Current bottom 3 in the Prem 16:28 - Jan 14 with 7405 views | Herbivore | Swansea, Stoke and West Brom. Is it just me that would really like to see the bottom 3 stay that way until the end of the season? No disrespect but they're all just very meh and have no real ambition beyond trying to survive in the Prem year on year. They've been in that league for a while doing nothing interesting at all and it just feels like their time to go. Be nice to see all three promoted sides staying up too. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 16:31 - Jan 14 with 6218 views | ElderGrizzly | If we got up, that would be us too. For 14 of the 20 clubs, every season is just about doing enough to stay up and keep the cash coming in. | | | |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 16:39 - Jan 14 with 6185 views | SE1blue | I used to feel the same about Southampton following the Le Tissier era...they were just dull, dull, dull without him, but somehow they stuck in the Premier League playing dreadful football. I'd love to see Swansea go down for similar reasons and because I know a Swansea fan who is incredibly irritating. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 16:41 - Jan 14 with 6173 views | bluesym | Id rather see Bournemouth drop ahead of any of those. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 16:46 - Jan 14 with 6146 views | Herbivore |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 16:31 - Jan 14 by ElderGrizzly | If we got up, that would be us too. For 14 of the 20 clubs, every season is just about doing enough to stay up and keep the cash coming in. |
I'm not so sure it's as black and white as that, Burnley seem to have a bit of a plan for establishing themselves and are having a great season, Leicester obviously had that amazing season and look to potentially be building something again that's a little more ambitious than just surviving. The newly promoted clubs, fair enough it has to be about survival but the likes of Stoke, West Brom and Swansea have just existed in the Prem for the last few years without really threatening to ever do anything remotely interesting. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:11 - Jan 14 with 6064 views | Garv |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 16:39 - Jan 14 by SE1blue | I used to feel the same about Southampton following the Le Tissier era...they were just dull, dull, dull without him, but somehow they stuck in the Premier League playing dreadful football. I'd love to see Swansea go down for similar reasons and because I know a Swansea fan who is incredibly irritating. |
That's incredibly harsh on Southampton. They are hit and miss but my word they are lovely to watch sometimes. Did you see the cup final against United last season? | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:14 - Jan 14 with 6046 views | ElderGrizzly |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 16:46 - Jan 14 by Herbivore | I'm not so sure it's as black and white as that, Burnley seem to have a bit of a plan for establishing themselves and are having a great season, Leicester obviously had that amazing season and look to potentially be building something again that's a little more ambitious than just surviving. The newly promoted clubs, fair enough it has to be about survival but the likes of Stoke, West Brom and Swansea have just existed in the Prem for the last few years without really threatening to ever do anything remotely interesting. |
But what is ambition in the PL for clubs like this? Top 6 are pretty much sewn up, so it’s compete for the next ‘mini-league’? Your last line to me is why the PL is so dull. Even for Burnley, it would have been the target to survive first and foremost. The rest it is going through the motions, with a regular win against Arsenal thrown in to excite the fans | | | |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:14 - Jan 14 with 6046 views | SE1blue |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:11 - Jan 14 by Garv | That's incredibly harsh on Southampton. They are hit and miss but my word they are lovely to watch sometimes. Did you see the cup final against United last season? |
I'm talking about Southampton up until 2005. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:19 - Jan 14 with 6029 views | Mullet | From an away game perspective certainly. Although the South Coast has become a bin for Chelsea-dodgers and needs emptying from the Prem, so it's a bit conflicting for me. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:22 - Jan 14 with 6020 views | J2BLUE | Is this very subtle trolling? 'No disrespect but they're all just very meh and have no real ambition beyond trying to survive in the Prem year on year. They've been in that league for a while doing nothing interesting at all and it just feels like their time to go.' Substitute Prem for Championship... | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:31 - Jan 14 with 5972 views | jas0999 | I’d like to see Southampton go down - the only reason is I know quite a few Saints fans who regularly remind me they are a PL club and we are not! | | | |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:32 - Jan 14 with 5962 views | Superfrans | I was hoping Wet Spam would come down, so we could visit the Olympic Stadium. But, looking unlikely now. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:34 - Jan 14 with 5949 views | Superfrans |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:14 - Jan 14 by ElderGrizzly | But what is ambition in the PL for clubs like this? Top 6 are pretty much sewn up, so it’s compete for the next ‘mini-league’? Your last line to me is why the PL is so dull. Even for Burnley, it would have been the target to survive first and foremost. The rest it is going through the motions, with a regular win against Arsenal thrown in to excite the fans |
