Birmingham, Sunderland and The Baggies have, essentially, the same squads they had last season. Birmingham (I believe) have written into players contracts that relegation means their wages will reduce to Chamionship level (Now that IS good management!) and so far they've sold Heskey (For 5.5Mill) Pennant (For 6.8Mill for goodness sake!) and have the parachute payments plus a board that runs it very well. they still have the financial clout to buy and buy well. The Baggies haven'tsold much and hung on to key players (The Keeper, Davies and most of their midfield) Sunderland, despite being an embarrasment in the Premier League still have a stronger squad (On paper I admit) than the one that romped away with the Championship two seasons ago. Southampton now have a very good manager in charge and have invested the Walcott money well, Derby have invested well and (unfortunately) now have that tosser Davies in charge, who WILL do something with them, Coventry have hung on to key players and invested well, as have Norwich and Leicester (Who hit form at the back end of the season with the new guy in charge). IMHO Ourselves, Preston and Palace all start this season in a weaker position than the one we were in at the start of last season
> Go on then, find one email professing a love of his managerial expertise! > > All the way through my stance has been that he aint the best but he has > done > a decent enough job in terms of transfers and league position to date. > > In my opinion, if he continues that trend of performing to (reasonable) > expectations then we will be pushing for automatic promotion this season. > The main caveat being that the clubs who came down perform as relegated > clubs normally do and struggle to cope with the new environment. > Obviously > if any of them get off to a flyer, given their financial situation and > that > a lot of their players have experience playing in the prem, we might well > not be in the race. In other words I don't think its reasonable to expect > us to run away with the league like reading and Sheff Utd did at the start > of last season, so if someone else does we will obviously be left behind > again. However, if that DID happen, I expect us to be a lot closer than > last year. > > There aint a lot we can do if 2 teams run away with it all season, but if > someone does a Sheff Utd and drops back towards the end of the season I > expect us to be close enough to catch them this time around. > > As I said at the end of last season, you'll find the expectations of you > anti Blackwell people and the rest of us will be pretty much the same this > season - unless you think we ought to be running away with the league this > season? > > I think we all expect to be getting a similar amount of points as Sheff > Utd > did last season, and I think we all expect some decent attacking football > this season - although the most important thing still is the result. > > I think this could be an exciting season for us. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 August 2006 10:53 > To: Mark Humphries > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LU] in ands outs > > Mark, > > No backtracking now. Your reputation is on the line > here. We can dig those old mails out stating your love > for Blackie's managerial expertise. > > We're all going to see the results this season. DOn't > try and wriggle out of it. > > > > > > --- Mark Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> PS It got to the stage a while back that I've >> thought that at least if he >> did go it would stop you lot whingeing and moaning >> about him. >> >> But then I realised you'd do the same for the next >> manager, and the next, >> and the next.. so whats the point? >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >> Of Richard Walker >> Sent: 03 August 2006 08:28 >> To: Terry Emmott >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LU] in ands outs >> >> >> --- Terry Emmott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> > >> > (snip reasoned statement that all Blackwell haters >> > will consider shite >> > without being able to produce well-thought out >> > arguments to refute it). >> > >> >> F'cking hell Terry. Did you see the play off final ? >> >> >> >> > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Inbox full of spam? Get leading spam protection and 1GB storage with All > New > Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > > > _______________________________________________ > the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators > accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. > Leedslist mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > oh alright then :-) > _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist oh alright then :-)
