Premier League 2024/25

[bmt]

Wouldn't be surprised if we see KDH back at some point in the future 

[Guest Bilo]

I suspect that the number of points needed to survive this season won't be dramatically higher than last season, save for any potential points deductions.

 

Southampton and Ipswich look some way off, and the starts that Palace, West Ham and Wolves have made have been pretty alarming. Everton are also in it despite a couple of wins over fellow strugglers. Two or three of them will pick up, but you get the sense that at least three are in for a very long season. 

[Stevosevic]

9 minutes ago, Bilo said:

I suspect that the number of points needed to survive this season won't be dramatically higher than last season, save for any potential points deductions.

 

Southampton and Ipswich look some way off, and the starts that Palace, West Ham and Wolves have made have been pretty alarming. Everton are also in it despite a couple of wins over fellow strugglers. Two or three of them will pick up, but you get the sense that at least three are in for a very long season. 

Agreed. 1 point a game keeps anyone up but it will be lower. 

[Guest Bilo]

7 minutes ago, Stevosevic said:

Agreed. 1 point a game keeps anyone up but it will be lower. 

34 or 35 will probably be enough, and the bottom six's results against each other will be critical. It's why Saints blowing a two goal lead against us will be an absolute body blow to them. Our record of one defeat in five is putting us in good stead at the moment, and we need to take advantage of a reasonable set of fixtures. 

[ClaphamFox]

2 hours ago, RumbleFox said:

The mental gymnastics people do to convince themselves that, not only is Maresca shit, but that he wasn’t very good for us? It’s mind boggling. 

The weird thing is that it's the people who reckon they hated watching us last season and were delighted when Maresca left that are most obsessed with him. You'd think they'd just be happy that he moved and forget him, but no - some of them harbour a very bitter grudge against him. It's all a bit unconvincing, like some tearful teenager phoning an ex-girlfriend at 3am to tell her he never liked her much anyway and is really, really happy they split up because he's got a much better girlfriend now...

Edited 21 October 2024 by ClaphamFox

[ealingfox]

One thing I don't understand is how you basically cannot challenge a keeper for a high ball in open play because any contact means the ref gives a free kick, but deliberately and aggressively obstructing the keeper at set pieces is apparently fine?

[StanSP]

Vardy and Salah score almost identical penalties. Powerful ones, towards the corner but mid-height so to speak. 

 

The Motd commentator on our game said it wasn't a good one but it didn't need to be. Salah's one gets lots of praise

 

[Finnegan]

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

Vardy and Salah score almost identical penalties. Powerful ones, towards the corner but mid-height so to speak. 

 

The Motd commentator on our game said it wasn't a good one but it didn't need to be. Salah's one gets lots of praise

 

 

In what world is Vardy's pen anything other than superb. 

 

The only way a keeper saves that is with pure luck. Would have to dive intensely early and just happen to be behind it which would mean diving extremely high. 

 

For the pace he put on it it was at a good height. 

 

Edit: in fact, on several more rewatches, it's also far enough in the corner that a keeper is never getting body behind it so it'd have to be an arm and have to be stretching. 

 

That's verging on unstoppable. If Ramsdale saved that it'd be the best save I've ever seen. 

 

Edited 21 October 2024 by Finnegan

[Wymsey]

4 hours ago, Bilo said:

I suspect that the number of points needed to survive this season won't be dramatically higher than last season, save for any potential points deductions.

 

Southampton and Ipswich look some way off, and the starts that Palace, West Ham and Wolves have made have been pretty alarming. Everton are also in it despite a couple of wins over fellow strugglers. Two or three of them will pick up, but you get the sense that at least three are in for a very long season. 

They'll never go down, perhaps unfortunately..

[Fox92]

16 hours ago, lcfcell said:

What’s the longest a team has gone without winning a game to start a season? So far it’s Saints, Ipswich, Wolves & Palace still waiting 

Unbelievable Ipswich haven't won yet considering some people on here were saying how they were going to be so much better than us.

