| Motd 11:26 - Sep 15 with 5373 views | FrimleyBlue |
It's laughable the MOTD comments really
Win sat and we could jump a few places
Not only that but we currently have Everton below us. Palace. Wolves.
How about wait until Christmas and see how different the levels are. At the moment we are competing at the same level as some other established prem clubs. |  |
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| Motd on 15:33 - Sep 15 with 1049 views | gainsboroughblue |
Lazy blokes down the pub type chat. Even allowing for the fact there are two well established Prem sides worse off, they offered no insight or acknowledgement of why any disparity should be.
No mention of ridiculous wages, transfer fees, rules for one and one for another, rule breaking, disproportionate distribution of finances etc.
Just seemed a pre-meditated dig at the standard of anything below the holy trinity. |  |
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| Motd on 15:39 - Sep 15 with 1019 views | Ryorry |
| Motd on 12:10 - Sep 15 by CaptainAhab |
Yeah I found that utterly bizarre too |
Me three! |  |
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| Motd on 15:48 - Sep 15 with 1005 views | Ryorry |
| Motd on 12:57 - Sep 15 by HighgateBlue |
"It's the fewest [of?/that?] any teams ever gathered since last season's three".
This Lineker is paid a lot of money at taxpayers' expense. He's supposed to be one of the more literate of ex-footballers. In making the opening point about what this "graphic" is supposed to illustrate, he shows himself incapable of stringing a sentence together that even makes grammatical sense. When you actually turn to the meaning of the sentence, what he is saying is that this season's newly promoted clubs have scored /more/ points than last season's.
The fact that this season's teams have scored 4 times as many points at the same stage of the season is apparently a sign that the gap is getting bigger.
What is this shower? It's like actors performing the words of children who have improvised with no rehearsal.
Clearly what they should have done is have some kind of graph showing what newly promoted teams have done historically, and another showing what they have done more recently. Then described this change in their first language, with subtitles if necessary.
No counter-argument is considered, for example that Ipswich have played three games against teams in the top four. Just tired old obvious observations from pundits who don't appear to have any detailed knowledge of the clubs they're talking about, or their fixture lists.
The reality is that we are the first team to go to Brighton and not lose. They have beaten Man Utd, Crawley (cup) and Villareal (friendly) at home since the beginning of August. But why let the facts get in the way of a badly garbled story? |
Glad I wasn’t the only one who did a double take and chin scratch at that comment, esp when the graphic popped up! | |
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| Motd on 17:12 - Sep 15 with 931 views | TheBoyBlue |
| Motd on 15:17 - Sep 15 by Simonds92 |
Brighton sitting on 8 points potentially undermines this, but who knows. |
You're absolutely right, but it was mainly to show that you can pick any random group of clubs and compare to previous seasons and suggest that that random group can't compete because they haven't started so well.
MOTDs point also ignores that we've played Liverpool and Manchester City in half of our games, whilst Southampton also started last season slowly but came good, so they may do the same. |  |
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| Motd on 17:36 - Sep 15 with 887 views | ParisBlue |
There's obvious flaws of such a statistic after just 4 games. Had we played Leicester and Southampton instead of Liverpool and Man City then the "newly promoted" teams would have at least another 4 points, potentially 6.
There's a narrative after last season due to 3 promoted sides being relegated. It's lazy journalism given the previous year all 3 stayed up. Whilst it's jtough, I think us, Leicester and Southampton are stronger than Sheffield United and Luton (Burnley are probably the better comparison)
The highlighting of Mckenna being inexperienced was odd, he's our biggest asset. |  |
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| Motd on 17:38 - Sep 15 with 878 views | Bent_double |
| Motd on 15:48 - Sep 15 by Ryorry |
Glad I wasn’t the only one who did a double take and chin scratch at that comment, esp when the graphic popped up! |
It's almost as if they felt they should say something about the 3 promoted clubs - although with Linekers Leicester link they will always get a mention - but they couldn't work out what to say, so someone came up with that to fill a minute or so of chat. |  |
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| Motd on 18:59 - Sep 15 with 819 views | Churchman |
I saw MOTD after the Fulham game. I won’t be bothering again. Endless dribbling on from clueless old has beens who trot out endless cliches and baseless views.
As for Murphy, the miserable, depressing bonehead whistles through his teeth and tries to do that little pause thing while speaking in a failed attempt to look studious, considered and intelligent. Drives me nuts on tv or radio.
Thank goodness for the off switch. |  | | |
| Motd on 19:46 - Sep 15 with 774 views | strikalite |
I fairness Lineker did say it was a good point for us and although we've had no wins yet we've certainly held our own, then Shearer reeled off the top teams we've faced and the fact we've got two draws to which you could hear Lineker saying decent decent.. [Post edited 15 Sep 2024 19:50]
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| Motd on 22:24 - Sep 15 with 674 views | NedPlimpton |
| Motd on 12:55 - Sep 15 by Oldsmoker |
TWTD posters don't get paid.
Ex-Nobber had Liverpool beating Forest 2-0!!!!
He's a fraud. |
Yeah, laughable
Imagine thinking Liverpool would beat forest! |  | | |
| Motd on 22:49 - Sep 15 with 631 views | Epiphone |
Murphy?Big,fat Ron's (even more)clueless successor. |  | | |
| Motd on 07:48 - Sep 16 with 530 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Motd on 17:36 - Sep 15 by ParisBlue |
There's obvious flaws of such a statistic after just 4 games. Had we played Leicester and Southampton instead of Liverpool and Man City then the "newly promoted" teams would have at least another 4 points, potentially 6.
There's a narrative after last season due to 3 promoted sides being relegated. It's lazy journalism given the previous year all 3 stayed up. Whilst it's jtough, I think us, Leicester and Southampton are stronger than Sheffield United and Luton (Burnley are probably the better comparison)
The highlighting of Mckenna being inexperienced was odd, he's our biggest asset. |
Yeah, last season's teams were especially weak. The season before that all 3 teams that got promoted stayed up.
It's actually quite remarkable that only twice in PL history have all 3 promoted clubs been relegated the following season. [Post edited 16 Sep 2024 7:53]
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