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Necropolis

7 Aug 2004, 10:00pm

Please post your comments / views on the coming season.

Well, the new season British football officially starts tomorrow with the Manchester United Vs Arsenal charity shield game.

I went to my first Everton game of the season today. A 2-2 draw with Real Sociadad. Marcus Bent looks promising, an unusual combination of Power, height and pace. I am hoping for us to finish mid table this season and not have a repeat of the abysmal season we had last year.

Can we please try to keep the "Football sucks", "Footballs crap" "your teams crap" comments down to a minimum please.

/me will delete posts that slate Everton (only kidding ;) )

Long live the blues :ukflag: http://necropolisuk.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/flageverton1.gif

Jimborae

7 Aug 2004, 11:44pm

Well Reading won their first game 3-2 so woot for the Royals :)

IC-Games

7 Aug 2004, 11:50pm

And Lincoln won 0-1 so yeah, good start :D

KingFish

7 Aug 2004, 11:55pm

The Dallas Cowboys would stomp United Manchester any day. UM prolly wouldn't have any players left after injuries also.

KF

Jimborae

8 Aug 2004, 12:01am

The Dallas Cowboys would stomp United Manchester any day. UM prolly wouldn't have any players left after injuries also.

KF

Mate, its Manchester United and have you seen Roy Keane play when he's pissed off. I doubt Dallas Cowboys would have any players left :) Then of course there was arguably United's best ever player, one Mr Eric Cantona, who, when he got pissed off with a supporter decided to leap into the crowd & do a Kung Fu kick on him. Very entaining :)

Trogan

8 Aug 2004, 12:35am

Mate, its Manchester United and have you seen Roy Keane play when he's pissed off. I doubt Dallas Cowboys would have any players left :) Then of course there was arguably United's best ever player, one Mr Eric Cantona, who, when he got pissed off with a supporter decided to leap into the crowd & do a Kung Fu kick on him. Very entaining :)

All very true. Man UTD are the best

Camman

8 Aug 2004, 12:45am

mondi

8 Aug 2004, 1:23am

All very true. Man UTD are the best

Ahem, not to say your team's crap (happy Necro :D) ... but Arsenal (can you say Bergkamp, Henry, Vieira, Pires etc) ... will be taking it... again :)

seriously ... looks to be a good season, lets see what happens..

m

dragonV8

8 Aug 2004, 1:30am

Seeing as how Necro asked to keep nasty comments to a minimum, i'll not say anything bad. But.................you can't stop me from THINKING it, lol. ;D

..........."I don't like football"...................

There ya go, i didn't say it, hehehe. :)

Basically, each to there own. :rolleyes: Enjoy. :thumbsup:

Jon

Necropolis

8 Aug 2004, 1:42am

Ahem, not to say your team's crap (happy Necro :D) ... but Arsenal (can you say Bergkamp, Henry, Vieira, Pires etc) ... will be taking it... again :)

seriously ... looks to be a good season, lets see what happens..

m

Seeing as how Necro asked to keep nasty comments to a minimum, i'll not say anything bad. But.................you can't stop me from THINKING it, lol. ;D

..........."I don't like football"...................

There ya go, i didn't say it, hehehe. :)

Basically, each to there own. :rolleyes: Enjoy. :thumbsup:

Jon

hehehe, RESPECT MY AUTHORATAH!!!!

But seriously, I think Chelsea will take the league this year. Any other season and they would have won last year but because Arsenal had such an amazing season they didnt. The team has has a year to settle now, with only a few new players brought in and some of the crap weeded out I think they will take it.

Oh, and Mondi do you think you will still have Vieira by the time the season starts :eek2:

mondi

8 Aug 2004, 1:53am

Oh, and Mondi do you think you will still have Vieira by the time the season starts :eek2:

Hey, a man can dream cant he :) ... Wenger and I both agree on this:

linky (http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=a0wOH1XeVTJE&refer=uk)

but still ... Chelsea have a really good chance, and there will definitely be some grudge matches this season, all in all, if theres some good football played, then I really dont mind either way ...

