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CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
League table:




News:

Liverpoo still suck balls and continue their backslide in Hodgson era mediocrity

City continue their death march towards the title

Everton and West Ham have a decent shot at the top 4

Sheff are now Turbo hosed

Newcastle continue to produce the most content in these threads despite being somewhere on the scale of bang average to drizzling poo poo.

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Literally Lewis Hamilton
Feb 22, 2005



Poo

Castle

NinpoEspiritoSanto
Oct 22, 2013




More draws than an IKEA bedroom set ffs

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

I love footbal

Weaponized Cum
Aug 31, 2004


This post brought to you by the finest Miami cocaine money can buy ----->
Cursed season

habeasdorkus
Nov 3, 2013

Royalty is a continuous shitposting motion.
Shoulda cancelled for Covid right around Christmas.

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009
Leeds could finish top half in their first season back which is getting approving nods from this poster

oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
Thanks

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


The Chels will probably finish 4th but I hope they don't and someone fun does instead.

kcer
May 28, 2004

Today is good weather
for an airstrike.
MIKE ASHLEY

Literally Lewis Hamilton
Feb 22, 2005



I want to hug and kiss Mike Ashley

Betjeman
Jul 14, 2004

Biker, Biker, Biker GROOVE!
Villa probably won't get in a relegation fight this season, a feat not seen since Mr O'Neill was in charge

Karl Sharks
Feb 20, 2008

The Immortal Science of Sharksism-Fininism

Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:

I want to hug and kiss Mike Ashley

ashley to set up a kissing booth to raise money and morale

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Bundy posted:

kcer on their Newcastle posting marks


get set, go

VAR has got to go.

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

goddamnedtwisto posted:

VAR has got to go.

Lmao

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009
So what's happening at West ham then. Usually I'd have read a dozen articles about an unfashionable team having a good season but it feels like the entire media haven't looked at the table and realised that they've gone from 16th last season to still knocking on the door of Europe despite seemingly having changed nothing. Admittedly I don't follow them closely so did they replace Moyes with a robot or what

Starsnostars
Jan 17, 2009

The Master of Magnetism
Southampton have been so poo poo recently and will lose to Sheffield Utd at the weekend.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Starsnostars posted:

Southampton have been so poo poo recently and will lose to Sheffield Utd at the weekend.

Nah, Sheff are so poo poo even Liverpoo beat them

tarbrush
Feb 7, 2011

ALL ABOARD THE SCOTLAND HYPE TRAIN!

CHOO CHOO

the sex ghost posted:

So what's happening at West ham then. Usually I'd have read a dozen articles about an unfashionable team having a good season but it feels like the entire media haven't looked at the table and realised that they've gone from 16th last season to still knocking on the door of Europe despite seemingly having changed nothing. Admittedly I don't follow them closely so did they replace Moyes with a robot or what

No ones wants to engage with the fact that the fans make them worse

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

the sex ghost posted:

So what's happening at West ham then. Usually I'd have read a dozen articles about an unfashionable team having a good season but it feels like the entire media haven't looked at the table and realised that they've gone from 16th last season to still knocking on the door of Europe despite seemingly having changed nothing. Admittedly I don't follow them closely so did they replace Moyes with a robot or what

Fabianski fit. Some tall lads in midfield. The Lingard effect (retroactive).

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

the sex ghost posted:

So what's happening at West ham then. Usually I'd have read a dozen articles about an unfashionable team having a good season but it feels like the entire media haven't looked at the table and realised that they've gone from 16th last season to still knocking on the door of Europe despite seemingly having changed nothing. Admittedly I don't follow them closely so did they replace Moyes with a robot or what

It turns out Moyes is good and if United had kept him they'd be top of the table right now

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Lol

https://twitter.com/BenMason_03/status/1367237942566133761?s=19

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Seems like all the managers who played under Ferguson have only remembered the "Be an utter oval office" bits of his managerial style.

kcer
May 28, 2004

Today is good weather
for an airstrike.
bruce has always been known for his man management

they never said it was good man management

Bogan Krkic
Oct 31, 2010

Swedish style? No.
Yugoslavian style? Of course not.
It has to be Zlatan-style.

