not really true that is it? The PL has on average more goals per game than the other three divisions and I suggest you look at Liverpools results to consider if their draws at home to Palace and Brighton and away draw at newly promoted Fulham weren't competitive. Hardly three teams you'd give a chance to eh? And then look at the rest of their results this season. I'd suggest there's been plenty of entertainment in their games.Only uncompetitive game they've had is Bournemouth. As for entertainment isn't the key factor about your team playing well and scoring goals. Not sure how you could ever say Man City aren't entertaining. If I was a City fan, I think I'd be pretty pleased with what I was watching. As for ticket prices, well there's been enough debate on here about our own prices of £30 a ticket.
that's true Mac. We've seen some pretty turgid stuff both this season and last season under Critchley. A million miles away from entertainment. That said, I'll take three points in a dour game rather than lose in an entertaining one.
I agree. For all the fanfare of a 3-3 draw and sparkling football at times v Sheff United I'd have taken a 90th minute 0-1 winner deflecting off Ekpiteta's arse.
There's definitely a jump in quality from League One to the Championship and it's why you see promoted sides struggle to stay up (normally only one does). The gap between the Championship and the Premier League just seems to keep growing, you see these clubs that have millions upon millions at their disposal go up to the Prem and get decimated every year - with that being said I think you're right in that its closer to League One than it is the Prem, otherwise teams who have walked this league in recent seasons should be more competitive when they go up (Norwich for example).
No , you have come out with statistics not evidence . A team may only lose by 1 or 2 goals to Manchester City ,yet may not have had a shot on target all game. The fact is that City fans go into every game expecting to win ,even against Liverpool and Chelsea . If they don't win they are extremely disappointed . You go to a Blackpool game and you know every game can go either way . How often do city fans get games like we have just had . Even the Liverpool game was nothing like our Sheffield game and I don't remember last time a team was 2 down at Cities ground and come back to take the lead . You would probably have to go back to Main Road . So if you think their games go and pay for a 5 -0 against Watford.Or some of the other one sided score lines.
Statistics are evidence. A game with [more] goals in it is far more likely to be entertaining than a game with [less] no goals in it. You've quoted one game in Sheff U and that's all you've got to base your point on! What about our game at Rotherham or does that not count in your eyes?!? Do you not think that Burnley and Norwich fans think they should be beating little old Blackpool. Add Watford into that. I'd say those reams and their fans if they don't win are "extremely disappointed".
Yeah couldn't quite believe it when I saw the table last night. They were on a poor run and then won 3 out of their last 4 and top of the pile. Played 2 games more than most other teams though.
Not only that but it means top of the league have actually more defeats than bottom of the league. I suspect that's never happened before. There are only two teams who've lost more than Rovers too.
Well if you'd been posting on here long enough, you'd know that's not me.Someone supports Liverpool.
He's actually a Spurs fanSomeone supports Liverpool.
I'd tend to say I'm a Blackpool fan with a big soft spot for Spurs. But I'm a football fan and appreciate all good football played by teams and there is a helluva lot of good entertaining football being played in the EPL.
Fuckinell all your turf on here and you actually support spurs?
A game with more goals in it is not more entertaining if all the goals are going in the same end . Also a 0-0 draw can be exciting if both teams are having a go. The Rotherham game was not crap or boring for the Rotherham fans and before kick off pool fans did not know how bad Blackpool were going to be . Yet City just don't play bad because they have players worth more then most clubs.
You take the evidence of a few games and try to sell it as a generality. Over the long term of the EPL WOT is correct. Yes, there may be entertainment but the trend towards the rule by the very few is inevitable.
mmmm... not mentioned anything about Burnleys support being bigger. My point was solely to do with the fact that they were in the PL last season and with that financial advantage behind them they would have hoped for an immediate return to the EPL. That would have been their hope as a club and as a fanbase. And that is why and I was quoting your words when you referenced City they would have been "extremely disappointed" not to win the game. So as I said when you think of City and maybe even Liverpool too, well then there is the likes of Norwich and Burnley who have that mindset in the Championship. After all we are not long up in the Championship so our task is that much harder. And Bournemouth and Fulham aren't getting battered every game are they?
What are you on about? That's just plain old inverted snobbery nonsense. I wasn't the one who made the point of evidence of a few games. It was WOT who was doing that. I simply quoted games against the lesser teams. Do you want me to quote the games Liverpool have already played against City and Arsenal too. We're only eleven games into this season so I suggest you go and look at Liverpools results to decide if they've been competitive games or not? I suggest you'll only find one that's not been. So it's not me who is talking generally at all. It's WOT and now you who is talking generally when he suggested Liverpool only get six competitive games a season.
I don't think you've understood my post.
I've very much understood it. I'm not the one taking it as a generality, it was WOT as I've explained. As for your other point about the rule by a few, yep, I've covered that too. The rule, so to speak, is by the usual few in the EPL. Of course it is, I haven't suggested otherwise. But even so, there are many other teams in there which give them competitive games. But although, the teams change in the Championship, it still tends to be ruled by those teams that have come down. And that was my point about Norwich and Burnley this season. They expect to beat us. They expect to rule over us. Think you'll perhaps go back a long way to find that where none of the teams that came down, none of them haven't been promoted back up again.
Ok ,you win , I rather pay lots of money to see the same team win nearly all their games.
If it was Blackpool I certainly would. Wouldn't you? And it's not a case of winning. It's just a case of defending the EPL as vociferously as those who criticise it. I think you knew that already though.
Top of the league Blackburn have lost 2 more games so far this season than bottom of the league Coventry!!!
