2015/16 Premier League & General Football Discussion

[Jimlaad43]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36301392
@Liquid has been on top of this WAAAAAY before you BBC

 

[Touring Mars]

Watching some of the celebrations in Leicester today - really brilliant scenes...

Claudio Ranieri must win this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year award... he truly embodies what a true 'Sports Personality' is - likeable, charming, humble and massively accomplished. Ranieri deserves the award for his remarkable achievement alone, but it would also be a nice way of making up for the mockery, derision and even ridicule he has suffered at the hands of the British press... what a way to turn the tables on every hack and armchair pundit in the nation!

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Congrats to Famine's Sheffield Wednesday on making it to the Championship play-off final 👍

Drew 1-1 with Brighton tonight and go through 1-3 on aggregate, most likely play Hull in the final as they are 3-0 up v Derby and that second leg is tomorrow night.

 

[Akmuq]

@Touring Mars isnt the sports personality for British people only? I don't think he's eligible, but he would be a very popular winner if he was eligible.

 

[adamp93]

@Touring Mars isnt the sports personality for British people only? I don't think he's eligible, but he would be a very popular winner if he was eligible.

There is an overseas award, but the main prize is for British people only.

I've been thinking, if the game at Old Trafford was a potential title decider, would they have postponed the other team's game as well? I feel if the title isn't settled before the final game the teams should always play simultaneously to avoid any potential nonsense.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Ranieri would only be eligible for Coach anyway, rather than the main award, but I can almost guarantee Jamie Vardy will be shortlisted for the main prize.

 

[Liquid]

Germany's most hated club will play in the top flight for the first time.

Austria's most hated club won their 7th Austrian Bundesliga in their 10 year history and their third in a row.

 

[Touring Mars]

The BBC SPOTY winner doesn't necessarily have to be British - just that they either live here or conduct (most of) their sport here. Sadly, though, I reckon Jimlaad43 is right insomuch as there is a separate award for 'Coach of the Year' and therefore Ranieri will probably not be up for the main award - but that is a real shame IMO.

 

[Liquid]

Sports Performer and Sports Personality should be two different awards. Boring people who do really well shouldn't be sports 'personality' of the year.

Just my two pence worth.

 

[Akmuq]

Sports Performer and Sports Personality should be two different awards. Boring people who do really well shouldn't be sports 'personality' of the year.

Just my two pence worth.

I've always had the same standpoint.

Unfortunately the biggest voice with that view last year was Tyson Fury, who is not someone I can get behind.

 

[Famine]

Congrats to Famine's Sheffield Wednesday on making it to the Championship play-off final 👍

Drew 1-1 with Brighton tonight and go through 1-3 on aggregate, most likely play Hull in the final as they are 3-0 up v Derby and that second leg is tomorrow night.

I could see that game ending up as literally any score. We could hump them 3-0, they could sponk us 5-0, anything in-between or much further out.

It's the richest single match in world sport and if we both turn up it should be an absolute cracker.

 

[Liquid]

It's the richest single match in world sport and if we both turn up it should be an absolute cracker.

And of all the teams to play in the final you get Hull Tigers City. The absolute yo-yo team of the 2010s from a town you love oh so dearly.

 

[ALO14]

I'd like to see Hull go up again. Plenty of former Spurs players in their squad.

 

[Dennisch]

It looks like that FC Twente will be relegated to the Jupiler League for all the financial mishaps that have been uncovered the last couple of months.

 

[Liquid]

It looks like that FC Twente will be relegated to the Jupiler League for all the financial mishaps that have been uncovered the last couple of months.

Really? What's happened?

One more post-season departure. He kept them up and walks away having done the job he was hired for.

18th May - Neil Warnock (Rotherham United, resigned) Championship

Sackings: 51
Resignations: 6
Expirations: 2
Approaches: 6
Kicks Upstairs: 1

Total: 66

 

[Dennisch]

The punishment has been applied.

Really? What's happened?

If I am understanding the case correctly, they had a third party mingle in their financial bits causing unfair financial advantage over the other teams. And that bubble burst when that news came out, they're now 32 million in the red, and most of their plans on how to get back on track were shot down, or handed in too late.

 

[Liquid]

32 mil in the red and relegated to the Dutch Jupiler? Ooh, that's gotta hurt.

 

[Dennisch]

32 mil in the red and relegated to the Dutch Jupiler? Ooh, that's gotta hurt.

Unless they can find a sugardaddy to keep the money flowing, a year in the sewer of Dutch football will most likely mean the end of the Tukkers.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Good win and performance last night, the opening goal was great, no surprise that OT wasn't full after Sunday, gutted that De Gea didn't get the most clean sheets after a fairly comical own goal from Smalling, on to Saturday.

Aston Villa chairman Steve Hollis in China for talks with a consortium there about the sale of the club, turs out the consortium are in talks of their own with Roberto Di Matteo's people about the managers job there.

John Teey has signed a one year deal at Chelsea.


And Finally, I never thought I would ever have one of my posts liked by Famine!