All the money in the Prem has basically made it a 5/6 team league, with the rest battling to avoid relegation. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:37 - Jan 14 with 5936 views | ElderGrizzly |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:34 - Jan 14 by Superfrans | All the money in the Prem has basically made it a 5/6 team league, with the rest battling to avoid relegation. |
Indeed. It will get even worse if those top 6 get their way and manage to get a higher % of the overseas income too. Killed off for now, but back on the table for the next meeting. PL is now about maximising revenue and if that comes from winning games or entertaining football, that is a bonus. | | | |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:41 - Jan 14 with 5916 views | Swansea_Blue | Bit harsh. Stoke 4 consecutive top 10 finishes before this season. Swans 8th place finish, a decent run in Europe and a League cup win in this spell in the top division. I'd love us to lack ambition that much! West Brom are dull. I can't find any redeeming features in their club or fans,Z so they can go. They were bad before Pullis killed them off; even worse now. Swansea now last 18 months the wheels have fallen off - the American hedge fund owners probably do deserve relegation given how they've mismanaged the club. But the did give the PL one of its greatest comedy moments with Bob Bradley. Stoke have had first bad season in 5 or 6. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:43 - Jan 14 with 5905 views | Superfrans |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:37 - Jan 14 by ElderGrizzly | Indeed. It will get even worse if those top 6 get their way and manage to get a higher % of the overseas income too. Killed off for now, but back on the table for the next meeting. PL is now about maximising revenue and if that comes from winning games or entertaining football, that is a bonus. |
The income generated from the first Prem TV deal in 1992 was 4% of the value of the latest deal. When they do a deal maximising India and China, there will be another massive lift in revenue. It is going to get far far worse. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:46 - Jan 14 with 5888 views | clive_baker | Brighton for me. Some things money can’t not buy, and staying in the premier league isn’t not one them. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:56 - Jan 14 with 5843 views | Ely_Blue | Would that be the same Stoke that have finished in 9th for the last 3 seasons? Hardly “trying to survive” is it? | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 18:01 - Jan 14 with 5812 views | ElderGrizzly |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:56 - Jan 14 by Ely_Blue | Would that be the same Stoke that have finished in 9th for the last 3 seasons? Hardly “trying to survive” is it? |
But if you asked their owners, their first goal is survive, then push on. | | | |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 18:01 - Jan 14 with 5812 views | pointofblue |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:22 - Jan 14 by J2BLUE | Is this very subtle trolling? 'No disrespect but they're all just very meh and have no real ambition beyond trying to survive in the Prem year on year. They've been in that league for a while doing nothing interesting at all and it just feels like their time to go.' Substitute Prem for Championship... |
Well quite... they're little more than the Premier League version of us based on that description. You may say we could finish in the top ten this year or did for three years on a trot up to last year but so did Stoke in the Premier League. I'd much prefer to see "little" Bournemouth go down. I'm sick and tired of the bum licking and praise when they've spent highly but maybe that's more from their promotion year where they basically bought their way out of the league. | |
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Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 18:06 - Jan 14 with 5789 views | poppiesman | I would love it if West Ham and Newcastle got relegated. | | | |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 18:44 - Jan 14 with 5701 views | brazil1982 | I do tend to forget about West Brom til I look at the tables now and again and think" Oh yeah, West Brom - how the hell are they a top flight club?" | | | |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 18:50 - Jan 14 with 5669 views | Blue_Order |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 18:44 - Jan 14 by brazil1982 | I do tend to forget about West Brom til I look at the tables now and again and think" Oh yeah, West Brom - how the hell are they a top flight club?" |
I was just about to post that sometimes I forget WBA even exist. Wouldn't mind them down as I quite like The Hawthorns. | | | |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 18:58 - Jan 14 with 5651 views | imsureazzure |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 17:11 - Jan 14 by Garv | That's incredibly harsh on Southampton. They are hit and miss but my word they are lovely to watch sometimes. Did you see the cup final against United last season? |
Southampton have a great scouting and youth network, that is where we should be. | | | |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 19:39 - Jan 14 with 5533 views | longtimefan | I’d rather see the 3 promoted teams come down as they, like Norwich, would get considerably less parachute payments than others. | | | |
Current bottom 3 in the Prem on 19:41 - Jan 14 with 5518 views | ITFC_Forever | I haven’t been to Swansea’s ground, so would like them to come down. | |
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