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  • sweepy23sweepy23
    I forgot point 6:

    I'm nearly 40 and I'd for once like to see my team in Europe (proper)

  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    sweepy - according to Brand Finance website we're 14th with a value of $274m (up from $209m) behind Everton in 13th on $279m (up from $228m). If our value's gone up because of the new stadium and league standing then we've not gained much compared to Everton still in their old stadium and finishing 11th.

    However you might be right with the TV thing, Everton reached both cup semi finals so got a lot of airtime.
  • sweepy23sweepy23
    ;ok

    I'm just gutted. European tour is a no.
  • sweepy23sweepy23
    Would have been nice to have played this lot:

    Group K: Southampton, Inter Milan, Sparta Prague & Hapoel Beer Sheva
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    ;weep Milan

    I love Milan - I have friends in Milan I could have stayed with.
  • sweepy23sweepy23
    ;weep
  • MunichHammerMunichHammer
    Sweepy, that would never have happened. Two teams from the same country can't play in the same group.
  • sweepy23sweepy23
    Munich, I was referring to the fact that it would have been nice to have been there instead of Southampton. They pipped us at the end of the season. ;ok
  • Pearces_Left_FootPearces_Left_Foot
    edited August 2016
    Group E: Plzen, Roma, Austria Vienna, FC Astra Giurgiu ;puzzled
  • SwissironSwissiron
    baracks_a_hammer said:

    Who else thinks that Slav could have done without doing the euro punditry. The prem season is long enough and ours was destined to be longer again in 16/17 - everyone needs time to recharge the batteries - either he should have taken some complete rest or started planning for the hectic season ahead - a prem league manager has enough on their plate without other distractions?

    excellent point, I've wondered about this before.

    Has anyone (quiz question) seen anyone doing punditry on the telly who was AT THE SAME TIME a successful manager of a well performing football club?

    Time to rechardge your glases and the next subject will be on late nineteenth century Romantic poetry
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    edited August 2016
    Didn't post last night as it was all too raw and it would have just been a volley of vitriol. So we failed yet again and this season we were going to go for it, hate to see a performance where we weren't!

    Didn't know last night whether to ;lol or ;weep. It was abject & extremely disappointing performance. I could go on but if they can't be bothered then I don't see why I should be (but we all know I will). Not so super sold us short it's ok saying he can't control things on the pitch but he picked the team and failed to get them up for the match. The owners although they didn't guarantee us a marquee striker have failed to deliver, Zaza is not one, fourth choice at Juventus!. Slav has got his man (Tore) but is he going to repay the faith. Can't see why people think we will finish higher than last year as it was a freak season and the big teams will bring about some normality again and as has been said earlier a high position brings Europe and we haven't got a squad to cope. We have lost a large revenue stream with being eliminated so heres to a Top 4 finish or a Cup win, as we haven't got the distraction of Europe, to ease some of the pain, no excuses time will tell?
  • McHammerMcHammer
    edited August 2016
    Pearces_Left_Foot said:

    Group E: Plzen, Roma, Austria Vienna, FC Astra Giurgiu ;puzzled

    That 3rd team means nothing to me!
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    Oh!
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    McHammer what have you got against Austrians? I just wish the fourth team meant nothing to me! ;angry
  • McHammerMcHammer
    I'm just oblivious to them.

    Haha i hear ya!
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    baracks_a_hammer said:

    Who else thinks that Slav could have done without doing the euro punditry. The prem season is long enough and ours was destined to be longer again in 16/17 - everyone needs time to recharge the batteries - either he should have taken some complete rest or started planning for the hectic season ahead - a prem league manager has enough on their plate without other distractions?

    Totally disagree. You say he should either rested or worked full time. He had a month and a half between season end and start of pre season and spent two weeks being a pundit in Paris (with wife and family in attendance)

  • MarkNobleLocalHeroMarkNobleLocalHero
    edited August 2016
    I thought at the time and still do that we missed Noble badly. That IMO was Slavens big mistake.
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    I would have loved to have got through but just think we don't have the team to compete if not fielding out first 11, as Astra have proven two years on the trot now.

    I also feel that the Europa league is organised in a really dysfunctional way. My first gripe is the league format that most teams will find difficult to manage with respective league commitments, why not have a two leg knock out competition?

    The idea that teams eliminated from the Champions league can just get in at the latter stage is also nonsense and adds nothing to the competition, leaving teams who have ambitiously given everything to the tournament having a new challenge half way through. I don't mind the league format with the Champions league as the squads can mostly cope with it but not at Europa level.

  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    McHammer said:

    Pearces_Left_Foot said:

    Group E: Plzen, Roma, Austria Vienna, FC Astra Giurgiu ;puzzled

    That 3rd team means nothing to me!
    This needs a second outing ;clap
  • Slaven_Cups_His_BeardSlaven_Cups_His_Beard
    I'm with IH

    Not literally, on the Slav TV stuff and all that
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Slavs said he had a knock. Not sure who to believe at the moment. ;hmm
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    edited August 2016
    easthammer said:

    I thought at the time and still do that we missed Noble badly. That IMO was Slavens big mistake.

    In the pre-match interview, Slav said that Noble wasn't injured per se but had been 'feeling something' for a while and implied that it was a medical decision - to play him would be risk injury, when instead his body needed to not play, to recover from whatever it was that had been niggling.

    So it wasn't a straightforward 'rest/play' decision - the physical condition of the player meant that it would be best to not play him ;ok
  • Slaven_Cups_His_BeardSlaven_Cups_His_Beard
    Read that it was a wrist injury?
  • MarkNobleLocalHeroMarkNobleLocalHero
    Kouyate has had a wrist injury for the last two years, doesn't stop him playing.
  • Slaven_Cups_His_BeardSlaven_Cups_His_Beard
    Are they all the same then?
  • CleverTrevorCleverTrevor
    I see they have arrested the guy who threw the punches at the game that was caught on video. I hope they throw away the key!! I thought those days were long gone!!
  • secrethammersfansecrethammersfan
    A month ago we had a massive argument pleasant discussion on here about whether a European run was a good idea. At least that's sorted now.
    I care less and less about the grand statements of the management and board, because they are just placating the temperamental toddlers that some of the fans are (case in point: "sorry, could you sit down, my kids can't see" "WE ARE WEAT HAM, WE STAND WHERE WE WANT!") If it shuts up the tantrum-throwers, it's best to say we'll give it 100% rather than we'll see how it goes, as we've planned CL in 7 years, and that's what we're focused on.
    I saw arguments on here of "face it, we're a second rate team, with only one world-class player, and we don't deserve to be in Europe". Then why expect more in the transfer window?
    Last point of this random collection of reactions: Callieri is at the club a week. I would still be suffering from jet lag. Give him a few minutes to see whether he's any good.

    I also love maltesers.
  • Ravel49Ravel49
    Personally I'm on a #SnickersHype at the moment ;wahoo
  • secrethammersfansecrethammersfan
    Love for one does not exclude one for the other. May you find at least two whole nuts in your snickers!
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    What's got a hazelnut in every bite?
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