Show Me The Money!

Just watched NP’s post match interview and noticed, as I’m the last few games as well, that he’s coming across a lot more like it’s his team playing. Last season and the beginning of this he seemed to speak as if he were commenting on somebody else’s club. You do sense that he feels that they are now ‘on the bus!’ and he’s more positive about things. Even if the results aren’t always going our way

Missing the purpose of the Lampard hate. He did ok at Derby in his first job and did well at Chelsea considering he lost Hazard and had to deal with a transfer embargo and bring through lots of youth players which are now in Tuchel’s team. As for the comment about Tuchel winning the champions league, FL was manager for a good part of that tournament. Everton are my second team and with the options available he’s probably the best available. I’m surprised anybody would want the job right now though. Complete car crash of an owner.

I don’t think it’s a case of whether we are at risk of going down or not. It’s about trying to improve the team in all aspects of play and building momentum. Moore is done here so no point bringing him back as he wouldn’t improve us. Hopefully Klose will help improve our ability to defend from crosses and set pieces and so help improve our chances of winning games and so building momentum which you carry through into next season. You feel with the way that the team is progressing at the moment that the squad is very bought into improving and building into next season and the one after. “On the bus” as Nige calls it.

Sounds like another good learning experience for the young guys. Dominate possession but then making that count and also keeping it going so that you don’t let the opposition get a foothold back into the game

Crinkle ones anyway

Sounds bonkers. They are on a great run of form

Love those black and white panelled footballs

I’m of the opinion that I don’t really care where we end up finishing this season and to a degree even next season. It’s all about improving performances game after game after game. What I’ve liked so far this season is that feeling of a young team wanting to get better and starting to learn from the mistakes made as the season has gone on and also getting more and more experience of playing in the championship, what it takes to win games or not lose games. Nobody can argue I don’t think that the players aren’t learning and getting better and better. So I just want to see our young players continuing to learn this season. Experience more ups and downs that will stand them in good stead for next season.

Steve Torpey ….. just kidding. Colin Cramb for me too

What happens though if Ipswich decide at the end of the season they don’t want him? Do we run the risk of having a player on the payroll who will never play for us again and struggle to get rid of elsewhere

Phillips, Dyche, Hutchings, Styvar and Savage The Harlem globetrotters of 5-a-side

The European super league will likely be inevitable and although you want to keep the best English teams in the English league then leaving could breath life into all the clubs that remain to create a fairer and more competitive football competition. Capping wages will likely result in a player strike arguing that they put bums on seats and so should get a fair slice of the TV money

The only way for a level playing field is to spread the TV money to all 92 clubs. Removing PP will just result in an even less competitive premier league with teams not being able to compete with the long established prem teams. Penalising clubs getting relegated with points deduction again will just result in clubs who know they will be battling relegation not being able to compete with the established teams ( They struggle to compete as it is as most teams that go up know they have to protect themselves if they go back down again which is more likely than not and so not overspend). Even if you spread the money evenly to all the 92 the top prem teams will still have a financial advantage due to the greater revenues they generate which is fair enough. The prem teams will lose there competitiveness in the champions league though. Or, the other option which nobody seemed to like was to let the top prem teams F off and setup a NFL type franchise European super league with no relegation and the rest of the prem and football league clubs carry on with out them but with a level playing field of TV money to all clubs. The quality of the football would likely suffer as all the top players would be in this super league but least it gives all those teams something to play for. To become English champions

I think Swansea should get rid myself look elsewhere. Cough! Palmer! Cough! ?

Much as I would love Moyes at Everton (or City for that matter) I don’t think he’d leave West Ham. He’s built a good squad there and West Ham themselves have become a bigger club now they have the Olympic stadium (however dodgy the deal was to them getting it on the cheap). And Gold & Sullivan have probably learnt from the last time they got rid of Moyes that he’s a bloody good manager and coach.

Everton are the prem version of us in the way they’ve spent quite a lot of cash on crap players and have an owner who thinks he knows more than he actually does about football. I mean for example there are rumours that the board are considering getting in a manager (Martinez) that has already been sacked once before. Everton are my second team ( Not getting into whether second teams are allowed ) and based on the state of the club at the moment whoever comes in is going to have there work cut out. Personally I’d be ok with Rooney, Lampard or giving it to Ferguson till the end of the season

They are the prem version of us. Spent an absolute fortune on bang average players

I can see why some might think this a good idea but then what happens why the so called millionaire/billionaire decides they’ve had enough and the club goes bust. Nobody really wants that. So you could stop clubs getting so a PP but then that gives those teams going up to the prem even less chance to compete through fear of going down to the champ again with players they can’t afford. The only fair way to deal with this is for the prem TV money to be distributed equally to all 92 clubs. The bigger clubs would still have an advantage through the turnover they would still get over smaller clubs but it gives the smaller clubs a better chance and the more medium clubs a chance to build themselves up to be able to become bigger clubs themselves. The downside to that even is that english clubs wouldn’t be able to compete for the top players with other big european clubs who’d be able to pay the crazy wages. Would that be such a bad thing though?

But it isn’t fair! Well done so far to Blackburn and Coventry but it’s a fact that having parachute payments gives those teams a far bigger advantage in this league. Not all teams make the most of that advantage, granted, but it’s a big advantage none the less. Only way to level it up is to split the TV money to all 92 clubs which will never happen. Grates me even more with Fulham as with Everton being my second team I know how shit a manager Silva is.

Last I checked we were playing Fulham

I’m not actually angry about the performance or any of the players or management. Games like this just make me really angry about prem parachute payments and so called FFP!

Back to 14-1 to win on SkyBet

So a step up from Taylor Moore then ?

We’ve been missing a trick then. We should be getting you on the coaching staff as your a qualified coach and knows everything an excellent coach should be. Anyone got Nige’s number? Up the league we go we are now saved