Author Topic: Championship and Football League Thread 2012/2013 (Read 2271 times)

rafathegaffa83 · « **on:** July 14, 2012, 02:33:51 PM »

Championship

Clubs: Barnsley, Birmingham, Blackpool, Brighton, Bristol City, Burnley, Cardiff, Crystal Palace, Derby, Hull, Ipswich, Leeds, Leicester, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Notts Forest, Peterborough, Watford

Promoted from League One: Sheffield Wednesday, Charlton, Huddersfield
Relegated from Premier League: Wolves, Blackburn, Bolton

League One

Clubs: Bournemouth, Brentford, Bury, Carlisle, Colchester, Hartlepool, Leyton Orient, MK Dons, Notts County, Oldham, Preston North End, Scunthorpe, Sheffield United, Stevenage, Tranmere, Walsall, Yeovil

Promoted from League Two: Crewe, Shrewsbury, Swindon, Crawley
Relegated from Championship: Portsmouth, Coventry, Doncaster

League Two

Clubs: Accrington, AFC Wimbledon, Aldershot, Barnet, Bradford, Bristol Rovers, Burton Albion, Cheltenham, Dagenham and Redbridge, Gillingham, Morecambe, Northampton, Oxford United, Plymouth, Port Vale, Rotherham, Southend, Torquay

Promoted from Conference National: Fleetwood, York City
Relegated from League Two: Wycombe, Rochdale, Chesterfield, Exeter

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New managerial appointments in the Championship include Stale Solbakken (Wolves), Lee Clark (Birmingham), Steve Bruce (Hull) and Gianfranco Zola (Watford).

Nottingham Forest have been bought out by foreign owners and will be expected to make a promotion push, but the same could be said for Cardiff and Leicester, who have both changed owners in recent years, spent heavily and failed to get out of the Championship.

An interesting collection of former PL players have already signed to play for clubs in the Championship and lower leagues including Paddy Kenny (Leeds), Jonathan Woodgate (Middlesbrough), Wayne Bridge (Brighton on loan), Alan Smith (MK Dons), Chris Kirkland (Sheffield Wednesday), Tomasz Kuszczak (Brighton), Mido (Barnsley), Danny Murphy (Blackburn), Robbie Blake (Doncaster), Keith Andrews (Bolton), Peter Lovankrands (Birmingham)

Also Bruno Saltor (Brighton) and Nuno Gomes (Blackburn) have joined teams in the Championship

Drinks Sangria · « **Reply #1 on:** July 15, 2012, 01:33:23 AM »

Will watch Portsmouth with interest. Feel really sorry for them. They've only got around 10 players left and will start on -10 points. Disaster. No Goalkeeper and still got players like Nwanko Kanu on their books. (Who is still claiming to be 35). Deep trouble for a side that did pretty well in the Prem a few seasons back, including an FA Cup win. They've been irresopnsible, that's certain, but you have to feel for a very loyal and passionate group of fans.

rafathegaffa83 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 15, 2012, 03:54:16 AM »

Think Wolves might be interesting with Solbakken at the helm. Can see him being either brilliant or it all quickly ending in tears. They along with Bolton look the best equipped to be promoted at present, but I would suspect Wolves will lose more key players than Bolton (i.e. Fletcher and Jarvis). Won't be surprised if Bruce, who will be without a sizeable chequebook for the first time in a while, struggles with Hull. The likes of Leeds, Cardiff and Boro should all be within a shout for competing for promotion, while who knows what will happen with Forest. They had McLaren managing them last year until early October. Like Portsmouth before them, I think Blackburn will be mired in the Football League for some time.

BigMarcs · « **Reply #3 on:** July 18, 2012, 03:04:53 AM »

Watford are looking at Inzaghi and Del Piero. Probably something to do with having Zola as coach.

rafathegaffa83 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 18, 2012, 04:11:23 AM »

Quote from: BigMarcs on July 18, 2012, 03:04:53 AM

Watford are looking at Inzaghi and Del Piero. Probably something to do with having Zola as coach.

Interesting. I seem to recall Del Piero continually being linked with playing in the MLS with Montreal. If anything it will probably help their attendance.

rafathegaffa83 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 29, 2012, 03:46:46 PM »

Been quite a few interesting transfers in the Championship of late. Nathaniel Clyne has left Crystal Palace to join Southampton, while Leeds' Robert Snodgrass has finally moved to a PL club (Norwich). Ex Liverpool players Paul Anderson (Bristol City) and Zak Whitbread (Leicester) have both joined new clubs on free. Nottingham Forest have signed Danny Collins from Stoke and Guedioura from Wolves.

Championship actually kicks off the same time as the PL this year.

