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aabbabb
08-05-2006, 07:46 AM
Hamburg 68 points
Bremen 67 points

Saturday 13 May 2006 - Hamburg hosts Bremen to fight for the 2nd automatic champions league spot.

Wolfsburg 33 points
Kaiserslautern 32 points

Saturday 13 May 2006 - Wolfsburg hosts Kaiserslautern in a fight to avoid relegation.

Now lets hope someone gets these games:D
jak914
08-05-2006, 06:57 PM
yes please someone get these games. Would love to watch both of them. Hope that hamburg can beat bremen. Would love to see that happen. but why is it that both of the german teams that i like have to be fighting for such opposite things? hope both hamburg and wolfsburg can come through with a win or a draw to avoid relegation and a championsleage qualification.
WerderBremenYank
08-05-2006, 11:36 PM
yes please someone get these games. Would love to watch both of them. Hope that hamburg can beat bremen. Would love to see that happen. but why is it that both of the german teams that i like have to be fighting for such opposite things? hope both hamburg and wolfsburg can come through with a win or a draw to avoid relegation and a championsleage qualification.


Nah, Werder and Kaiserslautern will both win :)

Send wolfsburg back to the lower leagues where they belong!! ;)
sweed
09-05-2006, 02:18 AM
not to mention bayern - dortmund. hope bremen and kaiserslautern win their games, although hamburg deserves second for giving bayern a run at the top.
mambo
10-05-2006, 08:33 AM
Are you serious ?
The bookies closed the bet "Bayern = 1st" in February ;)
WerderBremenYank
13-05-2006, 06:52 PM
Werder gewinnt! We're in the CL again!
Splatypus
13-05-2006, 07:07 PM
It was a good game. Should be ready in about an hour
mambo
13-05-2006, 10:39 PM
1:2 - We had a little luck but i think it was deserved, especialy when you take a look on the whole season. No offence to the HSV, but they need to get stronger in the home matches.
Btw ... Boulahrouz was so close to yellow/red again! Took him only a few minutes to get his first yellow l0l, he`s a real ironfoot!
indomitable_lion
20-05-2006, 12:40 AM
I was just watching the highlights of Dortmund - Bayern. Is Deggen the twin brother of Deggen who plays for FC Basel in Switzerland? He has to be, I can't see how he would have been transfered. Both players look exactly the same.....to me anyways.

I guess Hamit Altintop knows how Andy Johnson felt last season. Even if you score bags of goals, you can still go down. I guess he'll be off to Schalke.
sportsmen
02-06-2009, 07:48 AM
Wolfsburg 33 points
Kaiserslautern 32 points

Saturday 13 May 2006 - Wolfsburg hosts Kaiserslautern in a fight to avoid relegation.
Sorry for dragging the thread up, but it was a different story this year, wasn't it?
mambo
02-06-2009, 08:56 AM
Sorry for dragging the thread up, but it was a different story this year, wasn't it?



70 million € incoming transfers later :o
Fuschimuschi
02-06-2009, 01:53 PM
Yep, unlike other teams that would have been forced to let go of their players and save money VW pumped millions into them after that almost-relegation.

The 50+ rule needs to fall in order to negate Wolfsburg's and Hoffenheim's unfair advantage over all the other clubs.
Übersuperduper
03-06-2009, 03:10 AM
The 50+ rule needs to fall in order to negate Wolfsburg's and Hoffenheim's unfair advantage over all the other clubs.

No thank you. I would rather Bayern never win a title again than to become a toy for a Russian or Arab sheikh billionaire. The clubs belong to the fans, not to petrodollars. The Bundesliga needs to find new creative ways to increase revenue and to maybe apply some restrictions on clubs like Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg or Leverkusen where there's a corporation or someone like Hopp who owns majority shares. They should apply the 50% rule to them as well.

What Bundesliga clubs need to do is to work harder on the youth system and getting more younger kids involved so that the sport grows more in popularity over the long-term. Football needs to be seen as cooler than video games for the younger kids, and there needs to be a fan-based initiative to grow the club memberships of various clubs so that there's more football fans as well as players.

FC Barcelona just beat billionaire owned Manchester United for the European Cup, and they did it even without a shirt sponsor. They have the name of Unicef on their shirts and give money to them rather than receive any. Here's what Cruyff wrote about a youth system being better than the English model:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2009/0519/1224246881156.html

I also think Uli Hoeness's TV revenue idea is brilliant and would add hundreds of millions to the TV deal that clubs have in place already. Also keep in mind that two of Bayern's best players, Beckenbauer and Gerd Muller, came from the youth system rather than being million-dollar signings.
Fuschimuschi
03-06-2009, 06:15 PM
The Bundesliga needs to find new creative ways to increase revenue and to maybe apply some restrictions on clubs like Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg or Leverkusen where there's a corporation or someone like Hopp who owns majority shares. They should apply the 50% rule to them as well.

Believe me that's what I'd like to see much more than the 50+ rule falling but it won't happen. That's the thing. There should be the same rules for everyone. Right now these clubs and pretty soon Red Bull Leipzig have an unfair advantage. It sucks.