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Coventry let us all down, they should be fined for not turning up against the bluenose bastards

This will cheer you up Calz - from the 2 minute mark, the very picture of a man racked with anger. Only five years to go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nemC6ZOwLiM

beautiful! "the simple basics" is a classic Mooreism. I can find his pressers amusing now there is some distance from having experienced his dreadful football for far too long!

I actually thought you'd lost that game and was thinking maybe there is hope for Darren yet. need to start getting into the habit of following the L1 action a bit more closely.

With that in mind, I do give Darren Moore a little bit of slack. But in all my time he's the most uninspiring manager I think we've ever had and we've had some shockers. I can't even bring myself to watch his interviews so God knows what the so called football players think.

His game plan and tactics are nonsense, subs are strange, line ups often strange, game management is non existent. I have no real faith he's the man we need to make a serious go of it next year and to be honest after around 20 years of a ST I'm not that interested in purchasing one next year to see how he gets on.

had a look at the Vale forum, consensus on the 5 yr plan seems to be they have an awful squad, but also Moore is awful!

re:coventry
apologies calzino, we've been turning up only against big teams in recent weeks frustratingly
play off hopes all but over now, hoping for a performance Sunday at least

Simms definitely turned at our place!

*turned up*

Highgate United won 12-0 at Bewdley tonight to take the final play-off place in their league on goals scored. Miracles obviously in the air.

Brought up twenty draws in a season today. What legends

Cambridge lost today, but still could easily be safe on Tuesday, which is a relief. Looking grim for Huddersfield, losing four nil at home to a team who should be checked out as their season is over already.

they were down last week, the penalty 11 minutes into 5 mins of e/t finished them off. Turton, who was unlucky to concede the pen was crying and bawling/having a nervous breakdown in the post-match dressing room. This was his first contribution to the team after a 14 month injury nightmare and it broke him!

Insane og for Blackburn to put Sheff Wed 3-1 up, weird bobble off a backpass and the keeper just slices it backwards into his own net

Clinging to the hope that Argyle go down; seems unlikely with the matches remaining but there’s still a chance of the dream coming true.

Clinging to the hope that Argyle go down; seems unlikely with the matches remaining but there’s still a chance of the dream coming true.

probably more likely that we will drag Brum down with us, that's about the best I can hope for as a positive end to this cursed season.

neither of us will win our last game so it's shit or bust for them on saturday

Gateshead have been kicked out of the conference playoffs because the council won't give them a long enough lease on the ground.

Yes, but when was the last time you were at a football match where a former Deputy Chief Medical Officer turned up dressed as a nun?

And yes, it WAS Jonathan Van Tam dressed as a nun.... https://t.co/8ebASLxcyE pic.twitter.com/oK2NxHYOAp

— Oliver Atkin (@oaphotography1) April 20, 2024

Haha wtf?

Legend Variant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUhnIY3oRM

will be happy to get gubbed by Ipswich last game of the season if it is necessary, but I think they've sufficiently fucked auto now!

Cambridge stay up easily, even getting ahead of Shrewsbury, despite playing out a boring 0-0 against already-relegated Port Vale.
Burton Albion lost 3-0 to also-relegated Fleetwood, very lucky that Cheltenham couldn't get a winner against Stevenage.
Bit of a let-down of a final day after the excitement last season.

Commiserations on the relegation Calz. My main take-away from today is: you can never rely on Hull bloody City. Need them to beat a moribund Swansea side to keep you in the league? Forget it. Need them to draw with an Argyle team in disarray in order to send them down and addd significantly to the gaiety of all sensible people watching - when Hull themselves need a win to have a chance of a play-off place? No chance.

Just one goal from Hull today and Plymouth would have been in the hilarious position of not having been in the relegation places all season until the very last game. That would have been so sweet.

I'm cool with it and was resigned to relegation weeks ago, after the 9th minute pen 5 minutes into e/t against Bristol City - that was final confirmation that all the classic relegation season boxes had been ticked multiple times: unusually shite luck with bad refs, unending injury problems, shite managers, too many shite players with terrible attitudes etc... Our current manager has said he has not seen such an unprofessional and rotten clique as the one in our club at the moment in his 30 year career in Germany. He even suggests there are multiple cliques and the players he left out today are obv the rotters. Any clubs wanting to take our best players off our hands, barring Helik and Nichols - you can fucking have 'em!

So Boston go up which is probably fair as they might have been the best footballing side I saw all season.

Scunthorpe are utterly fucked by their failure, lots of rumours of their imminent demise, they've already sacked the manager and the retained list is, I think, 2.

City had left themselves too much to do and it looks like a decent season for them from my Hull people vox pop but sad that West Brim get a bite, obv

Lovely to see the Brummie Bashers go down tho

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.