Colchester relegation confirmed

parmopooly · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:28 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 339988.stm

and a brand new identikit ground to visit next season then

http://www.colchester.gov.uk/photogalle ... ec_id=1718

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22649

There does seem to be a big divide between this league and the championship. Invariably the smaller teams promoted from Div 3 struggle and only last a season or two. I think the best we could ever achieve would be to become a yo-yo club between them two leagues.

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:41 pm

Agree like pools this is our level wih an odd pop into the championship one day.

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:43 pm

Bristol City aren't doing too bad, but then they have a 'big club' infrastructure.

When you look at clubs of a similar catchment area to us, Stockport, Rotherham and Crewe did a few years up there between them. If we emulate them I'll be happy (apart from the financial backlash obviously).

Spender · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:59 pm

Mr I wrote:

There does seem to be a big divide between this league and the championship. Invariably the smaller teams promoted from Div 3 struggle and only last a season or two. I think the best we could ever achieve would be to become a yo-yo club between them two leagues.

How duckin' fair you!!!!!!!! :shock:

*If we'd played Porter all season, got in a 20 goal a year.....no, hang on......, played James Brown up front...wait.....picked our best players, played them in.......shit....made some loan signings.....bastad ((c)ADG), dropped Barker...not got so many penalties.....cock!!.........scraped Ben Clark off the treatment table and put him in midfield.....hang on is that out of....the ticket prices are atrocious....why doesn't the club let us pick the team?? Eh?? Eh?? Wilson out...No hang on Wilson in, err....wait....if only they'd do what we tell them.......*

**((c)The Bunker)

Hiw would I know, eh?? I don't go. :roll:

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:36 pm

Pooliekev wrote:

Mr I wrote:

There does seem to be a big divide between this league and the championship. Invariably the smaller teams promoted from Div 3 struggle and only last a season or two. I think the best we could ever achieve would be to become a yo-yo club between them two leagues.

How duckin' fair you!!!!!!!! :shock:

*If we'd played Porter all season, got in a 20 goal a year.....no, hang on......, played James Brown up front...wait.....picked our best players, played them in.......shiit....made some loan signings.....bastad ((c)ADG), dropped Barker...not got so many penalties.....cock!!.........scraped Ben Clark off the treatment table and put him in midfield.....hang on is that out of....the ticket prices are atrocious....why doesn't the club let us pick the team?? Eh?? Eh?? Wilson out...No hang on Wilson in, err....wait....if only they'd do what we tell them.......*

**((c)The Bunker)

Hiw would I know, eh?? I don't go. :roll:

Special Brew is a demon, isn't it Kev!

Poolsrme · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:04 pm

Could be another ex massive team for us to visit next season. :shock:

Don't think we've ever played Leicester or Southampton in the league before. I'm sure we've played Coventry. And as for Sheff. Wed.......... :roll:

Spender · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:12 pm

TalbotAvenger wrote:

Pooliekev wrote:

Mr I wrote:

There does seem to be a big divide between this league and the championship. Invariably the smaller teams promoted from Div 3 struggle and only last a season or two. I think the best we could ever achieve would be to become a yo-yo club between them two leagues.

How duckin' fair you!!!!!!!! :shock:

*If we'd played Porter all season, got in a 20 goal a year.....no, hang on......, played James Brown up front...wait.....picked our best players, played them in.......shiit....made some loan signings.....bastad ((c)ADG), dropped Barker...not got so many penalties.....cock!!.........scraped Ben Clark off the treatment table and put him in midfield.....hang on is that out of....the ticket prices are atrocious....why doesn't the club let us pick the team?? Eh?? Eh?? Wilson out...No hang on Wilson in, err....wait....if only they'd do what we tell them.......*

**((c)The Bunker)

Hiw would I know, eh?? I don't go. :roll:

Special Brew is a demon, isn't it Kev!

If only you could buy it here, I might be on a level playing field and I'm banned from giving my own opinion because what do I know?? I've been gone too long, they tell me. There's no such thing as knowledge outside the UK.

However, you will find that all those things are culled from the cognoscenti's posts this year, the year we finished top of the bottom half on division three.

Soooo....sack the manager, drop six of the team, and we need a new board. :grin:

They're fookin' priceless aren't they. rolfl

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:15 pm

Pools should try to emulate Bristol City if they're ever to make anything of the Championship. We'd only ever stay for a season tops anyway. I'd be proud as hell to get there either way, but given the money gap I can't see it ever being possible to do well. Not that I care - I'm happy for us to be a solid League One club

Spender · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:22 pm

Bingo, Ginge, good call. We simply will never get the crowds and therefore the infrastructure to more than barely survive there. We just can't compete with the clubs up there and the thought that we can is romantic. confised

I'd love us to do it but we couldn't be more than a bottom six side, and there's not much to be said for that.

