Ainsworth Is Trending: EFL+ 23/24

Tuesday march was not all that to be honest, the lack of an out and out striker through injuries just left to a total loss of shape and press, and it was an absolute mugging for us to take the points.

Fair play to Caddis though, not many managers would take a player off after 40 minutes. Blyth on Saturday will be interesting.

In other league news:

Alun Armstrong says Scunthorpe are unstoppable winners after they took Darlo apart.

Southport have sacked their manager after losing the first three.

Southport docked 10 points for not paying the taxman.

Not Southport, Southend.

EFL sack race WINNERS, such a cool functional club I AM DYING OUT HERE

(he sort of deserved it tbh)

so every day your caretaker manager wakes up, he takes his medication

spends the rest of the day waiting for a new striker

we've got a manager who was already a bit too unfiltered even before the cognitive decline. Like when a player he has targeted all summer turns us down for a fat signing on fee/better wages and a better chance of being in the top half of the table, he says quite cheerfully "I always just think ‘well, something will happen, they’ll get injured or something’".

lmao, a true poster

The late goal Charlton conceded deprived us of reaching our highest-ever position in the league.

As it stands, the last time we were second in the 3rd tier, The Winner Takes It All by Abba was number 1.

right now we're just fucked up inside!!!!!

god fuckin defend me I'm at such a loose end I've gone to the fuckin Dulwich Hamlet game

the irony being that despite my somewhat aloof attitude to it all I currently look like the most Dulwich fan who ever walked this earth

luckily decided to support Chatham and was duly rewarded with a whole bunch of goals down the end I was standing, a couple of them really pretty good

York sack Mikey Morton.

Wouldn't be surprised if Caddis doesn't see out September, the past few games have been dreadful.

just had a worse transfer window than several of our relegation rivals. So I guess the next best thing we could do is appoint a Director of Global Brand. We had our global moment 20 odd years ago when one of Htoo twins (those guerilla kids that led the Christian armed revolutionary group in Burma) was filmed wearing a HTAFC Panasonic home kit. The "global brand" has been all downhill since that moment, because funnily enough the rest of the world don't give much of a fuck about shitty little division 2/3 clubs.

Tough times at Enfield: https://fanbanter.co.uk/worrying-developments-as-8th-tier-club-issue-statement-with-fans-hoping-they-survive/

Bad business at Scunthorpe: https://unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/will-the-real-david-hilton-please

Puts our current injury crisis into a bit of perspective I guess. Wish we didn't have an injury crisis though. We had a player injured while on international duty this weekend. That's a first! Frankly the international duty os almost a first.

Reading have a points deduction already and apparently if their dysfunctional owners don't comply with the EFL order to deposit 125% of wages into an account they'll just keep on deducting every month. They might be working towards the earliest relegation in league history.

Warnock is going to manage what will likely his last game at Town on Wednesday against Stoke. He wouldn't comment on why he's leaving and said it would all be announced at a presser on Monday and he wasn't going to comment any further. This is the really chilling part. Nathan Jones was pictured at the game today 🥶

he's been gone too long

I've just seen the Nathan Jones pic debunked, it's an old pic of him at St Mary's. But then some spoilsport has said - old pic aside - he was actually at the game today.

phew! it's been confirmed by an itk source that it definitely isn't going to be Nathan Jones

General consensus yesterday was this Cheltenham side were as bad as any we’ve seen in League 1, probably the worst. We’ve hated playing them because for a while now they have seemed keen to make the game as sterile as possible, scuff a goal and then waste as much time as they can. Without Alfie May the scuffing a goal element seems to be out of reach.

For all that, I find myself feeling sorry for this dude. I thought about putting this on The Wisdom of Gaffers but it’s too tough a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2t0GhQmVCQ

(The only goal in their “for” column this season’s n was an og)

Guaranteed points at The Valley. May will probably get sent off too

"I haven't a clue who the new manager is. They haven't told me. Presumably it's somebody I don't like."

<3

that narrows it down a bit! Neil pissed off the yank by saying our lack of action in the transfer window was an effing joke. Apparently it is Darren Moore.

the Yank started it by tweeting "unacceptable" after a 4-0 arseholing by Norwich.

Neil is very much the online pensioner, he quotes and calls out posters by their posting name at press conferences. Have never seen that before!

someone posted that Danny Ward is his son, because no player could be so abject and be an automatic starter every week. So then at a presser he said: my son, Danny is ill at the moment.

lol, he will be missed

until someone needs saving from relegation

Darren Moore the obvious choice though yes

That melancholy dude from Cheltenham freshly available I see

oooof, watching it

"are you confident you can turn this around"

*long pause*

"i'm not stupid"

The massive gaps between our stands are helpful in giving him a middle distance to thousand-yard stare into

atm feeling sorry for scunthorpe fans

feeling slightly less sorry, but maybe still a tiny bit sorry, for wednesday fans

I couldn't care less about Wednesday. Chansiri was throwing silly money about for years there and they were either unlucky or never good enough for promotion or also, perhaps, he was just a clueless cunt and then went the other way out, and my club did their bit. I've never met a Wednesday fan who doesn't have a massive club entitled attitude - so fuck 'em. If Chansiri doesn't blink and starves them of funding until they go into admin and get a points deduction. Then I'd propose awarding him the most amusing oligarch of the year award.

