They've only played nearly 2 games without them, with one of them being against Leicester... To rule them out so quickly is foolish.
Dan Sim on Twitter @bbc: "Always good to see a traditional team get promoted. Now get teams like Forest up instead of Cardiff, Stoke, Hull etc."[/QUOTE] ****wit.
What is funny is that if you go on his twitter he's playing off as a bit of fishing. This is his twitter, by the way: https://twitter.com/DanielSimms9 He's a ****ing Barnet fan, not much else to say really.
Thanks for the good wishes, Hull fans. Exactly. Ings and Vokes are the shop window but they have quality goods in the back. Trippier has been ridiculously good for them.
How would you rate the Championship this season as compared to the last season? I know it's an inexact comparison which ever way you figure it. But from up here, it really looks like a shadow of the divsion we both fought in 2012/13. Good time for you to get out though, before the massive parachute payments kick in and a seemingly stronger division next season (Wolves + possibly Sunlan, Fulham, Cardiff etc)
I'd say it's been better this season. Look at the sides that went down. Posh went down with over 50 points and you went up with only 79(?). |However you could say that the league was more even last season. Either way, some of the stuff we've played this season has been as good as the Reading side of 06 for me.
Not ruling them out, just think on paper their team looks much weaker without the front 2, and with the pressure building, they COULD fall apart. I expect them to just about secure 2nd place.
To be fair, of course you would say that. More even = more competitive, more competitive = better to watch.
Because I believe it to be true. To a certain extent, yes. But i'd say that Stoke and West Ham are evenly matched and you won't find me watching that. The quality is what matters.
In fairness, I’ve only seen bits of bobs of the division, but LCFC aside, I just can’t see any quality. But, as said, many PL pricks would have said the same about us when we came up. In my opinion, your biggest asset next season is going to be NP and his staff, with their ability to recruit genuine quality. At the same time, you have to hope that serious lessons have been learnt by NP from 2012/13. If your team collapses like that in the Prem, like you did in that season, you’ll be ****ed. The Prem is even more unforgiving these days than your last time in the division, even just for the fact the media/public microscope is about 100 times the strength. As you’ll know, any one of about 10 /12 teams can go down from the Prem – so we’re all in the firing line next season. Where do you think NP will mainly strengthen?
Be interesting to revisit this thread in a year: http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/topic/94039-premier-league-1415-thread/ Some belters on there: 50 + points Top half finish 8/9 home wins 6 pts against the likes of Villa and Hull There's some absolutely **** teams in the bottom half of the premiership
I think the division has been pretty poor this season because not many teams have turned up at the KP and looked decent. In know part of that is because we have been too good but apart from Burnley no one has really impressed me this season. I think we are the only team that could go up and be competitive without making a lot of signings
Good luck with that. I thought some of our players from the Championship would be able to handle it...SB thought otherwise and bought in a whole new midfield...I'm glad he did
Weren't James, King & Drinkwater in your midfield for the same season? The same midfield you have now? The same midfield that just held on against Wednesday on Friday.
They've spent, I wouldn't call it reinforcing though. Their only real improvement has been Caulker, but they've surrounded him with dogshit. Doesn't matter, all it says is that you've bought better. If you hadn't made good signings in key areas (you've a totally new spine) then you wouldn't be doing so well. Simpson out, Long in. Proschwitz out, Jelavic in, McShane out, Davies in, that **** goalkeeper out, McGregor in... Drinkwater and James have come on leaps and bounds through experience rather than ability and are now widely acknowledged as the best two central midfielders in the league. But still, what's your point?
What Proud is saying is that we're probably a back-up goalkeeper, a centre half, a right back, a winger and a striker away. All important positions that need filling and would obviously change the side dramatically, whereas other sides might need 8/9 signings to be competitive. Some of the squads in this league seriously lack depth.
