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Play-off winners (sorry, bit minority this poll)

Leeds	0 votes - 0 %
Southend	0 votes - 0 %
Carlisle	0 votes - 0 %
Doncaster	2 votes - 100 %

2 Total Votes

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WIPO: Did someone say Intertoto cup? by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #1 Mon May 12, 2008 at 08:06:32 AM EST

: Intertoto cup is weird by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #3 Mon May 12, 2008 at 08:19:12 AM EST

Overcomplicates things
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Ok Ok already by Phage (4.00 / 1) #2 Mon May 12, 2008 at 08:15:26 AM EST

You're about the fifth person to recommend that book. I do suspect that Kent would have been slagged into glass however, and be completely unihabitable for millenia. (Ref Level 7)

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Level 7 looks good by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #4 Mon May 12, 2008 at 08:22:26 AM EST

Wish listed!

I think even if you don't like Riddley Walker you'll admire its style and daring.

As a Cold War geek I was a bit annoyed that Russel Hoban though only Canterbury would be nuked in the whole of east Kent. I very much doubt it.

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: Indeed by Phage (4.00 / 1) #13 Mon May 12, 2008 at 09:48:06 AM EST

An unbroken glassy plain with only dust-devils to stir the ash...

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Aaagh... by Metatone (4.00 / 2) #5 Mon May 12, 2008 at 08:23:39 AM EST

I can't vote in that poll. Any kind of prediction might be a jinx....

More seriously, Southend held us and got one of ours sent off, but we have home advantage. So they get away goals advantage.

So... err... I darkly suspect Southend will go through.

I also suspect that Carlisle's bad run of form will continue, so you should have a good run at it.

0-0 is OK away from home by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #6 Mon May 12, 2008 at 08:26:16 AM EST

I don't want to jinx things either, but I think it'll be a Doncaster-Leeds final. Couldn't predict any further than that though, too close to call.

Awful though, isn't it? Why do we put ourselves through this?

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Oh, c'mon. It's great. by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #7 Mon May 12, 2008 at 09:23:45 AM EST

Much better than not being involved, wouldn't you say? I'd like both Donny and Leeds to go up, though, which clearly can't happen.

Yesterday was a real rollercoaster. Yak scored, then West Ham, so everything was looking sweet. Then both Villa and Newcastle equalised, and I started to get that Englandescent sinking feeling. Then Villa went one-up and I resigned myself to "Bloody" Michael Owen killing us off. It all flipped the other way, though. Lescott scored and Ashton equalised at Upton Park. Blighters dispatched. Superb.

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Hehe... by Metatone (4.00 / 1) #8 Mon May 12, 2008 at 09:27:45 AM EST

Easy for you to say today... You're in the [crap] Cup next year!

And if someone gets some bionic joints for Cahill then you're in with a decent chance of winning it.

Although there seem to be ongoing stirrings about Moyes' contract situation?

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Yeah by yicky yacky (2.00 / 0) #10 Mon May 12, 2008 at 09:37:34 AM EST

I freely concede that, had things gone the other way, I might be slightly less chipper.

Moyes' contract is supposedly being renegotiated. I'm not too worried, as he seems quite calm about it. It's not like there are many better jobs on offer (although Chelsea is an extreme outside bet, but I imagine he'd be about tenth in the queue) and he's done really well. The word on the street is that it's more to do with how much he'll have to spend rather than his own wages, as I can't see there being a problem with the latter. I've also heard a vague rumour that the credit crunch means they're reinvestigating stadium sites within the city, but don't put too much stock in it.

0-0 isn't too bad for Donny. There's the away goals risk (I think I'd like to see the away goals rule overturned, actually) but, if you can't beat them at home ... etc.

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Away goals is interesting... by Metatone (4.00 / 1) #12 Mon May 12, 2008 at 09:42:51 AM EST

I prefer neutral ground knockout games overall, because it seems to me that generically "home advantage" isn't what it used to be. As such the rationale for "away goals" sort of falls away.

However, them's the rules and as you say, if you can't win at home you don't deserve to go through. Now to work on scabbing a ticket...

