cheshunt seagull
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Not sure I'd call Braga a poor club. They have a great stadium and have qualified for European competition a number of times in recent years. Nice city as well.
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[Football] Are Wolves FINNISHED ?
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Not sure I'd call Braga a poor club. They have a great stadium and have qualified for European competition a number of times in recent years. Nice city as well.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Last night was Wolves' 7th game in Europe already this season, and they'll have played a total of 12 extra European games this side of Christmas. An extra 12 games in the space of half a season.
Basically if you're in the Europa, you're almost playing to a Championship schedule but with the intensity of trying to compete at the very top level in the PL. I don't have any sympathy, as they're monied enough to put a squad together to cope. But shoe-horning all those extra European games in, with less recovery time between games, and all that additional travel is bound to have an effect. How can it not ?
I'd dearly love to see BHA compete in Europe before I cark it, but its definitely a burden.
Basically if you're in the Europa, you're almost playing to a Championship schedule but with the intensity of trying to compete at the very top level in the PL. I don't have any sympathy, as they're monied enough to put a squad together to cope. But shoe-horning all those extra European games in, with less recovery time between games, and all that additional travel is bound to have an effect. How can it not ?
I'd dearly love to see BHA compete in Europe before I cark it, but its definitely a burden.
sussex_guy2k2
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You've hit the nail on the head. Which is why many of us really didn't want another season of awful football. If there's nothing to aspire to, at least make the football good to watch.
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
They'll find their form before 07/12
Money. If you have a good team, The Championship is the most fun league to be in but you also lose money each week with no hope of getting it back if you stay in that league. In the PL with £2 million per place up for grabs, a top 10 finish can be worth an extra £16 million. Presumably it also mean more wins for the fans too although not necessarily fun football to watch.
Point of order.
Because they are playing in Europe, they get to miss an extra round of the Carabooo Cup, so it is only actually ELEVEN extra games
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Point of order.
Because they are playing in Europe, they get to miss an extra round of the Carabooo Cup, so it is only actually ELEVEN extra games
A pedant writes:
Its 12 extra European games. I wasn't even counting the The Caramac Cup
A pedant writes:
Its 12 extra European games. I wasn't even counting the The Caramac Cup
Well that is just SILLY. The European games are by definition EXTRA. That is a truism.
Your suggestion obviously intimated that they would play 12 MORE games. They don't.
#SticksOutTongue
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
I think you're right to an extent, it doesn't automatically ruin league form but if you have other contributing factors then it adds a bit of fuel to fires that you're trying to put out.
In Wolves' case their squad isn't big enough and they're already in bad form. If they pick up any injuries I think they'll be in a bit of trouble.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
HUH ?
Before Christmas, Wolves are going to be playing 12 additional games in Europe that we are not. Hence - they'll be playing at least 12 games MORE than us. More = Extra.
#amImissingsomething
super-seagulls
Soup! Why didn’t I get any Soup?
HUH ?
Before Christmas, Wolves are going to be playing 12 additional games in Europe that we are not. Hence - they'll be playing at least 12 games MORE than us. More = Extra.
#amImissingsomething
What HKFC is trying to say is that they did have, as you say 12 euro games which is 12 more than us, but they had a bye in the league cup where we played hence only 11 extra/more games than us.
I think.