Bring back 2 pts for a win!

[Rotherham red'n'white]

Revised league table with 2 points for a win! We need to bring this back!

Position under 2 PTS
1 Chelsea 61
2 Manchester City 55
3 Arsenal 53
4 Manchester United 50
5 Tottenham Hotspur 45
6 Liverpool 44
7 Southampton 42
8 Swansea City 40
9 Stoke City 39
10 Everton 35
11 West Ham United 35
12 Crystal Palace 35
13 West Bromwich Albion 33
14 Sunderland 31
15 Leicester City 30
16 Newcastle United 29
17 Aston Villa 28
18 Hull City 27
19 Burnley 26
20 Queens Park Rangers 22

 

[leviathan]

Yeah absolutely so we have the same champions, the same top four and the same bottom three - except we have moved up a couple of places - what a f***ing idiot

 

[Hulkster]

I would do completely the opposite.

5 or even 10 points for a win.

Teams setting out to grind a 0-0 with a hope of maybe nicking a goal from a set piece is destroying the entertainment value of the game.

It's been so much better to watch in thr last few games when sides have had to go for the win.

 

[I am Boss]

I would do completely the opposite.

5 or even 10 points for a win.

Teams setting out to grind a 0-0 with a hope of maybe nicking a goal from a set piece is destroying the entertainment value of the game.

It's been so much better to watch in thr last few games when sides have had to go for the win.

Where would we finish in a 5 points for win scenario? Bottom 3 surely?

 

[vote quimby]

If you get beat 8 nil you should be fed to the lions.

 

[leviathan]

Where would we finish in a 5 points for win scenario? Bottom 3 surely?

Well no......there are teams with less points that us so no matter how many points for a win we would still stop up

 

[Purrfect South]

1 for a nil-nil
2 for a score draw
3 for a win.

 

[LUBITSCH]

I've never agreed with three points for a win. I thought it was a bad idea when it was first brought in and I still do.

 

[DoctorMick]

Well no......there are teams with less points that us so no matter how many points for a win we would still stop up

Are you quite certain about that?

 

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

I've never agreed with three points for a win. I thought it was a bad idea when it was first brought in and I still do.

Why?

 

[LUBITSCH]

Why?

I've always believed the arguments in its favour were false. That it would encourage and reward attacking play was and is simply untrue. The idea that it encouraged clubs to go for a win was nonsense. If a team who were coming for a point grabs an early goal they will shut up shop more thoroughly than ever. As a supporter, when you've witnessed a thrilling draw the feeling is of disappointment that you've dropped two points instead of gaining one. You get three points for a scraped, undeserved 1-0 win and one for a battling draw.
I remember when Jimmy Hill first proposed the three points for a win idea, Danny Blanchflower wrote "when is half a loaf not half a loaf? when you get 1/3 of the points for a draw that you get for a win." I agreed with him then and I agree with the long departed wise man now.

 

[AC Mack]

Well no......there are teams with less points that us so no matter how many points for a win we would still stop up

Not if it was 10 points for a win.

(which is ridiculous, btw).

 

[Kevin Arnott's right boot]

Well no......there are teams with less points that us so no matter how many points for a win we would still stop up

6 points for a win would see us relegated on goal difference

 

[Botchie]

Should be goals scored instead of GD.

 

[Church]

Yeah absolutely so we have the same champions, the same top four and the same bottom three - except we have moved up a couple of places - what a f***ing idiot

Harsh mate... he was just having a bit of fun. Jees.

 

[foggy]

Harsh mate... he was just having a bit of fun. Jees.

This. Over the top and nee need

 

[martin_s_buckley]

2pts for a win would have made Gus' boring brand of football justifiable.

 

[safcforever]

I would do completely the opposite.

5 or even 10 points for a win.

Teams setting out to grind a 0-0 with a hope of maybe nicking a goal from a set piece is destroying the entertainment value of the game.

It's been so much better to watch in thr last few games when sides have had to go for the win.

Agreed, 0-0 should never be an end result

Should be goals scored instead of GD.

This would be a good idea, or results v the team you're tied with

 

[Sima]

Yeah absolutely so we have the same champions, the same top four and the same bottom three - except we have moved up a couple of places - what a f***ing idiot

I'm guessing that this is the main reason behind his thinking

14 Sunderland 31
15 Leicester City 30
16 Newcastle United 29

 

[Dogbark]

The dizzy heights of 14th