Play off race

[MarkBRFC]

I think this could be the biggest damp squib of a day ever.

Starts off full of excitement, only to be 2-0 down by half time, with Cov and Bristol both 1-0 up.

[RevidgeBlue]

1 hour ago, TheRevAshton said:

Knowing our luck, the results will go our way... then we'll get smashed 3-0 off Sheff Utd's B team 😅

But no, on a serious note - come on lads! Just focus on winning our game, then see what unfolds 💙

I have this nagging thought that we'll do our bit, Coventry wont win, but Preston and Burnley will somehow contrive to win and lose respectively and sink us.

Shades of 1980 when "On that famous Saturday Preston fucked it up" as the song went.

Like you say, all we can do is win our game and see what happens. It's never ideal when it's not in your own hands but it's a miracle we still have a slight chance after the run we went on.

[norwichblue]

24 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

I think this could be the biggest damp squib of a day ever.

Starts off full of excitement, only to be 2-0 down by half time, with Cov and Bristol both 1-0 up.

The odds suggest that you’re right.

But… surely the football gods can give us something to smile about after such a long period of misery!?

Anything can happen in this league.

[norwichblue]

If we do lose, I just really hope that Bristol do their part and Preston drop.

[Ricky]

43 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

I think this could be the biggest damp squib of a day ever.

Starts off full of excitement, only to be 2-0 down by half time, with Cov and Bristol both 1-0 up.

And then we come back to win 3-2 with Preston getting a 97th minute equaliser! 

[RoverCanada]

49 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

I think this could be the biggest damp squib of a day ever.

Starts off full of excitement, only to be 2-0 down by half time, with Cov and Bristol both 1-0 up.

Or 2017 vibes, up 2-0 early in our must-win game against Brentford, then (ironically!) staring at our phones cheering on Bristol and Ipswich for the rest of the match...

That was a friend's GF's first live football game. Still laugh at her post-game review: "It was kind of fun, but then everyone at the end got so sad ☹️" (she's not at all a football fan, despite now being married to a former PL Academy player haha)

[joey_big_nose]

12 hours ago, norwichblue said:

I think it’s Bristol’s and Cov’s to lose. Both of them have the advantage of the home crowd roaring them on. On the flip side, Boro can be brilliant on their day, and Preston’s lives depend on it. Hopefully the Neanderthals down the road don’t lose the only game we don’t want them to.

There’s an actual chance though now isn’t there. Can’t believe we’ve gone from 0.2% chance to what we have now. At 0-2 down against Wednesday I was in total bloody despair.

It's all so Championship.... completely mental. Once you take out the parachute clubs the correlation between net money spent and where you finish in the league is pretty low. Lots of teams that spend big are at the bottom, and lots of clubs who spend bugger all are around the playoffs. 

It gives you hope that if we can bin off Venkys and get a local coalition we can still be competitive. 

[wilsdenrover]

39 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I have this nagging thought that we'll do our bit, Coventry wont win, but Preston and Burnley will somehow contrive to win and lose respectively and sink us.

Shades of 1980 when "On that famous Saturday Preston fucked it up" as the song went.

Like you say, all we can do is win our game and see what happens. It's never ideal when it's not in your own hands but it's a miracle we still have a slight chance after the run we went on.

It depends whose hands its in instead 😁😁

[forest-of-ewood]

I can see us doing our part against the odds but a 96th minute Coventry goal to sink us as Boro throw players forward searching for a winner. 

[LeftWinger]

4 minutes ago, forest-of-ewood said:

I can see us doing our part against the odds but a 96th minute Coventry goal to sink us as Boro throw players forward searching for a winner. 

96th minute winner scored by their keeper handballing it again. 

[superniko]

Here are the 81 different combination of results between the the playoff contenders:

21% chance of Rovers finishing in the Top 6

This becomes 66% chance IF Rovers are confirmed as a Win (i.e. 66% chance that 2+ of Millwall, Coventry, Bristol City fail to win)

Edited Tuesday at 14:46 by superniko

[DeeCee]

It's nice to dream and be positive but who seriously thinks we'll be in the play offs, never mind win them?

Edited Tuesday at 17:47 by DeeCee
Worse grammar than usual

[arbitro]

8 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

It's nice to dream and be positive but who seriously thinks we'll be in the play offs, never mind win them?

Three weeks ago who would have thought that we would be in with even a slim playoff chance?

The only certainty about following Rovers is the uncertainty.

[StHelensRover]

4 hours ago, DeeCee said:

It's nice to dream and be positive but who seriously thinks we'll be in the play offs, never mind win them?

My heart is encouraging me to dream and that's why I'll be there on Sat like I have been at every final game of the last few seasons with blood pressure exploding.

My head is telling me we'll be two down after 20 mins watching Sheff Utd knock it about while their fans laugh at us. Without points deductions they would have 91 points which most seasons would be winning the title or there abouts. I think they have more to play for than Leicester did last year as well. No way do they want to lose to a team they would then have to play away from home five days later. So sadly I think our chance is tiny!

It's the hope that kills you (me)! I will give them my full throated backing on Saturday come what may.. COYB

Edited Tuesday at 21:56 by StHelensRover

[Cuppliance]

19 hours ago, LeftWinger said:

96th minute winner scored by their keeper handballing it again. 

I remember Clinton Morrison's response to that handball.

"Just let it go, this is great drama, a late equalizer scored by a goalkeeper, I don't want it to be disallowed"

[MarkBRFC]

I'd be a lot more nervous if we were sat in the top 6 going into the game.

It's out of our hands so I'm pretty relaxed about it all.

[Paul Mellelieu]

I think it's nailed on that both Bristol and Coventry win and we draw.

[norwichblue]

9 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

I think it's nailed on that both Bristol and Coventry win and we draw.

There’s absolutely nothing nailed on in this league!

[lraC]

2 hours ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

I think it's nailed on that both Bristol and Coventry win and we draw.

I just checked and the odds on that sequence of results is 11.33/1. 

Ask yourself if you would risk £100 on that and the suggestion that it is nailed on, then seems to be one that makes less sense. 

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

On 29/04/2025 at 09:29, MarkBRFC said:

I think this could be the biggest damp squib of a day ever.

Starts off full of excitement, only to be 2-0 down by half time, with Cov and Bristol both 1-0 up.

I think we will win and still not make it, which will be incredibly painful 

And besides all the obvious wretches that I will blame, Stoke City's goalkeeper is also on my list 

[Crimpshrine]

On 29/04/2025 at 09:57, norwichblue said:

 

But… surely the football gods can give us something to smile about after such a long period of misery!?

I think we used up our luck last year due to a Leicester no-show. If they had needed a result we would have gone down.

[Norbert Rassragr]

We'll be there if we score 1 more goal at one point......then concede 2

 

[Upside Down]

When have Preston North End ever done us a favour.

They're that small time most of them would probably take relegation if it meant we don't finish in the playoffs.