Administrator Stan 18,380 Posted September 19, 2018 Administrator Share Posted September 19, 2018 Friday, 21st September, 2018 Wigan vs Bristol City Saturday, 22nd September, 2018 Aston Villa vs Sheffield Wednesday Derby vs Brentford Ipswich vs Bolton Leeds vs Birmingham Middlesbrough vs Swansea Nottingham Forest vs Rotherham QPR vs Norwich, 17.30 Reading vs Hull Sheff Utd vs Preston Stoke vs Blackburn West Brom vs Millwall Saturday, 22nd September, 2018 Accrington Stanley vs AFC Wimbledon Barnsley vs Burton Blackpool vs Luton Bristol Rovers vs Coventry Charlton vs Plymouth Doncaster vs Bradford Gillingham vs Peterborough Oxford vs Walsall Portsmouth vs Wycombe Scunthorpe vs Shrewsbury Southend vs Fleetwood Sunderland vs Rochdale Saturday, 22nd September, 2018 Bury vs Carlisle Cambridge vs Mansfield Crewe vs Port Vale Exeter vs Cheltenham Forest Green vs Crawley Lincoln vs MK Dons Morecambe vs Macclesfield Northampton vs Notts County Oldham vs Colchester Stevenage vs Grimsby Tranmere vs Newport County Yeovil vs Swindon Tuesday 25th September, 2018 Yeovil vs MK Dons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 2,204 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Derby are there for the taking. Hope and expect a win but think it could be a draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BounceAroundTheGround 27 Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Who knows what the result will be tonight. Nothing would surprise me tbf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 3 hours ago, BounceAroundTheGround said: Who knows what the result will be tonight. Nothing would surprise me tbf I heard city played really badly tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots 607 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Stuck with this cunt, it seems. I reckon we’ll win today, Wednesday are a shit team and so are we but we’re a group of talented individuals, ours will produce more moments to win the match. Everyone will go “I don’t know what the Bruce OUT crowd think they’re on about, he’s what you need at this level, a promotion specialist blah blah” Following that our season will pan out thus, we’ll keep pace with front pack by beating the chaff in this league regularly till approximately March eventually slipping behind and settle for a playoff spot only to get beat again predictably by a side with a coherent style of play. Then finally we’ll sack him with 2 years down the shitter and still no style of play. This fucking cunt was talking about Forrestieri (can’t be arsed to google correct spelling) being a threat. Well not this week Steve, he’s banned. I’m absolutely convinced he idea is to wing it each week and asked them to play with “zip” that’s the sum amount of his style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Artful Dodger 1,831 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Awful. Worse than last year by a mile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots 607 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Genuinely hopeful he may get sacked after that, the fans chanted for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Artful Dodger 1,831 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 27 minutes ago, Fairy In Boots said: Genuinely hopeful he may get sacked after that, the fans chanted for it Probably for the best now. I think Bruce works better at smaller clubs who see promotion as an aspiration rather than obligation as Villa do. Plus the game is advancing and he isnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots 607 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 8 minutes ago, The Artful Dodger said: Probably for the best now. I think Bruce works better at smaller clubs who see promotion as an aspiration rather than obligation as Villa do. Plus the game is advancing and he isnt. There’s no style of play after 100 games, scandalous really. We needed a builder when we dropped out of the PL, we still do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber JoshBRFC+ 1,388 Posted September 22, 2018 Subscriber Share Posted September 22, 2018 What a performance. I fucking love Bradley Dack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas 3,827 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Garry bloody Monk. Birmingham near the bottom, no win all season. You know the rest. Firstly, Birmingham are poor. They scored two soft goals, didn't offer much else and broke up the flow of the game by continuously causing stoppages, feigning injuries, niggly fouls etc. Was not very sporting but then again, I wouldn't expect them to roll over and have their bellies tickled. They did what they had to do, at whatever cost, and they did it well in the end. Secondly, we were poor. Really poor. We gave them the first via poor keeping from a young goalkeeper still learning his trade. Sadly at that age, they will make mistakes and you have to support them through it. We contributed to our own downfall with soft defending for the second and let's face it, 2-0 down to a team that will sit back and defend the fuck out of that as long as they have to is going to take hard going to turn around. When I look back over 90 minutes, have we forced the keeper into many saves? One big one, and that was when going for the equaliser in the 95th minute. Other than that, we didn't create enough for me. So quite frankly, despite how poor they were, we deserved nothing. You need to do more than what we did to deserve winning football matches. What was entirely refreshing to see was Bielsa post match blame himself for getting it tactically wrong. When he changed it after half hour and made a sub, we looked better but it was too late by then. First league defeat, I'd have taken that if told it wouldn't happen until 22nd September back in the summer. Still top, and a chance to see how this group reacts to the disappointment of home defeat. What is key now is that we get back on the horse and go again. And those fixtures don't get much more better than Wednesday away on a Friday night. Big following, on TV, we need to be bang up for this one, hopefully we will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewolf 7,161 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Bit of a surprise that one to be honest.