2018/19 English Football Predictions

[chef]

1. Liverpool
2. Man City
3. Chelsea
4. Arsenal
5. Spurs
6. United
7. Everton
8. West Ham
9. Wolves
10. Fulham
11. Leicester
12. Burnley
13. Crystal Palace
14. Bournemouth
15. Southampton
16. Watford
17. Newcastle United
18. Brighton
19. Huddersfield
20. Cardiff City

To Get Promoted: Leeds, Stoke, Derby
FA Cup: Man City
League Cup: Derby
Top scorer: PEA
Best transfer: Alisson
Worst signing: Fred
Champions League: Barca
Europa League: Chelsea
1st manager sacked: Sparky

 

[WealstoneRaider]

1. Man City
2. Liverpool
3. Chelsea
4. Arsenal
5. Spurs
6. United
7. Everton
8. West Ham
9. Wolves
10. Fulham
11. Leicester
12. Burnley
13. Crystal Palace
14. Bournemouth
15. Southampton
16. Watford
17. Newcastle United
18. Brighton
19. Huddersfield
20. Cardiff City

To Get Promoted: Leeds, Stoke, Derby
FA Cup: Man City
League Cup: Derby
Top scorer: PEA
Best transfer: Alisson
Worst signing: Fred
Champions League: Barca
Europa League: Chelsea
1st manager sacked: Sparky

Arsenal above spurs - what you smoking?

 

[chef]

Arsenal above spurs - what you smoking?

Yeah I dunno. They've had a good window, have a decent manager now and their squad especially the attacking side is looking pretty good now. PEA is in for a huge season too.

They will surprise a few. Plus you guys have stood still, which is strange after you promised your manager you'd spend. Need to watch out for United when they sack Mou as they'll come chasing him.

 

[go you pups]

Yeah I dunno. They've had a good window, have a decent manager now and their squad especially the attacking side is looking pretty good now. PEA is in for a huge season too.

They will surprise a few. Plus you guys have stood still, which is strange after you promised your manager you'd spend. Need to watch out for United when they sack Mou as they'll come chasing him.

Emery is a cup manager

Wouldn't surprise me if Arsenal won something, but whether he can make them compete in the league again is another story

 

[WealstoneRaider]

Yeah I dunno. They've had a good window, have a decent manager now and their squad especially the attacking side is looking pretty good now. PEA is in for a huge season too.

They will surprise a few. Plus you guys have stood still, which is strange after you promised your manager you'd spend. Need to watch out for United when they sack Mou as they'll come chasing him.

We’ve stood still transfer wise but the players are young and are getting better. Plus we don’t have to play at ****ing Wembley! Arsenal won’t make up the ground on us.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Below the Goons. Yeah nah.

 

[KoopK]

1 Manchester City
2 Liverpool
3 Chelsea
4 Tottenham Hotspur
5 Manchester United
6 Arsenal
7 Leicester City
8 West Ham
9 Wolves
10 Brighton
11 Crystal Palace
12 Everton
13 Burnley
14 Newcastle
15 Fulham
16 Bournemouth
17 Southampton
18 Huddersfield Town
19 Watford
20 Cardiff City

To Get Promoted: Stoke, Leeds, West Brom
FA Cup: Manchester United
League Cup: Chelsea
Top Scorer: Mohamed Salah
Best Transfer: Florin Andone / James Maddison
Worst signing: Felipe Anderson
Champions League: Manchester City
Europa League: Chelsea
1st Manager sacked: Javi Gracia

 

[jod23]

Jesus.

Have a read of this condensed version and then decide if you want to have another crack:





So SM grabs onto the negative used in Jod's perfectly fine phrase and obsesses about that specific phrase, despite it being pointlessly pedantic.


SM repeats his pedantry, so Jod clarifies in order to stop the stupidness of the conversation:


So SM is trying to define things as not being "independent" in order to try and pretend that Jod is claiming something "wrong". You cannot finish in three positions at once, because they are individual positions, but you can end up "not finishing 1st, 2nd, or 4th" at once. So SM is talking about a phrase as being key, and Jod is talking about the actual numbers. The convo then just got even more repetitious.

It's ****ing pointless. A waste of space and worth deleting.

Just SM being SM haha.

 

[jod23]

I find it pretty interesting when some people betray such a lack of common sense. And I'd have been happy to give it up but Ratts is so damn persistent at insulting my intelligence and me as a person when he's so fundamentally wrong.. *shrug*

And hey, it's not like Loons knows a thing or two about maths.

I just dont understand why you take everything so seriously. All I said was a lot would have to happen for us to win the Europa League, which was really just a bullish comment suggesting we are not going out at the group stage.

But you always take everything the wrong way haha.

I do love it though. You make me laugh.

