robbie savage on the football league show

[stez]

Who cares what Savage thinks.

not enough people to buy a ticket

D

plus H) john elsom

[bluefox9er]

What on earth?

If we had stayed up, we (almost certainly) would have got another joke manager (Pearson may have been relegated with Soton and MM would have steered clear...) complete with more joke journeymen who would have done nothing for the club other than rinse us for everything we had and then left us further in the mire going absolutely nowhere. Last season's promotion and the team and management we have built has set us on an upwardly mobile curve with confidence to take us to the next level.

There is absolutely no chance we'd be sitting 3rd in the CCC if it wasn't for our ONE season in League One.

If nothing else, you should have enjoyed some of the great days of last season - Scunny (both H and A), Orient (A), Hereford (A), Huddersfield (A) and Leeds (H) were absolutely unreal. If you can't enjoy those then unlucky for you.

sorry, we will have to agree to disagree. so many times city have been promoted after avoiding relegation by the tinest of margins. the only benefit of division 3 was a wake up call for us lot to see shit holes like yeovil, southend,colchester etc.

mandarich is an astute business man..but he was clearly hoodwinked by hiring that c**t holloway...IMHO holloway is right along the pleats, Taylors and Frank McClintocks as the worst managers our side has ever had.

[bluefox9er]

Seriously?

Do you honestly think that we would have gone on to improve last season, had we stayed in the Championship?

Do you honestly think that we would be in the same position this season, had we stayed in the Championship?

well, i would rather have a season in the championship than in division 3.

let's not get ahead of ourselves here, its down to fine form that we are riding high in the table ( and entirley on merit) but in june/july we were all hoping we could actually *survive* or finish *mid table*...which, if we hadn't been relegated is feasable we could have finished *last* season. fact remains, despite peter taylor's best efforts to destroy our club, it was indeed holloway who has come closest to doing that by relegating us into that cesspool of a division, and boy it's not easy to get out of that league.

we clearly disagree, but for me, relegation for my team is the very worst thing that could have ever happened. i'd rather be shit in the championship than be all-mighty in division 3.

[bluefox9er]

To be honest, the question should be "Who is the biggest cunt out of the following massive cunts??":

A) Robbie Savage

B) Kevin Barclay

C) Neil Warnock

D) Peter Taylor

E) Richard Scudamore

F) Josef Fritzl

or G) Stoke

Peter Taylor.

[Daggers]

well, i would rather have a season in the championship than in division 3.

let's not get ahead of ourselves here, its down to fine form that we are riding high in the table ( and entirley on merit) but in june/july we were all hoping we could actually *survive* or finish *mid table*...which, if we hadn't been relegated is feasable we could have finished *last* season. fact remains, despite peter taylor's best efforts to destroy our club, it was indeed holloway who has come closest to doing that by relegating us into that cesspool of a division, and boy it's not easy to get out of that league.

we clearly disagree, but for me, relegation for my team is the very worst thing that could have ever happened. i'd rather be shit in the championship than be all-mighty in division 3.

You have to be blind or stupid not to have noticed the wholesale restructuring that went on at the club as a result of relegation, restructuring which has left the club stronger and more able to compete at this level. The club was able to offload a sizeable part of the bloated wage bill, change the managerial facet entirely and create a more business-like footing.

Holloway didn't destroy the club, nor come close to doing so - the comment is fatuous. It was relegation, that's all.

I'm guessing you didn't go to any games in that cesspool division, whatever that disrespectful comment is meant to suggest. I think you'll find that most of us who did consider it to be one of the best seasons we've ever experienced.

[Guest]

well, i would rather have a season in the championship than in division 3.

let's not get ahead of ourselves here, its down to fine form that we are riding high in the table ( and entirley on merit) but in june/july we were all hoping we could actually *survive* or finish *mid table*...which, if we hadn't been relegated is feasable we could have finished *last* season. fact remains, despite peter taylor's best efforts to destroy our club, it was indeed holloway who has come closest to doing that by relegating us into that cesspool of a division, and boy it's not easy to get out of that league.

we clearly disagree, but for me, relegation for my team is the very worst thing that could have ever happened. i'd rather be shit in the championship than be all-mighty in division 3.

Really.

