| Eliminator Playoffs 13:23 - Sep 11 with 723 views | slmrstid |
Anyone for more Americanisation of the sport...?
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6618936/2025/09/11/championship-promotion-playo
Here's a novel idea, perhaps all 24 teams in the league could play each other in a set of 46 play-off matches, with the teams being awarded points for how they get on in these play-off matches, then at the end of the season the team with the most play-off points get promoted?
All the excitement of the play-offs, for nine months of the year! |  | | |  |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 13:25 - Sep 11 with 706 views | Northernr |
I don't know how anybody watches Bristol City in the play-offs last season and thinks let's have the 8th-placed team in as well. |  | | |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 13:47 - Sep 11 with 624 views | charmr |
I tell ya it’s a disease these corprate money grabbing charlatans. Look at FIFA as well with their distribution of WC tickets.
Are we not men. No we are devo |  | | |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 13:48 - Sep 11 with 624 views | TheChef |
FFS they can't help themselves tinkering every two minutes. |  |
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| Eliminator Playoffs on 13:58 - Sep 11 with 570 views | loftupper |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 13:25 - Sep 11 by Northernr |
I don't know how anybody watches Bristol City in the play-offs last season and thinks let's have the 8th-placed team in as well. |
As a viewing spectacle then you are absolutely correct! but for a fan, keeping that dream alive for one more game is priceless :)
More money for the clubs, albeit at the expense of us fans | | | |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 15:19 - Sep 11 with 414 views | DannyPaddox |
The 24 teams in the championship should be divided into 6 groups of 4. The top 2 teams of each group automatically qualify. The best 4 3rd place teams also qualify. The remaining 2 3rd place teams + the 6 4th place teams then have 4 play offs The play off winners qualify along with the 4 best losers of the 4 play offs. All 24 teams who have qualified play in a 46 game league where each team plays each other home and away. Top two are automatically promoted. Next 4 teams have a play-off. The bottom 3 teams plus any team with an ‘x’ in its name are relegated. |  | | |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 15:41 - Sep 11 with 382 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
I'm to too tight to fork out for access past the paywall, can some explain the gist? [Post edited 11 Sep 15:41]
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| Eliminator Playoffs on 16:23 - Sep 11 with 278 views | slmrstid |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 15:41 - Sep 11 by BazzaInTheLoft |
I'm to too tight to fork out for access past the paywall, can some explain the gist? [Post edited 11 Sep 15:41]
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Peter Ridsdale wants to extend the play-offs to incorporate the 7th and 8th place sides also.
Not sure why him, given Preston won't finish anywhere near it anyway. | | | |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 16:25 - Sep 11 with 268 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 16:23 - Sep 11 by slmrstid |
Peter Ridsdale wants to extend the play-offs to incorporate the 7th and 8th place sides also.
Not sure why him, given Preston won't finish anywhere near it anyway. |
Peter Ridsdale lost me at Peter Ridsdale haha.
Another one who shouldn't be able to pass the fit and proper test. | | | |
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| Eliminator Playoffs on 16:31 - Sep 11 with 243 views | daveB |
It's what they do in Non league with the playoffs at the moment
Can see why they are looking at it to keep excitement going, not sure about it though |  | | |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 16:36 - Sep 11 with 230 views | daveB |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 15:41 - Sep 11 by BazzaInTheLoft |
I'm to too tight to fork out for access past the paywall, can some explain the gist? [Post edited 11 Sep 15:41]
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Playoffs would go down to 8th
You've then have 5th v 8th and 6th v 7th.
2 winners then go into the semi finals against 3rd and 4th
So last year would have been Coventry v Millwall winners play Sheff Utd
and Bristol City v Blackburn winners play Sunderland | | | |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 16:48 - Sep 11 with 204 views | Watford_Ranger |
I like the system they have in non-league. In theory it should give a big advantage to the teams finishing higher in the league though it doesn’t always work out that way. | | | |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 17:39 - Sep 11 with 128 views | QPR_Hibs |
In Rugby Union, the team that finishes top doesn't even win the thing. They have play offs to see who are the champions. Madness. |  |
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| Eliminator Playoffs on 17:55 - Sep 11 with 97 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Why have playoffs at all?
Not a fan, 2014 aside. | | | |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 18:14 - Sep 11 with 38 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Eliminator Playoffs on 17:55 - Sep 11 by BazzaInTheLoft |
Why have playoffs at all?
Not a fan, 2014 aside. |
Imagine how dull this league would be if the one slightly realistic chance of promotion was taken away for the majority of the division. Pretty much any team can have a great season and scrape sixth. To finish third is beyond probably 15 teams’ wildest dreams at least and risks making the Prem even more of a closed shop than it already is. | | | |
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