ENORMOUS ILX Derby tonight *applies woad*

We’ve had some mixed results lately and could do with a result tonight to keep up a good start. Lack of a fit adult striker is beginning to tell on us I think.

I have genuinely no idea about us tonight, there is a very broad spread of potential performance/result

I see we're taunting Exeter by starting three fit adult strikers and two attacking midfielders as well, with more to come off the bench. Gonna be fun

Well, we've not had a ref like that in a while! He'll be taking his place in the Covered End next week

The weird thing is how no-one in the place, players, fans, anyone, seemed to enjoy it.

^lol I hadn't seen this. Posted presumably about one minute before our impromptu FAB (Fancy A Bus), best bit of the evening tbf

calz head has probably exploded by now

just relieved it wasn't 7 or 8 nil. had no intention of watching the game without covering my eyes and ears and necking a load of temazepam to protect me from the trauma. The bench today shows that Warnock's criticism of the Yank owner's disaster of a transfer window was spot on. The wafer thin squad was just 3 or 4 injuries away from not having an xi with a half decent chance of being competitive at this level, 4 injuries later here we are and with a hopeless, inept, dull as fuck, yesman manager in place of Warnock to boot.

thread title took a bit too long to deliver, but where will he resurface???

looks like Neil could be returning to QPR. Worst decision by my club since they sold Marcus Stewart to Ipswich. Just as we were getting some momentum going they sack him and bring in a clueless dullard who bores the players to sleep with cliched gaffer jargon. Then Uncle Neil goes to a relegation rival - I can already see what is going to happen here. The Yanks have been a pox on my club.

lol i thought youse had dragged him kicking and screaming out of retirement in the first place?

oh he has to be handled, like really he was loving that he was asked to stay on as manager and I think he expected to even carry on until the end of the season, despite all his protestations about his infirmity and talk of going back to quiet life in Cornwall. You could see he was mortally butthurt and also somewhat surprised when he announced the Yanks had sacked him.

our one accomplishment this season was doing our bit to drag brum down with us last week!

not that just not getting beat by a garbage team at home took a herculean effort by our bunch of wasters, but still we did enough to doom them to relegation.

If anything it seems to have strengthened their belief that the footballing world will be crushed under the jackboot of the Knighthead Birmingham Sports Quarter automaton

I don't really know what to make of it tbh

probably relishing the chance to bring the Bristol Street Motors Trophy home

They really, really are

there might have been a time when being MASSIVE + owned by billionaires would have some pundits suggesting Brum's stay in L1 will not be long. But now 2 of the shitest, worst run clubs in the Champo (now of L1) are both owned by US billionaires and I wouldn't tip either of them to be top 6 next season.

Apparently SE London needed another League club

(I guess SW London lost one. SE win! Nyerrr)

Leeds deserved to lose just for that embarrassingly awful Sunak chant

... which was?

leeds shat that game. their play in the final third was embarrassingly inept.

xp

they were singing

we are Leeds, we are vile
Rishi Sunak is a paedophile

I'm deeply embarrassed typing it out

lmao oh those silly lads

well we all got what we wanted out of the day

don't know what's wrong with me in my old age but i wanted Leeds to go up. the Leeds players obviously felt differently

I love that they finished a season on 90 pts and achieved sweet fuck all for it

gives me a warm, reassuring feeling of stability seeing Leeds bottle it in the championship playoff final again, nature has found its balance

606 is excellent value tonight, first caller a Southampton fan calling for Russell Martin to be sacked, now there's a Leeds fan booing about the injustice of the playoff system, real greatest hits stuff

How didthat sunak chant scan?

https://x.com/The_Forty_Four/status/1794677820305879059

ffs

“We are Leeds, we are vile”

“Rishi Sunak is a peadophile” 😂
pic.twitter.com/bq4eqkRfD2

— The 44 ⚽️ (@The_Forty_Four) May 26, 2024

Corbyn had football fans chanting his name, the Kieth supporters are calling ppl paedos!

I guess next time someone does a Jimmy Savile chant at an away game they will uh complain as usual.

one of them had a Rishi effigy with "tory scum" on it, could well have been someone who is going to vote for Rachel Reeves to represent them in Parliament