Still Not Worthy Of A Thread

[cp40]

out of idle curiosity and boredom decided to compare results between this season and last season in the equivilant fixtures (replacing the relegated sides with promoted ones in order of champ table) obviously far from perfect and a lot of other factors but could be a nice simplified way of keeping track of then vs now (would have tried to pull same thing off for 5th place season but it just gets complicated with relegation etc).

 

Thus far in the equivalent fixtures we're 3 points up and 8 goals better off in goal difference (mostly due to the 2-2 draw with liverpool compared to 6-0 loss)

 

City away-same result

West Ham (h)-1pt better off +1gd

Fulhan (h)- same result

Villa (a)- same result

Hull (compared to Reading) (h) -result and impact on GD the same

Everton (a) -1pt -1GD

Cardiff (compared to Wigan) (a)- +3pts +2GD

Liverpool (h)- +1pt +6 GD

Sunderland (a) -1pt -1gd

Chelsea (h)- same pts +1 GD

 

so thta would equate to approx 10 points over a season?

[jdckelly]

out of idle curiosity and boredom decided to compare results between this season and last season in the equivilant fixtures (replacing the relegated sides with promoted ones in order of champ table) obviously far from perfect and a lot of other factors but could be a nice simplified way of keeping track of then vs now (would have tried to pull same thing off for 5th place season but it just gets complicated with relegation etc).

 

Thus far in the equivalent fixtures we're 3 points up and 8 goals better off in goal difference (mostly due to the 2-2 draw with liverpool compared to 6-0 loss)

 

City away-same result

West Ham (h)-1pt better off +1gd

Fulhan (h)- same result

Villa (a)- same result

Hull (compared to Reading) (h) -result and impact on GD the same

Everton (a) -1pt -1GD

Cardiff (compared to Wigan) (a)- +3pts +2GD

Liverpool (h)- +1pt +6 GD

Sunderland (a) -1pt -1gd

Chelsea (h)- same pts +1 GD

 

so thta would equate to approx 10 points over a season?

wouldn't try to use it as anything but a comparison to how we're doing then vs now tool and even then its basic at best since it may not be so much us improving in individual fixtures but who we're facing getting worse etc

[Dave]

out of idle curiosity and boredom decided to compare results between this season and last season in the equivilant fixtures (replacing the relegated sides with promoted ones in order of champ table) obviously far from perfect and a lot of other factors but could be a nice simplified way of keeping track of then vs now (would have tried to pull same thing off for 5th place season but it just gets complicated with relegation etc).

 

Thus far in the equivalent fixtures we're 3 points up and 8 goals better off in goal difference (mostly due to the 2-2 draw with liverpool compared to 6-0 loss)

 

City away-same result

West Ham (h)-1pt better off +1gd

Fulhan (h)- same result

Villa (a)- same result

Hull (compared to Reading) (h) -result and impact on GD the same

Everton (a) -1pt -1GD

Cardiff (compared to Wigan) (a)- +3pts +2GD

Liverpool (h)- +1pt +6 GD

Sunderland (a) -1pt -1gd

Chelsea (h)- same pts +1 GD

 

Could have just looked in the Battle 2.0 thread and saved yourself a load of effort.

[jdckelly]

out of idle curiosity and boredom decided to compare results between this season and last season in the equivilant fixtures (replacing the relegated sides with promoted ones in order of champ table) obviously far from perfect and a lot of other factors but could be a nice simplified way of keeping track of then vs now (would have tried to pull same thing off for 5th place season but it just gets complicated with relegation etc).

 

Thus far in the equivalent fixtures we're 3 points up and 8 goals better off in goal difference (mostly due to the 2-2 draw with liverpool compared to 6-0 loss)

 

City away-same result

West Ham (h)-1pt better off +1gd

Fulhan (h)- same result

Villa (a)- same result

Hull (compared to Reading) (h) -result and impact on GD the same

Everton (a) -1pt -1GD

Cardiff (compared to Wigan) (a)- +3pts +2GD

Liverpool (h)- +1pt +6 GD

Sunderland (a) -1pt -1gd

Chelsea (h)- same pts +1 GD

 

Could have just looked in the Battle 2.0 thread and saved yourself a load of effort.

it was that or watch the game I stand by my choice

[Guest bimpy474]

Sorry if its already posted, but this was on Total Sports FB page today...