 

[m8h3r]

I'd prefer Sheffield Weds to make the jump. Better than another yo yo club like hull. They're not going to do much more than Sunderland or Newcastle would.

 

[Famine]

I'd prefer Sheffield Weds to make the jump. Better than another yo yo club like hull. They're not going to do much more than Sunderland or Newcastle would.

Observe where the "S" in "Wednesday" is.

If we lose the playoff final I won't be terribly disheartened by it - I wasn't expecting anything even close to playoffs this year and to be honest, Hull probably deserve it more for the season-long performance and are more likely to survive a season.

Nor would I be especially overjoyed if we win it - if we go up, you'll get terrible odds on us going down again and though the money would be nice we're pretty stable as a club now after the monstrous overspend to try to keep us in the Premier League last time out and the callous gutting of the team's special players by David the Dullard Pleat. I don't want us to be in the same hole again - we just survived and managed to get through a situation that would probably have seen us docked league points had it happened 2 years later.

I think the final will be an amazing game though. I wouldn't want to predict it, that's for sure.

 

[Akmuq]

I think one of the biggest problems with the money coming into the Premier League is it will really hurt the championship. The clubs who come down over the next few years will have so much more money than the teams that never make it up. I think it's going to result in more yoyo teams like Hull, Norwich and Burnley and we might see the end of the Swansea/Bournemouth stories.

I think not getting promoted could hurt both clubs, although Hull do already have a decent amount of money...

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Are you going to the final @Famine ??, its a great day out if you win!, went to see Swansea in the Play-off final in 2010 which saw us get promoted to the Premier League, everything about that day was fantastic, also went to see us win the League Cup in 2012 beating Bradford 5-0, another great day out, if a lot colder!

 

[Famine]

Are you going to the final @Famine ??, its a great day out if you win!

I'm a little tempted, but then I can't sustain the veneer of aloofness if I take the trouble to go and we lose

Really? What's happened?

One more post-season departure. He kept them up and walks away having done the job he was hired for.

18th May - Neil Warnock (Rotherham United, resigned) Championship

Sackings: 51
Resignations: 6
Expirations: 2
Approaches: 6
Kicks Upstairs: 1

Total: 66

Two more.

Blackpool and Neil McDonald 'part ways'.
Northampton to appoint Port Vale's Rob Page.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Well we went 3-0 up at half time in our final but then Reading scored twice in the first 10 mins of the second half, then they hit the bar twice and had a good penalty shout turned down so us Swans fans were crapping ourselves for a while but then we got a penalty and scored it with about 15 mins to go and that was it.

A few of us went on a minibus and the atmosphere was brilliant on the way back, when we got to the tolls for the Severn Bridge there were other buses and coaches there full of fellow fans just blasting their horns and singing Swansea songs, the other people theremust have wondered what the hell was going on!

 

[Liquid]

Two more.

Blackpool and Neil McDonald 'part ways'.
Northampton to appoint Port Vale's Rob Page.

Duly noted. Any post season departures will be added to this season's list. Should I be the one to start next season's thread, it'll be after the final play-off has been decided and all departures will then count as pre-season for 2016/17.

18th May - Neil MacDonald (Blackpool, resigned) League One
19th May - Rob Page (Port Vale, moves to Northampton Town) League One

Sackings: 51
Resignations: 7
Expirations: 2
Approaches: 7
Kicks Upstairs: 1

Total: 67

For anyone who doesn't check the OP, it does get updated. Here's that manager watch list so far:

Spoiler

MANAGER WATCH

9th May - Lee Clark (Blackpool, resigned) League One
12th May - Paul Cook (Chesterfield, moves to Portsmouth) League One
24th May - Sam Allerdyce (West Ham United, contract expiration) Premier League
25th May - Steve McClaren (Derby County, sacked) Championship
25th May - Nigel Clough (Sheffield United, sacked) League One
28th May - John Sheridan (Plymouth Argyle, sacked) League Two

5th June - Slaviša Jokanović (Watford, contract expiration) Premier League
11th June - Stuart Gray (Sheffield Wednesday, sacked) Championship
30th June - Nigel Pearson (Leicester City, sacked) Premier League

6th September - Dave Robertson (Peterborough United, sacked) League One
8th September - Paul Dickov (Doncaster Rovers, sacked) League One
12th September - Darren Kelly (Oldham Athletic, sacked) League One
28th September - Marinus Dijkhuizen (Brentford, sacked) Championship
28th September - Steve Evans (Rotherham United, resigned) Championship
30th September - Graham Alexander (Fleetwood Town, sacked) League One

1st October - Terry Butcher (Newport County, sacked) League Two
3rd October - Dick Advocaat (Sunderland, resigned) Premier League
4th October - Brendan Rodgers (Liverpool, sacked) Premier League
17th October - Mark Cooper (Swindon Town, sacked) League One
19th October - Uwe Rösler (Leeds United, sacked) Championship
25th October - Tim Sherwood (Aston Villa, sacked) Premier League
25th October - Guy Luzon (Charlton Athletic, sacked) Championship
26th October - Russ Wilcox (York City, sacked) League Two

