NPower Championship, League 1 & 2

[King Gizzard]

Start of the English football season tonight :dance:

Hull vs Blackpool..come on you Hull-ians

[King Gizzard]

Travelling all the way to bristol with my mates for Ipswich game tommorow

[Novo]

Bojan Djordjic to take Blackpool back to the top flight

[Locke.]

Didn't have a clue it started tonight, is there a game live on sky?

[King Gizzard]

Yep coverage starts in 5mins on Sky sports 1

Everton are playing Villarreal on ITV4 as well in a friendly

[MTVN]

West Ham Cardiff on BBC 1 before the Community Shield today, should be a good game, lucky we still have Green, Parker & Cole atm

[Novo]

West Ham 3 or 4-0 hopefully.. really want Cardiff to struggle this year i am sick of them reaching the Play off's and bottling it

[joeysteele]

I think it will be a draw. Cardiff can be a very stubborn side. However West Ham have a really good Manager.

[MTVN]

Not a great game so far, hopefully it'll get a bit better second half

[Locke.]

West Ham end the weekend in the relegation zone

[Novo]

Kenny Miller :bored:

[MTVN]

Sh*t start to the season, didn't deserve to lose that, Green should have saved it really and Nolan missing that sitter :bored:

[bbfan1991]

Cardiff won:), smash and grab apparently.

[Mystic Mock]

Im in shock that West Ham lost todays game.

[King Gizzard]

Top of the league

http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/67/285x214/263471_1.jpg

[seanraff07]

Mayhem in the Cardiff end after, they're like my 2nd English team so I always back them each game!

[bbfan1991]

Mayhem in the Cardiff end after, they're like my 2nd English team so I always back them each game!

Cardiff are Welsh but play in an English league, kind of confusing:D.

[seanraff07]

Cardiff are Welsh but play in an English league, kind of confusing:D.

Yeah I meant English as in an English League team haha, the fact that they are Welsh in an English league is the reason I want them to do well :D

[Novo]

West Ham didn't do to much wrong today

[joeysteele]

I felt Cardiff had a chance today,thought it would be a draw myself. Cardiff only just missed coming up last season whereas West Ham were well down, playing badly for most of last season.
I believe Sam Allerdyce will turn things around but doubt West Ham will come straight back up this season somehow.

[King Gizzard]

The realism set in today, Big Sam football on cold nights in Barnesly to come

[seanraff07]

Big Sam doesn't get his team playing attractive football very often but he turns them into grafters and he'll do well at West Ham IMO.

[Novo]

They'll still win the league though

[King Gizzard]

Better do because if they don't they'll be ****ed like Birmingham

[Locke.]

The title shall be Hull's

[Novo]

Watch out for Sven's men as well

[seanraff07]

Middlesborough will go up, mark my word.

[King Gizzard]

Southampton for me, Forest with Steve maybe

Ipswich with Chopra and Bowyer in midfield are my darkhorses, and they owned Bristol yesterday

[seanraff07]

Boro, Leicester and Reading

[bbfan1991]

Middlesborough are underwhelming, everyone was so sure they would go up last season but ended up flirting with relegation for a while then had a good spell where they eventually finished in the top half of the table. They might prove me wrong this season, who knows?

Forest only have a small squad but McLaren is an experienced manager and could get the best out of them, despite disappointing and coming close to promotion in previous seasons.

I think West Ham and Leicester will go up, fancy Southampton as a dark horse for a play off place.

[bbfan1991]

I agree Nate, if Ipswich can be consistent then they have a good shout at PO places or even promotion.

I fancy Cardiff again to be challenging for promotion, they've lost a few players who they've had to replace or sent loan players back to their clubs but CCFC have replaced them with new signings and have a new manager so they could do well.

[seanraff07]

Middlesborough are underwhelming, everyone was so sure they would go up last season but ended up flirting with relegation for a while then had a good spell where they eventually finished in the top half of the table. They might prove me wrong this season, who knows?

Forest only have a small squad but McLaren is an experienced manager and could get the best out of them, despite disappointing and coming close to promotion in previous seasons.

I think West Ham and Leicester will go up, fancy Southampton as a dark horse for a play off place.

I know Mowbray very well after his 3 year spell with us and know if given the time he should be able to get them up, can sign lots of gems for nothing and gets them playing football the way it should be.

Quality manager was a bit unlucky at Celtic, infact typical of them, don't give anyone a chance and will get on the managers back the minute he drops 2 points for the first time ever.

[Novo]

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[bbfan1991]

I know Mowbray very well after his 3 year spell with us and know if given the time he should be able to get them up, can sign lots of gems for nothing and gets them playing football the way it should be.