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Not just saying this because it'd help Leeds by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #15 Mon May 12, 2008 at 10:13:07 AM EST

But I've wondered whether goal difference could come into it more when it comes to deciding who goes up. It's certainly the measure of a team. Might stop boring Chelsea-type tactics as well.

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Well G/D counts for the automatic places... by Metatone (4.00 / 1) #18 Mon May 12, 2008 at 01:21:12 PM EST

but they invented the playoffs to make more money by keeping more teams "interested" all the way to the end of the season.

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According to the GU podcast, by yicky yacky (4.00 / 2) #21 Mon May 12, 2008 at 04:22:46 PM EST

the away goals rule isn't in force for the Football League play-offs, so you're sitting a bit prettier if true. We won't mention nebbish ...

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Right... by Metatone (4.00 / 1) #22 Mon May 12, 2008 at 04:48:26 PM EST

I was only following his match on the net, but it seems they went to sleep twice at the back. Still they can pull 2-1 back.

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: God by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #25 Mon May 12, 2008 at 06:52:43 PM EST

That was the worst radio programme I've ever listened to :)
We might be able to pull it back if we play much, much better, we were really shit.
Seemed the team were intimidated by their own supporters, which would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.
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Lol by nebbish (4.00 / 2) #26 Mon May 12, 2008 at 06:54:01 PM EST

At least I've been able to vote in my poll now

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Heh. by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #27 Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:01:03 AM EST

I'd like it on record that I made that comment when you were two goals down. One goal is much easier to overcome away. G'luck.

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We didn't deserve that goal by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #28 Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:30:13 AM EST

The main problem is just how badly we played. Hopefully we can sort that out.

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: It's doable. by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #29 Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:48:57 AM EST

Everton played as if they were in quicksand at Fiorentina, but then battered them in the return leg at Goodison. Given that we then went out on penalties and played the second leg at home, I'm not sure how helpful this post is supposed to be, but you get my point. It's still possible.

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Yeah by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #9 Mon May 12, 2008 at 09:30:13 AM EST

Results were trickling through while I listened to the Chelsea/Man U business on Radio 5 (though god knows why, I couldn't give a shit).

I had total and utter confidence in Everton and didn't doubt it for a minute - probably because I didn't hear that Newcastle had equalised until Lescott scored later on. I hate listening to football on the radio, I can never tell what's going on!

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I was streaming by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #11 Mon May 12, 2008 at 09:41:32 AM EST

the BBC's "Score" show, but listening rather than watching as I was doing other things. It's not really any better than Radio 5, but is more neutral as they're not covering any one match specifically, and at least they don't keep cutting away to cover the horse racing, or the Glasgow-Women's Frisbee-billiards.

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: No intarweb access at home by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #14 Mon May 12, 2008 at 10:00:14 AM EST

Though that's changing next month. I might try that in future.
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Wii fit by Merekat (4.00 / 1) #16 Mon May 12, 2008 at 10:42:57 AM EST

Our cat is greatly entertained by Wii fit:(

: Ours hasn't seen it yet by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #17 Mon May 12, 2008 at 11:03:02 AM EST

Cos it's at a mates house at the moment, but she loves Wii Sports. Staring at you like "What on earth are you doing?"
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Trubba not by TheophileEscargot (4.00 / 1) #19 Mon May 12, 2008 at 01:30:46 PM EST

Read Riddley Walker ages ago, but couldn't really get into it. I think I thought the language was well done though.
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IAWTP by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #20 Mon May 12, 2008 at 01:55:58 PM EST

I liked the book in theory but in practice, not so much. I mean, I like the idea and the execution, but the language was such a struggle that it, unless it was a school assignment, I doubt I'd take it up again.
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: I'm OK with the language by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #23 Mon May 12, 2008 at 06:44:28 PM EST

After reading The Book of Dave and Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire I'm used to that sort of writing, it slows the pace down a lot which can be a good thing. You can only really read about a chapter at a time.
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I might be jumping the gun a bit by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #24 Mon May 12, 2008 at 06:47:17 PM EST

Cos I'm only about a quarter of the way through, but I love it so far. However I have tried another one of his novels and hated it. According to my flatmate though they're all really different.

I really liked the future-primitive writing in The Book of Dave, it's the way it slows the pace down and makes it otherworldly.

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