the sex ghost posted:

So what's happening at West ham then. Usually I'd have read a dozen articles about an unfashionable team having a good season but it feels like the entire media haven't looked at the table and realised that they've gone from 16th last season to still knocking on the door of Europe despite seemingly having changed nothing. Admittedly I don't follow them closely so did they replace Moyes with a robot or what

the czech lads are really good and michail antonio has done a bale and turned from a bad fullback into a world class striker

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Bogan Krkic posted:

the czech lads are really good and michail antonio has done a bale and turned from a bad fullback into a world class striker

In fairness he was only a fullback occasionally and believe it or not he's only scoring a little bit more quickly as a striker than he was as a supposed winger. Soucek is a big part of the picture, but you can't discount the Lazarus-like recovery of Aaron Cresswell (and the fact that we now actually practice set-pieces) as well as the massive factor of not having a completely poo poo goalkeeper - when Fabianski got injured we were mid table and looking not too bad in games that Carlos Sanchez was a safe distance from the pitch, by the time David Martin came in like the ginger messiah we were 18th.

Honestly the main reason we were in 4th was Moyes parked the bus in the Death March that was our early season (all of last season's top six in our first 9 games) meaning over winter we could just beat up the bottom half of the table while the top half burned down around us. As the games in hand are shaking out we're probably going to end the month in 6th or 7th and TBH that's a fair position for a team that's still entirely dependent on Mickey Tony's hamstrings and people continuing to not understand what Jarrod Bowen's whole deal is.

Bogan Krkic
Oct 31, 2010

Swedish style? No.
Yugoslavian style? Of course not.
It has to be Zlatan-style.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

the massive factor of not having a completely poo poo goalkeeper

This really can't be said enough, if it wasn't for Roberto we never would have been near relegation last season either. The fact that someone other than 900 year old Mark Noble now plays next to big Deccers really helps too, Soucek is great but any player with legs in central midfield would have improved the team a whole lot

Slotducks
Oct 16, 2008

Nobody puts Phil in a corner.


Liverpool are poo poo. they're all tired of each other

African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack
Has anyone discussed Klopp-tech burning out Liverpool's players? How many careers is this German fraud going to ruin

Eric Cantonese
Dec 21, 2004

You should hear my accent.

African AIDS cum posted:

Has anyone discussed Klopp-tech burning out Liverpool's players? How many careers is this German fraud going to ruin

Did you write this?

http://backpagefootball.com/why-liverpool-wont-win-the-premier-league-this-season/126313/

Literally Lewis Hamilton
Feb 22, 2005



Is backpage football like backpage

Eric Cantonese
Dec 21, 2004

You should hear my accent.
Kabak is injured and unlikely to be able to play against Fulham.

Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:

Is backpage football like backpage

I don’t know. Is that a gossip website or something?

sticksy
May 26, 2004
Nap Ghost
Bottom half of the table will be interesting in the run up to the end of the season at least

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Eric Cantonese posted:




I don’t know. Is that a gossip website or something?

No, backpage is where escorts usually advertise.


In the UK sports are confined to the backpage of newspapers

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/SimonPeach/status/1369619061718581249

Well that came out of nowhere

Hashtag Banterzone
Dec 8, 2005


Lifetime Winner of the willkill4food Honorary Bad Posting Award in PWM
Not sure Fletcher has the stomach to be technical director

Literally Lewis Hamilton
Feb 22, 2005



Hashtag Banterzone posted:

Not sure Fletcher has the stomach to be technical director

Intestinal fortitude was right there

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009
Extremely accurate thread title/news combo

blue footed boobie
Sep 14, 2012


UEFA SUPREMACY
What exactly does a technical director do, anyway?

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oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo

blue footed boobie posted:

What exactly does a technical director do, anyway?

Technical directors manage a club's technical, i.e. actually football related affairs op. Basically it comes down to buying and selling players.

Not having a technical director and instead having your manager who is only there for 1-3 seasons decide on transfer is dumb as poo poo, so of course the prem still has sides without technical directors.

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