Having said that if we made it, even for 5 minutes, my head would be like a fifty shilling piss pot. clappp

Sarf · **Joined:** Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:31 pm **Posts:** 323

parmopooly wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/colchester_united/7339988.stm

and a brand new identikit ground to visit next season then

http://www.colchester.gov.uk/photogalle ... ec_id=1718

I work about 15 mins from the new ground. Actually had a trip there about a month ago. Looks a tidy ground, 10,000 all seater. Pity it will host 1st division footy next season though

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

Pooliekev wrote:

Bingo, Ginge, good call. We simply will never get the crowds and therefore the infrastructure to more than barely survive there. We just can't compete with the clubs up there and the thought that we can is romantic. confised

I'd love us to do it but we couldn't be more than a bottom six side, and there's not much to be said for that.

Having said that if we made it, even for 5 minutes, my head would be like a fifty shilling piss pot. clappp

seeing as he is not around i will say it for him
it is already :laugh:

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:29 pm

Sarf wrote:

parmopooly wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/colchester_united/7339988.stm

and a brand new identikit ground to visit next season then

http://www.colchester.gov.uk/photogalle ... ec_id=1718

I work about 15 mins from the new ground. Actually had a trip there about a month ago. Looks a tidy ground, 10,000 all seater. Pity it will host 1st division footy next season though

Sarf, what do you sound like, you're like...

aido87 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:19 pm

who's that hottie ???? :razz:

and what's his mate called ???? bbolt

parmopooly · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:18 pm

despite what we see as tinkering week in week out when it's not always necessary, what Wilson has definitely done - so far as the outside world is concerned - is increase his profile considerably by getting the team promoted first time and achieving a comfortable mid table finish (although I still maintain would have been very different if the pressure hadn't been well and truly taken off by Bournemouth's and Luton's points deductions, and a very timely 3 match winning burst).
I also subscribe to the theory that he's looking to take steps back towards "bigger" jobs again in the future. How ironic would it be if he ended up back at Barnsley or Sheff Wed again? I think he would take the Huddersfield job like a shot if it was offered to him.

Neale Cooper was the best man for this job we've had for a long time. We need to find another like him.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:36 pm

I wonder if Wilson is one of the six?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 336579.stm

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:44 am

chip fireball wrote:

one thing i will deffo credit pooliekev on is that he was about the only poster on the board, with the possible exception of mad john, who said we wouldnt struggle to score goals this season.

Chip, your goal scoring predictions were so pessimistic they made made EVERYONE else's sound like a goal scoring spree in comparison. rolfl

Spender · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:36 pm

Richard M. Head wrote:

chip fireball wrote:

one thing i will deffo credit pooliekev on is that he was about the only poster on the board, with the possible exception of mad john, who said we wouldnt struggle to score goals this season.

Chip, your goal scoring predictions were so pessimistic they made made EVERYONE else's sound like a goal scoring spree in comparison. rolfl

Shhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! :shock:

Wha'd he say again?? bbolt

Sarf · **Joined:** Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:31 pm **Posts:** 323

kentishpoolie wrote:

Sarf wrote:

parmopooly wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/colchester_united/7339988.stm

and a brand new identikit ground to visit next season then

http://www.colchester.gov.uk/photogalle ... ec_id=1718

I work about 15 mins from the new ground. Actually had a trip there about a month ago. Looks a tidy ground, 10,000 all seater. Pity it will host 1st division footy next season though

Sarf, what do you sound like, you're like...

Whose the fatty then

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6472

You not a Gavin and Stacey fan then Mr S

Sarf · **Joined:** Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:31 pm **Posts:** 323

Fensy wrote:

You not a Gavin and Stacey fan then Mr S

Who?

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6472

Tis a programme on BBC 3 on a Sunday night, fairly funny it is as well. The 2 people in the picture wrote it and star in it but are not Gavin and Stacey though.

Sarf · **Joined:** Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:31 pm **Posts:** 323

BBC3

Mine only goes up to 2 :roll:

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22649

You do of course realise that statistically speaking, Danny Wilson is far and away the most successful manager ever don't you?

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:26 pm

Mr I wrote:

You do of course realise that statistically speaking, Danny Wilson is far and away the most successful manager ever don't you?

Better than the likes of Shankly, Paisley and Ferguson?

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22649

Maybe. But I did mean at Pools of course you pedantic get :grin:

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