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.............Bees Up Fulham Down...............
 

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Good work from Odoi to duck under the ball to allow Alli to nod in the equaliser.
 

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Hahahahahahahahahaha

Boom.

See you next season (unts
 

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Going well for the best team ever promoted to the Premier League (genuine opinion I heard from more than one of their fans last year), supplemented by just the £100m worth of summer signings! rofl
 

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Harry in the last minute.
 

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Absolutely magnificent!
 

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When they went up I thought they’ve got plenty of quality, they’ll stay up easily. Then they spent £100m in the summer and I thought it could be some time before they come back down.

The start gave us hope but when Ranieri was appointed I thought ‘rats’ he’ll probably get them out of.

However they’re really in the sh*t now and they seem to have a losing mentality. I’m starting to genuinely believe.
 

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CTBee said:
When they went up I thought they’ve got plenty of quality, they’ll stay up easily. Then they spent £100m in the summer and I thought it could be some time before they come back down.

The start gave us hope but when Ranieri was appointed I thought ‘rats’ he’ll probably get them out of.

However they’re really in the sh*t now and they seem to have a losing mentality. I’m starting to genuinely believe.
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7 points adrift but three must win games coming up against Brighton, Palace, West Ham and Soton while Newcastle have Man City and Spurs away.
If they don’t get 7 or more from those 4 I think we can welcome them back as March looks horrible for them fixtures wise.
 

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I thought they had made some good signings but I was wrong. And this is the sweetest humble pie I’ve ever tasted.
 

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.............oh dear.........how sad...........never mind..............
 

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Read something the other day that Fulham, with their "neutral" end are exploiting away fans and "dodging" the premier league rules about £30 max away ticket.

As everyone knows, the neutral end is next to the away end.
They literally give the minimum for away fans at £30 and won't go above that. They, without physically advertising it to away fans, sell to away fans the neutral seats at £50 a ticket. Brighton fans have been told if they want a ticket in the sold out away end that they must pay that to sit near them.

Whilst watching the match today, you could clearly see Tottenham and Fulham fans mixed in that neutral end. This also goes against segregation.
How do they get away with breaking segregation rules? Because of the neutral stand, they are also breaking the amount they charge away fans rules too.
 

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If they'd stuck with essentially the team that got them promoted and added 2 or 3 good new players, then they could have been fine. Instead, they brought too many new faces in, kept changing formation and couldn't work out their strongest team, all whilst leaking goals and losing matches. They've got great assets from their promotion squad in Cairney and Sessegnon, but can't seem to decide whether they should be played in more attacking or defensive roles, which is ruining their confidence. It's an unexpected and frankly hilarious mess.
 

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alexcavell said:
If they'd stuck with essentially the team that got them promoted and added 2 or 3 good new players, then they could have been fine. Instead, they brought too many new faces in, kept changing formation and couldn't work out their strongest team, all whilst leaking goals and losing matches. They've got great assets from their promotion squad in Cairney and Sessegnon, but can't seem to decide whether they should be played in more attacking or defensive roles, which is ruining their confidence. It's an unexpected and frankly hilarious mess.
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To be fair to them (and why would you?) they couldn't stick with that team as half of them were loanees. So they had to spend on about 8 players just to have a squad.
 

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I haven't cheered a last minute goal at Fulham so loud since ours.
 

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There is no way that they should be in the position that they're in, them and Wolves were fairly close on ability by the end of last season (although obviously Wolves were higher). All it required was a few additions, and maybe make some of the loanees permanent.

It then turned out that defensively they were a mess, maybe that caught them off guard. They were so attacking last year that maybe it was a flaw that they didn't realise they had. Once they came up against better teams it seemed to expose that very quickly. They were then caught between keeping their attacking intent up, vs shoring up at the back. But this meant therefore relying on their weak point to make them stronger. They just couldn't do it seemingly, and only got a couple of wins against teams who wouldn't look out of place in the Championship.

Out goes Jokanovic (who always seemed at war with the club anyway), and in comes Ranieri...however this seemed a strange one. Yes he has a lot of pedigree now, however he has rarely been seen as a manager who can inspire a set of players to perform well when they're struggling. That's just not his strength and he's often struggled when in that position (he was the manager of Greece before Leicester). Ranieri was very risky IMO, and just doesn't seem to be showing enough to be working. They look more likely to draw games than they did before though...

It would be a stupid relegation IMO, they shouldn't be in this position if they'd acted relatively shrewdly. It's possible they tried to run before they walked, and signed good attacking players without addressing the team balance by assuming they were better balanced than they were. Their loss but if they come down, they'll have one hell of a financial situation to deal with. You only get parachute payments for one season if you go down on the first attempt...Year one in the Championship would be huge for them.
 

