Re: More Football Chat : Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:34 pm  

Sthelens RLFC wrote:

One sale of a certain Shrek lookalike and you'd be lucky to finish top half.

So looking at the league table, Utd's one man team (Rooney) is better than Liverpool's two man team? (Gerrard and Torres).

Rooney > Gerrard and Torres combined.

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:41 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

So looking at the league table, Utd's one man team (Rooney) is better than Liverpool's two man team? (Gerrard and Torres).

Rooney > Gerrard and Torres combined.

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:46 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

So looking at the league table, Utd's one man team (Rooney) is better than Liverpool's two man team? (Gerrard and Torres).

Rooney > Gerrard and Torres combined.

Except Rooney has played as many as Gerrard and Torres combined so I'd say Rooney > Gerros. However in their only meeting this season Torres beat Rooney so I'd say it's a draw.

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:49 pm  

Sthelens RLFC wrote:

Except Rooney has played as many as Gerrard and Torres combined so I'd say Rooney > Gerros. However in their only meeting this season Torres beat Rooney so I'd say it's a draw.

Scraping the bottom of the barrel with that one.

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:53 pm  

Sthelens RLFC wrote:

Except Rooney has played as many as Gerrard and Torres combined so I'd say Rooney > Gerros. However in their only meeting this season Torres beat Rooney so I'd say it's a draw.

Fair way of doing it. In that case..

Zamora>Rooney

Dindane>Torres
O'Hara>Gerrard

Superb.

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:56 pm  

Sthelens RLFC wrote:

And what if Chelsea were to win the cup this season? Would the place then go to the runners up which quite conceivably be West Brom, Reading or Crystal Palace.

ATEOTD there are 4 places awarded to the 4 best achieving teams in our countrys league. To start giving a chance to the 7th placed team (which could easily be Liverpool this season) who could finish 25 points behind the team in 4th is daft. If Man City, Tottenham or Villa finish 4th this season they will deserve that spot and there should be no qualms about it.

Maybe it's all just a pre-cursor to a RL/ US-style end of season play-off & Grand Final.
As in RL the final League position would determine home advantage in the play-offs with a final at Wembley (conveniently helps with funds for Wembley too)

Whilst a massive break from tradition it's possibly something Sky may want as part of a renewed (and maybe larger) TV deal.
They (over)hype up matches between 'The Big 4' as it is but imagine what they would do during the play-offs building up to a one-off match at Wembley to win the English title in front of 90,000 fans?

Matches that could be -
United v Liverpool
United v Chelsea
Chelsea v Liverpool
United v City (if they continue to improve)
Chelsea v Arsenal

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:57 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

Scraping the bottom of the barrel with that one.

And then some!

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:05 pm  

Looks like Nani is back to normal

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:41 pm  

What a goal! Absolute cracker for Lyon. Will be hard for Madrid in the second leg but still fancy them to go through.

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:49 pm  

El Pac Carnegie wrote:

Looks like Nani is back to normal

He wasn't very good tonight. His final balls were shocking!