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Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:46 pm
by phily bon bon
Hi boys and Girls
I know its still a few weeks away but i thought I´d take the oppourtunity to pit the annual top 10 prediction up. Listed below are the bookies favourites and also rans. As i say/write every year its going to be an exciting season ahead with IMHO any one of 10-11 teams with a real chance of being championship winners.
I love the championship as unlike the Prem were it is a two to three horse race at best, in the championship it really is anyones race. Whom would have predicted Leicester as champs and Burnley as nearly champs.
With Mick pledging his and Terrys future its looking rosey and I dont doubt for oe bit Mick is the man to take us forward. We have a good balance of players and most have been here a number of years so not too much beddding in required.
Cardiff 7/1Wolves 16/1Sheff Wed 40/1
Derby 15/2Bolton 16/1Brentford 40/1
Wigan Athletic 8/1Reading 16/1Charlton 40/1
Fulham 9/1Middlesbrough 18/1Birmingham 40/1
Norwich 9/1Ipswich 18/1Rotherham 50/1
Nottm Forest 14/1Brighton 18/1Millwall 66/1
Watford 14/1Leeds 20/1Huddersfield 66/1
Blackburn 16/1Bournemouth 20/1Blackpool 100/1
From the above list Boro look like good odds and expect them to suprise a few ,Fulham Cardiff and the shyte will come down with serious money , the teams coming up will be comfortable in midtable leaving new names fighting for survival i feel. Its alaways fun to look back at comments and alike and see just who knows that creul mistress the championship the best.
Its only for fun and bragging rights amongst us so have a guess.........if your feeling brave try the right order too
I had i think 7-8 of the top ten last season as did others so maybe its not as hard as one would think.
Anyways heres my way off prediction
1, Fulham purely because of stupid money they have
2, Cardiff City been there done it before and the money
3, Wigan to go closer than last season still a good squad
4, Brighton HA getting better year after year good ground and fans
5, Scum they have held on to their "stars" and with stupid money to spend
6, Wolves really think if they start well they could fly
7, Derby C falling a little behind after coing so close
8, Brentford Heres my suprise package i think they will do well
9, Us we are imho three-four players short of top three
10, Notts F they could be world beaters or religation fodder unpredictable
anyway thats my twopenneth ,have a guess and a laugh and maybe a few words like I´ve done as to why you think the way you have. Good luck and as LnP says "enjoy the season"
BLUE ARMY
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:10 am
by marko69
9th, PBB? For a few seasons now I've had ITFC down for mid table. Last season, chose 10th . But I think maybe 7th with a sneaky sniff at the play offs. I think Mick knows that he needs to have a very good season. I'd say 9th or lower is not a good season, for Micks standards after being in charge a while.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:12 am
by arana peligrosa
#1 Derby County
#2 Wigan Athletic
#3 Leeds United
#4 Fulham
#5 Cardiff City
#6 Ipswich Town
#7 Brighton and Hove Albion
#8 Charlton Athletic
#9 Birmingham City
#10 Norwich City
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:22 am
by 02whitma
My Top 6
Wigan
Forrest
Fulham
Ipswich
Reading
Norwich
The Rest
Cardiff
Leeds
Wolves
Brighton
Big Clubs this year many with financial backing , Championship will be very competitive!1
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 3:41 pm
by phily bon bon
I still fancy Boro to suprise a few this season and maybe push for an automatic spot
I know i did´nt put them in my top ten prediction but they really are a team that could be world beaters or religation fodder. Their webside is really buzzing (as most are as the season draws near).
Brentford have got some good finacial backing and their owner has bought into one of Denmarks leading sides,so they could set up a flow of top danish talent to the bees.
Would really like to see us build connections around europe with strong ties and oppourtunites for player exchanges and development to benefit both clubs.
In responce Marko i feel we are still a small handful of players away from making a serious push for the play-offs just yet. Confident with Mick and terry pledging their futures its just we will come to miss a Williams like player of real quaility and vision. He has´nt imho been replaced as of yet.
My very good Wigan supporting mate thinks the scum will struggle this season but i fear they will be one of the teams to beat.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 4:52 pm
by shabba
nobody has mentioned Bounemouth? I think they are dark horses for a play off place at least.
IMO Fulham will be play offs at best, same for Cardiff, those coming down usually suffer mentally and struggle. Norwich are the strongest of those 3 if you ask me, Fulham have lost key players.
Derby will be very strong, Forrest possibly play off's too.
I think we will be top 10 hopefully.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 10:35 pm
by phily bon bon
shabba wrote:nobody has mentioned Bounemouth? I think they are dark horses for a play off place at least.
IMO Fulham will be play offs at best, same for Cardiff, those coming down usually suffer mentally and struggle. Norwich are the strongest of those 3 if you ask me, Fulham have lost key players.
Derby will be very strong, Forrest possibly play off's too.
I think we will be top 10 hopefully.
