thefuriousb Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 I can come out of my cellar whenever I want though - you are permanently trapped inside that dull confined prison you call your mind. Hey kid, here's for your benefit: Premiership used to be Division 1 Championship used to be Division 2 Division 1 used to be Division 3 I would have thought the fact that there is no division named "Division 3" now would have helped you to work it out.. HTH. No need to thank me.. Hey thrush! You are quite right for once.... there is no need to thank you as your original statement is still wrong. If we are relegated, as you wish (you want to be proved right after all), then we will be in League 1 - the old division 3. Exeter are currently in League 2, which is the old Division 4! So when is 3 and 4 the same thing? as I said, not part of the brain drain then?!?! Its not me that still does not get it does it, huh?! Perhaps you would like to acknowledge you are wrong ...again. Don't apply to get on "Are you smarter than a 10 year old?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurosaint Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 A few facts to wake up to this morning : We are currently 3rd from bottom. If we lose by more than 1 goal today we go 2nd bottom. A big win (unlikely) will take us to 15th. Personally I'd like to wait until after we play Ipswich and Barnsley at home before re-assessing our potential ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 A few facts to wake up to this morning : We are currently 3rd from bottom. If we lose by more than 1 goal today we go 2nd bottom. A big win (unlikely) will take us to 15th. Personally I'd like to wait until after we play Ipswich and Barnsley at home before re-assessing our potential ! agree, shows how silly league table is at this stage -particularly CCC, we can be anything from second to bottom -to within point and more or less same goal difference -to a play off position Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 agree, shows how silly league table is at this stage -particularly CCC, we can be anything from second to bottom -to within point and more or less same goal difference -to a play off position Yep. I note with interest that Man Utd are only 13th and a point away from a relegation place. Ferguson is past it, Glazers out! Tottenham and Everton occupy the bottom two spots. And of course both those clubs are MASSIVE clubs who never sell their stars and have managed to attract LOADS of star names during the close season. Oh and Hull City are dead set on course for a Champions League place next season, sitting comfortably in 4th place, nobody can cope with their stunning tactical masterstroke of turning up wearing moustaches and making everyone lol at them.... When is Phil Brown going to replace Fergie?? Good grief peeps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 one way CCC is better than premiership - any team that wins four games -and nearly anyone could -suddenly is promotion candidates, and the opposite with four defeats. The premiership - most of us could guess nearly ever clubs final position to within a couple of places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 agree, shows how silly league table is at this stage -particularly CCC, we can be anything from second to bottom -to within point and more or less same goal difference -to a play off position Keep taking the pills... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 Hey thrush! You are quite right for once.... there is no need to thank you as your original statement is still wrong. If we are relegated, as you wish (you want to be proved right after all), then we will be in League 1 - the old division 3. Exeter are currently in League 2, which is the old Division 4! So when is 3 and 4 the same thing? as I said, not part of the brain drain then?!?! Its not me that still does not get it does it, huh?! Perhaps you would like to acknowledge you are wrong ...again. Don't apply to get on "Are you smarter than a 10 year old?" Having finally learnt where Division 3 is, after having it explained in single-syllable words without joined-up writing, you managed to make the tiny step to discovering a single mistake in my post. I salute you, sir.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewell Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 We like to give the rest a head start to make it more of a competition? Nah thought not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madruss Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 one way CCC is better than premiership - any team that wins four games -and nearly anyone could -suddenly is promotion candidates, and the opposite with four defeats. The premiership - most of us could guess nearly ever clubs final position to within a couple of places. Keep taking the pills... I bet Hull are glad they didn't have someone like you in charge last season. With a third of the season gone, you'd have given up all hope and tried to convince all around you that relegation was a near certainty (especially given that the team was languishing below no-good-drunken-Burley's team in the table). The time to lose hope in the championship is when your objective is mathematically impossible... not 4 games in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 Keep taking the pills... struggle with numbers as well? play off teams have 7 points. we have 3. 3 for a win if we win, and notice I didn't predict it just showed the range from defeat to victory, we will have 6 points. That is 1 point off play off position. So I was right, hope you understand now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefuriousb Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 Having finally learnt where Division 3 is, after having it explained in single-syllable words without joined-up writing, you managed to make the tiny step to discovering a single mistake in my post. I salute you, sir.... You only had to explain it as a result of the mistake in the first place!! When I first queried it with you, you became surly and intimidating. Typical behaviour of a school-yard bully. Clearly you emigrated as part of the braun drain. Obviously, being stood up to by a "snotty teenager" rankles with the school bully in you. I guess all that time in the ceelar would leave you with psychological scars and issues. Next time you wish to flex your muscles, just crack one off, eh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 The thing is, a team can be lucky with a number of reasons, and get off to a good start to the season. I'm sure everyone remembers Portsmouth's start, the first season they were in the Premiership, and they went to the top. But they were very quickly found wanting. Saints never seem to get a good start [i'm talking Premiership years and upto now] because the playing squads have never been good enough. I believe Saints managers, even the poorer ones, to be amongst the hardest working, because they've had to raise the game of some pretty ordinary players, over the years. We might have our favourites and heroes but, with obvious exceptions, they've been at or below, average. Hence a continual struggle in the lower regions of divisions, a tendancy towards inconsistency, because average players can't play 110% every week, and a small club mentality. Yes, you might get a manager like WGS to weld together a set of players under his tenure, but they were the best squad Saints had had in years, and how many of them were exceptional..? Their real strength was that they were probably the fittest players in the League. And Alan Ball did extraordinarily well with little money, and one single [two for a short while - Le Tiss & Ekelund] player who could make a difference, while his journeymen ran their socks off. There's an answer to all this. You get a better manager [Poortvliet may well be one], better players [the present crop might become good enough if they stay], more money and ambition than the rest of the clubs around you, and consistently play better football than anyone else; and you have to have all this in place at the same time - then you just might start a season successfully, and go on to actually achieve something. To do less and get anywhere is to fluke it or massively overachieve and get found out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 You only had to explain it as a result of the mistake in the first place!! When I first queried it with you, you became surly and intimidating. Typical behaviour of a school-yard bully. Clearly you emigrated as part of the braun drain. Obviously, being stood up to by a "snotty teenager" rankles with the school bully in you. I guess all that time in the ceelar would leave you with psychological scars and issues. Next time you wish to flex your muscles, just crack one off, eh! Why the f**k should I take time out to explain anything politely to you after your "cellar" comment ? You started the abuse - dont give it all this whiter-than-white shiite now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 14 September, 2008 Share Posted 14 September, 2008 I'm not going to try asking people not to abuse other members or contributors, or try to keep to the subject matter. I'm just closing the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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