Surprised at Newcastle. Thought they would cause us more problems with Sissoko and Cisse

For the first time since I can remember Alan Shearer actually said something sensible on MOTD last night - basically that ten games is about right for the offence, but it means that the FA need to be far more consistent from now on because their handing out of punishments previously has been disproportionate. Liverpool fans are essentially angry because their player is the first one to be made an example of for a while.

For the first time since I can remember Alan Shearer actually said something sensible on MOTD last night - basically that ten games is about right for the offence, but it means that the FA need to be far more consistent from now on because their handing out of punishments previously has been disproportionate. Liverpool fans are essentially angry because their player is the first one to be made an example of for a while.

I sort of agree with this

 

I still think 10 games is very severe, but at the same time I'm sure most Liverpool fans would have accepted it if it meant the system was fair and other players were similarly punished. Right now it just seems like the FA are making the rules up as they go along and they've attempted to make an example of Suarez

QPR and Reading relegated

To steal from a tweet on the BBC feed, that game was a terrible advertisement for the Championship.

 

Reading are living proof that a bit of form can go a long way in the second tier, never looked like a Premier League team. QPR are going to have... interesting finances this summer.

I was only vaguely concentrating on the QPR - Reading game while writing my chart commentary but it looked like both teams had already given up hope of staying up.

I attempted to make a PL squad of the season, a starting XI + 9 subs, one player from each team

 

Mignolet

 

Zabaleta Bassong Vertongen Baines

 

Carrick Schneiderlin

 

Cazorla Michu Mata

 

Suarez

 

Subs: Cesar, Reid, Cameron, Santon, McAnuff, Maloney, Lukaku, Benteke, Berbatov,

Edited April 28, 201312 yr by RabbitFurCoat

The finances will certainly be interesting based on the article below.

 

Redknapp appears to be forgetting that he is no longer a Premiership manager. Who is going to pay the wages of these expensive players in the second tier? He wants his players to stay and help them get back up. I wonder if he has been watching the news of the current Championship season?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22330744

For the first time since I can remember Alan Shearer actually said something sensible on MOTD last night - basically that ten games is about right for the offence, but it means that the FA need to be far more consistent from now on because their handing out of punishments previously has been disproportionate. Liverpool fans are essentially angry because their player is the first one to be made an example of for a while.

 

Nail on the head. I'd have no qualms if this was the going rate, but it's not. Fellaini gets 3 games for headbutting. Hazard gets 3 games for kicking a bloody child(teenager) and Suarez gets 10 for biting someone. Like I've said all along I'd have no complaints if the FA were always this harsh, but they're not. We've been well and truly bent over here, cos I don't believe the next time somebody headbuts someone they'll get a 10 game ban.

 

No surprise Reading and QPR have gone down. Fear QPR might self implode. Think Wigan will finally go down..

Roffle. Gareth Bale has not been the best player this season. Van Persie and Suarez absolute two horse race, both been the most consistent performers.

 

Can't really argue with Team of the Year though.

Oh God, Twitter exploding. Reginald D Hunter was the comedian the PFA booked.. oops

It's the best team in the sense that it arguably has the best 11 players of the season in it while sticking to a roughly sensible formation, but's not the best team as in the one that would work best. But I'm just being facetious, can't see a lot wrong with it.

Oh God, Twitter exploding. Reginald D Hunter was the comedian the PFA booked.. oops

Gordon Taylor's response "Well he's a comedian, isn't he?"

 

This is coming from the same group of people that booed Suarez as his name was announced during the night. Double standards

Bale the winner of both? He is either one or the other, not both. The PFA should set out a clear age range, I seem to recall we had something like this another year where one player was nominated for both categories.

hope watford and brighton get up as they are the best away teams i've seen at the gate. really dont want hull going up, its bad enough bardiff (sell your soul) ladyboys got up :puke2: :manson:

Gordon Taylor's response "Well he's a comedian, isn't he?"

 

This is coming from the same group of people that booed Suarez as his name was announced during the night. Double standards

 

He's a massive bellend. That's what he is.

hope watford and brighton get up as they are the best away teams i've seen at the gate. really dont want hull going up, its bad enough bardiff (sell your soul) ladyboys got up :puke2: :manson:

 

Pfft, haters gonna hate.

 

On a serious note I don't know if I want them to go up either, we'll be slaughtered every week if we do!

Pfft, haters gonna hate.

 

On a serious note I don't know if I want them to go up either, we'll be slaughtered every week if we do!

I must admit I have mixed feelings about Brighton going up for similar reasons. In a way I'd accept the same fate as Reading. They only spent five million quid last summer but will now get £30m parachute payments for two years and have avoided being humiliated.

 

Teams like WBA have gone through spells as a yo-yo club before becoming more established in the Premier League (now watch them go down next season :lol: ) but there's a lot to be said for that sort of financial model.

I think the West Brom model is the most sustainable. It can't have been nice, but they're a very well Premier League club now with an excellent management structure in place.

 

It's Catch-22 for clubs getting promoted to the Premier League. But then you've got to look at the likes of Southampton, Swansea and Norwich of recent times who have hardly bought big and kept a lot of their squad from the Championship.

 

QPR have a team of mercenaries, and Reading did just not invest wisely enough, and McDermott is not tactically astute enough to be a Premier League manager. I see why Southampton sacked Adkins now.

 

Compared to 4-5 years ago the league is significantly weaker. The only difference now is that below the top seven clubs currently it's a bit of a free-fall. Anyone of the clubs is a patch of very bad form away to potentially getting relegated. And tactics definitely play a much, much bigger part.

As a fan of a Championship team for the last 5 years now, this is definitely the weakest it's been at the top for a while, probably since Derby were able to finish third and go up. On the one hand I do want us to sneak in the play-offs and go up, on the other I'm really not that bothered. It wouldn't surprise me if the three who went up came straight back down, none have much to offer. Our best defender has played in the Premier League three times and has failed miserably on each of them. Even Cardiff, they don't have the momentum that the likes of Southampton, Norwich and Blackpool had, and they don't have the quality of the likes of Swansea, West Ham and West Brom in recent seasons. I look at their squad and it's average, they've won this league because there's been little competition, not because they've significantly improved on recent near misses.