Todays Results - 12th July

Premier League (Round 15)

TOT 1 - 1 Chonburi
BEC 0 - 1 Army
Nakhon Pathom 1 - 1 KTB
Chula-Sinthana 5 - 0 Port Authority
Coke-Bangpra 3 - 0 Tobacco
Samut Songkhram 1 - 2 Bangkok Bank


Division 2 Group B (Round 14)

Thonburi Coll. 0 - 0 Fleet Support
Lopburi 0 - 2 BKK Christian Coll.
Air Force TC 2 - 3 Bangkok Bravo
BKK North Central 0 - 0 Marine Coll.


Druryfire Comment

Well, BEC ceetainly lost a match they would have thought they should have won. But the Army are a strange team, they've picked up four points off the top two, but come a game against another team battling at the bottom then they will more than like fall over.

BEC, the team of stars with the biggest budget, they did this last year, losing games, they simply should win, if they want the title. Do they want it? It would seem not.

But who does want it? TOT and Chonburi could not be seperated in the top of the table clash, but this match does not get the headlines this week. That goes to Chula-Sinthana, who somehow came away with a 5-0 victory over relegation battlers Port Authority. PAT have recently been coming out of the early season slump, but this has just set them right back to were they started, and Chula were on earth did that come from?

Coke got a resounding win against Tobacco to keep there heads above water. But if you look at the league closely ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thailand_Premier_League_2008&diff=225225043&oldid=225194203 ), it's all starting to get tight in every direction.

Do we have a Premier League champion in their? Tomorrow we have another top clash with PEA visiting Osotspa. It seems we currently have our top 6, Osotspa must win this to cement the top 6 spot, if they lose, it would seem they would be playing for 6th on their own. PEA certainly have it in them to gain victory and move upto 2nd.


In Division 2, the days action saw Bangkok Bravo once again score some points, they certainly don't want to get relegated into the Provincial Leagues. Lopburi, my favorites for the title, once again slipped up.

It seems, that most teams just can't string enough wins together to clear away from the pack, and that keeps every week just as exciting!

Singapore Cup Quarter-Final Result - 7th July

Woodlands Wellington 0 - 0 Tobacco Monopoly (1-1 on aggregate)

Woodlands advance 4-2 on penalties.

Well, all that could seperate them was penalties, unfortunatly it was Tobacco on the wrong end. There adventure to Singapore is now over.

We now have Bangkok University left, so hopefuly they can progress to the semi-finals and reap revenge over Woodlands.

Tobacco will be back, let's hope this does not harm their Premier League season.

Fixture Mix Up??

Domestic Season

When the Premier League gets under way again, has FAT taken into consideration that they have penciled in Tobacco Monopoly to play at home against Osotspa on the 5th July when the team will actually be commited to playing in Singapore in the Singapore Cup against Woodlands Wellington on the 4th with the second leg match being played on the 7th.

The same could go for Bangkok University who play their second leg match of the Singapore Cup against Young Lions on the 11th July which should cancel out their match the day later against Customs Department in the Premier League.Will these games be moved to another date, or will FAT really expect them to play all these games? Or even take off points for no shows?I really hope FAT kick off their Thailand Cup so our teams don't have to go away to get competition in Singapore.

Looking for a new national coach??

Comments from national coach Chanvit Phalajivin on the bangkok post website (http://www.bangkokpost.com)would/ appear that we will soon be looking for a new coach after the summer.

Here's his comments:

'People criticise me on the Internet that I did not show spirit by resigning as Thailand's head coach,'' Chanvit said. ''Actually, I told Thai FA secretary-general Ong-arj (Kosinkha) that I wanted to resign but he wanted me to carry on until after the World Cup qualifying round.''

So, he wanted to resign, he nearly did this once before but was encouraged to stay on, now it seems that FAT are maybe interfering too much, especially with the recent appoitment of Peter Withe as a scout (what good that did for the Oman match!)It seems once the nation start performing well, everyone wants to have a say, and know there's too much interference and we could loose a good coach in the process, who could replace him?

There's of course Peter Withe, but please, he's been their before, yes he did well, but lets not go back over old ground.

I'd much rather see a domestic coach take up the reigns.

I'd throw the following current domestic based coaches into the hat: Jadet Meelarp and Gawin Kachendecha.

Jadet currently coaches Chonburi and has taken them from playing in the Pro League to the Premier League, winning the title in the process and showing that he can be tactically dept at playing in the Champions League, i'd be very tempted to throw him in, and i'm sure he's have no fear. He has led Chonburi from a provincial team to a team that could possibly be suggested as the best in South East Asia at this current moment, along with possibly the Armed forces of Singapore.

Gawin Kachendecha coaches the Tobacco Monopoly club, this would be a long shot, but an opportunity not to be missed. He's maybe not won a league title, but he has Tobacco constantly playing in the top 6, the onlt thing that goes against him, is that he isn't a proven winner, but we know he can make up a side and possibly break into the top 10 in Asia (we seem t obe on the fringes but never quite break it).

One last guy i would consider would be the current manager of Japenese club Gamba Osaka, Akira Nishino.

Nishino has been with Gamba since 2002, he's managed to win a few trophies over in Japan and i reckon that one day he could turn out to be Japan's national coach, here i feel, that he he was offered such an opportunity with Thailand, he would probably jump and take it. He has previously coahed the Japanese Under 23's and also coached Kashiwa Reysol, so he's been around a bit and i think he would just simply bring a different attitude to the Thai game.

He could use a backroom staff with the thai guy's i've mentioned earlier to get a good insight, but he might just add something tactically to our game and start getting a few minds thinking, that they can do this and that, etc.

What do you guy's think? Who would be your tip?