Maybe next year

We played really well today, but it was not enough

Good luck to the teams in the play-offs, except Watford

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Maybe next year

We played really well today, but it was not enough

Good luck to the teams in the play-offs, except Watford

Cheers to your boys for keeping Hull out of the last auto promotion spot.

C'mon Stoke!

Happy days....

Good luck to Stoke next season - the rest of us need you and the Albion to prove teams can come up and do well.

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Good luck to Stoke next season - the rest of us need you and the Albion to prove teams can come up and do well.

Cheers ROTF.

I can't believe that Pulis has pulled it off.

We're only a small club and his budget was tiny compared to some the big spenders in the same division.

If we manage to stay up without breaking the bank, he'll have to Knighted.

It was thirty years ago today Bobby Robson taught the team to play -

Please click here to see my favourite cup final of all time (1978)

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Maybe next year

We played really well today, but it was not enough

I have to say mate I was glad Ipswich Town are not to be promoted as for a start, like Charlton, they get referred to as "lovely" club.
The Premiership is a place for big city clubs
(the more northerly based the better). I would like to think Leeds United will again one day sit at the top table as although many of their fans are evil the club has stature - unlike the Ipswich's of this world.

I would prefer to see Doncaster, Southend or Carlisle in the Championship than Leeds next year - one of their fans threw a brick at me on Thursday 27th March 1975 after we beat them 3-2 in the FA Cup 6th Round, 3rd Replay, which was played on neutral ground at Filbert Street. Clive Woods scored the winner with a fantastic shot that he bent around the keeper from 35 yards. The only time I've ever felt threatened at a football match. I was simply walking back to a coach to go home.

That same year we lost to West Ham in a semi-final replay at Stamford Bridge. We were robbed by the dreadful Clive Thomas. West Ham supporters who were there agreed with this sentiment, but there was no animosity. Our supporters wished them all the best in the final and their supporters were honest enough to admit Bryan Hamilton's and Clive Woods's goals should have counted.

I don't agree the Premier League is for big city clubs, it is for whoever gets sufficient points to be promoted - this year: WBA and Stoke and I wish them both well - I think the secret of their success was getting more points than the rest of the teams in the Championship. Interestingly, Ipswich has bigger crowds than many who play in the Premier League, despite being a relative small town. We even took 10,000 supporters to Milan for a EUFA cup match a few years ago (we lost 4-1 but it was a great game). We have also supplied England's two most successful managers: Sir Alf and Sir Bobby and possibly one who'll do great things in Scotland: GB. So we are not undeserving, but it's points that count. I've no complaints - all the teams in the play-off deserve to be there except Watford (a lot of Watford supporters agree with this).

I think it is great that it'll be Pompey or Cardiff winning the FA Cup. I'd sooner win the FA Cup than the Champions League (not that the Tractor Boys are likely to do either).

The most exciting game I've ever seen was Ipswich 4 Barnsley 2 in the play-off final - what fantastic supporters the Tykes are. Would have been nice to see Barnsley win the FA Cup.

ATB Rotf