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azathosk
Aug 20, 2006

Sup guys?


New season coming along. New disappointments. New heroes. New shitlords. This is also the last season that TV 2 will show this marvelous league of ours.

Last season Rosenborg did the double.

Rosenborg BK - Sarpsborg 08 22.11.2015 by Eivind Hauger, on Flickr

Half of these players are now gone.

The teams:

Aalesund

They want John Arne Riise. Staying up, but just barely.


Bodø/Glimt

Sorry Euroboy; your boys will be relegated.


Brann

Look! The circus is back!


Haugesund

Hired the assistant of Ole Gunnar Solskjær as manager. Staying up.


Lillestrøm

I want them to go down. I really really REALLY want them to go down.


Molde

Solskjær is back, and he got Eidur Gudjohnson with him to score all the goals. Potential winners.


Odd

Got some headlines when they won the first leg against Borussia Dortmund last season. Potential winners (but only if they can keep Fagermo).


Rosenborg

Won the last season, will probably do it again. Move along, nothing to see.

Sarpsborg 08

The french invasion in Tippeligaen. Used to have Brian Deane as head coach. Will probably stay up.


Sogndal

Newly promoted. They won nearly every home match last season. Potential relegation candidates. Probably qualification.


Stabæk

Lost Bob Bradley to the french side Le Havre. Now they have a scotsman in charge. Won't go down, but won't win the league either.


Start

Won the playoff against Jerv. Sold Ajer to Celtic. Will go down.


Strømsgodset

Potential winner. Lots of quality, but sold Iver Fossum to Hannover. Bought Parr for the Ødegaard-money.


Tromsø

With relegation looming they sold their top scorer and bought a former TV-host. Going down.


Viking

Kjell Jonevret wanted local lads, but got alot of nigerians. Won't get relegated, but won't win anything either.


Vålerenga

The best club in the world. Will probably win the league.

So guys. Who will win? Who will get relegated? Should we do some toxxes?

azathosk fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Mar 11, 2016

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Huckert
Aug 1, 2007

For the love of the game
Hurray, it's a new thread!

You got a lot of teams in your relegation zone, by the way!

I'm just thrilled this thing is back on starting this weekend, and we get to start it off by losing to Odd.

Hurray!

Grimble
Jul 7, 2002

He will build a castle with garden on an island called Cheshire, and he is permitted to breed.
Real football is back

Fredag, 11. Mars (Runde: 1)
19:00 Aalesund - Stabæk
Lørdag, 12. Mars (Runde: 1)
18:00 Odd - Rosenborg
Søndag, 13. Mars (Runde: 1)
15:30 Molde - Tromsø
18:00 Bodø/Glimt - Sogndal
18:00 Sarpsborg 08 - Haugesund
18:00 Strømsgodset - Brann
20:00 Start - Lillestrøm
Mandag, 14. Mars (Runde: 1)
19:00 Vålerenga - Viking

Will be interesting to see if the title favourites can start with wins. All 4 of them play at home against noted bad teams.

straight up brolic
Jan 31, 2007

After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

:homebrew::homebrew::homebrew:

haha who even had the idea to build a football stadium in Sogndal? their stadium is much nicer looking than I thought it would be! Beautiful place.

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007

straight up brolic posted:

haha who even had the idea to build a football stadium in Sogndal? their stadium is much nicer looking than I thought it would be! Beautiful place.

It's the best looking thing in their tiny hamlet tbh

Anyway the OP lies because we're definitely going down, I will now present my evidence:
- Local coaching team with little to no clue despite performing pretty average last season. Sure would be great if they had their poo poo together but they won't.
- Sold all our good players. Grytebust (even if he was slightly dodgy), Barrantes, James, Dyrestam, the list goes on. To replace them we've got a bunch of kids, Franck Boli who could be okay I guess, and possibly Riise who may be good enough for the TL but will almost certainly lead to hilarious drama and division in the player-group or conflict with Fredriksen at some point. Thrandarsson looked like he had potential last year but the others I'm fairly skeptical about. Now that said we did also pick up Edwin Gyasi who I know nothing about but he's young and got 29 games for Roda last year so he can't be TOO awful I hope. But honestly, I'm mostly worried about having an absolutely poo poo defense and not nearly enough venom up front to make up for that.
- It's about time we went down again, haven't been relegated since 2005 which means we're clearly overstaying our welcome.

Just thank gently caress we're not still employing Aabrek and fighting against relegation from OBOS-ligaen this year.

Puseklepp
Jan 9, 2011

like watching the most beautiful ballerina on the best stage
Brann is gonna score 0 goals but somehow manage to stay up.

L. Ron Mexico
May 14, 2005

Insurrectionist posted:

fighting against relegation from OBOS-ligaen this year.

:toot:

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007
Figured you'd be turning it around this year, start to look towards promotion again. Finances bad or just clueless people on the sporting side of things?

Zwachro
Mar 7, 2003
C808BEA
I really like how RBK isn't in the team listing!