Relegation allowed us to clear out at all levels. It meant that we got Pearson, and not some other egotistical incompetent as manager. It allowed us to get some great loanees. It has brought back confidence to the club, not just on the pitch but off it.

You are coming across as a football snob. No team has a divine right to be anywhere, and we certainly had no divine right to stay in the Championship, especially when we had been flirting with relegation for the previous 3 seasons. Have you not noticed the number of ex-Premier League clubs that have been relegated into that division in recent years? Saying that we should never have been relegated, and that it's the worst thing to have happened smacks of throwing your toys out of the pram.

Taylor and Holloway destroying the club? That's being melodramatic. They were poor managers, but they weren't the only ones we've ever had. Why not throw Pleat in there, for me he was worse than both of those two. As for Holloway, he was only part of the problems that we had. I would certainly be looking elsewhere when apportioning blame. I would be looking to the top for that one.

I would love to know which games you went to last season.

[Head Honcho]

well, i would rather have a season in the championship than in division 3.

let's not get ahead of ourselves here, its down to fine form that we are riding high in the table ( and entirley on merit) but in june/july we were all hoping we could actually *survive* or finish *mid table*...which, if we hadn't been relegated is feasable we could have finished *last* season. fact remains, despite peter taylor's best efforts to destroy our club, it was indeed holloway who has come closest to doing that by relegating us into that cesspool of a division, and boy it's not easy to get out of that league.

we clearly disagree, but for me, relegation for my team is the very worst thing that could have ever happened. i'd rather be shit in the championship than be all-mighty in division 3.

Holloway played a part in our demise that season but he was far from on his own.

He's shown at Blackpool that he can manage the right players at this level.

That season we had an awful squad of players anyone who went down regularly would have known that.

I can only make half a dozen games a year which going by your previous statements is 5 or 6 times more then yourself.

[Corky]

we clearly disagree, but for me, relegation for my team is the very worst thing that could have ever happened. i'd rather be shit in the championship than be all-mighty in division 3.

I thought that at the time, but it turned out fine, because we had a proper set-up at the club, a manager with his head screwed on, a team with players who wanted to be at the club and this combined to great effect.

As for rather being shit in the Championship, I totally disagree. I enjoyed last season because we were winning matches, we were positive and played some very attractive football. As a result, that confidence has continued into this season.

[leicesterfox86]

Please forgive me, a humble newbie starting a thread, but robbie savage is a c..t.

Quote- "Their top 3 spot (leicester), for me, they shouldn't be there."

And then there was some rambling on about any team can beat any team.

Yeah well any team seems to be beating you quite regularly robbie.

He was on MOTD 2 as well - utterly useless.

[lou]

Please forgive me, a humble newbie starting a thread, but robbie savage is a c..t.

Quote- "Their top 3 spot (leicester), for me, they shouldn't be there."

And then there was some rambling on about any team can beat any team.

Yeah well any team seems to be beating you quite regularly robbie.

Great start!!

[Bert]

That's your view.

At the current time, it's actually a fact.

To be honest, the question should be "Who is the biggest cunt out of the following massive cunts??":

A) Robbie Savage

B) Kevin Barclay

C) Neil Warnock

D) Peter Taylor

E) Richard Scudamore

F) Josef Fritzl

or G) Stoke

I'll go for H. The whole fucking lot.

In regards to the Savage comment, if he was a Leicester player saying that about Derby, we'd all be jizzing and saying that he's a god. He's not gonna say anything positive about us when he's the captain of one of our local rivals, and is clearly still gutted about being rejected a move back here last season.

[The Doctor]

well, i would rather have a season in the championship than in division 3.

let's not get ahead of ourselves here, its down to fine form that we are riding high in the table ( and entirley on merit) but in june/july we were all hoping we could actually *survive* or finish *mid table*...which, if we hadn't been relegated is feasable we could have finished *last* season. fact remains, despite peter taylor's best efforts to destroy our club, it was indeed holloway who has come closest to doing that by relegating us into that cesspool of a division, and boy it's not easy to get out of that league.

we clearly disagree, but for me, relegation for my team is the very worst thing that could have ever happened. i'd rather be shit in the championship than be all-mighty in division 3.

really? after 3 succesive relegation battles, coming closer to the trapdoor every time you think we could have just sprung back up to mid-table? Going down was the best think that happened to this club, it gave them a wake up call, pearson came in , shipped out those that weren't interested in doing their best for the club, brought in players who were and rebuilt the club. Besides, our success this season owes a large bit to the good form from last season and the winning menatlity being brought forward into this season. there is no way we could have built this confidence if we'd stayed up, look who we'd have been playing: birmingham, burnley, sheffield utd who, no offence, are much better than MK Dons, stockport and tranmere.

