Eleven Million Pounds of Ross McCormack: The Football League and Beyond, 2014-15

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Ross McCormack was in court for fly tipping last year and now he is a much more successful entertainer.

hey it's on now motherfuckers

nervy tbh

we've made some impressive signings and oppet had best be shitting his pants

we're also favourites for relegation with some bookies. gonna say it now: top half

there's my bullishness for the season out of the way. now for terrible truth

bring it the fuck on pal. I was feeling good about the season until wigan tapped up forshaw and we panic bought tommy smith and nick proschwitz. the other signings have looked good in the pre season snippets i've seen. our defence is worrying.

big George Elokobi's got a gig at Oldham, yay!

Super excited to see our new Akinfenwa/Tubbs frontline against Shrewsbury tomorrow. I have no doubt we will lose, but it's meant to be a nice day, I'm going to a BBQ after the game, and I'll be able to pick up our rather lovely new away shirt. Next weekend brings the fabled Battle of the Beasts, Bayo vs McNulty, which I feel slightly more confident about...

Glad to see Akinfenwa has bulked up a bit, he used to look a bit of a lightweight in his Swansea days.
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why am I watching this shit btw

new season's resolution: stop watching football just because it's on

I am going to try and attend more than 10 games this season, being a vicarious radio listening fan sucks even more than watching drab random games on sky. I enjoyed the Rhodes/Cairney goal but for all the big moneyness of these two teams, they both look quite mediocre.

i saw nothing in that match to afear me. looking forward to a comfortable mid-table finish with minimal drama.

tomorrow's game is being livestreamed on the internets btw

ilf viewing club: convene

just checked the fixtures to see when we're at yours but it's a Tuesday night, not gonna happen :(

watched brentford v ogc nice in preseason, bees looked p dece before i and everyone else in the stand succumbed to dazed boozy sunstroke but idk about making the playoffs or anything quite just yet

gray took a smart goal, lil fat pritchard from spurs ran the show (nice were absolutely dreadful tbf)

can't go wrong with tommy smith though, a cool clever player

bah

not many short away trips this season for us southern sorts

the cult of warbs should propel brentford nicely tbh. he seems like a reckonable force

our squad looks a little thin, hard to tell how much of that is the Jackett way of doing things and how much is FFP worries with half a dozen failed Prem players still draining their Prem wages. dunno if Max Clayton is a risk or not. wd be quite happy with a steady top of the middle season if the right kind of progress happens, if we push beyond that then it'll be new territory for the manager and most of the squad, have no idea whether most of them are that capable tbh

after rmde at forest for the newcastle deals i'm fairly jel they signed assombalonga with the proceeds, like him a lot, rhodesian potential i daresay... if psycho can achieve vague competence at all they've got a pretty nice squad now, although they signed 5 cbs suggesting 3atb and then followed up with two proper wingers in burke and antonio so probably no plans there whatsoever in reality

fulham and cardiff look like they've signed a load of tat, norwich ought to be p solid though? grabban top scorer maybe? (i confidently predict they will lose to wolves tho no fear)

there's derby, wigan, watford, no one really standing out though. ipswich seem attractively mysterious imo (= anonymously midtable but yneverknow)

the most reassuring thing about warbs is that it's very unlikely he'll be fucking off to another club in the near future. proper dynasty material.

i'd fancy wolves to push for playoffs maybe, on the basis that a bit of stability is a good thing. should be a pretty open season.

weird elision of reading. one of the more impressive teams at the valley last season, reckon they'll be thereabouts

Wigan look a reasonable bet if they can build on last season maybe. pretty nervous about Sunday, seen us take too many beatings on TV over the last few. all being well i shd be at the Mol for Cardiff in a couple of weeks

wigan play nice forward-thinking stuff but seem to me to be a striker away from forcing really taking hold of things. especially in this league sometimes u just gotta stop fiddling with the lock and kick in the door waving the 4-4(2)

emyr huws on loan from city is a really nice player but only replaces jordi gomez so

i guess reading do have an okay squad now u mention it but meh... sad to see jamie mackie in fake hoops

I really hope Forest fail because of the Pearce factor, easily the vilest manager in the whole league and lol at him paying nearly £6mill for Assombalonga.

i raised an eyebrow at the price but i like him, he's a game lad. what kind of idiot wd put Pearce in charge of a football club god only knows

pearce is a deeply stupid man & forest will probably implode with joyous results. their fans kinda know it too

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peterborough replaced king britt with this lil fella fwiw (5'3")

is he the dulwich hamlet maestro

(we have a player called jack munns on the fringe of the first-team squad who's about 5'3" but much stockier than the above)

yeah he was at Dulwich last season :D

http://erhunoztumer.com/Home_Page.php

no finer example of short man syndrome than having your own website while plying ur trade in nonleague

We knicked Dulwich Hamlet's last goalscoring sensation Daniel Carr and he has failed to break into the team so far, probably hates living in the north.

i still don't really get what happened to hudds 2nd half of last season, honestly didnt see many if any sides give us a better game at loftus rd

That was a hell of a game, unfortunately performances dropped off after that. Our chairman is quite a ruthless operator and got rid of Robin's coaching staff this summer and despite an FFP type transfer window and losing our 13/14 POY Clayton to Middlesbrough, well not official yet but it has happened. Robins will probably be sacked if we have a bad run of results.

Clayton was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough, Butterfield coming the other way had agreed terms with us. Clayton has scuppered the whole deal by skipping his medical and deciding he wants to go to Brighton at the last minute. Middlesbrough left with egg on their faces because they have made the mistake of conducting their business publicly. Not sure where that leaves Butterfield because the rumour mill says that this part of the deal has been already been signed and sealed.

That's a very attacking Brentford lineup but not sure how well it can keep the ball in midfield. LET'S DO THIS.

oof, shd have scored there. gudmundsson clearly quite a footballer

Shame we turned button into a world class keeper ;)

pritchard is to you what gudmundsson is to us, except he's playing centrally and running it. v good player. we've decided to hack him it seems

Pritchard looks the business. Not convinced we should play dallas and judge together.

oh fuck off, our new keeper's a catch and flop

keepers with reactionary distribution piss me right off

He don't look great.

What is this drinks break shit.

hmm

Taking odubajo off seems stupid even if tebar will improve central mid.

our left-back wiggins has had an absolute nightmare so far, want him subbed asap

andre bikey: not a winger

oh fuck off manuel neuer

fuck me

oh fuck off OUR keeper too, slowing it down every fucking time. hate him already

ok no longer fuck off :D

oh now he's fucking good is he, Henderson.

button's save was slightly more ridiculous tbf

IGOR

ffs. Button u cunt.

i was about to post 'it's fair to say that both keepers will have done their jobs today', which will have been fairly amusing

Ffs ffs ffs. Not really sure what our attacking plan is here other than win corners and fuck them up.

note to brentford: we have two huge, imposing, physical, slow centre backs. please keep crossing it in

innit. we're a really short team as well.

calum harriott i have 0 words

Oh christ wtf.

lol mccormack has been the worst player on the pitch lol

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YASS. just after trying another shit cross to your big lads too.

McCormack has been waste and needs to move back to centre mid. He couldn't handle decent wingers in league one ffs.

harriott needs strangling

anyway, jolly well played sir, luck for the season, toodle-pip etc

harriot won't make it south of the river alive if there's any justice.

button needs to not be doing that sort of thing. mccormack out. tebar in. don't take off odubajo at half time. gray isn't a championship level striker yet.

thanks for playing imago. i'm glad to have got the first ILF derby out of the way. now i get to spend a week in the lake district worrying about whether we've beaten dagenham in the league cup.

Fulham team: Joronen, Hoogland, Stafylidis, Hutchison, Bodurov, Parker, Dembele, Hyndman, David, Burgess, McCormack

tommy smith's mere presence did change things tbf - poxy deflection or otherwise. he'll be important for youse, 'knows the league' etc

fuck me fulham have turned over some staff

two of the cuddliest managers in the league

oh fuck

wouldn't rile xelab for the next few days

although the damned united must be the merest of palliatives

"This is what I am used to [Championship football], this is where I think I belong and tactically I think we got it right.

"I am in charge, I am the head man and I will take responsibility."

Oh, Hockadaypaws.

Lol! I can still remember the days when fans would be calling for the manager's head after at least a run of bad results. One of the LUFC callers said "When you hire a non-league manager for a club the size of Leeds, they won't understand the expectations of the job."

