SaintBobby Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 Classic. Saints 20th. Arsenal 6th. Swansea to get relegated. Man City certain to retain the title. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4493024/Premier-League-Terry-Venables-club-by-club-guide.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 Managed to get every single one wrong, some spectacularly. What a plonker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 The guys an idiot always has been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brmbrm Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 "Plonker", "Idiot". Both much more accurate than any of his "random guesses", err, sorry, "predictions" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 Reading 12th - Brian Mcdermott will have lots of money to spend if anything, it was just pure laziness in his predictions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 I'll refrain from commenting until I've seen what I said on the SaintsWeb season preview, which I think mentioned both Swansea and West Brom struggling under new managership. Tbf though, we all knew that was going to be wrong after a couple of games. At least I didn't continue that delusion all season like Lawrenson, whose predictions, done on a WEEKLY basis, if compiled into a league saw QPR top half and Swansea relegated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabrone Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 Will always remember Venables as the England manager when Matt was on fire and who never gave him a chance. He always struck me as having a pretty closed view of the world, you were either part of his 'in' crowd or not. Tragically for England Matt was not and the rest is history. Sounds like his disdain for this club lingers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 'He's a football manager so knows more than any nobber on some forum', so the argument goes. It's almost as if predictions aren't help by a complete lack of research or thought isn't it. It is of course cobblers - if anything a footballer manager (current) is in a worse place to make judgement because they have too much information at their disposal and too many biases and relationships with people still involved in the process, and it's easier to make overall judgements from a high level view. Of course there's a flip side, knowing how the likes of Steve Clarke is suited to management could be an advantage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 Will always remember Venables as the England manager when Matt was on fire and who never gave him a chance. He always struck me as having a pretty closed view of the world, you were either part of his 'in' crowd or not. Tragically for England Matt was not and the rest is history. Sounds like his disdain for this club lingers. Sounds like a criticism that can be aimed at all national managers, and nothing to do with Saints at all. It's easy to predict that a twice-promoted team isn't going to stay up - my favourites for relegation next season at the moment are the three promoted clubs for a start, and we don't even know who one of them is yet ! Along with Sunderland... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 Hmmm, a rank correlation coefficient of 0.675 is fairly bad really, especially if you discount both Manchester clubs as finishing 1 and 2 (that drops it to 0.556) and take into account that he supposedly knows what he is talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 Appalling. What an idiot. I thought it was clear United would win the title from the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This Charming Man Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 Imagine he just got paid for putting his name to it and someone from the paper made the predictions up. That's how these things normally work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dig Dig Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 To be fair, no one can predict league positions with the greatest accuracy before a season even starts. It's a pointless excercise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 I've had no respect for his judgement ever since he paid £1 to buy the Skates and didn't expect to have change from the transaction. But regarding his predictions for this past season, I expect that he'll be a bit reticent to step up to the plate predicting next season's placings, as he will come in for massive ridicule on how badly wrong he was here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 To be fair, no one can predict league positions with the greatest accuracy before a season even starts. It's a pointless excercise. Agreed. El Tel is a pointless dinosaur but have a look at any such pre-season prediction and there will likely be at least a major gaffe or two. Not worth getting in a huff about, I'd suggest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjsaint Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 I predicted a Swansea relegation, as did a lot of people on here. Obvious that he knew nothing about the newly promoted sides but that's normal for pre-season predictions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dig Dig Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 I've had no respect for his judgement ever since he paid £1 to buy the Skates and didn't expect to have change from the transaction. But regarding his predictions for this past season, I expect that he'll be a bit reticent to step up to the plate predicting next season's placings, as he will come in for massive ridicule on how badly wrong he was here. No he won't. I doubt he even remembers what he predicted in the most part and if he's still writing for the sun, he'll get the same gig again next season. Gaurenteed that there will have been hundreds of pundits, writers, bloggers etc doing these type of start of season predictions and very very few will have got close to the actual league table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 To be fair, no one can predict league positions with the greatest accuracy before a season even starts. It's a pointless excercise. Top 6 shouldn't have been too difficult, one of the bottom 3 at least was going to come from the promoted teams, as for the rest, well no-one guessing anyone from 9th-17th was far out and with the margins being only 5 points across half the league pretty much anything in that pile would be close. When it comes down to it, anyone who said WBA/Swansea/West Ham would do well, that Man U would win the title and that QPR and Wigan would go down has got all there was to predict. Unfortunately for me, West Brom and Swansea were the two I thought would struggle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted 20 May, 2013 Share Posted 20 May, 2013 One of the old school of managers and players who don't keep up with the modern game and like to spout off about little Southampton, or brave Swansea without ever getting off their lazy arses and watching some games. Bit like the current England manager, in fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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