Opening weekend fixtures

17/08/12

Cardiff vs Huddersfield

18/08/12

Leeds vs Wolves
Barnsley vs Middlesbrough
Birmingham vs Charlton
Burnley vs Bolton
Crystal Palace vs Watford
Derby vs Sheff Wed
Hull vs Brighton
Ipswich vs Blackburn
Leicester vs Peterborough
Millwall vs Blackpool
Nottingham Forest v Bristol

Outer Mongolian Red · « **Reply #6 on:** July 30, 2012, 05:03:49 AM »

Looking forward to the opening game to see how the Cardiff City fans react to their team playing in their new red kit.

sinnermichael · « **Reply #7 on:** August 11, 2012, 12:40:31 PM »

league cup on a saturday? bizarre.

isildurrr · « **Reply #8 on:** August 11, 2012, 12:54:38 PM »

Leeds are screwed I presume

RuncornRed25 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 11, 2012, 01:05:44 PM »

Quote from: stmichael on August 11, 2012, 12:40:31 PM

league cup on a saturday? bizarre.

Apparently teams could request to play it today if they requested it, so they had the choice of this weekend or midweek

RuncornRed25 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 11, 2012, 05:11:24 PM »

El Hadji Diouf has signed for Leeds United on a non contract basis, wasn't it only a few years ago Warnock was calling him a sewer rat?

rafathegaffa83 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 11, 2012, 05:32:08 PM »

Quote from: RuncornRed25 on August 11, 2012, 05:11:24 PM

El Hadji Diouf has signed for Leeds United on a non contract basis, wasn't it only a few years ago Warnock was calling him a sewer rat?

Six different clubs in the past eight years says it all really.

sinnermichael · « **Reply #12 on:** August 17, 2012, 07:45:21 PM »

bellamy starting for cardiff

KERRYKOP · « **Reply #13 on:** August 17, 2012, 07:46:38 PM »

Have any Cardiff fans boycotted this?

dave 5516 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 17, 2012, 07:48:54 PM »

Cardiff don't look right playing in red.

rafathegaffa83 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 17, 2012, 10:25:12 PM »

Quote from: dave 5516 on August 17, 2012, 07:48:54 PM

Cardiff don't look right playing in red.

Won't surprise me if the go back to blue in a few years time.

Zanchent · « **Reply #16 on:** August 17, 2012, 10:29:36 PM »

Anyone know if the abuse Gerrard was getting was purely down to that penalty miss or had they disliked him before that?

Zanchent · « **Reply #17 on:** August 18, 2012, 12:46:59 PM »

Lee Peltier captaining Leeds... The absolute fuck?

Reheat Red · « **Reply #18 on:** August 18, 2012, 12:51:40 PM »

Just don't let Blackburn get promoted, they may eventually give Steve Kean the boot.

El Denzel Pepito · « **Reply #19 on:** August 18, 2012, 01:04:41 PM »

Easy, easy goal for Leeds.

geoffstrong · « **Reply #20 on:** August 18, 2012, 01:37:29 PM »

Watching the game and then spit the dog came on and polluted the screen!

geoffstrong · « **Reply #21 on:** August 18, 2012, 01:39:23 PM »

Hell the wolves manager had a cardiac arrest playing for one of the hodges teams !

Golyo · « **Reply #22 on:** August 18, 2012, 01:42:55 PM »

Leeds can raise the level of their own despicability. Warnock in February, now Diouf. How much I love to hate them.

And Could He Play · « **Reply #23 on:** August 18, 2012, 02:29:38 PM »

Diouf, fucking hilarious.

sinnermichael · « **Reply #24 on:** August 24, 2012, 08:42:34 PM »

mcgugan screamer vs bolton

http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/golazo-lewis-mcgugan-notts-forest-1-0-v-bolton/

RuncornRed25 · « **Reply #25 on:** August 25, 2012, 04:56:52 PM »

Great start for Blackpool in the Championship, 6-0 winners over Ipswich today and three wins out of three

Equilibrium · « **Reply #26 on:** August 25, 2012, 04:58:27 PM »

Blackpool look really good! ince is ripping it up!

sinnermichael · « **Reply #27 on:** August 26, 2012, 02:22:49 PM »

so andy thorn has apparently been sacked by coventry after three games and three draws.

gotta love football.

CornerFlag · « **Reply #28 on:** September 1, 2012, 07:32:52 PM »

Cracking start to Tranmere's season. Good luck to them, hope they do well personally; first team I ever went to see live with my dad standing in the old Borough Road stand. A 3-1 win in 1993.

RuncornRed25 · « **Reply #29 on:** September 1, 2012, 11:53:26 PM »

Quote from: CornerFlag on September 1, 2012, 07:32:52 PM

Cracking start to Tranmere's season. Good luck to them, hope they do well personally; first team I ever went to see live with my dad standing in the old Borough Road stand. A 3-1 win in 1993.

