MoTD tonight...

[Official Old Man]

So how far up the PL and down the Championship do you go for parity?
Bottom 6 are Burnley, Palace, Hull, Swansea, Boro & Sunderland.
Top 6 are BHA, Newcastle, Reading, Sheff Wed, Huddersfield & Fulham. You could argue to add Leeds.
Is it time for four promotion / relegation places?

 

[Stat Brother]

So how far up the PL and down the Championship do you go for parity?
Bottom 6 are Burnley, Palace, Hull, Swansea, Boro & Sunderland.
Top 6 are BHA, Newcastle, Reading, Sheff Wed, Huddersfield & Fulham. You could argue to add Leeds.
Is it time for four promotion / relegation places?

I think it's about time there was a minimum standard required addendum to relegation/promotion

If you can't get 40 goals and 40 points in the Premier League you shouldn't be allowed to stay, and collect a further £150m.
The flipside being 70 goals and 85 points gets you promoted.

All teams on the edge then make up the playoffs.

 

[Questions]

I think it's about time there was a minimum standard required addendum to relegation/promotion

If you can't get 40 goals and 40 points in the Premier League you shouldn't be allowed to stay, and collect a further £150m.
The flipside being 70 goals and 85 points gets you promoted.

All teams on the edge then make up the playoffs.

Is this a Waddingtons board game you are working on ?

 

[Return of the Rev]

Having earlier watched Chelsea and Spurs go toe-to-toe in what was, quite frankly, a breath taking display of pace, power, invention, sublime technique and ruthless finishing, I was - I'll admit - a little concerned about next season.

But then I watched MotD...

Bournemouth, Middlesborough, Hull, Watford, Swansea, Stoke, West Ham and Everton.

Piss. Poor.

I'll think you will find that we will be playing in premiere league B next season,we will get visits from premiere league A,we will have a role to play for the world wide tv audience ,if we can hang on for a few years we will be invited into the lower section of premiere A league for a bit.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Just reading that sounds INSANE, after all these years! I had to go and check the league table again

Are we still up?

TNBA

TTF

 

[Return of the Rev]

The consolation is that TB is a fan and I do not believe that he will allow us to be in a relegation fight havjng spent so much on the club. He may not splash millions on players but sufficient to ensure a safe position in the league. This may mean a rethink in the January window if it is not all going to plan. We shall just have to wait and see.

He may not splash millions? Where have you been daddad,not sure there is a teddy maybank for 250k or a peter ward for 4k around at the moment, prices have gone up a tad recently

 

[mac04]

Is it time for four promotion / relegation places?

Now is not the time to wish for that. I would prefer just one relegation place for the foreseeable future.

 

[LU7 RED]

I'll think you will find that we will be playing in premiere league B next season,we will get visits from premiere league A,we will have a role to play for the world wide tv audience ,if we can hang on for a few years we will be invited into the lower section of premiere A league for a bit.

Very good analysis. That good it's been quoted on our vitals site.

Although, as you can imagine, the thread tone is very much similar as a thread about AFCB on here ;-) Tetchy at times...

 

[golddene]

I think it's about time there was a minimum standard required addendum to relegation/promotion

If you can't get 40 goals and 40 points in the Premier League you shouldn't be allowed to stay, and collect a further £150m.
The flipside being 70 goals and 85 points gets you promoted.

All teams on the edge then make up the playoffs.

Far too complex Stat, Shirley we should be reincarnating Phil Gartside's policy and do away with relegation from the start of next season lol.

 

[Stat Brother]

Far too complex Stat, Shirley we should be reincarnating Phil Gartside's policy and do away with relegation from the start of next season lol.

Oh yeah, it's never going to happen, plus I get the feeling this latest influx of massive amounts of cash has made the need to filter out more bottom feeders all but redundant.

Watford currently being 10th is the only thing stopping me from thinking the Albion aren't walking into the lions den wearing a steak suit.

 

[theroyal]

If Swansea go down, Llorente would be my preference over Defoe. Although both would be nice, just to see us through our first season.

Depending on how much you'd be willing to invest, if Swansea go down you should look at Sigurdsson. One of the finest players Reading have ever produced.

Would cost a lot though... him and Knockaert in the same side would be immense.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Depending on how much you'd be willing to invest, if Swansea go down you should look at Sigurdsson. One of the finest players Reading have ever produced.

Would cost a lot though... him and Knockaert in the same side would be immense.

Lovely footballer.

Will go a bit higher though. Saints rumoured, I think.

 

[Giraffe]

Its two leagues within one now isn't. We can realistically compete against all the teams up to West Brom in 8th who are as close to the bottom three as they are to Arsenal in 7th!

That's bonkers.

We have no chance of competing with the top 6/7 as they are miles better than us, other than perhaps Liverpool who seem to enjoy losing to the lesser teams like Palace.

Win at home against the bottom 13 teams and you stay up, what you don't win you have to make up for away from home.

That's how next season will pan out now. But we have nothing to be afraid of in that "second league" of the Premier League.

 

[Notters]

There was a bit on Football Focus TBF.

 

[Del Fenner]

There was a bit on Football Focus TBF.

What was her name?

 

[Notters]

What was her name?

Derek.

 

[whitelion]

Just watching the highlights from last night and realising that we'll be part of this come August.

Whatever happens next season it's gonna be a great ride.

 

[heathgate]

Having earlier watched Chelsea and Spurs go toe-to-toe in what was, quite frankly, a breath taking display of pace, power, invention, sublime technique and ruthless finishing, I was - I'll admit - a little concerned about next season.

But then I watched MotD...

Bournemouth, Middlesborough, Hull, Watford, Swansea, Stoke, West Ham and Everton.

Piss. Poor.

My thoughts were simplified to the basic control and retention of the ball at pace.... and... the fact that some of our players will struggle with that.... Murphy, Skalak, Dunk, Hemed to name a few who I think may need to work on that over the summer.

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