Satchmo Distel]

The three clubs who have gone down are the ones who occupied the bottom 3 for longest (or so it seems). Apart from the obvious "not good enough", the results that sent Barnsley down were the home games v Bolton and Burton, from which they accrued just one point. These are relegation results by any criteria:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/barnsley/results

[Jobi1]

How long have the second place finishers been getting a trophy and medals?! Assume this applies to all three EFL divisions (including 3rd place in the fourth division)?

[ad hoc]

Never mind all the promotion and relegation excitement, Atdhe Nuhiu has scored a hat trick.

A perfect hattrick no less - header, left foot, right foot

[Snake Plissken]

How long have the second place finishers been getting a trophy and medals?! Assume this applies to all three EFL divisions (including 3rd place in the fourth division)?

I don’t know but it corrects an anomaly where the winners and playoff winners got trophies and medals but the side finishing second did not.

[Satchmo Distel]

That's true bit I think it's also a sponsors' gimmick, maybe from when Skybet took over in 2013-14.

OTOH the runners-up got a shield as far back as 2006 (warning: picture of a cunt): http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/...39_622x449.jpg

[Billy Casper]

A fully deserved relegation for us today. Yet again, we just weren't good enough and Derby could have scored a lot more than they did.

The fact that we came within five minutes of staying up is a joke, as we should have been down weeks ago due to our lack of talent.

Really pleased that Burton came down too - Bolton charge £30+ so I wouldn't have bothered going there next season.

Now we'll have weeks of Mick McCarthy rumours as manager before he finally turns us down and we end up with someone we've not heard of before from abroad.

[Satchmo Distel]

Sacking Morais seems premature. They are no worse than when he joined. Rather him than Prick McCarthy.