Quote Originally Posted by The_Pie_Man View Post
*Unlucky* teams ultimately fail.

And failure (in the playoffs) is where we are heading. We all know it, sadly, though there are some who would never dream of acknowledging it.

Never mind, eh?
Usually it's the in-form team that people expect to win the play offs, though last season Doncaster were that team and were knocked out in the semis by Crewe who were the 2nd worst team in the division during the fourth quarter of the season. So that at least would lend some weight to the "it's a lottery" theory.

Chillingly, there's still a chance we could end up with the same scenario as 1995/96, playing Crewe in the semis and then Bradford in the final after a season that - as quite a few have said about the current one - "never felt like a promotion campaign". Would heal a few old wounds though if we were to beat Bradford City in the final.