We might have an unbalanced squad and have sold our best player, but hey! at least we are working within the financial parameters set by the FFP regulationshttp://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/historyb/Praise.gif

There is no way that was a 4-0 game, it actually should have been 5. http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/guns/smiley-killing-himself.gif

:D that gif!

lol and robins is gone

damn i wish i'd made that joke yesterday now

dave hockaday deathclock into overdrive

Robins was already doomed when Hoyle got rid of his back-room team which included some of his close friends, most managers would have walked at this point. Not impressed with how our chairman has dealt with this tbh, type of unclassy conduct you expect from that circus up the m62. I guess Robins was waiting for the pay-off and I don't blame him for that.

looks like jackett's finally bagged big chris wood. good stuff

wonder if that means the Max Clayton deal will fall thru.

anyway, hurricane giving it lots outside plus some mickey mouse friendly on the other channel means i don't think i'll bother going to the pub this afty, it's streaming time

I'm off to play football against a team from Norfolk, so if Wolves lose, at least we might avenge you

it's quite funny - they're called Norfolk In Chance, which is meaningless and defeats the pun, but I worked out that they COULD be called Norfolk Enchants, which works beautifully, but they simply lack the requisite imagination. this portends well

lazy zing about living in Norfolk being punishment enough etc

oh shit, it's the battle of the narrow boat heavens

CLASH OF THE CANALS

it's quite funny - they're called Norfolk In Chance, which is meaningless and defeats the pun, but I worked out that they COULD be called Norfolk Enchants, which works beautifully, but they simply lack the requisite imagination. this portends well

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none of this vile cricket sledging on the field of play plz, keep the beautiful game beautiful

were u forced to play cricket at school or something

i was actually! vivid memories of standing bored senseless at deepest midwicket in the boiling sun praying nothing ever came my way. think i knocked my own bails off once too :/

they never taught anyone anything and just left it to the cliquey cricket poshos who rumour had it listened to the divine comedy on the tour bus

now i think about it i don't think we was ever taught anything in PE, except when they had to explain some of the byzantine rules of rugby

u are aware neil hannon recently released a 'charming, whimsical' concept album about cricket, right

obv totally reprehensible & i lament ur classist & woebegotten introduction to the subtle sport

willing to begin an internet flamewar in the noble service of slagging rugger union tho

I'd rather have Chris Wood than the fly tipping savage of thread title, when he is fit he would arguably be the best striker in the champ imo.

no mention of any possible deal on Sky at the moment

Town tried to sign him a couple of years back after he played 2 blinders against us, couldn't compete with Leicester.

that was a good argument for signing Wood. feel a little more relaxed tho, we look like we're gonna compete.

:D

that was a really promising performance, bit nervy occasionally

"best i've seen them play in 30 years" according to my dad

Not quite of Plateau United Feeders dimensions but some crazy scorelines in the league cup tonight :O

congratulations to oppet and his team on their hard-fought win

if either team had scored at the end, huddersfield would no longer be the only team in the history of english pro football to lose a match 7-6

Keeping that record till the heat death!

As are we :D

(also, when we're inevitably drawn together, the game will be only 3 or 4 days after the league fixture)

You might be lucky or even unlucky enough to be facing the new manager's first game in a fixture which looked hopeless after saturday. Robins departure is quite sad tbh, at least he tried to get the team playing football. He lost his way and possibly the dressing room, but I know from a friend who's kid bro got released under his tenure that he was a very decent manager and human being and went way beyond his remit to help him get fixed with a another club.

wonder who that new manager will be, what's the goss?

Hoyle is a such Maoist type chairman nobody knows anything until it is announced and the Skybet market is complete bollocks as usual, a mouse staking a tiny chunk of carrot can change the betting by points. Fucking Elvis at Coventry is the market fav and he nearly got the job in front of Robins last time, but the chairman has stated he is going for experience and definitely not promoting from within.

The rumourz are the guy from Dundee Utd and Neil Lennon!

so it'll be someone Scottish or Irish at least

The Chris Wood deal has fallen through and Billy Sharp has gone to Leeds :(

yeah, plus we big time charlied out of the League Cup :/

Ched Evans petition: Sheffield United urged not to re-employ rape footballer

I actually heard a woman interviewed on TV today say, "They should let him come back, other players have done worse and played again." Who exactly?

Suarez bit somebody

Luke McCormick murdered two kids! Lee Hughes murdered a man! etc

(McCormick stayed at the scene and showed nothing but contrition after his accident tbf, Hughes was hit & run)

was aware of them but felt like maleficic calculus wasn't the way to go re: footballers' crimes

i think there are questions raised about whether a convicted criminal shd be free to return to work after serving their sentence, and whether some fields of employment shd be forever closed to them depending on the crimes they've committed? understand any fans not wanting to have Evans play for their club but this is problematic i think

yh it's a v difficult one. aesthetically i could not bear to see evans play for my team but i do believe in the redemption & rehabilitation of criminals

*ponders*

Evans still maintains he did nothing wrong so redemption and rehabilitation may be a stretch.

i guess sporting bodies have rules about disrepute and such which might cover these situations, and it's reasonable for fan groups to apply pressure not to employ players

Chris Powell is now amongst the Town manager applicants, get him on board before the Charlton game I say ◠‿◠! I could see him ticking a lot of boxes with our chairman, who like most arrogant self made autocrats - he has an aversion to employing older people for the top jobs. I suppose it can't help that Stan Ternent was extracted from a neolithic bog to manage the club by other parties when he first bought it and he spent a fortune on sub-conference players and made whoopsies everywhere.

lol we'd have absolutely no problem with him at Town - a few hilarious wankers were fretting about him going to Palace on the forum, which was always absolutely never even conceivably going to happen

I'd be quite happy for him, myself, and I'd hope that you weren't direct relegation rivals of ours

He is my fave for the job because unlike some of the other more so-called big-shot type applicants I get the feeling he would desire the job more and not see it it as a temp move or beneath him. Which is what will hopefully come across in his interview. A lot of the sub-human nob-rots on our forum are in love with Neil Lennon, probably some of the same fucking wasters guilty of leading the embarrassing "No Surrender to the IRA" chants at various times in the past:O=

he inspires great affection, even if his football is at times functional rather than spectacular. neil lennon strikes me as a man whose character is not especially suited to the championship

I totally agree, a lower table championship club is more akin to the pressures of a top league 1 club. And a whole different skill-set is required.

on a different note

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trying to pun 'mool mantar' with 'molineux' and it's not going well

that's the guy's wedding suit :D

now trying to shoehorn 'amirite' in as well. shd rly just give up

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nice!

Sometimes the Sikhs seem like the coolest people in the world.

i've studied sikhism a little bit, it's basically the best religion

just needs to be a bit more tolerant of substances & sexual deviancy and it'd have my full backing

I wouldn't argue with that statement.

I used to knock about with Sukhi, but never saw any drugs.

bit cruel after a first half of agonising inability to score showing an Ibra highlights reel at half time

fuck's sake

75 minutes of running the fucking game

fucking Chris Wood equalizer the icing on the cake, just throwed 3 points away here, more bad luck than anything but must strengthen this squad

we're a thinggg

ominous thumping for norwich there

watford will probably end up scoring hatfuls and lose in the playoffs

alarm bells ringing for hyppia already as pandemic predicted

the new midfield signings Coady and Butterfield are sounding promising, but it is going to be a very long season if the incoming manager isn't given funds for a CB and a Striker at least.

Stead shouldn't be anywhere near any serious Championship, L1 or L2 starting XI right now, he is no K Phillips - he is not even a Nardiello. Even my step-father who used to compare Steadinho mk1 to Denis Law says he is "totally gone".

Fuck off and die Solskjaer and Cardiff.

Xelab, you're a Hudders fan right? Hearing reports here that Patrick Kluivert is considered for the job (along with Mobray and Steven Pressley iirc). Let's hope it won't be Kluivert. For Hudders sake... Jeez.

Probably won't dip into this thread too often, but know ch'ship wise t' Town is my club.

was clyde wijnhard yr boyhood hero

lol no, do remember him though. Van Gaal thought of him as the future Ajax right back in 1992. Heh.

Nah, gf of five years was from Tod, kind of took to Town's charm tbh.

Kluivert/Offside Clyde dream team! Probably a more realistic option from the Dutch applicants is Mario Been but then again the PK rumour comes from Nixon of The Mirror who has called a lot of things correctly in the past. I don't think Hoyle will be swayed by any household names but you never know.

Kluivert's agent has confirmed he is interested in the job and he is in currently in LA googling Huddersfield Airport.
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that's quite a punt

On Sunday I was almost tempted to open a betting exchange account and lay the shit out of Kluivert, not so sure now...

This nonsense was brought to you by the self perpetuating cycle of agents talking shit, the internet gossiping about it and then even esteemed organs like the Indie regurgitating this gossip as news. Back in reality it looks like Chris Powell is the front runner, the CEO wants to appoint Pressley but that would require paying Coventry off again and would be a total dick move.

I'm about to literally go upstairs and put my shades on

Well what do ya know? Put players in their natural positions and you have a team, this management lark is a piece of piss.

it's almost like Saturday will be a titanic clash between two in-form sides

Ah, nothing like an early season game at Blackpool to guarantee that first win.

Now that we have shook off the "crisis club" moniker with our "recent good form" saturday will be a game no doubt! According to skybet Mcleish is currently the fav to be in charge, I get the feeling it might be Powell sat in the stands with Lillis still in caretaker mode.

Oh jesus wept! there has been a Warnock deluge tonight. I can't keep track of this any more. The last time he was at Town he fell out with the board over him trying to open up his own club-shop in the town centre.

lol really? never heard that one

yeah that one is 100% true. He did actually want his own club shop selling kits in the town centre!

haha he makes it sound so grave here as well!

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/neil-warnock-one-one

Why did you leave Huddersfield days after taking us into Division One in 1995? Had you been offered the Plymouth job?

I had a problem in the boardroom from just after Christmas that season and it was affecting us all. I had to put that behind me and concentrate on getting them up, but the board knew from February that I’d leave at the end of the season. They asked me if I’d reconsider the day after the Play-Off Final, but I’d already made up my mind. It was a personal thing that I don’t want to go into, but I was a bit headstrong at the time and we laugh about it now whenever I go back.

that club shop would have been full of doilies and olay night cream and royal memorabilia, with craig short behind the till

They certainly missed the big picture there!

