The vast majority of whom are NOT very recent [re-]draftees and volunteers with no military experience. :p:rolleyes: #героямслава...
I think it's somewhat on the decline anyways - at least I found it a quite a bit worse last year than the year before that. But Kazantip aside,...
Call me crazy, but am I the only one that thinks that past world cup performances (save for South Africa in 2010) are almost completely...
Quite a favourable group for Russia, both in terms of opponents and weather/travel. Whether we finish 1st or 2nd (yay, optimism!), I want...
I suppose that I could. This forum seems to have gotten its name truncated, curled up, and died... all without ever getting that one thread on...
Rubin First squad: [IMG] Second squad: [IMG] Needs 1. To convince Natkho and Ryazantsev to renew their contracts, or replace them if this...
Lokomotiv First squad: [IMG] Second squad: [IMG] Needs 1. To ensure that Burlak, Belyaev, Ozdoev, Grigoryev and Miranchuk get some playing...
Spartak First squad: [IMG] Second squad: [IMG] Needs 1. A quality goalkeeper. Get a new one, reconsider and play Dikan, make Pesyakov and...
Anzh... er... Dinamo First squad: [IMG] Second squad: [IMG] Needs 1. To get rid of George Florescu, who doesn't play anyways. An upgrade...
CSKA First squad: [IMG] Second squad: [IMG] Needs 1. To start thinking about how the defence is going to look in a post-Ignashevich era. In...
As per tradition, I'll start by outlining the current optimal squads of top RPL teams heading into the spring portion of the season, along with...
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Again, as previously mentioned, Platini was a proponent of the idea of a merged league between Russia and Ukraine before Gazprom started funding...
Nobody knows for certain at this point. They'll try to bargain for 8, but realistically, and from what Platini has said so far - it will be 4.
I don't quite know how I feel about this supernational championship, mainly because I doubt that it will generate even those 300mill in revenue...
Blatter is the one who spoke out against it, if you're talking opposition from organizational bodies.
Assuming the current UEFA system of coefficients holds, I see no way have the number of teams can artificially be limited 2. As far as I...
They would essentially be competing with the lower mid-table Krasnodars and Rostovs of Russia over who who gets to round out the 1st division of...
What nobody seems to mention is that ideally, the merger would mean giving up EL rather than UCL spots. Currently, the top 3 leagues in Europe...
As far as I understand it, both the 1st and 2nd divisions would be supernational. To start with, the 1st division would be comprised of teams 1-9...
Both Russian teams blowing a lead in added time.
Russia [IMG] Russia-2 [IMG] Eastern Europe + FSU [IMG] Western Europe [IMG] South America [IMG] Rest of the World...
So it has been a year - let's update this thing! The general idea is still an imaginary round-robin tournament between RPL all-star teams formed...
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