Who do we want to play next season?

[WestYorksRoyal]

Brum in L1 would be interesting. Very ambitious, wealthy owners but as we have learnt that's no guarantee of success. But if they may better decisions, they could blow everyone out of the water financially.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

I haven't even considered thinking about this until we're past the finish line.

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You can think about it now m8

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Go on Donny. Great little club. And a cool crest.

Easy 6 points too not lost to them since 1982

Love Donny to make it, and its 40 mins up the A1 for me

You either drive fast or you’ve moved away from mid Sussex

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Huddersfield relegated barring favourable results on the final day, plus a huge goal difference swing. They’ll be joined by one of Birmingham, Plymouth, Sheff Wed or Blackburn.

The League Two play-offs will be: Milton Keynes vs Crawley and Doncaster vs Crewe.

Crawley please.

Come on Crawley

[Jackson Corner]

Brum in L1 would be interesting. Very ambitious, wealthy owners but as we have learnt that's no guarantee of success. But if they may better decisions, they could blow everyone out of the water financially.

Tom Brady really helped there cause

[Clyde1998]

Birmingham next season will be interesting.

We’ll hopefully take a good crowd there.

[East Grinstead Royal]

Can’t believe it’s 30 years since they were in the third tier. They have been fighting relegation for so long, I actually regard the third as their natural home.

[Sutekh]

Can’t believe it’s 30 years since they were in the third tier. They have been fighting relegation for so long, I actually regard the third as their natural home.

Birmingham have only had 2 previous spells in the third tier, at the end of the 80s and into the mid 1990s. They were last relegated to what is league 1 now back in May 1994. They immediately bounced straight back up as champions at the first attempt.

Their first ever season at that level was in 1989/90 when they managed a 7th place finish. Their worst ever league placing followed in 1990/91 when they could only manage 12th place before being promoted as runners up in 1992.

They will be by far the biggest fish in the division next season and anything less than promotion could well see serious ramifications for the club from the owners.

Generally hate games against Birmingham as they always tend to be dour horrible uneventful failures and the more favourite Reading are to win the less they are likely to actually do so. So that'll probably turn out to be one plus point then.

Shame Mowbray is too good a manager to get caught out by tier three football.

[Clyde1998]

Doncaster won 2-0 at Crewe in their play-off first leg. The second leg is on Friday.

[Clyde1998]

Doncaster won 2-0 at Crewe in their play-off first leg. The second leg is on Friday.

Crewe won 2-0 on the night and won the penalty shootout 4-3.

Milton Keynes vs Crawley in the second leg tomorrow.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Doncaster won 2-0 at Crewe in their play-off first leg. The second leg is on Friday.

Crewe won 2-0 on the night and won the penalty shootout 4-3.

Milton Keynes vs Crawley in the second leg tomorrow.

What's our record like against teams starting with "Cr"?

[percy_freeman]

I want to play Oxford.

[Franchise FC]

Doncaster won 2-0 at Crewe in their play-off first leg. The second leg is on Friday.

Crewe won 2-0 on the night and won the penalty shootout 4-3.

Milton Keynes vs Crawley in the second leg tomorrow.

What's our record like against teams starting with "Cr"?

..ap ?

[East Grinstead Royal]

Stunning performance by Crawley tonight - biggest ever win in a play- off away leg and biggest ever aggregate win in the play-offs. Hope they beat Crewe to slightly redress the north v south split in L1 next season.

[Crowbar6753]

Stunning performance by Crawley tonight - biggest ever win in a play- off away leg and biggest ever aggregate win in the play-offs. Hope they beat Crewe to slightly redress the north v south split in L1 next season.

Yes, Crawley would be a fun addition to the league. I watched a bit and still unsure whether Crawley were great or just that Franchise were dire!! Maybe a bit of both.
Franchise FC are such a messed up club. 10,000 fans for a play-off of which 1,700 were from Crawley (Good effort), in a totally soulless stadium which they'll never ever fill!!! What were they thinking building a 25,000 seater stadium

PS just put a bit of thought to this and realized in the early part of the season we had 8,000 in a 25,000 ah well. we had an excuse, our owner is off his trolley!!! it all came good in the end

[skipper]

I want to play Oxford.

Me too!

[East Grinstead Royal]

Stunning performance by Crawley tonight - biggest ever win in a play- off away leg and biggest ever aggregate win in the play-offs. Hope they beat Crewe to slightly redress the north v south split in L1 next season.

Yes, Crawley would be a fun addition to the league. I watched a bit and still unsure whether Crawley were great or just that Franchise were dire!! Maybe a bit of both.
Franchise FC are such a messed up club. 10,000 fans for a play-off of which 1,700 were from Crawley (Good effort), in a totally soulless stadium which they'll never ever fill!!! What were they thinking building a 25,000 seater stadium

PS just put a bit of thought to this and realized in the early part of the season we had 8,000 in a 25,000 ah well. we had an excuse, our owner is off his trolley!!! it all came good in the end

I think MKD were poor right from the start when they gave the ball away for the first goal. They lost the fans at that point. Crawley had a plan and it worked.

We may have had only 8,000 for a midweek fixture, but if we were in a play-off game, it would be close to full. Really don’t see why they have to put away fans so far from the pitch in a less than half full stadium, either. The MKD #18 (Dean) got away with two red card offences. He could have caused serious injury with the chip on his shoulder that he’d had since the first leg. Will be interesting to see how Crewe approach the final, they need to get Crawley onto the back foot early on.

[Sutekh]

Composition now settled. The 24 lucky 3rd division teams next season are:

1. Barnsley
2. Birmingham City
3. Blackpool
4. Bolton Wanderers
5. Bristol Rovers
6. Burton Albion
7. Cambridge United
8. Charlton Athletic
9. Crawley Town
10. Exeter City
11. Huddersfield Town
12. Leyton Orient
13. Lincoln City
14. Mansfield Town
15. Northampton Town
16. Peterborough United
17. Reading
18. Rotherham United
19. Shrewsbury Town
20. Stevenage
21. Stockport County
22. Wigan Athletic
23. Wrexham
24. Wycombe Wanderers

Take your pick for the ups and downs and fave away days etc. reckon most people would currently have the relegated trio plus Bolton and Peterborough as the obvious favourites with Hollywood FC likely to be putting an oar into things. Here's hoping Reading manage to come up with the right loans and freebies to keep themselves in the promotion mix right to the end.

Let's hope Reading get the awkward away games out of the way early on while things are still settling down.

[Snowflake Royal]

Woo! Weve already improved on last season!!

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Huddersfield relegated barring favourable results on the final day, plus a huge goal difference swing. They’ll be joined by one of Birmingham, Plymouth, Sheff Wed or Blackburn.

The League Two play-offs will be: Milton Keynes vs Crawley and Doncaster vs Crewe.

Crawley please.

Come on Crawley