The Championship Thread 2020/21

1-1 Swansea

Hopefully they come out and bury them 2nd half

But it is a Welsh team, can't rely on them.. isn't it!

Nice time for Swans to score for you, I hope it's them that score next to give me an out.!

Yeap, hopefully they score early 2nd half and then its both winning

We're winning 1-0, deserved something on Wednesday night to be fair

We're improving at last

2-1 Hudders

Fooking hard league this one

3-1 Hudders

Glad you got the lay in glasgow

Cashed out £7 profit, should have hung on 3-1 now ffs

4-1 Hudders

That's just dirty, Swansea

Oh the shame

Couldn't see 3-1 lasting long, the games gone crazy.

Birmingham are spawny bas*ards, every season they are down there it seems and always stay up by the skin of their teeth

Rumours of Nigel Pearson new manager at Bristol City. If true there’s a chance we might actually stay up!

TWO (repeat TWO) attempts on target for City already tonight, plus gained a first corner for 3 matches. TWO (repeat TWO) corners now. Glorious stuff.
My money’s on Forest tonight

Pearson is a good appointment better than Holden

I think you should hire him perm and he'll soon have fat lazies like Martin out the door

Hope we can do the biz tonight and push well away from trouble

Big game on Friday....

GOOOOAaaaaLllll City , must be dreaming

They wont be lacking in motivation under Pearson

Martin out for the season Sontoran. Can’t see Forest being anywhere near relegation this season. Hugh ton seems to have sorted you out at last

1-0 Derby

Hughton defiantly working his magic now Knew he would sort it given time

Mrs is a massive sci fi geek. Would kill me if she knew I spelt Sontaran wrong!

I cringe at the name sonofdunc

The reason I chose it is because I was watching a Tennant episode with my niece (babysitting for the sister) the night before signing up to the forum, and it stuck in my head

Wish I could change it ffs

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If City can score 2 surely you can find a way to change your username

I’m having the strangest dream. Will wake up in a minute and we’ll be losing as usual

City a new team

Funny its Boro as well

Good win for you guys sonofdunc

Derby 2 up

a draw isn't bad at Rotherham so I'll that at HT, need to keep them at arms length

Always nice to win against Warnock. He reckons we’ll hold a minute’s booing at Ashton Gate when he dies!
Forest goal would be nice for my account balance.

Hopefully dunc but never good relying on us

How did Swansea lose 4-1 to Huddersfield? needs to be into that in my opinion

Happy Days. Hang on Forest!

Hang on now and we can relax, nicely away from the bottom 3

Knockeart playing a lot better as well

Hopefully sign him in the summer

He's on loan this season

Been the better side again so fully deserved

Hughton seems to have really turned it round Sont. Plenty clean sheets. Bodes wel for the future

0-1 FT will take that

10 points clear of the bottom 3 and we're now tough to even create anything against, so solid so can't see us anywhere near bottom 3, should finish nicely mid table and build for next season

Derby also similar to us so can't see our game on Friday being one for the neutrals

Hopefully dunc

Seems to be clearing away the c*ap now but I always thought we'd see an upturn after a few months under him, was awful to start with but slowly became tough to beat and score against

Swansea level at half time, surely come out on top here

They should G Hall but they did a number other day so fook em tonight

Cardiff on fire at the minute, up to 6th as it stands

Anyone watching preston-qpr game?

No scaredmoney but 0-0 so good job

Top 6 now after what should be game 32

1 Norwich 67
2 Brentford 60
3 Watford 60
4 Swansea 59 (Played 30 so 2 games in hand)
5 Reading 51
6 Cardiff 49 (Some run these are on, they were almost bottom 6 a few weeks ago )

Bottom 6

19 Huddersfield 36
20 Coventry 34
21 Birmingham 31
22 Rotherham 29 (Played 30)
23 Sheff Weds 28 (Played 31)
24 Wycombe 23 (Played 31)

We've pretty much got a boring final few months to the season now

Barnsley in 8th have a game in hand over Cardiff and could take that spot soon

They're playing very well as well Barnsley

McCarthy done very well at Cardiff. Ipswich fans wanted him gone and look where they are now.
Cardiff’s run proves anything is possible and the season’s not dead yet for mid table teams.
Our form in the other direction also. Couldn’t see where the next point was coming from until Tuesday. Still can’t quite believe we got Pearson in.

Pearson is a great appointment at this level. I know he did poorly at Derby but they were never going to be the right fit for him or them, a snoopy owner was always going to end badly for both parties

Bristol City is a better fit in my opinion

The big one tonight

The sheep vs the famous club

I'm going overs, Forest win and BTTS

Going for the full monte, but these games are usually turd and end up 1-0 or 0-0

Lay of Derby for me. Low scoring draw or narrow Forest win I reckon

Its turgid stuff so far as feared

The pitch is poor as well

This is absolute excrement.

Derby should have a penalty there

Inner

We're sitting so deep we've literally got men on the posts ffs

0-0 after 25 minutes lads, not 0-1 heading for injury time ffs

I've had enough. 20 mins of that is more than enough. Hope you at least get to see some shots at some point.

I did say the other day this would be turgid, yet still did the stupid thing and backed as if goals were a gimme

We've set up for 0-0 and trying to pinch one from a set piece

Great if it comes off but fooking hell its boring

The mind is wandering which is never a good sign for a game of football

Hehey!

0-1

Soft goal but that'll do

HT 0-1

As a fan I'd a 0-1, but it could turn out rather good from a betting perspective if we get the 2nd early doors 2nd half and leave Derby chasing it. All 3 could land then.

