This is what happens when those who conspire to destroy banter on this board succeed in their endeavours. Result? A sterile environment that, whilst it might prove to be less juvenile is a far less fun place to post in, than it was before.
Or nobody's posting about Spurs because we're not playing and the transfer window's shut. One or the other.
It's this wretched international break just a few weeks into the season. Talk about killing the enthusiasm, just when we'd got used to football being back during the cricket season. Can't they play these qualifiers in June or something?
They should get these three games out of the way about two weeks before the season starts and close the transfer window a week later. Allow the managers to get their teams settled a little and get the season going properly.
Too many international teams and too many games! We'll have the Isle of Wight fielding a team soon!!!!?
Man U's front line has gone a little quiet what with no goals in two matches. Normally they'd be expected to put 4 or 5 in Palace's net but now I'm not so sure,
I think the time has come for international football in Europe to have a pre qualifying tournament to remove the requirement for so many pointless matches and a subsequent re-jigging of the international calendar, now before we go any further you may want to get a drink, this is going to take a while! OK I think Europe gets 14 places at the World Cup, so ideally we want 7 groups with 2 countries qualifying from each. I also think that 8 matches are enough for the teams to play in qualifying so that requires 5 teams per group. There are currently approx 63 teams involved in world cup qualifying in Europe, so my suggestion would be that the 24 teams who qualify for the European Championships (I think it is being increased to 24 nations for the next tournament) would automatically go into the draw for World Cup qualifying, plus the 4 highest ranked teams in FIFAs rankings that don’t qualify for the Euros and that gives us 4 teams for each group. The remaining 35 teams are then split into 7 groups of 5 and play a mini tournament over the summer (whilst the Euros are on perhaps) and the 5 group winners from this also go into the draw, resulting in meaningful groups of 5 and hopefully 20 competitive matches in each group. So if we were looking at 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign this would start in the Autumn of 2016, I would suggest 4 sets of two matches, played in Oct 2016, then in May 2017, June 2017 (rather than a tour), September and finally Nov 2017. That would allow for 2 friendlies to be added when the group games in our group didn’t include a fixture for us and one other friendly could also be scheduled in March 2017, to be played in midweek (Wednesday) with no need for cancellation of league fixtures. With further friendlies as preparation if we qualify once the season has finished.
Been dead on here. I haven't been around much the past few days but the same threads are still near the top of forum with very few comments added from when I last checked. Suppose the international football is to blame. Or we've all just become very bloody boring.
Nothing much to post until after the Norwich result SOS, if we lose then there'll be a lot more threads than if we win.
It takes a special kind of mentality and perseverance to fill the board with inane drivel, especially during fallow periods such as this. I flatter myself that I have that kind of mentality in abundance.
