Play-offs

[CygnusX1]

Why do the play-off finals this BH weekend, kick off at 1 minute past the hour?

Sat 3:01pm Sheffield Utd v Sunderland
Sun 1:01pm Charlton v L Orient
Mon 3:01pm Wimbledon v Walsall

 

[Jackareme]

A minutes silence for Cardiff relegation

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

A minutes silence for Cardiff relegation

A minutes applause, surely?

 

[stevethejack]

It's the - it only takes a minute campaign to publicise people learning CPR.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

It's the - it only takes a minute campaign to publicise people learning CPR.

Too late for Cardiff unfortunately....

 

[CygnusX1]

It's the - it only takes a minute campaign to publicise people learning CPR.

Ah, CPR - Cardiff Prepare for Relegation

 

[sainthelens]

A minutes silence for Cardiff relegation

I recall the day we played Reading in the final, those cvnts tried hijacking it by sacking their manager the same day.

 

[cockett_jack]

I recall the day we played Reading in the final, those cvnts tried hijacking it by sacking their manager the same day.

I wonder how things would have all played out had they got past Reading in the semi finals. At the very least the M4 and Paddington would have been…interesting

 

[bakajack]

That promotion season had some incredible moments

The 4-3 win against Boro where we looked dead and buried with 30 mins to play

The 3-0 win against Norwich which left their manager Paul Lambert calling us the best side in the league

The 3-0 win against Leeds where we completely outclassed them from the 1st minute to the last

The 0-0 playoff first leg against Forest, the first half you would think Forest were the side with 10 men we so completely outplayed and overwhelmed them and it was only Lee Camp at his best that kept the scores at 0-0

 

[J_B]

That promotion season had some incredible moments

The 4-3 win against Boro where we looked dead and buried with 30 mins to play

The 3-0 win against Norwich which left their manager Paul Lambert calling us the best side in the league

The 3-0 win against Leeds where we completely outclassed them from the 1st minute to the last

The 0-0 playoff first leg against Forest, the first half you would think Forest were the side with 10 men we so completely outplayed and overwhelmed them and it was only Lee Camp at his best that kept the scores at 0-0

Yeah, Beattie scoring that injury time winner at Boro, a game in which Marvin Emnes scored for them, was insane.
A lot of ups and downs, we lost 14 games that season which is a lot, but we didn’t draw many so won a lot.
Forest home and Wembley in the playoffs. Sheer madness.

 

[BLAZE]

And Leroy Lita scored for them - one ex-Swan, and one soon-to-be Swan

Still my favourite away game. For some reason I always remember it as us scoring 3 goals in the final 10 minutes. It wasn't quite that dramatic but it felt it. It really hurt them, it was raining bottles when we left the stadium

 

[bakajack]

And Leroy Lita scored for them - one ex-Swan, and one soon-to-be Swan

Still my favourite away game. For some reason I always remember it as us scoring 3 goals in the final 10 minutes. It wasn't quite that dramatic but it felt it. It really hurt them, it was raining bottles when we left the stadium

I will admit to watching that game on a dodgy stream

I had turned the stream off at half time as it looked like we couldn't score in a brothel. I just happened to check the scores with 20 mins to play and desperately tried to get the stream back on just barely managing it a few mins before Beattie's winner

 

[Ringwood]

The Reading game was epic but would have been Shambolic if Cardiff got there.

Always remember driving through Melksham to join the M4 stopping at Membury Services thinking it won't be too busy there

 

[AusinIsOurHero]

I remember talking with my mates about the possibility of Cardiff in the final.
My anxiety was sky high just thinking about playing them in the final - I would have hated actually having to actually play them.

 

[JackSomething]

That promotion season had some incredible moments

The 4-3 win against Boro where we looked dead and buried with 30 mins to play

The 3-0 win against Norwich which left their manager Paul Lambert calling us the best side in the league

The 3-0 win against Leeds where we completely outclassed them from the 1st minute to the last

The 0-0 playoff first leg against Forest, the first half you would think Forest were the side with 10 men we so completely outplayed and overwhelmed them and it was only Lee Camp at his best that kept the scores at 0-0

Memories are so unreliable. If you'd asked me about the promotion season before you posted that, I would have thought about us rampaging through the Championship that season and being unlucky to not get promoted automatically.

Yet the truth is that we lost 14 games as you say (more than all 3 other playoff teams and only 5 less than we lost this season!) and only spent a few weeks in the top 2. We were inconsistent early on and struggled to get the striker position right, even while Sinclair was banging them in regularly. We tried Beattie, Moore, Priskin, Nouble, Easter to not much success, although I do remember Beattie's beauty away at Ipswich. It was only when Rodgers started Dobbie regularly that things improved and then Borini came in of course.

I was looking at the results from that season, games like Boro and Ipswich away, Norwich and Leeds home are the ones I remember most, alongside the derby games of course. I'd completely forgotten beating Palace 3-0 home and away. I clearly remember Borini's debut, scoring twice as we beat Forest 3-2, with the other goal being that brilliant run and shot from Sinclair. I didn't remember that was our only win in 5 games, losing 3 of the others.

Of course the playoff games are very clear in my memory and hopefully will be for a long time. I agree with others that it was a very good thing for us and football that Cardiff lost to Reading.