Come on Celtic !!!!!!!!

FinsburyParkCarrots

failedpersephone wrote:

think blue

goddammit...it's all the Anglophilic feelings I have...

Think Blue? Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen. all the way!

failedpersephone

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Think Blue? Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen. all the way!

Oooooh...you guys are in stripeys!!!

ahem:

GO Bhoys!!


there you go...the Queen of the South NAME just sounds rad to me...I almost want to start calling myself that!



edit: btw: your divisions and like, layers to the leagues are confusing as hell...I have read about them and still don't GET when a team can play and when they cant...like divisionally...are they up for some sort of cup can they do interdivisional play???


goddammit...this is as confusing as actually WATCHING a cricket game...do you peeps just keep trying to invent confusing sports??? even when a sport isn't confusing your extra rules and stuff make it so!

argh!!! seriously, I am now trying to figure this all out.

chime

failedpersephone wrote:

edit: btw: your divisions and like, layers to the leagues are confusing as hell...I have read about them and still don't GET when a team can play and when they cant...like divisionally...are they up for some sort of cup can they do interdivisional play???

argh!!! seriously, I am now trying to figure this all out.

So I'll take the first stab at this. Firstly the Cup competitions and the leagues are seperate.

At the end of the league season the top teams in a league move up a division and the bottom teams move down a division (usually 2-4 teams in each direction depending on the league) for the next season.

The national cup competitions are knock out competitions and involve teams from all leagues and the teams to play each other in the next round are basically drawn out of a hat at the end of each round of play so you can have 'giant killings' when a team beats a team a division or two above them (you get a lot of David and Goliath type commentating) ... I don't know if this will help explain but here is the wiki on the main English cup competition the FA Cup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa_cup

So during the season a team will play both in their league and also in the cup.

dunkman

failedpersephone wrote:

GO DOONHAMERS!!!!


(god I love Wiki)

that filled me with enormous pride!!!

*sniffs*

i'm totally impressed with the colour scheme also

failedpersephone

Chime wrote:

So I'll take the first stab at this. Firstly the Cup competitions and the leagues are seperate.

At the end of the league season the top teams in a league move up a division and the bottom teams move down a division (usually 2-4 teams in each direction depending on the league) for the next season.

The national cup competitions are knock out competitions and involve teams from all leagues and the teams to play each other in the next round are basically drawn out of a hat at the end of each round of play so you can have 'giant killings' when a team beats a team a division or two above them (you get a lot of David and Goliath type commentating) ... I don't know if this will help explain but here is the wiki on the main English cup competition the FA Cup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa_cup

So during the season a team will play both in their league and also in the cup.

so, if your team sucks donuts - it will fall a division (but that is only in terms of league play) it will still have a chance at a cup win (albeit with the david/goliath thing) ??

oh.

so, here is another question - I saw there was a Scottish Premier league, and there were other leagues - but only Premier Leagues are eligible for certain cups or is it REALLY like literally a HAT that decides who faces who??

it is sounding a weeeee little bit like our college bowl games, only a little more structured (not as arbitrary over invites due to rankings placed by sports writers)

thanks for the info! I am glad you didn't think I was making fun...because I wasnt


oh, and DOONHAMERS OWN!

stu gee

I know a lot of rangers fans think walter smith is god but in my opinion, if they had a less stubborn and more forward thinking manager they would have won the league long ago. Rangers fans were laughing saying that celtic were in dissaray a while ago but look at the problems they have! You sell your best player hutton, a rangers diehard who didnt want to leave, and you play players like cousin, who clearly isnt interested in playing for rangers, and dirk bigfoot, who clearly doesnt even resemble a footballer. You have boyd, your top scorer on the bench behind cousin as well, its madness!! There is a rangers fan who always came on here ages ago, cant remember their name, but even someone like that who probably worships walter smith must admit he has some questions to answer. In both old firm games rangers were so defensive it was unreal.

I have to take a breath now, sit back and say, lets all laugh at rangers!!!!!!!!!!!

chime

failedpersephone wrote:

so, if your team sucks donuts - it will fall a division (but that is only in terms of league play) it will still have a chance at a cup win (albeit with the david/goliath thing) ??

oh.

so, here is another question - I saw there was a Scottish Premier league, and there were other leagues - but only Premier Leagues are eligible for certain cups or is it REALLY like literally a HAT that decides who faces who??

it is sounding a weeeee little bit like our college bowl games, only a little more structured (not as arbitrary over invites due to rankings placed by sports writers)

thanks for the info! I am glad you didn't think I was making fun...because I wasnt


oh, and DOONHAMERS OWN!

For the national cups pretty much any one can enter. For example the FA cup started with over 700 teams entered this season.

For the International Cups (the Champions League and the UEFA Cup) It's generally the top teams from the top league in a country or in some cases the winners of some of the national cups that are entered.