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,380 Posted September 22, 2018 Author Administrator Share Posted September 22, 2018 Just seen what happened at Stoke 3-0 down at half-time. Pulled it back to 3-2 with 10 minutes to go. Stoke get an injury time penalty. Up steps Saido Berahino. Misses it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,380 Posted September 22, 2018 Author Administrator Share Posted September 22, 2018 Unreal goal from John McGinn for Villa today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,380 Posted September 22, 2018 Author Administrator Share Posted September 22, 2018 better view of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 2,204 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Disappointing result, not sure how we played but I said we'll be inconsistent this season and this will be one of those games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiley Culture 1,651 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 That McGinn goal should have been worth two goals. Could watch it all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots 607 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 That goal is indicative of Villa under Bruce. A team and a manager relying on moments of individual brilliance rather than a dominant team performance! That is not enough for promotion and it won’t be while he’s at the club. This squad could walk this league, they could have done it last year to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roversgirl 37 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Probably our best performance under Mowbray for the first 80 mins. Dack should have made it 4-0 going one on one with the keeper and hitting the post, and it nearly came back to haunt us. Five points in seven days in some tricky games (Villa home, Derby away and Stoke away)...I think we can be very pleased with our week! Today we showed real quality and it’s another learning curve in terms of learning to see games out more comfortably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,380 Posted September 23, 2018 Author Administrator Share Posted September 23, 2018 One thing I love about this division (but not so much whilst we were in it for most of the 00s and between 2009-2014) is how close it is and there's very rarely a runaway winner. Leeds have had a great start but fell short yesterday. West Brom lost a couple early on but have now got their act together. Wigan have started the season brilliantly considering they were promoted just this season. Credit to Paul Cook for that. Sheff Weds look to have had a terrible start but have won a few in a row now. Blackburn, likewise, seem to have got a good momentum and confidence within their team, profiting from their promotion too. Means now that the top half is separated by only 4 points. Leeds on 18 points and Blackburn on 14 points. After that, clubs like Millwall & Stoke probably most surprising not to be doing too well. Millwall down in the relegation spots, having not won since mid-August. Stoke can't seem to get any kind of consistency going and lie in 18th spot. Hope it continues as it means it's less predictable and usually more entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BounceAroundTheGround 27 Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 On 21/09/2018 at 22:55, Gunnersauraus said: I heard city played really badly tonight? You heard wrong. We played really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really badly Friday night. Had 2 chances all game, one was from a poor backpass and another from a set piece... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Palace Fan 3,402 Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 With the way Birmingham had been playing, you knew that big win was eventually going to come, but I didn't expect it to come this weekend. Some naivety from Peacock-Farrell to allow the first goal to go in is just the luck Birmingham had really been missing. They have looked pretty organised at the back since the Lee Camp signing too. I really don't want Middlesbrough to go up because they're just boring as fuck under Pulis. They will always be frustratingly resolute under Pulis but as a side they're playing the exact brand of football they hated Karanka for in The Premiership. So it will be interesting to see how there fans react if they get promoted. Speaking of Karanka, Forest seem to be benefit from his resolute and organised shape. It may be a season too early for them to go up but they seem to be building something thats worth progressing with. On the flip side of things it's nice to see Derby doing well given how likeable Frank Lampard comes across as a manager. Mason Mount and Harry Wilson already look like they're going to be having very progressive seasons. Hopefully it is just a minor setback for Brentford and both teams continue to play good football and have good seasons. As well as Frank Lampard, it's good to see it still working out for Darren Moore. I was worried he may get gobbled up by a slow start (Shakespeare style) but with the enthusiasm of Gayle they seem to have adapted to this level very quickly. The Sheffield United game looked like a fantastic watch but I didn't realise until midweek just how much Preston seem to be struggling at the moment. You imagine if they play like this though the results will eventually come given they have a good manager who got this squad in to the top half last season. Another fantastic watch seemed to be Stoke / Rovers. Blackburn have really impressed me so far, and I can't see Bradley Dack slowing down any time soon. Have to feel for Saido Berahino though as he seems to have a completely new attitude and