Ainsworth Is Trending: EFL+ 23/24

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.

one thing he can do that not many others can is shape defectives and duds into a decent side, he's a master at boosting the confidence of young lads who flounder under normal gaffers

he does strike me as a lad who wouldn't know what to do with himself with time on his hands, i'm sure the hospitality workers in his local community are hoping he keeps himself busy

he's a natural busy cunt, he still goes cycling and does his book tours and goes on Vegas trips with his Sharon. He'll probably end up dying in some relegation club's dugout, his last words some expletives about the ref.

Lol I meant his wife, Sharon

"The Yanks have been a pox on my club"

^^^

potential future thread title there

We started the season incredibly well then crashed and burned, partly through injury crisis in a too-thin squad, partly because we blatantly didn’t recruit enough strikers even though we sold our best forward to Rotherham for a million quid, partly because (as at Charlton) we have been robbed by refs / cheats. Mostly our own stupid fault, but we’d need to get a lot more things badly wrong to get relegated.

I did hear some idle terrace speculation yesterday about whether Colin might like a south western project… but we haven’t sacked a manager in 20 years and I don’t think we will start now, especially since we scored a point against the mighty Lincoln City yesterday.

Anyway I’m only really posting to mark the departure of Barton, J. from Bristol Rovers, there’s a man you wouldn’t want at your club.

Pearson sacked from City today too, the thinking man's Joey Barton

I hate transfer deadline day and know all about too-thin squads with injury issues, it's one thing being a selling club but 20 odd players out and 3 in at a club that just about stayed up last season is not really pushing on. It's probably our fault Rotherham had the cash to nick your striker after we paid something around 3/4 of a mill to them for our big flagship signing, Wiles - who has been unfit looking and consistently underwhelming.

Two bookable offences at L1 level in this clip. One you may notice, the other is the level of remonstration from our keeper.

🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/BgkGMvYYWD

— Exeter City FC (@OfficialECFC) October 29, 2023

(Nombe’s barely played for Rotherham
Since he went there, so everyone’s a loser I guess (except Sammy’s bank balance, good luck to the lad, he did very well for us)

gotta say the lad's gone down very easy there

the squad is so threadbare and injury depleted for 2 consecutive games they couldn't put out a full bench. Although I don't see the harm in putting some development players on there to fill the gaps ffs. But still Moore's tactics have been despicable. Deploying anti-football 7-2-1 garbage with 5 CBs against moderate championship sides like they are playing Man City in the cup every week, then subbing an injured striker with a DM. The way it is going there is going to be single digit possession and zero shots in a home game against some garbage relegation rival and this clown will still be talking about a different game after a late concession. Ben Jackson pulled Moore out of the shit yesterday, but the Saints could have won it in the first half without breaking sweat. Although I think Moore was slightly confused about Southampton after describing them as "languishing in the top 6" or maybe that is actually how their fans see it and he was actually perceptive + otm about something for once!

Barnsley winner last night one of the funnier goals in recent memory. Well done to the ref tbh

The goal STANDS.

Thoughts?#BARvWYC #WWFC pic.twitter.com/Ow9MvhuuYw

— Wycombe Wanderers Gibraltar (@WWFCGibraltar) November 28, 2023

Caddis might well be the most insane manager in the league. Not prepared to settle for a point, we played the last 15 yesterday in a 3-2-5 formation. (3 centre forwards and two wide players to feed them)

Gowling's days look numbered at Darlington.

I've been keeping my misery from you all

We have a manager who uses malapropisms but with made up words by saying things like "the projectorary of the ball was unlucky for us". He is the worst manager I can think of in my lifetime in the sense that he is so consistently dull and useless, but ultimately successful in deploying his fuckwitted tactics, he'd have 11 behind the ball if we were playing Carlisle Utd. He's fucking abysmal.

Gowling's days were indeed numbered.

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