Quality manager was a bit unlucky at Celtic, infact typical of them, don't give anyone a chance and will get on the managers back the minute he drops 2 points for the first time ever.

Don't get me wrong Boro actually have a decent squad and Mowbray is an OK manager and can challenge for promotion, but I just think atm people are jumping the gun where they are concerned.

[seanraff07]

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Monkey heid or not he's better than McCoist :thumbs:

[seanraff07]

Don't get me wrong Boro actually have a decent squad and Mowbray is an OK manager and can challenge for promotion, but I just think atm people are jumping the gun where they are concerned.

Strachan ****ed them up by signing a load of SPL rejects.

[bbfan1991]

Strachan ****ed them up by signing a load of SPL rejects.

Obviously these players do have some talent but this league is more competitive and has a different style to the SPL;).

[Novo]

Monkey heid or not he's better than McCoist :thumbs:

If McCoist turns out to be anywhere near as bad as Mowbray was at celtic it will be a miracle

[seanraff07]

Obviously these players do have some talent but this league is more competitive and has a different style to the SPL;).

Not gonna deny it, I'll be the first to admit the SPL is murder, really it's not even alright at times, it's just terrible altogether. The standard, the teams, the league system and set-up, the split, the grounds, the lack of atmosphere. If I didn't love Hibs I would have absolutely no interest in Scottish football whatsoever, it's on the downslide all the time.

For me the Championship is my favourite league in the world, the most competitive and the most entertaining. Some really good teams battling it out in there.

[seanraff07]

If McCoist turns out to be anywhere near as bad as Mowbray was at celtic it will be a miracle

Yeah Mowbray wasn't great at Celtic, but as usual the fans don't give him a chance

[King Gizzard]

You wouldn't put it past most of the teams in the Championship making the playoffs, that's why it's so good

Even some of the league one teams would have good championship teams

[bbfan1991]

You wouldn't put it past most of the teams in the Championship making the playoffs, that's why it's so good

Even some of the league one teams would have good championship teams

Completely unpredictable, from top to bottom!

Yeah like Huddersfield.

[bbfan1991]

Not gonna deny it, I'll be the first to admit the SPL is murder, really it's not even alright at times, it's just terrible altogether. The standard, the teams, the league system and set-up, the split, the grounds, the lack of atmosphere. If I didn't love Hibs I would have absolutely no interest in Scottish football whatsoever, it's on the downslide all the time.

For me the Championship is my favourite league in the world, the most competitive and the most entertaining. Some really good teams battling it out in there.

I agree, a shame SPL is not more competitive but it's actually not that interesting. Sectarianism is the real problem tbh overall.

[Grimnir]

2 former England managers now in charge of Championship sides :shrug:

[joeysteele]

Ipswich always falter mid season and lose too much ground to make up. So many teams can be in contention for me this season but I can see Chris Hughton bringing Birmingham back, the other 2 teams I would predict are SoUthampton and Cardiff(Cardiff are a very stubborn side and hard to beat).

[Mystic Mock]

King Birmingham are on the rise.

[King Gizzard]

Saints are going up, quality, bet on it now

Ipswich going to have another rubbish season :(

[King Gizzard]

actually can't believe the ipswich result yesterday :(

*ip****

[Novo]

What happened in that game? weren't Ipswich down to 9 men in the first 42 minutes :joker:

[King Gizzard]

1-0, then 4-1 down in 5 minutes, man sent off, half time, 2 goals and another man sent off

the defense was horrible

[MTVN]

I'm sorry but :laugh2: 1-0 up after half an hour and lost 7-1!

Looking forward to West Ham Leeds tomorrow, should be a good game!

[King Gizzard]

Not envious of the police for that

[King Gizzard]

http://www.itfc.co.uk/javaImages/be/96/0,,10272~9934526,00.jpg

[Locke.]

Birmingham in another relegation battle

[King Gizzard]

Was delighted when they got the group stages in Europe, more games for them :thumbs2:

[Mystic Mock]

Birmingham in another relegation battle

Not this time as we are gonna win the championship.

[Dilligaf]

Meh, i wanna be back up in the Championship again. It's embarrassing being down in league one :hmph:

[Mystic Mock]

Meh, i wanna be back up in the Championship again. It's embarrassing being down in league one :hmph:

Who do you support sorry? anyway good luck coming back up.

[Dilligaf]

I'm a 100% Blade. Even though it hurts to say it these days.....

[Mystic Mock]

I'm a 100% Blade. Even though it hurts to say it these days.....

I wish them the best of luck,also there 2nd in the table aint they?