I bumped into one of his early mainstays Chris Billy who I went to school with in the 80's. He was like "What you up to?" I was all yeah I am a dead-end electrician how is it for you bigshot? He seemed to think I was doing better than him at Bury.

kenny u beaut :D

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going to see the Cardiff game on Saturday, excitement

a good time will be enjoyed be all.

poor big ross mccormack.

why are fulham so bad :(

standard just-dropped-out-of-the-Prem blues i guess, needs a period of time for player mentalities to adapt and underlying faults that led to relegation in the first place to get put right rather than plastered over.

but without seeing tonight, the stats look tight and we are playing v. well so maybe it's not just Fulham being bad?

Most of their players never got a game in the PL. Ruiz, Amorebieta, Mitroglu, all off soon. The rest of the squad looks incredibly thin. Wouldn't rule out consecutive relegations unless they buy quickly.

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Boo Hoo Hoo Rosler! Seriously oppet, I hope the Bees finish above Wigan this year.

he's turned into a right cunt in his transfer dealings, tapping up our best player and making insulting bids. now i'm worried he'll get sacked before we get a chance to play them.

think Uwe's overlooking the fact that throwing wads of cash at new players doesn't mean you'll get yr money's worth

yah he did some canny business when with us, but it's become apparent that warbs was behind all of the good stuff.

hearty lol at any wigan manager complaining about financial doping

shari otm, fulham p much writing the masterclass textbook on how not to adapt to relegation to the champo

it's only the corpse of scotty p, lol mccormack and (bizarrely) mark fotheringham there with experience of the division, rest is kids and journeymen

magath should really have left soon as

some of the youths are pretty good although i dont know if they're cut out for the championship. hopefully fotheringham and the boys can turn it around,

yeah i was just reading about the astronomically hyped patrick roberts

shouldnt be too long before chris hughton's installed there i'd imagine

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Looking like Lennon at the moment, does that mean an embargo on "no surrender to the IRA" chants from the worthless thick cunt clique?

before xelab piles in w recriminations, apparently we were total shit today and unworthy of the point

not losing is a lovely habit tho

magath out surely

The ref had a stinker, constantly got in the way of play, ruled out a perfectly fine Wells goal. It should be confirmed on fl show that Wallace wasn't the last man for his red and Vaughan was dragged down in the box for what should have been a stonewall penalty. <3 Town for putting in such a determined performance in a completely unsporting 10 vs 12 travesty ò_ó But too many positives can be taken from today to dwell on that shitty ref! Tbf - totally dignified and honest post match reaction from Peeters.

Igor Vetokele's equaliser in the second minute of injury time for Charlton at Huddersfield sparked a remarkable £24,243.69 pay-out for one 50p Football punter.

Hockaday gone.

? uh no not gone yet.

This Hockaday death-clock has been ticking away since he was appointed!

we'll score when we want iirc

Nice one and surprise surprise - Solsk is just as ill-mannered in defeat as most of the arrogant, entitled twats from that shitty club. Can see why they sacked Malkay , but still loathe this arsehole.

reading up on it, we pretty much exhausted our luck for the season in one game haha

huddersfield could appoint the caretaker at this rate

Football League Show totally changed the appearance of a match we completely bossed, we looked a little tired in the second half and we aren't creating enough good shots on target yet but if you'd offered me this start 3 weeks ago i'd've snatched your hand off. we made Cardiff look average as fuck for most of the game, only Kenwyne Jones did anything and then Ikeme was sharp given he'd had nothing to do for 70-odd minutes. result absolutely fair despite hilarious last-gasp goal

usual gits moaning and demanding we spend a billion pounds to buy Messi already

xxp
Lillis has in three games addressed issues that Robins seemed powerless to deal with in 9 months. He always does well as interim manager but has job for life cushiness as head of the academy. A lot of us ageing Mick Buxton romanticists think he should be offered the job with the proviso that his academy job is safe if it doesn't work out.

bless Lee Clark for trying to cling on to a 1-0 lead against 10 men for 80 minutes. shame we only got a draw out of it.

tomorrow we play fulham in the cup, which should be a larf.

lol! Clark never changes, he did the same at home against Stevenage a few years back. The only difference being we were 2-0 up against 10 men and ended up with a point!

Part of our fucking incredible unbeaten run.

i was there when that run died, it was sad hilarious ;)

It could be CP taking charge this week, he is the bookies fav which is probably meaningless but in the the past those that have fav status as long as he has thus far usually get the job.

ya well if so good luck to he & you

you'll be a much more solid defensive proposition with him in charge. he builds his teams around the defence for better or worse

usually better tbf

and his man-management can't be underestimated

i know the cafc thing is being ever so jolly nice but is that charitable estimation not just a smidge forgiving

i mean yeah honorable gent who suffered in stoic silence under some uncertain constraints etc but he did rather completely run out of ideas towards the end there too

tbf in one of his final games he kept a certain moneyed promotion-achieving team to zero shots on target. although you're right, that was his single idea; the late goal was mere predestined punctuation

his teams do sometimes run out of ideas when attacking, but he's 'still learning his trade' and hudds have plenty of forward talent

expect a certain directness and you won't be too miffed

charlton have played much, much more attractive possession football since he left, but there is also new ownership to consider, and an increased outlay

lol i'm really selling him here aren't i

http://www.wolves.co.uk/news/article/20140826-george-saville-signs-1876018.aspx

Kenny makes very Kenny signing shockah

could do with Patrick Bamford now to complete the set

ah fuck Boro

Bamford took a lot of persuading to go to boro and I think Chelsea have p much ordered him up there. Saville is a decent signing. Faded badly at the end of the season and gets booked too often but he played almost every match so that's fair enough in a young lad. V good at getting on the ball and pushing things forward.

as i say, he seems a very Jackettesque signing, young, capable, good work ethic, good movement

not the answer to our goal-scoring issues tho

Rolando Maran is the fav for next Leeds manager amongst a list with a heavy Italian bias. Lol go for it Sherwood

shocked that Hockaday didn't meet expectations

http://www.wolves.co.uk/news/article/20140828-ohara-leaves-wolves-1882113.aspx

downbeat end to a horror story for all concerned

2 goals for the first time this season. i am kinda in shocked and nervy disbelief at the moment

apparently we don't need no stinking strikers

could really do without 2 weeks off for international bullshit right now

we have a rich & complex relationship with injury-time it seems

unbeaten after 5 tho

I am ready to do it and I am the right man for this. No-one else, I am the only one. Not the special one, I'm the only one.

I think this is the Magath we were promised now, isn't it?

It's all happening. Sannino gone despite Watford's bright start to the season amidst stories of dressing room mutiny. Oscar Garcia was the stalking horse in the directors box at yesterdays 4-2 victory over Town. Grayson odds on fav for a return to Leeds.

Sannino resigned? That is... I do not know what that is.

seeing your own face on a football pitch must have been p heavy tbf

Lol whispers that Leeds only sold Smith to Fulham because they assumed Becchio was set to rejoin them on loan, but he snubbed them for Rotherham at the last minute.

ha ha in your face leeds

enter Powell

It looks like it, they are very overcautious about announcing new managers after the Parkinson empty chair fiasco, so it will be old news by the time it is confirmed.

At last it is official! I am very pleased tbh and at least the addition of Hudson and the international break will give him a chance to fix our atrocious defence before we play those big spending smoggy bastards.

Dour Dewsbury-shithouse Neil Redfearn is the current fav for the Leeds job, this day is still getting better!

I wonder how long it will take Alex Dyer to realise he is already a cult figure at Town for just how appalling his performances were in the 90's! In the nicest possible way, like banners with: Alex Dyer Feet Of Fire!

Had a few glasses of red but brimming with positivity about CP, really love the guy already and get the feeling he will last a few years.

i hope so too, really

hudds my second club now lol

i also don't think his football will be as bad as it sometimes was with us. he had us playing some decent stuff at times too on a very tight budget

Our chairman has already stated that your budget was millions below ours when you finished 8th in the championship and we stayed up on the last day. And he has stated what you said upthread about his man-management/organisational skills. When we became L1's dickhead big spending club he completely out-performed Lee Clark in the transfer market and took up a well balanced squad on 100+ points. But most importantly he broke that worthless fucking Lee Clark unbeaten record :)

heh yeah, a fine day ;)

28th of february will be ridiculously emotional. i won't even care what the score is. you shd come down, say hi :)

Mammadov, who owns French League 1 side Racing Club Lens and crack Azerbaijan outfit FC Baku exchanged contracts with Owls overlord and saviour Milan Mandaric in June, but has been unable to fund the purchase of the shares. Manadaric is currently considering legal action, however, world events and sanctions against Russia and its allies could well have something to do with things. Mammadov, founded of Azerbaijan-based Baghlan Group and has had to deny reports that he had been held in custody in his homeland due to financial difficulties earlier in the summer. Lens, promotion to the top flight was temporarily suspended due to lack of funds promised by Mammadov and will struggle this year after being able to strengthen the squad. Mamadov is also a big sponsor of Athletico Madrid in Spain who have had to sell some big stars this season.

