Premiership Talk

[The Mackem]

1) What if we never got relegated in the first place

[Dazz]

Oh yeah. Is number two if you realised sooner that relying on Phillips is not the way to go?

[The Mackem]

There's other basic stuff as well.

Despite not being world beaters, people put 11 players behind the ball. Of course not being the greatest we couldn't deal with this and couldn't break teams down. The most extreme example of this was WBA at home.

Then there's the usual stuff like injuries to key players like Healy, Arca, Wright, Breen, Piper to an already depleted squad.

I could probably list about 100 things that went against us over the play off games but in the end we just didn't do enough. No mistake about it we would have probably came back down but I'm more bothered about fiannacial security than humiliation at this point. It's possible we could be losing the best of an already not too good team

[The Mackem]

Originally Posted by Dazz Oh yeah. Is number two if you realised sooner that relying on Phillips is not the way to go?

It was more a reliance on Quinn

[Dazz]

Yeah the finance is a bummer for any team.

Well, except Chelsea at the moment,

[The Mackem]

Give it time, Sunderland looked financially secure (I know not on the same scale as the big teams in Europe or anything) for a good time. Things change though. One moment you're on top of the world next you're almost f*cked. Leeds being the best example at the moment.

[The Mackem]

Oh yeah and if I was being picky about tonight, I would have went along the lines of...

If only we held on for a few more minutes

If only the ref had blown for a foul on Poom for their goal

If only the ref had seen some infraction by the opposition goalie

If only Oster's penalty went in off the post

If only the referee had shown some consistency and booked the main person who celebrated in the crowd (Powell)

If only we could make our man advantage pay off

If only Whitley had scored when he was almost clean through on goal

If only the away goal rule was still used in the play offs

Those were the first few that came to mind anyway

That's football though.

[Dazz]

Yeah they are some pretty good reasons. I think it was a foul, but the keeper did go over easy and I don't think he had it. Regardless to this, I still think it was a foul.

[The Mackem]

Originally Posted by Dazz Yeah they are some pretty good reasons. I think it was a foul, but the keeper did go over easy and I don't think he had it. Regardless to this, I still think it was a foul.

At the time I was definite, then I saw it again and thought there was contact but maybe not too much, then the next time I saw what Shipperly done with his feet. I remember Sol Campbell playing for England getting a goal disallowed when Shearer fouled the keeper.

I dunno maybe the ref didn't dare disallow it or something. It was his last game btw umm cheers.

[Ogen]

Fúck sake Mackem I just made you a thread to cry in then I come in here and find you've been galavanting about the Premiership thread.

[The Mackem]

I just wanted to feel big

[Dazz]

Yeah when England played the Argies is 98.

[Cactus Sid]

Heskey's gone

Kind of a mixed reaction to it, on one side we have sold the most inconsistent lump of a footballer for most of the season for a fee, although lower than what we paid for him, isn't bad in today's market. However, when he plays well, he plays well, and I worry that Houllier wont replace him (i.e the Cisse deal goes tits up)

But hey, apparently our board have accepted the Thai PM's offer, which means more cash. Not in favour of it by any stretch of the imagination, but if it helps build the squad, so be it.

[The Mask]

i liked that morgan guys quote about houllier "six years into a five-year plan" haha

[Wengerland]

Originally Posted by Dazz looks like Wengerland, Hardkore, MMM and the Mackem will be setting up a 'Division one talk' thread next season. also MMM, I always said that you would finish bottom, .

That's the plan.

Just have a nationwide league thread(unless every league is being sponsered by coca cola) because then that includes people who follow lower league teams aswell as premiership,and Ricky,though he could be in the division one talk thing anyway.

Mackem I honestly didn't want to play you lot next season.

[Paranoid Rattlesnake]

Hull City Coca Cola Division 2 champions 2004/2005

[Wengerland]

I'm liking Birmingham now.Izzet,Heskey and Savage.

[toxic rooster]

IZZET

IT IS!

PS Is Walker staying with Leicester? Been rather ignorant last few days

[packt up]

To be honest Mackem after the travesty of last season I didn't even think you would get near the playoffs this season your team looked so poor it was untrue.

You've had a good season and have just been unlucky ({)

[The Mackem]

We were 90 minutes away from Europe, it's been a weird season.

[packt up]

Ha yeah true .

Man if you'd got promoted and been in Europe it would have been wonderland :cry:

({)

[Wengerland]

Originally Posted by Wee Gooner IZZET IT IS! PS Is Walker staying with Leicester? Been rather ignorant last few days

He said he wants to stay,i reckon if a decent offer is made for him then he'll probably go.

[The Mask]

who the fuck would want walker in their team?

[Dazz]

A promoted team might, not Norwich though, their keeper is quality.

Heskey going still seems strange, especially not to another good team, looks like a step down for him, which IMO is what he deserves as he is not good enough, point is I didn't think he would want to take a step down, especially now Liverpool have qualified for the Champions League.

[Rob Ban Fan]

Originally Posted by WWEngland That's the plan. Just have a nationwide league thread(unless every league is being sponsered by coca cola) because then that includes people who follow lower league teams aswell as premiership,and Ricky,though he could be in the division one talk thing anyway. Mackem I honestly didn't want to play you lot next season.

cant we just have a football talk thread, like this one? Ive never really been bothered about whether people talked about nationwide, FA Cup or the champions league in here, even though its the Premiership Talk thread.

[Dazz]

Originally Posted by Rob Ban Fan cant we just have a football talk thread, like this one? Ive never really been bothered about whether people talked about nationwide, FA Cup or the champions league in here, even though its the Premiership Talk thread.

Yeah I agree. I just wanted to take the piss out of the teams not in the premiership.

Also, when threads get too big do they get deleted off the server? because if so, surely someone should make a new thread.

[Dazz]

Oh and United have had bids of 3.55 and 5.5 million rejected by Leeds. How unsuprising, United trying to get players on the cheap, he is worth at least 7 million.

[The Mask]

i dunno, i heard they were gonna sell him for roughly £5m. as if they didn't get enough money out of us for rio, the twats.

[Wengerland]

Originally Posted by The Mask who the fuck would want walker in their team?

Probably Fulham if Van Der Sar leaves,i'll be happy to keep him though.

[Wengerland]

I probably wouldn't have made another thread,its just that if i edit the title to something like 'English football talk' or something and there's so many pages people like Ricky would have missed loads.I dunno,maybe there should just be a new thread made for everything and just archive this or something.

[Dazz]

Originally Posted by The Mask i dunno, i heard they were gonna sell him for roughly £5m. as if they didn't get enough money out of us for rio, the twats.

Actually you never gave Leeds the £30million, you gave them something like £24million. Because they were desperate to get some of the money owed early, and United said they would give them part of it as it wasnt due, and Keeds agreed to it.

[Dazz]

why does this need to be archived? Like any of us are going to read through it again.

[Rob Ban Fan]

we should just keep using this thread. It'll be huge soon

To be honest, i dont think Ricky comes in this forum too often, and if he does, there isnt really anything he's missed in this thread.

[Dazz]

But the bigger the thread gets, the more chance of messing up, I suppose we might aswell use it till it messes up.

[Cactus Sid]

Approaching 50 pages

[Dazz]

If my calculations are correct, the next post is going to be the first on the 50th page.

[Rob Ban Fan]

i bet you post before I post this

[Dazz]

Jobber

[Rob Ban Fan]

well I was wrong but still.

BOOOOO West Ham.

COME ON PALACE

[Dazz]

Pardrew is a top bloke, with his interview afterwards and celebrations. What a guy.