CB Fry

We're into Grandpa Simpson meme territory already then.

But surely the news reports wouldn't have led on it for 48 hours if it was just posturing? What a load of old bollocks.

But the Super League is still a gamble for them. It's not they are 100% definitely going to get the £xxxx gazillion they think they're all going to get.

I don't think Netflix has expressed any interest in sports rights anywhere. Amazon do seem to be getting stuck in though with Tennis and Rugby especially and their bits of Prem action. The new league could just go full on owned streaming, like Disney plus or the WWE where they just own their own content. But not sure if that model works quite as well without beer and betting companies.

Might we go back to the seventies/eighties, where the likes of Derby and Forest could win the league? Or Ipswich could challenge, or even little old Southampton. Ooooh wouldn't that be terrible for the younger generation of transfer-fee "show some ambition" money obsessed fan-boys. Whoever yesterday on here said they were embarrassed because Bournemouth had a higher record transfer fee than us, i imagine would be absolutely distraught.

Er, yes they do.

I hadn't heard that. But yeah, sounds about right. The big six will try and turn it into a battle of the Premier League against the Champions League and by extension the international competitions: too bloated, too many fixtures. There will be common ground there. But as you say, the main common ground is the likes of Palace and us are over a barrel.

Er, no. I think some are getting a bit carried away. The Premier League is still critical to the "big six". This is just a replacement for the Champions League because these clubs think they are too jolly important and wealthy to lower themselves to playing Sparta Prague and Genk. Although with no top four to strive for it does rip the heart out of a chunk of the competition. Anyway, the only sanctions that will work is them being unilaterally booted out of the Premier League, and hopefully that gets announced today by the other 14. I imagine the other 14 will bottle that of course because they still need those clubs, as do Sky and the other sponsors.

I still think it is not much more than a kite flying exercise. The notion that it would start this August is the giveaway. No it won't, the time to set up any of the commercial arrangements aren't enough. The Premier League need to respond in a similar way. Go nuclear and threaten them with 25-30 point reductions (which could relegate Arsenal and Spurs) and/or expulsion if they don't repent. Go back hard. A Premier League season without those six could be an absolute riot. (As long as Everton don't win it.) But its not going to come to any of that, too much mutual benefit. The actual output will be longer and more nuanced, and will involve the dismantling of UEFA in the same way the Premier League hollowed out the FA. Its not really about Super League this August it's about big clubs taking absolute control of the levers of power for the next twenty years. Right now they've just set a bomb off, but the long game only just starting.

I think it is good we are breeding the next generation who one day can progress to even more embarrassing defeats with the first team.

I see the Mourinho apologists on Sky Sports have worked up a SaintsWeb-Ralph style factoid for Jose's time at Spurs. Apparently if you only look at matches since he took over, Tottenham would be fourth. The old 17 months between November '19 and April '21 analysis system. Everyone is at it.

Oh, I agree. The Premier League and Football League should up the ante in the same vein. Announce this morning some outline plans of how to fill those six places for next season, maybe involving the teams in 18th in the Prem and the teams finishing 7/8/9th in the Championship. Some kind of super play off thing. Probably don't plan to get to 20 clubs next season. Or, just go balls out and say all six are kicked out as of today and forfeit their next match until they fulfil an invitation to a formal hearing next Monday or something. Shit house them back.

From what I can see it's just a replacement for the Champions League, which I don't ever watch and have no interest in. So not too fussed right now. There's no way the big six will be kicked out of the Premier League and its pie in the sky to say "all us other clubs should kick them out" because that fucks over the other clubs more than benefits them. Still feels like leverage and bullshit to me. If it really was a competition starting in August 2021, who's got the broadcast rights, lads? Who are the headline corporate sponsors, chaps? No fucker, thats who. Not happening. Not this August anyway.

All I'll say is I've been watching my club since I was ten, because my father and my brothers did, and will for the rest of my life regardless of league or form or status or anything. It doesn't take much to watch a FA Cup semi on the TV. Just the fifth one in my lifetime. You want to smug off that you did DIY instead I don't think you are in any position to disparage any super league or breakaway. You're part of the problem.

I read your post. Smug. Crowing.

Show me the receipts for the £200 you spent travelling to and attending todays match and I promise I will.

You're talking absolute shit about buying tickets when the discussion is about people just refusing to watch it on the fucking television in their own front room.

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You do realise no one paid 200 quid to go to the match today, right? No one. Jesus fucking wept.

On this forum we've got people smugly crowing about how they couldn't be bothered to watch their own club in a FA Cup semi final today. These people are the perfect audience for this type of super league. People that only care if the cards are stacked in their own team's favour. No interest in the natural drama and excitement or sport, or the spirit of competition. No connection to the cities or regions the clubs come from, no family connections to the club they support. They'll only watch if they think there's glory in it. This country and this continent is full of absolute twats, so it's pretty likely a super league like this would be a great success. Me, I'm happy we won't be anywhere near it.

This very much feels like a preface to a relegation season. Ings, let's be honest, has been ropey since his return but once he goes in the summer and we replace him with Diallo/Salisu level "potential" then the game is up. We're pretty dreadful now, but I don't think we have quite plumbed the depths. Yet.

It doesn't offend me. You being an absolute weirdo is your problem.

"Didn't bother" watching us in an FA Cup semi final. Okay. You're pretty normal, then.

In summary, we did not give it a go.

You're thick as pigshit.