I am starting to to wonder if Wednesday are going to be the next crisis club, admittedly without much compassion.

it's been ridiculous fun being in the same league as them for the last 6 years or so :D

i've enjoyed this season's unforseen (by me) Owls renaissance tbh

Nuhiu looks pretty good.

xp yeah def. of the fallen big clubs their consistent mediocrity is probably the least entertaining

i know an owls fan, says the injury-ravaged sam hutchinson has been head and shoulders above everyone else the couple of times he's managed a game

also stevie may's hair obv

Some pulitzer prize level emotion on here, need to cry myself to sleep, again!

lol

you really need to have had wednesday following you around for years to understand why they're better off 'underachieving'

I wasn't having a pop at anybody on here if it seemed that way.

haha no i know i was agreeing with you rly

you really need to have had wednesday following you around for years to understand why they're better off 'underachieving'

― imago, Thursday, 4 September 2014 23:10 Bookmark

good point, shame qpr and wolves have played wednesday more times in the last 15 years than charlton and hudds have

yeah but shrink that to last 7 or 8

since 2005

qpr 12, wolves 10
charlton 12, hudds 9

u also had two cup games, dont count

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2014/09/05/wolves-embroiled-in-mario-balotelli-storm/

Express & Star desperate for any brush with glamour

Balotelli’s father Thomas Barwuah lives in Wednesfield, near Wolverhampton.

huh

i lolled

you can google it tbh but most of the articles about Balotelli's fam are gutter press that i'm not linking

Yeah that is the true story here, probably more than the obligatory MB head butt is.

nice to see cov win their homecoming party

really just goes to show the lengths the board there had to go to manufacture any joy from playing in the ricoh

The last time I went to Sixfields it literally started falling to pieces in the the wind, injuring people a couple of rows in front and the game was called off. I gather as soulless as the Ricoh is, it at least has adequate structural integrity to stay in one fucking piece on a windy day.

my first of the season, this

let's see if watford really are all that

missed our goal

both decent sides

deeney dived when scoring looked easier

a debut to remember for Matt Smith - sent off after 26 minutes

Heurelho just murdered our striker & his own cb

that looked like a lot of huff and puff for nuthin'

ahaha we slightly robbed Watford there

absolutely monstrous from our defence + keeper tbf

Hopefully Powell learned today that Peltier should only be used as cover for Smith at right back and you don't shift our creative ball player onto the wing to accommodate him in midfield where he is total rinse and mostly was in L1 as well. Also CP gets demerits for not starting with in-form Scannell, which is puzzling after he blocked his transfer window move to Millwall and has already said he rates him. Both teams were garbage today really and we got undone by a superb 35 yard wonder strike and a soft injury time penalty. Vaughan hobbled off injured again :( but at least Hudson looked solid.

you don't shift our creative ball player onto the wing to accommodate him in midfield where he is total rinse and mostly was in L1 as well

norwood, i presume

Norwood has gone to Reading - Jacob Butterfield

ohhhh

reading?! pfah, maybe he'll do ok there

Both him + clayton went for a combined 2.25 mill and Coady/Butterfield cost about 600k, decent bit of transfer business for two players that would have certainly walked in the summer.

coady's quality yeah

hudds were v unlucky on saturday according to my boro mate. that free kick was a beaut tho. some of brentford's football against brighton was just unreal. we're still going to concede lots of goals but the way warbs has us playing on the counter and passing it around, my god. odubajo is quality, and tarkowski at cb is an incredible player. what a time to be alive.

Karanka has stated they should have won 5-0 which is absolute bollocks - typical arsehole manager who has overspent trying big up his project. They had two threatening shots on target and one was a penalty. Fair play to Leadbitter though, brilliant goal and superb performance.

karanka's a dick tbh and shows no sign of being a competent manager.

It looks like there will be streams of all the championship fixtures on wiziwig tonight. Probably commentary free and from the resident stadium cameras, but better than nothing if you are not going tonight.

http://www.wiziwig.tv/competition.php?part=sports&competitionid=28&discipline=Football

It struck me earlier that Dyche and Warbs probably had some overlap at Watford. The conversations they must've had...

(They might also have both worked under Mackay there, but my brain decided to gloss over that bit)

I've definitely seen warbs mention working with mackay. he and dyche are kindred spirits at least, and I anticipate some form of incredible partnership from them in the future - consecutive champions league wins, running the FA, tv pundit double act, etc.

not there tonight; late work

might catch the end online

ha ha McManaman booked for diving, dirty shitehawk!

hmm noticed he won a dubious but saved pen against Blackburn on sat.

andre bikey is, I hate to say, already a bloody legernd

Don't look at the live table right now imago, the power of the jinx and all that.

oh I know, don't worry

so Powell finally brings Scanz on, about bloody time.

right I'm watching this shit as of right now

wolves are allllll over us my god :O

Do you have that disconcerting mix of radio commentary with the video stream 5 mins behind?

i have no commentary, thank god, besides our charming fans

mine seems to be the only match not streaming, possible because fucking 5 live xtra are doing a radio commentary ffs. sounds like we're giving it a good go. odubajo at rb is a waste of a good attacker tho.

oh ffs.

this is like the watford game but even jammier :D

not any more :(

fuck was the keeper doing there

and now he's timewasting, 1-1 at home. prick

nearly concede after bikey decides he's going to dribble past someone on his own penalty spot, legernd status perilously close to cracking D:

getting soundly beaten at home against norwich seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to happen tbh.

spectacular comeback by the blades tonight.

that's crazy. chesterfield managed to draw from 3-0 down too.

and fucking bolton eh.

if we'd won that as well we'd have basically expended a season's worth of footballing larceny in 7 games

wolves were p good but towards the end completely ran out of attacking ideas

a season's worth of footballing larceny in 7 games

if you get more luck than you did at our place then there is something fishy going on!

just heard Ian Baird describing Doukara as a "unit and a tank" on radio Leeds.

bikey and doukara shd fight

I appreciate that Grant Holt's stock is quite low, glad that Wigan paid the 2 mill for him and now as a loan player he look's like the perfect foil for Wells. Please let this continue till the end of the season.

The blades with a 97th minute winner!

Good work Bees as well!

:)

delighted to take leeds apart, especially after we'd been so terrible against boro the week before. There's a bit of dressing room tension starting to bubble up and it'll be interesting to see how warbs deals with it. we're still a rb and striker light.

just seen that garcia has quit watford for health reasons. good luck to him.

I can't be fucking dealing with alcohol/drug abuse free, gymnasium-toned isotope supping types who are literally a day younger than me having health problems, that shit really gives me a queasy impending death feeling.

take up religion imo ;)

CP had 7 defensive players against Millwall, it worked because Millwall were shit and Bunn supported Wells in the 1st half until Holt masterfully helped him close out the game. I don't think it will always be pretty and it might be close, but I think Town will stay up under Powell.

my favourite thing about being in the championship is being able to watch these streams with just stadium noise. decent game n all, even if we are behind to a shit penalty. toumani diagouraga is a great cult hero - runs around a lot, moments of intricate skill before falling over, wins a lot of soft fouls, comically bad finishing.

if we still have our unbeaten record in 1 hr it will be a miracle, canaries be swarmin'

ffs https://vine.co/v/OmqbAMj7Ba0

congrats the addicks!

:D

we will lose the unbeaten record against Blackpool, obviously

meanwhile, this is weird and great

Wigan: Uwe Rosler says club 'hungover' from last season

Wigan Athletic manager Uwe Rosler believes a "hangover" effect from last season has contributed to their moderate start to this campaign. "This club had to go through an enormous amount of stress, physically, mentally - not one football team in Britain had been put under that sort of pressure and stress.

Another risible excuseplaination from Rosler, save it for the chairman when you are getting pumped pal!

uncanny how similar it all is to our start last season, so expect him to go on an incredible winning streak and get the man city job in a few weeks.

Trying to engender a siege mentality is fair enough but his schtick is i)Boo hoo teams that come down get more parachute money now and ii) He tries to make losing in the playoffs sound as physically devastating as the 1000 mile march. Two extra games ffs!

http://www.shockmansion.com/wp-content/myimages/2011/12/original-Copy-Copy.jpg

Town are such a bastard bogie side for Wolves, but a lot could happen in the next 45 like in Sunday's game!

The fucking imbeciles crying for Powell out after 3 games will presumably stfu now /xelab

o lol xp

I was questioning why he dropped Nahki before the ko tbh and why he was cautious against a terrible Millwall side at home, but fans are usually 90% wrong about everything in football. After the Leeds defeat I blanked all football media for a week because I knew it would be the same cretins saying he isn't good enough.

pretty sure our high density mob are turning on Jackett already

rip dougie freedman btw, leaving palace a great call

Not heard Gartside talking about his relegation free, two-tiered prem league concept for a bit. When Geoffrey Richmond was at Bradford City he was pushing similar shit until they went plummeting down the leagues.

this will be 3-3 Powell out!

Oh shit! Clarke is coming on!

oooh scary

he was so shit for us, can't believe he's been scoring goals

the football equivalent of knocking your king over in chess

lol!

not laughing now anymore, Steadinho is coming on !

oh btw get used to wondering when tf powell will make a substitution, it's his most annoying habit

stead will add belated height at defensive setplays

one more wolves goal and we're out of the playoffs. you can do this hfield

first 8 games, conceded 3 goals
last 2 games, conceded 6 goals

:/

I watched Sunday's game it wasn't what I was expecting for sure.

"stead will add belated height at defensive setplays"

belated is the right word for Stead these days!

8 minutes of injury time?

anyway, kudos xelab

in other news, the charlton webforum has no idea what to make of star centre-back tal ben haim taking this weekend's game off for yom kippur

xp
I wish we were Leeds bogie team rather than your lot:(

plucky jose riga's blackpool being v plucky rn

or are they just p lucky

they shd stage a walkout every week lol

Owen Oyston looks like such an hilarious arch baddie ... asset stripper moi?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/03/1412338643255_wps_12_NOTTINGHAM_ENGLAND_AUGUST.jpg

just so inept

a comparison to nicky van hoogs could be made, with the caveat that the latter's sublimation of the power-urge into pure all-fronts psychosis would never have anything to do with football

the fit and proper test wouldn't have been a barrier

bloody hell I didn't realise he was a convicted rapist.

oh shit

hence 'inept' tbh, he's the most dundering sort of criminal cunt

hoogs i now realise could be involved in football but only as an autodidact fascist-genius manager type

Could picture him with Malcolm Allison type swag, smoking a cigar in the dug-out

It looks the wiziwig streams are back on today

or not

fortunately some of us are at the game ;)

wolves' defence

before last sunday it was the meanest in the league

Bournemouth down to 10 men (Kerm sent off) and still beating hopeless Bolton

lol Rhodes!

Most unconvincing unbeaten run ever ;)

our fans are so embarrassing

WE'RE UNBEATEN

The last fans' incident that embarrassed me was the ott thunderous ovation that G Holt received before he had even kicked a ball, it was like we had signed Aguero! Tbf I think the love has empowered him and there was a strong element of save us from Stead.

losing the odd game or three but playing without fear >>>> long unbeaten runs with far too many draws.

CP has taken over a team that was rife with factionalism + low self esteem. Despite a few early selection errors in a relatively short time he has turned them into a formidable, committed, hard working unit who can actually defend. Under Robins there would have been more chance of a clean sheet at Ewood Park than finding one in a Bradley Mills knocking shop. There is always a bloody nose coming up in this division but I am cursing the international break right now, just fucking momentum disruption

yeah I told you!

4 points between the top 10 after 11 games and no Leicester, we can all dare to dream this season!

the previous time we played Reading was another last day promotion heartbreak fixture, back when coppell was our manager. we weren't even very good today but we finally started taking our chances and got a nice win. we look like a championship team. it's nice! next up is a trip to wigan to get rosler the sack.

I remember that side well, Boothy should have had a hattrick against you in the 1st leg and we didn't deserve shit in the 2nd leg and then Coppell took most of them to Reading at a later date.

god i'd forgotten it was yous in the semi! revenge for '95. i could only remember the final where we completely froze against stoke and became the first team to lose from the 'lucky dressing room' at the millennium stadium.

It's only the JPT and I wish I didn't still care about those cunts but MK Dons 2 - 3 AFC Wimbledon

Genuinely elated

and look who scored the winner!

He's been fantastic so far this season

what about Azeez, how's he progressing

(I get the feeling that he'll be one we might regret letting go in a few years, but he's got a lot to learn first)

I like him, clever runs and we've now actually got some players in midfield who can pick a proper pass (especially a youngster Tom Beere who looks really promising) which means it's actually worth making those runs. Not that clinical though, compared to Tubbs anyway, but yeh I like him

Ah, Tubbs! Much-adored Tubbs.

You've got a serious front-line this season. Promotion a possibility?

Also, this is your first ever game against MKD, right - no question of refusing to play it?

I suppose it was worth playing it, but only because you won.

This is the third time we've played them, second time this season!

First time we took a load of fans, since then everyone just kind of ignores it, hopefully actually beating them will put the whole stigma to bed

Stigma maybe the wrong word, drunk

But yeah, we've best the cunts, and it looks like we'll get a new stadium in Merton very soon, so all is well

Promotion a stretch this season, though I do think we have the best front 2 in the league. After last season I'll be delighted with 11th and no drama

o cool re: stadium

steal all those dulwich hamlet hipster tearaways back

♪♬ Shall we buy you a club ♪♬ Shall we buy you a-a a club ...

Congrats BF, hopefully you will be beating them in the league soonish and that mulleted carpetbagger Winkelman falls down a big fucking sink-hole.

millwall to play brentford in full army camo. penny for xelab's thoughts lol

They will be bringing on some slightly damaged drones at half time, they are doing such a heroic job to keep us all safe etc... http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/funny/1/vomit.gif

jose riga's plucky plucky boys tomorrow, scared much? :D

Confident as hell tbh. Powell has realised that Hudson is the captain, Smith is the first choice RB and Stead is finished as a league player, simple things which he has dealt with in a decent thoughtful, slow manner. I think Blackpool will get paggered tommorow and the 5/6 on Town is quite generous, so I have already cursed it.

theres an elective affinity between lower league fitba and 'the forces'

the championship especially is a forces sort of league, stuart pearce, nigel pearson (spiritually still a champo manager whatever the tables say, claims he would have gone into the raf if he didnt make it in football)

i thought you were talking about superstition and the power of prayer right up until 'raf' haha

trust u didnt read that as rote armee fraktion

now imagining a raffle where first prize is a date with nigel pearson

sunderland's two best forwards are military kids, wickham's dad was in the militiary police for an extra level of sadist realness

i don't know much about the military police

what is their code

they probably just wander round the cells until they find a 17 yr old with adhd caught smoking weed and tread on their testes until they vomit

lol

oh who am i kidding. i admit it, i want a carroll-wickham-rooney boot stamping on a miniature spanish face forever. with steve howard on the bench.

― r|t|c, Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:12 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that would be genuinely delightful, is the thing

― acoleuthic, Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:12 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

chris brunt a-bustle on the wing, alex bruce all primed to thug

― acoleuthic, Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:14 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

younger days

in which chris brunt's nationality was now known

*not

the ulster lads are probaby the jewel in the RMP crown

http://i.imgur.com/kJAeqD8.jpg

they've seen proper action yeah

proper action

it will have been wondered how often those girls will tout their new headgear

photos from this awful story are distressingly prevalent throughout any RMP GIS

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2550901/Military-policewoman-30-hanged-Armys-decision-NOT-charge-soldiers-raping-drunken-night-out.html

obv the URL is all you need

All these people who love all this tache-face worship will be probably dangerous in years to come. Fuckheads like Pearce will be in their element for starters.

every match is streamed nowadays, thank heaven for capitalism/technology/whatever

we're wearing our hideous 3rd kit. ban 3rd kits

loooool we're a total shambles

at least we're doing better than brave plucky jose riga's plucky game lads

and how plucky

we go 2 down i might watch that one instead

there's a big pink bubble like out of The Prisoner going up and down the pitch at Millwall, i didn't realise this was the sort of new shit our brave lads are deploying

bubble fully burst

hush my big fat mouth

fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking bastards

time to switch allegiance to the Tigers

^nicely done

we were so, so bad btw. like, so bad. but yknow finally losing's a sort of relief, now we can get on with our season

;)

what a fucking bollocks of a game

nah it was end to end great for the neutral from what i cd tell from shonky stream and Ricky Facking Fuller ladeezandgennelman bastards bastards bastards

that's entertainment!

even after they were level they had a cunt sent off for bringing down Evans who was clear thru, shd've been the winner, then their keeper made a great save off Sako's resulting beast of a free kick. i wd've enjoyed all this if we hadn't conceded 9 in 3.

look how many have you SCORED in the last three, that's the other issue here

well i do have a little ammo every time some dick starts whining about buying a striker, true

Very entertaining game today, really should have been 6 up after the half hour but then they got out the deck chairs and started sipping Pimms and ballwatching. After Blackpool got some wind in their sails they weathered it and closed the game out in satisfactory fashion. The emergence of Harry Bunn and a revitalised Scanz on the wings is one the most exciting developments since the Rhodes days.

Need to get Bunn to sign a contract extension before he inevitably starts attracting the vultures.

Hyppia, Rosler and Adkins all seem to be on very thin ice right now. I can sense at least one of them going in the next week.

Powell in!

Seriously though, those clubs could do a LOT worse than Riga

He has the most difficult job in the championship and hasn't done too badly considering the circumstances. I don't know how he motivates himself to keep on working for those fucking vile Oystons. My bro once worked for a similar type criminal arsehole, this guy he worked for ended up getting sent down for trying to burn down Doncaster Rovers old ground in a botched insurance fraud job!

lol i seem to recall something like that

bunch of corrupt council shit around the old Donny ground too wasn't there?

I can't recall any of that, but an uncle of mine who is a successfull-ish business owner said he had heard this guy had paid a contract to have my bro's legs broken. I don't know how he was privy to this info, but it never happened and is possibly one of them apocryphal family stories!

did he pay the contract to rory mcardle?

https://vine.co/v/ObAiTBiWzL2

my dad just described that on the phone, thought he must be exaggerating

shd have posted it to ILW amirite

I heard City were down to 10 men but mcardle didn't even get booked!

Tucudean's goal just now was fucking gorgeous

been too superstitious to comment after Saturday's shenanigans but :D

All them bad results and yet you are 3 points from the summit! No-one is running away with it this season for sure.

I can't understand why Birmingham would want replace a useless fucker like Clark with Robinson who is equally as inept as proven by years of L1 mediocrity despite an above average budget.

Or to be fair years of L1 underachievement ...

tbf we had a great start and then a couple of shockers, plus threw away a silly lead on Saturday. you could say similar about most of the top half teams but in different sequences. it looks like it's gonna be a ladder match of a season, yeah.

Jackett is more or less operating in uncharted waters now, obv Millwall had their moments but he's got (theoretically) a lot more resources than he's had in the past and this is going to be a test of just how good a manager he can be. obv i'm still really impressed with him.

Robinson's been talked up for a few years now, but you're right that Birmingham aren't much of a step up in terms of what'll be available to him. which is fine by me cos y'know fuck Birmingham.

I haven't forgot "We'll meet again.." and Trevor Francis's unsympathetic comments when we went down on the last day in '01, so yeah Fuck Brum.

Brentford are never going to fucking score again, I can tell you.

Don't be looking at L1 for strikers in the window, most of the current top scorers are useless journeymen duffers! 14Doyle(Chesterfield)10Forte(Oldham)8Wilbraham(Bristol City)7Done(Rochdale)7Garner(Preston)

God, that's grim reading. Our only functioning striker is Grey, who's done well considering he was playing in the conference last season but already looks knackered. Beyond that we've got someone broken, someone shit, and a European wonderkid on loan who hasn't played yet.

mk not letting robinson go for some reason

looks like gary rowett is brum's man

At least he looks like a manager who has created something greater than the sum of it's parts, but still hope he fucks it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPvHEV9ITWY

if dennis bergkamp had scored this exact goal for arsenal we would literally never hear the fucking end of it

that second touch is sincerely & absolutely the single best thing I have seen a Charlton player do for what must be getting on for 10 years here

completely brilliant goal, our goal of the season surely

the number of adverbs in the preceding post is totally justified, obv

so yeah, ILF convene, it's time for a mass viewing party

i.e. me occasionally posting 'ffs'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wncQzVOI0BE

Lol! Well done Leon Clarke, sooner or later Clough's 44 day record was due to be broken.

let's keep it in the birmingham city thread lads

https://vine.co/v/OhUPv2FmmvE but rosler schadenfreude doesn't make up for us being crap again.

oh and lol milanic out already.

It really is taking the piss when the manager says "Ipswich away? aah we'll send out the B-team for these fucking clowns" and then when we are 2 down "Damnit! I wanted to rest the unplayable Scanz/Hairy Bum duo, but you are going to fucking have to earn it now boys, so go do your stuff to these chumps....

^how to come from 2 down at one of the stronger teams in the league and still be narked, textbook stuff :D

I am not complaining or narked, more glad that he is thinking like that! I meant "taking the piss" in a positive manner.

Oh ok lol

The fact that he had 2 currently unplayable wingers who could change the game is the thing!

I am starting to get repulsed by this talk of little plucky Bosecombe with their fucking oligarch twat of an owner bankrolling them beyond their means. Fuck off back to league 1 with your pitiful support you jumped up arriviste bus station motherfuckers.

This talk of Clark going to Blackpool makes me think of some of the most suicidal jobs I have ever survived in succession.

Finally!

http://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2014/october/29/symons-appointed

Fulham 2 - 5 Derby County
Dembele 27′, 45′
Martin 45′ (pen) Russell 47′ Dawkins 54′, 65′ Hendrick 62′

Fulham caretaker manager Kit Symons: "We scored two tonight so that's progress."

they got three the other day! against a team that beat derby! and they let in 5 fewer! weird man

they also scored 3 against Rotherham lol

4 against Bolton

I mean

tbf post magath all he had to do was stay cuddly til the job was in the bag

yeah that Derby match was really bad, too many youngsters played i think.

he's won 5, lost 2 and drawn 1 since being caretaker manager. magath's record this season was lost 7, drawn 1.

Mike Holden @Miguel_MCFC · 24h
The old dears in the laundry room at Maine Road adored Kit Symons. Used to spend his afternoons having banter with them rather than go home.

wrongun imo

Kit "always fucking clean" Symons.

proper American commentary on the stream, Leon Clarke starting, Sako still not fit, the Bluenoses in freefall, one way or another this is gonna rock bells

fucken hell McAlinden getting a game too, god knows how this turns out

Sagbo not getting a game over these two = your career's finished, son

we are such bullshit playing 442

glad to see Leon hasn't let last week's winning tap-in go to his head

mind, he'd probably miscontrol it if it did

Lee Evans has played like a cock all half, it's like watching a McCarthy side

be very surprised if Jackett doesn't change things at half time, he has this weird knack of improving his first half mistakes. our squad is so thin, Chris Iwelumo's commentating at the Mol today, he'd've done better than either of our two forwards

okay Sagbo, prove me wrong

cunt ref has let them kick and pull and trip us all afternoon for free

god that was frustrating, probly shd've nicked it

sorry noodle but michael morrison needs game time

it could be worse, we're still top of the league for the next couple of minutes

1 goal and 2 points in the past 3 games is not good preparation for playing derby. odubajo stuck in at rb and our best cb on the bench to appease his whinging understudy isn't good either.

:(

get here late, wednesday score, loads of owl cunts in our end get ejected amidst scenes unsuitable for minors

the sun is out, weirdly

:)

get the feeling that odubajo at rb could actually be good cos it helps him run with the ball from deeper.

point fair, battered em for 2nd tho

chris powell my word

Can't wait to see Pearce's stupid fucking face on FL show tonight, no doubt the choad will be taking his team to an army barracks or something to teach them valour and honour :p

I want to marry Chris Powell

:D

this league is ridic in the best way

I keep thinking thinking this team is going to unravel and become Town again but it just isn't happening yet, in first half today they battered a team who recently have thrashed us a couple of times in an outstanding team performance.

:D

I missed listening to our winner cos a plumber was round telling me I need a new bath and seeking my thoughts on city v utd like igaf. warbs, eh.

our away record at Derby since we last defeated them at the baseball ground in the 50's is played 20, 18 defeats and 2 draws. fucking get in bunn!

Ugh! fuck off and die "plucky little" Bosecombe, you will be back in L2 soon after your oligarch dies or admin etc...

lol i really like your hatred of bournemouth :D

i don't entirely understand it, suppose it's coz they're being bankrolled to fuck while the media narrative remains agog at their success

they don't seem like a horrible club

speaking of which, robbing leeds of the three at theirs is always a fine thing

There is probably a blend of hypocrisy and nonsense to my hatred of Bournemouth which wouldn't stand up to reasonable scrutiny, but I still fucking hate them and about another hundred clubs! Just got no time for shitty no-mark seaside town clubs bankrolled by fucking oligarchs, spending 18 times their turnover and being proclaimed as plucky lil' underdogs whilst your own club has barely spent fuck all to honour FFP restrictions and jumped up little shits like Bosecombe head the the fucking table right now.

tbf it was only a few years ago that they were a selling club - hollands and wiggins both poached

now they're buying from us! mind you they've done well turning a few of our cast-offs (arter, francis) into proper players

dunno the details of their ownership/finances but it sounds like they've gotten a boost at the right time while hudds etc are doing it sustainably & reaping less spectacular if still noteworthy rewards

pleasingly, rotherham seem to be running out of puff

i probably have little time for a hundred clubs but my hatred is reserved for a select few, including quite a lot of the championship. in fact let's accumulate a championship hatred pantheon

norwich fans are largely entitled wankers
don't like blackburn one bit
forest can piss off these days
cardiff are horrid
awwww i can't hate wednesday too much, but they are awful lol, they're like our shadow
millwall obv
leeds double obv
rotherham have one of the biggest cunts in uk football in charge
fulham i can't hate but they really do have the most hilariously rubbish support in the world
birmingham are the worst club in britain maybe, at least outside the PL
blackpool have maybe the most loathsome owner in the football league

seem to recall hudds throwing some bunce around under bruce

idk about rotherham tbh, steve evans is so absurdly vividly grotesque i'm now kinda rooting for him to disgust on the biggest stage

watched a bit of them vs leeds and they played some nice stuff. pringlle & revell were like the lower-league platonic ideal of tricky wand-footed left winger and strapping strong front man respectively

Evans was gracious on the Football League Show about the win they nicked from us so i got no problem with the dude

xxp
That was the Rubery era (textbook deluded speculator type 90's chairman, made his dosh from Pace boxes) and we signed some fucking woeful players on £9k a week contracts before he did one and admin beckoned (although Ken Monkou was probably the most EPL standard player I ever saw at Town (for about 3 games until he didn't give a fuck anymore)) and we were probably despised at the time. Then Ian Ayre overruled Bruce and sold Stewart to Ipswich who then replaced him with a useless fucking crock called Martin Smith, then came another decade of L1 mediocrity! I remember us relegating QPR in the penultimate game that season and thinking we were home and dry and then going down on the last day. I was a betting shop manager at the time and there was controversy in the streets of Hudds cos in the pre betting exchange era people who had backed them to be relegated at 8/1-ish could have made more perming the teams that had to win to ensure our relegation. All they needed was at least a point against Brum and 90% of people knew they would fuck it up.

i prefer to remember the kevin gallen game the year before

William Marcus Paul Stewart (born William Marcus Paul Tubbs)[2] (born 7 November 1972), more commonly known as Marcus Stewart, is an English former footballer who

LOL all these fucking years and billy tubbs i never knew ye

Brentford are never going to fucking score again, I can tell you.

― oppet, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:11 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how's this working out for u

i know right. my nascent ilx posting career dwindles to the occasional brentford update and i can't even do that properly.

i mean even david button is almost looking world class these days ffs.

diego poyet: not all that, really. coquelin's already better

^coping mechanisms I have tearfully resorted to

presumably only ffp is delaying the elite from piling in with eight figure offers for solly and cousins

I'd guess that means Hogg's injury is long term, wow talk about a more than adequate replacement though! Powell being here probably swung it.

how's jack robinson doing btw

He has won the fans over recently after a ropey start during which even the local bbc commentary team were moaning about Dixon getting dropped for him. He has even won over the experts who dismissed him as shite from the one game they watched him last season. He is comfortably the best LB we have had in a decade and has a wicked long throw, there is no doubt he is a better passer and better defender than Dixon standard now. He just got called up for the U21's so perhaps his good work is getting him on the radar. I think you have a good player here who is still learning but rapidly improving.

