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

now i think about it i don't think we was ever taught anything in PE, except when they had to explain some of the byzantine rules of rugby

u are aware neil hannon recently released a 'charming, whimsical' concept album about cricket, right

obv totally reprehensible & i lament ur classist & woebegotten introduction to the subtle sport

willing to begin an internet flamewar in the noble service of slagging rugger union tho

I'd rather have Chris Wood than the fly tipping savage of thread title, when he is fit he would arguably be the best striker in the champ imo.

no mention of any possible deal on Sky at the moment

Town tried to sign him a couple of years back after he played 2 blinders against us, couldn't compete with Leicester.

that was a good argument for signing Wood. feel a little more relaxed tho, we look like we're gonna compete.

:D

that was a really promising performance, bit nervy occasionally

"best i've seen them play in 30 years" according to my dad

Not quite of Plateau United Feeders dimensions but some crazy scorelines in the league cup tonight :O

congratulations to oppet and his team on their hard-fought win

if either team had scored at the end, huddersfield would no longer be the only team in the history of english pro football to lose a match 7-6

Keeping that record till the heat death!

As are we :D

(also, when we're inevitably drawn together, the game will be only 3 or 4 days after the league fixture)

You might be lucky or even unlucky enough to be facing the new manager's first game in a fixture which looked hopeless after saturday. Robins departure is quite sad tbh, at least he tried to get the team playing football. He lost his way and possibly the dressing room, but I know from a friend who's kid bro got released under his tenure that he was a very decent manager and human being and went way beyond his remit to help him get fixed with a another club.

wonder who that new manager will be, what's the goss?

Hoyle is a such Maoist type chairman nobody knows anything until it is announced and the Skybet market is complete bollocks as usual, a mouse staking a tiny chunk of carrot can change the betting by points. Fucking Elvis at Coventry is the market fav and he nearly got the job in front of Robins last time, but the chairman has stated he is going for experience and definitely not promoting from within.

The rumourz are the guy from Dundee Utd and Neil Lennon!

so it'll be someone Scottish or Irish at least

The Chris Wood deal has fallen through and Billy Sharp has gone to Leeds :(

yeah, plus we big time charlied out of the League Cup :/

Ched Evans petition: Sheffield United urged not to re-employ rape footballer

I actually heard a woman interviewed on TV today say, "They should let him come back, other players have done worse and played again." Who exactly?

Suarez bit somebody

Luke McCormick murdered two kids! Lee Hughes murdered a man! etc

(McCormick stayed at the scene and showed nothing but contrition after his accident tbf, Hughes was hit & run)

was aware of them but felt like maleficic calculus wasn't the way to go re: footballers' crimes

i think there are questions raised about whether a convicted criminal shd be free to return to work after serving their sentence, and whether some fields of employment shd be forever closed to them depending on the crimes they've committed? understand any fans not wanting to have Evans play for their club but this is problematic i think

yh it's a v difficult one. aesthetically i could not bear to see evans play for my team but i do believe in the redemption & rehabilitation of criminals

*ponders*

Evans still maintains he did nothing wrong so redemption and rehabilitation may be a stretch.

i guess sporting bodies have rules about disrepute and such which might cover these situations, and it's reasonable for fan groups to apply pressure not to employ players

Chris Powell is now amongst the Town manager applicants, get him on board before the Charlton game I say ◠‿◠! I could see him ticking a lot of boxes with our chairman, who like most arrogant self made autocrats - he has an aversion to employing older people for the top jobs. I suppose it can't help that Stan Ternent was extracted from a neolithic bog to manage the club by other parties when he first bought it and he spent a fortune on sub-conference players and made whoopsies everywhere.

lol we'd have absolutely no problem with him at Town - a few hilarious wankers were fretting about him going to Palace on the forum, which was always absolutely never even conceivably going to happen

I'd be quite happy for him, myself, and I'd hope that you weren't direct relegation rivals of ours

He is my fave for the job because unlike some of the other more so-called big-shot type applicants I get the feeling he would desire the job more and not see it it as a temp move or beneath him. Which is what will hopefully come across in his interview. A lot of the sub-human nob-rots on our forum are in love with Neil Lennon, probably some of the same fucking wasters guilty of leading the embarrassing "No Surrender to the IRA" chants at various times in the past:O=

he inspires great affection, even if his football is at times functional rather than spectacular. neil lennon strikes me as a man whose character is not especially suited to the championship

I totally agree, a lower table championship club is more akin to the pressures of a top league 1 club. And a whole different skill-set is required.

on a different note

http://www.expressandstar.com/wpmvc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/crop-53eb8e08e7630-imgID5523206.jpg

trying to pun 'mool mantar' with 'molineux' and it's not going well

that's the guy's wedding suit :D

now trying to shoehorn 'amirite' in as well. shd rly just give up

http://www.expressandstar.com/wpmvc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/imgID5523209.jpg

nice!

Sometimes the Sikhs seem like the coolest people in the world.

i've studied sikhism a little bit, it's basically the best religion

just needs to be a bit more tolerant of substances & sexual deviancy and it'd have my full backing

I wouldn't argue with that statement.

I used to knock about with Sukhi, but never saw any drugs.

bit cruel after a first half of agonising inability to score showing an Ibra highlights reel at half time

fuck's sake