Nomad

8 Aug 2004, 2:05am

Mondi posted twice in one thread, I think that's a first. :thumbsup:

Trogan

8 Aug 2004, 2:09am

Ahem, not to say your team's crap (happy Necro :D) ... but Arsenal (can you say Bergkamp, Henry, Vieira, Pires etc) ... will be taking it... again :)

seriously ... looks to be a good season, lets see what happens..

m

Hi Mondi, What channel in america will you be able to watch the premiership and also see arsenal get a beating by Man UTD? ;D

Hopefully Man UTD will be all over Arsenal and Chelsea like dogs :thumbsup:

Necropolis

8 Aug 2004, 2:19am

I dont care about any other score all season as long as we can beat Liverpool.

mondi

8 Aug 2004, 2:26am

Mondi posted twice in one thread, I think that's a first. :thumbsup:

im not THAT bad, im pretty sure its the second time :D

Hi Mondi, What channel in america will you be able to watch the premiership and also see arsenal get a beating by Man UTD?

Hopefully Man UTD will be all over Arsenal and Chelsea like dogs

Fox Sports West, to be honest, i was looking at the stats today, and I think Arsenal only has 1 game over ManU for the last five years (something like Arsenal 17, ManU 16, draw: 7) ... should be a good match

ill talk to you tomorrow morning :)

m

Jimborae

8 Aug 2004, 8:50am

NE patriots ruleeeee 2 superbowl wins in the past 3 seasons, w000t

<img src="http://www.nflfanstore.com/patriots/patriotsfl.jpg">

sorry, I could not help myself :D

I figure you're talking about football of the non-"American Football" variety

Well you're supporting the wrong team too. Your team is Portsmouth, aka Pompey, and that would be the Hampshire variety, not New Hampshire. ;D

Necropolis

8 Aug 2004, 6:56pm

And Arsenal take the Charity Shield by 3 goals to 1. Great game, proper end to end stuff. And proved Arsenal's power is in their counter-attack.

Trogan

8 Aug 2004, 7:44pm

We never had our strongest team out. Just wait until next week when hopefully we will do better.

Shorty

8 Aug 2004, 8:08pm

Stuck for longevity ;D :D

Necropolis

8 Aug 2004, 8:15pm

We never had our strongest team out. Just wait until next week when hopefully we will do better.

Hang on, did I miss something. All you where missing was Van-Nistelroy and Saha. The rest was your normal team.

Just check the pic. Your starting 11 and 3 of your subs are 1st team players.

Trogan

8 Aug 2004, 8:51pm

Hang on, did I miss something. All you where missing was Van-Nistelroy and Saha. The rest was your normal team.

Just check the pic. Your starting 11 and 3 of your subs are 1st team players.

You Missed a lot, Trust Me! To you it may seem like our normal XI and our strongest team but it was not, no where near.

EdWeatherall

9 Aug 2004, 2:15am

Well apart from Saha And Ruud, there was no Rio/Wes Brown, No Ronaldo, No Heinze with those players United would have been a much different proposition,

And IMO, United suffered from having that friendly vs Urawa Red Diamonds postponed, as the whole United team looked to be lacking in match-sharpness, which will come after a game like the one today.

All will be fine at Old Trafford this season, especially if United sign Rooney eh Necropolis??

Necropolis

9 Aug 2004, 8:24am

All will be fine at Old Trafford this season, especially if United sign Rooney eh Necropolis??

There are only 2 clubs that can afford Rooney. And your not one of them ;)

Shorty

9 Aug 2004, 8:39am

This thread is going to get ugly ;D

Necropolis

9 Aug 2004, 9:10am

This thread is going to get ugly ;D

Not if I can help it ;) I am going to police this thread closley :ukflag:

Shorty

9 Aug 2004, 12:23pm

Not if I can help it ;) I am going to police this thread closley :ukflag:
If by police.. you mean...

