2014/15 Championship Thread

[Dolphin Ziggler]

First topic message reminder :

Well, it's all decided now.

Birmingham City
Blackburn Rovers
Blackpool
Bolton Wanderers
Bournemouth
Brentford
Brighton & Hove Underdogs
Cardiff City
Charlton Athletic
Derby County
Fulham
Huddersfield Town
Ipswich Town
Leeds United
Middlesbrough
Millwall
Norwich City
Nottingham Forest
Reading
Rotherham United
Sheffield Wednesday
Watford
Wigan Athletic
Wolverhampton Wanderers

Forest have Pearce, Leeds may have investment, Olly has reasons to be cheerful and Wigan don't have European distractions.

[GSC]

And now back to football people care about

[Fernando]

Pretty much. That was the worst derby game ive seen in a long time. Both will be mid-table fodder at best.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

We'll be up the business end, comfortable 1-0 win and should've been many more if Grabban didn't muck up two one on ones

#believeintheneyul

[Fernando]

Id be surprised if you make the play offs.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Well you're gonna be surprised then.

Didn't play well today really, still comfortable winners. Good signs

[Fernando]

No im really not. I will bet you £10 that you do not make it. Apart from Grabban not a lot to your side once Redmond leaves in the next 9 days   

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Nodge will be top 6

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

I'll take that bet on, I'd bet on Redmond not leaving too cos he's not.

Gleefully ignoring Wessi there, we've still got howson/Hooper/Olsson to come back in as well. I'm very confident we'll be up there, whether we go up is a different question. I certainly don't think there's six better teams

[GSC]

Welp

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

The forest choke will be even more epic this year

[GSC]

I'll bow to your superior knowledge on choking.

[Duty281]

Fulham in early trouble.

Will they hit financial oblivion if they sink to League One?

[GSC]

Wolves didn't. Kahns loaded enough to them to survive but they need to hire someone like Jackett who knows who to get out this division

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

No im really not. I will bet you £10 that you do not make it. Apart from Grabban not a lot to your side once Redmond leaves in the next 9 days   

To further this, I like Redmond and I think he has huge potential, but the fact is at the moment he contributes bugger all in the danger area of the pitch. He's still in the phase as a youngster where he's making all the wrong choices and losing composure. It'll come, but if he were to leave, we wouldn't be losing much in terms of goals etc (all a moot point cos he will stay)

As for our squad, I think we could field two genuinely decent sides

Ruddy
Martin--Turner-Bennett--Olsson
--------------Tettey--Howson-----------
Redmond--------Wessi------Lafferty
---------------------Grabban----------------

Rudd/Bunn
Whittaker---Cuellar---Gafaiti-----Garrido
--------------------Johnson--O'Neill-------------
E Bennett----------------------------------Josh Murphy (youngster who is just as good as Redmond)
---_-----------------Hooper--Jerome-----------------

A CB away from two championship sides that'd do well. Not even got ousted guys like Bassong/Becchio/Surman in there either. I'm really really chuffed with the squad barring a defender (I think we'll loan a youngster, rumours of Ake/Flanagan).

[Ent]

So fulham to get relegated?

[NickisBHAFC]

When are Bolton going to sack that little palace scum t*at. Bolton looked awful today, a shame to see a club that used to be decent in a laughable state.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Leeds have sacked Hockaday

What a Frak joke of a club they are

[GSC]

Owners a joke

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Not a clue what he's doing, not one

[NickisBHAFC]

Feel sorry for the bloke, never should of been given the job in the first place. Out of his dept from the start, i can see them getting through a few managers this season and hopefully it results in them ending up in league one.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

We were properly rubbish today, but then I can't really moan 10 points from 5 games is a good start and we're nowhere near reaching our potential.

Grabban is a beast

[NickisBHAFC]

Posh Spice is a slapper, she loves the taste of spunk
and when she's shaggin David Beckham, SHE THINKS OF LEWIS DUNK!

O Lewis Dunk, Lewis Lewis Lewis Lewis Dunk

[GSC]

Very good win. Wednesday a tough side to play against, they're just missing someone who has a bit of guile.

[NickisBHAFC]

Fulham looked a lot better then. International break come at an awful time for them.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Ah Clem was at carrow road today that explains the crapness of the performance. Swear the man never sees a home win

[GSC]

That game looked amazing

[NickisBHAFC]

How the Frak didn't Wednesday score. Class win for Forest. There league to screw up now.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Yeah I didn't mind having to leave early to get to work for once

If Bournemouth and Howe had balls we were there for the taking today

[NickisBHAFC]

Tell you what, i really think Bolton might go down this season ...

[GSC]

Its nobodys league in August Nick, save the hyperbole.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Rather bizarrely the Watford manager has resigned

[NickisBHAFC]

Got a family member who has a close link at Watford, been on the wall for a quite a while now.

Garcia favorite to take over. He should hold out for a Spainish job.

[NickisBHAFC]

Oscar Garcia takes over at Watford. Whilst on paper the Hornets have a great team, there whole football club is pretty poor tbh, the infrastructure is nothing on Brighton, and i think Mr Garcia will learn that quickly. 

Really hope he does well though, top bloke, and im sure they will make the play offs this season, maybe more.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Cos we know its really the showers on the training ground that make a great football team

[Crimey]

Cos we know its really the showers on the training ground that make a great football team

Of course facilities play a big role in the success of a football team...

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

They play a really rather tiny role on the success of a football team

Brighton got easily best facilities in the champ, will do well to finish top half

[Crimey]

They play a really rather tiny role on the success of a football team

Brighton got easily best facilities in the champ, will do well to finish top half

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Think in a time in football where there is ever decreasing margins between teams, any advantage you can get is very important.

[GSC]

You'll find a greater margin in better players

[Crimey]

You'll find a greater margin in better players

Of course. But the quality of facilities is very important, hence why clubs will spend millions on them.

[GSC]

The top teams where the margin gained is a lot cheaper than the equivalent player.

Not in the Championship. Mancienne for 500k>>>>>>>>>>>facility improvement

[NickisBHAFC]

Olly my point was obviously Brighton have a brighter future than Watford, think every football fan will agree and my close links who are involved with Watford very much agree. We have class A category one academy, do Watford obviously not. No need to mention our facilities are better than there's anyway. But yes on short term they have a much much better team than ours!

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Epic lolz

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

"Hey look our training ground has undersoil heating yours doesn't"

"What do you mean it doesn't matter if you've got Chris O'Grady training on it"

[NickisBHAFC]

To quote Rubious Hagrid "never insult o Grady infront of me"

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Good start Nodge

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Bradley Johnson ffs

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

CMON CITY

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

YELLOWS YELLOWS YELLOWS

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

YELLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Have my babies Michael turner you legend

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