Soccer thread

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:24 am

Looks like a decent size Championship ground - what's the capacity, about 15,000 ?

Were you in amongst the travelling Wednesday ultras in the bottom photo, or holding the camera ?

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:32 am

davet010 wrote:Looks like a decent size Championship ground - what's the capacity, about 15,000 ?

Were you in amongst the travelling Wednesday ultras in the bottom photo, or holding the camera ?

I wasn't in Rochester, I went to the match last Wednedsay in Cary, NC? I stole these photos from the Owls board.

Capacity at Rochester is 13,500

Here's a video made afterwards, you better fecking bounce!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFx_ti3QTTE

wco81 · Post by **wco81** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:59 am

Audio piece on the Serie A relegation.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5577508

They figure Juventus may lose as much as 130 million euro in one year.

jimd · Post by **jimd** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:04 pm

fsquid wrote:
davet010 wrote:Looks like a decent size Championship ground - what's the capacity, about 15,000 ?

Were you in amongst the travelling Wednesday ultras in the bottom photo, or holding the camera ?
I wasn't in Rochester, I went to the match last Wednedsay in Cary, NC? I stole these photos from the Owls board.

Capacity at Rochester is 13,500

Here's a video made afterwards, what the hell are they saying??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFx_ti3QTTE

I think you can actually see me and my two year old daughter in that first picture. (My monitor at work is slowly dieing and I can't see photos too well--I'll take a look tonight at home.)

Fun game to be at. The difference between A-League football and English Division One (err, Two, championship, whatever) was pretty evident. Wednesday is by far the most entertaining team I've seen here this year.

Wednesday had about 40-50 supporters and they were friendly and vocal. Unfortunately, the Rochester fans response to most of their songs was either, "let's go Rhinos", "U-S-A", or stomping their feet--all pretty lame.

I had a good conversation with one of the Wednesday supporters about the players you mentioned Squid. Bougherra was out injured. He explained that Burton was a good striker "in name only" and that McClean was really the man.

Pretty prolific as McClean scored both goals. The first was awesome, upper corner volley, right where the post and cross-bar meet, our GK Vallow, didn't even move. Second? Didn't see it. the little one was ready for bed in the 60th minute.

Burton has some skills for sure, but what stuck me most was the fact he didn't cross midfield the entire game--couldn't be bothered. (I guess,it was an exhibition after all.)

Dave, as to our brand-new stadium...it's alright. Nothing fancy, just bare-bones and it's in the worst neighborhood in the city...with literally no parking. There's a plan to expand to close to 20, 000 at some point, but we can't even sell-out 13K, so I don't see the point.

Constant talk of landing an MLS expansion or relocation team. It actually got hot and heavy last week regarding Salt Lake relocating here...we'll see. Thing is, as well as we support the Rhinos, the season ends in September at the latest...it's a summer-time diversion for most of the crowd. If we started playing an MLS Schedule into October/November, nobody would show, it's strictly American Football season around here at that point, and this town goes nuts for the Bills. Heck even the Sabres don't draw until the Bills season is over, how would a MLS team cope?

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:25 pm

McClean is the fan favorite no doubt. He added to that legend by coming off his 3 month injury in 2005 and netting the equalizer from the spot in the League 1 playoff final.

Burton gets a bad rap because his finishing is so erratic. But the stats don't lie, he puts the ball in the net a good amount of times.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:10 pm

Ruud to Bayern?? Bayern have made another bid to United. If signed, Maakay or Pizarro would go.

pigpen81 · Post by **pigpen81** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:27 pm

Check out he EPL blog today for some fascinating reading:

http://eplleague.blogspot.com/

Squid will be extremely happy with this.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:32 pm

Look at that. My boys at #15, better than that City crap that Dave brings over here.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:38 pm

fsquid wrote:Ruud to Bayern?? Bayern have made another bid to United. If signed, Maakay or Pizarro would go.

According to Beckenbauer they are still far in the money department, I still see him playing the friendly vs Celtic, although his days are definitely numbered in MU.

Looks like H. Crespo will be returning to Italy and play for AC Milan if a reasonable offer comes to Chelsea.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:46 pm

Still far, but if United want him to go, I think they can suck up the 3.4 million pound difference.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:08 pm

fsquid wrote:Look at that. My boys at #15, better than that City crap that Dave brings over here.

We're still the only team to be relegated the year after winning the title...beat that ! And we scored the most goals of any team and had two 7-1 wins.

And that, my friends, is how the quintessential phrase of any Blue came about.

"...Typical City"

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:27 pm

You win you win!!

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:48 am

Former Brazilian captain Dunga is the new head coach of the National Team.

sfz_T-car · Post by **sfz_T-car** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:03 am

Niall Quinn names himself Manager of Sunderland.

In other news, I've asked US Soccer to reconsider my application for US National Team Coach. I had been concerned that my limited experience with FM/CM and my son's U-11 team would be a negative, but the hirings of Dunga and Quinn prove otherwise.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:09 am

sfz_T-car wrote:Niall Quinn names himself Manager of Sunderland.

In other news, I've asked US Soccer to reconsider my application for US National Team Coach. I had been concerned that my limited experience with FM/CM and my son's U-11 team would be a negative, but the hirings of Dunga and Quinn prove otherwise.

Former captaincy is a required in your resume.

sfz_T-car · Post by **sfz_T-car** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:25 am

Did I mention I got Wimbledon into the Champions League, Norwich to Europe and Leyton Orient to the Premiership?

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:41 am

sfz_T-car wrote:Did I mention I got Wimbledon into the Champions League, Norwich to Europe and Leyton Orient to the Premiership?

I got FC Omniworld to the Quarters of the Champions League b*tch!

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:59 am

Niall Quinn is a football genius.

he's certainly more intelligent than the mass of soccer players, and Roy Keane was scared of him.

That should gee his players up.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:32 pm

He's a MBE, he can do what he wants!

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:30 pm

Only an honorary MBE, because he's an Irish citizen. So he can't quite do everything

Never forget him shoving Keane about 5 yards in a somewhat tense FA Cup tie between City and Utd in 97 (just after the big, brave Roy was trying it on our 17yr old midfielder). Keane turned round ready for a go, and walked off when he saw it was Quinny.

Bog-trotting sh*thouse, a mere shell of a human being. [/i]

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:41 pm

Quinny was a proper footballer.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:43 pm

Italian soccer punishments cut.

Fiorentina and Lazio back in Serie A with increased penalties (one will prob go down then)

Juventus still down, penalty cut to -17. Prob back up next season, the cheating gets.

Pretty much as I predicted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 215178.stm

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:47 pm

what a disgrace.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:19 pm

I hear now that Palermo are taking the Italian Fed to court, because AC Milan's entrance into the Champs League (thanks, no doubt, to Berlusconi's back stairs influence, the corrupt tw*t) bumps little Palermo from the CL into the UEFA Cup.

This one is gonna run and run.

Latest I hear is that AC Milan helped to set Juventus up with the Police..nice.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:21 pm

Names have to be in to UEFA tomorrow since the 3rd qualifying stage draw is on Friday.