[SpacedX]

3 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

The weird thing is that it's the people who reckon they hated watching us last season and were delighted when Maresca left that are most obsessed with him. 

Hilariously there were some of the same individuals complaining in last Saturday's match thread about how Cooper has dismantled the successful system from last season. The same fools that were calling for Maresca to be sacked. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

Vardy and Salah score almost identical penalties. Powerful ones, towards the corner but mid-height so to speak. 

 

The Motd commentator on our game said it wasn't a good one but it didn't need to be. Salah's one gets lots of praise

 

 

Yeah I thought when watching the comms for Vardy's pen was ****ing mad

[Finnegan]

1 hour ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

Yeah I thought when watching the comms for Vardy's pen was ****ing mad

 

Who was it? 

 

[davieG]

C0-commentators say some stupid things.

 

A game yesterday there was a tackle and shouts for a free kick the CC said never a free kick, never has been, never will be.

Then they showed the other view and you could clearly see no touch on the ball and hitting the players foot.

 

 

[Finnegan]

4 minutes ago, davieG said:

C0-commentators say some stupid things.

 

A game yesterday there was a tackle and shouts for a free kick the CC said never a free kick, never has been, never will be.

Then they showed the other view and you could clearly see no touch on the ball and hitting the players foot.

 

 

 

A big problem these days is the massive number of Premier League games on TV in every country, usually on multiple English speaking networks globally. 

 

It means there's a relatively large demand for former players to be pundits and, especially in the overseas market, these tend to need to be household names. 

 

By and large, a lot of footballers are thick as **** and being good at the sport doesn't actually mean you understand it on an an analytical level (you don't have to look further than Michael Owen for that.)

 

Throw in the drive for diverse representation and you make it even harder to find the right people. 

 

There's so many pundits on TV that shouldn't be within a hundred miles of a broadcast microphone. 

 

It's why I quite like programmes that feature journalists. BT's European football show with James Horncastle or the old Revista with Graham Hunter were better watching than having to listen to morons like Rio Ferdinand or Jamie Redknapp attempt to simulate intelligence. 

 

[StanSP]

21 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Who was it? 

 

James Fielden according to ICDB.

[JonesLCFC]

Hoping for a mass brawl and plenty of sendings-off in tonight’s game 

[Wymsey]

4 people on their phones taking a video of the referee doing a check.

 

Shouldn't feel annoying, but don't see the reason why they're keen to record the moment.

 

[Fox92]

1 minute ago, Wymsey said:

4 people on their phones taking a video of the referee doing a check.

 

Shouldn't feel annoying, but don't see the reason why they're keen to record the moment.

 

Because people video or picture everything and anything nowadays.

[purpleronnie]

27 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

4 people on their phones taking a video of the referee doing a check.

 

Shouldn't feel annoying, but don't see the reason why they're keen to record the moment.

 

Don't understand the obsession either.

[StanSP]

Did anyone see on MOTD they put Brighton's manager up on the graphic along with Martin just before they started highlights for our game... 

[Bordersfox]

3 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Did anyone see on MOTD they put Brighton's manager up on the graphic along with Martin just before they started highlights for our game... 

Yes I thought I'd dozed off and they'd been talking about a previous game between Ston and Brighton when I saw that.  Very odd.  

[st albans fox]

5 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Did anyone see on MOTD they put Brighton's manager up on the graphic along with Martin just before they started highlights for our game... 

maybe they know something we don’t 😂

 

Definitely take him 

[Bert]

3 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

Yeah I thought when watching the comms for Vardy's pen was ****ing mad

Even more so when you consider Ramsdale didn’t even dive until the ball had hit the back of the net pretty much  

[HighPeakFox]

Given some penalties I've seen apologise their way into the net, it's tempting to think the commentator was revealing his presumptive prejudice in his assessment of what he saw.