If we win on Saturday

And all the top 3 lose are we still out of it?

Or are we going full on Owlstalk?

Asking for someone I’ve just met.

 

Not out of it until its mathematically impossible, which if we lose on Sat and Ipswich and Plymouth win, it will be.
Just gotta keep/start winning.

 

If we win the next 3 games (tough ask but not impossible) then we'd go into the last game with a chance unless Plymouth win 2 out of 3 of their next games and Ipswich also win both of their other games. Wednesday are irrelevant - if we win the next 3 then we have a chance to go above them on the last day regardless of what they do.

 

I think we need to win all 4 now.

 

They haven't factored that into their possible scenarios! They think 3 wins gets them autos!

 

I think I'll be at Oakwell on Saturday, the following Tuesday, at MK Dons after that and then back at Oakwell for the last regular game of the season. During this time I'll be cheering The Reds on and still be very hopeful of promotion. The most important thing is what we do, then see what others do and how it impacts our position. The Reds have had a very successful season whatever the final result. In more then 60 years of following them I can't recall a season where we have won more than 25 games - and we still have four to go. Compare this to the dutiful despair of attending the last few games of 2021-2022 season - it's night and day. Up The Reds !

 

Fancy potentially winning 29 league games with 94 points and not being promoted.

 

Looking back about 20 years and the current record for points without winning promotion from this division is held by dem Blades with 90. It would be really, really funny if the Owls took that unwanted record...

 

It has been a crap season.
To think we are only in the playoffs. With a chance of getting to Wembley. With a chance of beating Wensdeh.
Booooooooooooooo !!!!

 

Doing the triple over Wednesday.

 

If I don't get exactly what I want exactly when I want it, I'll scream and scream until I'm sick!

 

Pretty much

 

You wouldn't get me doing that .

 

I think we're out of the race for automatic promotion. I'm not spitting feathers about that, I'm absolutely delighted that we're in the play-offs.

I didn't think we had a chance of the play-offs at the start of the season. We were an appalling team last season. Or, rather, we were an appallingly managed team last season. And then, other than Collins, we sold every player who had a modicum of talent. And brought in a bunch of free transfers. We were left with a Rag, Tag and Bobtail squad. And we played like a Rag, Tag and Bobtail team in a quite a few matches in the first few months: Lincoln at home (twice), Wycombe at home, Exeter at Home, Morecambe Away - Jessica Tap Dancing Christ, they were as bad as I've ever seen.

But then we started getting it together. It is abundantly clear that we have a manager who can manage. They are few and far between, but we have one. And we have a squad of players who are dedicated, hard working, professional, and listen to the manager. We don't have the most talented squad I've seen at Barnsley, but they give all they've got. When we've dropped points recently, it wasn't down to lack of effort.

To be realistic, even if we win all our remaining games we won't win automatic promotion. That's not being all Wednesday Fan about the situation, it's recognising that other teams in this division have a lot of talent and will accumulate the points required to finish above us. I may well be wrong, but probably not. If my prediction is correct, which isn't really my prediction, it's the consensus, it doesn't matter, we've done astonishingly well, and we should celebrate it.

I don't know what will happen in the play-offs, but win or lose, the manager and the team have performed fantastically and are more than worthy of our full praise. They've been fkcing brilliant.

 

We won 26 games in 2018/19. Our home record was W15 D 8 L 0. Our away record was W 11 D 5 L 7.

 

If we beat Oxford on Saturday, and Ipswich lose a potentially difficult game at Peterborough, we can draw level on points next Tuesday with Ipswich, with two games each to play. They have a much better goal difference, of course, but, nevertheless, we would surely have more than just a remote chance of finishing above them, even though they would be favourites. It isn't all over for us yet re automatic promotion, and I hope our players believe that in advance of the Oxford game.

 

Finishing above Wednesday and beating them in the final would be the Holy Grail of promotions