You say you'd put my money on them reaching the play-offs. Would you put your own money on it?

 

Yes. I'd also put money of whoever comes up put of Luton/Wimbledon and then Wrexham/Fleetwood/Kidderminster/York for the play-offs. The Conference is a very strong league. The top 10 clubs in there are as good as the top half of League 2. I mean just look how Stevenage and Oxford are performing this year, and how other clubs that have come up have done.

 

Crawley Town at the moment, are full of League players on ridiculous wages and that's without strengthening in the summer. They'll be a short price though to go up mind. Possibly even one of, if not the favourites.

Yes. I'd also put money of whoever comes up put of Luton/Wimbledon and then Wrexham/Fleetwood/Kidderminster/York for the play-offs. The Conference is a very strong league. The top 10 clubs in there are as good as the top half of League 2. I mean just look how Stevenage and Oxford are performing this year, and how other clubs that have come up have done.

 

Crawley Town at the moment, are full of League players on ridiculous wages and that's without strengthening in the summer. They'll be a short price though to go up mind. Possibly even one of, if not the favourites.

They've been able to do what Al Fayed did when he first took over Fulham. They've packed the team with players capable of playing at least one division higher that the one they're in.

 

The best indication of the strength of the Conference is that since automatic promotion / relegation was introduced, not a single side has gone straight back down again. I used to see Woking in the Conference regularly 15 years or so ago and the standard was high then. It's a good deal better now.

Yeah it's very true about the conference. I've been following it since 2004 when York got relegated, and at least to begin with the teams that go up don't struggle. League 2 is far, far too static. It's a complete joke to be honest that only two teams can go up and down. Give it a few more years and I'm very sure the Confernece teams will all be just about as good as the League teams. I think all put two clubs in the Conference are full-time now.

 

The only problem is the people who run the Conference are a bit of a joke really, and the League 2 clubs would be in uproar if 3/4 clubs were promoted/relegated...

It took the Conference several years to get the Football League to agree to two going up. They should be campaigning for three or four now in the hope that they will achieve three by around 2015.

 

The biggest disappointment of the collapse of Setanta UK was the loss of Conference coverage. They used to cover it very well.

Yeah it's a shame really that no-one (well apart from the internet) covers the Conference. There was hope of ESPN picking it up after Setanta went bust. Looks very doubtful now. I can't see Sky picking up the rights, even though I personally think its a sill idea marketing wise. The likes of Luton, Wrexham, Cambridge, York, Kidderminster, Darlington, Grimsby (Wimbledon might as well considered as well) are all League clubs with big followings.

7 goals, plus a disallowed one and a missed penalty today, got my £12's worth but the end results was what I expected, disappointment.

 

We are utterly utterly dreadful, I can't wait for May 8th now and we'll have a massive clearout. No condifence, no ideas, no clue. We're so far away from the team I last saw play it's unreal. Earnshaw - useless, Boyd - fat and useless, McGugan - fat, lazy and useless, Lynch - :manson: - Majewski - useless, Tyson - bloody quick and useless, Konchesky - please come back Mr. Shorey :cry:

 

I have no idea who the ref was today but he was beyond awful. The free kick that Ian Harte scored (amazing free-kick, he's still got it) was given from what looked like Shane Long falling over; he didn't even appeal for a free kick, someone closer to it than me also said the same thing. Dele Adebola was clearly brought down and no penalty, yet two minutes later Gunter does what from the perfect view looked like the most blatent dive in the pathetic hope of winning one, and does! :lol: 88th minute equaliser and we still managed to blow it though.

 

On the plus side, The Moose is back :wub: Bugger off Moyes! <_<

Brighton are up :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

Well done to Brighton, been very good all season and made an embarrassment out of Peterborough at London Road when Gary Johnson decided to make it a "blue and white day" with a cup final atmosphere, only for Brighton to dominate the whole game and win easily. I'm sure they will be a force in the Championship next season!

Well done to Brighton, they are champions as well as going up. They got the win they needed. :cheer: Party at your place I am guessing Suedehead2? ^_^

Yes, it's Party Time :D :cheer: :hic:

In other Brighton news, they have already sold 16,500 season tickets for next season which is nearly twice the full capacity of the current "stadium". :o

I have a sport related question. I am watching Match Of The Day and I am wondering whether the Chelsea players are intentionally wearing luminous green clothes?

I have a sport related question. I am watching Match Of The Day and I am wondering whether the Chelsea players are intentionally wearing luminous green clothes?

Someone decided that they should wear that hideous kit so, in that sense, it was intentional.

I have a sport related question. I am watching Match Of The Day and I am wondering whether the Chelsea players are intentionally wearing luminous green clothes?

Appears to be their third kit. Not sure what the West Brom home kit is like, but if it clashed with the normal Chelsea away kit the third kit was needed.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_F.C.

LOL I was out earlier & only just got around to seeing the end of the Liverpool vs. Arsenal match. 2 Penalties :o

 

#Pissoffwenger is trending on twitter too :lol:

 

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Wenger made a complete idiot of himself in the post-match interview. He's been around long enough to know that the amount of stoppage time shown is a minimum. When the amount shown is as much as eight minutes, it is always likely that something will happen to add to that time. In this case, there was a penalty which would have added a good 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. That's leaving aside the fact that the stoppage for Carragher's injury was a full seven minutes so the amount shown should probably have been longer.

 

As for the Liverpool penalty, the referee got it absolutely right. But, as usual, Wenger thinks that he had a better view from the half-way line than the referee had from a much better position.

Maybe if Arsenal's players didn't spend as much time fannying about trying to make a wall there wouldn't have been as much, a clear case of timewasting and the ref was correct to play as much time as he did, there was probably getting on for two minutes between the free kick being given and the penalty being given.

Both were penalties. The 2nd one was a maybe a little bit debateable as Lucas was not in a scoring position, but if you make contact like that any player is going to go down. Wenger just showing his naviety. Whenever Arsenal get a dubious penalty '..err...I did not see ze inzident' yet he's bloody hawkeye when something goes against him.

 

Wouldn't surprise me if Kenny gets a fine from the FA for his comments...even though it's a completely different context to the Rooney incident.

My Man Utd supporting flatmate said he should be banned if Rooney was, I told him it'll never happen. Rooney did it directly at the camera, Dalglish was just in retaliation to, and aimed entirely at, Arsene Wenger whilst a camera happened to be zooming in behind them to pick it up.

My Man Utd supporting flatmate said he should be banned if Rooney was, I told him it'll never happen. Rooney did it directly at the camera, Dalglish was just in retaliation to, and aimed entirely at, Arsene Wenger whilst a camera happened to be zooming in behind them to pick it up.

 

Yes exactly. Completely different contexts. Also 'p***' is hardly the same as 'f***'. I don't think anything will happen now as there's been no word from the FA, and let's be honest, the whole thing wouldn't have happened if Wenger didn't walk towards Dalglish. I knew there'd be Man Utd fans calling for it though, but I'm sure most sane fans can see the difference between the contexts (and also that it's a repeat offence for Rooney).