Booney wrote:Rarely dead rubbers?
Other than the top 4 and the bottom 3 the rest of them play dead rubbers for half the year!! LOL.... They aren't going Europe or going down, they're playing for the sake of playing!
Crystal Palace, Everton, Spurs, they've been playing dead rubbers non stop for 10 years!
Umm European places take the top 6 and can potentially be top 8 spots. Spurs are in europe currently mate and have been the last few years and Everton have spent their fare share of time in Europe as well. The bottom 3 go down but for the majority of the season the whole bottom half of the table are under threat of going down.
Crystal Palace have been up and down in the division for the last 5 seasons so they have had plenty to play for, relegation, promotion from the championship etc.
You probably picked the worse 3 teams to say they haven't had games to play for.
Take last years table the top 7 sides made it to europe 8th and 9th only finished two games out of the european spots.
At the other end of the table the 3 teams got relegated and from 14th down were within a couple of games of being relegated plus 13th placed WBA were in the relegation scrap all year. Crystal Palace finished 10th but were in the relegation for a fair portion of the year, changed managers and then flew home to steal 10th spot.
West Ham finished 12th but were 4th at Christmas.
Everton were the only team that really had an uneventful middle of the road year but even they played in the Europa league last season.
Now take a look in the AFL this year.
Brisbane, St Kilda, Melbourne, Carlton, Essendon were never playing for anything other than draft picks this season.
Gold Coast had promise but that was dashed in the first four weeks and have had 20 rounds of playing for nothing.