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SKII

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A symmetry to us going back up as Hamilton go down or United getting out of jail at the first attempt despite a meh season? We'll soon know...
 
SKII said:
A symmetry to us going back up as Hamilton go down or United getting out of jail at the first attempt despite a meh season? We'll soon know...
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Listened to the first leg midweek. Sounded like Accies should have sown it up then. (Apart from the dodgy pen decision)
 
Did I really just hear the Dundee United fans singing "what a shitey home support?" I though it was Americans who didn't do irony.
 
might be the only one here wanting united to stay down another season...partly outs wanting to send Hamilton down next season...and partly because I want us to steal a march on united for a little while, we have enough big teams to contend with ...maybe I'm just bad
 
Davy said:
might be the only one here wanting united to stay down another season...partly outs wanting to send Hamilton down next season...and partly because I want us to steal a march on united for a little while, we have enough big teams to contend with ...maybe I'm just bad
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Nope, your not. I want United to stay down for the same reasons. That and a pre-match visit to the Equis chippy is a highlight of any trip to Hamilton.

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Davy said:
might be the only one here wanting united to stay down another season...partly outs wanting to send Hamilton down next season...and partly because I want us to steal a march on united for a little while, we have enough big teams to contend with ...maybe I'm just bad
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I know a few folk who are not wanting United up yet. More about sense of them suffering a bit more like we did. Most folk I know just only really cared about Houston failing though...
 
SKII said:
I know a few folk who are not wanting United up yet. More about sense of them suffering a bit more like we did. Most folk I know just only really cared about Houston failing though...
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Makes it harder for Falkirk next season too
 
Other than Utd scoring a late winner against Falkirk and that was poetic justice, they have done nothing of note this season and didn't deserve promotion. Bleak times ahead in the Championship, they had a few good seasons with Hibs, Rangers and Hearts boosting attendences. Hope they have budgetd for the coming seasons, cant see Utd taking many away fans and deminishing interest from TV could sadly be a disaster for some of the clubs.

Some good and long missed away games ahead next season for Hibs:yas::yas:
 
Best team won without a doubt. Not many football players in that Utd team.
Dundee Utd could be in big trouble now, which Scottish football can ill afford. Their chairman is a grade A bampot.
 
Travel costs will go up for the clubs with ICT in the league too. The cash cows have all gone up now.
 
Davy said:
might be the only one here wanting united to stay down another season...partly outs wanting to send Hamilton down next season...and partly because I want us to steal a march on united for a little while, we have enough big teams to contend with ...maybe I'm just bad
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Also glad they stayed down
Wanted them to suffer like we had to it's only fair
 
Have to say I think this play off set up is brutal for teams in the championship. Such a huge advantage for the SPL clubs having the extra rest. Should scrap it all together. Two go down and two go up. If not that, then second bottom play second top over two legs.
 
Massively weighted in favour of the SPFL team, the only thing I can think of to balance things up a little is that said SPFL team has to be managed by Terry Butcher.
 
SuperTortolano said:
Have to say I think this play off set up is brutal for teams in the championship. Such a huge advantage for the SPL clubs having the extra rest. Should scrap it all together. Two go down and two go up. If not that, then second bottom play second top over two legs.
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In terms of having to play twice a week it is, but Hamilton did play up till last weekend. I agree with 2nd and 2nd last, but I suppose the league bosses are trying to make less middle table games near seasons end, encouraging teams o either play into the play off position or out of relegation play off. Def adds to the precarious nature of the system and keeps an interest
 
I'm sure we said that the rest in between our play off with Rangers stiffled us and they were on a winning streak/form, it's a double edge sword. McKinnon has said his team were blowing out their arses today due to congested games but the championship finished eartlier and Hamilton still had league games to play, pretty sure it was 2 games a few days apart.

Just hope we are no where near a play off situation for a long time to come. Be intersting to see how utd will do with Keatings and King joining, be a good chunk of there wage budget gone already.
 
SuperTortolano said:
Have to say I think this play off set up is brutal for teams in the championship. Such a huge advantage for the SPL clubs having the extra rest. Should scrap it all together. Two go down and two go up. If not that, then second bottom play second top over two legs.
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Spot on

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No surprise whatsoever that Hamilton saved themselves from the drop today. United having had to play six play off matches with all the physical and mental demands that that ensues within a ridiculously short period of time eventually took it's toll in todays performance and result. Hamilton just had to prepare for two such demanding high pressure matches. Todays result just re-emphasises just how important it was for Hibs to win the league and get automatic promotion this season.

The play-offs in Scotland, especially in their current format, are a joke IMO and I have been saying this from the day and hour they were first introduced. If we are going to insist on having play-offs then it should be second bottom of the SPL v second top of the Championship over two legs just as it used to be. For a club like Morton finishing fourth in the second tier of Scottish football to have a chance of playing in the top league the following season is just farcical IMO. Clubs should be rewarded on their final league finishing place..nothing else. This final league placing is the best indicator of just how good or bad your club has performed over the course of a 10 month season...a much better indicator of how well equipped or otherwise a team is to meet the challenge of the top league. This..yet again..was just another attempt by the people who run the game in Scotland to copy England. I don't agree with the play-offs down there either.

Good luck to United in their attempts to win the league next season. They have a good manager in Ray McKinnon and a few good players but not enough to deserve promotion. They could not score one single goal over two legs against Hamilton. That fact plus finishing third in the Scottish Championship for me are the clearest indicator there are that they did not deserve to be promoted to the top league.
 
Joke format or not - it was the only one the Prem teams were going to allow.
And let's be honest, without the play off system over the last few years both the top flight and second tier leagues would've been dead as a dodo.
 
brianmc said:
Joke format or not - it was the only one the Prem teams were going to allow.And let's be honest, without the play off system over the last few years both the top flight and second tier leagues would've been dead as a dodo.
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It was the trade off for there being more money going into the championship and better parachute payments for the relegated sides. There was no way the top league would allow one sixth of their teams to be automatically relegated every season
 
The play offs have all been dramatic, which from a marketing perspective is exactly what the league would have wanted. The format is designed to favour the Premiership team (only we have been relegated through them) but as others have said that was the trade off for reintroducing them.

On a side note, massive credit to Hamilton. They are a well run club who understand their financial limitations, and focus on continually producing young players. As for Dundee United, they face the real prospect of being stuck down there for a long time. They are already in financial struggles, and don't have the resources or fan base of the last three Championship winners to fall back on. That division will be highly competitive, but I fancy St. Mirren to win it.
 
United will be praying that Hull sell Robertson for good money as I think they are entitled to a sell on fee which by the sounds of it they will need
 
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