Re: 21st March - Big Night for Pompey
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:35 pm
I am happy with the paly-off principle, but would like to see the semi-finals over just one leg, with the higher placed team being at home.
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Definitely would be fairer, but I guess no club would want to turn down a guaranteed full house, plus tv rights.Pompey Penguin wrote:I am happy with the paly-off principle, but would like to see the semi-finals over just one leg, with the higher placed team being at home.
PakefieldBlue wrote:Wasn't it determined on goals scored rather than goal difference in that season? From that year on I've always thought that a fairer system would be for three teams to enter the play-offs, the top one going straight into the final.
Weybridge wrote:Definitely would be fairer, but I guess no club would want to turn down a guaranteed full house, plus tv rights.Pompey Penguin wrote:I am happy with the paly-off principle, but would like to see the semi-finals over just one leg, with the higher placed team being at home.
I always liked the idea of 5th v 6th, winner plays 4th, then winner of that plays 3rd at Wembley.
Or even 4th place to Wembley and 5th, 6th and 7th play off to join them (3rd place go up automatically).RubiconCSL wrote:I was thinking similar lines, only weighing it even more in favour of the teams further up.Weybridge wrote:Definitely would be fairer, but I guess no club would want to turn down a guaranteed full house, plus tv rights.Pompey Penguin wrote:I am happy with the paly-off principle, but would like to see the semi-finals over just one leg, with the higher placed team being at home.
I always liked the idea of 5th v 6th, winner plays 4th, then winner of that plays 3rd at Wembley.
6th v 5th at 5th's ground.
Winner of above vs 4th at 4th's home ground.
Winner of that vs 3rd at 3rd's home ground.
Furthermore, The away team has to win; a draw gives it to the home team.
So massively weighed in favour of the team in 3rd (as it should be). But the rest will still fight for the play offs for the same reason they do now. If 6th eventually does go up, then they can reasonably fairly say they earned it.
Earl Grey wrote:Or even 4th place to Wembley and 5th, 6th and 7th play off to join them (3rd place go up automatically).RubiconCSL wrote:I was thinking similar lines, only weighing it even more in favour of the teams further up.Weybridge wrote:Definitely would be fairer, but I guess no club would want to turn down a guaranteed full house, plus tv rights.Pompey Penguin wrote:I am happy with the paly-off principle, but would like to see the semi-finals over just one leg, with the higher placed team being at home.
I always liked the idea of 5th v 6th, winner plays 4th, then winner of that plays 3rd at Wembley.
6th v 5th at 5th's ground.
Winner of above vs 4th at 4th's home ground.
Winner of that vs 3rd at 3rd's home ground.
Furthermore, The away team has to win; a draw gives it to the home team.
So massively weighed in favour of the team in 3rd (as it should be). But the rest will still fight for the play offs for the same reason they do now. If 6th eventually does go up, then they can reasonably fairly say they earned it.
But yes, I agree that's far fairer when you think how some of the teams in the past who've just missed out have been so much ahead of the others, including Pompey's infamous fall from grace when Leicester + ref dumped us out. The side that doesn't deserve to be there always have the least pressure on them while the side that nearly got automatic promotion feel the most disgruntled and have the most pressure heaped upon them to rub salt into the wound.