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truck71 said:
Just thought I'd leave this here ahead of tonights game, will an EA club do this again?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30805858
Today's BBC gossip page- "Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has opened the door to a huge £480m move for Barcelona forward Lionel Messi"http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30805858
No, short of a huge financial melt-down by the big-2 (even Man U cannot now compete financially) or a multi-billionaire fan coming out of the woodwork (... and not one who only wants to asset strip the club or offset his tax liabilities), I think we can safely say no provincial club will ever have similar levels of success in the foreseeable future- think of the rise of the likes of Forest, Derby, Villa, even your lot
in the 70s and 80s. Top level football in this country is ruined 
. darren f said:
Today's BBC gossip page- "Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has opened the door to a huge £480m move for Barcelona forward Lionel Messi"
No, short of a huge financial melt-down by the big-2 (even Man U cannot now compete financially) or a multi-billionaire fan coming out of the woodwork (... and not one who only wants to asset strip the club or offset his tax liabilities), I think we can safely say no provincial club will ever have similar levels of success in the foreseeable future- think of the rise of the likes of Forest, Derby, Villa, even your lot in the 70s and 80s. Top level football in this country is ruined .
Sadly agree.No, short of a huge financial melt-down by the big-2 (even Man U cannot now compete financially) or a multi-billionaire fan coming out of the woodwork (... and not one who only wants to asset strip the club or offset his tax liabilities), I think we can safely say no provincial club will ever have similar levels of success in the foreseeable future- think of the rise of the likes of Forest, Derby, Villa, even your lot
in the 70s and 80s. Top level football in this country is ruined . nicanary said:
"It was like getting a girl to third base, and then letting her put her knickers back on."
Indeed – it was a very strange match. To be honest, on chances, if it had been 4-3 at half time, nobody could have complained. We were so in control of the game in the attacking 2/3rds of the pitch but had some real ‘headless chicken’ moments with our back 4 (… so the omens were there). For 15 minutes at the start of the second half we were back on top of things again and it should have been 4-0 or 5-0. Then they scored and the ‘Neil Adams era jitters’ came to the fore again and defensively we fell apart.
If we can keep the strike-force in the TW, all AN’s work really does have be on the defence. Cardiff were very Route-1, lumping it long for knock downs for their pacey sub (… Harris ?) to run onto and we simply could not cope with either. Which needs addressing because let’s face it this is the MO of several Championship sides we are competing against. A leader is needed back there and I don’t see one amongst the seven Centre Backs we have on our books, Bassong could come back in but I doubt if his head will ever be right now. As it stands we ain’t going up because we’re going to lose too many of the remaining games with scores along the lines of 4-5 or 5-6
. CooperD said:
Disappointed to see that Mike Phelan has left the club but not entirely unexpected when he didn't get the manager's job. I also suppose that Alex Neil will want to bring his own back room staff in.
But will anyone understand what they're saying to them? The new training diet's going to be deep-fried Mars bars.
Legend83 said:
Reports are we have bid for your left back Martin Olssen - do you guys rate him? Good enough for a mid-table Prem team like us?
Olssen is a class act, should of been our player of the season last year, not really hitting the heights this season. A good LB but sometimes prone to switching off, can do a job in Prem for sure but would need to rediscover last years form. Ignore comments from our sad rival who can only dream of affording a player like him.
Big game this weekend coming up against the Hornets. In fact, the two after that (Blackburn A and Ipswich H) lead to an important run in.
Tight at the top now in the Championship. It certainly makes exciting viewing.
My one thought, come the Ipswich game (H), will one teams fans be singing "top of the league at Carrow Road"?
Tight at the top now in the Championship. It certainly makes exciting viewing.
My one thought, come the Ipswich game (H), will one teams fans be singing "top of the league at Carrow Road"?
Who Me said:
Fantastic win last night, not a great performance teamwise but still got 3 points. Some real pressure for both teams this Sunday, looks like nobody is dropping points easily so a definate 6 pointer.
We're on the same number of points as Bournemouth after last night - this season is crazy, even more than usual for the Championship. If we can get a result on Sunday, then it's home to Wigan and away to Millwall, so there's a not impossible 9 points there. Musn't get carried away...........
CooperD said:
Superb result, second goal was a bit scrappy but they all count. Think we can get automatic promotion now. We have some momentum and two very winnable games coming up. 
Just like I said above, only it's been pointed out, quite correctly, that even some of the lower teams are perfectly capable of winning against the top teams. A usually tough league is even tougher this year,(except for the Tangerines!).But, as you say, these games are winnable. Quite how we've done it with the defence we've got is a bit beyond my belief. As long as we keep scoring, that doesn't matter as much, but in the Premiership (I'm being positive) they are going to be "found out" big time.
Lovely Jubbly, double over our friends and onwards and upwards for us. Not a great game but they were content to hoof the ball around and made it hard for us to get into a passing stride. MM says there was nothing in the game apart from the goals.... well done einstein but you couldnt create or score any.
PRIDE OF ANGLIA
PRIDE OF ANGLIA
Who Me said:
Lovely Jubbly, double over our friends and onwards and upwards for us. Not a great game but they were content to hoof the ball around and made it hard for us to get into a passing stride. MM says there was nothing in the game apart from the goals.... well done einstein but you couldnt create or score any.
PRIDE OF ANGLIA
Noooo......! Sorry, but that's one of my "Things that annoy you beyond reason". PRIDE OF ANGLIA, Pride of London, Pride of The North whatever. PRIDE OF ANGLIA
It's a fatuous statement, it fails to take into account that there are other teams in the same region who also have fans that are proud of their teams. How can we be the pride of anglia, when Ipswich, Colchester, Peterborough et al think the same of their clubs?
Stop it.......!
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