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Invipai said:
There is no way that they should be in the position that they're in, them and Wolves were fairly close on ability by the end of last season (although obviously Wolves were higher). All it required was a few additions, and maybe make some of the loanees permanent.

It then turned out that defensively they were a mess, maybe that caught them off guard. They were so attacking last year that maybe it was a flaw that they didn't realise they had. Once they came up against better teams it seemed to expose that very quickly. They were then caught between keeping their attacking intent up, vs shoring up at the back. But this meant therefore relying on their weak point to make them stronger. They just couldn't do it seemingly, and only got a couple of wins against teams who wouldn't look out of place in the Championship.

Out goes Jokanovic (who always seemed at war with the club anyway), and in comes Ranieri...however this seemed a strange one. Yes he has a lot of pedigree now, however he has rarely been seen as a manager who can inspire a set of players to perform well when they're struggling. That's just not his strength and he's often struggled when in that position (he was the manager of Greece before Leicester). Ranieri was very risky IMO, and just doesn't seem to be showing enough to be working. They look more likely to draw games than they did before though...

It would be a stupid relegation IMO, they shouldn't be in this position if they'd acted relatively shrewdly. It's possible they tried to run before they walked, and signed good attacking players without addressing the team balance by assuming they were better balanced than they were. Their loss but if they come down, they'll have one hell of a financial situation to deal with. You only get parachute payments for one season if you go down on the first attempt...Year one in the Championship would be huge for them.
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I think part of their problem has ben that Jokanovic's teams always start badly. I don't know if it's a fitness issue or what but in both of their previous two Championship seasons they were well off the pace until about January. After we beat them at GP in December last year I believe they were bottom half and we were ahead of them. You can't get away with that and make up that ground when you're in with the big boys.
 

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Wolves have a head coach with a crystal clear playing style and they recruited specifically for that style, while identifying players in their own squad to give them the experience of the English style of play. Fulham, on the other hand...
 

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they are far too good to go down....that's what makes it even funnier.....hudders, Cardiff, burnley, brighton, Newcastle are miles worse than them lol lol only Fulham could feck this up
 

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The great part is - they would have made most of those signings with clear relegation clauses in them - imagine Mitro/Schurle/Serri/Babel will be able to walk away for small fees when/if they get relegated.
 

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Invipai said:
There is no way that they should be in the position that they're in, them and Wolves were fairly close on ability by the end of last season (although obviously Wolves were higher). All it required was a few additions, and maybe make some of the loanees permanent.

It then turned out that defensively they were a mess, maybe that caught them off guard. They were so attacking last year that maybe it was a flaw that they didn't realise they had. Once they came up against better teams it seemed to expose that very quickly. They were then caught between keeping their attacking intent up, vs shoring up at the back. But this meant therefore relying on their weak point to make them stronger. They just couldn't do it seemingly, and only got a couple of wins against teams who wouldn't look out of place in the Championship.

Out goes Jokanovic (who always seemed at war with the club anyway), and in comes Ranieri...however this seemed a strange one. Yes he has a lot of pedigree now, however he has rarely been seen as a manager who can inspire a set of players to perform well when they're struggling. That's just not his strength and he's often struggled when in that position (he was the manager of Greece before Leicester). Ranieri was very risky IMO, and just doesn't seem to be showing enough to be working. They look more likely to draw games than they did before though...

It would be a stupid relegation IMO, they shouldn't be in this position if they'd acted relatively shrewdly. It's possible they tried to run before they walked, and signed good attacking players without addressing the team balance by assuming they were better balanced than they were. Their loss but if they come down, they'll have one hell of a financial situation to deal with. You only get parachute payments for one season if you go down on the first attempt...Year one in the Championship would be huge for them.
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Didn't know that. Fantastic!!!
 

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Invipai said:
You only get parachute payments for one season if you go down on the first attempt...Year one in the Championship would be huge for them.
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RoyBee said:
Didn't know that. Fantastic!!!
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Much fairer isn't it but it's still over 40 million quid. Absolutely obscene that Rangers will receive over 16 million this year to take their total to over 90 million in four years back in the championship having spent one year in EPL.
 

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RoyBee said:
Didn't know that. Fantastic!!!
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I think he was 4th choice behind Villa-Boas, Jardim & Wenger which if that was the case they should've drawn up a new list & started from scratch. May have stopped them conceding so many goals but was never going to pull them out of a relegation fight. Can only think they were hiring him on the back of his Leic CV and not on the back of his earlier international work. There are other notable dodged bullets, Thierry Henry knocked back Villa to go to Monaco after Jardim left, given they're 2nd from bottom after getting thumped 5-1 at home to Strasbourg, can only imagine what the Villa fans would be screaming right now.
 

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Thought parachute payments were 2 years if relegated after one season. 3 years if relegated after more than 1 up.
 

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Are we having a loud rendition of “bees up Fulham down” for the viewing millions on Monday?
 
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