FoyleFox Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 1 hour ago, kingcarr21 said: Will be interesting to see how Norwich and Sheff Utd get on, I can see the relegation battle be between a good 6-7 teams this season As long as we're not one of the 6-7, I'm not fussed. 1
Stadt Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 I think Brighton will surprise a few, Potter’s shown a lot of promise and their squad is better than people think; it’s just that Hughton played with the handbrake on.
gw_leics772 Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 Brighton, villa and an other for me. Newcastle would be fun bit surely they'll sort their shit out one day.
Tuna Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 1 hour ago, mozartfox said: Palace will be safe as we gift them 6 points every season. Not any more we won't. The days of us being turned over by Palace and Bournemouth season after season are over. 2
whetstonefox Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 Surely one of the best responses to a question by a footballer interviewer ‘what would you have been if you hadn’t been a footballer?’ Crouch ‘a virgin’ funny guy, I’d imagine a media career awaits which he’s already started with his podcasts
Popular Post NZ_Foxile Posted 12 July 2019 Popular Post Posted 12 July 2019 5 hours ago, Raw Dykes said: I sometimes think about what it was like to be a Leics.-based glory grabber Man Utd/Liverpool/etc. fan during the title win. Imagine you've picked some club you have no association with and never even set foot in their stadium, then your home town club achieves the impossible, and you're seeing Leicester fans everywhere who all look like they just won the lottery. That must make you realise that you're missing out, surely? Even if your chosen glory team does win a trophy, it's not going to feel anything like that does to them. I'm sure our title win gave glory hunters all over the country some food for thought. This exact thing happened with my brother. He supports Arsenal, from back in the days of Henry etc when they were good. Lived in leicester his whole life. When we won the league, he said he really felt like he was missing out. In fact, he actually said that while all the celebrations were going on he felt immense sadness, like he was looking in from the outside. 7 2
The Bear Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 (edited) Unless Ashley goes before Feb 1st they are as good as down IMO. Especially if Bruce gets the gig. I've already stuck money on them to drop! Brighton might be better under Potter, who knows. Unknown quantity at the moment, but they need to spend more on better players. Villa will stay up. My guess right now would be 10th-15th. A lot of money spent converting loans already. They're not much stronger than when last season finished at the moment. Burnley will surely struggle again. They can't keep signing Championship standard players and over achieving every season? Can they? Palace will struggle for goals without Zaha, but Hodgson knows how to organise a team to be hard to beat so I think they'd still just stay up. Newcastle/Brighton/Sheff Utd for me. Edited 12 July 2019 by The Bear
RowlattsFox Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 I don't know if they'll be any good or not but Villa are definitely having a go, with the money they are spending. Dean Smith didn't strike me as a manager who would like to spend loads. Didn't work for Fulham.
foxfanazer Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 5 minutes ago, StanSP said: Good deal for them that. Has his injury problems but a very decent striker at this level
StanSP Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 1 minute ago, foxfanazer said: Good deal for them that. Has his injury problems but a very decent striker at this level Yep, might be best bit of business they do all summer. His goals are valuable to them.
DerbyshireFox Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 Delph off to Everton for £8-10m by the looks of it. Might be a shrewd move, bit of a utility player. Mind you after that Ridiculous tackle at our place last year, they’re welcome to him!
SystonFox Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 57 minutes ago, DerbyshireFox said: Delph off to Everton for £8-10m by the looks of it. Might be a shrewd move, bit of a utility player. Mind you after that Ridiculous tackle at our place last year, they’re welcome to him! And now he’s gone Everton he won’t be playing for England any more. GET IN 2
Langston Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 Haven't watched a second of this series but Callum Wilson is ready for love island isn't he, practically in the villa
Out Foxed Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 2 minutes ago, Langston said: Haven't watched a second of this series but Callum Wilson is ready for love island isn't he, practically in the villa bizarre comment 1
UniFox21 Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 Wilson is a weird one, sometimes he's absolutely unstoppable but when Bournemouth stopped last year he went missing. On top of that he's injury prone and when he gets injured its normally for a while
Stadt Posted 12 July 2019 Posted 12 July 2019 If Wilson wasn’t injury prone Bournemouth wouldn’t be able to keep hold of him. 14 goals and 9 assists in 29(1) apps last season which is a superb return.
