CUTLER2579 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 My theory on the Premiership relegation battle is that my beloved Q.P.R. are favourites for relegation with Sunderland second favourites for the drop. Third place will probably be filled by Leicester City or Burnley. I think with any fines imposed on Rangers over their financial losses in the past two seasons will see them destined to spend a number of years in at best the Championship. I am not a pessimist having supported them through thick and thin since 1956,but more a realist. A complete clear out of dead wood is needed and some of the free riders should become destined to the realms of ex-players, not just of QPR but football generally.Won't happen of course, but should do in the real world. Regards. . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyram Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 My three for the drop from the Prem are Leicester (too far adrift), QPR (too many prima donnas unfit for a fight) and Sunderland (who look a mess). Burnley could make the drop instead of the Black Cats which would mean all three newly promoted sides will have gone. Not a good sign for those who finally escape the tightest Championship race for years. Sadly it is looking like injuries may just cost Derby County. A lucky point on Saturday, but things not looking good with Middlesbrough, Wolves and Watford in our next three games! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2015 My three for the drop from the Prem are Leicester (too far adrift), QPR (too many prima donnas unfit for a fight) and Sunderland (who look a mess). Burnley could make the drop instead of the Black Cats which would mean all three newly promoted sides will have gone. Not a good sign for those who finally escape the tightest Championship race for years. Sadly it is looking like injuries may just cost Derby County. A lucky point on Saturday, but things not looking good with Middlesbrough, Wolves and Watford in our next three games! When the going gets tough Andy!, you seem to have a squad of battlers there, the 6 pointers coming up will test their mettle and see whether a worthy Premier league contender resides at Pride Park, or whatever it's called this week! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 .....favourites for relegation with Sunderland second favourites for the drop. ...... Much as I admire Gus Poyet, who represents the star-turned-struggling football manager, I think that asking him to perform "The Great Escape" yet again might be a bit too much this time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted March 16, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2015 At the other end of the football wealth table, I'm finding it hard to muster up anything more that mild frustration about Chelsea's exit (and the manner of it) from the Champions' League last night. By all accounts, it was for long periods a scrappy, ill-tempered and unappealing spectacle. Definitely good time to pretend I was focused on the Premier League all along. Of course, there's now a very real possibility that there will be no English clubs at all in the quarter-finals of the CL. If that is so, and the same happens again, how long before UEFA decide that there shouldn't be 4 English teams in the competition? That's not a rhetorical question, by the way - I really don't know how often they review the merits of the various European leagues. Meanwhile Chelsea limp along towards the end of the season. Losing 2 points at home to the Saints. Will they have enough of a lead, to make it as Premier League champions? Shows how bad City & The Rest are! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Yet another of the clubs at the foot of the Premiership part company with the manager. Bye Bye Gus Poyet and good luck for the future. The curse of "Horsetan" strikes again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 (edited) Well Spurs were so dire they made Chelsea's mid week performance look good... Surprised no one has mentioned Matt Phillips goal for QPR. What a belter! Can't recall seeing a ball hit so hard and yet stay almost at the same height for 40 yards... https://youtu.be/Qbs6b50cOqc Edited March 16, 2015 by gordon s 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted March 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2015 Much as I admire Gus Poyet, who represents the star-turned-struggling football manager, I think that asking him to perform "The Great Escape" yet again might be a bit too much this time. He ain't going to get the opportunity to try. Although who the heck we can get at this stage of the season is a mystery to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 He ain't going to get the opportunity to try. Although who the heck we can get at this stage of the season is a mystery to me. Well, it's not going to be Paolo di Canio. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve K Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I agree with your main point regarding Chelsea, from all accounts it was a woeful match, for which Chelsea deserved to lose. But isn't it 3 Premier League clubs with a 4th in a play off stage round? Yes, it is, but the play-off is usually a fairly easy one, given the seedings and the relatively high rating of the PL. I was just musing as to whether this might be reduced at some point, from 3+1 to 3 or 2+1, if English teams don't start to do a bit better in the next few years. By the way, I'd thought I'd share with you all a brilliant idea I had the other day! There has long been discussion regarding the merits of the Europa League winners getting a place in the following year's Champions' League, so here's the logical next step. Are you ready? It deserves a line of its own: If the winners of the FA Cup come from the Football League (or lower), they should get instant promotion to the Premier League! I await your reasons for why this would be a bad thing. For any argument you give, I am confident that I can name 3 stupider ideas which have become reality in world football in the last 10 years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted March 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2015 Better still ..... the winners of the FA cup get the fourth champions league place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 ...I am confident that I can name 3 stupider ideas which have become reality in world football in the last 10 years. ....one of which is World Cup Qatar 2022. The other one is Sepp Blatter. