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This could be very damaging to Norwich's season, their confidence is going to be brittle after this.

This game man

Get in, I reckon if Liverpool end up winning, this could be a nail in Norwich this season, confidence will be really low after letting slip a 2 goal lead.

Decent enough bench.

This guy apparently said that they'd be in the top 4 if they had Harry Kane

Liverpool are wank

It's a great idea but it doesn't break up the hold the mega rich teams have over the league itself. They'll just spend even more and hoard even more players to avoid 4th. I'm not worried about the CL, parity in England will sort the CL out in time. Parity in your league will make it easily the strongest league. Massive do or die fixtures beyond what most of the other teams in Europe could ever dream of participating in makes the EPL stronger. Hell, it might even improve your national team, ffs. Hardened English players knowing what it means to perform when it's all on the line year after year instead of on those infrequent occasions when they land a cup final. Each team plays each other home and away. Absolutely no need for playoffs. The issue of mega rich teams won't be solved by giving them an extra half a dozen or so games which would no doubt add to their already bursting coffers. But it solved it here. With 162 games, you could argue there's even less need for playoffs in baseball, but we've got them and it's possible for a (comparatively) poor team to topple the teams spending hundreds of millions of dollars. This is due to teams taking an active role in improving themselves year after year (which imo does not happen in the EPL. Most teams work to maintain the status quo) which spreads the top talent around, and affords more opportunities for talent to develop. They don't play each other the same amount of times, do they? Do each team play all of the others at all? There are two leagues. AL and NL. Every AL team plays each other an absolutely ungodly amount of times, and (I think) each division in the AL plays of the teams in a single division from the other league plus any local rival. This is relatively recent. Teams from the AL and NL never used to play at all unless they met in the World Series. So you've got all the AL teams going head to head over and over again, but we've still got playoffs and no one is upset. If your not playing everyone an even amount of times, how the fuck are you supposed to determine who's the best 8 teams? Isnt that unfair?

Patreon?

If we lived in a parallel universe with a owner who actually gave a shit, and they submitted plans to build a new stadium on the edge of Newcastle, would you guy be for or against it?

Gameweek 23 Norwich 1 v 1 Liverpool Crystal Palace 0 v 2 Spurs Leicester 1 v 1 Stoke Man Utd 1 v 3 Southampton Sunderland 1 v 2 Bournemouth Watford 1 v 2 Newcastle West Brom 0 v 1 Aston Villa West Ham 1 v 2 Man City Everton 2 v 0 Swansea Arsenal 3 v 1 Chelsea

Can just see him sticking Mbemba on the left and Lacselles in the middle.

Elliot Mbemba Colo Lacselles Shelvey Saivet Sissoko Janmaat Wijnaldum Perez Mitrovic Uber attacking.

Basically this. Left back and backup for Mitro for me I would hardly say we've done the bare minimum, in the summer and now (if we get one or two players), in the summer we got 4 first teamers, we look to be getting 4 first teams this window, and if we do that again I the summer, that's an entire new team in the space of a year. I know I'd be great to have got an entire new squad last summer, but the reality is that if we did, you'd have a lot of players having to get used to one another, if they were from another county, settle into the league, and the area. At least getting 4 at a time, you can use the current playing sqaud to bed them in, even if they may be shite. This season needed to be a transitional season, its been shitter then expected, but if we stay up, there are promising signs in the new squad. Unless Ashley sells them, which he probably will

27 titles. Only seven in the....46 years since playoffs have existed. Two of those against the Braves, mind. You realise that in the NFL, the Seahawks have made it to the last two Superbowls (admittedly they didn't this season), and the Bronco's made it two seasons ago and have a chance again this year, the New England Patriots have made it the two of the last 4 and again have a chance of making it again this season, meaning the same team would have been in 3 out of 5 finals, both have one game (against each other) and they will make it to the Superbowl. How is it that this makes it unpredictable?

Marathon analogy doesn't fly because the Kenyans running in the EPL are on fucking horses and no one cares. Teams choose when to care about the FA Cup. We choose to never care about it. It's nowhere near the same as a playoff, imo. This breaks up the entrenched top clubs. No it doesn't, you'll have Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs in it every year and two others that will maybe once in 50 years win it outside that group unless they spend enough to catch up So encouraging billionaires to spend some cash on their plaything and compete is bad? Playoffs make the buy in for success significantly cheaper, and the more teams vying for playoff glory means more talent on each team. I feel like it's like this in every sport we have. God damn you Kaizero. God damn you to hell, bumping this shit. He knew what he was doing when he bumped it like

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we're spoiled by the exceptionally well-run American sports leagues and appreciate real competition. We simply want the PL to fulfill its potential as a league. :lol:

Two more live games, Leicester away now a Monday night game, and Mackems game now on the Sunday at 1:30. Both on Sky.

So how exactly would this work, like the NFL only has a select amount of teams, there are 7000 teams in the top 10 parts of the english football Pyramid, so do them clubs just get told to fuck off for the elite of the Premier league, with no hope of promotion?

I like how the main argument about this is lack of excitment, you guys realise that Leicester who were dead last by about 5 point this time last year are currently joint top, the current premier league champions are in 15th, and about half the league could get drawn into a relegation fight, a three horse race for the title, and about 4 teams going for the champions leagues. That's all happening this season.

Nolan set to become player manager of Leyton Orient.

Good goal that.

Poor guy.

Fuck no, Mike man

Midseason push for midtable