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Fans Forum: Pick your topic
Thursday 4th September 2008, 8:56AM BST.
Do you enjoy a good debate on Expressandstar.com early in the morning? Well here is your chance to pick the sporting topic.
Post what you would like to talk about on the comments page, we will pick the best one and take it from there!
Now you have your chance every day to post the question you would like your fellow commenters to debate.
It could be something related to our local clubs (e.g. ‘Will the new signings answer Wolves defensive problems?’ or ‘What striker should Albion bring in January?’).
It could be a national topic (e.g. ‘Who will replace Alan Curbishley at West Ham?’ or ‘Will England qualify for the World Cup in 2010?’)
You have until 10am. Go!
Peter Williams posted at 9:13am: Would you ever ground share with your rival to raise revenue for you club?
Post your comments below!
Fine crop of topics today it was difficult to call, keep it up tomorrow folks!
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when is someone going to stop clubs being taken over by multi billionaires ?
its going to kill football long term something needs to be done about it before its too late.
does anyone agree ?
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Will there ever be a wage cap on players earnings as its ruining football right down to grass roots.
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Are our young players given a fair chance under MM?
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With the the future of English club football progrssively being put in the hands of a few super rich foreigners. Is the future rosy or littered with problems?
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Will the price of attending your club’s games, eventually drive out the ‘real fans’ and make football a ‘corporate’ game?
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why is sam vokes being treated like freddy???
thats a good topic
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is the prem just becoming the billionares playground and is there anything the people running the prem wouldnt do for money??
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Would you ever ground share with your rival to raise revenue for you club?
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The long-term plan of the multi-billionaires (1) is to break away from the “smaller” clubs of the Premier League. Their new super-league will be based on the American sports franchise system. As they will not be able to afford being relegated, there won’t be any relegations – AND THEREFORE NO PROMOTIONS.Our favourite clubs will be left out in the cold.
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Are the bloggers ever going to get paid??
Only kidding, how about, should the Premier League adopt the same rules as many other European countries and penalise clubs who trade outside of their means??
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What characteristics should be used in order to rank teams – and using them rank the Midlands sides.
This one is SURE to create a debate! ;)
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Assume UEFA do manage to limit the amount of foreign players despite the EU’s best efforts. How many foreigners is too many and what should the quota be?
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Should foreign players (ie Cudicini and Almunia) be allowed to play for England when they’ve lived here for 5 years? And should they be picked?
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Are Matt Jarvis & Michael Kightly the two best wingers in the country??
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Why does S Ward always get in the Team, it seems to me that MM would play him in goal if the position comes available. Nice lad but we must have better defenders and wingers.
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Sam Vokes being treated like Freddy??? Time to grow a pair and get real mate, Sam has been injured for a couple of games and is only getting back to fitness now – he will probably play for Wales on Saturday which means he should be ready for the Charlton game. Because of the form of Iwelumo and Ebanks-Blake he is unlikely to start but should be on the bench. Also, Sam’s attitude is exemplary, something which your friend Mr Eastwood could never be accused of.
Are you just a complete WUM Ledbury Wolf or were you genuinely serious with that comment?
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Will Man City now be a contender for a top 4 place?
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16) Completely agree with what you say, I think people are too quick to establish their personal faves. Vokes has been really positive in the press and when he is in form I have no doubt he’ll be included.
The season is a marathon not a sprint-we’re bound to get injuries.
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How close are the Wolves and the Baggies? I know we are on different pages on ceefax but they are 20th in the country and we are 21st.
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Are we losing the game we love with too much foreign investment?
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I am all for live games on a Saturday on TV. For a number of reasons including my young kids I can’t get to a game.
I don’t believe it will kill attendance but what could be done to use the extra revenue wisely?
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Should Reserve Teams be allowed to enter the Football League – like Spain?
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Is it time the premiership was restructured ? Are we all going to wait for a billionaire to buy us ? The gulf is widening almost daily and it’s leagues within leagues that is becoming boring. Bring on a new broom and split the premier and incorperate the top tear of the championship into two new leagues.