Who could forget their cup runs under Aldo but they've not had much to shout about recently, would be good to see them back in The Championship

CornerFlag · « **Reply #30 on:** September 2, 2012, 10:01:13 AM »

Quote from: RuncornRed25 on September 1, 2012, 11:53:26 PM

Who could forget their cup runs under Aldo but they've not had much to shout about recently, would be good to see them back in The Championship

Been getting less than 5,000 in when the ability to get a lot more (decent catchment area over here, Birkenhead, Wallasey, etc.) is there. Barnesy & Macca should never have arrived and given Ronnie Moore the boot, I reckon they'd have been back up at least once in that time. They had some cracking runs in the cups over the years, I was there in 1999 when they beat Coventry 5-1 after being 1-0 down (it was good to pay a fiver back in t'day

) on the way to the League Cup final.

Zanchent · « **Reply #31 on:** September 21, 2012, 08:47:55 PM »

Anyone watching Blackburn-Boro?

The defensive positioning of both teams is reminding me of my days playing under 12.

RoverAndOut · « **Reply #32 on:** September 21, 2012, 10:32:49 PM »

How Rovers are top of the Championship is beyond me. We have played like that in every match - terrible, basically. Somehow we've lucked into an unbeaten streak, but every Rovers fan knew it was going to come to an end. We'll soon be in the bottom half of the league if Kean remains.

People will see soon enough why we still want Kean Out. We've had luck beyond belief in the first six games, and I think our luck just ran out.

Y2J · « **Reply #33 on:** September 21, 2012, 11:11:31 PM »

Quote from: RoverAndOut on September 21, 2012, 10:32:49 PM

How Rovers are top of the Championship is beyond me. We have played like that in every match - terrible, basically. Somehow we've lucked into an unbeaten streak, but every Rovers fan knew it was going to come to an end. We'll soon be in the bottom half of the league if Kean remains.

People will see soon enough why we still want Kean Out. We've had luck beyond belief in the first six games, and I think our luck just ran out.

I think mate you have too much quality in Murphy, Dann, Nunez, Gomez & Rhodes to get promoted. Even though you played atrociously in the whole game, you should have scored twice in the last 10 minutes & a blatant penalty on Rhodes should have been given.

RoverAndOut · « **Reply #34 on:** September 21, 2012, 11:38:37 PM »

Quote from: Y2J on September 21, 2012, 11:11:31 PM

I think mate you have too much quality in Murphy, Dann, Nunez, Gomez & Rhodes to get promoted. Even though you played atrociously in the whole game, you should have scored twice in the last 10 minutes & a blatant penalty on Rhodes should have been given.

You need a manager to pull it all together though. We have quality players but a lot of them looked horrific tonight. Murphy's looked extremely poor all season, Dann is an absolute joke and a liability, Nunes is only 20 years old and new to the league, Gomes is 36 years old. Rhodes is quality but starved of any service.

Our squad isn't as good as the media would have you believe. It IS good enough to get promoted, but we desperately need a real manager to pull this all together. Right now we start every game with no game plan, no style, no discernible shape or tactics. It's insane we have 14 points, it's purely down to individual quality pulling us out of the fire. That can't last.

Do not underestimate how far Kean can drag us down. He took a team that was top ten in the premier league and got us relegated within 18 months. Even in the Championship we concede on average 2 goals per game - we won't score 3 every week, so by that logic alone our average points will soon drop and we'll flounder.

We won't go down, but promotion is NOT nailed on for us. Not at all. Allardyce had a team just as good last year with West Ham and only managed to get up via the playoffs. Kean is so far out of Allardyce's league he isn't even playing the same game.

Statto Red · « **Reply #35 on:** September 22, 2012, 06:53:03 PM »

Watched the first half of the Birmingham v Barnsley game & switched off at half time as the game was so poor, switched back & Barnsley have just scored a 5th goal, & lead 5-0

sinnermichael · « **Reply #36 on:** September 22, 2012, 06:53:39 PM »

jesus. birmingham getting twatted 5-0 at home by barnsley.

Statto Red · « **Reply #37 on:** September 22, 2012, 06:58:04 PM »

Quote from: stmichael on September 22, 2012, 06:53:39 PM

jesus. birmingham getting twatted 5-0 at home by barnsley.

& Craig Davies has scored 4 of them.

Lethal · « **Reply #38 on:** September 22, 2012, 06:58:33 PM »

Mad game, more goals in it for them if they were to go for them too.

Statto Red · « **Reply #39 on:** September 22, 2012, 07:14:17 PM »

Barnsley win 5-0 at Birmingham with Craig Davies scoring 4 goals.