[Archived] Other Premier League Happenings

[Tom]

Plus the fact west Ham are looking poor at the moment and are only above us by 1 goal (until tomorrow at least) I don't see too much reason to panic just yet.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I think we gambled on all of the newly promoted teams to go down ( in my opinion that's why we took the Ince gamble). It's not looking that way at the moment. The longer they stay in contention the harder they'll scrap. We look devoid of inspiration but the number a late goals we've scored tells me we've still got some fight in us. We desperately need to get a few clean sheets.

[vintageadidas]

Just looking for further info on Keith Andrews and came across the EPL team of the season.......what a joke! Tevez, Giggs, Carrick and Rooney did not have an amazing season last year. Total bullocks. This is off wikipedia so not gospel.

Premier League

Pos. Player Club

GK Edwin Van Der Sar Manchester United

DF Partice Evra Manchester United

DF Rio Ferdinand Manchester United

DF Nemanja Vidic Manchester United

DF Gael Clichy Arsenal

MF Michael Carrick Manchester United

MF Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United

MF Paul Scholes Manchester United

MF Ryan Giggs Manchester United

FW Wayne Rooney Manchester United

FW Carlos Tevez Manchester United

[Presty On Tour]

wba are getting a hiding so far, keane is taking full advantage of carson's errors.

[tony gale's mic]

Just looking for further info on Keith Andrews and came across the EPL team of the season.......what a joke! Tevez, Giggs, Carrick and Rooney did not have an amazing season last year. Total bullocks. This is off wikipedia so not gospel.

Premier League

Pos. Player Club

GK Edwin Van Der Sar Manchester United

DF Partice Evra Manchester United

DF Rio Ferdinand Manchester United

DF Nemanja Vidic Manchester United

DF Gael Clichy Arsenal

MF Michael Carrick Manchester United

MF Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United

MF Paul Scholes Manchester United

MF Ryan Giggs Manchester United

FW Wayne Rooney Manchester United

FW Carlos Tevez Manchester United

http://www.footballmatches.net/pfa-premier...am-of-the-year/

Goalkeeper

David James - Portsmouth

Right Back

Bacary Sagna - Arsenal

Centre Backs

Rio Ferdinand - Man Utd

Nemanja Vidic - Man Utd

Left Back

Gael Clichy - Arsenal

Right Wing

Cristiano Ronaldo - Man Utd

Centre Midfield

Steven Gerrard - Liverpool

Cesc Fabregas - Arsenal

Left Wing

Ashley Young - Aston Villa

Strikers

Emmanuel Adebayor - Arsenal

Fernando Torres - Liverpool

[T4E]

Just looking for further info on Keith Andrews and came across the EPL team of the season.......what a joke! Tevez, Giggs, Carrick and Rooney did not have an amazing season last year. Total bullocks. This is off wikipedia so not gospel.

Premier League

Pos. Player Club

GK Edwin Van Der Sar Manchester United

DF Partice Evra Manchester United

DF Rio Ferdinand Manchester United

DF Nemanja Vidic Manchester United

DF Gael Clichy Arsenal

MF Michael Carrick Manchester United

MF Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United

MF Paul Scholes Manchester United

MF Ryan Giggs Manchester United

FW Wayne Rooney Manchester United

FW Carlos Tevez Manchester United

Christ, you're right, that is a joke.

Two left backs?!

[Presty On Tour]

MH bully boys down to 9 and are losing 2-1 at home to Spurs.

[Tom]

Boro beat Villa, this season is mad, anyone can really beat anyone in any given game.

Hopefully Sparky will be getting his marching orders soon, and so he should, if people on here want rid of Ince I wonder what the resident city numpties will make of things there.

[tony gale's mic]

Whatever happens at Middle Eastlands I still rate Sparky very highly as a manager. In the days at Rovers when he actually had principles (pre 2008 and him whoring himself out to any job going), he always said he could never manage at a club where the board has too much interference. It was a team in transition under Eriksson and then he left, they've had to get a whole new style of play yet again under Hughes, yes Robinhos an excellent player but for the team to suddenly change to play around one man, no matter how good he is will take time.

I still expect he'll be removed from his position at Christmas unless a dramatic improvement happens though, and hope he does too. It will serve him right for getting involved in the first place.

[LeChuck]

If Sparky does get the sack I'd have him back in an instance. I wonder if he'd be tempted to back if he was told there was still £10-20 million available to spend?

Portsmouth took Redknapp back after he had a pretty disastrous spell with their fiercest rivals. If they were big enough to admit their mistake and take him back, why couldn't we do the same with Sparky?