You must have got a decent price Sont. Overs must have been well over odds against? Had a nice win off your boys in midweek. Hopefully they land us both a few quid tonight.

It was dunc

But its turned into a really dull 0-1

Will take that though from a fan persepective

Fook off 1-1

That's disgusting, never thought they'd score all night either was so relaxed

Could still be another goal though

5 minutes plus stoppages

BTTS in

But one little goal either way for over, one little Forest goal for gizzing time

Please lets hope VAR never comes to the championship as that goal by Kasim Richards would have been chalked off by VAR as when the Forest player attempted to clear the ball it hit KR about his body and deflected up and hit his elbow then bounced favourably for him to hit a great goal however not a good goal for you Sont, this is the madness of VAR

1-1 FT

Fooking typical result that, the worst result possible from a betting point of view

Derby would and should have had a penalty first half though roache so it evened itself out really

A draw was about a fair result to be honest, although I couldn't see them scoring at all

2 **** headers there Sont in last 5 minutes as decent chances to score

We're improving and getting more solid, teams are finding it harder and harder to break us down

It took an iffy one tonight to undo us. Definite positives on the defence side, although we do to improve in front of goal

Didn't like the sitting deep 20 minutes into the game though

Knockeart needs to be signed up in the summer

All in all though that was not one for the neutral

City somehow holding Swansea 0-0 at half time. Very one sided so far. Like the look of nearly evens for Swansea

Taken a bit of a lay of the draw at Swansea, much as I would be delighted with a point

Sheff Weds 0-2 at HT losing 3-2 now

Birmingham winning after turning it around and Rotherham losing

We're pretty much safe, nice boring end to the season

Swansea are a funny side, they look good for autos though

Just seen the result, was busy watching the bottom of the table sides

Good win for you lot that Dunc

Saw 1-0 but then didn't see it after that

Well we nearly always have low scoring games with Swansea, apart from the odd 5-0 or 7-1! 
I don’t think you were ever in serious  danger Sont once Hughton took charge

It took us a while to get any sort of consistency under him but I always thought we'd be fine once he had a transfer window to bring in some of his own players, we look much better after January

Still an outside chance for playoffs for you guys now

Home to Luton tonight

Haven't seen Madhatter around for a while hope he's ok

Gotta be thinking Cardiff beat Derby tonight, chasing playoffs and something like 7 wins in 8 games

Feels like the first real comfortable bet made in the Cardiff game, 2-0 so already paid out on 365

£30 back at least

Sonta you're The Championship expert!!

Such an expert I'm about £250 down on it just on this thread this season and they ain't exactly big bets

Its tough work this league, Cardiff hammering Derby tonight but on another night it could easily be a reverse scoreline

Yeah I hate betting on the Championship

We should be easily winning this one

Probs gonna get done 0-1

Oh it went in as I was typing 0-1

Typical, we just can't finish our chances at the minute

you're a big Forest fan?

I wouldn't say big wise, not anymore anyway probably was back in my teens early 20s, nowadays I don't really care just carry on following them

0-1 FT

we offered nothing after going a goal down

bad result there as thought Hughton was building up some consistency and didn't see Luton winning tonight

To be fair we were the better side until they scored but after that we offered nothing, still looking toothless in the goals for column

Norwich pulling clear

Rotherhams turn to smash and grab 90+7

Penalty at end for Swansea absolute disgrace cheating diving but the PC brigade at Sky won't call it for what it is stating Oh he went down too easily and of course we get a clueless naive gullible ref willing to oblige FFS

Hi SS,
I'm still around....and thanks for your concern mate. 

Yeah, we were lucky to get to HT without being a couple down, although in all fairness our keepers only had to make two decent saves (one was very good) for all your pressure.
We improved a lot after the break and the goal certainly knocked the stuffing out of your guys.

Dewsbury-Hall was a star for us again (but he's only on loan from Leicester until the end of the season ) and the new lad up front (Adebayo) looks potentially a very astute signing.
The other good thing we've discovered in the last couple of matches is that our right 'winger' (Jordan Clark) seems to be a much better right back! He has just had two excellent games in a row.

Have only missed watching one of our games so far this season (the home victory over B City) and our recent slippage has been due to often playing well and not got the points we deserve from a match or - several times - we have been clueless and atrocious!!

Congratulations on your boys recovering from their very worrying start. It was looking as though we were gonna replace you in the relegation scrap a couple of weeks ago but we both now look destined for mid-table anonimity hopefully!

Take care,
Cheers,
Mad.

Good to see your well mad. We've lost 1-0 again today, can't score sadly and getting what we deserve at the minute.

Back in the mix again now

Derby losing again as well, swings and roundabouts

Form changes in this league a lot

2 weeks ago us and Derby were one win away from top half almost, now we're both looking over our shoulders again

Video of truly awful ref decision Swansea v M'bro 

https://twitter.com/coryjhenry/status/1368233712421371910?s=21

That is ridiculous.

Swansea seem to be getting some right decisions lately, the one in midweek as well
Update for top 6

1 Norwich 76 pts (Pretty much gone Zzzzz )
2 Watford 66
3 Swansea 65
4 Brentford 63
5 Reading 60
6 Barnsley 57 (On a ridiculous run, 7 in a row I think fair play)

Bottom 6

19 Derby 38 pts
20 Coventry 38
21 Birmingham 35
22 Rotherham 32
23 Sheff Weds 28
24 Wycombe 23

Barnsley could match Villas run a couple of seasons ago of 10 in a row, who else has done that in this league in the past? I'm sure Reading must have gone close in their record points season under Coppell?

Also a special mention to Rotherham, who have become fond of getting their games called off this season, they have like 3 or 4 games in hand over the teams above them