 

 

Happy Halloween!! 

 

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[NG32]

Why do his eye sockets look like a ginger lasses fanny?

[Tooj]

http://www.soccerissue.com/2013/11/04/swansea-are-the-real-winners/

 

Swansea had a weekend of mixed news. Before losing the first ever Premier League Welsh Derby, the club announced record £15.8m profits for the ­previous year. Before that, the club’s under 18 team scored a wonderful team goal that went viral.

 

My feeling is that despite the loss at Cardiff, the U-18′s superb 32-pass move against Leeds United showed that the future of Swansea City A.F.C is pretty much secured as a top flight team. With a clear footballing, philosophy, a robust wage structure (wages represent close to 50% of turnover, which is way below the Premier League average of 72%) and £30m profit over two years (that was invested in the club’s academy and training ground) – Swansea City is one of the finest football institutions in Britain.

 

A testament of the club’s good work could be seen in the local university, which has benefited from a surge in interest since Swansea City was promoted to the Premier League in 2011. Even the local community has been boosted by the club’s premier league status.

 

All this was done without the help of a billionaire owner. A group of nine owners,  including the Swansea City Supporters’ Trust, put in £50,000 each in 2002 to buy the club and save it from its grimmest crisis. A philosophy was installed at the club and helped to decide on a shrewd player recruitment strategy.  ‘When we were in League One we didn’t have the money to compete with Leeds and Nottingham Forest,’ said Huw Jenkins, the club’s local chairmen (and a supporter of the team from the age of 4).  ‘They could buy the best players so we needed a different way. That was passing players. The style worked for us,’ said Jenkins. ‘We choose managers who fit that mould, which in turn means we don’t have to go to huge expense by signing a different type of player every time we change manager.”

 

There will be difficult time ahead, that’s a given in today’s world. However, the supporters of Swansea can feel safe enough to say that their club will be there for them tomorrow. They can be proud of its sporting and financial results but even more proud at the unique way it is managed:  The clubs foundations are solid. It  is part of their community and reflects its values and principles.

 

Meanwhile at Cardiff, the team might have won the first Welsh derby in the Premier League, but the club is a hostage of  ”eccentric owner”, Vincent Tan. He ended 100 years of tradition by changing their kit from blue to red; He fired Iain Moody, director of recruitment and appointed Alisher Apsalyamov, a  23-year-old family friend. According to reports, Tan has a new habit during games: He tries to pass on instructions to manager Malky Mackay. He also signed Etien Velikonja, a Slovenian forward, over Mackay’s head. Why? Nobody really knows.

 

Cardiff is dependent on an eccentric  billionaire who sees the club as a toy. He could fly off tomorrow and leave huge debt behind him. He is not a fan of the club. The ground is shaking beneath the club’s feet despite their owner’s vast wealth.

 

Cardiff might have won bragging rights this weekend but the Swansea’s fans can proud of their club while Cardiff’s supporters can expect more embarrassment from “their owner”. So who is the winner here?

[Foluwashola]

Owners who care about the club and have actually implemented some sort of plan. Jelly.

[LRD]

Choosing managers to fit the players and their playing style. Who would have thought that?

[Guest neesy111]

[joeyt]

Shame that wouldn't work if we'd got a draw last week

[Tiresias]

Read this in Sid Lowe's guardian column

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/nov/04/la-liga-real-betis-malaga

 

Ronaldo scored one and sent another flying into the crowd, where it hit a young girl – a Rayo fan aged around 12 or 13. The Portuguese gave her his shirt by way of apology and she was delighted. If that was classy, what followed was not. Soon some supporters round the girl started chanting for her to "burn it" and eventually the shirt was handed to a security guard, the girl forced to give it up. Pathetic.

 

Confiscating a shirt off a 13 year old girl is absolutely appalling. The fans should be banned.

[Belfast Mags]

http://www.soccerissue.com/2013/11/04/swansea-are-the-real-winners/

 

Swansea had a weekend of mixed news. Before losing the first ever Premier League Welsh Derby, the club announced record £15.8m profits for the ­previous year. Before that, the club’s under 18 team scored a wonderful team goal that went viral.

