Other Football - 2019/20

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

29 minutes ago, Jordy Brouwer said:

City currently 4th. Nice. 

Long may it continue

[dockers_strike]

The PL fixtures are shit in my opinion. You get some clubs getting a run of 6, 7, 8 and 9 easy games in a row. chelsea are on such a run having played the likes of brighton, southampton, burley, newcastle, watford and palace.

 

Similarly Leicester are in the middle of such a run. They've got Brighton, everton, watford, villa, norwich before they play city then us and already having played palace, ourselves, burnley, southampton.

 

OK, you might say for chelsea the palace game wasnt easy on paper and same for Leicester with everton. But the fixtures are clearly manipulated nowadays and are not a straightforward draw.

 

Yeah, yeah, we all play everyone twice but this manipulation let's teams get up a head of steam that they wouldnt normally get. I look at our fixtures and wonder when we're getting a piss easy run of 8 or 9 league games. Fucking December and January look just about the toughest bunch of league fixtures you could imagine.

 

[Elite]

3 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

The PL fixtures are shit in my opinion. You get some clubs getting a run of 6, 7, 8 and 9 easy games in a row. chelsea are on such a run having played the likes of brighton, southampton, burley, newcastle, watford and palace.

 

Similarly Leicester are in the middle of such a run. They've got Brighton, everton, watford, villa, norwich before they play city then us and already having played palace, ourselves, burnley, southampton.

 

OK, you might say for chelsea the palace game wasnt easy on paper and same for Leicester with everton. But the fixtures are clearly manipulated nowadays and are not a straightforward draw.

 

Yeah, yeah, we all play everyone twice but this manipulation let's teams get up a head of steam that they wouldnt normally get. I look at our fixtures and wonder when we're getting a piss easy run of 8 or 9 league games. Fucking December and January look just about the toughest bunch of league fixtures you could imagine.

 

It bodes well for us as we've played all the top teams after tomorrow.

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

 

Similarly Leicester are in the middle of such a run. They've got Brighton, everton, watford, villa, norwich before they play city then us and already having played palace, ourselves, burnley, southampton.

 

 

 

City lost to Norwich

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

11 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

The PL fixtures are shit in my opinion. You get some clubs getting a run of 6, 7, 8 and 9 easy games in a row. chelsea are on such a run having played the likes of brighton, southampton, burley, newcastle, watford and palace.

 

Similarly Leicester are in the middle of such a run. They've got Brighton, everton, watford, villa, norwich before they play city then us and already having played palace, ourselves, burnley, southampton.

 

OK, you might say for chelsea the palace game wasnt easy on paper and same for Leicester with everton. But the fixtures are clearly manipulated nowadays and are not a straightforward draw.

 

Yeah, yeah, we all play everyone twice but this manipulation let's teams get up a head of steam that they wouldnt normally get. I look at our fixtures and wonder when we're getting a piss easy run of 8 or 9 league games. Fucking December and January look just about the toughest bunch of league fixtures you could imagine.

 

I don't understand how anyone would "fix" the fixtures as there are so many factors that no one knows how manipulating them would even begin to effect results. We all have to play each other twice.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

39 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

The PL fixtures are shit in my opinion. You get some clubs getting a run of 6, 7, 8 and 9 easy games in a row. chelsea are on such a run having played the likes of brighton, southampton, burley, newcastle, watford and palace.

 

Similarly Leicester are in the middle of such a run. They've got Brighton, everton, watford, villa, norwich before they play city then us and already having played palace, ourselves, burnley, southampton.

 

OK, you might say for chelsea the palace game wasnt easy on paper and same for Leicester with everton. But the fixtures are clearly manipulated nowadays and are not a straightforward draw.

 

Yeah, yeah, we all play everyone twice but this manipulation let's teams get up a head of steam that they wouldnt normally get. I look at our fixtures and wonder when we're getting a piss easy run of 8 or 9 league games. Fucking December and January look just about the toughest bunch of league fixtures you could imagine.

 

 

I agree, but playing a decent opponent every third of fourth (sometimes shorter periods due to CL/other trophies) game keeps us on our toes. Sometimes a bit of carelessness creeps in when you think you have a stretch of easy games. 

[The Golden Eel]

Newcastle doing not as badly as everyone thought has slipped under the radar a bit - 15 points, 11th in the table, 7 above the relegation places. 

[s(k)aturation]

1 hour ago, Pistonbroke said:

 

I agree, but playing a decent opponent every third of fourth (sometimes shorter periods due to CL/other trophies) game keeps us on our toes. Sometimes a bit of carelessness creeps in when you think you have a stretch of easy games. 

 

I'd already snap your arm off for a point at Leicester.

 

[Baltar]

Emery. Sacked in the ebening? He's definitely on borrowed time.

[thegreatelephant]

15 hours ago, El Rojo said:

Probably not worth Emery’s time improving his English at this stage. He should conduct his remaining interviews through the medium of dance. 

the dying (Spanish) fly

 

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

13 hours ago, DimReaper said:

Newcastle doing not as badly as everyone thought has slipped under the radar a bit - 15 points, 11th in the table, 7 above the relegation places. 

 

They have a few decent players, the Bruce affect will soon kick in again. 

[Guest]

13 hours ago, skaro said:

 

I'd already snap your arm off for a pint at Leicester as Liverpool march to another 3 points.

 

13 hours ago, skaro said:

 

 

[s(k)aturation]

 

Your shout then.

[Guest]

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Sky Germany showing the derby between Wolves and Villa and not the Mancs v Brighton, oh how the mighty have fallen. 

 

On a side note, my local team Armenia Bielefeld are 3-0 up away to Nuremberg, if they go on to win they'll be two points clear of Hamburg at the top of the second Bundesliga, 5 points clear of third place Stuttgart and 8 points clear of 4th. Heady heights considering the last 7/8 seasons of mediocrity including having to get out of the 3rd league. They built a new stand before that (around 2008) and due to a lack of good sponsors/leadership at board level at the time and spiralling costs it nearly sent them bankrupt. In fact I think they've rebuilt all stands in the last 14 years or so. Now they finally have money to invest in the squad and keep players things are looking a lot better. 

[Arnaud]

Same in France for the broadcast, Maybe there’s some kind of rules to show different teams over the year ?

[Anubis]

Heaton didn’t start for Villa and they lose the replacement within the first ten minutes. Now down to their third choice keeper.

[niallers]

Brighton must be chronic. 2down to that in 20 mins? 

[niallers]

So have wolves fans just stolen all our songs? First the Bobby song for Jiménez and now the gini song for moutihno. Thieving fucks

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Cracking finish from Neves to make it -0. 

[Elite]

Ole keeps doing just enough to give the Mancs a bit of hope and prolonging his job. 

[Elite]

1 minute ago, Pistonbroke said:

Cracking finish from Neves to make it -0. 

I literally just turned it on and saw the goal, wonderful strike.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I'll be surprised if this Midlands derby finishes 11 v 11. Not that it's a dirty game but slap head Taylor seems determined to hand the cards out. Mings deserved a yellow, the others were early and soft as fuck. 

[Jordy Brouwer]

32 minutes ago, niallers said:

Brighton must be chronic. 2down to that in 20 mins? 

And they beat Spurs 3 - 0. Mindbending. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

10 minutes ago, Elite said:

I literally just turned it on and saw the goal, wonderful strike.

 

Wolves play some nice stuff but are pretty wasteful in the box at times.