Roy's View From... View From Coventry

[CarlMcBlade]

and Ipswich. All this proves it is possible to get promoted from the championship without parachute payments. Clubs like Wednesday and Coventry choose to ignore this!

Yes, all these wanker clubs who blame parachute payments for all their ills conveniently forget about the initial leap a club has to make to achieve promotion. Also managing this new found wealth isn’t always that easy…See Luton and countless others.

 

[joeshaw123]

No nerves now post derby game? Leeds showing signs of crumbling giving fans a bit more confidence? Who knows but long may it continue

Adult tickets were £20 and seniors/kids less so far more affordable for non ST holders.
I'd like to go more frequently but £43 ish a chuck in BLUT is definitely a factor for me and it seems many others especially when we've been on telly so frequently.

 

[Champagneblade]

“We controlled much of the game at Sheffield so let’s not make out the top 3 are on another level. I the last 10 games or so we have been better than all of them”

Checked their last 10 fixtures and they read:

Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth

Ok, I may have exaggerated slightly…

 

[brownblade]

You have to be provoked to say something like "thanks for the 3 points"?! Soft lad.

 

[McGrath]

It’s strange that this parachute payments thing has now become widely accepted as the biggest injustice in football. You rarely hear complaints that winning the Premier League and Champions League attracts a big cash prize that sets you up to remain at the top, why is it so different in this league? It’s a really lazy take, particularly from the fans of the jealous wannabe clubs likeCoventry and Wednesday. They would sell their own mothers to be in receipt of these payments!

I'm my opinion the following are bigger injustices in football than parachute payments and all cost United:

1. Hans Segers against Everton cost us relegation
2. Tevez and Mascarano at Wham. They'd never have stayed up and we'd never have gone down if they'd been stopped from illegally signing international superstars far out of their reach.
3. Leicester going to administration to help build a team that got them promoted at our expense

 

[BerksBlade]

I'm my opinion the following are bigger injustices in football than parachute payments and all cost United:

1. Hans Segers against Everton cost us relegation
2. Tevez and Mascarano at Wham. They'd never have stayed up and we'd never have gone down if they'd been stopped from illegally signing international superstars far out of their reach.
3. Leicester going to administration to help build a team that got them promoted at our expense

4. Our "ghost goal" against Villa which arguably saved them from relegation at the expense of Bournemouth

 

[SwissBlade]

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[Selly]

I'm my opinion the following are bigger injustices in football than parachute payments and all cost United:

1. Hans Segers against Everton cost us relegation
2. Tevez and Mascarano at Wham. They'd never have stayed up and we'd never have gone down if they'd been stopped from illegally signing international superstars far out of their reach.
3. Leicester going to administration to help build a team that got them promoted at our expense

4. Our "ghost goal" against Villa which arguably saved them from relegation at the expense of Bournemouth

5. The fact that following No. 3 Tevez was allowed to continue playing due to "verbal reassurance" that WHU had unilaterally torn up their contract with Tevez's owners, and then WHU proceeded to "sell" Tevez (a £25m player at the time) for £2m free of any third party influence.

I think its that bit of the whole affair that annoys me the most. It happened, they were guilty, they were "punished" - and then the PL and Scudamore bent over backwards to allow them to continue to play the player.

It still shouldn`t have been our issue - we should have got a draw at home to Wigan...

 

[metalblade]

Why was the crowd so much better last week?

It's because we are big rivals

 

[Tom Bott]

But that talent is why they win games and why they’ve scored twice tonight.”

Refusing to acknowledge Hamer, or left early

Cheers Roy.

 

[McGrath]

5. The fact that following No. 3 Tevez was allowed to continue playing due to "verbal reassurance" that WHU had unilaterally torn up their contract with Tevez's owners, and then WHU proceeded to "sell" Tevez (a £25m player at the time) for £2m free of any third party influence.

I think its that bit of the whole affair that annoys me the most. It happened, they were guilty, they were "punished" - and then the PL and Scudamore bent over backwards to allow them to continue to play the player.

It still shouldn`t have been our issue - we should have got a draw at home to Wigan...