Popular Post davieG Posted 13 July 2019 Popular Post Posted 13 July 2019 14 hours ago, Facecloth said: Hard not to like Crouch. Not the most prolific, not the most skillful, but different. Great to watch and a fun personality. Will be missed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48965686 Tom Fordyce is co-host of 5 Live Sport's That Peter Crouch Podcast. Among the perplexing things that occurred at Crouchfest last month - the Liam Gallagher walk-on, the spontaneous performance of Snow's Informer, the fact that something called Crouchfest was taking place at all - was something unnoticed that happened with a small inflatable football. These footballs were being booted from the stage into the crowd, in part a faux-homage to Rod Stewart's traditional festival antics, in part because everyone involved had secretly always wanted to boot footballs into a crowd from a stage. I attempted a cross-stage lofted pass to Crouch and, being considerably outside my comfort zone, mishit it way over his head. He turned, stretched out a leg, caught it on his toes, flicked it up, juggled it with his head and then side-volleyed at a flat angle above the heads of the half-cut crowd. It was astonishing to witness. "Bloody hell", you found yourself wanting to shout. Did you see that? And then the second thought hit you: "Oh yeah. He's an elite footballer". He played for England at World Cups. He scored more goals for his country than Steven Gerrard, David Beckham or Kevin Keegan. Of course he can do that. Crouch announces retirement 10 things you probably didn't know about Peter Crouch Quiz: Are you a Peter Crouch super-fan? It was easy to forget that Crouch was a footballer because he was so normal off it. It was easy to forget how good he was because his atypical stories were told with self-deprecation and a wide-eyed pleasure in being there in the first place. And he really was good. More Premier League assists than Cristiano Ronaldo or Paul Scholes, more Premier League goals than Fernando Torres or Dennis Bergkamp. A goal for England every 99 minutes, compared to Gary Lineker's one every 136 minutes, to Michael Owen (155 minutes) or Alan Shearer (182). He announces his retirement having scored more headed goals in the Premier League than any other player in history. It is a record unlikely to be beaten, the way the game is being played, but it is also a statistic that adds to the deception about his wider abilities. He has known for a while that it is the right time. Two-minute sub cameos can only take you through so many winters Crouch grew up wanting to be Paul Gascoigne and Gianluca Vialli and his most memorable goals had enough of both to fulfil a portion of those teenage dreams: the overhead kicks for Liverpool against Galatasaray and Bolton, the one for Portsmouth against Stoke, the ridiculous flick-up and volley in 2012 from way out on the angle for Stoke against champions-in-waiting Manchester City. Two decades close to the top of English football is quite enough to be satisfied with, two World Cups, a Champions League final. But it was less what Crouch did in football than how he did it that has left him with the reputation he has. There was the underdog part of it: crying himself to sleep as a kid because of the teasing about his height, starting his professional career to chants of, "Freak! Freak! Freak!" and "Does the circus know you're here?" Sent out on loan by Spurs to Dulwich Hamlet, to Hassleholm in the Swedish fourth division, then discarded for £60,000. Archive: Crouch scores incredible volley for Stoke against Man City in 2012 Having proved himself at QPR and then Portsmouth he still struggled to fit in. He went on holiday to Ayia Napa because all young footballers went to Ayia Napa. While there he realised that he looked as ridiculous in a sleeveless top as Rio Ferdinand looked fantastic. He hated the music so much that he used to hire a scooter and go off by himself to deserted parts of the island. Even at the top, playing for Liverpool and England, hanging out with Gerrard and Beckham, he never lost his childhood love of the game. One of the pleasures of doing the podcast and books with him is that he thinks and obsesses about the daft details of football just the same as those of us who would have sliced that Crouchfest volley into our own faces. You start talking about free-kicks with him and an hour later realise that you are