Delete all posts that don't support Everton, change sigs of those who support any team with Red in the colour scheme...

Then yeah... closely ;D

Necropolis

9 Aug 2004, 12:38pm

If by police.. you mean...

Delete all posts that don't support Everton, change sigs of those who support any team with Red in the colour scheme...

Then yeah... closely ;D

It would be Avatars as well if you gave us the power ;D;D;D

EdWeatherall

9 Aug 2004, 2:02pm

There are only 2 clubs that can afford Rooney. And your not one of them ;)

well see, if we want rooney we can get him, but not for silly money that the Everton board are hoping for, we could pay about 30mil i reckon, but by all acounts Rooney is going to sign a new deal with a fee-release clause, letting him go for cheaper

Shorty

9 Aug 2004, 2:05pm

It would be Avatars as well if you gave us the power ;D;D;D
Im mad but not stupid ;D

Trogan

10 Aug 2004, 6:47pm

Necropolis

10 Aug 2004, 8:54pm

United are no weak team. Yeah, maybe we're not strong at the moment and teams like....*cough*....*cough* everton may think they have a chance of getting a win over us but when our squad is healthy everyone in the prem and europe will see that they where wrong in to judge us so quickly...THAT INCLUDES YOU NECROPOLIS :p

Hey, hang on. I never said that you where a weak team. All my initial point was, is that Arsenal showed their strength in their ability to hit teams on the counter-attack. Even you have to admit that you had a really poor season last season in comparison to your others in the last 10 years or so. All you won was the FA cup. I can see this being Ferguson's last season if you do the same again this year.

Trogan

11 Aug 2004, 12:45am

Hey, hang on. I never said that you where a weak team. All my initial point was, is that Arsenal showed their strength in their ability to hit teams on the counter-attack. Even you have to admit that you had a really poor season last season in comparison to your others in the last 10 years or so. All you won was the FA cup. I can see this being Ferguson's last season if you do the same again this year.

I'm pretty confident (I Hope :rolleyes: ) that a repeat of last season won't happen and besides enough about the best - United, what about yourself, How well are everton going to do this season? They might get relagted!!!!!!!! ;D

Necropolis

11 Aug 2004, 8:28am

Trogan

11 Aug 2004, 2:09pm

I cant see them getting religated this season. I saw the pre-season game against Real Sociadad. We have gotten rid of alot of dead weightand Markus Bent looks dangerous, big man with plenty of pace. I cant see it happening.

Well maybe you won't get relegated but i'm sure you'll finish in the 2nd half of the table. I'm not saying this because I don't like Everton, i'm sayin it because thats how I see it...lol :thumbsup:

mondi

11 Aug 2004, 2:13pm

you also saw ManU beating Arsenal last week .... things change :D

wanna bet a round on sundays game Necro ???

Necropolis

11 Aug 2004, 2:22pm

you also saw ManU beating Arsenal last week .... things change :D

wanna bet a round on sundays game Necro ???

I would like to say it would be an Everton win but I dont think it will. If I want to be honest with myself and after watching you play on Sunday, I can see it being 3-1 to Arsenal.

That and I can see Chealsea beating Man U 2-1.

Trogan

11 Aug 2004, 11:55pm

I would like to say it would be an Everton win but I dont think it will. If I want to be honest with myself and after watching you play on Sunday, I can see it being 3-1 to Arsenal.

That and I can see Chealsea beating Man U 2-1.

Nice for you to be realistic about Everton ;D!!!

We won't go down without a fight with Chelsea :thumbsup:

Necropolis

24 Aug 2004, 2:36pm

Trogan

24 Aug 2004, 2:42pm

Well, I have been that busy that I clean forgot to update this thread.

