The English Football Thread

~~Cuthbert~~ · 05-05-2018, 01:54 PM

Ferguson

Hope he gets well soon.

Invited him and the team to my birthday party in about 1998 and the club sent a load of stuff and also got a letter from the great man which I've still got.

Fergie

**Goofle** · 05-05-2018, 06:39 PM

Best manager of all time.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 05-06-2018, 10:27 AM

Probably yeah.

Only now he's gone do you understand how difficult it is to sustain success at one club.

His ability to adapt was his biggest strength I think.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-08-2018, 10:59 AM

savage savic to the red devils

you heard it here first

Trollheart · 05-08-2018, 02:46 PM

Yo Monkey! Are we back or what?

~~Cuthbert~~ · 05-08-2018, 03:08 PM

Play offs.

Semis vs Middlesbrough.

There is a chance.

Trollheart · 05-08-2018, 05:05 PM

~~Cuthbert~~ · 05-09-2018, 11:28 AM

I don't actually think we'll go up tbh. For a while I've had terrible images in my head of us losing in the final. That would be so much worse than last season, likely disastrous as we would have to sell Kodjia, Jack, Adomah and whoever else will bring in some money. We will lose most of our loan players (about half the first team) so will need to replace them while keeping within FFP rules. In other words we will be in this league for a long time.

Please everybody pray for Villa. It is really 'make or break' for us now.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-09-2018, 02:02 PM

promoted + a couple nice loan signings imo

probably lower mid table finish in the prem (15th to be exact) with a fairly early knockout in the FA cup but a decent run in the league cup that keeps having it’s name changed to something stupid.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 05-09-2018, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

promoted + a couple nice loan signings imo

probably lower mid table finish in the prem (15th to be exact) with a fairly early knockout in the FA cup but a decent run in the league cup that keeps having it’s name changed to something stupid.

I want our managers to go for the League Cup. The ultimate would be the FA Cup as we will probably never win the league again. Europa League would be great but O'Neill blew our best chance of that and we've been in decline ever since with no chance of competing for it.

There is no reason we can't win 2-3 cups over the next five years and make our trophy count look a bit better though. We have made finals and semi finals with our worst teams in decades so I'm not deluded to think we could win a cup or two.

I just want a ****ing trophy!!

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~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Ferguson Hope he gets well soon. Invited him and the team to my birthday party in about 1998 and the club sent a load of stuff and also got a letter from the great man which I've still got. Fergie

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~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Probably yeah. Only now he's gone do you understand how difficult it is to sustain success at one club. His ability to adapt was his biggest strength I think.

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~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Play offs. Semis vs Middlesbrough. There is a chance.

05-09-2018, 11:28 AM	#6968 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	I don't actually think we'll go up tbh. For a while I've had terrible images in my head of us losing in the final. That would be so much worse than last season, likely disastrous as we would have to sell Kodjia, Jack, Adomah and whoever else will bring in some money. We will lose most of our loan players (about half the first team) so will need to replace them while keeping within FFP rules. In other words we will be in this league for a long time. Please everybody pray for Villa. It is really 'make or break' for us now.