Premier League Discussion Thread Season 2014-15

[Dark Sith Lord]

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Well deserved too IMO

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

Great strike there for the leveller 8)

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

2-1 Spurs. Harsh. Forest deserve at least ET

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

Game set and match. Gave a good of account of their selves did Forest. If that Osborn strike had gone in it could have been a different game.

 

[weasel]

The radio were saying the Newcastle Palace game had a great atmosphere going in to extra time, then the announcer comes on and says "the winner of this tie is away to Manchester City in the next round." Queue one dead atmosphere and a lot of people heading home.

You gotta wonder what made him think announcing that would be a good idea? Obviously the fans want to know the players are playing for the chance of a ****ing hiding! :roll: :lol:

 

[edd_jedi]

Yeah I was at the Spurs/Forest game last night and they were truly awful for the first 70 minutes, it was like watching a school match, Forest could have had two or three. But it's fair to say Spurs were better for the last 20 minutes at least and scored a couple of cracking goals (not including Soldado's accidental one :lol: )

 

[edd_jedi]

Very impressed with Spurs today, were decent for 60 minutes and managed to hang on at the end. Could have gone either way but I think both teams will be happy with a draw. I don't understand why Spurs don't play like that against every team, it's not rocket science, if you have more players in the opponents half than your own you're going to concede a lot of goals! And unless you have Bale or Suarez up front, you won't score enough to make up for it. They were very good on the counter attack today.

 

[Richard_H]

Yes they were impressive today. Spurs are just not consistent. Don't know if it's a confidence thing.

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

For anyone interested this short video shows the fall and the recent events at Hereford United former members of League 1 now down at Level 7 in the Southern Premier!

I recommend you give it a quick watch. It really is shocking. Also my club (Alfreton Town) feature too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SgGYy0EaFs


The fans are protesting live on BT Sport tomorrow night.

 

[Stuart Skinner]

For anyone interested this short video shows the fall and the recent events at Hereford United former members of League 1 now down at Level 7 in the Southern Premier!

I recommend you give it a quick watch. It really is shocking. Also my club (Alfreton Town) feature too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SgGYy0EaFs


The fans are protesting live on BT Sport tomorrow night.

Really sad state of affairs, so many small clubs are struggling and doesn't help when you've got some dick ripping the heart out of the club.

I can remember going to Edgar street when I was just a young lad, must have been 86/87/88 somewhere round there went to see the mighty Wolves, lovely little club, huge history, hope they get the club back to where they belong.

 

[kingshearer]

The radio were saying the Newcastle Palace game had a great atmosphere going in to extra time, then the announcer comes on and says "the winner of this tie is away to Manchester City in the next round." Queue one dead atmosphere and a lot of people heading home.

You gotta wonder what made him think announcing that would be a good idea? Obviously the fans want to know the players are playing for the chance of a ****ing hiding! :roll: :lol:

We'll beat ch1tty in the next round we've turned the corner……and em…..fell off a cliff.

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

What a great weekend for the home nations and in particular Northern Ireland now top of their group. Tough looking trips to Greece and Romania coming up!

 

[kingshearer]

What a great weekend for the home nations and in particular Northern Ireland now top of their group. Tough looking trips to Greece and Romania coming up!

They should scrap the naff internationals (England anyway) it gets in the way of domestic football.

 

[Stuart Skinner]

Great results for home nations but have to agree with KingShearer here, I watched a dull match against San Marino Thursday and no doubt will sit through another dreary qualifier tonight, really think it's time they have preliminary qualifiers for these smaller nations as they are a pure waste of time for the larger nations.

Also getting fed up we hearing Wayne Rooney is going to break Bobby Charltons goal record, it's inevitable he will but it pisses me off. Seven of his 43 goals have now come against San Marino, and many many more have come against the smaller nations. Bobby Charltons never played against these smaller nations, all his goals came against decent international sides. Just irritates me he'll become the all time scorer with goals against Armenia, Estonia etc.

I could bloody get into that San Marino side if I had roots connected to there, so his goals against them are meaningless and pointless, total joke.

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

Couldnt agree more guys. Our qualifing group this time is a utter joke.
Yes I agree too that the smaller nations should have to enter a pre qualifing competition to qualify for the real thing!

 

[kingshearer]

Great results for home nations but have to agree with KingShearer here, I watched a dull match against San Marino Thursday and no doubt will sit through another dreary qualifier tonight, really think it's time they have preliminary qualifiers for these smaller nations as they are a pure waste of time for the larger nations.

Also getting fed up we hearing Wayne Rooney is going to break Bobby Charltons goal record, it's inevitable he will but it pisses me off. Seven of his 43 goals have now come against San Marino, and many many more have come against the smaller nations. Bobby Charltons never played against these smaller nations, all his goals came against decent international sides. Just irritates me he'll become the all time scorer with goals against Armenia, Estonia etc.

I could bloody get into that San Marino side if I had roots connected to there, so his goals against them are meaningless and pointless, total joke.

Yer it's inevitable that Rooney will break Bobby's record - I just hope he doesn't break the prem highest goal scoring record although he still needs over a 100 more goals



1 Sir Bobby Charlton 1958–1970 49 106 FW 0.4623
2 Gary Lineker 1984–1992 48 80 FW 0.6000
3 Jimmy Greaves 1959–1967 44 57 FW 0.7719
4 Wayne Rooney 2003– 42 98 FW 0.4226
5 Michael Owen 1998–2008 40 89 FW 0.4494
6 Nat Lofthouse 1950–1958 30 33 FW 0.9090
7 Alan Shearer 1992–2000 30 63 FW 0.4762
Tom Finney 1946–1958 30 76 FW 0.3947

 

[PGowdy]

Yer it's inevitable that Rooney will break Bobby's record - I just hope he doesn't break the prem highest goal scoring record although he still needs over a 100 more goals

He will need at least 6 more seasons to do that. Given he only tends to score 15ish goals a season. Which would take him to the age of 34. So unlikely.

