Sky Bet Championship 2016-17 Thread

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FRI 5TH AUGUST

Fulham 19:45 Newcastle United
Championship, Sky Sports 1 HD (19:00)
SUN 7TH AUGUST

Queens Park Rangers 12:00 Leeds United
Championship, Sky Sports 1 HD (11:30)
Sheffield Wednesday 16:30 Aston Villa
Championship, Sky Sports 1 HD (16:15)
FRI 12TH AUGUST

Brighton and Hove Albion 19:45 Nottingham Forest
Championship, Sky Sports 1 HD (19:00)
SAT 13TH AUGUST

Norwich City 17:30 Sheffield Wednesday
Championship, Sky Sports 1 HD (17:15)
SAT 20TH AUGUST

Derby County 17:30 Aston Villa
Championship, Sky Sports 1 HD (17:15)
SUN 21ST AUGUST

Ipswich Town 12:00 Norwich City
Championship, Sky Sports 2 HD (11:30)
FRI 26TH AUGUST

Burton Albion 19:45 Derby County
Championship, Sky Sports 1 HD (19:00)
SAT 27TH AUGUST

Newcastle United 17:30 Brighton and Hove Albion
Championship, Sky Sports 1 HD (17:15)
FRI 9TH SEPTEMBER

Reading 20:00 Ipswich Town
Championship, Sky Sports 1 HD (19:00)

[westisbest]

Fair play to Brentford, played very well.
We looked good first 10mins and I thought we could win this.

Poor also though from Villa.
Concede sloppy goals and just don't look like we can score.

We should really have signed another centre back.
Not surprised we lost as the game was on tv.

We have only won 1 game in 14 I think that have been on tv in all competitions.

Probably lose to Forest Saturday.

Bruce needs to sort this rubbish out and fast.
Well done Brentford.
Natalie Sawyer will be happy.
I'm sure she will be running herself a bubble bath any minute now.
Let me just picture that for a moment.

[GSC]

8 points clear of the bottom now.

[GSC]

Don't really see the point of the McCormack loan beyond the owner trying to get the fans onside with a big name. 30k in wages, a loan fee for a player who burned his bridges at Villa. Also went toe to toe with Cellino. No realistic permanent deal at the end of the season.

Clough is a player, that's the kind of signing we should be making.

[NickisBHAFC]

Great work QPR and Lua Lua

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

We have been utter turd for 3 months and are still only 3 pts off the playoffs. Which is weirdly encouraging, if ya know, we can stop being rubbish

[Guest]

Great work QPR and Lua Lua

Great work by Huddersfield tonight

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Mental Newcastle alert - Rafa'a future uncertain as club give more control to Carr over transfers

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Jez Moxey fired after being a disaster

Everyone but the Norwich board already knew this in the summer

[Guest]

Mental Newcastle alert - Rafa'a future uncertain as club give more control to Carr over transfers

Was only a matter of time before the media went with this story, following RB's comments & a poor result. As far as I'm aware, he still has control, he was just refused funds. Tbh, I'm not surprised he wasn't allowed to sign anyone, given our league position & the fact his signings like Lazaar, Hanley, Murphy & in particular Sels, have been utter crap. We spent £50m, so Ashley would expect that promotion be achieved & we are still well on course to do that.

Think this is just a bit of a storm in a teacup. The squad is pretty crap & I get RB's frustrations, but I'd rather massively overhaul the squad this summer, when more appealing targets can be acquired, with the status of being a PL side.

[westisbest]

Battle of the former European champions tomorrow evening.
We need to get back to winning ways and go on a serious run if we have any slim chance of making the play offs, which is very unlikely at the moment.

As it's on tv, not holding any hopes as I said earlier in the week our record for TV games this season is woeful.

Looking forward to seeing how Hogan and Kodjia play together.

Lansbury first goal scorer

[NickisBHAFC]

Last night was by far the worst performance of the season, shame it was in front of the sky cameras for all to see.

Hopefully its a one off, and we can go again strong at Brentford on sunday. However 3 away defeats on the trot, certainly cause for concern.

[Guest]

That's a cracking three points today vs Derby. It wasn't pretty, but we got the job done & back on top, after that balls up midweek. Rafa to quit stories fully extinguished & we can just focus on promotion now.

[GSC]

Villa the better side so far, but hang in there and you sometimes get a break

[GSC]

BEN II!

