Something needs to be done. Imagine being a WBA fan this season, or even us in most of our recent spell in the league. Tools downed once safety is confirmed leading to a depressing second half of the season.Ramone wrote:Utterly moronic, the issue with the league is the gap between the top 5/6 and the rest of the league. Relegating more teams each season wouldn't help at all.ALF wrote:Just been on RTG to have a laugh and I actually quite like the sounds of this...
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If FFP was actually properly implemented and teams had to be viable, profit-making businesses instead of billionaires' play things the gap between the "big" teams and everyone else would shrink significantly. Unfortunately that's never going to happen.
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Most sports in the world don't even have a relegation system, and their fans manage. That said, a lot of sports have salary caps, drafts, etc. that provide a certain measure of parody that means financial muscle doesn't create such a divided system of haves and have-nots. So I'm not disagreeing with you, but adding more risk of relegation to create more drama for mid table clubs doesn't strike me as the solution.ALF wrote:Something needs to be done. Imagine being a WBA fan this season, or even us in most of our recent spell in the league. Tools downed once safety is confirmed leading to a depressing second half of the season.Ramone wrote:
Utterly moronic, the issue with the league is the gap between the top 5/6 and the rest of the league. Relegating more teams each season wouldn't help at all.
If FFP was actually properly implemented and teams had to be viable, profit-making businesses instead of billionaires' play things the gap between the "big" teams and everyone else would shrink significantly. Unfortunately that's never going to happen.
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But the premise here seems to be that people enjoy a relegation battle, that hasn't been my experience at all.ALF wrote:Something needs to be done. Imagine being a WBA fan this season, or even us in most of our recent spell in the league. Tools downed once safety is confirmed leading to a depressing second half of the season.Ramone wrote:
Utterly moronic, the issue with the league is the gap between the top 5/6 and the rest of the league. Relegating more teams each season wouldn't help at all.
If FFP was actually properly implemented and teams had to be viable, profit-making businesses instead of billionaires' play things the gap between the "big" teams and everyone else would shrink significantly. Unfortunately that's never going to happen.
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Yeah, the people who's team aren't involved in a relegation battle.Ramone wrote:But the premise here seems to be that people enjoy a relegation battle, that hasn't been my experience at all.ALF wrote:
Something needs to be done. Imagine being a WBA fan this season, or even us in most of our recent spell in the league. Tools downed once safety is confirmed leading to a depressing second half of the season.
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Whilst I agree that our current squad will struggle, to suggest that he'd rather have the current Sunderland squad over our current squad
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Terry for Villa a proper statement of intent from a club I don't much like .
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Their intent being to stay in the Championship...Holystone... wrote:Terry for Villa a proper statement of intent from a club I don't much like .
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Incredible isn't it? Completely f***ed and disinterested squad, ancient/crocked defence, midfield completely devoid of any talent, no actual strikers on their books. None.
But they wouldn't swap for a squad that has just won the league they're in.
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In fairness, on that first page it was the most sensible I've ever seen that forumAldridge Prior wrote:Incredible isn't it? Completely f***ed and disinterested squad, ancient/crocked defence, midfield completely devoid of any talent, no actual strikers on their books. None.
But they wouldn't swap for a squad that has just won the league they're in.
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It was just more for that initial post . Staggering levels of delusion. As one of them quite rightly pointed out, they'd have slated us had we said the same last season, and we'd have actually had more of a case for it. We had Sissoko, Wijnaldum and Janmaat. They're talking about Lens and Khazri .ALF wrote:In fairness, on that first page it was the most sensible I've ever seen that forumAldridge Prior wrote:
Incredible isn't it? Completely f***ed and disinterested squad, ancient/crocked defence, midfield completely devoid of any talent, no actual strikers on their books. None.
But they wouldn't swap for a squad that has just won the league they're in.
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'Looking at our squads as they are now I don't see much difference at all.'
From someone on RTG comparing ours and theirs They dont even have a striker atm I dont think.. Shelvey or Rodwell? Ritchie or Khazri? O'Shea or Lascelles/Clark? They also only have 1 keeper.
Looking up their squad they have so many crocks/old plodders plus a load of youngsters I dont even know. I really hope their posts saying our squads are the about the same are wind ups, for their sake.
From someone on RTG comparing ours and theirs They dont even have a striker atm I dont think.. Shelvey or Rodwell? Ritchie or Khazri? O'Shea or Lascelles/Clark? They also only have 1 keeper.
Looking up their squad they have so many crocks/old plodders plus a load of youngsters I dont even know. I really hope their posts saying our squads are the about the same are wind ups, for their sake.
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Poll on this thread is a little out of date
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Yeah. caravantalk.co.uk has gone really downhill sinceBodacious Benny wrote:Poll on this thread is a little out of date
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There's a debate going on now about the fact that one of their new kits has some black and white on it and how it would be a disgrace.
It has led to this:
It has led to this:
I've pointed out that the font on their forum is black on a white background. That must really f*** Mackem 2 up.Mackem 1:
I've seen people on here say they won't even have anything black and white in the house purely on principle, whether it's a pair of socks or a teatowel. Makes me question their sanity tbh.
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I try and stay away from it like..tea towels..t shirts..trainers..anything that's commonly black and white I don't buy.
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The funny thing is, they seem to think we're all like that .seatonsluicetoon wrote:There's a debate going on now about the fact that one of their new kits has some black and white on it and how it would be a disgrace.
It has led to this:
I've pointed out that the font on their forum is black on a white background. That must really f*** Mackem 2 up.Mackem 1:
I've seen people on here say they won't even have anything black and white in the house purely on principle, whether it's a pair of socks or a teatowel. Makes me question their sanity tbh.
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I try and stay away from it like..tea towels..t shirts..trainers..anything that's commonly black and white I don't buy.
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You wouldn't catch me playing Where's Wally and I'll fight the man who says otherwise.biggeordiedave wrote:The funny thing is, they seem to think we're all like that .seatonsluicetoon wrote:There's a debate going on now about the fact that one of their new kits has some black and white on it and how it would be a disgrace.
It has led to this:
I've pointed out that the font on their forum is black on a white background. That must really **** Mackem 2 up.
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I've just checked and I honestly dont anything with red and white stripes . Oh no , does that make me like them !!!
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He's wearing red and white hoops anyway - totally different!seatonsluicetoon wrote:You wouldn't catch me playing Where's Wally and I'll fight the man who says otherwise.biggeordiedave wrote:
The funny thing is, they seem to think we're all like that .