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Chatting with a fellow Hatter last night and couldn't agree on this:

Was gaining promotion via the play-offs better than winning automatic promotion?

Would you have preferred to be sitting at home, already promoted, watching four other teams thrash out the POs or does winning the PO final make this type of promotion that much sweeter?

Apart from the stress levels in the days leading up to the PO matches (and the even higher stress level trying to purchase a bloody final ticket from Ticketmaster!), I now have the Sunderland home tie and the final firmly etched into my 'best ever' Luton memories.

Automatic promotion, IMO, would not have felt so rewarding.

Any other views?