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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,027
    Would rather Wolves go down out of those left I think.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,233
    Kcuf me, what a day of football that was. BEST. LAST. DAY. EVER.

    Gutted for Blackpool, glad Wolves and Wigan got out. Delighted Blues have gone. Wish Blackburn had joined them.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,027
    Would rather Wolves go down out of those left I think.
    Still, Birmingham isn't a bad consolation.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,233
    Would rather Wolves go down out of those left I think.
    Still, Birmingham isn't a bad consolation.
    Birmingham are the Millwall of the Midlands, much better to see them relegated than Wolves.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,810
    Brum mate who is a season ticket holder is predicting admin by xmas. Thinks Young will bail out.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,867
    Dont like Wigan but gotta love the old boy Dave Whelan
  • ISawLeaburnScore
    ISawLeaburnScore Posts: 9,780
    edited May 2011
    My mates think the same Clem.

    I'm gutted for Birmingham. As a club they haven't made many friends over the years as you can tell but I've met a fair few and every one of them have been good to me and they've stuck by their club through thick and thin. They are very concerned about the murky world in which their present board (and previous incumbents) have left them in.
  • cafcdan18
    cafcdan18 Posts: 3,664
    Really pleased for Dave Whelan, really nice interview with him on Football Focus yesterday, gutted for Blackpool though. Last day did not disappoint at all.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Just back from watching bham get relegated at tottingham, they were shite deserved to go down spurs were not all that took 71 mins for bham to have a shot on Target , very edgy outside the ground was worthwhile goin just for that tense atmosphere, return to car and some pike bstd has swipe my spare wheel from underneath the motor
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,727

    I remember people saying why wasn't Curbs as good a manager as Mc Cleish because he won the Micky Mouse cup. I wonder what the Millwall of the Midlands fans think now!

    Shame about Blackpool though.


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  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,233
    My mates think the same Clem.

    I'm gutted for Birmingham. As a club they haven't made many friends over the years as you can tell but I've met a fair few and every one of them have been good to me and they've stuck by their club through thick and thin. They are very concerned about the murky world in which their present board (and previous incumbents) have left them in.
    You obviously weren't there the season the Junior Reds coach got bricked.

    Living in the midlands I know a few Blues fans (including the father in law). As with all clubs, some of em are alright but in my experience they have a far higher % of nuckle dragging scummers than most clubs.
  • ISawLeaburnScore
    ISawLeaburnScore Posts: 9,780
    My mates think the same Clem.

    I'm gutted for Birmingham. As a club they haven't made many friends over the years as you can tell but I've met a fair few and every one of them have been good to me and they've stuck by their club through thick and thin. They are very concerned about the murky world in which their present board (and previous incumbents) have left them in.
    You obviously weren't there the season the Junior Reds coach got bricked.

    Living in the midlands I know a few Blues fans (including the father in law). As with all clubs, some of em are alright but in my experience they have a far higher % of nuckle dragging scummers than most clubs.
    As I intimated they have their nutcases but those I have chosen to be mates with have never done anything wrong to me. As you yourself suggest you can't judge a whole fanbase by a minority.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,885

    I remember people saying why wasn't Curbs as good a manager as Mc Cleish because he won the Micky Mouse cup. I wonder what the Millwall of the Midlands fans think now!

    Shame about Blackpool though.

    You can hardly call The League Cup a 'mickey mouse' cup. Fair enough for the Full Members, Quarter Members (JPT) or Anglo-Italian but not The League Cup.
  • allez les addicks
    allez les addicks Posts: 1,433
    Would rather Wolves go down out of those left I think.
    Still, Birmingham isn't a bad consolation.
    Birmingham are the Millwall of the Midlands, much better to see them relegated than Wolves.
    Let's not forget that they will also be in Europe next season when outside of the top-flight. Last club to do that of course was the spanners....
  • ISawLeaburnScore
    ISawLeaburnScore Posts: 9,780
    Blackpool in as well.