 

[jod23]

No, mate. It's not about Jod making a "typo". My comment about a typo was a reference to your #125 post. The irony is high in you complaining about other people not understanding... Most obviously you keep bringing up "basic math" despite no one debating the math. Then your 'edit' above admits that you didn't understand the post initially. Strewth.

I remember once asking if you deliberately had convos like this to increase notifications. I thought you had since improved. Unfortunately not.

You gotta stop owning SM here... haha.

 

[SM]

Just let it go mate.

 

[jod23]

I let it go immediately. It was Ratts who took to you like a dog with a bone. Im used to you of course. But he was spot on all the way through. Calling you out on several of the classic stuff you do. Heheh. It was entertaining reading

 

[jd2010]

Smart Daniel... Can't get 'Worst transfer' if we don't sign anyone.

Does a recalled loan player count?

 

[Fryer Tuck]

1. Leicester (Don't act surprised)

2. Liverpool
3. Man City
4. Chelsea

5. Tottenham
6. Arsenal

7. Man United
8. Wolves
9. West Ham
10. Burnley
11. Everton
12. Huddersfield
13. Brighton
14. Watford
15. Fulham
16. Bournemouth
17. Newcastle

18. Southampton
19. Crystal Palace
20. Cardiff

To Get Promoted: Leeds, Preston, Boro
FA Cup: Leicester
League Cup: Leicester
Top scorer: Vardy
Best transfer: Maddison
Worst signing: Ward
Champions League: Man City
Europa League: Chelsea
1st manager sacked: Mark Hughes


Feels tougher this time around (Maybe its because of Leicester's business being done early, but I'm not really feeling this transfer window). I'm really hoping that the midtable sides can get their act together and actually fight for things, rather than that mosh pit it became last season.



Ashley deserves to be related, the way Rafa and Newcastle are being treated just isn't right.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Red and yellow cards will be issued to managers and coaches for misconduct in the technical area this season.

Premier League bosses will receive verbal cautions for "irresponsible behaviour" in the 2018-19 campaign.

But in the FA Cup, Football League, EFL Cup, EFL Trophy and National League, they will be shown cards.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45025794

Should we include a prediction for this?

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45025794

Should we include a prediction for this?

I predict Mou will use it as an excuse to stay at home and watch the game on TV because 'You can see I'm not welcome'.

 

[DBAH0]

Lot of love for Mark Hughes in this thread.

 

[go you pups]

Lot of love for Mark Hughes in this thread.

How he keeps getting PL jobs I'll never know...

 

[DBAH0]

How he keeps getting PL jobs I'll never know...

Hoping he's the next Pardew.

 

[go you pups]

Hoping he's the next Pardew.

He's worse than Pardew imo

Pardew finished 5th with Newcastle that one time...

 

[SM]

How he keeps getting PL jobs I'll never know...

Finishing 9th three years in a row with Stoke probably helps.

 

[go you pups]

Finishing 9th three years in a row with Stoke probably helps.

A Stoke side that had previously been long term moulded by Pulis for PL retention, then invested heavily in under Hughes, then ended up leading them to the brink of relegation before he was sacked.

Was gash at QPR also and also lead them to the brink of relegation and did bugger all at City with resources available to him

Do not rate, has not kicked on since his Blackburn days

 

[SM]

A Stoke side that had previously been long term moulded by Pulis for PL retention, then invested heavily in under Hughes, then ended up leading them to the brink of relegation before he was sacked.

Was gash at QPR also and also lead them to the brink of relegation and did bugger all at City with resources available to him

Do not rate, has not kicked on since his Blackburn days

The side that reached the dizzying heights of 11th under Pulis once, and fluctuated between 12th-15th in his other seasons playing awful football?

 

[go you pups]

The side that reached the dizzying heights of 11th under Pulis once, and fluctuated between 12th-15th in his other seasons playing awful football?

Pulis built them up from nothing in the Championship and lead them to an FA Cup Final and Europa League campaign

It was largely still Pulis' team for a few years under Hughes before they started splashing the cash and stagnated then regressed imo

Hasn't done anything since his Blackburn days imo.

 

[SM]

Pulis built them up from nothing in the Championship and lead them to an FA Cup Final and Europa League campaign

It was largely still Pulis' team for a few years under Hughes before they started splashing the cash and stagnated then regressed imo

Hasn't done anything since his Blackburn days imo.

In Hughes' first season he brought in Arnautovic, Pieters, and Muniesa, and got rid of Delap, Whitehead, Pennant, and Jones. The following year he brought in Bojan, Diouf, and others.

You can keep saying he hasn't done anything since Blackburn, and you'll keep being wrong.

Hughes turned over their squad and brought in more attacking, creative players. And while doing that he took them to their highest ever position and then backed that up for a further two years while regenerating the squad.