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Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:34 pm
by Fretters
We have to asssume the real one will be at Plymouth on Saturday ready for Leeds.
Will we be on the inflatables again should we finish top? Or will they at least sort a proper replica, I wonder?
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:37 pm
by RickyBobby
There’s noway on earth a basically already down Plymouth are beating Leeds so it is irrelevant. We will be presented with the runners up trophy and medals after the game.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:42 pm
by Fretters
RickyBobby wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:37 pm
There’s noway on earth a basically already down Plymouth are beating Leeds so it is irrelevant. We will be presented with the runners up trophy and medals after the game.
They don't have to beat them, just avoid defeat (as long as we win). You're probably right, though.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:44 pm
by Claret Till I Die
But, but trophy's can't be handed out to the away team according to the EFL.....
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:46 pm
by ArmchairDetective
Surely they have a replica trophy to take to one ground or the other...
Though I'd have also thought that when we beat Charlton away.
I think they'll bring it to the Turf as we're playing at home. If Leeds win the league they'll give them to trophy to lift at a parade after the final game rather than lifting it away from home.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:55 pm
by Bordeauxclaret
ArmchairDetective wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:46 pm
Surely they have a replica trophy to take to one ground or the other...
Though I'd have also thought that when we beat Charlton away.
I think they'll bring it to the Turf as we're playing at home. If Leeds win the league they'll give them to trophy to lift at a parade after the final game rather than lifting it away from home.
Wasn’t the reason at Charlton the planned protests from their fans?
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:58 pm
by fidelcastro
Fretters wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:42 pm
They don't have to beat them, just avoid defeat (as long as we win). You're probably right, though.
If we win, Leeds would have to win too because we're level on points.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 1:00 pm
by CaptainKirk
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 1:17 pm
by ArmchairDetective
Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:55 pm
Wasn’t the reason at Charlton the planned protests from their fans?
Oh not sure. Someone on another thread mentioned it being a rule that you can't lift it away from home.
Was speaking to a Man United fan recently who seemed to recall them lifting the trophy at Wigan on the final day a few years ago. Maybe different rules for PL and EFL.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 1:18 pm
by Fretters
fidelcastro wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:58 pm
If we win, Leeds would have to win too because we're level on points.
I was talking about Plymouth.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 1:20 pm
by ClaretTony
Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:55 pm
Wasn’t the reason at Charlton the planned protests from their fans?
Exactly. Bournemouth had won the league there a year earlier and there were issues presenting the trophy. They ensured that wasn’t going to happen again.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 1:21 pm
by wilks_bfc
The league don’t need to send a trophy
We already have our own replica trophy that we could use if necessary
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 2:49 pm
by Goobs
wilks_bfc wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 1:21 pm
The league don’t need to send a trophy
We already have our own replica trophy that we could use if necessary
I think that even if we finish 2nd we should get out the replica to make up for the inflatable debacle at Charlton
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:01 pm
by aggi
Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:55 pm
Wasn’t the reason at Charlton the planned protests from their fans?
That wasn't the reason they gave.
They said
it is more appropriate to make a trophy presentation in front of as many supporters as possible. Ideally, we would be in a position to do this at a home stadium but as I’m sure you can appreciate, this is not always possible. In the case of Burnley, we believe we have achieved the next best thing in terms of a civic presentation in the town.
But realistically it probably was the actual reason given there would have been a lot more Burnley fans at Charlton than could fit in front of the town hall.
Interesting to look back on that match given the recent chat about pitch invasions, it was hugely amicable with Charlton fans congratulating uson promotion and Burnley fans joining in with the Charlton protests.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:06 pm
by fidelcastro
aggi wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:01 pm
That wasn't the reason they gave.
They said
it is more appropriate to make a trophy presentation in front of as many supporters as possible. Ideally, we would be in a position to do this at a home stadium but as I’m sure you can appreciate, this is not always possible. In the case of Burnley, we believe we have achieved the next best thing in terms of a civic presentation in the town.
But realistically it probably was the actual reason given there would have been a lot more Burnley fans at Charlton than could fit in front of the town hall.
Interesting to look back on that match given the recent chat about pitch invasions, it was hugely amicable with Charlton fans congratulating uson promotion and Burnley fans joining in with the Charlton protests.
It was amicable. I don't remember players being confronted and expensive equipment being vandalised either.
Maybe that's the difference?
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:10 pm
by claretlegend
Sorry if it's already been mentioned but didn't 2nd place used to lift a trophy? I seem to remember us doing this first time round under Dyche. Is this not the case any more?
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 4:03 pm
by Rowls
aggi wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:01 pm
That wasn't the reason they gave.
They said
it is more appropriate to make a trophy presentation in front of as many supporters as possible. Ideally, we would be in a position to do this at a home stadium but as I’m sure you can appreciate, this is not always possible. In the case of Burnley, we believe we have achieved the next best thing in terms of a civic presentation in the town.
But realistically it probably was the actual reason given there would have been a lot more Burnley fans at Charlton than could fit in front of the town hall. The exact same logic could have been, but wasn't, applied.
Interesting to look back on that match given the recent chat about pitch invasions, it was hugely amicable with Charlton fans congratulating uson promotion and Burnley fans joining in with the Charlton protests.
Not the reason they gave, but none of these reasons applied the year before for Bournemouth?
Bournemouth got a civic trophy presentation and parade back in Bournemouth on top of being presented with the trophy in front our their away following.
It was blatant hypocrisy and double standards.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 4:04 pm
by Claretnick
claretlegend wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:10 pm
Sorry if it's already been mentioned but didn't 2nd place used to lift a trophy? I seem to remember us doing this first time round under Dyche. Is this not the case any more?
Yes there's a trophy for the runners up in the EFL. There were pictures of Wrexham lifting the League 1 runners up trophy the other day....
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 11:57 pm
by Garnerssoap
fidelcastro wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:06 pm
It was amicable. I don't remember players being confronted and expensive equipment being vandalised either.
Maybe that's the difference?
That couch took a shoeing
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:14 am
by blatherwickstattoos
Plymouth will be playing for pride and have no pressure really. I can see them getting something
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:51 am
by fidelcastro
Garnerssoap wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 11:57 pm
That couch took a shoeing
I wish I knew what that meant.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:14 am
by Bordeauxclaret
I suspect it wouldn’t have been that amicable had we been pipped to the title that day.
Especially with how their fans disturbed the game.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:53 pm
by claret wizard
Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:14 am
I suspect it wouldn’t have been that amicable had we been pipped to the title that day.
Especially with how their fans disturbed the game.
I’m not so sure. It had been a love in pre match in the pubs. Burnley fans had loads of sympathy with Charlton’s situation. We were joining, and starting, their anti owner songs. It was very unlikely we would lose with their dodgy midfield and goalie.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 5:32 pm
by mickleoverclaret
fidelcastro wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:51 am
I wish I knew what that meant.
There was a settee at one corner of the pitch where fans could watch the game as some sort of sponsor's gimmick. The Charlton fans ripped it to shreds during the pitch invasion. Not sure whether the club/owner billed them for it.
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 11:15 pm
by IanMcL
fidelcastro wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:58 pm
If we win, Leeds would have to win too because we're level on points.
That's what he wrote!
Re: Inflatable trophy again?
Posted: Fri May 02, 2025 7:42 am
by steve1264b
Nothing on the football league website, no mention of a presentation after the game at Plymouth on the Leeds website.
They have announced a parade and said there is no focal point so its not clear where they would receive the trophy.
