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    [quote user="Yellowbeagle"][quote user="Al"][quote user="Yellowbeagle"][quote user="Al"]The players make far more mistakes than the refs do. Why is it acceptable for players but not for referees?[/quote]

    What makes you think fans accept mistakes from players or managers for that matter? I''ve seen some players get absolute pelters from the crowd.[/quote]

    A players mistakes are soon forgotten though. One mistake & a referee is shit for ever.[/quote]

    Don''t agree, how about off the top of my head, Robert Green England versus USA.[/quote]

    Norwich players made shed loads of mistakes in every single game last season. Are you going to be giving them abuse because of it? Of course you aren''t. A referee makes a mistake & it''s very different

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    [quote user="Yellowbeagle"][quote user="Al"]The players make far more mistakes than the refs do. Why is it acceptable for players but not for referees?[/quote]

    What makes you think fans accept mistakes from players or managers for that matter? I''ve seen some players get absolute pelters from the crowd.[/quote]

    A players mistakes are soon forgotten though. One mistake & a referee is shit for ever.

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    Don''t you think that the perceived quality of the referee is down to losing the majority of games? Just have a look on here after a defeat. From the comments posted virtually every defeat is down to the referee. Yet the referee doesn''t get a mention after those rare games when a win is recorded. In those seasons in the championship & league one the wins far outweighed the defeats and so far fewer games were seen as being the referees fault.

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    Do the high earners really have reductions for relegation in their contracts? Wolves were relegated without debts but were screwed by high earners on premiership wages they couldn''t get rid of because of the wages they were on. I would be very surprised if the high earners would''ve agreed to reductions because their stock was much higher at the time the contracts were signed & so the club would need to have pushed the boat out to get them to sign

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    [quote user="Citizen Journalist Foghorn"][quote user="ron obvious"]Those strikers have scored 3, 2 & 4 league goals - 2 more than our top 3.

    They had Anelka until recently as well ...[/quote]Well it''s one of two things, either A)  a scandalous waste of money from Hughton, or B) the cautious, sit on one goal, play for a 0-0 attitude meaning no striker will score many for us under the current regimeI think it is probably reason B.[/quote]

    It''s goals that matter not who scores them. West Brom have scored 9 more goals and conceded 5 less

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    [quote user="ricardo"][quote user="Citizen Journalist Foghorn"][quote user="ricardo"]Pretty much a must win for Fulham as they only have 3 of the bottom half left to play at home. Absolutely disasterous for West Ham who also only have 3 of the bottom half left to play at home plus everyone from Liverpool down to Swansea, then the top 4 away. A decent win for WBA all be it against 10 men but again their remaining fixtures look harder than ours.[/quote]Our run is looks pretty bad, three of the top four at home.  In the end everyone is playing everyone else again.  As I said earlier, I think we will stumble over the line.  But if this is building a team, it is going nowhere fast.  There is no discernable improvement on the pitch from last season, and we have better players this term.I must admit my expectations for this season were a little higher than battling it out with a declining Sunderland, imploding Cardiff, Strikerless West Ham and an appalling Crystal Palace side.[/quote]So you wouldn''t take our 5 at home and 3 away against the top 8As opposed to Sunderland''s 1 at home and 7 awayor W Ham''s 4 at home and 4 awayor Fulham''s 4 at home and 4 awayor Palace 4 at home 4 awayor Cardiff''s 2 at home 6 awayor Villa''s 2 at home 6 awayYou really are a funny old lot on here. You never bother to check your facts before spouting out the received wisdom. I can only repeat that I wouldn''t swap ours for any of the above.[:D][;)][Y][<:o)][/quote]

    What rubbish you spout. Teams at the bottom tend to lose to teams in the top 8 whether they play them at home or away so home ''advantage'' is much less of an importance in those games.

    It''s games against the teams at the bottom that are the important ones to win. They are the ones that you want to still have to play at home

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    [quote user="Le Juge"]If that chance had fallen to Larsson it would have been a goal 9 times out of 10.

    It was a moment of madness from a player who otherwise almost always seems to make the right decision.

    If they had scored from that though would have been played everywhere and damaged his World Cup prospects.[/quote]

    The best he can hope for is to go as number 3. Hardly worth worrying about

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    [quote user="Vanwink"]Of course we can, despite injuries we still have an excellent group of players available, given the right leadership, motivation and strategy, we should be coming away with 3 points.

    Let''s hope the travelling faithfull are given a performance that will warm their spirits in the SH that is The Hawthorns

    Have not had a bad record there recently!

    OTBC[/quote]

    On what planet SHOULD we be coming away with 3 points? They have a better squad with better, more experienced players. They are playing better football even against the top teams AND we have Hughton AND it''s an away game.

    We COULD come away with 3 points but there is no way we SHOULD be coming away with 3 points

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    [quote user="Vanwink"]Of course we can, despite injuries we still have an excellent group of players available, given the right leadership, motivation and strategy, we [b]should[/b] be coming away with 3 points.

    Let''s hope the travelling faithfull are given a performance that will warm their spirits in the SH that is The Hawthorns

    Have not had a bad record there recently!

    OTBC[/quote]

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    As well as Chris Hughton, several other managers racked up their 50th league game in charge of their respective clubs over the last few days. Brendan Rodgers at Liverpool, AVB at Spurs, Paul Lambert at Villa, Michael Laudrup at Swansea, Sam Allardyce at West Ham and Steve Clarke at WBA

    Here is a comparison of how they have each done balanced against how much they have spent.

    In terms of points gained AVB wins it with 92 points from his 50 games.

    AVB 92

    Rodgers 85

    Clarke 64

    Laudrup 61

    Allardyce 56 (goal difference -13)

    Lambert 56 (goal difference -23)

    Hughton 55

    In terms of money spent AVB is the clear winner (or loser).

    AVB £161M

    Rodgers £72M

    Allardyce £40M

    Lambert £40M

    Laudrup £36.5M

    Hughton £29.5M

    Clarke £16M

    Combining the two the cost per point gained is-

    Clarke £250,000

    Hughton £536,000

    Laudrup £598,000

    Allardyce £714,000

    Lambert £714,000

    Rodgers £847,000

    AVB £1,750,000

    Conclusion: Clarke is doing a cracking job at WBA but Hughton although he has won less points than any of the others comes a clear second in the pounds per point table.
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