    Apparently their first game is 30th June now.

    You can imagine both will be aiming to get out asap.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,381
    I wonder if birminghams version of nolly is still harping on about their great cup final win and saying it was better than surviving in the premiership
    Times have changed and the prize of premiership football is bigger than ever before
    I know I'd rather have had our last 9 seasons under curbs over a league cup final win
    Each to their own tho
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,381

    but i'm sure birmingham will have their own club apologists warbling on about how it will be great going to games knowing they have a chance of winning and a few new grounds to visit and what a wonderful board they have and how well run a club they are

     

    mind if they don't go up and financially implode and have to make loads of staff redundant as their side turn into complete tosh, they may want to revise their comments over time

  • drawnablank
    drawnablank Posts: 789
    I bet there aren't to many fans that would rather the Carling Cup than relegation. When Birmingham won it they were talking about building a bigger squad to cope with the demands of football on four fronts and relegation wasn't something they would have been to concerned with.

    If someone offered me survival or a cup win then of course I'd take survival but football doesn't work like that. Take your glory when you can.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    edited May 2011
    the fact that you keep going on about it ooah tells its own story,i repeat for the 100th time to you any team who stays in the premier league for over a long period such as us should be at least making some kind of cup final,its unheard of not to bar us,now yes brum will be gutted but there still a league above us and to boot now actually have some recent silverware,whats the point of existing as a fucking football club if you have got any hope of winning anything? unlike you i dont get off on winning at arsenal as my highlight,now give it a rest your annoying me.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,381

    just re iterating my point that in itself staying in the premiership was a great thing and something to behold

    i'm not greedy, i was grateful for our lot that we received and if you don't get off on winning the greatest play off final ever then that's your choice

    get back in bed nolly and get out the other side


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  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    you make no sense mate really,name any club who stayed that long and didnt have some kind of final.....fulham? bolton? wigan?,anyway get back to talking about away support
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,381

    just be grateful we stayed there that long

     

    fulham took over 500 to sunderland for a nothing game a few weeks back which i thought was impressive

  • drawnablank
    drawnablank Posts: 789
    You can't just have ambition to stay in the Premier League and forget everything else. The whole point of the game is winning. You want to win trophies. Of course you want to stay in the Premiership but would you really want to finish twelth for fifteen years and not win a thing? If their is a risk of relegation to pursue a chance of silverware then the risk is worth taking.

  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    Blackpool gave it everything, in the end the luck ran out. They had by far and away the toughest task of all the clubs down there and were by no means disgraced, very annoying to see Wigan slime out of it again and Wolves were very fortunate. I think the Adam episode derailed them for a bit but they were coming good and the games ran out. Great goalscorers but naive defensively. I think Blackpool are the best placed to make a return of the relegated sides. Yer actual West 'am will take a while to get to grips with the Championship, Birmingham will face a cull but still know what is needed to go up. Blackpool will lose a few players inevitably- Adam, Vaughan et al but will keep the core squad and could well do what Charlton did in 1999/00.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,885
    For the first time ever, I find myself agreeing with nolly. A trophy is an honour that stays as part of the club's history. That's the whole point of competing, isn't it?

    What if we'd had this survival at all costs attitude in 1947 (when we finished fourth from bottom!): we'd have never have won the FA Cup, an honour that distinguishes us from both Millwall and Palace (please excuse the bad language).
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,315
    You're right staying in the Prem was a great thing, but I'd still rather win a cup.  Over a period of time all but the few biggest will get relegated, but when you've won something that record stays forever.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,027
    Yeah, but I was talking to a dyed-in-the-wool Blues fan today and they said that if it was a choice between the, I quote, "poxy" Carling Cup and financial stability in the Prem then it was a no brainer - and I agree.

    The "consolation" was, "now we're down we might at least win a few games". Sound familiar?

    Oh and I happened to mention that my old chum Marcus Bent is still on their payroll - for now - which went down really well.


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