Bundesliga review part 2. the new one :)

[Bembeltown]

Moenchengladbach got a hammering 0-3 at home to Hamburg I see.
Saving themselves for the CL or do they seem to have regressed from last season?

They seem to be a real mess for whatever reason. They are not saving themselves up for the CL, they are just horrible at the moment. Lost two important players in Kruse and Kramer, but they shouldnt be that bad. No idea whats going on...

 

[Bembeltown]

Arminus has no fashion sense at all...this is how real legends dress. ;)

 

[Deepest Blue]

Was just joking with the "saving" thing :)

In some ways it would be better for City if they got their act together. We are hoping that they will take points off Juve and Sevilla.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

I don't remember much about Lewis Holtby at Tottenham, but it wasn't long before they shipped him out to Fulham.
Last night he seemed to run Monchengladbach ragged.

 

[Bembeltown]

Back from match against Cologne and still buzzing! Great atmosphere from both sides as usual when Cologne comes to our place (thats 10 times better than having to watch dross like the Augsburg match when there where something like 300 away fans in total).

Outplayed, outpassed, outfought and outeverythinged them...And the Fußballgott himself is back after beeing out for months. His first match after the month long injury and then he scores after 4 minutes and proceeds to net in 2 more times. Castaignos and Seferovic make it a nice 6-2!

In addition to that our management unveiled plans to expand our ground to a max capacity of 65000. They want to add room for an additional 15000 people standing terrace (making it the same size as Dortmund`s yellow wall) to offer the younger generation of fans and the less wealthy a better chance to get tickets. Out management explicitely mentioned that they want to prevent the overaging of the crowd as it happens already in the PL.

Increase in capacity might come as part of the European Cup 2024 or our efforts to host the Euroleague finals.

 

[cptaidan88]

@Bembeltown are there any plans available to see? Like artists impressions...

Are they just planning to take out the seats in the upper tier or are they changing the structure?

 

[Bembeltown]

No artists impressions yet, guess its a bit early for that.

From what I understood the plan is indeed to take out the seats in the upper tier of the NorthWest Stand and so create one big standing terrace.However there need to be changes to the structure as well, otherwise the capacity during official finals where its all seated will remain the same.

There are still discussions coming up every now and then to remove the standing terraces completely in the Bundesliga due to safety reasons, so I really like that our club gives a pretty strong statement with what they plan to do. Security is not a concern for them and cameras are available anyway to pick out any troublemakers.

Lets hope it becomes a reality. :)

 

[Schalker]

Its not security reason its money that makes some people wanna get rid of standing sections.
You get 3-4 time the price of a standing ticket for a seater but you reduce only half the size.

Dont think ever standing will be forbidden in the Bundesliga as long as UEFA doesnt come along with it.

btw nice match vers hyped Cologne

 

[Rhineland]

If Cologne got hyped, they didn't get any more hype than any other team with a decent start into the new season, I presume. Surely, the result in Frankfurt was very embarrassing thanks to some very naive defending (couldn't watch the whole match as I went to a gold wedding, but someone had a tablet with 'sky go'). It's not the result itself that bothers me, it's the fact that Cologne waisted a very good chance to pick up more points to put a nice little cushion between itself and the struggling teams at the bottom of the table early on. Well, another chance next weekend to hopefully put that record straight

 

[supercrystal7]

It seems like what I thought would happen to Dortmund and had written off is happening this season. I saw Gundogan against Scotland and have seen most of his matches this season. I did not see the game yesterday, but he is back to his best and I am not sure currently there more than 3 midfielders better than him. It looks like there could be a real title race this season. Bayern are not as strong as they once were. Mkhitaryan has been a revelation this season. It's not just his stats, which is something like 9 goals and 6 assist this season, but his level has gone up.

I am not that surprised by Gladbach struggling they lost key players that were vital to the system. It will take them some time to settle, but I think they will have a solid season after the Winter break.

The fight for the top 4 should be great. Schalke, Leverkusen and Wolfsburg all look like good teams. I hear Draxler did not have the best debut, but now he has his chance to shine.

Muller has been incredible this season for Bayern as has Costa. Gotze showed for Germany what he could do. The boy can be special and Bayern need to use him or lose him.