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Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:59 pm
by Heid the Ba
Fuck, 2 - 1.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:05 pm
by Arneb
Sounds like a prediction coming true

Meanwhile, Greuther crawled to safety, goalless against Heidenheim.

Played 158159 Won 73 Drawn 31 Lost 55.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2020 8:39 pm
by Arneb
Some snippets from over the channel:
  • Bayern secured their 30th Bundesliga Championship, their 8th in a row (yawn).
  • More problematically, the first team to secure promotion to the Bundesliga and having all but won the Second League doesn't even exist: Arminia Bielefeld.
  • Hertha can still end up in 15th place, feet dangling at the edge of the abyss.
  • More probably, they could very well indeed end up below Union Berlin, who have something like a tenth of their salary budget.
  • Deä Glubb is in acute danger of relegation. They pulled back from the brink yesterday with a 6-0 over some hapless band of rumblefeet, but they are still only three ahead of the relegation playoff spot. I am afraid I can't touch the subject of football for some years when I'm with my in-laws if that happens. Keep your fingers crossed for deä Glubb, please!
  • On the other end of my in-laws, Hamburg is about to squander their promotion for the second time in a row. Similarly touchy subject, family gathering will be a nightmare.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 2:58 pm
by Arneb
Hertha two nil up at home to CL candidate Big Pharma Leverkusen 30 min. from time. I mean, come ON, this is ridiculous.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 3:37 pm
by Arneb
Hertha BSC 2 - 0 Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Let's see if we can play party pooper to the other CL contender as well, Mönchengladbach. They host us next week, for the final match day of the season.

Played 159 160 Won 74 Drawn 31 Lost 55.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:18 am
by Heid the Ba
Good old auntie.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2020 8:31 am
by Arneb
Heid the Ba wrote:Good old auntie.

She has her moments, that's for sure. Leverkusen always came late for us in the season in the last years, and it was always something like 2-6, 1-5, that sort of thing. The kind of match that would bury our dreams of going to Europe, or leave us in 15th place at the end of the season. Big Pharma probably thought they'd have a walk in the park ahead of them, especially after Hertha's recent string of defeats, which had already put us far away from Europe.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 2:55 pm
by Arneb
Vfl Bochum 2 - 2 SpVgg Greuther Fürth

Played 161 Won 74 Drawn 32 Lost 55.

Delicate situation for the wider family:
  • Hamburg, of Champions Cup fame, my mother-in-law's birthplace and home to some fine people I met through her, are facing their second non-promotion in a row. They must win their last game at home to some obscure club from the deep province in order to stay alive, AND they must hope that already victorious Bielefeld stay serious and do their best against the team Hamburg must overtake in order to secure the playoffs. Heidenheim. If they fail to make to the playoffs, that would mean talking about football would be perennially touchy for another year.
  • Closer to home, it's even worse. Nuremburg must not lose at home to Kiel. If they don't lose, they stay in the League. But IF they lose (and given their level of fuckuppery, they might very well), then it's up to what their competitors, Karsruhe, do against our very own Greuther Fürth. Greuther COULD be tempted to drive a knife into their perennial home rival's back by recklessly losing at home to Karlsruhe while hoping for another Nuremberg fuckup. This scenario, while sounding far-fetched, is much to likely for my comfort.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:29 pm
by Arneb
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2 - 1 Hertha BSC

So we end the season as the leader of the second half, at 41 points. After the first two coaches, coming home in mid-table mediocrity is probably the best we could hope for. But it was a dreary end to a terrible season. Then again, footy under Corona is always dreary. Bayern, Dortmund, Leipzig and Mönchengladbach will raid CL next year, Leverkusen and Hoffenheim join the Wee European Cup. Düsseldorf and Paderborn get relegated (no lloss there), while Bremen fight for their life against either Heidenheim or Hamburg (see above) next week.

Played 162 Won 74 Drawn 32 Lost 56

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:03 pm
by Heid the Ba
Given the revolving door at coach and Hertha being, well Hertha, not too bad at all.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:46 pm
by Arneb
Oh dear.

SpVgg Greuther Fürth 1 - 2 Karlsruher SC

Together wirh Nurembergs embarassing 1 -1 at home to Kiel, this means relegation pöayoffs (to the Third League, mind you) for der Glubb. And the parents-in-law are scheduled for visit on Tuesday...

Also, Hamburg lost their last-ditch promotion effort 1-5 at home to thoroughly mediocre SV Sandhausen, and will have to spend another year in League Two.

Maybe it's good thing all family gatherings are called off due to the pandemic.

Played 163 Won 74 Drawn 32 Lost 57

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 2:20 pm
by Heid the Ba
Excellent, all Rangers have to do is overturn a two goal deficit away to VW then beat Inter or Getafe and we're in the semis!

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:39 pm
by Arneb
That's away to Big Pharma. VW is Wolfsburg.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:18 pm
by Lianachan
Heid the Ba wrote:Excellent, all Rangers have to do is overturn a two goal deficit away to VW then beat Inter or Getafe and we're in the semis!

Piece of pish. Premature congratulations!

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:38 pm
by Heid the Ba
Arneb wrote:That's away to Big Pharma. VW is Wolfsburg.

Sorry, but it doesn’t matter, does it?

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:39 pm
by Heid the Ba
Lianachan wrote:
Heid the Ba wrote:Excellent, all Rangers have to do is overturn a two goal deficit away to VW then beat Inter or Getafe and we're in the semis!

Piece of pish. Premature congratulations!

I can’t see a problem. Hoisting the trophy already.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:51 pm
by Arneb
Ooh, ve haff vays to privent zet.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:00 am
by Arneb
Our shoddy investor has given a press conference asking why Hertha shouldn't win the Bundesliga one day. Interesting question. My answers, in order of relevance:

1 Hertha
2 Hertha
3 Hertha
4 You don't buy championships by pouring out a few hundred million over a dilapidated football club, idiot. You need a history of excellent work, one not blemished by former coaches celebrating a three month ego trip before leaving for better shores....

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:14 pm
by Heid the Ba
All very true.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:28 pm
by Lianachan
Indeed, can’t fault any of that.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 11:53 am
by Heid the Ba
With a game still to play in the 2019 - 20 season we have just started the 2020 - 21 season.

We’re away to the Sheepshaggers and have just gone a goal up. That has to be a good omen? Four teams undefeated all season?

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 12:08 pm
by Heid the Ba
Our Berlin born Nigerian-German looks like a decent player.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 1:17 pm
by Heid the Ba
Oh fuckitty, still one up with five minutes to go and we have PCs for letting in late equalisers at Pittodrie.
Edit to correct an autocorrect.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 1:25 pm
by Heid the Ba
Top of the league, we’re top of the league! Ok, there has only been one game played so far.

Sheepshaggers 0 - 1 Rangers

2019 - 2020
Played 163, Won 74, Drawn 32, Lost 57

2020 - 2021
Played 1, Won 1, Drawn 0, Lost 0.

RCC are next up on Monday.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 8:37 pm
by Lianachan
Watched this on Sky Sports at my brother’s. Great result, and new season off to a good IRU start.

Ross County 1 - 0 Motherwell

They were 3rd last season, so had been expecting a loss there.

2019 - 2020
Played 163, Won 74, Drawn 32, Lost 57

2020 - 2021
Played 2, Won 2, Drawn 0, Lost 0.