After the 4-1 thrashing by Arsenal we took it was nice to see the blues keep their heads up and come back to beat Crystal Palace 3-1 with only 10 men.

Now with all the stories about Newcastle putting the $20m bid in for Rooney (they wish) and Everton getting �20m off some Russian investor then maybe we can buy a few more players.

Well, everton better start planning now coz things are not going to get any easier. Rooney IS definitly going to be leaving, there's no doubt about it but who he is going to is another question.

You did well against CP but that's a club you had to get a win over. Good luck for the other matches.

As for Man Utd, well, we're going to kick @$$, I hope ;D. The 1-0 loss to chelsea was unlucky but WE ARE THE BEST AND THATS ALL. :)

Necropolis

24 Aug 2004, 3:05pm

As for Man Utd, well, we're going to kick @$$, I hope ;D. The 1-0 loss to chelsea was unlucky but WE ARE THE BEST AND THATS ALL. :)

You want to pull your head out of the sand a little and have a look whats going on around you. Did you see the Arsenal game on Sunday? Yes they may have been loosing 3-1 at one point but to bring the same game back to 5-3 is amazing. Their movement was unbelievable especially on the counter attack. Chelsea are starting to gel as a squad and are looking dangerous.

Trogan

24 Aug 2004, 3:16pm

You want to pull your head out of the sand a little and have a look whats going on around you. Did you see the Arsenal game on Sunday? Yes they may have been loosing 3-1 at one point but to bring the same game back to 5-3 is amazing. Their movement was unbelievable especially on the counter attack. Chelsea are starting to gel as a squad and are looking dangerous.

well the way I see it as Arsenal are going through a major phase of luck and chelsea are going to flop at some point. Trust me :)

Necropolis

29 Aug 2004, 1:09am

Trogan

29 Aug 2004, 6:35pm

Well, after a crap week for the team I have come to 2 conclusions.

1. We are going to sell Rooney after the little **** put in a transfer request (once a blue, always a blue my arse)
2. We are going to stay up this season after watching them beat West Brom. All we need to do now is put the money we get of Rooney to good use.

Everton made a big mistake. Everyone knows rooney is leaving, if only they had let him go during the summer and taken the money from us (Man UTD) than you could have brought some new players but now your goin to have to wait until January and I don't think everton can cope.

Just let him come to us, it good business all round ;D

sectorz715

10 Jan 2006, 6:05am

Here comes a huge revival...

Colts are gonna win the Super bowl XL and I really hope the redskins lose (I am a Cowboy fan) the Divisional Playoffs. There I said it and that�s how it�s going to be... or atleast i hope thats how its going to be (god I hope I didn�t jinx them)

Edit: Fudge, i think this was a Football as in Soccer thread, oh well... we could change it to the Official Sports Thread

profdlp

10 Jan 2006, 5:56pm

...I really hope the redskins lose (I am a Cowboy fan) the Divisional Playoffs...
HA HA HA!!!!

<-----See my avatar

BTW: We'd have been a .500 team and never have made it to the playoffs if it weren't for the Cowboys. Thanks! :wave:

(Nothing personal. :) )

QCH

10 Jan 2006, 6:08pm

GO BEARS.... and Redskins too... Take out the Seahawks... Bears need to host the NFC championship game in chicago would be REAL sweet.

EMT

11 Jan 2006, 6:24pm

I hope the Redskins and the Bears win this week so we Redskins can beat you next week :) but if Bears go to the Super Bowl, I'll be rooting for them...

Jimborae

11 Jan 2006, 7:11pm

I hope Reading get promoted to the Premiership at last. So far it looks good & we don't seem to be having our usual post Christmas slump.

tefleming

11 Jan 2006, 8:05pm

He's big, he's red, his feet hang out of the bed...
You'll neeeeeeeverrrrr walk a-lone!!!!!

I can't wait for Champions League to come back on (the only soccer I get to watch on this side of the pond.)

My hopes are up for my boys from Bayern to take out AC.