[BuckyRover]

I would hire him as chief scout.

Nothing more.

[Tom]

I wouldn't have him back, as he said many times he'd taken us as far as we could, I think had he still been here we would still be in a similar position now.

I would certainly take some of his scouts and coaches back though.

[tony gale's mic]

I wouldn't have him back, as he said many times he'd taken us as far as we could, I think had he still been here we would still be in a similar position now.

Disagree completely. Our defence has been much worse than under Sparky and thats been our main undoing. I think Sparky wouldve signed someone better than Vince Grella for the money that was paid.

I'd actually say that with the wide open nature of the League this season we'd be very good contenders for a 5th or 6th slot this season considering we'd been there or thereabouts these last 3 seasons.

[Tom]

The fact is it's irrelevent, Hughes had no passion from this club from the moment the toon job came up.

No doubt he was brilliant for us when he cared but as time went on he grew visibly weary and somewhat over sure of himself and believed he deserved better than little Blackburn.

[Grabbi Graeme]

Fulham currently 2-1 up against the Toon

[tony gale's mic]

The fact is it's irrelevent, Hughes had no passion from this club from the moment the toon job came up.

No doubt he was brilliant for us when he cared but as time went on he grew visibly weary and somewhat over sure of himself and believed he deserved better than little Blackburn.

We still managed to get from a position where Europe looked highly unlikely to a position where we had it in our hands on the final day. Sure we played very badly that last day but we were playing a team fighting to stay up and it's unfair to judge Sparky on the back of one bad result. Look at the United game, do you think that was a performane borne out of little passion?

For you to state Hughes had no passion as if its a fact is completely absurd.

I agree Sparky was looking for a way out but it wasn't a feeling of deserving better, it was wanting somewhere where he felt he could take the club forward with money to spend on players. Having said that joining a club which was significantly below us in the League and which had an owner like Shinawatra really did grate, but I wouldnt knock him at all about his time here.

[Mr. E]

I'm not sure which game vs Sunderland will be bigger - the cup or the league. The cup is everything positive we have left to play for, the league is simply to try and survive.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Forget the cup, three points or even one would do me.

[Exiled_Rover]

We still managed to get from a position where Europe looked highly unlikely to a position where we had it in our hands on the final day. Sure we played very badly that last day but we were playing a team fighting to stay up and it's unfair to judge Sparky on the back of one bad result. Look at the United game, do you think that was a performane borne out of little passion?

For you to state Hughes had no passion as if its a fact is completely absurd.

I agree Sparky was looking for a way out but it wasn't a feeling of deserving better, it was wanting somewhere where he felt he could take the club forward with money to spend on players. Having said that joining a club which was significantly below us in the League and which had an owner like Shinawatra really did grate, but I wouldnt knock him at all about his time here.

Birmingham had nothing to play for.

[modes98]

Birmingham had nothing to play for.

They were playing to stay up, had results gone their way they would have.

[Hughesy]

Disagree completely. Our defence has been much worse than under Sparky and thats been our main undoing.

4 goals against Birmingham, 4 against COVENTRY, 5 against Wigan. Yeah im sure your right.

[EwoodGlory]

Rumours up here that Shearer could be set for the Newcastle job, most bookies now have him 2/1 - 3/1 favorite. He was around the 10/1 mark earlier.

[AggyBlue]

Rumours up here that Shearer could be set for the Newcastle job, most bookies now have him 2/1 - 3/1 favorite. He was around the 10/1 mark earlier.

I think he'll wait until the club has new owners and a pan full of cash.

[tony gale's mic]

4 goals against Birmingham, 4 against COVENTRY, 5 against Wigan. Yeah im sure your right.

Why pick isolated cases rather than the season as a whole?! Every team has their defensive off days, but 22 goals in 12 league games under Ince at not too far off two goals per game. ompare this with Hughes' record over the last three seasons.

The anti-Hughes crowd always pick out the same four games in their attempts to rewrite history. Fact is that our defensive record was the 7th best in the league last season, and a third of the way through the season this time round it is the worst in the league.

There is no possible, logical way you can claim our defence was worse under Hughes than it is now.

Birmingham had nothing to play for.

Except Premier League survival. Maybe we'll know that feeling before long..

[Tris]

The anti-Hughes crowd always pick out the same four games in their attempts to rewrite history

What anti-Hughes crowd????? Name them - show us this crowd.

I don't think you'll ever find an anti-Hughes crowd made up of Rovers fans, he was a good manager for us.