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Weeaboo Name October 5th, 2014 5:14 AM

It happened again. Points dropped at home even after smashing them for 90 minutes.

Expect Forest will beat Ipswich meaning that we'll go into the international break second.

Banz October 5th, 2014 5:35 AM

Leighton Baines useless toffee scum

Weeaboo Name October 5th, 2014 11:44 AM

Well that wasn't very nice.

It's like nobody wants to go top spot in the Champs. Shame we have our bogey team next.

Weeaboo Name October 5th, 2014 11:44 AM

Well that wasn't very nice.

It's like nobody wants to go top spot in the Champs. Shame we have our bogey team next.

tittlemouse October 6th, 2014 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Weeaboo Name (Post 8460593)
Well that wasn't very nice.

It's like nobody wants to go top spot in the Champs. Shame we have our bogey team next.

Its amazing Leeds down in 14th are only 6 points from top spot, hope it stays this close would make for an epic final 10 matches

Banz October 6th, 2014 5:32 PM

Instead of going top, I slipped to 3rd place in the FPL. :psy copy:

tittlemouse October 8th, 2014 2:39 AM

I see we face San Marino tomorrow why on earth is there no pre-qualifying for sides like this....... these games are litreally pointless

Banz October 8th, 2014 8:51 AM

Why do national teams even exist? All those games are pointless.

Dreg October 8th, 2014 1:57 PM

I'm probably gonna guess 7-0 for the England - San Marino game. But yeah, the lowest ranked teams should face each other for a place in the qualifiers... the OFC and CONCACAF do it.

Weeaboo Name October 8th, 2014 2:09 PM

International football should be great but in the modern climate it just isn't. Well, at least it is more enjoyable than modern day European cup football.

Eruption October 10th, 2014 5:14 AM

I haven't checked the FPL since it started and my team was predictably in a terrible state. Half the team injured, Remy in first XI etc.

It would be good if they worked out a way to sort out qualifying in the summer, I don't think many people enjoy international breaks especially when it's to face teams like San Marino.

Banz October 10th, 2014 6:39 PM

There are way too many international breaks. They're just too frequent. It's been 2 months since the Premier League started and we've only played 7 matches - and 2 international breaks.
They could instead have 2 longer international breaks per season with 3-4 qualification matches each. Rest of the qualification matches take place between May and August. Clubs usually waste that time playing pointless friendlies in USA, Australia and what not anyway.

At the moment we're having a 2 week break after every 3 league matches, which is extremely annoying.

Aeroblast October 12th, 2014 2:47 PM

Well, there are 5 international breaks: March, (early) June, September, October, and November.

I wish it was more spread out like so: September, November, (early) January, March, and (early) June.

Dreg October 14th, 2014 3:48 AM

I somehow KNEW that Iceland would beat Holland as they have been flying as of late. And Croatia winning 6-0 over Azerbaijan. Doesn't get much better than that. I hope Iceland do make the finals, they deserve it.

Weeaboo Name October 14th, 2014 7:27 AM

>@becchioluciano I want to say that I've broken my ankle and I'll be out around 3 months but I'll be back more strong...

Poor lad can't catch a break.
Spoiler:
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Got some good u21 action to watch tonight. England and then Norwich vs Spuds. Might go down to Carra for that as it is free entry.

Weeaboo Name October 15th, 2014 8:53 AM

Cool, this will be a good test for our youngsters.
http://i.imgur.com/eQAidr7.png

Eruption October 15th, 2014 4:59 PM

What tournament is that?

Interesting to see all the sudden outrage at ticket prices just because BBC published some figures. I mean it's been this way for years, I'm sure anyone it really concerns already knew. It's cool to see the average Championship ticket prices went down though, maybe a case of some historically big teams finally accepting their places but I doubt it. That said Derby & Sheff Wed had the two cheapest so maybe that is the case.

Weeaboo Name October 15th, 2014 5:39 PM

It is what seems to be a very hastily thrown together under 21s competition called the Premier League International Cup. It was supposed to be the top 8 sides from the previous year's u21 premier league but Liverpool decided they didn't want to compete. Then there was some problem with Uefa in regards to playing overseas, the Premier League's solution was to get all of the games to be played over here. Apparently that took too long to sort out so Southampton and Manchester United withdrew. For Norwich, Everton and West Ham those withdrawals were pretty lucky. When I initially read about EPPP this is the sort of thing I was expecting.

I saw those articles. Norwich were worst value per goal scored, what a shocker.

VeranithasVI October 15th, 2014 7:20 PM

EPL is back in action this weekend! Manchester United (my team for twelve years, despite our recent... setback...) take on West Bromwich Albion, and that's the ONLY fixture I'm currently aware of. Then we play Chelsea next week.

Anyone else really keen for the EPL to start back up again, after the recent wave of international matches? And speaking of, did anybody manage to catch any of the international matches? I only follow international football via blogs and news reports online, so I'm not sure if any of the matches were any good. Specifically England and Holland (they didn't play against each other but both had games respectively).

Banz October 15th, 2014 7:26 PM

There's still 56 hours and 19 minutes left for the City-Spuds kickoff.

Weeaboo Name October 15th, 2014 7:31 PM

Both of the England games were pretty terrible.

I wish I had watched Kyle Lafferty's Northern Ireland tbh.

VeranithasVI October 15th, 2014 7:47 PM

Aw that sucks. How was Rooney? We'll miss him during the Chelsea game and, with the way we're playing recently, possibly in the WBA game.

City v Spurs should be a good one. I'm interested in watching Burnley v West Ham tbh. My home town of Burnley aren't doing to well and West Ham are having a blinder of a season. Should be good.

United v WBA isn't til Tuesday 6am Australian time. Not even going to be able to watch it live. AND our game against Chelsea is the following Monday at 3am. -_-

Weeaboo Name October 15th, 2014 8:29 PM

Rooney was pretty much a passenger. He scored a pen and a free kick but didn't do much else. He missed a lot of one on one opportunities. If he didn't play for Utd he would have probably been dropped.

VeranithasVI October 15th, 2014 8:34 PM

And the fact that he's currently the Captain, that makes it rather hard to drop him. ;]

Missing one-on-one chances is a no-go I'll admit, but I've resigned to thinking of Rooney as more of a central attacking midfielder now, holding the ball and playing passes where necessary, etc. For a forward his defense game is immense, too.

I sound like I'm on some form of Rooney bandwagon, but I'm not. I can concede to him having bad games. I just think he's an all round brilliant player. Irrational, but brilliant.

Weeaboo Name October 15th, 2014 8:48 PM

Thread is broken, don't use quick post anymore.

Seems as if he is only captain on reputation as well. For me it would be captain Henderson, probably.

On recent performances Rooney would probably be my 3rd or 4th choice forward. You are right that he better behind the striker, in that position he would probably be 1st or second choice.

We have to play the diamond with Wilshire out of position and a 19 year old at the tip because MUH NEW IDENTITY. Funny we are playing this formation even though our fullbacks can hardly attack, striker can't finish and well, Wilshire will not perform in this position against good sides.

My preferred England 11 would be rather different to what we are getting right now.


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