[4evaabaggie]

the premier league,

Where do we stand in the premier league all time table?

The answer ......... 47 teams have played under the banner of the premier league .....

Albion are a credible 19th one place above stoke having had two seasons more.
The stats without digging to deep are not massively impressive,
Second worse goal difference of -196 only Sunderland are worse.
Only about 9 points better off than stoke having played two seasons more. 11 - 9
Should really do a points per game ratio to see how we stack up then.

Wolves way down in 37th from their four seasons..

[4evaabaggie]

Placing on average points per game,

1, Man U 2.1008
2, Arsenal. 1.8939
3, Chelsea. . 1.8596
4, Liverpool 1.7432
5, Man C. 1.5168
6, Spurs. 1.5041
7, Leeds. 1.4786
8, Newcastle 1.4016
9, Blackburn. 1.3936
10, Everton. 1.3762
11, Villa. 1.3235
12, Forest. 1.2645
13, West Ham 1.2456
14, Sheffield W 1.2405
15, Stoke. 1.2397
16, Wimbledon 1.2373
17, Saints. 1.2255
18, Swansea. 1.2236
19, Leicester. 1.2037
20, Charlton. 1.1875
21, Fulham. 1.1862
22, Norwich. 1.1809
23, Bolton. 1.1639
24, Bournemouth. 1.1578
25, Coventry. 1.1553
26, Boro. 1.1515
27, Blues. 1.1315
28, Ipswich. 1.1089
29, QPR. 1.1079
30, Pompey. 1.1015
31, Wigan. 1.0888
32, Sheffield U 1.0819
33, Palace. 1.0769
34, Oldham. 1.0595
35, Reading. 1.0438
36, WBA. 1.0358
37, Derby. 1.0300
38, Blackpool 1.0263
39, Sunderland. 1.0164
40, Barnsley. 0.9210
41, Burnley. 0.9035
42, Watford. 0.9013
43, Hull. 0.9000
44, Wolves. 0.8947
45, Bradford. 0.8157
46, Cardiff. 0.7894
47, Swindon. . 0.7142

As I assumed ...... our points per game average is pretty poor.

[talkSAFT]

25 years ago (and even 17 years ago) I thought 'The Top Flight' was a thing of the past. Since then we've not done so bad, and we're solvent.
Ultimately you have to thank Paul Thompson and Jeremy Peace for lifting the Club from the brink of the 3rd rung to stable Premier status. Who would have thought that when we got excited about staying in the Championship 17 years ago (last day win over promoted Charlton) we'd be moaning about finishing 10th!?

[4evaabaggie]

Talksact, I'm not complaining, we have come a long way, we have a long to go. A little more adventure and a higher points per game average would be great but we are in the greed league and the money may help to build a future.

[Onetruebaggie]

In regard to the greed league, I see figures of £75m for Van Dijk, £90-100m for Lukaku and Bournemouth spending £10m on a keeper and think the whole thing has gone f****** crazy! I love the Albion, always have always will, but I feel so disenfranchised with the whole thing at the moment. I see the Premier League creaming over the rights deals around the world, SKY/BT, pumping money in like a broken hosepipe, everybody being better off to the tune of £150-200m per season and what are we going to get for it!!!

More expensive and overpriced players, earning double their already 50-100k p/w salaries, agents getting fat on their share of the transfer fee and the poor b******* that do turn up, getting absolutely nothing more for their money!!! I truly hope somebody pulls the plug on the lot and football comes crashing and the whole thing gets a reality check I really do. In the meantime, I think I will support my local team Tamworth, they are Vanarama North, get 6-900 a week, I can change ends at half time and genuinely feel part of something and making a difference. Sorry to sound like a sad old git, i'm 41 and still just about remember when football had meaning and it wasn't the great big financial megalomaniac it has become!!!

COYB and Tamuff too!!!

[Beefy 1965]

Cant get my Head around this FFP
Bournemouth pull in 14,000 a game
Its costing them 130k a week for Defoe 100K a week for Terry they are splashing out left right and center
We are down to 14 pro's according today's express & dingle after our clear out we should not be struggling
Also I heard you were allowed to go so much over FFP it without being penalized for it,
So i'm not sure we have to be that careful
I mean Bournemouth FFS how are they getting round it,
Also its interesting our owners company is sponsoring us this year has anyone heard how much its for ?

[talkSAFT]

Wish I could double-"Like" OneTrueBaggie's comments.
That's just how I feel, although I'll still do a 500 mile roundtrip to watch the Albion 4 times a year.
I'd rather the football was poor, like it was before the foreign invasion, than to think of the money floating round the Prem.
There's only so much money in the World, so £Billions is making people poor somewhere along the way.

What would make me happy is for someone with strong principles to say "See that £5mpa salary I'm getting? I'm gonna give £4.9m of it to good causes". That would make me worship them - not like that xxxx Terry.