Football Focus

[Mick Mac]

achievable targets...

[maxxi]

Mancini is already being courted by PSG and Marseilles.

Whatever SAF said, and despite his own experiences, Moyes is already on borrowed time and will be out sharpish if he fails.

Looking at coaches abroad and in US sports the sackings are pretty frequent and ruthless - football is now owned by large foreign companies and rich individuals who use the clubs as marketing tools and need success or the marketing to be effective.

This is why idiots like Gold & Sullivan will keep BFS to try and ensure mid-table safety in perpetuity and forego any attempt EVER at anything more.

[StraferJack]

Every billionaire "achievable target" is winning league and champions league

Only one team can win each

Therefore every year more and more managers wont reach their achievable targets.

Fergie would have been set achievable targets 20 years ago and would have been sacked.

[Otta]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Every billionaire "achievable target" is winning

> league and champions league

>

> Only one team can win each

>

> Therefore every year more and more managers wont

> reach their achievable targets.

>

> Fergie would have been set achievable targets 20

> years ago and would have been sacked.

And this!

[Jah Lush]

Agree with SJ and Otta. Mancini will be fine financially and probably walk into another top job. You can see Man City are already turning into the Chelsea of the north. I'm pretty sure Man Utd won't be far behind as well if Moyes fails as well.

[Otta]

RosieH Wrote:

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> Wigan got skills.

They do, but they didn't use them enough.

[DaveR]

"Duncan Disorderly.

That I'd like to see."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22525518

['bout now]

Football will indeed eat itself, in the meantime I'm enjoying bonkerdom.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22525518

[Parkdrive]

red devil Wrote:

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> No sympathy whatosever for Mancini. Who was

> sitting in the stand watching City just before

> Hughes was given his P45?..

Fancy a rags fan saying that, shocking eh?

[Parkdrive]

Went to the game last night and feel huge sympathy for Wigan, they tried to play football the right until the end. Unlike anti football Stoke, I'd rather they'd gone down.

It's interesting see how everyone in the media seems to have jumped on the Mancini character assassination band wagon. I don't recall the same condemantion being levelled at Fungusmoan when he was laying into players and officials with with his expletive laden tirades. Funny that eh?

[Rolo Tomasi]

What happens if Chelsea Draw 0-0 with Everton and Arsenal beat Newcastle 2-1?

Do they look at the head to head results?

[Parkdrive]

Rolo Tomasi Wrote:

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> What happens if Chelsea Draw 0-0 with Everton and

> Arsenal beat Newcastle 2-1?

>

> Do they look at the head to head results?

I've heard that a play off may be called for by the FA?

[DaveR]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22537372

Premier League rules require a play-off, it seems

[Otta]

Cool, lets hope for that then!

[Jah Lush]

No! Let's not hope for that. Let's hope both Spurs and Newcastle win at the weekend.

[red devil]

Week 33 results.

Lots of good scores this week.

?? is on a roll, having almost halved RD's lead in one week.

All to play for in the final week...

DR - 3 Correct Results + 4 Correct Scores = 15 pts (second highest weekly score)

?? - 4 Correct Results + 3 Correct Scores = 13 pts

EP - 3 Correct Results + 3 Correct Scores = 12 pts

OT - 6 Correct Results + 2 Correct Scores = 12 pts

JL - 2 Correct Results + 3 Correct Scores = 11 pts

AM - 4 Correct Results + 2 Correct Scores = 10 pts

PD - 4 Correct Results + 2 Correct Scores = 10 pts

RC - 4 Correct Results + 1 Correct Score = 7 pts

SC - 4 Correct Results + 1 Correct Score = 7 pts

LG - 3 Correct Results + 1 Correct Score = 6 pts

RD - 5 Correct Results + 0 Correct Scores = 5 pts

MM - Played a maxxi = 5 pts

Mx - 4 Correct Results + 0 Correct Scores = 4 pts

[Rolo Tomasi]

I think a 22-man Roshambo would be better.

[Parkdrive]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> No! Let's not hope for that. Let's hope both Spurs

> and Newcastle win at the weekend.

NAH, lets not

[El Pibe]

woo hoo, clambered off the bottom, maxxi doesnt count ;-P

[Parkdrive]

Oh dear, footballers in sex scandal shock.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-22537941

[maxxi]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> woo hoo, clambered off the bottom, maxxi doesnt

> count ;-P

Ha ha - bloody fair-weather playa... I am 4th (in the 100% category) B)

[DaveR]

"Ha ha - bloody fair-weather playa... I am 4th (in the 100% category)"

That got me thinking - what would my score be if every time I missed a week and got a maxxi, I'd played and got my average score?

Answer - 16 points more.

Just out of interest, I did the same for El Pibe.

Answer - 12 points more.

Sorry, maxxi. The table doesn't lie.

[Mick Mac]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Every billionaire "achievable target" is winning

> league and champions league

>

I don't remember referencing the discussion in terms of billionaires.

Targets should be included in managers' contracts, like the real world tat most people live in, from high finance to the NHS.

No manager should take on a role where the target is unrealistic. A contract reflects the negotiated position.

[El Pibe]

Whilst I totally agree with you in general terms MM, football isn't exactly the real world.

At ?5 million odd a year top contracts are worth, I wouldn't give a toss if the grandees of football added the invention of perpetual motion in my contract, let alone winning the treble, I'm taking the role!!

[maxxi]

DaveR Wrote:

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> "Ha ha - bloody fair-weather playa... I am 4th (in

> the 100% category)"

>

> That got me thinking - what would my score be if

> every time I missed a week and got a maxxi, I'd

> played and got my average score?

>

> Answer - 16 points more.

>

> Just out of interest, I did the same for El Pibe.

>

> Answer - 12 points more.

>

> Sorry, maxxi. The table doesn't lie.

Your average score!? That's assuming a rare degree of consistency in 'the game' - what about if you had scored your lowest for all those weeks?

It may well still work out the same - I can't be arsed to check - in which case I will content myself with scoffing at your tussle for fourth and Pebbles' scramble off the bottom and look forward to the CL Final.

*I kicked RD's rear in the EDF fantasy league too! :)