Sentences with phrase «meaningless game»

I care far more for the long term good health of our club and its future then I do about a relatively meaningless game against Watford and between two mid-table teams, only one of which is honestly owned and run.

The league knows there are a lot of meaningless games in March, and wants to bring meaning to them.

So last Sunday, before an otherwise meaningless game with the Dodgers, Cincinnati fans 38,747 - strong turned out to honor him.

Week 4 of the preseason is the saddest, most meaningless game in the NFL if you're not one of the handful of guys on a roster bubble.

The Indianapolis Colts had a 14 - game winning streak and an undefeated record of 14 - 0 before losing a relatively meaningless game to the NY Jets.

Actions speak louder than words they say and to play their star striker in what is supposedly a fairly meaningless game just a week before the Premier League begins and just after Costa suffered a twinge to his dodgy hamstring in their last pre-season game, speaks volumes to me.

He's a type of defender we can use sparingly here and there for a few meaningless games, but no more than that.

He can short arm his way through Meaningless games in June but come playoff time he's gonna blow a routine throw with two outs and a runner on third in the eighth inning of a tie game.

Cook can get injured in these remaining meaningless games and make it hard for us to get past the 1st round.

Pretty meaningless game compared to the others.

Your article seems to be glorifying mediocrity by awarding a 9 to a Manager that has just managed to overcome his nemesis in one out of 14 games even in a somewhat friendly meaningless game that will have no bearing come May 2016!

On Sunday he had yet another game where he notched several of them and it helped his team win an utterly meaningless game against the Rams.

It should be possible to come up with a ranking system or seeding system that helps avoid big nations having to play too many meaningless games in which the world's best players risk getting hurt with no upside.

International football is a joke and threatens an already overloaded football calendar with more meaningless games.

What is this urge to declare someone a player from a single performance at a lower level or in meaningless game??

I'm all up for him to play in EFL, and other meaningless games, but when 3 points are on the line in a title race or CL, he simply doesn't cut it.

I can't back Stanton as a fave with zero running back, but this is brutal spot for G - Men after suffering a tough loss against a rival and having to travel across the country for a completely meaningless game.

Depends how deeply you wish to, or can be bothered to think about this subject and that willingness, itself, depends on how desperately you want the club to win top honours, not merely meaningless games, like tonight.

New Orleans has convincingly won almost every game they have played this season — until some fairly meaningless games near the end of the season.

Walcott scores three goals in a totally meaningless game against an opponent who could care less about the result and someone has the balls to suggest he is one of the best strikers in the Premier League.

There just no excuse why in a whirlwind of teams outrightly tanking we continue to lose lottery odds by winning meaningless games.

One of the most meaningless games in the final week of the regular season was played in California on Sunday, as the San Diego Chargers hosted division rivals, the Oakland Raiders, in a game that mattered to no one outside of the two teams.

We had another late season revival where some of the injury prone starred against minnows in meaningless games.

And with injuries already plaguing the Philadelphia roster, it's hard to imagine starters staying in for too long in what is a meaningless game to them.

Also, the Raiders surprised me with their effort Christmas Day against the Eagles — if they can step up for a meaningless game in the cold on Christmas, they should have an easy time playing in sunny California.

We have made a bad habit of winning some meaningless games every season and then using them as reference points or to justify failure at the end of the season.

Risking players like Lewandowki in a meaningless game before the most crucial match of the season is a terrible decision imo.

It was a meaningless game so Podolski rolled out.

It would also be pretty hilarious for the game against Toronto to be the clincher, and Shanny / Lou convince Babcock to rest all of their top guys to help us out us out (would be a meaningless game for them anyway)

Plus the ultimate disrespect would be that Messi don't play because it's a meaningless game, (he will play) but it's just what I think.

and for those saying that this is a meaningless game and a meaningless trophy, look at the lineups put forth and look at the different expressions shown at the end of the match.

Meaningless Game.......

Please Wenger, don't risk them for the meaningless games.

Whether Arsenal finished 4th of 5th to a real Arsenal fan would not have changed the realities of Wenger's failings and his failings are not from the last 10 meaningless games, no they are over the last 3 - 5 seasons and arguably longer.

You once famously denied Shaquille O'Neal the opportunity of a scoring title in a meaningless game in 1994 against the Clippers where you had 71 points.

In modern football there's no meaningless game.

When Bradley returned to the dugout, he told Wedge he had felt a twinge in his groin and didn't want to exert himself in a meaningless game.

Bit of a meaningless game really.

Swansea have become somewhat of a bogey team and now we're going there with a depleted squad, surely there was no need to bring walcott on, at least so early, in what was essentially a meaningless game?

he scored a hat trick in a meaningless game and then one in the cup final the week after, but he had featured before then and been dire — I like Theo, but my god he hasn't half created some hype from TWO games ending the season.

When you look at the rest of the team they did a good job of shutting down players (Patches, Mete, Shaw, Danault and Weber) who were injured because of those meaningless games.

While no one can deny that it was a cracking strike from the England midfielder, who also won the prize last season for his team goal against Norwich City, it seems ridiculous that such a meaningless game should be a contender for the best goal of the season.

On Monday night, during a meaningless game between the Lakers and Jazz, Jordan Farmar broke Trey Burke's ankles on a filthy...

THE MANAGER HE is the reason they are not performing — that idiot could not motivate anyone to save his life — he accepts everything and does nothing and tells us that by changing formation for meaningless games is showing us that HE can change.

Manchester City lost their cool last weekend and then played to a mediocre draw in the Champions League (in a meaningless game), while Leicester have struggled to get results in league play.

There are 9 Arsenal players off with their national sides in this interlull, but how many of them are playing games that are actually important to their country, and how many are just filling in space in meaningless games?

The Lions opened at +7 -LRB--104) at Pinnacle Sportsbetting, but it drifted down across the market due to the Bears playing a meaningless game.