SkyBet 2017-18 Championship Thread - The Steve Bruce Pension Scheme

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Tue 01 Aug 2017, 3:34 am

First topic message reminder :

Days away now, excitement building.

by Guest Fri 03 Nov 2017, 9:25 pm

Should comfortably take the title, hence why Nuno Santo wasn't even interested in the Everton job. Not a surprise given the Chinese/Mendes influence.

by westisbest Sat 04 Nov 2017, 3:28 pm

Hmm, Terry subbed off now 2-0 down.

Our first home defeat of the season then, looking like it.

by Guest Fri 17 Nov 2017, 7:53 pm

Chris Coleman to become Sunderland manager

by westisbest Fri 17 Nov 2017, 10:40 pm

Gone by January Wink

by Steffan Sun 19 Nov 2017, 4:31 am

I am assuming Coleman the Sunderland job is a temporary thing anyway. He was talking about going back abroad to manage a while ago. Far better managing a crap club in Spain than a crap club in England hey

Anyway...Cardiff third at the moment. I would have taken that at the beginning of the season

by westisbest Sun 19 Nov 2017, 5:50 pm

Was at Loftus Rd yesterday.

Good display and a welll deserves 3 points.
Hopefully more of the same Tuesday

by GSC Tue 21 Nov 2017, 10:29 pm

Dece win

Slutsky to be sacked

by westisbest Sat 25 Nov 2017, 7:16 pm

Decent win today. Adomah is on fire. 5 goals in a week.
Tough game on Friday night, but need to keep getting wins.

by Steffan Mon 27 Nov 2017, 12:33 am

2-0 win against Forest away. We'll take that. Just need to try and slowly pull away from the playoff positions

by westisbest Mon 27 Nov 2017, 9:10 am

It’s so tight in this division.
Gotta keep the w’s coming.

by westisbest Fri 01 Dec 2017, 9:58 pm

Decent point away from home.

Good response in the second half.
Pleased for Lansbury. Get rid of the man bun and he gets a goal.
Great to see young Jack get on. Some good touches.
Hopefully he can push on and get in the starting 11.

Hopefully 3 points at home to Millwall next sat.

UTV

by Steffan Sat 02 Dec 2017, 3:32 am

I didn't see the match but great to get 3 goals away from home after going 1-0 down against the mutants. Just hope we don't have our usual Xmas dip which ends screwing it all up

by westisbest Sat 02 Dec 2017, 9:26 am

Cardiff scores some decent goals.
Also missed a pen.

Cardiff were at home

by Steffan Sat 02 Dec 2017, 9:45 am

westisbest wrote:Cardiff scores some decent goals.
Also missed a pen.

Cardiff were at home

Why did I think we were at home for? laughing

3 points will do though. Gonna be an exciting end to the season I think for a lot of teams

by dyrewolfe Mon 04 Dec 2017, 4:33 pm

Steffan wrote:
westisbest wrote:Cardiff scores some decent goals.
Also missed a pen.

Cardiff were at home
Why did I think we were at home for?

3 points will do though. Gonna be an exciting end to the season I think for a lot of teams

Certainly not Middlesbrough though. Rumours going round that if we lose to Ipswich, Monk will be gone. To be honest I hope they're true. I'm not normally one for sacking managers mid-season, unless we're in / near the relegation zone, but the last few performances we've just looked absolutely clueless. Worse, Monk has looked & sounded equally clueless in the post-match interviews. He looks haunted, beaten and just keeps repeating the same old crap about taking responsibility and needing to do better. Doesn't sound even remotely convinced he has any idea how to turn things around.

The players have zero belief, confidence or organisation and I'm pretty sure that what it currently a large blip, will become a fairly rapid freefall, if Monk stays.

No idea who we would get to replace him, but if Steve Gibson's got any sense he will already be scouting around for someone in the same mould as Nuno Santo. Someone who can restore some organisation and get us playing effective attacking football. Currently all we can do is pass the ball around the middle of the park. Absolutely toothless going forward and we may as well have cardboard cut-outs in defence.

by westisbest Sat 16 Dec 2017, 5:59 pm

Didn’t think we would win today.
Played 70 minutes with no striker won’t help.