 

[weasel]

Couldnt agree more guys. Our qualifing group this time is a utter joke.
Yes I agree too that the smaller nations should have to enter a pre qualifing competition to qualify for the real thing!

So ehhh Spain suffer their first qualifying defeat in eight years, since Norn Iron beat them, and now we deserve to be in the retard qualifying competition? Lol

I take your point, but the question is where do you draw the line?
Who do you send into retard qualifying? Do you do it so you end up with four or five teams fighting it out in each group? If there is a retard qualifying what odds on "big" players from small nations being "injured" every time their country has a game. Lets face it retard qualifying will stuck at some time when no one will be interested in playing, or when the "big" teams all have important games.

Personally, i think it would make more sense to move ALL qualifiers to the end of the season. Have them all in May or June of the summer between tournaments and that way you don't have the season disrupted by stupid friendlies and the groups could be played out over 2 or 3 weeks. Play Sat, midweek, sorted. The fact their wont be meaningless friendlies and constant breaks throughout the season mean the season itself can end earlier (or start later) so you don't get players and managers gurning about burn out. Though they'd have more of a case if they didn't drag players off all over the world during pre season.

Ps, the way England are going under uncle Woy, they'll be a middle ranking side in no time.

 

[Stuart Skinner]

Couldnt agree more guys. Our qualifing group this time is a utter joke.
Yes I agree too that the smaller nations should have to enter a pre qualifing competition to qualify for the real thing!

So ehhh Spain suffer their first qualifying defeat in eight years, since Norn Iron beat them, and now we deserve to be in the retard qualifying competition? Lol

I take your point, but the question is where do you draw the line?
Who do you send into retard qualifying? Do you do it so you end up with four or five teams fighting it out in each group? If there is a retard qualifying what odds on "big" players from small nations being "injured" every time their country has a game. Lets face it retard qualifying will stuck at some time when no one will be interested in playing, or when the "big" teams all have important games.

Personally, i think it would make more sense to move ALL qualifiers to the end of the season. Have them all in May or June of the summer between tournaments and that way you don't have the season disrupted by stupid friendlies and the groups could be played out over 2 or 3 weeks. Play Sat, midweek, sorted. The fact their wont be meaningless friendlies and constant breaks throughout the season mean the season itself can end earlier (or start later) so you don't get players and managers gurning about burn out. Though they'd have more of a case if they didn't drag players off all over the world during pre season.

Ps, the way England are going under uncle Woy, they'll be a middle ranking side in no time.

I see your point. Not long ago someone came up with a good suggestion, they put the top 32 European sides into the main qualifiers then the other 21 European nations (the lowest in the FIFA rankings at the time) play in their own qualifying campaign made more into a tournament, then the winner of this tournament wins a place in either word cup or european championships via winning the tournament. It means these lower nations like Luxembourg, Estonia, Armenia etc are able to win matches, have a reasonable chance of winning a comp plus also get a crack at qualifying for a major comp which is something they would never get a chance to do. By winning this tournament they would amount up more FIFA ranking points pushing them into the top 32 European sides hence meaning they then go into qualifying with the better sides getting their shot to mix it with stronger nations. With the chance to winning a trophy players wouldn't pull out, but do San Marino, Faroe Islands, Moldova etc have stars that pull out of their squads?

 

[PGowdy]

Couldnt agree more guys. Our qualifing group this time is a utter joke.
Yes I agree too that the smaller nations should have to enter a pre qualifing competition to qualify for the real thing!

So ehhh Spain suffer their first qualifying defeat in eight years, since Norn Iron beat them, and now we deserve to be in the retard qualifying competition? Lol

I take your point, but the question is where do you draw the line?
Who do you send into retard qualifying? Do you do it so you end up with four or five teams fighting it out in each group? If there is a retard qualifying what odds on "big" players from small nations being "injured" every time their country has a game. Lets face it retard qualifying will stuck at some time when no one will be interested in playing, or when the "big" teams all have important games.

Personally, i think it would make more sense to move ALL qualifiers to the end of the season. Have them all in May or June of the summer between tournaments and that way you don't have the season disrupted by stupid friendlies and the groups could be played out over 2 or 3 weeks. Play Sat, midweek, sorted. The fact their wont be meaningless friendlies and constant breaks throughout the season mean the season itself can end earlier (or start later) so you don't get players and managers gurning about burn out. Though they'd have more of a case if they didn't drag players off all over the world during pre season.

Ps, the way England are going under uncle Woy, they'll be a middle ranking side in no time.

I see your point. Not long ago someone came up with a good suggestion, they put the top 32 European sides into the main qualifiers then the other 21 European nations (the lowest in the FIFA rankings at the time) play in their own qualifying campaign made more into a tournament, then the winner of this tournament wins a place in either word cup or european championships via winning the tournament. It means these lower nations like Luxembourg, Estonia, Armenia etc are able to win matches, have a reasonable chance of winning a comp plus also get a crack at qualifying for a major comp which is something they would never get a chance to do. By winning this tournament they would amount up more FIFA ranking points pushing them into the top 32 European sides hence meaning they then go into qualifying with the better sides getting their shot to mix it with stronger nations. With the chance to winning a trophy players wouldn't pull out, but do San Marino, Faroe Islands, Moldova etc have stars that pull out of their squads?

It will also mean that England stop going to major tournaments. :lol: