2015-16 Championship Thread

[Fernando]

First topic message reminder :

With Sky announcing their live games for the start of the Championship season i figured we could use a thread

Who do we think will head up and down this season?

August
Fri 7: Brighton & Hove Albion v Nottingham Forest (7.45pm)
Sat 8: Leeds United v Burnley (12.30pm)
Sun 9: Preston North End v Middlesbrough (12 noon)
Sun 16: Wolverhampton Wanderers v Hull City (12 noon)
Fri 21: Birmingham City v Derby County (7.45pm)
Sat 22: Leeds United v Sheffield Wednesday (12.30pm)
Fri 28: Blackburn Rovers v Bolton Wanderers (7.45pm)
Sat 29: Derby County v Leeds United (12.05pm)

September
Fri 11: Reading v Ipswich Town (8pm)
Sat 19: Nottingham Forest v Middlesbrough (12.30pm)
Fri 25: Fulham v Queen’s Park Rangers (7.45pm)

October
Fri 2 Oct: Rotherham United v Burnley (7.45pm)
Sat 3: Wolverhampton Wanderers v Huddersfield Town (12.30pm)

*Other games may be added.

[Marky]

Another campaign full of disappointment, giving the liver a battering every weekend and seeing us play rubbish football week in week out at a superb stadium.

FOOTBALL IS BACK! 

Strap me in!

Only doing away games?

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Thought both teams were dog muck.

[Duty281]

Awful game. Both teams very poor; little cohesion or fluidity on show.

Passing by both was incredibly sub-standard. Lua-lua the only half decent player on the pitch - yes I'm stretching the definition! - and he did net a beautifully precise finish.

Both teams could be in for a long season, on that evidence. Depressing to see so many empty seats for the opening game.

Why did Sky pick this game?

[Marky]

Basically, before the game everyone was all "yeah, football is back!"

And now we're all "is it May yet?"

Well done Brighton and Forest you shíthouses

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

YES!!!!!!!!'

Have some of that Freeman you wan*er!!!! 

Too early to tell about Forest, but one thing is for sure we were outstanding tonight. Well deserved win. 

Antonio needs to stop crying every minute, Eric Lijah really is a dirty player and Lansbury is incredibly overrated. 

SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAGULLLLLSSSSSS

"Outstanding" - stretching the realms of reality there. You scored from a cross that went wrong and then had one other chance.

[NickisBHAFC]

We're top of the league we're Brighton & Hove Albion were top of the league

[NickisBHAFC]

Matt Smith gives Fulham the lead at Cardiff.

[westisbest]

This football league show seems pretty poor.

Channel 5 means ads. 9pm is a good time.

Fans in the studio, not a fan.

already i think i prefer last seasons.

Although on the plus side, no Claridge.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

It's already miles better simply because it's not on at midnight

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Ok just show the goals already channel five

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Ok why are we flitting between the league's

[Duty281]

Care to revise your initial opinion, Oliver?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Ok it's hideous

[westisbest]

This could be a recording job in the future, then just forward on the tripe.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

The only thing keeping this on is Ipswich's hilarious collapse - show format is horrific

[Fernando]

It's your time Olly Has Dave Edwards "Hand of god" been on yet?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

BRING BACK MANISH

[westisbest]

He was so wooden.

This is poor.

Surely they could have done better.

Will definatly record in future.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

We actually just had this exchange

"Talk me through it"

"What do you want me to say?"

It's so bad I can't stop watching it

[Duty281]

It's already miles better simply because it's not on at midnight

It's so bad I can't stop watching it

We've come so far in just an hour!

[westisbest]

This show has been ruined.

Embarrassingly bad.

[NickisBHAFC]

Just watched it. 

Terrible show. 

Only positive is they have Adam Virgo on it

[westisbest]

He was dreadful to.

[NickisBHAFC]

Na not having that.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

He had the charisma of a stick

[NickisBHAFC]

He is the best thing since sliced bread

[Nico the gman]

Leicester accept Boro £4mill bid for Dave Nugent, scores goals at championship level.

[GSC]

Hope you win a lot of penalties

[Nico the gman]

Hope you win a lot of penalties

I think he's short of premiership class, but think he'll bang a few in in the championship, made he's mark in the lower divisions.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

£4m is a bit high

[Nico the gman]

Hope you win a lot of penalties

I think he's short of premiership class, but think he'll bang a few in in the championship, made he's mark in the lower divisions.

73% of Boro fans think £4mill is an over inflated price, Nugent hasn't agreed to anything yet either so early days.

[owen10ozzy]

Would be an OK signing but nothing more....he has a decent enough record in the Championship and will score goals....assuming he gets service which isn't a given if Sunday's performance is anything to go by...but £4 million is a tad too high (although saying that, the market is crazy atm)...

For me there are just better alternatives which, even with a half decent campaign of 15 goals, would see us potentially get a return on our investment should we not go up. Nugent isn't going to give us that. Andre Gray (7 million asking price) and Rhodes (12-14 million) would.