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WELL DONE PRESTON !!!…just got tickets for our trip to Preston in 2 weeks for my 5 year old son and myself.
My ticket was only £20 and under 7′s are FREE.
(I also noticed they do family tickets).
It’s great to see that there are still clubs who don’t rip off fans and encourage kids and families.
Nice one PNE.
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Can brit football stay a supporters sport if the prices keep rising and the billionairs keep taking over the hiring and firing from the managers?
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Why is it right for players who commit crimes to be able to walk straight back in to playing for a club are these kind of role model we want our kids to look up to.
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It HAS to be about our local clubs.
The E&S is a local paper, and is our oasis in a media dessert of London and North West fixation.
How will our teams fare this term ?
What realistically, do the fans expect of the season ?
This gives every fan of all our clubs a platform.
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Should there be a restriction on Foreign intake of players-Limit the number of imports to promote our standards of home grown players ?-Crazey Dave
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Will GB & Europe win the Ryder Cup?
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Should clubs introduce a system in which season ticket holders get to vote on signings. Although ultimatly it will be the managers choice and his choice of players to offer to the fans vote i think it would be nice to know what the fans think before he makes certain decisions. For example if we had 3 strikers to try and sign ask the fans to vote which one should be our main target. OR he could put the vote of whihc player would you want to see at the club realisticaly.
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Has football become the unacceptable face of capitalism? I’m not green with envy at Man City, I just see it as yet more evidence that football will turn into a global product for greedy scumbags and the local club and fans will become the new ‘park football’; very sad.
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In reply to Peter Williams (9:13), and as highlighted in BOLD at the top of the article:
No.
End of.
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Message 18
I can see the moon at night, but we’re worlds apart!
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Will Wolves and WBA once again pass each other on the esculator to the premiership?
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how the albion would love to groundshare with us. They can move away from that little tin shed ground and come to a real football stadium. It would not happen in a million years, it is the known to be the most fierce rivalry in the country and not a chance. I am gutted westbrom are struggling, I would love a premiership derby but this season I think we will pass eachother again.
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any tips for the horse racing
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Will all dingles ever stop being jealous of the fact West Bromwich Albion are in the the PREMIERSHIP and their not!!???
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36
phil
fish shop in the 14.30 at kempton, should be good for a place….
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LW
We did ground share with you once, in the FA cup,
left you loads of shopping bags, and did you thank us for our kind gesture ?…..NO
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Should we play with a round ball?
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England.
Why have we under performed since 1966, apart from 1990 and 1996?
How the FA can put this right, or is it just plainly and simply, England are not as good as we think we are?
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35 Laughing- You’ve been ‘getting promoted’ for the last 15 seasons and it’s only happened once. I’ll believe it when I see it and you cope with all your mid-season injuries and suspensions.
As for sharing your ground. There’s more atmosphere in our ‘little tin shed’ than there ever will be in your custard bowl purely because your stands are about half a mile from the pitch, there’s no corners and you’re usually booing!!
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My question is this, how would ground sharing save money??
Our corporate side of the club actually makes a profit as i am sure the Wolves do. So ground sharing wouldnt actually save money would it!!
The only money you would make would be when you sell one of them, pointless debate!!
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Its unthinkable Wolves & WBA ground sharing, i dont want to even think about it. Football is a tribal thing, i would imagine that 99% of football fans of any club in the country would feel the same way, and when comes down to your local rival, ie West Brom, its a BIG NO…….
WOLVES FOR THE PREM, AND I HOPE WBA MANAGE TO STAY UP, IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE OUR LOCAL DERBY BACK IN THE BIG TIME…….
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In reply to your question re Groundshare-Not an option which could arise for Wolves in the furure-My answer would be “not on WHY”—After Saturday’s display we might say the Arsenal can share with us or even BRAZIL for away shows—Not an option and not in my view worth discussion–Even calling it the ASDA DOME is also not worth discussion as per comments last week-The Molinuex is known World Wide–We are the WOLVES–Crazey Dave
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Ground sharing is fine and makes sense for teams in the same town, Bristol, Sheffield, Liverpool etc but wouldnt be acceptable in my view to share with clubs in nearby towns or cities, Walsall and Wolves for instance.
