Premier League 2024/25

[BillyFOX12]

1 hour ago, Dahnsouff said:

Watching MOTD and specifically there Brentford v Saints game, reckon this is what it would have been like for us if Enzo was still here?

Hard to think otherwise tbh, and I was a big supporter of Enzo.

Watching the extended highlights just underlines how underrated and efficient a manager Thomas Frank is, he totally outplayed Martin. He took a team with a minuscule budget, got them promoted to the Premier League, stabilised them, and is still getting the best out of them with the 18th lowest budget in the league.

[RowlattsFox]

The Everton crowd don't help. Constant anxiety, can only imagine how nervous they made the players after the first Bournemouth goal went in. 

[Md9]

with how bad half the league is at defending again this season haaland will probably break some records again this season. 

[foxfanazer]

Haaland has already scored more goals than I'd back any of our players to get this season. The guy's a joke

Edited 1 September by foxfanazer

[foxfanazer]

Watching MOTD and jesus Christ there really are some shite teams in the league. Everton and Southampton in particular are atrocious. Just a shame we are too

[shen]

Everton capitulation hits a bit close to home, reminding me of the Bergwijn show 

[Torquay Gunner]

20 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Arsenal fans are so entitled - and they’ve won two fa cups in the past ten years 

It's actually 4 FA cups!  But yes we have our share of entitled idiots,  as all clubs do. 

[whoareyaaa]

Decent goal from Barnes

[CrispinLA in Texas]

3 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

Decent goal from Barnes

A player I'd forgotten about existed 😂

[Arkie Bennett]

Barnes doing what he does well. Maddison doing what he does, not very convincingly.

[Weller Wing]

4 hours ago, foxfanazer said:

Watching MOTD and jesus Christ there really are some shite teams in the league. Everton and Southampton in particular are atrocious. Just a shame we are too

Everton will never go down, they'll sack Dyche after maybe 10 games , if things don't improve ,  then in will come Moyes who will keep them up.

Rinse and repeat

[KingsX]

Eze!  Fine strike.

 

Tough one.  I'm desperate for Chelsea to fail, but there's a slim chance Palace could be one of our relegation rivals.

[sm1]

8 hours ago, Dahnsouff said:

Watching MOTD and specifically there Brentford v Saints game, reckon this is what it would have been like for us if Enzo was still here?

Hard to think otherwise tbh, and I was a big supporter of Enzo.

This would've absolutely been us under Enzo. Burnley got 24 pts last season playing this way, Saints won't even manage that. 

[StanSP]

What happened to the rule about assistants and coaches at the front of the dugout? 

 

Has it been taken away? 

 

Villa's assistant was pretty much always at the front alongside Emery yesterday. 

 

Tindall today is pretty much joined at the hip with Howe as standard still. 

 

 

[KFS]

Only chance we’ve got in two weeks is if they play Hughes

[StanSP]

Ridiculously easy for Newcastle. 

 

Spurs high line doing them over. 

[davieG]

12 minutes ago, StanSP said:

What happened to the rule about assistants and coaches at the front of the dugout? 

 

Has it been taken away? 

 

Villa's assistant was pretty much always at the front alongside Emery yesterday. 

 

Tindall today is pretty much joined at the hip with Howe as standard still. 

 

 

Gone the same way as only captains to approach referees. Are then any laws that the refs always follow consistently and I'm not even thinking about the subjective ones.

[StanSP]

Johnson is nowhere near good enough for Spurs. Average. 

[Weller Wing]

31 minutes ago, StanSP said:

What happened to the rule about assistants and coaches at the front of the dugout? 

 

Has it been taken away? 

 

Villa's assistant was pretty much always at the front alongside Emery yesterday. 

 

Tindall today is pretty much joined at the hip with Howe as standard still. 

 

 

Also the ref kept telling Villa to stop time wasting , they kept doing it and he did nothing. 

 

Not blaming him for our defeat though

[OntarioFox]

Reality kicking in for Chelsea I guess. Restricted mostly to potshots against a fairly average defence despite bossing possession. As we saw plenty of last season, they're all fart, no shit.

 

Which begs the question - @The Bear what were your lot playing at last week?  

[Mr.Bingles]

I recon this will be the relegation battle teams right here. This is who we will be fighting for survival against come next Spring. 
 

Who do you fancy to go down. I’d love to see Everton go down. 

Edited 1 September by Mr.Bingles

[-sodapop]

9 minutes ago, Mr.Bingles said:

I recon this will be the relegation battle teams right here. This is who we will be fighting for survival against come next Spring. 
 

Who do you fancy to go down. I’d love to see Everton go down. 

West Ham and Palace will pull away in the coming weeks. I reckon it's Everton, and two of the promoted teams going down (probably us and Soton if I had to pick). Wolves will look in the mix but go on a run at some point which gets them comfortable. Ipswich will barely stay up; maybe just because we get a points deduction.

 

Good chance of Brentford getting into the mix too.

Edited 1 September by -sodapop

[Matt]

2 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

Reality kicking in for Chelsea I guess. Restricted mostly to potshots against a fairly average defence despite bossing possession. As we saw plenty of last season, they're all fart, no shit.

 

Which begs the question - @The Bear what were your lot playing at last week?  

Careful, you'll be accused of being parody.

[StanSP]

18 minutes ago, Mr.Bingles said:

I recon this will be the relegation battle teams right here. This is who we will be fighting for survival against come next Spring. 
 

Who do you fancy to go down. I’d love to see Everton go down. 

West Ham and Palace won't be involved. Think Fulham and Brentford instead of those two. Wolves will probably be fine. 

[Fox92]

Brilliant goal but maybe ruled out.