Good call Shaba try and predict your top ten, its usually a good laugh as the season pans out.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:07 pm
by Charnwood
shabba wrote:nobody has mentioned Bounemouth? I think they are dark horses for a play off place at least.
IMO Fulham will be play offs at best, same for Cardiff, those coming down usually suffer mentally and struggle. Norwich are the strongest of those 3 if you ask me, Fulham have lost key players.
Derby will be very strong, Forrest possibly play off's too.
I think we will be top 10 hopefully.
Bournemouth would have been dark horses had they held on to Lewis Grabban who scored 35 league goals for them over the past two seasons, but having sold him to Norwich I think they'll find next season much tougher and will do well to make the top half of the table unless they replace him with another goal scoring machine.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:20 pm
by marko69
I'll have a go, PBB.
1. Cardiff City
2. Derby County
3. Wigan Athletic
4. Fulham
5. Norwich City
6. Blackburn Rovers
7. Nottingham Forest
8. Ipswich Town
9. Watford
10. Brighton & HA.
Relegated.
22. Sheffield Wednesday
23. Millwall
24. Rotherham United
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 7:42 am
by phily bon bon
marko69 wrote:I'll have a go, PBB.
1. Cardiff City
2. Derby County
3. Wigan Athletic
4. Fulham
5. Norwich City
6. Blackburn Rovers
7. Nottingham Forest
8. Ipswich Town
9. Watford
10. Brighton & HA.
Relegated.
22. Sheffield Wednesday
23. Millwall
24. Rotherham United
Showing off Marko with the religated teams as well......another good call with your list. I cant see all of the religated Premier league teams all being in the play offd theres always a suprise horse in there. And one of the religated teas struggles to adjust, just hope its the yellow peril
.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:10 pm
by pathay
phily bon bon wrote:marko69 wrote:I'll have a go, PBB.
marko you have more confidence in Cardiff than I do. Up front we have plenty of good players but at the back we are sh*te. We have lost Caulker, loos as if Hudson may go and Turner is suspect having been troubled with injury. We do not have sufficient back players and seem to be having trouble signing replacements. We could struggle in the early stages but I am looking forward to a better season than last.
1. Cardiff City
2. Derby County
3. Wigan Athletic
4. Fulham
5. Norwich City
6. Blackburn Rovers
7. Nottingham Forest
8. Ipswich Town
9. Watford
10. Brighton & HA.
Relegated.
22. Sheffield Wednesday
23. Millwall
24. Rotherham United
Showing off Marko with the religated teams as well......another good call with your list. I cant see all of the religated Premier league teams all being in the play offd theres always a suprise horse in there. And one of the religated teas struggles to adjust, just hope its the yellow peril
.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 11:48 pm
by goldandblack
marko69 wrote:I'll have a go, PBB.
1. Cardiff City
2. Derby County
3. Wigan Athletic
4. Fulham
5. Norwich City
6. Blackburn Rovers
7. Nottingham Forest
8. Ipswich Town
9. Watford
10. Brighton & HA.
Relegated.
22. Sheffield Wednesday
23. Millwall
24. Rotherham United
ermmmmmmmmm, have you forgotten summit or someone Marco
you can put us in front of 10 of those top ten clubs mate.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 11:57 pm
by marko69
Right, that's it ya bstds......, get your top 10s in, stop picking mine apart!
Changes:
Cardiff, relegated...., their defence is shyte.
Wolves, 6th, play-offs!
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:07 pm
by goldandblack
marko69 wrote:Right, that's it ya bstds......, get your top 10s in, stop picking mine apart!
Changes:
Cardiff, relegated...., their defence is shyte.
Wolves, 6th, play-offs!
OK as you put it so nicely
1.Wolverhampton Wanderers.
2.Derby County
3.Ipswich Town
4.Wigan Athletic
5.Fulham
6.Reading
7.Nottingham Forest
8.Brighton and Hove Albion
9.Cardiff City
10.Rotherham United
Relegated
Blackburn Rovers
Brentford Town
Blackpool
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 10:16 pm
by marko69
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:55 am
by Charnwood
Here's my pitch.
Fulham
Cardiff City
Derby County
Wigan
Norwich City
Nottingham Forest
Blackburn
Ipswich
Brighton
Watford
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:27 pm
by goldandblack
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 5:50 pm
by Ohiotractorboy
Well, for what it's worth,
1. Wigan
2. Cardiff
3. Derby
4. Blackburn
5. Ipswich
6. Fulham
7. Wolves
8. Nottingham
9. Brighton
10. Norwich
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:49 pm
by marko69
LMAO, G&B Wolfie. Brilliant.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 6:53 pm
by morph
phily bon bon wrote:Hi boys and Girls
I know its still a few weeks away but i thought I´d take the oppourtunity to pit the annual top 10 prediction up. Listed below are the bookies favourites and also rans. As i say/write every year its going to be an exciting season ahead with IMHO any one of 10-11 teams with a real chance of being championship winners.