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted March 16, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2015 By the way, I'd thought I'd share with you all a brilliant idea I had the other day! There has long been discussion regarding the merits of the Europa League winners getting a place in the following year's Champions' League, so here's the logical next step. Are you ready? It deserves a line of its own: If the winners of the FA Cup come from the Football League (or lower), they should get instant promotion to the Premier League! I await your reasons for why this would be a bad thing. For any argument you give, I am confident that I can name 3 stupider ideas which have become reality in world football in the last 10 years. The obvious question is, how would a Premier League club be selected for relegation to replace them? A club finishing 4th last would take a dim view of being 'safe', then a week or so later, being kicked out, assuming the existing promotion rules didn't get overridden. Also this would only occur, every time the moon turned blue, as very rare a non Premier League club wins the FA Cup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cary hill Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 If the winners of the FA Cup come from the Football League (or lower), they should get instant promotion to the Premier League! That's almost sedition - Millwall might only be half a dozen flakey results away from the Premier League Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyram Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Not criticising the FA Cup winners promotion idea - imagine what would happen if Bradford had gone all the way!! Does that mean they would get bumped up a few divisions. Hey great idea - they may break our pitiful 11 point worst tally in the Premier League!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2015 Not criticising the FA Cup winners promotion idea - imagine what would happen if Bradford had gone all the way!! Does that mean they would get bumped up a few divisions. Hey great idea - they may break our pitiful 11 point worst tally in the Premier League!!! If Bradford could carry over the points already accrued against PL opposition, that would give them a healthy start! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium mezzoman253 Posted March 17, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 17, 2015 Sunderland appoint a new manager, guess who their next match is against.......West Ham. I wish I had a £10 for every time this has happened to us. We must hold some kind of record for playing teams that have just sacked their manager. Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Well its Dick Advocaat who is also known as "Egg Flip". (only the older Alcoholics like myself will remember this) Until the end of the Season. That's what's so good about the Stadium of Light, that feeling of stability for the supporters. The Super Hoops. PML. Regards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve K Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 The obvious question is, how would a Premier League club be selected for relegation to replace them? A club finishing 4th last would take a dim view of being 'safe', then a week or so later, being kicked out, assuming the existing promotion rules didn't get overridden. In my masterplan, the FA Cup winners would replace one promoted team (or possibly replace the 6th-place Championship team in the playoffs, but I'd prefer instant promotion), not increase the number of relegations. It's only the extreme rarity of such a situation that makes it workable, in my view! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted March 17, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17, 2015 (edited) So you would have teams slog their guts out over a 46 game season, earn promotion, only to be then told 'sorry, not this time'? Somehow I can't see it catching on, even if it were to be once in a blue moon. Edited March 17, 2015 by BoD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 17, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17, 2015 So you would have teams slog their guts out over a 46 game season, earn promotion, only to be then told 'sorry, not this time'? Somehow I can't see it catching on, even if it were to be once in a blue moon. Well why not, that's what happens in the play offs, and that's a bloody stupid money making idea if ever there was one. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 It would kill the play-offs though... If there was a non-Premiership team in the final it would make the whole concept of the payoffs unworkable... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 18, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 18, 2015 It would kill the play-offs though... If there was a non-Premiership team in the final it would make the whole concept of the payoffs unworkable... IMHO that's no bad thing. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve K Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 You'll all come round to my idea in the end - resistance is futile! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 When was the last time a non Premier or first division club won the FA cup? 35 years ago? Silly idea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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