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[Alpha Signia]

Bris Vegas said:

When was the last time Derby scored 4 away from home? Bradford in the 4-4 draw?

I knew Boro would be in for a good season.. They look top 6 standard along with Southampton.

I think you can almost garauntee Donny and Barnsley will be fighting relegation this season.. Both look toothless upfront, especially Donny without Sharp.

Don't really agree with League 1 closing the gap.. The teams that have come up and done well are big clubs, with a decent setup..

Teams like Donny, Peterborough, Scunthorpe, Barnsley, Bristol City who came up and are relatively small clubs have struggled and will eventually go down again.

The PL bottom clubs are made up of successful medium sized clubs.. The top half of the NPC are relatively big clubs recovering from the bad times.. The bottom half of the NPC are smallish clubs who did well but now are struggling to compete.

I like the sound of that, because it means that hopefully means that Bolton and Wigan can give some room to some of the big clubs in this division. And we're on of them.

But there's so many! Only 3 can go up! It could be a far stronger division over the next few years than ever before!!

[CumbrianRam]

Bris Vegas said:

When was the last time Derby scored 4 away from home?.

Brigton in the League cup in 2008.

[Alpha Signia]

Eh up.


West Media United v Media United on Sunday.
It's on Sky Sports 1.


Shocking


Southampton scored 5!

[CumbrianRam]

Half of fleet street support West Ham, no wonder why "Scotty" Parker won the PotY.

[Alpha Signia]

This Emnes fella looks like he might score a lot of goals.

20 goal per season strikers just materialise at this level. Anyone with a bit of quality in front of goal can just suddenly find a breakthrough if their team finds form. Anyone.

Emnes if he carries on will be worth about £5m or some such nonesense next June.

Then it'll be someone elses turn.

[Bris Vegas]

You've got to love the championship..

Find yourself on a losing streak on you look at your fixtures and see the likes of Brum, Millwall and Boro as your next 3 fixtures and you think crikey, wheres the next win going to come from.. Everyone seems so good.

All you find yourself on a winning streak and the likes of Ipswich, Leeds and Blackpool all of a sudden become easy 3 points..

On paper Southamptons start of Leeds (H) Barnsely (A) Ipswich (A) looks difficult yet they've got 9 points.. Then look at Watfords fixtures Burnley (A) Derby (H) West Ham (H) which isn't that much more difficult than Southamptons start yet they've got 1 point.

Strange league this.

[CumbrianRam]

Palace with a last minute equaliser v Coventry

[CumbrianRam]

Southampton have also got cash to spend after the Oxlade-Chamberlain sale.

[Alpha Signia]

Palace 2-1!!

Uh oh. Early days for Coventry and Doncaster but..... uh oh.

[Alpha Signia]

Barnsley 1-3 Boro
Doncaster 0-1 Notts Forest
Ipswich 2-5 Southampton. maximum points for S'hampton
Media 4-1 Hull
Pompey 1-0 Reading
Watford 0-4 West Ham
Palace 2-1 Coventry. 2 90min+ goals.

[EastKentRam]

Doesnt look good for Coventry and Barnsley. Boro look like they've got goals in them, rate Mowbray as a manager and they'll always be a threat going forward. If Donny get players back from injury they'll be alright, they looked good at Brighton when i saw them.

[Ramshankered]

Just listened to PJs post match interview after Ipswich's drubbing. All very reminiscent of the sort of things he use to say at Derby after each deflating defeat.

Must admit I find him far too overly critical of his team. Yes it's a bad defeat but I imagine making comments like "shambolic to say the least.." won't do his team any favours in the mentality department.

[Alex W]

In fairness they were and they needed telling after that. Southampton are good, but not 5-0 good. They need a kick up the backside after that performance.

[blackNwhites]

Why is there no football league highlights show mid week?

There is no justice in this country! All the best games happen midweek.

[Fowkesy]

Some really good goals in the F/L last night.Two in the Notts County game one for each side.Gillingham scored a beauty too.
There was a good un in the conference Mansfield v Hereford game too.

[EastKentRam]

Fowkesy said:

Some really good goals in the F/L last night.Two in the Notts County game one for each side.Gillingham scored a beauty too.
There was a good un in the conference Mansfield v Hereford game too.

Oxford lad scores an absolute screamer against Shrewsbury.

[blackNwhites]

You guys getting those from the BBC website? The highlights I mean, or you have sky subscriptions?

[Alpha Signia]

Southampton 3-1 Birmingham. Were 3-0 up at HT.

Dear me, how do these League 1 sides do it??
Come their second season they find it a bit tougher, but in their first year the bigger clubs cut through the Championship like butter.

[CumbrianRam]

Birmingham City will be in a relegation battle this season.

Sunderland beating Stoke City 4-0.

[CumbrianRam]

Jamie Carragher & Frank Lampard again showing why they are not good enough for top Prem clubs anymore