Sentences with phrase «teams out of contention»

Will teams out of contention try to play spoiler and knock teams on the bubble out of a playoff spot or will they simply mail it in?

Will teams out of contention try to play spoiler and knock teams on the bubble out...

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Years later, when Corcoran was in contention to be one of the judges on Shark Tank, she had the job, lost it to another female entrepreneur, and then won it back by writing a letter to the production team telling them what they would lose out on if they didn't hire her for the team.

A third of the teams in the league are already out of contention and they're just as bunched together as the playoff hopefuls.

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Much of the rest of his tenure was spent churning out excellent teams that were often blocked from title contention by Saban's Alabama squads.

New York reached its nadir in 1975 when Coach Charley Winner, thinking his team was just a few players away from playoff contention, traded his first, fourth and sixth draft choices for three defensive linemen, two of whom now are out of football.

The machines that failed were literally bumped out of contention in crashes that fortunately resulted in no injuries worse than a strained neck (for Team Lotus's Gunnar Nilsson) and a gasoline - seared derri √ ® re (for Team Tyrrell's Jody Scheckter).

Donato in particular was the Americans» star, but the team was booted out of medal contention after a 3 - 2 shootout loss to the Czech Republic.

We have a lot of injured first team players and with CL out of contention, we will be able to rotate our squad nicely.

If he carries on with the formation that makes half the players look like a duck out of water, carries on with bad team selections, absurd substitutions, refusing to pay the price teams want for players when he can, putting players out of position — we will be out of league winning contention by November.

A team that is all but out of playoff contention will likely be losing focus and won't be fully prepared for their first game back.

Well your righ with met spend but in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier league is more demanding then the other leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the decline

Arsenal have registered a massive 45 players from the First team, the reserves and the Academy, for our six Europa League games against BATE, Koln & Red Star Belgrade, which would seem to indicate that he is going to give a lot of our youngsters a run - out in the competition while our senior players attempt to get back into contention for the Premier League.

The team falls out of playoff contention early in the season, never to recover.

These are the dog days of summer, when out - of - contention teams slog through the schedule and even some of the most devoted fans are forced to abandon their heroes.

The line between contenders and pretenders got a little less hazy after Week 3, with some teams playing themselves out of both national title contention and our top 25.

Anyone claiming iwobi doesn't deserves to be an arsenal player siting lack of potential or insufficient potential is clearly ignorant about football.this is a player requiring 2 to 3 changes in his to become world class.Need i remind my fellow gooners that out of the stellar caste of academy players which include dion zelalem, Jeff Adelaide, Chris willock, biellick, akpom etc iwobi is the only one making the first team this I assure you is not mere luck or coincidence or as sum here would be put it «being Wenger's favourite» - most so called wenger favourites are actually our best players - but becos of his immense potential, clear headedness and hard work.lest we forget he was actually in contention for the golden boy award.so does of you not seeing his potentials should f**k off.

While they are out of contention for the division crown, Team Malvin can still make some moves in the overall standings and will look to build on their big Week 15 win.

Injury problems, poor form and a shocking attitude have seen him slip out of first team contention and at 31 - years old we surely have to say goodbye this summer, if anyone wants him that is.

While Mayfield had sucked the drama out of the Heisman Trophy race by mid-November, last year's winner quietly put together another stellar season as QB of a Louisville team that had bowed out of ACC contention by early October with losses to Clemson and NC State.

His team are currently in European contention, flying - high in the league, while he also boasts not only a full strength squad of players to choose from but fresh ones as well, with the Trotters not involved in midweek, unlike their opponents, who were put through their paces at Goodison by Everton and had to put in some shift in order to ground out a deserved point.

i'll be honest, i'll be gutted if we go out tonight.when you look at the teams left in the carling cup only man utd & villa possibly stand in our way from winning it.i honestly reckon that if it was an arsenal v man utd final every single arsenal fan would be up for it, i know i would.the good thing is as well the carling cup final is in feb and winning it could give huge confidence to the squad especially if we are in contention for the other trophies.the biggest thing that worries me is injuries to key players, but imagine arsenal parading the cup at wembley and every one of those players having a winners medal on their sideboard, the team's belief would be an all - time high.while i agree with you that the 3 other trophies are more important, but don't you think it was great to hear wenger being positive.i thought it sent out a message of intent and belief although we all know it's difficult winning one trophy besides 4.

The earliest player ruled out of contention for Wednesday's tie was Welsh winger Ryan Giggs, who limped off during the team's 2 - 2 draw with Bolton Wanderers on Sunday afternoon with a hamstring complaint.

then i would completely over haul the reserves firstly by pulling out of the reserve league if u are over 18 and not ready for first team contention then send them out on loan or release them.

The Chilean is also out of contention for at least the next three weeks with a hamstring injury, but Theo Walcott is set to return to action against Olympiacos after coming back into first - team training.