Player and Young Player of the Year Nominations

Ripper · 27 Apr 2008 at 21:15

Apparantly thats not the team actually, hmm.

Tom84 · 27 Apr 2008 at 21:48

Team of the Season has been announced and it looks as such...

GK: David James (Portsmouth)

RB: Bacary Sagna (Arsenal)
CB: Rio Ferdinand (Man Utd)
CB: Nemanja Vidic (Man Utd)
LB: Gael Clichy (Arsenal)

RM: Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd)
CM: Csec Fabregas (Arsenal)
CM: Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
LM: Ashley Young (Aston Villa)

CF: Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
CF: Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal)

Clichy ahead of Patrice? :mad:

BaZ87 · 27 Apr 2008 at 21:56

Tom84 said:
Clichy ahead of Patrice?

I see no reason why not. Not much between them going forward and imo Clichy a far better defender.

Andybtsn · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:00

Unlike last year the team is spot on imo. No Chelsea players and they could still win the league :eek:

Peg · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:01

Tom84 said:
Team of the Season has been announced and it looks as such...

GK: David James (Portsmouth)

RB: Bacary Sagna (Arsenal)
CB: Rio Ferdinand (Man Utd)
CB: Nemanja Vidic (Man Utd)
LB: Gael Clichy (Arsenal)

RM: Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd)
CM: Csec Fabregas (Arsenal)
CM: Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
LM: Ashley Young (Aston Villa)

CF: Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
CF: Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal)

Clichy ahead of Patrice?

That team looks fair enough.

Tom84 · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:02

BaZ87 said:
I see no reason why not. Not much between them going forward and imo Clichy a far better defender.

Of course he is :rolleyes:

BaZ87 · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:20

Glad you agree

Pigeon_Killer · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:31

Andybtsn said:
Unlike last year the team is spot on imo.

Agree, last year was a complete farce.

As for this years team, apart from the full back spots which could've been given to a couple of players the rest were pretty obvious choices.

Tom84 · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:34

Pigeon_Killer said:
Agree, last year was a complete farce.

As for this years team, apart from the full back spots which could've been given to a couple of players the rest were pretty obvious choices.

Why was last season a farce?

Ok so it was a little let's say embarrassing the fact that only 3 players outside of utd made the team but VDS and G.Neville aside (and even that's a maybe) all the others were more than warranted of their inclusion

Pigeon_Killer · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:43

Tom84 said:
Why was last season a farce?

Ok so it was a little let's say embarrassing the fact that only 3 players outside of utd made the team but VDS and G.Neville aside (and even that's a maybe) all the others were more than warranted of their inclusion

No they weren't. Scholes was missing for half the year because he went blind. How did he manage to get in ahead of Lampard who had an amazing season?

Tom84 · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:46

Pigeon_Killer said:
No they weren't. Scholes was missing for half the year because he went blind. How did he manage to get in ahead of Lampard who had an amazing season?

Last years awards were for last season a season where Scholes started and ended it without any injuries and was fantastic throughout.

Next?

BaZ87 · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:51

Tom84 said:
Last years awards were for last season a season where Scholes started and ended it without any injuries and was fantastic throughout.

Next?

Common mistake there. The awards are for the year not the season which is why the votes are made in January.

However because the votes are made in January it often means that the players are nominated based of the first few months of that season and not actually the year.

Pigeon_Killer · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:51

Tom84 said:
Last years awards were for last season a season where Scholes started and ended it without any injuries and was fantastic throughout.

Next?

I thought it was based on the calendar year? Edit: BaZ to the rescue!

Even if it was based on the season rather than the calendar year Scholes only managed 7 goals and 3 assists whereas Lampard managed 21 goals and 16 assists.

Tom84 · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:53

BaZ87 said:
Common mistake there. The awards are for the year not the season which is why the votes are made in January.

However because the votes are made in January it often means that the players are nominated based of the first few months of that season and not actually the year.

Even though that is the case though it is a Team of the Season award

BaZ87 · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:56

No it is officially the team of the year but ends up being the team of August, September, October, November and December

And like Pigeon says, regardless of whether it's the season or year, Scholes shouldn't have been in it.

Tom84 · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:58

Pigeon_Killer said:
I thought it was based on the calendar year? Edit: BaZ to the rescue!

Even if it was based on the season rather than the calendar year Scholes only managed 7 goals and 3 assists whereas Lampard managed 21 goals and 16 assists.

Stats such as them don't mean anything they certainly don't mean that Lampard played better last season than Scholes did for us.

Scholes' inclusion was even more merited because of the injury you eluded to earlier.

Pigeon_Killer · 27 Apr 2008 at 23:00

Tom84 said:
Stats such as them don't mean anything they certainly don't mean that Lampard played better last season than Scholes did for us.

Given that they're both attacking midfielders Lampards stats do mean he had a better season though.

Tom84 said:
Scholes' inclusion was even more merited because of the injury you eluded to earlier.

So he got the pity vote?

weringo · 27 Apr 2008 at 23:01

Didn't last years one have Van Der Sar and 4 United defenders even though us and Chelsea had a better defensive record that year?

That was laughable.

Pigeon_Killer · 27 Apr 2008 at 23:02

weringo said:
Didn't last years one have Van Der Sar and 4 United defenders even though us and Chelsea had a better defensive record that year?

Yep.

Tom84 · 27 Apr 2008 at 23:05

Pigeon_Killer said:
Given that they're both attacking midfielders Lampards stats do mean he had a better season though.

So he got the pity vote?

Scholes' aint the same attacking midfielder he was when he was Lampards age, his game has changed dramatically in that he very rarely gets forward these days. Hence why he's only got 1 goal for us this season (that and he's been injured)

As for your second point get real, I mentioned his injury because after having a career threatening problem and to come back as good as he was last season was remarkable especially as he was only playing so so before the eye problem.