[Daggers]

At the current time, it's actually a fact.

No.

What he went on to add may have been fact but that wasn't the point I was commenting on, that's just their translation of what Savage was referring to...which it wasn't.

[Bert]

No.

What he went on to add may have been fact but that wasn't the point I was commenting on, that's just their translation of what Savage was referring to...which it wasn't.

So why don't we deserve to be 3rd?

[Fox You Forest]

So why don't we deserve to be 3rd?

I thought Savage said something along the lines of we didn't play as well/good as our position suggested we were just in that one game against Derby not the season so far.

[Guest nathan.]

I thought Savage said something along the lines of we didn't play as well/good as our position suggested we were just in that one game against Derby not the season so far.

Please forgive me, a humble newbie starting a thread, but robbie savage is a c..t.

Quote- "Their top 3 spot (leicester), for me, they shouldn't be there."

And then there was some rambling on about any team can beat any team.

Yeah well any team seems to be beating you quite regularly robbie.

[Fox You Forest]

Did he actually say that though, I though everything he said was related to the Derby game.

[Huuuuuume]

and the moron on radio leicester today who said that one season division 3 might have done us good is mentally retarded...division three is the worst thing EVER to have happened to this club...the damage caused by holloway is immeasurable

Are you f00kin' mad mate??? Relegation as the best thing to happen to City. If we didn't go down we would have scrapped through another season or gone down the next anyway. We are a big club that doesn't deserve to be regular bottom half team.

[davieG]

Whether relegation was good thing or not no one can say with any degree of certainty what would have happened if we hadn't got relegated.

The biggest lost was losing the 'one of nine' tag something that can never be regained and as a club that has never won the League or the FA Cup was a feather in our caps.

What we can say though is that we've made the best of it and are stronger on the pitch than we were before we went down.

[C-man]

The biggest lost was losing the 'one of nine' tag something that can never be regained and as a club that has never won the League or the FA Cup was a feather in our caps.

Still annoys me now. Having said that, most football fans, especially post-1992 football fans, only have the capacity to look at honours won, and not features like that tag that define so much of a club's history.

[Fosse Boy]

Still annoys me now. Having said that, most football fans, especially post-1992 football fans, only have the capacity to look at honours won, and not features like that tag that define so much of a club's history.

And even then it's usually only honours won after the inception of the Premier League!

[C-man]

And even then it's usually only honours won after the inception of the Premier League!

We'd be doing pretty well then

2 x League Cup winners

1 x League Cup runners-up

1 x Division 1 runners-up

2 x Division 1 Play-off winners.

1 (maybe 2 if you count the Blackburn defeat) x Division 1 Play-off finalists

1 x League 1 winners

[Webbo]

Still annoys me now. Having said that, most football fans, especially post-1992 football fans, only have the capacity to look at honours won, and not features like that tag that define so much of a club's history.

We'd be doing pretty well then

2 x League Cup winners

1 x League Cup runners-up

1 x Division 1 runners-up

2 x Division 1 Play-off winners.

1 (maybe 2 if you count the Blackburn defeat) x Division 1 Play-off finalists

1 x League 1 winners

If you looked pre 1992 you'd know that we've won 3 league cups and been runners up twice.We've also been runners up in the FA cup 4 times.

[Corky]

Still annoys me now. Having said that, most football fans, especially post-1992 football fans, only have the capacity to look at honours won, and not features like that tag that define so much of a club's history.

Absolutely. We've achieved a fair amount in our time as a club.

[Fosse Boy]

If you looked pre 1992 you'd know that we've won 3 league cups and been runners up twice.We've also been runners up in the FA cup 4 times.

Don't forget one Charity Shield!