Dyches to Watch Out For - The Football League and Beyond, 2012-13

Cos he'll be back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6f_vd6WaFY

Anyway, League Cup today and then the season proper gets going on Friday with Cardiff v Huddersfield, which should be kinda cracking.

The rumour mill's already warming up, too:

Blackburn Rovers global advisor Shebby Singh says manager Steve Kean will be sacked if he loses the first 3 games of the season #bbcfootball

And Leeds have signed El-Hadji Diouf. We cookin'.

Neil Warnock, 2011

“I think for many years I think he’s been the ‘gutter’ type of boy. I was going to call him a sewer rat, but that might insult the sewer rats. I think he’s the lowest of the low.
“I can’t see him being at Blackburn much longer because I can’t see Steve Kean putting up with someone like that in the dressing room when he’s creating a new image.
“I think he’ll be the first to go. Good riddens. I hope he goes abroad. I won’t miss watching him. Sign him? I wouldn’t want to talk to him.”

Neil Warnock, 2012

"He is good in the dressing room; he is not a bad egg. He is a good lad."

swindon trashed brighton tonight by the looks of it (check the free kick routine for benson's opener if poss), have to go as far as fancying them for the league one title i reckon unless paolo gets poached before seasons end

them, or mk dons unfortunately (good already, now with ryan lowe) (and possibly lol db7?)

will also be watching graham "everyone just fuck off" westley's preston project with great interest

championship, ooh i dunno maan

gotta be bolton really hasnt it

wolves... could collectively still remember how to win this league but might well be shocked by some of the more enterprising sides like blackpool and cardiff

quite fancy cardiff, bellamy and the iceman up top c'est formidable. malky mackay is great

birmingham.... hmmm, maybs just maybs. lovenkrands and ambrose scoring tonight, look competent

blackburn, championship's even playing field should only show kean up further than the prem already did despite a good team for this level obv

brighton still flaky it seems, forest could be on the outskirts, leicester nah, leeds most probably spoiling their way to the play offs but lets not talk about uncle neil eh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFrCLRPvZe4

good luck today man!

wolves kits have 'WHAT HOUSE?' written on the back at the top. Wish it was 'WHO'S HOUSE' with 'RUN'S HOUSE' at the bottom

wide open on the break

leeds 1-0

that went much as expected. can't see either of those teams setting the division alight as it stands. defence still rotten. new guys look potentially good, Doumbia impressed me least today i think but playing alongside Karl Henry at centre mid must be like playing in a wheelchair. we desperately need to grab whatever inflated money we can get for Jarvis and Fletcher and buy some footballers with it. straw of comfort - pretty sure Solbakken knew that was shite.

btw

http://pu.i.wp.pl/k,MzQ0NjcyNzcsMzQyMTI2,f,peszek.JPG http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsG/6696-15044.gif

Cannot get on board with this Cardiff in red shirts thing at all.

Simon Grayson clearly not a man built for anything above 20 degrees celsius.

Which is worse - Notts County away:

http://www.soccerjerseysclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/239.jpg

or Scunthorpe home?

http://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/cms_images/player/ribeiro4x370-272186.jpg

i keep replaying dyche, to be quite frank

well,

why aren't there more dyche youtube content

Tonight on the Football League Show, Mark Clemmitt met the Chuckle Brothers. *sigh*

well there's an improvement

The Kate Bush poll needs your attention, nv

wait so dyche is actually pronounced dyke cuz i assumed die-sh

No, it is pronounced die-sh. I realised too late. Bugged me ever since.

fuck me Doyler's scored

I dunno how accurate the BBC's possession pie chart is but Brighton currently showing 77% possession against Barnsley. 5-1 up too :)

fuck's sake nothing like conceding an equaliser in the last minute

cabbie tonight was a watford fan

tried to discern any rage at the shoddy treatment of DYCHE but there was only mild disappointment

still, nice to be able to talk about DYCHE irl

rmde at crystal palace altering their colours to resemble barcelona

Bakary Sako looks like a beast. all we need is a back line and maybe a holding mid and by January we are gonna be thrilling

team yesterday very different to the one in the league so far, any idea what the best xi might be yet or still too soon?

mostly the new buys i think, all looking good to impressive. at the moment i'd say

