Black Country Wire

They can still do all the "talking points" at full time. TBH I hardly ever bother with the half time waffle so a cup draw may keep me tuned in. Each to their own though.

Playing a home game does give a genuine advantage (incentive?) for finishing higher up the table.

What I meant was that it should be very hard to win the title from 5th. The current system IMO does not give sufficient weighting in favour of the team that finishes higher in the table. Frankly it doesn't matter whether you finish 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th as you essentially have the same chance of winning the thing. There's also very little advantage in finishing 1st rather than 2nd. The old top 5 system gave a genuine advantage based on league position.

The last bit only applies to other players obviously. Those of us in the crowd are duty bound to try and put the opposition's kicker off!

Personally I prefer the other method which gives a genuine advantage to finishing higher up the table. Under the old top 5 system no one who finished lower than third ever got to the final which is as it should be.

Been watching Wire too long to take anything for granted but cautiously optimistic.

Thought it was just me! Having to listen on Radio Merseyside ATM

Tough. If you've finished your games but are relying on other results then you haven't done enough in the previous 26 games. If another team can then take advantage then so what. Play better in the previous games and it doesn't matter what anyone else does. League positions are determined by 27 games not 1.

Surely they know what they need to do whether they are played at the same time or not. Wigan know that if they win their last game they finish top regardless.

I can't even get the desktop version to acknowledge that this exists!

Having not even considered Mansfield?

Think suggesting we'll win by 20 is a tad optimistic!

Thought that was my point.

That sounds like the Cup games are LESS appealing suggesting that if you are going to have loop fixtures they will have more appeal as league games.

Would that necessarily make the games more appealing though?