still talking about them and have trawled YouTube for the best and most neglected of all time. You can lose happy evenings discussing the Norwich City kit worn by Jeremy Goss or whether the post-retirement weight-gain of Jamie Pollock was more or less remarkable than the own-goal he scored for Man City. He is familiar both with Chris Waddle's hit with Glenn Hoddle, 'Diamond Lights', and with Waddle's forgotten gem with Basile Boli, 'We've Got A Feeling'. It meant he could appreciate the madness of the football explosion even as he was part of it: the former team-mate of his who hired a Ferrari just so he could park it directly opposite a nightclub and lie across the bonnet with his shirt half-open; the fashion choices of Djibril Cisse, who would wear glasses that had no glass in them and plug a 1920s-style candlestick telephone into his mobile. These were the sorts of insights that didn't seem to be coming from other elite players. The fact that former Spurs full-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto would turn up for every match with a Tesco bag containing the same four luncheon items: a croissant, a hot chocolate, a full-fat Coke and a packet of crisps. That Alberto Moreno has a tattoo of chimp wearing glasses and Beats By Dre headphones and holding a gun. Crouch has not been immune to the distractions of his profession. He has inadvertently paid £250 for a haircut and £800 for a jumper that he wore once. He still talks about these excesses as if he were one of us rather than one of them. There are not many England strikers who have dressed up as a chicken and had their feathers trimmed at the Brighton branch of Toni and Guy, or got stuck into a game of Play Your Cards Right with Dev from Coronation Street on a Euston-bound train out of Stockport. There are anecdotes about Mickey Rourke and Madonna that are still to come to wider notice. The Rourke one might be the best of all. Retirement will be hard for Crouch because he will miss all the fun and companionship football brought him. He has known too for a while that it is the right time. Two-minute sub cameos can only take you through so many winters. Through it all, from his debut for QPR in September 2000 to his final game for Burnley in May this year, he never forgot that he was lucky to be doing what he was doing. He started as a distinctive footballer and he ended the same way. A player who was a fan who was de https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48965686 6
Dan Posted 13 July 2019 Posted 13 July 2019 I can't decide on Villa. Got a feeling they could totally unravel at some point and fall to bits. Newcastle will go. Sheffield United will be this year's Cardiff I think - they will not disgrace themselves at all but ultimately won't have enough. Really struggling to pick a third. I think Brighton will be OK. I want to say Burnley but their form in 2019 has actually been really decent (Joe Hart is genuinely a curse). Crystal Palace I think are in trouble if Zaha goes. Can't decide on Norwich either. They play some great stuff but I can see them having the worst defence in the league. Reckon they're the prime candidates to ship 7 at Man City.
UPinCarolina Posted 13 July 2019 Posted 13 July 2019 12 hours ago, The Bear said: Newcastle/Brighton/Sheff Utd for me. I'm inclined to agree with you.
UniFox21 Posted 13 July 2019 Posted 13 July 2019 4 hours ago, Dan LCFC said: I can't decide on Villa. Got a feeling they could totally unravel at some point and fall to bits. Newcastle will go. Sheffield United will be this year's Cardiff I think - they will not disgrace themselves at all but ultimately won't have enough. Really struggling to pick a third. I think Brighton will be OK. I want to say Burnley but their form in 2019 has actually been really decent (Joe Hart is genuinely a curse). Crystal Palace I think are in trouble if Zaha goes. Can't decide on Norwich either. They play some great stuff but I can see them having the worst defence in the league. Reckon they're the prime candidates to ship 7 at Man City. Villa will either be a Fulham and flop or be fighting further up the league. The league is really difficult to predict this year, so many teams have the potential to prosper or fail badly 1
mozartfox Posted 13 July 2019 Posted 13 July 2019 11 hours ago, StanSP said: Eddie Howe has aged over the summer...
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