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*Official* English Football Season 2005-06
- Thread starter Neil Pickup
- Start date
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
no but if a League 1 side won it it would.steds said:
but this is different anyway, Gretna have as much money as most of the SPL
luckyeddie
Cricket Web Staff Member
Where on Earth did Gretna get the cashsuperkingdave said:
on their football team so much to splash?
Was it costs they were shedding -
or charging by the wedding
the elopers on cross-border dash?
luckyeddie
Cricket Web Staff Member
Strictly accurate - posting in rhymesledger said:
(something that I do from time to time)
means a measured response
be they friend, foe or ponce.
Look on it as a victimless crime.
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Yes but this isn't a one-off, Gretna might actually win the whole thing.steds said:
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
Gretna will also be in the SPL soon enoughTom Halsey said:
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Yes they will because they have the money and will add to their squad, but I don't think their current squad is good enough to be in the SPL, they'll have to add to it.superkingdave said:
That being said the standard of the SPL is so low that they may do okay in there if they went in the the squad in its current state.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Totally agree with ya. I think it's been gradual from season to season. Last season was clearly a higher standard than this, and I'm not just saying that because we finished 3rd last season, though I do think our team last season would have walked the league this season if you get me....but anyway it's a gradual decline for the last 3 or 4 yearssuperkingdave said:
case in point, the 2002-03 season, that was a great season for this division, even if not from a Tranmere perspective. Wigan won the league with about 100 points, then Crewe had 86 in 2nd, we finished 7th, outside the play-offs, with 80, you lot came 4th or 5th I think, maybe even 3rd? Seven teams with 80+ points, seven very good teams that all would probably have gotten automatic promotion any season since, for God's sake when we finished 3rd last season ( with a side including Ryan Taylor and Iain Hume nonetheless) we only got 79 points. The league may be tighter throughout this season, but that's because there are so many poor teams, in that 02-03 season, there was one excellent team (Wigan), six very, very good sides, then four or five that probably could consider themselves unlucky not to be in the play-offs. Can't see that happening anytime soon, the quality of the Championship is so much better than it was when Tranmere and Oldham were last in it, and the knock-on effect of this is the weakening of League One, which is barely better than League 2 now, this being reflected in the performances of Southend, and Swansea this season, and the fact that teams very rarely bounce straight back up from League 2 to 1, in fact they often struggle (see Stockport, Rushden).
Basically transfer fees to lower league sides are nothing compared to what they were, bigger academies mean the best players usually debut in the Premiership, and the likes of Tranmere, Oldham and below are left to scrap for frees and short-term loans.
Though you lot did have a fairly busy summer didn't you, thanks to your cup run? That's what funded our promotion push last season. Hopefully the money from sales of Taylor and Hume, plus bonus payments from Wigan for Taylor because they have stayed up, has been saved and will be put to good use this summer but I think I'm being optimistic.
Quality at Griffin Park has certainly not gone down. This season has been a whole lot better than previous ones. Brentford actualy look like they know what the general idea of Football is this season. Players like Sodje, Turner, Tabb and the now departed DJ are all actual footballers.
Having said that the performances i have seen from Barnsley and Huddesfield were very poor and they are teams near the top. The league is certainly a lot closer this year and you make a pretty good point.
Having said that the performances i have seen from Barnsley and Huddesfield were very poor and they are teams near the top. The league is certainly a lot closer this year and you make a pretty good point.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Brentford are one side that have impressed me in all fairness. We were woeful both times we played them but that takes nothing away from the fact that they are a highly efficient outfit who have everything to required to succeed at this level, last season I didn't think much of them, especially last April at Griffin Park where I thought they beat us by kicking us off the park and route one football, but clearly a team was being built, and fair play to Martin Allen, he's built a successful, and good, side.
Matteh
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Didn't Calais, a division 4 French team, win the French Cup a couple years back?
That'd be like Mansfield winning the thing...There is a massive gap between Mansfield and say Tottenham. Whereas in the Scottish leagues the gap between Hibs and Gretna is nowhere near as great.
02/03...Think that's the season Mansfield played in League 1...and we avoided relegation by an extra day because Tranmere's floodlights failed
That'd be like Mansfield winning the thing...There is a massive gap between Mansfield and say Tottenham. Whereas in the Scottish leagues the gap between Hibs and Gretna is nowhere near as great.
02/03...Think that's the season Mansfield played in League 1...and we avoided relegation by an extra day because Tranmere's floodlights failed
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Think of it as being like the worthless cup in this country... that's why they're not as important - they just don't have the history and prestige so top teams don't play their best side or don't play full out, so that further erodes the importance of the cup, like what has happened with the worthless cup over the past 5-10 years.Matteh said:
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Well, you're right about avoiding relegation for a few days because the game was abandoned, but the floodlights didn't fail, a local idiot climbed up them and threatened to jump and in the end they had to stop the match!Matteh said:02/03...Think that's the season Mansfield played in League 1...and we avoided relegation by an extra day because Tranmere's floodlights failed
