"It will be close and you just don't know with this one."
Sat May 27, 2017 10:15 am
Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock casts his predictions for the Championship play-off final
By Dominic Booth
Saturday 27th May 2017
Neil Warnock has experienced the feeling of winning promotion more than most and the Cardiff City boss has cast his prediction for Monday's Championship play-off final.
Huddersfield Town and Reading meet in the showpiece fixture, which could be worth £290million to the winner with a place in the Premier League at stake.
Warnock won Division Two (now League One) play-off final with Huddersfield back in 1995 and is targeting a record eighth promotion with the Bluebirds next season.
And the veteran boss believes this year's Wembley showdown is too close to call, despite not being overly impressed with Jaap Stam's Reading side this term.
Neil Warnock lifts the play-off trophy after securing Huddersfield Town's promotion (Photo: Huddersfield Examiner Archive)
"I think Huddersfield have got a great chance of winning and it would eclipse anything the club has achieved before," he told the Press Association.
"It's a toss of the coin isn't it? The season Huddersfield have had, it's fantastic for Dean Hoyle (the Terriers' owner) really, he's Huddersfield through and through, but I honestly don't know which way it will go."
Cardiff beat Huddersfield 4-3 and 3-0 under Warnock in the 2016/17 season and narrowly lost out 2-1 in their visit to Reading's Madejski Stadium. They were beaten 1-0 by Stam's troops when Paul Trollope was boss back in August.
But Warnock is adamant the Bluebirds are not far away. He is targeting four or five transfers in the summer to boost his promotion bid.
"Reading are dogged and resilient, but I think Huddersfield will have more flair with (Aaron) Mooy and their wide players," added Warnock.
"I really like their manager David Wagner. I think he's done a brilliant job. We beat them twice this season though and we should have got something at Reading.
"Reading have ground out results. (Yann) Kermorgant is one player I'd pick out as being their danger man.
"It will be close and you just don't know with this one."
By Dominic Booth
Saturday 27th May 2017
Neil Warnock has experienced the feeling of winning promotion more than most and the Cardiff City boss has cast his prediction for Monday's Championship play-off final.
Huddersfield Town and Reading meet in the showpiece fixture, which could be worth £290million to the winner with a place in the Premier League at stake.
Warnock won Division Two (now League One) play-off final with Huddersfield back in 1995 and is targeting a record eighth promotion with the Bluebirds next season.
And the veteran boss believes this year's Wembley showdown is too close to call, despite not being overly impressed with Jaap Stam's Reading side this term.
Neil Warnock lifts the play-off trophy after securing Huddersfield Town's promotion (Photo: Huddersfield Examiner Archive)
"I think Huddersfield have got a great chance of winning and it would eclipse anything the club has achieved before," he told the Press Association.
"It's a toss of the coin isn't it? The season Huddersfield have had, it's fantastic for Dean Hoyle (the Terriers' owner) really, he's Huddersfield through and through, but I honestly don't know which way it will go."
Cardiff beat Huddersfield 4-3 and 3-0 under Warnock in the 2016/17 season and narrowly lost out 2-1 in their visit to Reading's Madejski Stadium. They were beaten 1-0 by Stam's troops when Paul Trollope was boss back in August.
But Warnock is adamant the Bluebirds are not far away. He is targeting four or five transfers in the summer to boost his promotion bid.
"Reading are dogged and resilient, but I think Huddersfield will have more flair with (Aaron) Mooy and their wide players," added Warnock.
"I really like their manager David Wagner. I think he's done a brilliant job. We beat them twice this season though and we should have got something at Reading.
"Reading have ground out results. (Yann) Kermorgant is one player I'd pick out as being their danger man.
"It will be close and you just don't know with this one."
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Re: "It will be close and you just don't know with this one.
Sat May 27, 2017 10:29 am
I had Fulham as winners before it al started, so no use me predicting this one! LOL 
I'd like it to be Huddersfield though
When Neil Warnock says (quote) "I think Huddersfield have got a great chance of winning and it would eclipse anything the club has achieved before" his memory is obviously slipping, as it was Huddersfield that too the old Division One (now Premier League) title by 0.02 of a goal (still the closest margin) at the expense of a certain Cardiff City FC during our halcyon days of the 1920's (season 1923/24 to be precise)
I consider that to be a pretty big event in their history, the same as the FA Cup win is the biggest in ours; and they also won the FA Cup and Charity Shield in 1922!
I'd like it to be Huddersfield though
When Neil Warnock says (quote) "I think Huddersfield have got a great chance of winning and it would eclipse anything the club has achieved before" his memory is obviously slipping, as it was Huddersfield that too the old Division One (now Premier League) title by 0.02 of a goal (still the closest margin) at the expense of a certain Cardiff City FC during our halcyon days of the 1920's (season 1923/24 to be precise)
I consider that to be a pretty big event in their history, the same as the FA Cup win is the biggest in ours; and they also won the FA Cup and Charity Shield in 1922!