Skybluefaz
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Don't necessarily think you can say there should be some arbitrary gap. Plenty of times the championship top half has been separated by only a few points. It is what it is. Nice to see a competitive league.
Match Thread Coventry City vs. MK Dons Match Thread - Saturday 11th Jan (26 Viewers)
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Evo1883
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With a completely different team that finished 8th, pompey kept most their players and added some
So again, why is a team that finished on 88 points doing so much worse with much of the same squad
Because there is more competition?
Also You can't call the Premier league competitive when Liverpool have lost 1 league game in their last 59 matches
It's becoming the French league with PSG over the last few years
stupot07
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I'd disagree. I would it's more competitive as there are no standout teams and a lack of quality across the board rather than more teams have improved and are more competitive.
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stupot07
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Evo1883
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A standout team doesn't equal a quality league though.
Take the Premier league, Liverpool have just won 20 from 21 games and there is a 17 point gap between them and City and a 16 point gap between them and Leicester.
Would you agree that Chelsea, arsenal, man United, Tottenham are all worse than they've been for a while and would you also agree that the competition is less for Liverpool?
They've lost 1 game in 59 in the league that doesn't scream a quality league, that streams PSG and farmers league
Would you also agree that this city side are better than last season, would you also agree that teams like Oxford Peterborough and Wycombe are better too... Rotherham have some solid championship players and so do Ipswich, Lincoln spent a decent amount, pompey still have a good squad and they spent 1.3 mill on marquis who is good at this level .. I'd say the competition is more hence why it's Alot closer
SlowerThanPlatt
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They lost 2 players who were deemed Premier League and Championship quality - think they went for £3m each?
Also, they had 7 loans in throughout the season
Looking at their lineup against Sunderland in the play offs which I presume was their strongest to their win over Wimbledon today
GK: MacGillivray (now Bass)
RB: Thompson (now Bolton)
CB: Burgess
CB: Clarke (now Raggett)
LB: Walkes (now Seeddon)
CM: Naylor
CM: Close (now McGeehan)
RM: Lowe (now Harness)
LM: Curtis
CAM: Evans (now Cannon)
ST: Hawkins (now Harrison)
Only 3 remain
stupot07
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We're talking about league one. There is not one great team in this league, we're all pretty average hence why anyone can beat anyone. Hence why the gap between 1st and 12th is so small.
This is the weakest league one theres been since we got relegated from the championship.
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Evo1883
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Using this logic, the French league over the last 7 seasons has been the best in the world
Evo1883
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NortonSkyBlue
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Your point regarding Liverpool is somewhat negated by the fact that they are European champions, super cup winners and world champions. That suggests, along with their over a year unbeaten in the league record, that they are pretty special in anybody's language. Pub league? You can only beat what is in front of you and we are doing okay, whatever happened in the past is irrelevant.
stupot07
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You dont think this is the weakest league one since our relegation? Which season was a weaker group of teams?
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Evo1883
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Id normally agree except the last time liverpool won the champions league they didn't even win the Premier league(both times) so it doesn't automatically class them as the best in Europe
Evo1883
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14/15 overall a weaker league
This season at the bottom its weaker as we have pretty much written off Bolton and Bury are gone.
SlowerThanPlatt
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How do you think the Bristol City team who got 99 points would fare this season?
Evo1883
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I think they would win it, I remember watching them and they were fantastic, playing a 3 back system too with wing backs
NortonSkyBlue
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Are you really arguing that 61 out of 63 points, unbeaten for over a year in the league, winners of 3 trophies is not anything special? You are a tough one to please.
Evo1883
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That's not what I said at all... Last season Liverpool won the champions league but weren't even the best side in the Premier league.. So the argument is a tough one as how can you be the best in Europe if you haven't won your league?
Either way... They are the best in the prem this season by a long way..I also fancy them to maybe win the CL again
Such a disappointment today. Early goal seemed to set the tone of the game . Ie we’ll sit on it and MK will try and equalise.
We were so flat and devoid of ideas. Hopefully just a blip and the games do happen.
no one played well or badly really ... just a bit “meh”....
We were so flat and devoid of ideas. Hopefully just a blip and the games do happen.
no one played well or badly really ... just a bit “meh”....
Skybluefaz
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Cov fan logic. If we are doing well its because everyone else is shit, not that we may be a good side.
Covstu
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Yep the goal changed the game for us and we sat very deep. Thought we looked better when o hare come on and had more creativity but Godden was non existent today and had zero service all day
CanadianCCFC
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Yeah but neither does anyone else
Frank Sidebottom
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I'm pretty happy, 24 games in, We've won 1 more game than last season and lost 7 less, Scored 10 more goals and conceded 3 less. We're the most difficult team in the league to beat. A little disappointed to have dropped 9 points from the bottom 5.... and that's what will probably cost us the Autos, But the playoffs are a more fun way to go up anyway.... and we always win those right?
SlowerThanPlatt
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Just watched the goal back. McCallum looks dead on his feet and is just jogging beside the player who gets the cross in - Robins had a third sub so why didn’t he use it?
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Watch to the end and catch Benno’s view
SlowerThanPlatt
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What does he say? All I can make out is shit and tell ya
letsallsingtogether
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That's not what he said!
Easily if not better.
Minus the spending.
Definitely weakest with a 20 million £ team and a 13 million £ team, get some facts the reason the league is so tight is that there is more competition and the stand out teams that should be flying have chocked.
This cov team is easily a team that will sit comfortably in playoffs and of we do somehow go up that would to me be over achieving bit thats not to say we didn't deserve to go up because we have played sone of the best football outside the prem this season better than some of the leeds/brentford and derby performances ive seen.
SlowerThanPlatt
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Absolute rubbish
SlowerThanPlatt
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Better than the sides who sit 1st and 3rd in the Championship...
Londonccfcfan
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Same old same old peeps with pointless Subjective boring bickering about competitiveness of the league. Lol