focus this season. Villa look like they're really missing John Terrys leadership at the minute. Which is a shame because there team looks better than it was last season with the quality of McCann in midfield. It seems bizarre they let Elphick and Terry go and not bringing in one defender. Three wins a row for Norwich now. Teemu Pukki looks like an excellent find. To get a win against QPR at the highest they'll probably ever be this season in terms of form, confidence etc is really telling of the direction Norwich seem to be heading in. I was very surprised to see Reading give their former boss a bit of a thumping. Hopefully that's bored Paul Clement time and confidence to sort his team out a bit. Hull City traditionally seem to be good at gaining points against teams down the bottom so this will no doubt hurt them. The off field drama seems to have set Bolton back a bit as you'd imagine that they would have been eyeing six points against Ipswich and QPR. I wonder how Ipswich fans are feeling at the moment because under Paul Hirst they don't look equipped for this league at the minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnivore Chris 2,606 Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 This is a good Rovers side capable of grabbing a spot in the play offs for me as there is always improvments being made all the time and it's a team profiting of winning momentum from gaining promotion last season. Having a player like Dack alone can make a massive difference as has been on show this season, although he should have made it 4 yesterday. It was 3 points either way, not made easy by any means in the last 10 minutes but it was a well earned victory in the end. This side, under Mowbray, is capable of getting into the playoffs, although there are various sides who can boast the same. Tough league, with alot of quality in it but if this side can grab a spot in the play off positions, then anything can happen from there on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 5 hours ago, The Palace Fan said: With the way Birmingham had been playing, you knew that big win was eventually going to come, but I didn't expect it to come this weekend. Some naivety from Peacock-Farrell to allow the first goal to go in is just the luck Birmingham had really been missing. They have looked pretty organised at the back since the Lee Camp signing too. I really don't want Middlesbrough to go up because they're just boring as fuck under Pulis. They will always be frustratingly resolute under Pulis but as a side they're playing the exact brand of football they hated Karanka for in The Premiership. So it will be interesting to see how there fans react if they get promoted. Speaking of Karanka, Forest seem to be benefit from his resolute and organised shape. It may be a season too early for them to go up but they seem to be building something thats worth progressing with. On the flip side of things it's nice to see Derby doing well given how likeable Frank Lampard comes across as a manager. Mason Mount and Harry Wilson already look like they're going to be having very progressive seasons. Hopefully it is just a minor setback for Brentford and both teams continue to play good football and have good seasons. As well as Frank Lampard, it's good to see it still working out for Darren Moore. I was worried he may get gobbled up by a slow start (Shakespeare style) but with the enthusiasm of Gayle they seem to have adapted to this level very quickly. The Sheffield United game looked like a fantastic watch but I didn't realise until midweek just how much Preston seem to be struggling at the moment. You imagine if they play like this though the results will eventually come given they have a good manager who got this squad in to the top half last season. Another fantastic watch seemed to be Stoke / Rovers. Blackburn have really impressed me so far, and I can't see Bradley Dack slowing down any time soon. Have to feel for Saido Berahino though as he seems to have a completely new attitude and focus this season. Villa look like they're really missing John Terrys leadership at the minute. Which is a shame because there team looks better than it was last season with the quality of McCann in midfield. It seems bizarre they let Elphick and Terry go and not bringing in one defender. Three wins a row for Norwich now. Teemu Pukki looks like an excellent find. To get a win against QPR at the highest they'll probably ever be this season in terms of form, confidence etc is really telling of the direction Norwich seem to be heading in. I was very surprised to see Reading give their former boss a bit of a thumping. Hopefully that's bored Paul Clement time and confidence to sort his team out a bit. Hull City traditionally seem to be good at gaining points against teams down the bottom so this will no doubt hurt them. The off field drama seems to have set Bolton back a bit as you'd imagine that they would have been eyeing six points against Ipswich and QPR. I wonder how Ipswich fans are feeling at the moment because under Paul Hirst they don't look equipped for this league at the minute. Will karanka be given a season though? Championship owners are very inpatient Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber JoshBRFC+ 1,388 Posted September 24, 2018 Subscriber Share Posted September 24, 2018 Before the season i was just happy to survive but i think we really are capable of getting to the playoffs and having a go. I genuinely believe that we have one of the best players in the League in Bradley Dack, he's made the transition up a league seem effortless. If we don't have a good season i fear we could lose him next summer. The team spirit and improvements under Mowbray has been amazing. What a turnaround he has made at the club. We really need to keep hold of these leads better, we've already dropped too many points from winning positions late on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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