Doyle Sigurdarson
Sako Doumbia Boukari Peszko
Ward Margreitter Johnson Stearman
Ikeme

but central mid is unbalanced there, Boukari is supposed to be a winger tho he looked better inside to me, and Ward, Johnson and Stearman are big question marks. need a left and right back i think, Stears or Johnson probably worth another try at CB, wd like to see Zubar given a run at CB but don't see it happening. Henry seems to be favoured for the holding mid position when he's fit but i hope this is just a hangover from the old regime, there's enough quality in Doumbia to cover him until he can be properly replaced. interesting to see if O'Hara ever gets fit and wants to play again but he looks too similar to Doumbia to put them both in there.

second 11 looks mostly shit to me but as long as we don't lose a lot of key players at once i think we're on the way to an exciting team. loving how Solbakken has paid lip service to continuity but basically admitted thru his signings that we needed a totally new team.

feel like some kind of 4-5-1 or 4-2-3-1 might be in order but not sure Doyler has it in him to be that 1 any more and don't think Solbakken rolls that way. Siggy and Nouble both look like they like to sit v. deep tho

yeah wow seriously what happened to o'hara. forgot he was there

needs a second hernia op, out for at least 8 weeks iirc, not at all sure he's interested in playing in the Champo.

Express and Star says we're chasing Glenn Whelan or Jermaine Jenas today. we'll see. wd prefer somebody a bit more stoppery tbh

was frimpong a loan? is he still crocked and back at arsenal?

got crocked and went back to Arsenal after about 3 games on loan last season, assume he's still there

real football, sporadic talk

BAKARY SAKO YOU MAGNIFICENT MONSTER

sporting of Zoob to give them a penalty in return

ah for fuck's sake i told you to buy a new backline Stale

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2012/09/03/wolves-sack-assistant-boss-terry-connor/

wishing him luck for his next step on the managerial ladder

http://i.imgur.com/jsTh6.gif

Flavio Briatore is set for a dramatic return to English football as the co-owner of Birmingham City.

The former Queens Park Rangers chief, along with long-time friend Gianni Paladini, is considering a move to buy the npower Championship outfit. Birmingham owner Carson Yeung is seeking new investment and according to the Daily Mirror, Briatore, 62 is weighing up a bid.

http://i.imgur.com/jsTh6.gif

oh my word what a combination

THE FOUR-YEAR PLAN II: THE BRUMMENING

Briatore? I could afford to buy Birmingham, and I'd run it into receivership for nowt.

Dyche plays golf in his spare time.[citation needed]

"I'm a Birmingham boy myself," Paladini added. "I've always liked Blues and I've got a good relationship with a lot of Zulu Warriors [City's hooligan element], if they're still there I don't know, because I've been at QPR for 11 years.

gianni. gianni. gianni. it was a fucking miracle you escaped from qpr alive what in gods fucking name are you doing

Paladini said: "You need people with experience of business, of course, but also experience of running a football club. You have to know football.

"If we took over, I would probably ask someone like Ron Atkinson to help me. I have known Ron for years, we are good friends. He is local, and his knowledge and expertise is great. He is a personality.

"I have offices in London and business to attend to there, so I wouldn’t be at the club all the time. I would need somebody around to help. What type of role? It would be sporting director, something like that maybe."

Birmingham are understood to be unimpressed with Paladini's public courting of the club, with other rival bids expected from consortiums in the Far East and Asia.

the last time they got a cash injection from the Far East it turned out to be Carson Yeung's overdraft

Zaha really is the business huh?

that's it

oh well, always wanted to watch qpr at the amex

cmon watford

I'd like to see both Palace and Brighton in the Prem so feel simultaneously pleased and disappointed.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/2448671.jpg

^ classic banner photo in our local paper today

fuck Palace and fuck Zaha tbh

Owen Coyle 5/1
Steve McClaren 5/1
Neil Warnock 6/1
Kenny Jackett 7/1
Steve Davis 9/1
Darren Ferguson 12/1
Karl Robinson 20/1
Phil Parkinson 33/1

hmmmmmm

wolves?