 

My feeling is that despite the loss at Cardiff, the U-18′s superb 32-pass move against Leeds United showed that the future of Swansea City A.F.C is pretty much secured as a top flight team. With a clear footballing, philosophy, a robust wage structure (wages represent close to 50% of turnover, which is way below the Premier League average of 72%) and £30m profit over two years (that was invested in the club’s academy and training ground) – Swansea City is one of the finest football institutions in Britain.

 

A testament of the club’s good work could be seen in the local university, which has benefited from a surge in interest since Swansea City was promoted to the Premier League in 2011. Even the local community has been boosted by the club’s premier league status.

 

All this was done without the help of a billionaire owner. A group of nine owners,  including the Swansea City Supporters’ Trust, put in £50,000 each in 2002 to buy the club and save it from its grimmest crisis. A philosophy was installed at the club and helped to decide on a shrewd player recruitment strategy.  ‘When we were in League One we didn’t have the money to compete with Leeds and Nottingham Forest,’ said Huw Jenkins, the club’s local chairmen (and a supporter of the team from the age of 4).  ‘They could buy the best players so we needed a different way. That was passing players. The style worked for us,’ said Jenkins. ‘We choose managers who fit that mould, which in turn means we don’t have to go to huge expense by signing a different type of player every time we change manager.”

 

There will be difficult time ahead, that’s a given in today’s world. However, the supporters of Swansea can feel safe enough to say that their club will be there for them tomorrow. They can be proud of its sporting and financial results but even more proud at the unique way it is managed:  The clubs foundations are solid. It  is part of their community and reflects its values and principles.

 

Meanwhile at Cardiff, the team might have won the first Welsh derby in the Premier League, but the club is a hostage of  ”eccentric owner”, Vincent Tan. He ended 100 years of tradition by changing their kit from blue to red; He fired Iain Moody, director of recruitment and appointed Alisher Apsalyamov, a  23-year-old family friend. According to reports, Tan has a new habit during games: He tries to pass on instructions to manager Malky Mackay. He also signed Etien Velikonja, a Slovenian forward, over Mackay’s head. Why? Nobody really knows.

 

Cardiff is dependent on an eccentric  billionaire who sees the club as a toy. He could fly off tomorrow and leave huge debt behind him. He is not a fan of the club. The ground is shaking beneath the club’s feet despite their owner’s vast wealth.

 

Cardiff might have won bragging rights this weekend but the Swansea’s fans can proud of their club while Cardiff’s supporters can expect more embarrassment from “their owner”. So who is the winner here?

 

A North Eastern Cardiff 

[ponsaelius]

 

 

 

Been spotted around Newcastle.

[Belfast Mags]

?

[ponsaelius]

It's a white power/neo-nazi emblem.

[Dave]

Celtic Cross isn't it?

[Dave]

Oh.

[ponsaelius]

Hopefully thats all it is, not usually the case if its being used for these kind of stickers though. See Russia/Eastern Europe.

 

Edit: Actually, no chance its that. You wouldn't pair a Celtic cross with a Union Jack would you.

[Dave]

Aye, that's what I thought.

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

 

 

 

Been spotted around Newcastle.

 

Where the fuck was this?

[Belfast Mags]

Hopefully thats all it is, not usually the case if its being used for these kind of stickers though. See Russia/Eastern Europe.

 

Edit: Actually, no chance its that. You wouldn't pair a Celtic cross with a Union Jack would you.

 

You've clearly never been to a Northern Ireland game then 

[ponsaelius]

Hopefully thats all it is, not usually the case if its being used for these kind of stickers though. See Russia/Eastern Europe.

 

Edit: Actually, no chance its that. You wouldn't pair a Celtic cross with a Union Jack would you.

 

You've clearly never been to a Northern Ireland game then 

 

Spose so, I hope you're right but I doubt it. The typefont and colour is the same kind used by these idiots.

[Belfast Mags]

Well, it's defo a Celtic Cross, not sure what the neo nazi significance of that is, perhaps it has a different name or something.

 

Strange

[ponsaelius]

I've honestly never even heard of it used as a Celtic Cross. I thought that was like the one Celtic have used on their shirts with an elongated bottom bit. I've only ever seen that one used as a white power emblem ie on Stormfront's banner, on these fucking stickers (Kharkiv fans last season) etc.