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The obligatory how will your team do this season?
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Derby County: After our numpty board successfully allowed one of the best managers we've had in years to leave. Were left with Bolton's assistant manager with know experience of first team management. Fantastic.
So with the numskulls upstairs who can't publish our ever-growing on time plus an inexperienced manager in charge its back to mid-table obscurity for us me thinks.
So with the numskulls upstairs who can't publish our ever-growing on time plus an inexperienced manager in charge its back to mid-table obscurity for us me thinks.
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For my second and local team at uni, Exeter City, i think they can get promotion to league two. I'm increasingly becoming closer to Exeter than Cardiff nowadays it seems.
If Exeter Get Man U in the cup again we'll beat them this time.
Really hope we can run Chelsea close though, think having a good experienced keeper may do us good again, but afraid it may still not be enough.
Again i think it will be Chelsea who will be our main contenders and i think if we can tighten up defencesively(sp?!) we can push them all the way as you all know Arsenal's attack is one of the best in the country.
Reckon we'll get pretty far in the FA Cup, hopefully another final and i'm hoping and praying that this year we will actually show our true potential in the Champions League, but we say that every year and we always fail ... but we'll see.
Can't wait for the season to start. Last year at Highbury, i'm looking to go to a few of the bigger games there i.e vs ManUre and/or vs Chelsea. Nice new kit as well
Accy stanley (my other team) to make playoffs maybe scab a auto position.
Champions League could be interesting though.
Only because he was slipping one to, among others, Marcus Tudgay's bird. Allegedly.
We'll finsih in mid-table. Maybe playoffs if we're lucky.
This season is indeed very important.
I don't think we're like Liverpool. Souness raped Liverpool by getting rid of good players with no decent replacements. We, on the other hand have the strongest team we've had for years. People forget that for much of last season we were the in-form team, the team to beat. We were just playing catch-up beause of a shitty start and ended up throwing it away at the end. We also have to compete with the money machine Chelsea, which was never a case before. It's certainly a much more difficult for us now.
:eek:
Would still prefer him in charge whoever he slips one to.
Rangers - we'll win the SPL i would predict without too much difficulty. Good signings, some quality players have come in, some established internationals and captains, some younger chaps with plenty to prove - a good mix.
For the first time i can really remember, we've got a team which at full strength looks capable of a good European run (Prso, Buffel, Fan-Fan, Ferguson, Hemdani & Novo are the critical players).
So it's onwards & upwards...I hope. :thumb:
He was sacked because he couldn't keep his cock out of players' girlfriends.
I think United are definitely declining...although they'll still be competing for top spot, their dominance is over.
What do you make of Ferguson? Losing his touch? Replacing him could be United's best chance of fighting off Chelsea to the league title, re-vitalise the club sort of thing...then again, it would be a massive gamble.
Hopefully they'll do ok in the Champions League as well.
That's the problem with being SO successful though, if you win championship after championship, as soon as you miss out on one it's always going to be a step down, a decline. Certainly our domestic dominance is over. The league has changed and the bar has been raised. Chelsea won last season with the highest points total in premiership history. It's up to us to meet the new challenge.
Chelsea can buy, buy, buy, until finally something works but I don't think their success is that credible. Jose Mourinho taunted Gerrard for staying at Liverpool by saying that over the next 10 years Chelsea will have won far more trophies than Liverpool. I can usually laugh and enjoy the special one's comments but I thought this was totally out of line. I don't like Liverpool but I can respect Gerrard for wanting to stay at his boyhood club where he is idolised rather than join a Russian Billionaire's over-payed plaything. Chelsea may well win more than Liverpool but one trophy at Liverpool is worth TEN at Chelsea so fuck it. And I feel the same for United. If we can meet this challenge and actually manage to win a title, it will be the best and most satisfying one yet, and that includes over-turning a 15 point deficit to pip Arsenal to the trophy in 2003 .
And no, sacking Ferguson is not the way forward. He will step down when he feels it is right, he won't be sacked. I have full faith in him.
Not sure if I'd use the word decline. It's worth noting that other teams (namely Arsenal and Chelsea) have needed to raise their standards - in one case costing a couple on hundred million to get there. It's not that United have dropped very far themselves...
Nah, he stays. You don't win that much, reach those levels by being crap. What has changed is the desire within the player pool... and the approach...
I think he might be right too.
...which is ultimately the responsibility of Ferguson. His desire is probably not what it once was, he's getting on now and has won all the main competitions as well....a change of regime and personnel might bring a bit more of a spark back, but it'd be a risky business.
The current situation which surrounds Rio isn't of Fergie's making... for example