The Barclays Premier League Thread 2014/2015

[DavidMarrio]

If someone has been that good this season then they should be up for player and not young player because they have been one of the best in the league. Coutinho should be up for young player cause he's been one of the better young players this season but he's not one of the top 6 best players this season.

Can you really call Eden Hazard a player who's 24 and made nearly 100 league appearances in 3 seasons a young up and comer now?

[unitedツ]

The max age of the Young Player of the Year should be lowered to 21 or 22, not people taken out of one if they're in another.

[TCO]

If you take people out of the Young Player because they're good enough for both then it completely devalues the Young award and players would miss out on it.

Only viable solution would be to count the Player of the Year first and then remove the winner from the reckoning for the Young Player, if he's happens to be eligible. The age is 23 at the start of the season which I don't see an issue with really, cut off point has to be some where. Hazard's youth shouldn't be discounted because he's achieved so much is such a short space of time.

[Summers]

If you're nominated for player of the year, you shouldn't be in young player of the year.

Simple!

[Colly]

If you're nominated for player of the year, you shouldn't be in young player of the year.

Simple!

But then you might not win player of the year, and an inferior player to you will win young player. That's just silly.

[TCO]

If you're nominated for player of the year, you shouldn't be in young player of the year.

Simple!

That doesn't work at all. If that were the case the 5th best Young Player of the Year would win the award this year, disqualifying the bet four simply because they're unfortunate enough to be in the best 6 players in the league.

Making the young player worthless. Hazard should win both but under the system I suggested I'd go with Hazard and Kane respectively.

[Summers]

It's stupid that one person can win both.

Young player should just be changed to rookie of the year or something. Players in their first season in the Prem.

[King Ellis]

Diego Costa, Rookie of the Year.

[Gazz]

I just think it's a bit silly to classify 23 as a 'young player', when the prime of most outfield attacking players (who make up the majority of nominees) is around 25-27.

Using Hazard as an extreme example, he's played 349 professional career club games, all at the top level and been capped 56 times. He's not exactly a rookie.

[Matt]

Should be <50 appearances in the premier league and 23 or under when the season begins. I mean, in theory a wonderkid come through at 16 and won the award 8 times which would be ridiculous.

[Gazz]

Hey, Man Utd and Liverpool and the rest of you with your fancy team line up graphics

Stick that in your photoshop pipe and smoke it.

[Thrilla]

Reckon Siem De Jong has sacked his agent yet? >_>

[Gazz]

He's playing because he's coming back from a collapsed lung.

[DavidMarrio]

Your U21's manager looks thrilled to be in charge.

[Gazz]

That's Beardsley's sexface.

[brenchill]

Is that... Beardsley?

[MDK]

Obviously

[Colly]

I like the fact that Facundo is real.

[DavidMarrio]

Is that really Peter Beardsley? Fuck me, look what you are doing to him!

He also needs to start playing FM and realise Facundo Ferrerya will score about 5 goals a game for him at u21 level.

[Colly]

Yeah, what the fuck have we done to Peter Beardsley's youthful good looks? I'm on the boycott now.