It was Dave Richards ex-pig chairman who was chairman of the Premier League at the time of the Tevez affair

It was him who when asked why they didn't get a points deduction and only got a fine (which the premier league TV easily made up for) said they'd done it for the fans

We should have drawn to Wigan. But then and again Man Utd shouldn't have fielded a weakened team against Wham where Tevez scored the winner on the last day. Ferguson called Warnock and apologised, which I think Warnock might have told him where to go

 

[Selly]

But then and again Man Utd shouldn't have fielded a weakened team against Wham where Tevez scored the winner on the last day.

Man U did everything BUT score that day - the team he picked wasn't the issue

 

[McGrath]

Man U did everything BUT score that day - the team he picked wasn't the issue

He apologised to Warnock about it. I think that says it all. If it had been a couple of weeks before they'd won the title, they'd have smashed Wham out of Old Trafford, no doubt about that

 

[BerksBlade]

5. The fact that following No. 3 Tevez was allowed to continue playing due to "verbal reassurance" that WHU had unilaterally torn up their contract with Tevez's owners, and then WHU proceeded to "sell" Tevez (a £25m player at the time) for £2m free of any third party influence.

I think its that bit of the whole affair that annoys me the most. It happened, they were guilty, they were "punished" - and then the PL and Scudamore bent over backwards to allow them to continue to play the player.

It still shouldn`t have been our issue - we should have got a draw at home to Wigan...

The whole thing stank from beginning to end.
The annoying thing for me was how the investigation was strung out for months when it was clear that (i) Tevez was clearly subject to 3rd-party ownership, and (ii) West Ham lied about the fact more than once. Then we heard that it's "too near the end of the season" to deduct points.

 

[Selly]

The annoying thing for me was how the investigation was strung out for months

A deliberate tactic by WHU who until the day of the hearing indicated they were going to plead Not Guilty - which forced the PL to prepare a whole case against them.

WHU then pled Guilty at the last minute - having succeeded in delaying the hearing until 3 weeks before the end of the season with a view to putting the commission in the tricky spot of any deduction effectively relegating them.

 

[JJBlade]

It’s strange that this parachute payments thing has now become widely accepted as the biggest injustice in football. You rarely hear complaints that winning the Premier League and Champions League attracts a big cash prize that sets you up to remain at the top, why is it so different in this league? It’s a really lazy take, particularly from the fans of the jealous wannabe clubs likeCoventry and Wednesday. They would sell their own mothers to be in receipt of these payments!

The Champions League is even more unfair, seeded teams in groups separated from each other to make sure that the Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Final ends up being a monopoly by no more than 10 clubs, and yes I know an occasional so called lesser team has a good run now and then Frank before you start again.

But the system is designed to prevent the less rich clubs from progressing

 

[JJBlade]

Yes, all these wanker clubs who blame parachute payments for all their ills conveniently forget about the initial leap a club has to make to achieve promotion. Also managing this new found wealth isn’t always that easy…See Luton and countless others.

They also conveniently forget that for many games this year we've had up to five academy players in the first team squad

 

[Headshrinker]

“We controlled much of the game at Sheffield so let’s not make out the top 3 are on another level. I the last 10 games or so we have been better than all of them”

Yeah, that is the most weird one. The table says that they are more like three levels below.

 

[CornwallBlade]

In fairness for years people have talked about how the CL money had created a Big 4, then a Big 6.

The recent exploits of Villa, and likely Forest, and the collapse of Man U, have to an extent masked that imbalance.

Now, instead of a Big 6, you have effectively a Huge 7/8 and then Big 9/10. An almost closed shop of 17 teams, one of Erin's would have to have an absolute travesty of a season to end up going down.

Hence, the talk of imbalance has shifted to the top of the Championship (because taking about the importance at the bottom of the PL brings too many questions) as for a long time a team with a decent set up, but not necessarily cash rich, could make the dream and go up (see us, Ipswich).

The rest of the Championship are now looking at Soton, Leicester and Ipswich and quite rightly wondering how any of them will challenge them next year.

The noise will only get worse. I don't see a way out of this without PL2 rearing it's head again (2 divisions of 18) - which might help in the short term but will only shift the problem down 16 places or so. (Because the real answer, a note even distribution of the PLTV money across the whole league is never going to happen)

Big 6 sod off to a Saudi/Euro league, leaving us free to distribute revenue across 3 divisions sensibly and let us have our, competitive, domestic game back?

 

[Selly]

But the system is designed to prevent the less rich clubs from progressing

The system is designed to ensure the "big clubs" get their guaranteed revenue stream - the above is a by product of that - and it is, as you say, by design