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Post by scriptman on Sept 2, 2008 16:43:47 GMT 1
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Post by animallittle on Sept 2, 2008 17:48:06 GMT 1
Aye and they are going to need it if city are to break into the top 4 ...i think the way things are going the likes of Barnsley and Rovers can forget ever competing in the Premiership ...we might get promoted but i dont think either of us would survive for more than the one season ...and its very sad to be honest ...because dreams are what makes football what it is and they are taking it away.
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Post by scriptman on Sept 2, 2008 18:36:59 GMT 1
I was going to say the same thing, but I don't think it only applies to the likes of us, I think the less fashionable Premier League teams are going to be a thing of the past. These billionaires aren't supporters like Jack Walker was, or Whelen and Gibson are. These are men who are looking for pet projects and will spend hundred of millions in order to see their little toys achieve success. It's no longer about football, tactics, and coaching skills. It's all about who has the most money. Man City could buy the entire Brazilian team and manager. A precident has been set now, and personally I think it spells the end of football as we know it.
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Post by hometownpride on Sept 2, 2008 22:51:37 GMT 1
Why do these multi billionaires bother buying just one football club? Why don't they just have done with it, and buy the entire flipping prem & English fl clubs? The fa & fl need to get their heads together and try to stop such great gulfs between teams in this country, but now i guess they cant after letting the Russian takeover at chelsea years ago. I guess footballs a business, but the financial gulf is seeing true football fans in this country settling for second best. I.E ccc not ccc not the prem.... prems plastic anyway ;D There should have been some sort of maximum transfer fee in place years ago so that way... the players could make their choice in which team they signed for, purely based on a clubs ambitions, true ambitions not just cash. If football fans cant imagine their side being top of the 1st tier, then whats the point in dreaming... unless we write the prem off, and see the ccc as the number 1 league in this country! I think sky need to promote the ccc more now and show less of the big four on sky, or should i say the big 5 now. I wish i could turn back the clock and stop Trevor Francis 1m deal that's when the rot started!
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Post by animallittle on Sept 2, 2008 23:11:54 GMT 1
The rot started with the formation of the premier league in 92 for me HTP,they wanted to create a league full of cash rich big guns and sod the likes of us. I actually think the best thing we can do is not look further up the chain,because to tell the truth i think the Premiership is boring and over-rated and be thankfull we are both part of a great league,thats interesting,competitive,high quality and the 4th biggest in Europe,stick the bloody Premiership up their A- - E for me.
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Post by foo on Sept 3, 2008 18:58:44 GMT 1
Forget the premiership...it has no meaning.
For me, top of the League is top of the Championship.
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Post by acido on Sept 4, 2008 16:08:30 GMT 1
Yes the Premship is ruining English football these days, compared to when it used to be the old First Division.
Thats not to say I dont want to see my team get back there again one day, and I dont think thats as impossible as it might sound. Colchester and Bristol City especially are two examples of these less fashionable clubs coming up and having a great first season in the Champship.
But as we've said often enough on these boards, this league is far far more exciting and unpredictable than the Prem. Its not a completely over rated league where you know who will be in the top two even before a ball is kicked. The English Prem has now become almost as bad as the Scottish PL.
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Post by scriptman on Sept 4, 2008 16:28:03 GMT 1
I can see the sentiments behind what everyone is saying, but are we only saying this because we're resigned to the fact we're never going to be as strong as the likes of Everton, Spurs, Villa etc? Being champions of Europe is the pinnacle of any team's achievement in this country. You can't get no further than that, and thereafter defending it becomes the challenge. In order to even compete in the Champions League, however, you need to be in the Premier League. I want Donny to compete at the very highest level. I've spent a lifetime feeling like this and the only reason I'm still here supporting them is because a small part of me still fantasises about us playing in the Premiership and Europe. There's a far bigger chance it won't happen in my lifetime....but that's football for you. We're as daft as we are loyal to the cause.
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Post by foo on Sept 4, 2008 19:03:27 GMT 1
Doesn't matter what league you're in...it's still the same feeling when the ball hits the back of that net.
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Post by acido on Sept 5, 2008 1:11:57 GMT 1
Donny and Barnsley might still play in Europe one day... theres a chance that they might bring back the much missed Anglo Italian Cup
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Post by scriptman on Sept 5, 2008 9:45:42 GMT 1
Can you remember the time when one of the old firm teams played one of our local teams in the Anglo-Scottish Cup. Literally Thousands of of Scots came down. It might have been Chesterfield v Rangers.
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Post by acido on Sept 5, 2008 17:29:35 GMT 1
I remember it was back in 92-93 when they brought back the Anglo-Italian joke. The season when it became the new Premier League and Division One etc. The attendances and atmosphere were terrible and not surprisingly the cup only lasted two or three seasons.
My biggest memory of going to one of those A-I Cup games was the build up to a game against Derby, the team we beat on Satdy. Two of our fans had died that weekend in a car accident and we held a minutes silence. Ive not been part of that sort of thing before and it was an unusual experience. Thousands of us stood around silently, and you could hear the birds singing in the distance. That stands out more than the game its self!
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