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

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

it's cool he's really overrated

our new CM signings are kinda fearsome

very, very keen for saturday, shame i'll be playing cricket. although perhaps it'll be another charlie austin one-man show as a parting gift to his faithful

i like leroy but in his own amiable way he's kinda more invidious than adel ever was. has the talent and frame to be whatever he wants to be, chooses to float around wishing for #10, never ever tracking back and cunting the occasional piledriver. we're all fond of a free spirit but help out m8

otoh i do remember someone on a mb comparing him to mikele leigertwood early on and that sort of slanderous tar doesnt come off easy

generally i have nowt but unentertaining equanimity to offer right now sorry. no idea who's staying, who's playing, what the plan is on or off the pitch

charlie is woefully out of shape tho, i shouldnt worry

so is tony watt

doesn't mean either of them can't do something drastic on a sixpence tho

also, sky's championship tv listings have leeds 5 times by the end of november (or was it december) and us precisely 0

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no biggie, but if this opening fixture doesn't scream out 'televise!' then i'm not sure any of our fixtures do

It is fucking ridiculous, there must be some Lilyshite scum who has a say in the tv fixtures at Sky. I can't say I'm bothered our home game against them is on, there is too much unpleasantness around this game for my delicate sensibilities these days and there is a risk of getting locked in the ground for half an hour afterwards.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/jordan-rhodes-to-middlesbrough-blackburn-rovers-reject-14m-offer-for-scotland-striker-10440233.html
Blackburn resist a £14 mill offer for Rhodes, we have a 20% of anything in excess of the 8 we sold for sell-on clause. We still have pretty much the same defence that shipped 75 goals last season and need a CB so please sell.

I always thought he would be in the big-time by now, not plotting another sideways move in the Champ.

that whole scenario is so pathetic in the true sense

He might yet become one of the most highly paid and clinical finishers never to play in the top flight. I have given up caring and just want them to sell before his stock goes like the weimar mark. But you are right it is pathetic.

in your position i'd wanna maximize the return, but a 14 million deal between two clubs who look no more likely to have promotion chances after it's done, and Rhodes's never knowing whether he'd cut it in the top flight...

We've made our most important signing in advance of the league kick-off tomorrow:

http://www.herefordfc.co.uk/2015/08/06/bulls-add-pedigree-with-ronaldo-signing/

1300 season tickets sold and another 2200 home fans with tickets for the match. 2000 tickets for Tuesday's game against Stourport, whose normal gate is around 100.

The league have set up a crisis working group to help sides that have no idea how to deal with these kind of numbers. The FA have been no help, saying a penalty has to be enacted for it to means something (which is fair enough) and that the teams just just revel in the big payday.

Your new signing would probably skin Hudson for pace. Good luck to the Bulls this season, it wasn't that long ago we were both in L1 and Lionel Ainsworth had a blinder against us and then unfortunately we signed him:(

Rumours that QPR have enquired about Smithies, would be sad to see him leave - our goals against would be a lot worse without him and he has been so solid + consistent for years now.

we're just punting hopeful 1m bids for someone half decent to play backup to green. no one's going to bite

brighton forest has been reassuringly average. antonio on the break is dougie's plans a thru z. gulls more enterprising but wishy-washy, can't remember if rohan ince sits or plays box to box but he should probably replace one of kayal and stephens

bruno greer dunk bong is a funny backline though

i am just going to suggest "konstantin kirschbaumer's bogus journey" as the new thread title and hope someone raises me by 3pm

fuck that's so soon

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nice one