2nd November - Richard Money (Cambridge United, sacked) League Two
4th November - Chris Powell (Huddersfield Town, sacked) Championship
4th November - Chris Ramsey (Queen's Park Rangers, sacked) Championship
8th November - Kit Symons (Fulham, sacked) Championship
10th November - Gary Bowyer (Blackburn Rovers, sacked) Championship
26th November - Tony Humes (Colchester United, sacked) League One
28th November - Dean Saunders (Chesterfield, sacked) League One
30th November - Dean Smith (Walsall, moves to Brentford) League One

1st December - Paul Sturrock (Yeovil Town, sacked) League Two
4th December - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Burton Albion, leaves for Queen's Park Rangers) League One
4th December - Steve Clarke (Reading, sacked) Championship
9th December - Garry Monk (Swansea City, sacked) Premier League
17th December - John Still (Luton Town, sacked) League Two
17th December - Jose Mourinho (Chelsea, sacked) Premier League
21st December - Wayne Burnett (Dagenham & Redbridge, sacked) League Two
29th December - Martin Ling (Swindon Town, resigned) League One
29th December - Ricardo Moniz (Notts County, sacked) League Two

12th January - David Dunn (Oldham Athletic, sacked) League One
13th January - John Sheridan (Newport County, moves to Oldham Athletic) League Two
14th January - Steve Cotterill (Bristol City, sacked) Championship
18th January - Mark Robins (Scunthorpe United, sacked) League One
18th January - Ian Hendon (Leyton Orient, sacked) League Two

1st February - Teddy Sheringham (Stevenage, sacked) League Two
6th February - Lee Johnson (Barnsley, moves to Bristol City) League One
8th February - Neil Redfearn (Rotherham United, sacked) Championship
8th February - Paul Clement (Derby County, sacked) Championship
10th February - Ronnie Moore (Hartlepool United, sacked) League Two

7th March - Sean O'Driscoll (Walsall, sacked) League One
11th March - Steve McClaren (Newcastle United, sacked) Premier League
13th March - Dougie Freedman (Nottingham Forest, sacked) Championship
15th March - Neil Lennon (Bolton Wanderers, sacked) Championship
19th March - Jamie Fullarton (Notts County, sacked) League Two
29th March - Remi Garde (Aston Villa, sacked) Premier League

12th April - Kevin Nolan (Leyton Orient, sacked) League Two
23rd April - Graham Westley (Peterborough United, sacked) League One
25th April - Mark Yates (Crawley Town, sacked) League Two
26th April - Kevin Keen (Colchester United, sacked) League One

6th May - Russell Slade (Cardiff City, kicked upstairs) Championship
7th May - Jose Riga (Charlton Athletic, resigned) Championship
12th May - Roberto Martinez (Everton, sacked) Premier League
12th May - Nigel Adkins (Sheffield United, sacked) League One
12th May - Chris Wilder (Northampton Town, moves to Sheffield United) League Two
18th May - Neil Warnock (Rotherham United, resigned) Championship
18th May - Neil MacDonald (Blackpool, resigned) League One
19th May - Rob Page (Port Vale, moves to Northampton Town) League One

Sackings: 51
Resignations: 7
Expirations: 2
Approaches: 7
Kicks Upstairs: 1

Total: 67

Incredible. It would be even more incredible had I had the time to put in how long each manager was in their job. The average tenure is 18 months or fewer. Off the top of my head, 27 of those who were sacked were hired this season.

 

[Dennisch]

Aston Villa is now in Chinese hands. Tony Xia bought the club for 60 million pound.

 

[Liquid]

Two other stories:

La Liga clubs to be fined for showing empty seats on television - Ridiculous

Frankfurt captain fails a drugs test but finds out he has a tumour - Astonishing

Edit: And Richard Wright, former Ipswich and Arsenal keeper, has retired from playing at the age of 38 and a brilliant 0 appearances for Man City 2012-2016 and a cool £1.4 million gross earnt.

This was when he moved to Preston in pre-season 2012/13, then quit after a few days complaining of "homesickness" from his Suffolk base then moved to Man City two weeks later.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

BREAKING NEWS!


The Football League announce proposals to expand the professional game to five leagues from 2019/20 season, this is to reduce the number of mid-week game from the schedule.

20 teams in each league with promotion and relegation still to be determined, leagues may include National League (conference) teams and Premier League reserve/B teams.

interesting stuff....

 

[ASH32]

BREAKING NEWS!


The Football League announce proposals to expand the professional game to five leagues from 2019/20 season, this is to reduce the number of mid-week game from the schedule.

20 teams in each league with promotion and relegation still to be determined, leagues may include National League (conference) teams and Premier League reserve/B teams.

interesting stuff....

There is no way any of the smaller Football League teams will vote to have less home games, so less gate receipts and to potentially let in the Premier League B teams (likely the real reason to propose these changes) and lose fans to those teams too, not a chance.