Barclay's Premier League '14-'15 discussion V9

The eyes of the world are preparing to turn on the Premier League again tonight as it's Hull v Liverpool kicking off in a few hours. Who will escape relegation? Who will get Europa League? Can Skrtel stop N'Doye? Can Coutinho justify his place in the Team of the Year? Is Steve Bruce going to start his son, Alex Bruce? Is Rodgers going to start his son, Joe Allen? We'll find out tonight...

^^FFS that last part

Just do yourselves a favour and watch the German cup semi Bayern - Dortmund.

Hapless_Hans wrote:Just do yourselves a favour and watch the German cup semi Bayern - Dortmund.

srigooner wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:Just do yourselves a favour and watch the German cup semi Bayern - Dortmund.

Charlton Athletic FC @CAFCofficial · 22h 22 hours ago
Bournemouth celebrating like they've completely ruled out a 19-0 defeat at The Valley on Saturday. We'll see... #cafc


Dat Banter

Also in the spirit of banter

Thank you

Looks like Liverpool are doing operation avoid Europa League...































... Nah they're just sh**.

what a hilarious club

I heard Rodgers tried to buy a win tonight, but even his cheques aren't any good

Rodgers needs to sell before he buys, Lex.

Worried Rodgers may get the bullet

Liverpool new bottle team.

Won't be surprised if Tottenham, Liverpool and Southampton all try their best to finish 7th to avoid EL.

Such a shit competition even some of you guys said in the Arsenal section that you would take it over year-after-year of CL R16 exists.

It's not even a shit competition, it's quite sad how so many who never actually win anything treat it like dog shit.

I'd love to be in EL tbh. Mainly because we can actually win it lol. (probably go out to Dnipro though)

But our team is top 15 in Europe. Can easily get it to Best 8 and do better in the CL next season.

Just need to sign Cech, Kondogbia and Dybala/Ayoze.

I'm ok with Arsenal fans attitude towards it, especially as you have won something now lol.

But there's so many teams who have never won anything or haven't in ages and treat it like yesterdays garbage.

Try telling Sevilla fans that it's shit, their whole history as a club is based around winning it.

Sunderland no chances to save at this point , at least Mole in this awful season can have a real joy

Welcome back Alvarez

Robespierre wrote:Sunderland no chances to save at this point , at least Mole in this awful season can have a real joy

Sadly i'll only really feel joy again when Ashley is gone and pride comes back and replaces the apathy

Will never treat any trophy as shit(bar COC because f that). I was talking to RO about it before. I am liking EL far more than in the past. And now with added incentive of getting CL with the final, it's more worthwhile as well.

Imo you're not 'above' playing in the Europa league unless you're qualifying for the CL regularly and getting out of the groups


Likes of Pool and Spurs are not even close to being guaranteed top 4 teams in their league. Would it not make sense to put effort in to the EL from here onwards and get a CL play-off place.

so Glad we didnt have EL this year tho...some points we were so injury riddled we likely wouldn't be top 4 right now if we had to play thursday nights as well...would of likely seen COC like line ups if we did lol aka get smashed by MK Dons playing a bunch of academy kids

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:It's not even a shit competition, it's quite sad how so many who never actually win anything treat it like dog shit.

NO!
It is just there to give more injury worries because more games becasue more complicated qualifying phases and more complicated group phase and knockout structure.

It forces you to play Thursdays and Sundays, add the League Cup which is the most shit competition ever, I don't know why we gotta have 2 domestic cups, but that's neither here nor there. It just makes scheduling hectic. Add FA Cup replays (which I don't why they could just take it to extra time and penalties straightaway) and OH SHIT it even gets worse.

Feel sorry for teams like Everton and Fulham in the past who were more forced than honoured to take part in the EL with such limited squads. Ok, we could probably deal with it better, but I'm just stating in the grand scheme of things how dumb this competition is imo.

If it was similar to the CL or even better, smaller more simple procedure like 6 groups or something. It would be much more watchable and easier to handle. But I get it! That just wouldn't work because we want as many teams to play in a European competition and give chances to teams who don't win trophies a lot and who suffer in midtable mediocity every season.

Let me rephrase. EL is not a shit competition. It holds its own prestige in its own way, and it's certainly never a bad thing to a win a trophy. But for a club like Arsenal I wouldn't expect and want to be in that competition. Because I just see it as being dumb to want that over CL. Of course I'll support the team and want us to win the damn thing if we end up in it somehow and at some point. But just purely given the choice of CL or EL, how and why would you wanna choose EL is beyond me.

Lol we're bound to go past the R16 some time in the future, or maybe even go on a run like we did in 2006. I'd much rather hold on to that even if it happens 1 in 15 years, than the possibilty of having to go through all the baggage that the EL brings (don't forget how you suffer in the league because of it) and having a chance of winning 5 EL's in 15 years.

And it's mainly because of how much we would suffer in the EPL which worries me most.