I love the championship as unlike the Prem were it is a two to three horse race at best, in the championship it really is anyones race. Whom would have predicted Leicester as champs and Burnley as nearly champs.
With Mick pledging his and Terrys future its looking rosey and I dont doubt for oe bit Mick is the man to take us forward. We have a good balance of players and most have been here a number of years so not too much beddding in required.
Cardiff 7/1Wolves 16/1Sheff Wed 40/1
Derby 15/2Bolton 16/1Brentford 40/1
Wigan Athletic 8/1Reading 16/1Charlton 40/1
Fulham 9/1Middlesbrough 18/1Birmingham 40/1
Norwich 9/1Ipswich 18/1Rotherham 50/1
Nottm Forest 14/1Brighton 18/1Millwall 66/1
Watford 14/1Leeds 20/1Huddersfield 66/1
Blackburn 16/1Bournemouth 20/1Blackpool 100/1
From the above list Boro look like good odds and expect them to suprise a few ,Fulham Cardiff and the shyte will come down with serious money , the teams coming up will be comfortable in midtable leaving new names fighting for survival i feel. Its alaways fun to look back at comments and alike and see just who knows that creul mistress the championship the best.
Its only for fun and bragging rights amongst us so have a guess.........if your feeling brave try the right order too
I had i think 7-8 of the top ten last season as did others so maybe its not as hard as one would think.
Anyways heres my way off prediction
1, Fulham purely because of stupid money they have
2, Cardiff City been there done it before and the money
3, Wigan to go closer than last season still a good squad
4, Brighton HA getting better year after year good ground and fans
5, Scum they have held on to their "stars" and with stupid money to spend
6, Wolves really think if they start well they could fly
7, Derby C falling a little behind after coing so close
8, Brentford Heres my suprise package i think they will do well
9, Us we are imho three-four players short of top three
10, Notts F they could be world beaters or religation fodder unpredictable
anyway thats my twopenneth ,have a guess and a laugh and maybe a few words like I´ve done as to why you think the way you have. Good luck and as LnP says "enjoy the season"
BLUE ARMY
I'll go for;
1. Derby
2. Wigan
3. Fulham
4. Cardiff
5. Ipswich
6. Bournemouth
7. Blackburn
8. Watford
9. Sheff. Weds
10. Notts. Forest
Bottom 3;
Millwall
Rotherham
Norwich
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:06 pm
by marko69
Genuine laugh out loud @ 24th place there, Morph. Nice one.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:48 pm
by Charnwood
marko69 wrote:Genuine laugh out loud @ 24th place there, Morph. Nice one.
I laughed too, but I bet he wouldn't put money on it happening.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 8:07 am
by marko69
So you are betting, that he won't be betting, ...., on it?
Morph is also thinking Bournemouth will make the play offs. That can't happen. Surely! (Cue Airplane! Quote)
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:35 am
by morph
marko69 wrote:So you are betting, that he won't be betting, ...., on it?
Morph is also thinking Bournemouth will make the play offs. That can't happen. Surely! (Cue Airplane! Quote)
Put Bournemouth up there because of their manager more so than their squad. They had quite a strong finish last season, so if they build on that, can see them having a good one. They will probably get relegated now and you will re post this just to show all on here how little I know about football.
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:37 am
by marko69
No mate, don't worry , I don't stir up complete Shyte predictions!
As long as your 24th is correct, that's aw that matters eh?
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:55 am
by J4ck22
1. Wigan
2. Norwich
3. Derby
4. Cardiff
5. Reading
6. Ipswich
7. Fulham
8. Blackburn
9. Bournemouth
10. Wolves
My predictions are always hilariously wrong so I look forward to not having a single one correct this year
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 4:08 pm
by morph
J4ck22 wrote:1. Wigan
2. Norwich
3. Derby
4. Cardiff
5. Reading
6. Ipswich
7. Fulham
8. Blackburn
9. Bournemouth
10. Wolves
My predictions are always hilariously wrong so I look forward to not having a single one correct this year
Norwich to finish above us.
Cannot believe my eyes.
Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 5:06 pm
by Jamma123
OK, here goes...
1. Cardiff
2. Fulham
3. Ipswich
4. Reading
5. Wigan
6. Nottingham Forest
7. Derby
8. Wolves
9. Brighton
10. Norwich
In terms of surprise packages, I can see Rotherham turning a few heads and, at the other end of the table, Leeds could face a tough season, for obvious reasons...
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 5:42 pm
by Mr.Punch
1. derby
2. cardiff
3. wolves
4. forest
5. ipswich
6. narwich
7. wigan
8. fulham
9. reading
10.m'boro
town to beat narwich in play-off final
Re: Next Seasons Top 10
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:37 pm
by morph
Mr.Punch wrote:1. derby
2. cardiff
3. wolves
4. forest
5. ipswich
6. narwich
7. wigan
8. fulham
9. reading
10.m'boro
town to beat narwich in play-off final
How sweet that would be.