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Tried to post this before, but it got rejected for some reason.
Salary cap in football.
It’s made rugby league far more competitive, everybody beats everybody.
It would make the Premiership less boring and may help stop football from spiraling towards destruction.
Clubs are only allowed to pay 50% of their turnover in wages. This helps teams from spending beyond their means and may prevent smaller clubs from going extinct.
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GROUND SHARING WITH ALBION ?
no thanks.
and 42, wolves have got the loudest fans in the championship, we outsung you at the poorthorns last season, and we out sung you at molinuex, so what are you on about u make more noise than us ? is that before or after you stop singin lord is your sheperd cus ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A TAVERN was louder. ahahahahahahaha TOP OF THE LEAGUE, STAYING THERE, BOTTOM OF THE LEAGUE YOUR STAYING THERE, HE WHO LAUGHS LAST LAUGHS LOUDEST.
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Ground Share….
NOT A CHANCE WITH ANYONE!
WE ARE WOLVES!! END OF!
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dingles cud ground share with walsall aye boing boing donk
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24: Yeah what a nice surprise i ve got 4 tickets for Preston for a group of us and the lot were under £90! as for ground sharing from a fans point of view NEVER from a money/buisness point It would be worth looking into but really would you want to upset your loyal fans? – fa cup tie at ours jumps to mind
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will jarrod ever get a round in aye boing boing donk
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41
If you dont kick those millionaires of of your game the England squad will suffer. Ok the premiership is full of primadonnas and who doesnt like watching Ronaldos Kakas Robinhos … but who’ s gaining? them! they are becomming millionaires and not giving a chance for your home talent to shine on your own grass. I call them baby millionaires.
You have to go back to your roots, there’s no other route, do it or you drown. Look at Italy after the 82 world cup which they won there was an influx of foreign players into their football system, every star wanted to join Juve or Milan or Inter Roma Napoli and so on but in the long run who suffered? their national team. They won nothing UNTIL …
… Look at them now thw Serie a is no longer attracting major stars cos there no such money left so they come the premiership. But hey ‘ve just won a world cup with plenty is options to choose from they sometimes let star players out of the Nazionale. YOU AINT GOT ENOUGH STRIKERS TO CHOOSE FROM.
My advise is give your home talent their chance and English soccer will again the best soccer in the world and maybe even be world champions again just follow the italians and you’ll achieve what you deserve.
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Not being one to have strong opinions and not necessarily the quickest fish in the tank but…
1-no 2-no 3-yes 4-Rosy 5-no 6-He’s not 7-no 8-It’s bound to happen 9-They’ll always need someone to beat or it’ll be as dull as Scottish football 10-They’re businesses, let them do what they want 11-For supporters league position, Shareholders balance sheet 12-no quota I like watching good players 13-no 14-no 15-MM’s manager not you. 16-you’ll have to forgive the conspiracy theorists. 17-yes,next season 18-quite right. 19-were catching up fast 20-no 21-dangerous. 22-no 23-rubbish idea 24-agree 25-we’ll still be there 26-market forces 27-wise man 28-no again 29-who cares 30-lunatic 31-Inverted snob, don’t like the wealth moving to poor lads instead of staying with the elite where it belongs! 32-half right 33-different moon to mine 34-yes yes and thrice yes 35-see 34 36-don’t bet 37-yes, next season 38-fish shop…sends me all of a quiver 39-not enough of you to call it sharing 40-we could try it 41-can I explain the meaning of life instead? 42-right at least about it being a tin shed 43-perhaps we’d make twice as much 44-makes you shiver doesn’t it? 45-We’ll share with Man U (if they’ll move down here) The stripeys can go to Tamworth
Can you tell I’m having a slow day :-)
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14 Eddie Wolf I think so but shhhhh we don’t want some millionaire taking them off us.
