Rival Watch™ 2012/2013

Southampton sack Adkins,WTF

 

Shocking

 

That is disgraceful, a small club who are just about surviving so far and just drawn at the chavs. Horrible decision.

 

Yep, got them promoted (twice?) and is keeping them out of the drop zone at the minute. In his last game he managed to get a draw at Stamford Bridge despite going 2-0 down. Didn't deserve the boot at all IMO. Plus, majority of the transfer window has now passed too, if you are going to make a change then do it before the window. Disgraceful decision, harsh on the fans but part of me wants them to go down now

 

Yeah,back to back promotions and currently lying 15th in the prem, 3pts.off relegation zone.
And with a favourable goal diff. compared with those around them.The other two promoted
sides lie 19th and 20th at the mo.

Saints board is going nuts!!

 

Didn't West Ham get promoted? QPR was in prem last year.

 

Yeah,my mistake Seasons just fly by.

 

Remy scored on h is debut for QPR.... it's ok Newcastle, you've still got the mighty Shola Ameobi to ire you to safety

 

AntiFootball City losing nicely again.

 

Newcastle 2-1 down after leading 1-0 against Reading. Le Fondre come on and scored 2 goals - 10 goals for the season. How doe he not start every week for them? The guy scores goals at every level he's been at.

Newcastle 2 points above the relegation zone... worrying times for them.

 

A bit harsh for Newcastle.

 

In what way Harsh? After last year a lot of them got too cocky about thinking they were going to challenge for 4th again - hopefully this is a bit of reality for them.

 

David: Too much, there's too much ****ing perspective now.

 

Exciting evening game today

 

I see Cabaye is back in the team, that's can only be a good thing for the Geordies

 

Apparently Pardew took him off with them 1-0 up and they went and lost 1-2

Pardew probably doesn't care.. can't really lose when you're on a 8 year contract

 

Michael Owen scored against Swansea to keep us clear of them on goal difference, let's hope Villa also get at least a point to keep us in 7th.

 

Other than the Ba / Cisse goals, Cabaye and Ben Arfa were the two key players for them last year and are very much needed for them to do well. Tiote and Colo seems to have gone off the boil too. Too many not performing IMO

 

I never understood the hype about Tiote. He scored that goal against Arsenal but apart from that all he ever seems to do is give away fouls and get booked. Not a brilliant tackler, doesn't add anything offensively and doesn't dictate play etc.

 

Level with Arsenal now - need Rafa to do us a favour and beat them tomorrow and hope Fat Sam can do something similar and pick up at least a point to make them no further than 1 point above us going into our game with them in 2 weeks time