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Eric Portapotty
Jamieandhisego
It makes sense, why would you charge yourself for something you want when you already own it?
Number 1
Jason
No its not.
If you are in affiliation with a club you are allowed to move players freely, its abit like the partnership we hat with Fervenercos in Hungary, our Chairman basically had a large stake in that club and also ours, they had just been relegated and instead of buying players to try and get back up, our chairman effectively sent 6-7 players (including, Billy Sharp, Liban Abdi etc) there with a buy back clause of £0 inserted in their contracts so we could get them back.
I don't see that as cheating as its in the rules, maybe if they stopped owners from buying more than one football club then it'd stop it, but until them its totally fine to do so.
It also helped Liban Abdi as he went over as a 19 year old, no where near our first team, he did pretty well and now he's playing in the Portuguese top league for Olhanense.
Also Watford will still have to pay the players wages.
gfnx25
Kinda like these random, foreign signing. They can turn out to be very good at times
Number 1
It's a random division at the best of times but this coming year seems almost comic in its "take your pick" nature.
Justicar
Not sure who the betting favourites are (Cba to look). My money is on Reading though (even though we beat them in a friendly
Championship Winners: Reading
Promoted:Leicester, Nottingham Forest (Playoffs)
League One Winners: Peterborough
Promoted: Sheff Utd, Bristol City (Playoffs)
League Two Winners: Portsmouth.
Promoted: Scunthorpe, Cheltenham
Those be my bets.
Shola
- Watford depending on how good their new crop of players are.
- I think Reading would be a good shout - Adkins seems pretty good and they'll retain pretty much the same squad that went up two seasons ago.
- Leicester and Forest should challenge. (Extremely surprised Pearson is still there)
- Brighton depending on how quickly their new coach settles.
- Wigan haven't lost too many and have made replacements, so should still have a good chance
- I rate Redknapp as a coach, but I reckon QPR still look a mess and I don't think his heart looks in it, can see him resigning or something by December.
But practically any team can get out of the division with a bit of luck, it's extremely hard to predict division. I wouldn't have though Hull, Palace or Watford would be anywhere near the top last year.
Number 1
I've seen people claim QPR as favourites but seeing as Redknapp has slagged off their squad again I can't imagine things going well there. Reading and Wigan look better shouts, though I'd imagine Watford, Bolton and Forest up there. I thought Pearson was a gonner after blowing automatic so how he's still at Leicester is quite baffling.
But yeah, it is a tricky division to predict. Hell, six more wins last season would've taken now-League One Wolves into the play-offs (17 points separated them in 23rd from 6th placed Leicester). So, who knows? Maybe Yeovil will get promoted again. That would be something.
Justicar
Not with their squad. Johnson will get them playing as a team. They don't have the quality that we had when Johnson got us up.
George14brfc
The bookies seem to be favouring QPR,Watford,Bolton and Reading to get promoted. With Yeovil,Doncaster and Barnsley being favourites to go down.
Jordan Rhodes is favourite to be top goalscorer as well with alot of betting sites hopefully he can deliver despite the so few chances we gave him last season he still scored nearly every one.
ianbaker
gfnx25
Will he pass the medical this time?
ianbaker
Fucking hope so!
Number 1
Would be hilarious if it happened. Plus the Championship is a crazy division so why not?
I accept it's incredibly unlikely though.
Jason
Quite shocked, i'd have Wolves down as league winners?
Justicar
There's something not quite right about Wolves at the moment.
Number 1
gfnx25
Shola
I reckon Wolves might be a late challenger, they'll struggle in mid-table and things might just click in February, and they'll have the potential to get one of the automatic spots.
Makes you realise how badly we're getting ripped of with our dive of a stadium which we pay £350k+ on per season if they can have one f the best grounds outside the Premiership for less than half that.
Shola
But seriously the Ricoh looks like the Harrenhall of football.
gfnx25
Jason
Apparantly.
Jason
I went there one Wednesday, finished 1-1..... carparking was an absolute joke, overpriced. No wonder the owners want to give it away at £12,500 a month, they make their money from parking alone, £15 for 2 hours 35minutes parking. There was only around 6,000 fans their too, 2 and half of them was Blades.
Ricoh is too big for Coventry.
Number 1
The only time it ever gets close to selling out is gigs - the venue record is for Coldplay, while Springsteen and Muse pulled more this summer than pretty much all individual CCFC home games.
terriersmad
Just if anyone knows, how was the ground originally funded? Was it 100% CCFC, or was there local council input?
Fantastic
Shola dropping A Song of Ice and Fire references in a football thread. Baller.
Number 1
I think I posted this ages ago, but I remember reading they needed help from the local council after they started building and ran into financial difficulties. I may also be right in saying that the council are part-owners of ACL.
You could probably write a whole book on this sorry mess, and with any luck it'll avoid the tragic ending it seems hurtling toward.