[GSC]

Don't really get why Villa were so negative though. Front 2 were top class but they sat so deep all game. We couldn't break them down but they rarely got a platform

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Aston Villol

Bruce has somehow made them worse

[GSC]

He set them up like he was coming to play a playoff team

[GSC]

As for Grealish, doesn't matter how much talent you have if you have a 10p brain

[Guest]

Where did Johns "Brighton are in a mess" post go?

[Guest]

Not sure what you're on about

[Guest]

Brighton are in a mess!!!!

[Guest]

You legend, John!

[Guest]

Unbelievable

[NickisBHAFC]

lolllloollololollolllolllll

Absolute scenes today at Brentford. For 75 minutes we were absolutely shocking again and the only sunrise around the ground was how on earth are we only 2-0 down. One moment of magic by Solly March and its game on. A few minutes later, im on the floor and Duffy makes it 2-2 absolute scenes. It looked like heartbreak at the end, but step forward Tomer Hemed, what a header and what celebrations.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Celebrating a draw against Brentford

Tinpot

[westisbest]

Better than losing to them
Only saw the highlights of our game.
Two goalkeeping errors costing us.
Should have saved the second.
Maybe give the kid a break and play Bunn who isn't much better.

On tv so no surprise we lost.

[NickisBHAFC]

Celebrating a draw against Brentford

Tinpot

Mind the gap

[westisbest]

Celebrating a draw against Brentford

Tinpot

Mind the gap

Oh, you better get a knife and fork olly, cos you just got served

[Dolphin Ziggler]

I'd guess with the way Brighton are playing that Nick would bring the bottle to the meal

[NickisBHAFC]

Its currently on ice.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Nelson Oliviera is so beautiful

[Guest]

Zola's awesome work at Brum continues.

[GSC]

Jordan Rhodes is such a good signing for Wednesday

[Guest]

He's top quality and a nice lad to boot, going by his pre match interview.

I wish Wednesday would go back to their traditional blue and white stripes.

[GSC]

Well, that went well

[westisbest]

Another poor result form Villa and an end to our unbeaten home record.

Bruce needs to sort it out or we will be in a relegation battle.
With the squad we have should be in the top 10 at the very least.

Barnsley home Tuesday 3 points hopefully.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Not often you score 3 worldies in one game

Although it does help when your opponents refuse to press or tackle you

[westisbest]

Good to see wessi scoring.
Fancy Norwich to make play offs.
16 games to go, this championship season has flown by.

I think we will finish around mid table.

Preparation for next seasons push.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

We've got Newcastle, Sheff Weds, Leeds, Brighton, Huddersfield all still to play - we could do it, but we've left ourselves very little wiggle room if we lose a couple in a row.

Forest/Villa connections - I thought Tshibola looked ok today, but clearly inexperienced. McCormack is chubby. I thought Clough looked a tidy little player, but needs to just quicken up his decision making

[GSC]

Whoever dived to get Lichaj sent off is a grade a twunk tho

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Whoever dived to get Lichaj sent off is a grade a twunk tho

Or he could've just not fouled him whilst on a yellow card

[NickisBHAFC]

Lichaj getting sent off? Whatever next! Bloke is a wreckless mess.

[NickisBHAFC]

Great win yesterday against Burton, didn't play that well but scored 4 decent goals and just looked so comfortable at all times. Good that all the strikers bar Akpom got on the scoresheet as well. Solly March and Dale Stephens were absolutely outstanding.

Ipswich on Tuesday night, suspect they will give us a tougher game. Proven they can still pull results out the bag, i.e 1-0 win at Villa, so won't be a guaranteed 3 points.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

I'm not sure beating villa is an achievement anymore

[westisbest]

It is in the sense that we have one of the best squads in the league imo.
And that we hadnt lost at home all season prior to Saturday.

Especially for certain teams like Ipswich who are not great(although neither are we at the minute).
Just my take on it, bit biased I guess, but fk it.

Fair play to them though.
Yer man Lawrence is a good player.

[Guest]

Looking forward to getting some revenge on Tuesday night, Olly? This game was supposed to be the title decider

Looks like you've finally recovered from that game at St. James' at least. I doubt it will be another classic, Rafa's tactics & Gayle being absent, has seen us transform into one of the most dullest teams to watch, who just scrape by with 1-0 wins.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

With how our recent meetings have gone John I'd be happy with a non heart attack inducing 1-0 either way

We're doing ok - but still haven't beaten any of the top 6 this season and tbh I doubt we win tomorrow. Defence isn't good enough

[Guest]

Ayoze after 23 seconds

[GSC]

Started slightly better today

[Guest]

Truly awful stuff

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