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Why would we wish to share with any team in Birmingham. We are in Wolverhampton.
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39.oh yes that we did,and we shared 3 goals with them…
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48) the only time you are loud is when you boo. stop kidding yourselves.
I never heard you lot at the teso mol. however i heard gera gera gear quite a lot
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No!
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going down in style the mowbray way! always have, always will be a bigger club, the gera whos name you were singing went to a bigger club with phillips, your own players slate the club!
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now that man city have been taken over by the oil rioh arabs will the grund become known as the middle EAST lands…
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Jarrod.
You’ve probably come up with the most thought provoking topic on here today (don’t mean the one about paying bloggers.)
If we don’t get our own house in order it looks as though Mr Platini may do it for us. Good thing to my way of thinking. It would put a brake on the amount going out of the game to players and agents. Many will remember back in the seventies, an Albion supporters coach going away to Luton, contributed to their anti bankruptcy fighting fund only to see them lording it over us years later before their other various financial problems over the years.
What do others think.
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48- I never said anything about who had the louder fans. I just said the Hawthorns is more condusive to a better atmosphere because it’s an enclosed stadium with the corners filled in and it’s closer to the pitch.
As for you outsinging us last season. Perhaps you were loud last year, but that would be because you were the underdog and we were more expectant.
Go back ten years and you’ll find we were the more supportive and you the more expectant.
There’s a reason for everything Southbank. Anyone can be the loudest fans when things are going their way or they’ve nothing to lose, I think if you asked most of your own if you were the loudest fans in the Championship over the course of the last season, they’d laugh at you. You wouldn’t have a reputation as such a bunch of whingers otherwise.
Get your blinkers off.
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Why not sell the Baggies and Wolves grounds and build a new sup-stadium in Dudley, inbetween the two towns.
If it was in Dudley, then I wouldn’t have to catch a bus to go to the match…
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63 Warren.
Much as I hate to disagree with a fellow Baggie. I think you’ll find that the reason the Wolves fans sounded louder to southbank is that he was in the middle of them. It’s like a cow looks bigger the closer you stand to it.
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Did anyone see Robinio’s press conference ?
When asked by a reporter how he felt about the move he said
“Once Chelsea had bid for me I knew i wanted to move here”.
To which the reporter replied “Err, do you you mean manchester City” ?
Robinio replied “Yeah, Manchester City…. right…”
Still, good to know it’s not about the money eh ?
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Share with the dingles not on you life!!!!
Ground although not bad lacks atmosphere and plus it aint big enough! What about them lot coming to a proper stadium?
Nah
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I note there were two abusive, anti-Albion comments from Wulfies who couldn’t even spell Molyneux! Ground sharing with Wolves is geographically silly, it’s too far, the ground holds about 1000 more, the colour is ****, we should have to FIGHT our way in and out again, especially when we won and you lost, (most of the time), most of your supporters would defect to being Baggies once they realised how much better it is to be a Baggyboy, oh I could go on but it’s a sad topic and pointless. Leave it as it is, we’ll lead, you follow. That way will ultimately bring success to both teams.
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how can you ground share with the big team in prem and little team in chumpionship,where would we put all our trophys there cabinet ay big enuff aye boing boing donk
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jarrod did you know anagram of topic is optic aye boing boing donk
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22,supper,no cuz yow lot ay got one so yowd be even more upset when we got 2 teams in prem and yow 1 in chumpionship aye boing boing donk
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terryDonk
your right our trophy cabinet aint big enough! not with our 3 league championship cups, 4 FA cups, 2 leauge cups, all the trophy’s we’ve won for winning every divison in the english game (1st club out of only 3 to do so) 2 Community Shield’s & a Sherpa Van Trophy & Texaco Cup each!!!!!
look up the records to see out of the two clubs whos cabinet has the most!
you’ll find its us by the way!!
up the WOLVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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72- How many FA Cups?
The only reason we’ve not won the 4th English division is because we’ve never been low enough to compete in it!!!
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