Anyone saying 'It would be the most Wednesday thing ever to beat Coventry and lose to Maidstone..

[sturutter]

Can you give any example of when anything like this has ever happened?

 

It's a myth that fans of every team believe is something they do

Edited January 28 by sturutter

[Castleford Owl]

Not really the same, but we had Pigs in quarter finals lined up when they were in league one and we just had bottom of the league Charlton to beat at home... 2014 ish?

[torryowl]

we beat top flight west brom then lost at home to 4th division scunthorpe in  the next round would  be nearest  example i know of .

[TommyCraig]

'The most Wednesday thing ever' hoodoo was broken last year by Paterson. Pulling 4 goals back only to be shattered by a lucky deflection. 

'Nah' said Pato, 'Baws to that' 

[sturutter]

Yeah the Charlton one is one of the most frustrating memories of the last ten years, given what was possible. 

 

I actually think that, despite years of crap, we've been reasonably clinical over the last couple of decades. 

 

Four opportunities to get out of league one: Lost a semi to Sunderland, but took the other three.

 

Five playoff campaigns. Winning two of them is a good hit rate.

 

Every time we've gone down (apart from maybe Palace 2010) we've done it by a distance. The times we've been just about good enough to stay up, we have, like on the last days of the season against Norwich and Middlesbrough 

 

 

 

 

[Owl.1867]

10 minutes ago, sturutter said:

Yeah the Charlton one is one of the most frustrating memories of the last ten years, given what was possible. 

 

I actually think that, despite years of crap, we've been reasonably clinical over the last couple of decades. 

 

Four opportunities to get out of league one: Lost a semi to Sunderland, but took the other three.

 

Five playoff campaigns. Winning two of them is a good hit rate.

 

Every time we've gone down (apart from maybe Palace 2010) we've done it by a distance. The times we've been just about good enough to stay up, we have, like on the last days of the season against Norwich and Middlesbrough 

 

 

 

 

 

Even Palace were only in that position against us due to a points deduction.

 

Still hate seeing them where they are, knowing how they cheated their debts whilst paying stupid money to the players who kept them up and then were the core of their rebuild.

[Miffed]

22 minutes ago, Owl.1867 said:

 

Even Palace were only in that position against us due to a points deduction.

 

Still hate seeing them where they are, knowing how they cheated their debts whilst paying stupid money to the players who kept them up and then were the core of their rebuild.

Still argue that til this day.

 

We still ended up going down due to players that they couldn’t afford. 

[RUMBELOWS91]

45 minutes ago, sturutter said:

Yeah the Charlton one is one of the most frustrating memories of the last ten years, given what was possible. 

 

I actually think that, despite years of crap, we've been reasonably clinical over the last couple of decades. 

 

Four opportunities to get out of league one: Lost a semi to Sunderland, but took the other three.

 

Five playoff campaigns. Winning two of them is a good hit rate.

 

Every time we've gone down (apart from maybe Palace 2010) we've done it by a distance. The times we've been just about good enough to stay up, we have, like on the last days of the season against Norwich and Middlesbrough 

 

 

 

 

Spot on.

[Umeeksk]

Did we not knock Newcastle out of the FA Cup only to be knocked out by bloody Fleetwood last year?

 

I know they were in the same division as us but still. Fleetwood.

[Beighton Owl 87]

I think it would be the most Wednesday thing to lose to Coventry when we've got a genuine chance of the quarter finals. Just hope Coventry drop out of top 6 and put all their focus on trying to regain that.

[alanharper]

12 hours ago, Castleford Owl said:

Not really the same, but we had Pigs in quarter finals lined up when they were in league one and we just had bottom of the league Charlton to beat at home... 2014 ish?

 

Not that it makes much difference but Charlton were 3rd bottom and in a false position because they had 3 games in hand on all the teams above them. We were 15th, they finished 2 points behind us at the end of the season.

 

What probably made the difference was that the original tie was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch and because of some daft TV-related rule the rescheduled game had to be played on a Monday night just 2 days after we'd played on the Saturday (same for both teams tbf) - had it gone ahead on the original date, and before the draw which added extra hype to the game, who knows. 

[alanharper]

A few more "most Wednesday thing evers"

 

Getting 96 points in a season and still missing out on automatic promotion (the previous record was 90)

 

Clawing back a 12 point (later reduced to 6) points deduction, finally dragging ourselves out of the bottom 3 in February which should have been a huge morale booster, and then losing the next 7 games in a row. Then despite Derby and Rotherham keeping losing towards the end of the season to give us a chance, we manage to not win the must-win final game of the season against a team that had lost their previous 6 games.

 

Being to this day the only team that I've ever seen be 3-0 ahead in a penalty shootout and still manage to lose it.