Also Brann is back. :toot:

straight up brolic posted:

haha who even had the idea to build a football stadium in Sogndal? their stadium is much nicer looking than I thought it would be! Beautiful place.
It got built in cooperation with a local college and various businesses, so it's being used for stuff other than football. I'm pretty sure Yngve Hallén did the wheeling and dealing to get it built, before wheeling and dealing himself into the position of Norwegian FA president (which he kept until this year, when he pulled his candidature after being nominated for re-election. Mostly due to a relentless media smear campaign, which very rudely pointed out how the FA turned into a mysterious black hole for money under his tenure, along with other irregularities).

Huckert
Aug 1, 2007

For the love of the game

Zwachro posted:

I really like how RBK isn't in the team listing!

Yeah, I think the VIF boys are angry about something.


Grimble posted:

18:00 Odd - Rosenborg

Will be interesting to see if the title favourites can start with wins. All 4 of them play at home against noted bad teams.

straight up brolic
Jan 31, 2007

After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

:homebrew::homebrew::homebrew:

i'm plasticing for enga

azathosk
Aug 20, 2006

Sup guys?

Lurgy posted:

Yeah, I think the VIF boys are angry about something.

RBK is just so easy to forget!

Huckert
Aug 1, 2007

For the love of the game
It's that there club that selnæs used to play for, and soon to be former club of superstars like Helland and Svensson

euroboy
Mar 24, 2004

We're not going down.

azathosk
Aug 20, 2006

Sup guys?

Lurgy posted:

It's that there club that selnæsJamtfall used to play for, and soon to be former club of superstars like Helland and Svensson

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007
We're gonna lose tonight, but hell, I'll hope for a win

azathosk
Aug 20, 2006

Sup guys?
I made a fantasy league at the tv2 manager. Code: 975371-195774

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007
Signed up with my half-assed 10 minute set-up. Gonna win this thing and definitely not forgot about it by the 5th round, for sure

Grimble
Jul 7, 2002

He will build a castle with garden on an island called Cheshire, and he is permitted to breed.
I'm in.

Setting myself a goal of managing to make changes to my team for at least 2, maybe 3 rounds.

Zwachro
Mar 7, 2003
C808BEA
Football has started! :toot:

AaFK looking sharpest the first fifteen.


The real excitement doesn't start until Sunday though. :(

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007
At some point the ball has to roll into Stabæk's net, right?

Right?

Zwachro
Mar 7, 2003
C808BEA

Insurrectionist posted:

At some point the ball has to roll into Stabæk's net, right?

Right?

Apparently!

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007
On my fantasy team too!

Would have been my captain but he didn't show up on the drop-down and I have no idea how the details of this poo poo works so I made some other dude my captain instead :negative:

Zwachro
Mar 7, 2003
C808BEA
Okay, we should just move this thread to the punchsports forum now.

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007
drat Bærum-thugs injuring our players...hopefully there won't be any long-term damage at least.

Zwachro
Mar 7, 2003
C808BEA
Congrats Aalesund, please be bad in two rounds.

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007
My butt was well clenched the last 5 minutes but I'll take it

ass cobra
May 28, 2004

by Azathoth
Wow almost forgot all about this poo poo show, but don't worry, we will win it.

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007
I've got Skjelvik as my captain so go the Rosenborgs, don't concede

But on the other hand it's RBK, so go Odd imo

ass cobra
May 28, 2004

by Azathoth

rear end cobra posted:

don't worry, we will win it.

except tonight obviously

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007
I didn't watch past the first 30 but I'm glad

Puseklepp
Jan 9, 2011

like watching the most beautiful ballerina on the best stage
Huseklepp is my favourite player.

Zwachro
Mar 7, 2003
C808BEA

Puseklepp posted:

Brann is gonna score 0 goals but somehow manage to stay up.
Well, that prediction didn't last long.

I'll take that point!

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007
I'd like to thank Rosenborg, Molde, Strømsgodset for being poo poo and letting us other teams lead the league for a round at least.

Puseklepp
Jan 9, 2011

like watching the most beautiful ballerina on the best stage

Zwachro posted:

Well, that prediction didn't last long.

I'll take that point!

I didn't realize Huseklepp was back from the dead.

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007

azathosk posted:

I made a fantasy league at the tv2 manager. Code: 975371-195774

More people should join, imo

azathosk
Aug 20, 2006

Sup guys?
Bodø/Glimt is top of the league. Bodø. Glimt.

Max Manus
Oct 25, 2004

Saboteur par excellence.
Nap Ghost
Off to our usual start I see, last time we won in the opening match was back in 2011...

straight up brolic
Jan 31, 2007

After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

:homebrew::homebrew::homebrew:

Deshorn Brown almost snapped his ankle in half, but is somehow fine now.

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straight up brolic
Jan 31, 2007

After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

:homebrew::homebrew::homebrew:

why are there only like 2,000 people in a 30,000 person stadium

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