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Brony Car posted:I don't watch any Championship matches. Are the players that Aston Villa would be able to keep good enough to win promotion next season? From what I've read, even the lower leagues have been spending more on players than Villa has to claw their way up. On paper I think it would be good enough to make a go of it and they will be able to offer the highest wages unless Newcastle go down too, but its a funny old game and the Championship is a funny old league with 6-8 teams every season fighting like drowning crabs to get out of it (can crabs drown?). Often the teams that get promoted are the ones who are either yoyo clubs with promotion experience like Norwich or teams that have had a couple of practice runs at it and know what it takes like Boro this year. Villa will have none of that knowledge and also have really lovely scouts. In conclusion the Championship is a land of contrasts.
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Jose posted:Doumbia wasn't allowed to wear 88 as his squad number Did they tell him to choose a more believable year of birth?
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Feb 3, 2016 19:48
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Mancchester United winning things again will not be fun as hell imo
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Feb 5, 2016 01:47
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oliwan posted:mourinho was poo poo and insane this whole season. chelsea were never worse. I don't understand why any club would want him? Some people have memories longer than half a season
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Jose posted:Norwich should maybe have signed some defenders I was saying this in summer while everyone else was going on about needing to improve our attack. We signed two defenders in Jan but its too late now. Good job the title race is interesting because the relegation battle is done. I just hope our board aren't going to flail about and sack Neil in a desperate attempt to get a new manager bounce.
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Feb 7, 2016 00:47
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Newcastle were never going down because their problem is lazy unmotivated players rather than bad ones. They will get just enough points to survive and then give up for the remaining games.
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Feb 7, 2016 00:55
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I love the idea that the 1930s don't count as history because its too long ago lol
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Feb 8, 2016 10:40
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Egypt? No history. The pyramids? gently caress off mate that was ages ago.
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Feb 8, 2016 10:43
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:Who do you think ends up paying in the end when domestic and foreign TV rights double? What about when kit manufacturing deals triple? None of this makes any sense
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Feb 11, 2016 18:32
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Its coming up to the end of the 3 year cycle for UEFA club tournament TV deals / competition formats, that means its quote:The European Club Association (ECA) are discussing proposals which could see significant changes being made to the Champions League. 
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Feb 11, 2016 19:35
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Monday Bandele posted:United are so short on players they had to go back in time to the 70s and get a private detective called Donald Love to play for them I always feel like Blackett and McNair should be the names of the characters in Lethal Weapon
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Feb 13, 2016 21:50
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Ah the United Way
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Feb 15, 2016 10:31
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Brony Car posted:Do Norwich have hope? I hope they survive. Personally I don't. I've seen more than enough relegation battles to know a team that has the smell of relegation about them and this one has it.
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Feb 15, 2016 18:42
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Brony Car posted:God. Sunderland are going to survive again. This is partly why I'm so sure Norwich are going down. I'm convinced that Newcastle are Too Good To Go Down™, Sunderland are putting together another great escape, and both Swansea and Bournemouth have enough to see themselves over the line. Obviously one of those things won't happen but Norwich need two of them to not happen and for Norwich to put together a run of form. Doesn't seem likely. Maybe Cock Piss Pardew will somehow fail to get the 5 or so points needed to keep Palace up.
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Feb 15, 2016 23:16
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Hoops posted:It's going to be interesting to see all these top managers together in the same league. They can't all win, some of them are going to take a knock to their reputation if they finish third and fourth for the next four years. It seems a shame that not all the big clubs can win, I'm sure UEFA is working on a system to remedy this problem.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:43
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Josh Lyman posted:If Mourinho doesn't take over at United, there is no God. I think your impression of Mourinho is skewed by the fact you only got to see him managing a load of babies who threw matches to get rid of him, he's actually a very good manager and the last person any self respecting ABU should want taking over at Man U
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Feb 19, 2016 19:58
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I believe it all its got the ring of truth about it
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Feb 21, 2016 18:55
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You could make it so if two teams in different divisions get drawn against each other, the team in the lower division decides the venue. Its not really a problem though for 90% of English clubs, its just big club whining again. Norwich's fixture list is never congested we haven't played a match for loving ages.
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Feb 26, 2016 18:11
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League 1/2 teams play 8 more league matches, enter the main cups 2 rounds earlier than teams in European competitions and play the in Johnstone's Paint Trophy, as well as potentially having 3 playoff matches and they don't whine about it. I reckon all this and the whole European wildcard thing is posturing for an even more elaborate and boring European calendar at the behest of the big continental teams that have ruined their domestic leagues.
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Feb 26, 2016 18:51
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oliwan posted:the prem sold its soul to make money and thats why you have all these games. its never going to change anymore, deal with it. The Prem is to blame for FA Cup replays?
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Feb 27, 2016 16:50
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oliwan posted:sorry, you are right. i guess I meant the FA and english football in general But FA Cup replays have been a thing for far longer than football has been a big money industry
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Feb 27, 2016 17:01
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Once Everton fall to the foreign hordes, 2/3rds of Prem clubs will be foreign owned and they can start pushing through their own rules, which of course they will do as all foreigners think exactly the same and want the same things
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Feb 27, 2016 18:14
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Josh Lyman posted:I wish there was a way to watch the NBCSN studio commentary after the fact. I wanna see what they said about my Foxes yesterday. They were poo poo lucky cunts with zero invention against the worst defence in the league and are going to lose the title to Spurs
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Feb 28, 2016 18:28
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Ciprian Maricon posted:Its not going to be fun to pull a United or worse, a Liverpool and just become truly awful once he's gone but there's nothing appealing about knowing you're never going to win either. Fans of most teams know they aren't going to win anything by August, at least Arsenal fans get to keep pretending there is a chance up until February.
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Feb 29, 2016 18:26
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Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink says Premier League club doctors should put pressure on the game's authorities to change the fixture calendar. Good to see yet another angle brought into fixture whining. I wonder if they'll still want expert medical opinions on the amount of games teams should play when the expanded CL format is decided.
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Shitshow posted:What I feel more than anything else about Arsenal is boredom. The club is stuck in Groundhog's Day and only a new manager will break the routine, either for better or worse. I remember when Charlton fans said this
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