And as you well know, there was one further round of games after the table you are showing. After that round of games we were third, and Wycombe were eighth. Then the season stopped.
I never used to have any feelings towards Wycombe, any more than say Accrington or Shrewsbury, but I find their behaviour before, during, and since their PPG promotion really irritating and underhand. I think as a club Wycombe are a despicable outfit who clearly grab at anything they can to "progress." Their behaviour toward Derby is embarrassing and desperate.
Oh, and before the Wycombe fan thinks otherwise, this doesn't make you rivals, it just makes you a really annoying embarrassment of a club with no morals or scruples.
Wycombe fan here. I genuinely don't get this line of thinking (as far as our PPG behaviour). We were not publicly lobbying at all! We just voted in a way that would benefit us. The "loud" clubs were those who stood to miss out - Peterborough, Tranmere, etc.
I think the PPG incident has been twisted in hindsight. Almost every club voted to end the season and have playoffs, including Oxford. The question was PPG or weighted PPG at that point - and we would have been in the playoffs either way! We would have just been in a different position depending on the method. It came down to Peterborough or Portsmouth missing out.
So you say we behaved awfully for voting for exactly the same thing you voted for. We just get all the press because we were 8th in the table, but if anyone takes just a minute to look at the table and see that 3rd through 8th was covered by 1 point and that we had played a game less, it should not seem like a kind of strange formula that got us in.
I now see forums saying we were 10th and got in on a 'technicality' (as if someone was disqualified and we took their spot, or something). The myth grows in hindsight, I suppose.
One thing I will say is that obviously none of us play really close attention to the ebb and flow of other club's seasons. The reality with Wycombe is that we were only out of the top four twice all season - once early on, when we fell to 5th for a week, and once on the very last weekend, when we did not play and fell from 4th to 8th in consequence. So from a Wycombe fan's perspective, we were up there all season and it would have felt completely unjust to miss out because we had an off weekend. However, part of the myth is that we were "in freefall" and on terrible form, when in fact we had a bad Xmas period and then rebounded to win 5 of 8.
I don't have an ax to grind with Oxford. This is one of the better forums, in many ways. It is just really strange to hear a history of one's club presented in a way which is so different to what was experienced at the time!
Final note - I am not a massive fan of saying we will sue Derby, so you can have that one. I don't mind saying something like "we are going to look at our options" but threatening to sue is not my cup of tea. However, I can forgive our owner, as he has been fantastic so far.