Coca-Cola Championship Thread

[covlad-99]

TODAY'S CHAMPIONSHIP FIXTURES:

Blackpool v Preston, 12:30
Bristol City v Plymouth, 15:00
Burnley v Wolverhampton, 15:00
Colchester v Cardiff, 15:00
Coventry v Sheff Wed, 15:00
Crystal Palace v Barnsley, 15:00
Hull v Southampton, 15:00
Ipswich v Charlton, 15:00
QPR v Scunthorpe, 15:00
Sheff Utd v Norwich, 15:00
Watford v Stoke, 15:00
West Brom v Leicester, 15:00

A few huge fixtures today, especially in the relegation battle as Sheffield Wednesday take on struggling Coventry at the Ricoh Arena. A local derby between West Brom and Leicester should be a very interesting game too, also at the other end, a few play off/ automatic promotion games should give us an insight into who will grab thos promtion spots, with top of the league Bristool City taking on play off hopefuls Plymouth Argyle and Watford facing Stoke.

Blackpool v Preston is 0-0, half time is near...

 

[treva]

Goal on the stroke of half time for Plymouth Seems like we have had most of the ball 2nd half though. Just need Byfield or Adebola to stick 1 in the net in the next 10 or 15 and then I reckon we'll nick it 2-1.

At least the other top 3 are drawing...

EDIT: Arggggh! Falon scored again from a bloody corner. Have to get back in it very soon. But at least Leicester have just scored to make it 2-1...

EDIT 2: LEE TRUNDLE! Finally the £1 mil man has scored after a bit of a goal drought. Penalty. Still 16 mins left and I reckon we can pull this one back, which would be a good result with the way the other games are going.

Damn, couldn't pull it back to 2-1.

Today's Championship Results
Blackpool 0-0 Preston

Bristol City 1-2 Plymouth
Trundle (pen) '74 --- Fallon '45, '59

Burnley 1-3 Wolverhampton
Akinbiyi '76 --- Olofinjana '14, Gray '16, Ebanks-Blake '56

Colchester 1-1 Cardiff
Jackson '71 --- Parry '11

Sent off: Hasselbaink '62 (Cardiff)

Coventry 0-0 Sheff Wed

Crystal Palace 2-0 Barnsley
Soares '45 --- Scowcroft '83

Hull 5-0 Southampton
Campbell '7, Pedersen '55, Turner '57, Marney '68, Hughes '90

Ipswich 2-0 Charlton
Garvan '20, Haynes '53

QPR 3-1 Scunthorpe
Rowlands (pen) '43, Agyemang '79, Vine '90 --- McCann '8

Sheff Utd 2-0 Norwich
Sharp '52, Kilgallon '56

Watford 0-0 Stoke

Sent off: Eustace '23 (Watford)

West Brom 1-4 Leicester
Koren '22 --- McAuley '38, Howard (pen) '59, '79, '86

Sent off: Moore '35 (West Brom)

 

[Deleted member 9102]

Edit: Chris Gayle

 

[Leicester Fox]

Wow @ Leicester. Maybe they're not down, if they've found a way to start putting away the ridiculous amount of chances they keep making then they will stay up but they are the most inconsistent team around so I wouldn't count on it. Fair play to Howard for scoring a hatty after he took so much stick recently from Leicester fans.

 

[Manly]

Town win, keeps us right in the play-off hunt.

Today was only the 2nd full game I have missed this year. Charlton, Leicester and half of Bristol City.

 

[thesweepmaster]

Well, West Brom got destroyed:crying! I do think that if we had 11 men then we may have won that one but we had to go for it when Leicester scored their first. This now means we have to win our next 3 league games which are Charlton (away), Colchester (home) and Cardiff (away). But if we play like we did against Leicester, then it will be good bye promotion again .

 

[Skater]

Norwich 5-1 Colchester is all that needs to be said.

 

[covlad-99]

Wooo! Coventry got a 0-0 draw with Southampton, we needed to win, but nobody in the bottom 6 won! YES! And Leicester lost hahahahah! I'm happy, even though we only drew with Southampton
Bristol City? Lost? Here comes the collapse! Thats losses to Plymouth and Cardiff!And next week, Coventry have Plymouth at home and Peter Halmosi got sent off! Perfect timing Peter! And in 2 appearances for Coventry, Schmeichel has kept two clean sheets! And he made 2 amazing saves today. What a keeper!

Oh, and we signed Richard Duffy on loan from Portsmouth for the 4th time in his career. Even though we haven't actually owned him yet, he has made more appearances for Coventry than any other club!

 

[treva]

Hey, everybody gets a bit of bad form, but I don't see us slipping away! Other teams around us are doing the same thing, and we are still 2nd. Big game next up, in what should be a win at home to Norwich. Stoke drawing and Watford drawing, we are deffo still in the hunt!

 

[H0wZ4T!]

We drew with the Baggies yesterday, it was a fair game, but maybe we should have won it. Good result for Canaries, Lee and Toughie, you will survive. Especially if it goes to the last day, if you know what I mean...

 

[covlad-99]

Yeah, what a goal from Kev Phillips again, super finish.

 

[H0wZ4T!]

We were in the lead, but I won't deny it was an amazing finish.

Outside of the Championship, Newcastle won! Miracle!

 

[thesweepmaster]

We drew with the Baggies yesterday, it was a fair game, but maybe we should have won it.

What do you mean you should have won, West Brom dominated most of the game and I almost broke the ceiling when Gera's shot in the 88th minute hit the bar. I must admit though, if any of you said a point at Charlton after the week we had prior to this, I would have taken it but now I think 2 points dropped to the Baggies but still Stoke, Bristol City and Watford didn't extend their gaps over us, so it's alright.:cool:

 

[treva]

WOOOOO! Top of the league again! Steve Brooker you f***ing beauty! What a call back from Gary Johnson, which has given us the win that could give us the boost till the end of the season. West Brom unfortunately nicked a late one also, but at least Stoke didn't win.

Yesterday's Results
Bristol City 2-1 Norwich

Burnley 2-1 Barnsley

Cardiff 1-0 Southampton

Charlton 2-3 Wolverhampton

Coventry 3-1 Plymouth

Crystal Palace 0-0 Blackpool

Hull 3-0 Watford

Ipswich 0-0 QPR

Leicester 1-0 Scunthorpe

Preston 3-1 Sheff Utd

Sheff Wed 1-1 Stoke

West Brom 4-3 Colchester

Seems there was only 1 away win and 8 home wins yesterday.

 

[thesweepmaster]

Aren't we (West Brom) superb lol! Colchester definately deserved to win and we somehow pulled it out of the bag. Anyway I was in hospital when this was going on after I had a fit and I must say it put a smile back on my face. OH! I almost forgot, I'm going to Wembley this Saturday to watch the Baggies so good luck to Barnsley and Cardiff because I know you'll have Portsmouth in the final but we can dream...