| Crushing indictment of this season’s Championship 10:10 - Mar 2 with 2195 views | jackrabbit |
Here’s an excerpt of the article from yesterday’s Telegraph Sport. Can’t really argue with it.
“Norwich prosper from rare moments of quality in a threadbare league
Farke’s team are a bright spot in a mediocre Championship hit by a punishing schedule, a lack of spending and empty grounds
This season’s Championship has a quality problem. In any sane reimagining of football, the second tier would be to the Premier League what American college football is to the NFL, a looser form of the game which some prefer to watch despite its inferior
This season it has been mostly formless slop; a punishing schedule of games between mediocre teams on eroding pitches played to an audience of plastic seats — watching it has felt like a chore.
The numbers support what your eyes will have told you if you have sat through a handful of games. Before this weekend, the average Championship game featured 22.2 shots, with 7.2 on target. In the four previous seasons, the averages were 25.2 and 8.2 respectively. Goals per game and passing stats are also down.
Norwich City are a rare bright spot in a dreary league. Not the division’s highest scorers (Brentford), nor its meanest defence (Swansea) they are unarguably its best team. An immediate return to the top tier beckons....”
It then continues with a report of Wycombe 0 Norwich 2 [Post edited 2 Mar 2021 10:13]
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| Crushing indictment of this season’s Championship on 10:12 - Mar 2 with 2183 views | onehunglow |
And fair comment |  |
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| Crushing indictment of this season’s Championship on 10:22 - Mar 2 with 2173 views | Dr_Winston |
Gives a bit too much credit to Norwich as a team considering how toothless they are when Buendia doesn't play, but generally fair.
Compared to the standard of 2010/11 it's miles away. |  |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Crushing indictment of this season’s Championship on 11:02 - Mar 2 with 2137 views | onehunglow |
Agree with Doc there.
There is little between the bottom three and the likes of us.
We have not exactly trashed anyone in the bottom 6 and Coventry looked far better than us as did Rotherham.
It is a lottery this year as regards going up and our best chance we'll have ,IMO,for years.
Fulham,Blades and Baggies will come down and then probably go straight back up.
We need to break out. | |
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| Crushing indictment of this season’s Championship on 12:23 - Mar 2 with 2090 views | KGriz16 |
Written by a journalist with a deadline. Easy to look at stats and use them to back you up any way you wanted too. |  | | |
| Crushing indictment of this season’s Championship on 13:06 - Mar 2 with 2060 views | BarrySwan |
Why keep repeating the line about empty grounds as a criticism.
We all know why the grounds are empty and that its no ones fault. So why repeat over and over about them? | | | |
| Crushing indictment of this season’s Championship on 13:16 - Mar 2 with 2047 views | Joe_bradshaw |
There’s a big gap between the Championship and the Premier League. West Brom are coming back down. Fulham are now making a fight of it with 7 (seven) loan players in their starting 11. Leeds have Bielsa.
Norwich are about to go promotion, relegation, promotion. Some clubs seem to be occupying a twilight zone between the Championship and the Premier League. We proved it can be done without spending silly money but you need an outstanding manager with a system and clever recruitment to compliment your system. Let’s be honest, none of us were giddy with excitement the day Brendan Rodgers was appointed. |  |
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| Crushing indictment of this season’s Championship on 22:46 - Mar 3 with 1856 views | felixstowe_jack |
I think most teams in the championship are well organised and difficult to beat. The top four teams are gaining more points than the top for last season. Difficult for teams to keep energy levels up given a far more condensed season and a very short close season. Even the pitched are showing a lot more ware on them this season. | |
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