I just hope that should we sign Nugent that's it for strikers because I think Stuani and Kike will chip in with less than 10; we need a 20+ goal striker and Nugent isn't it despite his record.

[Nico the gman]

Would be an OK signing but nothing more....he has a decent enough record in the Championship and will score goals....assuming he gets service which isn't a given if Sunday's performance is anything to go by...but £4 million is a tad too high (although saying that, the market is crazy atm)...

For me there are just better alternatives which, even with a half decent campaign of 15 goals, would see us potentially get a return on our investment should we not go up. Nugent isn't going to give us that. Andre Gray (7 million asking price) and Rhodes (12-14 million) would.

I just hope that should we sign Nugent that's it for strikers because I think Stuani and Kike will chip in with less than 10; we need a 20+ goal striker and Nugent isn't it despite his record.

Yep agree, we need a 20+ goal a season striker, personally would go for Gayle at Palace, young, lightning quick, scores goals, would be a nightmare for any defence in the championship, £10 mill asking price, don't think Rhodes is coming. Had time now to think long and hard about Nugent,  I'm not too sure, might be OK if it was Nugent and another, jury's out on Kike, fingers crossed Stuani can do it.

After Sundays performance surely our manager must realise Reach offers very little, creates nothing, it follows on from last season, we're playing with 10 men with him on the pitch, had Carayol sat on the bench, and Forshaw for 87 minutes, Karanka fan, but poor tactics really.

[Nico the gman]

Boro pull out of talks with Nugents camp, Oh well you win some you lose some, most Boro supporters won't be that bothered.

[dyrewolfe]

Boro pull out of talks with Nugents camp, Oh well you win some you lose some, most Boro supporters won't be that bothered.

Well he's not a name that really excites, is he? I think we've brought plenty of Nugent-standard strikers in and not seen much of a return on our investment.

I think I'd rather we paid around £10m for a Bamford-type player and at least be fairly certain he'll play regularly and get us a decent amount of goals. Better than a budget buy who'll likely end up warming the bench for most of the season.

As I said on my Boro thread, I think our biggest problem is our attacking play. We need to work out a way of getting the ball to our strikers in good positions. Thats something we seem to struggle with a lot.

One wag on the Oneboro forum commented we could have had David Silva up front and he wouldn't have had a sniff either, so bad was the service.

[Fernando]

*cough* http://www.mfc.co.uk/news/article/2014/boro-david-nugent-leicester-city-2618675.aspx *cough*

[Nico the gman]

Nugent now signed, hope its a good signing, but should it be a bad signing or a bad season, we will always have Fernando's sarcasm to fall back on.

[GSC]

All aboard the bandwagon

[NickisBHAFC]

WERE TOP OF THR LEAGUE WERE TOP OF THE LEAGUE WERE BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION WERE TOP OF THE LEAGUE

[GSC]

Tyler Walker looks a player though. Shame he'll get Bamford'd for 500k when we're 3 points above the drop at xmas

[Marky]

WERE TOP OF THR LEAGUE WERE TOP OF THE LEAGUE WERE BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION WERE TOP OF THE LEAGUE

Enjoy it. But it's about as legit as Leicester being top of the Premier League

[Dolphin Ziggler]

He's already speaking about it in the past tense.

[westisbest]

WERE TOP OF THR LEAGUE WERE TOP OF THE LEAGUE WERE BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION WERE TOP OF THE LEAGUE

Fair play.

Hope you come up. Great palce for an away day.
Also like to see Houghton doing well.

Hope your on the pi55 ma lord, on the pi55.

[GSC]

Championship refs are so so Poopie

[NickisBHAFC]

Fantastic stuff. Now for either Wolves or Hull to take top spot from us!

[dyrewolfe]

Wow - what a match against Bolton.

Corker of an opener from Fabbrini and fantastic work to set up Kike for the other two. Fully deserved his MOTM award. 3-0 up at half time, we really should have had 4, 5 or even 6. Shame we couldn't add to the score...though it wasn't for lack of trying.

We played well, but Bolton made us look even better. Defensively shambolic.

We're gonna have much tougher games - be interesting to see how we cope.

@GSC: our ref James Adcock made some very strange decisions too.

[NickisBHAFC]

Wolves 1-1 Hull. Means the championship table will look nice for the next 48 hours.

[Nico the gman]

Very easy win for us we played some lovely football, on this performance Bolton look relegation candidates, they are awful, a totally finished Heskey as one of your main strikers say's it all.

[NickisBHAFC]

Just watched the channel 5 show. Much improved this week. Still I can't see it being as good as the BBC show.

[GSC]

I miss Britt. Blackstock just doesn't threaten and Walker cant be expected to shoulder the responsibility on his own.

Plenty in the performance to suggest there's a good crop coming the academy.

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