Last team to be relegated from 2nd Tier with 14 wins

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  1. pon

    pontyender Well-Known Member

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    Leicester 1990/91 W 14 D 8 L24 50 PTS
     
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    a word of caution...............

    we haven't drawn enough to be complacent
     
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    pontyender Well-Known Member

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    I know

    That was part of my point. It can happen. Incidentally that is the only time a team has been relegated with 14 wins since Tier 2 was extended to 24 teams in 1988/89.
     
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    Leicester were not relegated. nt
     
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    pontyender Well-Known Member

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    Mmm...you're right

    ...but don't know why. They finished 3rd from bottom, so there must have been only 2 teams relegated that season for some reason.

    Even better then. No team has been relegated from Tier 2 with 14 wins since it was extended to 24 teams!
     
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    Which year did the 3rd bottom side stop going into the playoffs?

    Or was it the Swindon affair?
     
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    It's all coming back to me now

    The season we were on the pitch after beating Middlesboro 1-0 thinking we were in the play offs (but Brighton got that last minute goal against Ipswich). I can remember blubbering for a few years afterwards that even when 7th qualified for the Play Offs we finished 8th!
     
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    RE: It's all coming back to me now

    And then a few years later - when only 1 team went up automatically (think Reading finished 2nd), didn't we then finish 6th but had to finish top 5.
     
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    Those were the days

    ...when I thought we were always going to dodge success! Then came the Premier, Wembley & Cardiff!
     
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    Swindon 1964/65, Coventry City 1951/52, Forest 1948/49

    Only post war teams to be relegated from the 2nd Tier with 14 wins.

    22 teams, 2 pts for a win and 2 up, 2 down then.

    1964/65 21 Swindon Town PL 42 W 14 D 5 L 23 F 63 A 81 PTS 33

    1951/52 21 Coventry City PL 42 W 14 D 6 L 22 F 59 A 82 PTS 34

    1948/49 21 Forest PL 42 W 14 D 7 L 21 F 50 A 54 PTS 35
     
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