Still not worthy of a thread

[ramirez]

41 minutes ago, toon25 said:

Had we been in it this year, we'd have gone to at least the semis imo

Be disappointing doing anything other than winning it imo

[Ben]

Our new team bus looks amazing 

[Stifler]

2 minutes ago, Ben said:

Our new team bus looks amazing 

We got a new one?

[Ben]

28 minutes ago, Stifler said:

We got a new one?

According to Facebook we have Tynedale are running it

[Kaizero]

5 hours ago, Groundhog63 said:

Hopefully the same night @Kaizero is trying to Reveal his 2nd Reverse Sheep Quiz after 3 failed goes the previous nights. 

 

I like how you seem to think I'll somehow win another  

[Kaizero]

4 hours ago, duo said:

Conference League needs scrapping- total meaningless tournament 

 

Honestly the only European club tournament I've found any joy watching (other than when we've been participating in any). Absolutely can't stand the repetitiveness of the CL, and up until this season the EL was pretty much guaranteed to end up being won by a team that got knocked out of the CL in the group stage so there was no point watching any group stage matches or really pay attention to the knock-outs. 

 

The Conference League has tons of former giants of European football playing in it, and it has teams from more nations than probably the CL and EL combined. Vikingur Reykjavik and Shamrock Rovers almost managed to get through to the proper Round of 16! Fuck watching Barcelona/Real Madrid/Bayern play Barcelona/Real Madrid/Bayern over and over, give me a final featuring teams like Roma, Feyenoord, Fiorentina, Olympiakos and so on any day of the week!

 

With that in mind, bar the fact the new "league" system has added potentially 4 extra fixtures to CL/EL teams and potentially 2 extra fixtures for ECL teams to an already stacked schedule that's ruining the longevity of footballer's careers, I don't mind the new set-up one bit. Was excitement all the way through the last game in the "league" regarding who'd advance straight to the pR16 vs who'd have to go to the extra R16 for the chance to get there, as well as excitement regarding which teams would be knocked out and which teams would get an extra life by getting sent to the extra R16 round. First time in what feels like decades where I've paid any attention whatsoever to the last couple of group matches in Europe.

[El Prontonise]

6 hours ago, duo said:

Conference League needs scrapping- total meaningless tournament 

 

Disagree.

 

Just needs clubs from top 3-4 counties removing from it and have it as a genuine competition to win for smaller countries.

 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by El Prontonise

[JT24]

2 hours ago, Stifler said:

We got a new one?

Would have been nice to see it wrapped in a Newcastle United livery. 

[Ben]

This should be good

[Yorkie]

3 hours ago, El Prontonise said:

 

Disagree.

 

Just needs clubs from top 3-4 counties removing from it and have it as a genuine competition to win for smaller countries.

 

Get the sentiment but that would undermine the whole thing. Having all nations involved legitimises it as a major tournament; the trouble is just that the Premier League is always going to contribute one team that is immediately the favourite. Olympiacos did amazing to overcome that last season but it'll take a miracle this year, or even Chelsea's reserves phoning it in. 

[80]

14 hours ago, JT24 said:

Would have been nice to see it wrapped in a Newcastle United livery. 

Fuck that soundtrack to death.