Thinking about it some of the initial controversy over Robinson's signing was that it was made by the board before we had appointed a manager and there was some gossip that the terms of the loan deal are he has to start, not that it matters any more.

my sympathies to the wolves family.

absolute maximum respect to millwall for their special edition war kit today

http://www.millwallfc.co.uk/cms_images/kit298-2070738_478x359.png

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110301040929/worldsofsdn/images/8/8f/Sad_Bear_by_Jovajna.jpg

frankly awful that none of the other teams respect our troops

we're bossing this. the jota-judge-pritchard-toral midfield is beautiful.

Craven Cottage looks quite lovely by floodlight, reet fucking ground is that.

button u clown

oh fuck me.

top 6 ffs.

we're above wolves now? lol

up to the point at which we switched off after equalising we played very well today, shit result in the end but it was played at such frenetic pace in both halves and was a decent game. just slightly marred by a homer who didn't mind Bunn getting dragged down in the box, mind you if Bunn stayed on his feet more he might get something when genuinely wronged. This Poyet loan seems unusual now, Hogg was fit to start, he didn't play and after the international break his stay will be nearly over.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2BjaGSIEAI8nb6.jpg

ah man, the next saturday but one cannot come quickly enough

https://twitter.com/GFHCapital/with_replies Leeds owners hacked, account saying things like

insider trading, dodgy deals, bribes, money laundering http://naftiran.com spearment rhinos. Who/ what is the connection. find out soon

^lol

i'm not at charlton-millwall. there's a stream but i got in literally 20 seconds before half-time and i'm outta here midway thru the second half.

they're playing the the's 'this is the day' over the PA (or a cover of it) tho, which is nice

Waaaaaait did Malky Mackay actually say 'you've had your pound of flesh from me' in his presser after the Wigan match?!

Yes, according to the BBC. That's next level.

Brighton & Hove Albion have completed the signing of Darren Bent from Aston Villa ahead of Saturday's game with Fulham.

Bent arrives on an initial month's loan until the end of December having passed a medical at the American Express Elite Football Performance Centre earlier today, before training with his new teammates. With Brighton expecting the biggest crowd of the season for the visit of Fulham this Saturday it is recommended you buy now to avoid disappointment.

http://i.imgur.com/liXm3Il.png

The Football League have ‘disqualified‘ Massimo Cellino from owning Leeds United.

lol!

I am guessing he will appeal and this will be a protracted process so no admin yet.

didn't catch who it was on the radio just now proclaiming Leeds "unlucky" but he was clearly unfamiliar with the concept of karma

It is ridiculous if he can drag this out until March and then be fit n proper again. My main hope is that news of the FL doing something about a chairman gives whelan some kind of attack.

Am maintaining a dignified silence about saturday's result out of respect for my senior ilf posters. What a month tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvDHb0wALo

bit of soothing music for noodles

i think y're entitled to be fully chuffed oppet!

not really sure how this rough patch will go with us - the usual suspects are already calling for everybody to be sacked, but the questions about how much Morgan is willing to spend are legit i think. i'd've took a finish around 10th at the start of the season so i'm not freaking out at all, but there's an ominous popped balloon feeling about us at the moment, and Jackett looks just a shade like he doesn't know how to change this around - for the first time since he's been in charge

classic Karl Henry, got himself on the piano but looks like he didn't know what to do with it after that

I thought wolves looked ok in the first half. Golbourne going off seemed to make a big difference. Shame for you that we've finally figured out how to take advantage of teams with no confidence.

Was listening to Warbs on 5 live earlier, he says he is bricking it about saturday's game :p

the local BBC media are so fucking soft on this Cellino guy. But they have consistently been a worthless bunch of toadying guileless, gutless bastards in all dealings with the white shite.

The only Town chairman I ever admired was David Taylor who was a small-time Wakefield solicitor who bravely tried to save the club from admin after the ruinous Bruce project. It ended with him massively out of pocket and in bad health from stress. He still hasn't missed an away game in 24 years and still travels on the supporters club coach every week, beautiful guy.

I am convinced that Poyet going back to W Ham and Hogg returning from injury is the reason we won today. Poyet worked hard, but despite his evident qualities, he never settled in and the international break didn't help that cause.

At we least we beat you fair and square this time oppet. Re: The time Alan Lee mullered your keeper at the death!

Oh don't remind me about that Alan Lee goal! Good match yesterday. Powell had you set up well and you did us on the wings. Scannell was good and our defence was in a panic all match. I remember watching Scannell's brother play for us a few years back - one of those absolutely terrible non-footballers who pop up in league two before going back to the sunday leagues. Anyway, Udds is always a good day out. The people I got talking to in the pub afterwards seemed pretty positive about Powell and the rest of the season.

is it safe yet to bring up big mick doing a typically mick job with those crap ipswich players there

“I’ll take that, me; hard-working, belligerent, stubborn, organised, disciplined. All of those words that people don’t particularly like because they’re not ‘sexy’.

“I would doubt that any of our two thousand fans walked away from Charlton last weekend complaining that we were all those things. Why would they?

“If you’re milky and soft in this league you get beat, that’s for sure.”

here is the most aggravating bit of it:

Christophe Berra
2009–2013 Wolverhampton Wanderers Apps 141 Gls(0)
2013– Ipswich Town Apps 61 Gls (9)

but nah, Mick knows exactly what it takes to make a team not quite good enough for the Prem

Bialkowski, Chambers, Berra, Smith, Mings, Skuse, Tabb, Hunt, Anderson, Murphy, McGoldrick

couple of them have had their moments (and mings is hyped) but rly i don't see anything other than management mansplaining the diff between 2nd and 22nd here

he does imbue the qualities he describes, and players that take to him seem incredibly loyal to him. as i say, the ish is whether that kind of team is ever going to be capable of achieving much beyond the top of the Champo/bottom of the Prem interzone. we certainly never looked like it.

I always used to tell people that nobody actually talks like Mick in Barnsley any more. But then I went to this remote butchers/sandwich shop in Wombwell and the proprietor was all whats all this posh shit you fancy bastard? because I asked for a BLT with coleslaw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8mm1Qmt-Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SO3JDtJyz0

well played

just our luck, playing Brum next week rather than a couple of months back:(

The Football League are due to announce a three-year deal with Channel 5 for all their divisions plus the Capital One Cup, starting next season.
C5 won the contract with an estimated offer of £2million a year, which was marginally better than the BBC’s, and a pledge to screen their show at 9pm on Saturday.

oh dear I hope Claridge is ok ;p

Adkins gone. i liked him when he was the overachieving physio, he became such a smug cunt in the last few years.

quality performance, maybe Mr Morgan might've got the hint that we're gonna suck when our two best players are in Africa, maybe think about spending some money other than FA fines, i dunno

lol Forest

also lol another six pointer this afternoon for us

curtains for pearce now surely

pearce is a deeply stupid man & forest will probably implode with joyous results. their fans kinda know it too

― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Friday, August 8, 2014 9:30 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

birmingham winning is never joyous but this was always gonna happen

btw you all saw gudmundsson's goal the other day right

Lol that'll be Pearce's last big job.

Oh dear our defence is fucking shite.

the rumour is up this way that Powell is going for Jackson in the window with Danny Ward going the other way.

take that tbh

Danny Ward has so much potential. He is going to come back and haunt us wherever he goes.

definitely recall him either scoring or smashing one onto the post from a ridiculous angle at the valley, also terrifying us

Looks like Bradshaw at Walsall is going to have some suitors in this window. Town tried to tempt them with a derisory offer last year.

phew! needed that

ian holloway must…stay? :D

match stats make it look like that was a struggle but hey, at least our loyal followers might get off Jackett's back for a week or so

Some of our entitled lot seem to think we should be beating the likes of Bolton in some kind of more altogether fashion despite them massively outstripping us in expenditure.

Wolves were decent today tbh even if that first goal was a fair bit offside. You had Gray marked out the game and then he went and missed that fucking open goal at the end.

Oh but what was that all about with the Wolves fans waving their phone torches about like they were at a fucking take that concert.

lol no idea didn't watch a stream

still well satisfied with this opening half of the season, but Sako's almost certainly on the way out and our squad options need some serious improvement

We sent Grant Holt back to Wigan totally fucking crocked! Sounds like cruciate injury and out for the rest of the season. Ruthlessly thinking "another relegation rival weakened and thank fuck we didn't manage to extend his stay"

Haha well done. We're signing Lewis Macleod from Rangers, which is nice but suggests that Warbs might only sign attacking midfielders for the rest of time.

We are linked with Nicky Law from the Rangers fire sale today, can't understand why as the midfield doesn't need any tinkering. Also been linked with Hanson from Bradford City which while not spectacular is probably more sensible.

Because of some new Spanish legislation that kicks in tomorrow Wiziwig is toast:(

fuck :O :( X_X hny

AdBlock and Java Script Pop-Up Blocker are now practically redundant on my pc. but i will still miss wizi!

First Row always seemed worse to me, but might have to try them.

Blyth are 2-0 up vs Birmingham in the FA Cup.

Gareth Roberts, who is a Texas based billionaire and boyhood Bulls/BPA fan has bought Bradford Park Avenue after failing to buy the Bulls last year. I think it is marvellous that a seriously wealthy benefactor who wants to invest in the area is guaranteed to have no interest in Leeds Utd and a deep seated loathing of Bradford City. Stans' fans have a loathing for City that is partly due to a certain self-centered Chairman who helped to vote them out of existence during the re-election era.