fuck all those wastemen

i'd settle for Coyle at the moment, Warnock is the only out and out nightmare on that list but i don't think he'll happen

i repped for owen coyle back in the day so i will reluctantly concede he is probably better than those other cunts

as a League 1 team i really think the odds of persuading an Ancelotti to come and run a team of Academy prospects is minimal

mclaren is better than league one so you probably won't get him but even then what the fuck sort of skillset do you need to get out of league one? im sure juan mata would score 40 goals there but it isnt entirely clear that even mourinho would get 100 tpts

for me this isn't about the banality of getting promoted straight away tho. we've had fuck-awful football for as long as i can remember and since the owner appears to be a skinflint we need somebody who can maximize the benefit of having a Category 1 youth academy and bring a long-term footballing ethos to the club whether the Cro-Magnon elements of the support get behind him or not

phil collins album cover jpegs at the ready, jackett odds coming right in at the bookies

see cotterill and platt have turned up in the mix too god help ye

hopefully a lot of it is just paper talk

typing this thru clenched teeth

jackett's not so bad really tbh, not a man for tiki taka yoof revolution obv but for his ilk you could do a lot worse

i'm relatively open-minded about Jackett but he doesn't feel like the long-term solution. on the other hand, the long-term solution involves a new Chief Exec and a new owner so

I though Jackett was rated? Who's this Karl Pilkington fellow?

Jackett is an excellent manager. But he isn't as good a dancer as Holloway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FNg38vZN48

http://i.imgur.com/RgCCnZH.gif

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22563280
Poyet on the move? Suspended from his own stadium

(not physicallly hanged/hung, obv)

I don't understand. That's one harsh contract if those comments breach it.

Local paper seems pretty convinced that Poyet's on his way.

It seems to be for Fulham, though you'd've thought Everton might be a decent fit.

Definitely! I suppose this puts Brighton in direct competition with Wolves for finding a new manager.

like to point out to fellow posters that any approach for Chris Powell is not my fault

nor is it going to result in anything. lol idiot season

more worried about leicester city, tho still pretty comfortable that cp's staying for a while

can't see why he'd come to us, it certainly wouldn't be for money.

journos + betting shop punters = idiots

“Bakary Sako now goes for a few million to Fulham. Not bad for a loser,” said Margreitter, who also discussed his own situation and the possibility of a loan move to the Championship.

“Our problem lay in the dressing room,” said Margreitter, who has played just one League game as a substitute since his £500,000 arrival from Austria Vienna last summer.

“Too many players were satisfied. They earn a great deal of money and drive big cars, and they are content with their lot. The hunger that young players bring to a team was simply not there.

“An attitude like that from a club’s leading players is fatal. You could see this in training – quality on paper is not enough.

“When the players were in the Premier League they got a spanking week after week. Some of them probably didn’t want to go back up, preferring a cushy life in the Championship.

“I have never experienced anything like it. At Austria Vienna everyone was hungry and wanted to win games.”

Margreitter claimed the club were too quick to get rid of the man who signed him, Stale Solbakken, and reverted to a more direct style.

“We had a big and well-balanced squad, and Solbakken got us to play cultured football rather than kick and rush,” he said.

“The club was probably too impatient in just giving him six months.

“Dean Saunders then enforced the traditional English virtues, and they did not work.

“The negative spiral continued dragging us down.”

Sako's a cult hero at the Mol but tbh i've seen no evidence he's got the workrate or the pace for the Prem. and i say that as a fan.

Margreitter never got played and nobody's sure whose fault that is.

Today we let go Seb, Hunt and Berra. Hunty is far from being the first I'd wanna see out the door but i assume we wouldn't pay him what he asked.

mclaren fancies it according to some reports

powell link is bizarro. don't think imago's got anything to worry about from leicester, o'neill return seems nailed on unless the cupboard's bare already (which some say it might be tbf)

Where in the table were Wolves when Solbakken went?

Ah, 18th

just had a look at some addicks mbs for a laugh but they were moribund as usual

did learn that carl leaburn and tony bedeau are security guards at barclays canary wharf though

Have seen mention of Steve Lomas for Millwall, in terms of bookies odds anyway. Done a good job here at Saints on a tight budget, had a few early wobbles but has come on a lot. Will be sad to see him go when he inevitably moves on at some point.

Bradford destroying Northampton. 3-0 at half time.

Hard cheese, Popey

"Wembley Stadium anti-social behaviour reporting scheme. Text your block, row, seat, and 'STAND' to 87474 to report an incidence of standing up"

I've written about four different replies to that but none are necessary, really

Ah well I appreciate the sentiment, I'm sure. At least I'll get to see wolves' implosion continuing right up close.

I mean that your quote presumably sums up your day far better than any match-report or commiseration could

Oh aye, there's nothing else to say. What a season.

Give up Palace, you can't fight historical inevitability. Every 7 years Watford come up and go straight back down. This is their time.

Perhaps not.

Was worried there'd be no London derby next year. South London represent.