Who's going to win the play-offs?

[Man Friday]

Virtually impossible but using your head rather than your heart who do you think will win the play-offs? My own hunch is Forest. They're coming good at the moment and I just regard them as a strong outfit

[SouthDownsRoyal]

How many variations on a theme can we get?

TENUOUS.

[Mr. Reading]

I voted for everyone.

[roadrunner]

Swansea

[Alan Partridge]

I don't really mind because basically I think football is the winner

[Mike Hunt]

Swansea.

Please be anyone by Cardiff.

[Snowball]

I've narrowed it down to four clubs.

[The Prisoner]

Can we have a poll as to how many play-off threads we will have by Friday?

[PEARCEY]

Hope its us. If not then I hope Cardiff or Swansea. I hate Billy Davies. He really is revolting plus his team are the biggest bunch of time-wasters I've ever seen at the Madejski. Anyone but Forest for me but I'm afraid I can't see past them winning the play-offs.

[Royal Lady]

Well, pardon me for saying like, but shouldn't we all be saying WE will win the play-offs? If we don't have the optimism to think we could win, what is the point of the players even bothering to turn up on Friday and Tuesday?

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Well, pardon me for saying like, but shouldn't we all be saying WE will win the play-offs? If we don't have the optimism to think we could win, what is the point of the players even bothering to turn up on Friday and Tuesday?

what she said

[PEARCEY]

Well, pardon me for saying like, but shouldn't we all be saying WE will win the play-offs? If we don't have the optimism to think we could win, what is the point of the players even bothering to turn up on Friday and Tuesday?

We have a 1 in 4 chance of going up. I have hope but am not overly confident. The Walsall play-off saw to that as did Burnley. I thought we would beat both. Bolton was a little different as finishing second that season was way above my expectations and I saw Wolves as a 50/50.
I'm usually optimistic regarding Reading games but the play-offs have painful memories so I try not to get too expectant.

[Royal Lady]

Yeah, but to be fair, no-one has a clue who is actually going to win them, so surely we should be anticipating that it's us?

[PEARCEY]

Yeah, but to be fair, no-one has a clue who is actually going to win them, so surely we should be anticipating that it's us?

Thats the point though. No-one knows whats going to happen. The positive is that under McDermott we are a good cup-team and that helps...the down-side is I don't enjoy the play-offs

[Royal Lady]

Yeah, but to be fair, no-one has a clue who is actually going to win them, so surely we should be anticipating that it's us?

Thats the point though. No-one knows whats going to happen. The positive is that under McDermott we are a good cup-team and that helps...the down-side is I don't enjoy the play-offs

Why you posting on the Cardiff City equivalent of this btw - is it just for the play-offs or are they your second team - and don't go giving away any info on Kebe ffs.

[PEARCEY]

I started posting on there on matters relating to Welsh rugby and didn't get involved in matters relating to Cardiff City.....until our run of 8 wins which prompted a lot of Reading threads on their board. I started to post responses on those threads. It corresponded with my having a break from HNA because I had become sick and tired of the anti Welsh stuff on here.
Are Cardiff my second team? Probably although I like Swansea as well.
As for Kebe being fit God knows.
Just to be clear I am a Reading fan and always will be. Just to add they are, in general, far more positive in their comments about Reading than nobbers are about Cardiff.

[sandman]

Is there a football fan in the country who are complimentary about Cardiff? They don't exactly make it easy to like them.

[PEARCEY]

Is there a football fan in the country who are complimentary about Cardiff? They don't exactly make it easy to like them.

They have certainly had their share of thugs in the past although they have improved in this respect. I just think some of the comments about the Welsh being vermin is unnecessary. I won't ask for threads to be locked...freedom of expression and all that but it goes too far in my view.

[Victor Meldrew]

Is there a football fan in the country who are complimentary about Cardiff? They don't exactly make it easy to like them.

As with Millwall and Leeds it is difficult to just forget the trouble that their fans have caused over the years and in Cardiff's case it was unforgivable when some of their fans threw bricks and stones randomly at our supporters leaving the Mad Stad a few years ago-I got into a row with a copper who wouldn't lend me his riot shield and yet my daughter was having to dodge missiles being thrown without any such protection.
Also of course visits to Ninian Park were not for the faint-hearted.
For those reasons alone I just can't wish them well and if they were promoted I would hope that somebody might create a new Premier League record and beat them 10-0 and that they get relegated with the lowest ever points and that we pass them on the way up.

[Snowball]

We were hardly played off the park at home to Swansea and lost 1-0.

They edge it down there, but we really should have drawn.

In both games we did not have L-Wood, and we are clearly better with him playing.




I think Forest are a big threat but we threw away our win at home (Fed's mistake) and won at their place.


So, at worst, we are fairly even, fifty-fifty, too close to call with that pair.


As for Cardiff.They have out and out match-winning players, especially Bellamy, but I think they are not mentally strong.

And they got lucky at our place 1-1 with the phantom goal.

They got double-lucky at their place. First Federici gifted them a goal (worried, me?) and then they equalised in the 97th minute after a dubious free-kick.

Again it's 50-50 or fractionally in our favour.


I see the bookies (nothing in it) are:

3.50 Swansea
3.75 Reading
3.75 Cardiff
4.00 Forest