VillaChris Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 West Brom have a pretty old squad so think they're more likely to do a hull. Think Southampton would bounce back if they pick the right manager so Huddersfield back down would be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 8 hours ago, VillaChris said: West Brom have a pretty old squad so think they're more likely to do a hull. Think Southampton would bounce back if they pick the right manager so Huddersfield back down would be better. Huddersfield do not have a great squad to be honest just a very good manager who will likely move on if they went down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 Huddersfield overachieved a lot to get promoted last time. Back down here I'd think they'd struggle to raise themselves again (historically they battle more against relegation from this league) and yes Wagner would probably go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czechlad Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Southampton have a premier league squad, but they have let themselves down this season. I don't want them in the championship. I'd only hope their squad would get sold. West Brom aren't going to be causing much of a fuss down here. Probably same goes for Stoke. They have a few good players, but they will likely be sold. I'd rather see Huddersfield come back down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberman Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Huddersfield are used to it down here and wouldn't see much changing so I'd not fancy them (though if Wagner gets poached that would help). Much better for me to have a previously established side with expensive players having to take a big pay cut / leave - as we've seen makes it much harder to perform as a team. Southampton are pretty well run so might not have the turmoil of others. West Ham, Palace, Swansea, Stoke - all would struggle I reckon. Though I doubt anyone would do a Sunderland, I could see all those taking a couple of seasons like us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Stoke may struggle as they have been a premier league side for so long, and having lambert dont help either Wagner will be off for better things if they go down. I think we could poach him if we went up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted April 28, 2018 Few interesting results today. It will most likely be the current bottom three but the Swansea games against Southampton and Stoke are massive. Huddersfield could well be drawn into this. Man City, Chelsea and Arsenal left. They’ll be hoping those Swansea games play out to their benefit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 How must West Brom fans be feeling, imagine if they've given Darren Moore the job in December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted April 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted April 28, 2018 They always say reach 40 points to stay up but flippin 'eck, 40 points right now would have you in 11th, and 41 points would see you in the top 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Premier League is quite awful. Just hype 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 20 hours ago, Zatman said: Premier League is quite awful. Just hype Yep, the standard is getting worse. I think it peaked around the time of the millennium tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 5 minutes ago, Dr_Pangloss said: Yep, the standard is getting worse. I think it peaked around the time of the millennium tbh. Wolves are better than the bottom five clubs. The standard in the championship is getting better. The feeling that premier league to championship is a much higher standard is a myth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 1 minute ago, Demitri_C said: Wolves are better than the bottom five clubs. The standard in the championship is getting better. The feeling that premier league to championship is a much higher standard is a myth Wolves are an anomaly who have been able to leverage a highly suspect relationship that they have with Jorge Mendes, this is very much an exception to the rule rather than a paradigm shift or even a blueprint for other Championship clubs. The rest of the Championship is pretty much utter shite. TBH top flight football across the board is in a bad state, it's not only the premier league that has declined, look at La Liga, it's in it's worst state in many years. Then you have Serie A, a league which was by far the worlds best from 1980-1997 degenerating into a bit of a farce. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted April 29, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted April 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Dr_Pangloss said: Wolves are an anomaly who have been able to leverage a highly suspect relationship that they have with Jorge Mendes, this is very much an exception to the rule rather than a paradigm shift or even a blueprint for other Championship clubs. The rest of the Championship is pretty much utter shite. TBH top flight football across the board is in a bad state, it's not only the premier league that has declined, look at La Liga, it's in it's worst state in many years. Then you have Serie A, a league which was by far the worlds best from 1980-1997 degenerating into a bit of a farce. It's money and more specifically the hoarding of the money by the most succesful clubs. Their lobby power becomes so powerful that they can then write the rules to suit themselves - see FFP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 Fulham are a better footballing side than a fair few in the prem, the interesting thing is do they go up buy better quality players but keep their style or abondon their style in the aim of just staying up Theres been a fair few championship teams who have done the latter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 2 hours ago, Dr_Pangloss said: Yep, the standard is getting worse. I think it peaked around the time of the millennium tbh. Strongest around 2005-10. Arsenal, Man. United, Chelsea and Liverpool all reached Champions league finals around that time. Of course that was when we came into the money and were challenging for top 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 2 hours ago, Dr_Pangloss said: Wolves are an anomaly who have been able to leverage a highly suspect relationship that they have with Jorge Mendes, this is very much an exception to the rule rather than a paradigm shift or even a blueprint for other Championship clubs. The rest of the Championship is pretty much utter shite. TBH top flight football across the board is in a bad state, it's not only the premier league that has declined, look at La Liga, it's in it's worst state in many years. Then you have Serie A, a league which was by far the worlds best from 1980-1997 degenerating into a bit of a farce. Bundesliga has declined aswell. Obviously Bayern are in a league of their own nowadays but the actual quality of football from likes of Dortmund, Schalke and Leipzig has been really poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 1 hour ago, villa4europe said: Fulham are a better footballing side than a fair few in the prem, the interesting thing is do they go up buy better quality players but keep their style or abondon their style in the aim of just staying up Theres been a fair few championship teams who have done the latter If they keep likes of Sessegnon they'd stay up comfortably imo. Don't underestimate a team who's won nearly 30 games during a season coming up either, got the winning spirit compared to teams like West Ham, Stoke, West Brom who lose more than they win and so get complacent and start slipping down the table. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted May 5, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2018 I can't work out what I want here with this Palace vs Stoke game. I want Tesco's, Stoke & Wet Spam relegated so does Stoke drawing put pressure on the Hammers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted May 5, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2018 4 minutes ago, TheAuthority said: I can't work out what I want here with this Palace vs Stoke game. I want Tesco's, Stoke & Wet Spam relegated so does Stoke drawing put pressure on the Hammers? I think Stoke are probably already down, so I guess a win for them would make them sweat a bit. I personally think it’s between Southampton, Swansea and Huddersfield. If Southampton win today, I think they’ll get out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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