CW if your not doing anything bulls are at Beckenham town this sat at 3

That Tranmere lost in the play-offs that season was very satisfying. I’ve hated both the club and the supporters since the late 1980s.

Anyway was payback for 2004/5, where Tranmere fans said only their team mattered ;)

Yes spit. I think we were back to “too many connections” but I didn’t read it.

That was kind of his point, Swiggy - he argued that points per game had an obvious margin of error when you looked at what PPG would have predicted for previous seasons versus the actual final points total per team. He said if you applied that margin of error across all teams and any team would have sat outside of a relegation zone then they shouldn’t be relegated.

Carsh, people from the Wirral are not scousers

Has wup had a load of trouble loading today?

Ladies team manager leaving at the end of the season

Problem is relegating / promoting teams on what was effectively a "what if?" methodology would have created legal challenges, which have also been based on "what if?" to be true. Points per games already played was a factual basis for making the decision.

Tranmere are scousers and all scousers are whinging bad losers, that is all

I had to go and check. It was 2004/5. They beat a weakened Tranmere side on the last day to stay in League 1 on goal difference.

That is to say that the Tranmere owner’s system would have meant neither them nor us got relegated. It was a sensible system where teams only got relegated if there was no reasonable chance for them to have survived based on a margin of error of predicted end of season points from all remaining games. The margin of error was based on calculations over the previous x seasons so was statistically valid.

Same as Alan I link Tranmere’s hatred of us with the Covid season cessation voting. Their owner at the time did have a very plausible and mathematically valid alternative but their end result was that fewer teams got relegated and the EFL/FA wanted to keep it clean in terms of not reducing the number of teams relegated or promoted. I had some sympathy with them because it did appear that without Covid they would have probably overtaken us and survived, but some of their fans were right wet lettuces about it so ah well.

A PE teacher at one of my schools said football was about decision making and pace, build etc came after that. Of course, you had to have the basic skills to a high level. He played in the States in the 90s on a football sholarship so was probably no mug.

I know Tranmer hate us because of the Covid season halting of leagues were decided against a system they wanted which would have kept them up and sent us down, but the league didn't accept their gerrymandering and went with one of their own, points per game.

Do I remember a falling out with a team, maybe even Tranmere, because they were in the playoffs and played a weakened side against Franchise on the last day, saving the latter from relegation?

Trouble is they play Bradford on the last day it’s highly likely that before that Bradford will have confirmed that they’re not getting automatic promotion and aren’t going to be knocked out of the playoff spots.

So, assuming worse case, and we don't get anymore pts, I reckon Exeter are extremely unlikely to get their 4pts from four draws. They have to WIN on of those games. Burton Alb away on the 25th looks the best chance with Plymouth (8th), Stockport (5th) & Bradford (3rd) all chasing playoffs

Meadow agree, the players in the 91, generally have fast thought processing than non-league which in my view makes them equipped for that level without needing the legs. In the pro game, there have been some exceptional thinkers that despite not being the quickest, their instincts gave them yardage to compensate.

Or even one G and two Ts!!

It’s Pigott. Two g’s and two t’s. HTH

Depends how many G&Ts you've had RK.

Never mine this two-week ceasefire, all I want to know is the correct spelling of Joe's surname. How many Gs and how many Ts

In reference to Joe Piggot, Lyle Taylor has scored shedloads of goals for Chelmsford. Could he and pigs score for us? Probably not, those days are gone.

Joe Pigott has scored 17 goals in 33 appearances in all competitions as Folkestone won the Isthmian premier division title with 4 games to spare.