With Kodjia out for the foreseeable future, we could do with getting someone decent in jan. possibly a loan.

by westisbest Sat 23 Dec 2017, 7:42 pm

Poor performance. Lucky to even get a point.
Need to be a bit more aggressive and look like they want it.
2-0 up, then threw it away.
Fair play to Sheffield United.

Really miss Terry and Kodjia.
Would rather play Elphick at centre back than Jedinak.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sat 23 Dec 2017, 9:23 pm

Monk sacked

by Guest Sun 24 Dec 2017, 10:53 am

Sheffield Wednesday have sacked head coach Carlos Carvalhal

by Fernando Tue 26 Dec 2017, 12:01 pm

Tony Pulis named Middlesbrough Manager.

Owen has just hung himself somewhere considering the Poopie he gave Karanka now got a worse version of him Laugh

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Tue 26 Dec 2017, 12:04 pm

by Steffan Fri 29 Dec 2017, 9:46 pm

Had a free ticket for the Cardiff game tonight but been a bit rough and off to Amsterdam on the 1st so elected to watch it on the box. So glad I did. Both teams were poor and at some points it looked more like a game of volleyball. Cardiff were poorest and Preston to be fair worked for their late goal. No chance of going up playing that bad

by westisbest Mon 01 Jan 2018, 7:56 pm

Well, couldn’t of asked for a better start to 2018.

by GSC Mon 08 Jan 2018, 4:32 pm

Speaking of Karanka, sounds like he was waiting to see if he could get the Stoke job before signing here

by westisbest Mon 08 Jan 2018, 7:22 pm

Probably not the best time to play Forest after this weekend, but mainly, first game with new manager at the helm, always tricky for the opposing side.

For us, we need to forget about Saturday and hopefully pick up 3 more points.
Hopefully Bruce will play same side that thumped Bristol City, or very similar at least.

by Steffan Sat 13 Jan 2018, 3:56 pm

4-0 against Sunderland. Yes they are bottom of the league...but given the way we have been playing a anything other than a win could have really been a disaster

I am slightly gutted though. We scored the fourth goal with 5 seconds to go and I stood to win £30 if it had finished 3-0

Ah well...if that fourth goal eventually counts towards promotion I'll take that financial loss Smile

by GSC Sat 13 Jan 2018, 7:02 pm

Darren Ferguson is spot on

by westisbest Sat 13 Jan 2018, 10:30 pm

Goo good win today. Tough game, but a good 3 points.
Good to see Hogan score.

Barnsley home next. Hopefully another 3 points.

by westisbest Sat 20 Jan 2018, 1:18 pm

Interesting to hear that the championship is the third most watched league in Europe.

It’s a great league in fairness.

by Steffan Sat 20 Jan 2018, 2:26 pm

westisbest wrote:Interesting to hear that the championship is the third most watched league in Europe.

It’s a great league in fairness

Yeah it is by far the best second tier in the world. I would still rather be a Bundesliga fan though

Terracing, cheap tickets and you can still have a beer while watching the game as far as I am aware

I sneaked in some vodka when I went to watch Barcelona v Sporting Lisbon last month and drank it with some coke. None of the stewards seemed that bothered to be fair

I am thinking of going to Munich later this year so will try and tie that in with a Bayern Champions League match. Pretty easy to get tickets for anything nowadays

Back to rainy old Britain though...hope we get the 3 needed points against the posher Sheffield club this evening. Live on Sky again thankfully Smile

by GSC Sat 20 Jan 2018, 6:12 pm

by Steffan Sat 20 Jan 2018, 7:27 pm

Happy with the point to keep us above Ashton Vanilla Ice. We certainly didn't deserve a win. News signings looked good though

by Ent Sat 20 Jan 2018, 7:47 pm

westisbest wrote:Interesting to hear that the championship is the third most watched league in Europe.

It’s a great league in fairness.