It will be interesting to see if he will bring the level of investment required to do a Fleetwood, as it is they are 22nd in Conf North and have lost generations of supporters to Leeds and Town, they have been a ghost of a club for decades.

is there significant rivalry between bradford city and huddersfield town

There was intense hatred in the 90's, especially after Kevin Gray broke their star striker Watson's leg in a tackle that finished his career (it ended with £1m payout in court). Since they more or less became our feeder club the hatred is not so strong, but when they were lording it over us in the Prem with Carbone on 40 k pw there was envious hatred! We had a few spiteful derbies when they dropped to L1 but by then we were in slightly better shape than them and they just didn't seem like the hated foe of the 90's. We all hate Leeds more than each other really!

so, oldham

Echoes of when they signed that odious coke-head who did time for vehicular homicide (and fleeing the scene of the crime).

The Oldham Evening Chronicle says Oldham’s owner, Simon Corney, is believed to have quit the club in the wake of the threats following the Evans saga. Here’s what the story says:

LATICS was a club in crisis this afternoon after the deal for convicted rapist Ched Evans was sensationally halted and Simon Corney believed to have quit as chairman.

The striker, released halfway through a five-year prison sentence last October, was thought to have agreed a two-and-a-half-year deal.

Evans was on the verge of being unveiled but Latics - besieged by national media - pulled out.

It is understood Corney’s decision to quit centres on personal threats to family members as the story has prompted polarised views on a national scale.

Nando's was one of the sponsors that distanced themselves from the club yesterday, via their 1.5m-follower Twitter account. The commercial pressure is likely to be a defining factor in whether any other clubs offer him a deal. Not sure how many sponsors would be willing to ride out the bad publicity.

The beeb asked every L1/L2 club to state their position on Ched Evans. I wouldn't put it past Scally at Gillingham to have a go next.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30698618

mk dons' response the pick there

Perhaps they should have asked Blackpool as well, another convicted rapist at the club shouldn't be a prob.

indeed

you tempted by the valley for a fiver btw, powell's homecoming etc, or are the rail prices preventative

...he said, having never set foot in huddersfield -_- maybe next season argh

gonna dig myself deeper coz it looks like I'm being condescending abt rail prices when the reality is that I myself would baulk at the prices of a return to Yorkshire for a football match, long distance rail is an intolerable luxury these days & this is sad

Day trip to Huddersfield for the football ranks A++ would drink again, assuming the small obstacle of relevant promotions is overcome.

I could probably just about get the scratch together, but it would be bloody expensive and as a f/t carer these days I only get the time for a handful of home games and organising an away trip wd be difficult. Oh but I do miss those away days so much, always more enjoyable than the poor atmosphere at Leeds Rd and travelling to new grounds and drinking with decent company is always cool. I used to pass the Valley often when I lived in the SE on the train to London Bridge, but never been there yet.

xp
From memory you are Exeter, Tim?

I am! Also lived in the North for a decade and so have been to Hudd quite a lot (football and otherwise), including catching the last season at dear old Leeds Road.

well, if we wind up in the same division next season as we should, I will def try to get to Hfield, will make a weekend of it in fact, find a good Airbnb place and explore!

if you fancy a trip this season I can promise a drink/bite to eat or something but carer duties & aversion to railway prices prob take precedence yh

Thanks Imago, you always seem such a good guy and that is a very generous offer. I would have been bang up for it ten years ago, but things done changed and got very complicated since, alas! Re: The trains, it doesn't even seem that long ago when you could pre-book a daypex Leeds/London return for £29, them days are probably gone.
xp Tim
Archibald Leitch knew how to design proper fucking football grounds! The JS stadium is a design nightmare. It faces south so your retinas/the players kicking off southwards, get burnt out by the low winter sun. The noise escapes from the gaps between the stands. The south stand allocated to away supporters has the best acoustics in the ground, hence often 400 away supporters making more noise than 10000. The south stand is like the old Cowshed at Leeds Road, the only good thing about this ground really!

Congrats on getting a good deal for Grimes, if you are going to cash in at least hold out for a decent price.

Thanks - don't think Grimes was much on any Prem club's radar before the end of the last transfer window, he's been progressing so fast. So I don't know how far out lot held out, or how far there was more than one club prepared to bid that sort of amount. Truth told, I don't think we'd have been able to turn down any offer of £500k or more, given the shoestring the club's run on. It's nigh on impossible to break even at L2 level, too many effing "benefactors".

This cash stabilises things for a bit, enables some investment and (hopefully) makes our academy more attractive to talented kids. Not much of this cash will go straight to the first team. It's ok though, our beloved Ryan Harley's already back.

He's very good, really incredibly good for us. I think this will be good value for Swans, but obviously the step up brings a bunch of unknowables.

Joel Lynch's spectacular overhead kick goal today was almost as good as that old Trevor Sinclair classic. The Wells/Vaughan partnership finally gets going in the transfer window with Burnley sniffing about, worst luck. Was delighted to see Deeney and Vydra barely troubling our defence today.

https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/F5B9A377581165739977573847040_3e7f8bb6e08.1.5.5351448081057381983.mp4?versionId=iruVzREo4TA8KcnIdNsNeo.voItHgkZP

lol so apart from it being 6 yards out rather than 20, the keeper getting a hand on it and the ball gently dropping from a header rather than arrowing in from a cross, sinclair revisited

:P

nice finish i mean…and thanks for making me feel a bit better before attending our trip to watford next week, my first game in months

Deeney is looking increasing like a L1 player these days. Vydra can't perform in N Atlantic winter conditions.

It won't trouble the Carrs goal against Torquay years back or Schlupp's against us recently, but still a goal of the week at least you tight bastard!

:D yeah fine, better than anything we managed (n.b. we didn't manage anything)

Guy Luzon huh?

at least it makes for an appropriate pun

Guyileless

I don't see it from your perspective, but it seems harsh to me. Apart from Brentford, the top six (and some of the bottom six) have spent a fair whack on wages and transfers.

our owner runs an incredibly tight-fisted business model and this depends, apparently, upon making a lot of changes very quickly rather than gambling on long-term success. it's slightly exhausting

i'm relieved peeters is gone tbh. hulking nightclub dealer geezer in puffa & classics lurking around a harmless family club like that made it feel like an ominous episode of neighbours

we're getting in a small jewish man apparently, which seems right in that we used to be a soap (in those vagrant years) but now we're much more of a sitcom

obv i'll be on a keen lookout for antisemitism when we visit watford this weekend and thereafter - did avram grant cop much during his chelsea/portsmouth/west ham tenures?

peeters was always gawkier and more clownish than his still appearance necessarily implied he ought to be

still kind of fucking loathe john terry for depriving avram grant - avram grant! - of a champions league title

Ward has gone to the Millers. Getting 350k is a bit of a master stroke, considering he could have walked in the summer.

Jealous that Wolves got Afobe, he was at our game on saturday which briefly fuelled some wishful thinking rumours.

can we have jackett and gallen back now cheers

like all good Wolves fans i'm not exhaling on this until he's stood on the pitch with a shirt on

I think Wolves need for a striker right now is stronger than ours right now. Our manager is probably more focused on preparing for Vaughan's next injury or dealing with Nahki interest from Burnley, which would require 2 different solutions.

I bet your chairman isn't thrilled about Jackett already announcing it to Sky cameras.

trying to work out whether Jackett is at odds with Morgan has been the most interesting bit of the last 6 months

He was magnificent on loan at Town at 17 yrs old, even Rhodes was benched for him. His parents turn up at every game and are beautiful people as well. I really adore this kid and wish him the best.

the wait for this deal to get signed off is pretty agonising

FFP here we come

http://www.wolves.co.uk/news/article/it-feels-fantastic-2200783.aspx

so our new manager is a terrible sneering cunt then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrpG8mMVa3Y

he must have compromising pics of your chairman or something, considering how it ended at SL

this is going to go so badly

luzon has not been granted a work permit

our youth coach takes charge tomorrow

cafc fans petitioning the home office on twitter to not give him his work permit at all

low farce which i am...quite enjoying?

I am starting to think maybe you dodging Paul Jewell is a positive at least!

haha maybe. i'm going to the game tomorrow anyway - first awayer of the season. should be wonderfully desolate (or defiant)

Gomes is out, which is probably a minus.

lol

carnival atmosphere diminished without ringmaster

FFS Derby, you fucked up a perfect opportunity to finish off Pearce and fucked up my three quid acc!

this is worse than the music of rae sremmurd

watford are straight up doing a mexican wave

Afobe on his debut, 2-0, all we need is that Lingard rumor to come true now

this is almost as good as the music of rae sremmurd

Town were desperately unlucky today which was shitter than the music of kid ink

guus kid ink

just seen Afobe's goal. lulz. well at least we know the lad's got a cool head.

oh look who we have next week

don't worry, my Dad still insists we're rubbish

Not sure where Brighton found three goals last night when they've struggled to score all season. Got tickets for the arsenal match on sundry, not sure I can see an upset there but it's good they're going into it in a much better frame of mind.

The whole of Hungary has been blocked from Notts County football club's Facebook page...

We currently have one fit striker who can't play to his strengths in a lone role. It is quite sick-making when all I see all over the Newsnow feeds is we were about to sign ALF on loan and the fucking trotters came in and gazumped us, hope they go bust!

that is painful, love le Fondre

I can't understand why hasn't found a good home in recent times, can only put it down to these odd managers that don't like prolific goalscorers for some unusual reason.

probly not quite good enough for the Prem but anywhere else, jeez

btw noodle all your fans will say 'this is the sort of game we fuck up' but you won't you really won't