Championship 24/25

[Hasta]

7 hours ago, roverandout said:

Just seen the penalty decisions.  Awful decisions from the ref. Neither were penalties 

1st one clearly isn't, but as the Burnley player isn't trying to play the ball it should be a red card.

2nd one I think is.

I really hope that Sheff united game on the last day of the season is a dead rubber for us but crucial for their automatic promotion. 

[Cherry Blue]

9 hours ago, roverandout said:

Trafford is too good for this league.  He'll be a premiership goal keeper next season whether Burnley go up or not

Unfortunately cheats get away with it. Dingles Jackson took a yellow card but his actions salvaged a point. They'll probably vote him sport's personality of the year.

Edited January 18 by Cherry Blue

[Upside Down]

10 hours ago, cesus said:

I said it after the derby defeat and it probably sounded like sour grapes but I stand by it, if we had been in the Premier League 8 out of the last 10 seasons and that was the quality of squad we had amassed I'd be gutted. Millions and millions spent and they never look like scoring.

They say that we bought the league in 95.

That may be so, but those stupid cunts bought relegation.

How on earth you can get promoted, spend £150 million and come back down with a worse squad than the one you went up with I'll never know.

[M_B]

2 hours ago, danger19_80 said:

Difficult to view this as anything other than a massive boost to our own playoff chances. Their fans seem unanimously happy about it too!

Looks like we're in trouble then, given we're signing players based on other teams' forums.

[K-Hod]

I think they have sold a lot of players as well, to be honest. Even still, for the outlay on the squad, they should be walking the league again, I think.

[Gav]

I watched some of that shite last night, £100’s millions spent, Premiership teams coming to that dump regularly over the past few years and you could hear a mouse piss on cotton for 85mins, the place is a morgue unless we come to town.

[simongarnerisgod]

6 hours ago, Hasta said:

1st one clearly isn't, but as the Burnley player isn't trying to play the ball it should be a red card.

2nd one I think is.

I really hope that Sheff united game on the last day of the season is a dead rubber for us but crucial for their automatic promotion. 

play  the under 18`s for the sheff utd away game🤣

[1874]

With Tronstadt potentially out the decision to play the rearranged QPR game early is now looking a bad call.

[alcd]

1 hour ago, 1874 said:

With Tronstadt potentially out the decision to play the rearranged QPR game early is now looking a bad call.

I was stunned to see them rearrange the fixture to a date earlier than the original date. Waggott obviously doing his best to sabotage this season .

[wilsdenrover]

Perhaps the clubs couldn’t agree the date so the EFL chose instead. 

[GHR]

12 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

Albion fans love him after his previous success there but I can’t see this working out. It’s a shame really because I like Albion, always enjoyed trips to the Hawthorns and if I’d been unlucky enough to grow up in the ugly dump that is the West Midlands conurbation I’d probably have been a Baggies fan.

I will always be grateful to Tony for getting us out of League 1 at the first attempt (though he took us down) and among the many duds he brought some excellent players to the club.

He remains controversial however because in the end  he overstayed his welcome and jokes about him boosting his pension fund were correct, as he knew he was under no pressure to win promotion to the Premier League and could stay at what he realised was a middling and unambitious club for as long as he wanted. The overwhelming feeling when he went was one of relief

So good luck WBA supporters. How long before Tony starts picking weird team formations, playing players in wrong positions and, as results dip, fobbing off fans with talk of a “long term project”?  Start taking the Mogaddon pills chaps, you’ll need them 

I lived in said ugly dump (by and large a fair description) for eight years and West Brom were by a mile the most tolerable of the five 'big' clubs in the area. Thoroughly decent club and fans, always look forward to the annual Hawthorns trip. Hope Mowbray does well but not too well!

[Mattyblue]

Good, proper football club is our fellow Founder Member.

[rigger]

3 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Good, proper football club is our fellow Founder Member.

What, just like ours ? 

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, rigger said:

What, just like ours ? 

Prior to November 2010.

[Mattyblue]

We’ll be back to being one once Balaji’s great great grandson gets it right.

[simongarnerisgod]

amazing how much of the football leeds have but don`t actually do  much with it😀

[Claret_In_Peace]

On 18/01/2025 at 08:58, Upside Down said:

They say that we bought the league in 95.

That may be so, but those stupid cunts bought relegation.

How on earth you can get promoted, spend £150 million and come back down with a worse squad than the one you went up with I'll never know.

Spent nothing like 150 million,  under Kompany he tried to play in the Premier league with kids and got found out, sold players after going down and made massive profits then we spent half of that on new players and our net spend is in the black, irs called running a club well off the field but not on it

[booth]

7 minutes ago, Claret_In_Peace said:

Spent nothing like 150 million,  under Kompany he tried to play in the Premier league with kids and got found out, sold players after going down and made massive profits then we spent half of that on new players and our net spend is in the black, irs called running a club well off the field but not on it

You could have just said he spent a load of cash and fucked it right up.

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, Claret_In_Peace said:

Spent nothing like 150 million,  under Kompany he tried to play in the Premier league with kids and got found out, sold players after going down and made massive profits then we spent half of that on new players and our net spend is in the black, irs called running a club well off the field but not on it

They were the tenth highest spenders in world football that summer.

Spent an absolute fortune buy relegation.

Finished the season with less points than a side managed by Steve Kean.

 

Edited January 21 by Upside Down

[Mattyblue]

We’ll see how ‘well run off the field’ they are if they are still in this division in the summer of 2026…

[Upside Down]

11 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

We’ll see how ‘well run off the field’ they are if they are still in this division in the summer of 2026…

They're well run enough to not be, unfortunately.

[Mattyblue]

We’ll see. That’s only a couple of losing play off campaigns. We’ve seen it with other former yo yo clubs, once those parachutes go they are back in the pack.

[simongarnerisgod]

it does`nt appear to me that burnley will get automatic promotion,they don`t score enough goals and the recent purchases of the illiterate caveman barnes and the past it shelvey shows their is`nt much money to splash about,it`s the play offs for them and as we know,anything can happen then😁

[Tom]

Reckon Burnley may win tonight, 5-0 up at half time 

[johnradfordsubbuteo2]

Plymouth must be kicking themselves for letting Forshaw go.