Not to take away from it being a good league but it's aggregate attendance - championship has 24 teams so about 300 extra games to tot this up compared to the major European leagues.

by Lowlandbrit Wed 24 Jan 2018, 1:45 pm

I see Leeds are rebranding themselves as generic video game team #4.

by westisbest Sun 11 Feb 2018, 8:23 am

Must win game today to go second.
Pretty confident we can make it 7 wins in a row, won’t be easy as the blues are doing better.

Doesn’t matter that we are playing Birmingham, want the win to go second more than anything else.

by Steffan Sat 17 Feb 2018, 4:54 pm

Last 10 minutes were hard to listen to...but 1-0 City and back in auto place

by GSC Tue 06 Mar 2018, 9:41 pm

Decent night for edging away from the bottom 3.

14 clear with 10 to go should make the rest of the season uneventful.

by westisbest Tue 06 Mar 2018, 10:45 pm

Very tight up near the top end.

Fulham seem to be the team to watch now.
Ourselves and Cardiff picking up wins again.

Home to wolves Saturday. Confident we can get the win.

Goal difference could come into it to.

by Guest Sat 10 Mar 2018, 4:55 pm

Mitrovic is on fire

by No name Bertie Sat 10 Mar 2018, 5:39 pm

I think this year Burton will be relegated - they are just too small a club to survive long term in the Championship.

Not sure what's happened to Sunderland - looks like it could be back to back relegation despite the advantage of having the parachute payment.

by westisbest Sat 10 Mar 2018, 9:07 pm

Great win for the Villa.
Had a feeling we would win.
Always needed to be a couple of goals ahead.

Lucky wolves weren’t given that pen at 3-1, not sure how the ref missed it.

Some statement to beat the league leaders 4-1 all the same.

QPR h
Bolton a

Hopefully 6 points.

by Guest Sat 10 Mar 2018, 9:25 pm

Wolves stuttering with Derby, Boro and Cardiff still to play.

Is a total collapse on?

by GSC Sat 10 Mar 2018, 9:27 pm

Rest of the contenders (and Leeds) have conveniently decided now is time to press them on the Mendes links.

Those in glass houses comes to mind...

by GSC Mon 19 Mar 2018, 5:46 pm

As someone who works a few hundred yards away from pride park, I want to reassure everyone I survived the harsh commute today

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 19 Mar 2018, 8:27 pm

Not often Neil Warnock is on the right side of something, but Derby should be punished for calling that off yesterday

Clearly didn't want to play it due to their injury situation

by GSC Mon 19 Mar 2018, 8:34 pm

It was literally far worse a few weeks ago than it was Sunday. And I made it into work both days without any issues.

by dyrewolfe Fri 23 Mar 2018, 1:05 pm

GSC wrote:It was literally far worse a few weeks ago than it was Sunday. And I made it into work both days without any issues.

I actually got snowed in for the first time ever, a couple of weeks ago. Only a foot of powder and 2-3 inches of compacted snow, but it was enough to stop my car going anywhere. Found I could cycle through / over it though. Modern cars suck!

Anyway, back on topic, Pulis hasn't turned out to be a total nightmare, as some of us feared. Results & performances were no better than under Monk for a while, but we seem to be getting a bit of form and team spirit now. Unbeaten in 6 and won 4 of those.

Still don't think we have much to play for. Even if we finish in the play-offs, there are a couple of teams above us who are significantly better / more consistent. That said Pulis has done a good job of organising us and getting our attacking players performing - indications of a better 2018-19 season?

Also keeping an eye on how Karanka does at Forest...good luck to him.

Oh and Leeds fans have stopped giving us grief over Monk now... Very Happy

by westisbest Sat 31 Mar 2018, 1:53 pm

Some win for Sunderland last night.

by GSC Sun 01 Apr 2018, 10:50 am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-5555645/Derbys-1m-scouting-report-recommended-sign-Kylian-Mbappe-Ousmane-Dembele.html

No idea how I never saw this Laugh

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Mon 02 Apr 2018, 12:42 pm

I see Forest have called off a game today with a waterlogged pitch when they have players out injured.

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