Tangerine Dreaming - Blackpool take the lead and other stuff

Rikand

If the season ended right now, these are the 4 teams who would represent the premiership in the champions league.


1 Blackpool 1 3 3
2 Aston Villa 1 2 3
3 Wolves 1 2 3
4 Blackburn 1 1 3

Be hard pressed to find better!

M5

Fair play Blackpool. As a newcastle fan i ca tell you Blackpool can play. They play football properly. I think the size of the squad may be a problem but im sure ye will shock many sides who think it will be a walkover playing ye

mike65

Looks good to me! Its about time Barca played at Molineux

Oat23

Wigan goal ruled out.

Bad decision, was onside.

Raskolnikov

Perfectly good Wigan goal disallowed.

flahavaj

They'll still finish bottom tbh.

eagle eye

Raskolnikov wrote: »

You're clearly not watching this.

Alcaraz has had the worst Premier League debut I've ever seen.
Figueroa has been completely destroyed by a cart horse (Taylor Fletcher).
McCarthy has ALOT to prove and wouldn't be on your list but for the fact he's Irish.
Moses hasn't done a thing.
Rodallega I'll give you. He's clearly a good player, but getting service whatsoever.

Imo its down to preparation and formation. I honestly don't understand how Martinez kept his job last year. He took over a team that finished 11th the season before, ok they lost Valencia and Heskey but they brought in N'Zogbia and Rodellega among others and got worse, there is no excuse for that.

I'm not surprised at all with whats going on today.

Raskolnikov

Wigan have started tentatively here.

Have 20/1 on Blackpool not winning the game.

Raskolnikov

Stam has made a huge difference for Wigan since coming on. Boselli still crap though.

mike65

2-1

Stoke get one back, Faye

Washington Irving

Sunderland 2-0 Birmingham. Carr OG

nkay1985

mike65 wrote: »

2-1

Stoke get one back, Faye

Faye you beauty. Starting my fantasy football off in style! Pity about conceding the two goals though.

Raskolnikov

Blackpool sitting back now.

Cypher_sounds

great goal from milner, that add another million on his price tag:pac:

Raskolnikov

Linesmen should be sacked in the Blackpool game, every fckin' decision has been wrong.

Oat23

3-0 in the Villa game. Means Blackpool wont be top if it stays like this.

Disappointing

Raskolnikov

Wigan take off a striker for a midfielder when they're 3-0 down.

Martinez is a clown.

mike65

4-0 thats that.

I won't even try to guess the odds on -3 for Blackpool

Raskolnikov

4-0

Washington Irving

4-0 Pool!

Oat23

Fantastic stuff!

Raskolnikov

How did Kirkland not save that?

everdead.ie

Going to the Spurs V Wigan match on 28th by the sounds of things I'll be in for a good game

Washington Irving

Sunderland 2 - 1 Birmingham. Birmingham back in it

Raskolnikov

Off the line, nearly 5-0.

Washington Irving

Sunderland 2-2 Birmingham.

everdead.ie

Who scored for Birmingham?

Washington Irving

everdead.ie wrote: »

Who scored for Birmingham?

Liam Ridgewell

Raskolnikov

All over, Blackpool go top.

Diabhal Beag

Only 37 more points to go for Blackpool

eagle eye

Great start to the season for Blackburn. Our first couple of games looked really tough and to get a win over Everton is a super start to the season. It really takes the pressure off the lads early.

Raskolnikov

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Only 37 more points to go for Blackpool

35 points has been enough for survival in the last few years.

ntlbell

looking like a good start for ipswich 1-0 norris

ntlbell

jinxy fecker ntl 1-1

GLaDOS

ntlbell wrote: »

jinxy fecker ntl 1-1

That's what ya get for droppin Super Keeper

Aidric

Raskolnikov wrote: »

All over, Blackpool go top.

They should enjoy it. Will never see it again this season.

ntlbell

ScienceNerd wrote: »

That's what ya get for droppin Super Keeper

Considering all the pre-season write up's have stated murph's been having mom performances seems a bit odd?

mink_man

Aidric wrote: »

They should enjoy it. Will never see it again this season.

never see another win ya mean? :rolleyes:

dreamers75

A lot of empty seats on the 1st day, odd that.

OPENROAD

dreamers75 wrote: »

A lot of empty seats on the 1st day, odd that.

People on holidays.

JPA

OPENROAD wrote: »

People on holidays.

Permanent holidays.

mike65

Wigan were lucky to get 10,000 at some games last season, no doubt the recession will hit many casuals who will happily pay out for Sky all year.

Daemos

bohsman

Why is there a spoiler in the title?

grenache

ha ha! I'm fcuking delighted for Blackpool, they know only one way to play and that is attack attack attack. Yes this is only one result against a poor Wigan side but there is more to come. Sure they may get the odd thumping here and there but like i said in May they are a quality team who have a great chance of staying up.

FAO Xavi 6

Do you still think they'll be the "whipping boys" of the Premier League?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showthread.php?t=2055918317&page=9

Xavi6

Yes I do.

DB10

OPENROAD wrote: »

People on holidays.

That certainly isn't the reason.

Wigan is half full all the time.

ctrl-alt-delete

DB10 wrote: »

That certainly isn't the reason.

Wigan is half full all the time.

From last years list the average attendance of the season expressed as a percentage of Capacity gives the following results:

1st Arsenal - 99.2%
2nd Spurs - 98.57%
3rd Man Utd - 98.56%
4th Chelsea - 98.49%
5th Wolves - 96.80%
6th Hull - 96%
7th Stoke - 95.69%
8th West Ham - 95.41%
9th Man City - 95.3%
10th Liverpool - 94.1%
11th Fulham - 93%
12th Burnley - 91.6%
13th Everton - 91.4%
14th Portsmouth - 90.2%
15th Aston Villa - 90.1%
16th Birmingham -83.9%
17th Sunderland - 82.3%
18th Blackburn - 81%
19th Bolton - 76.1%
20th Wigan -71.6%

3 North West clubs at the bottom 3.

Frisbee

Xavi6 wrote: »

Yes I do.

As do I, infact I'm still fairly certain they'll come last. One good result against a woeful Wigan side doesn't make them any more likely to not be the whipping boys, as soon as they come up against a semi-decent side they'll be slaughtered.

aidan24326

Frisbee wrote: »

As do I, infact I'm still fairly certain they'll come last. One good result against a woeful Wigan side doesn't make them any more likely to not be the whipping boys, as soon as they come up against a semi-decent side they'll be slaughtered.

I think people are being a little unfair to Blackpool. The lack of depth in their squad could certainly be a big problem for them and there's no doubt they'll be relegation contenders. But you don't need to be good to stay up, you just need there to be 3 teams even worse than you, and there's plenty of other poor sides down there.

Wigan already look woeful, West Ham were rubbish yesterday aswell. And then you have Bolton, Wolves, West Brom and even Newcastle. All of them pretty average teams, so for me the relegation issue isn't as clearcut as some people seem to think.