lol, more on Clarke's at the death equaliser.
Doncaster allowed Bury to walk in an equaliser after netting a freak goal themselves in a bizarre 1-1 draw at the Keepmoat Stadium.Paul Dickov instructed his players to clear a path for Bury to find the net after Doncaster scored by mistake in second-half stoppage time when attempting to return an act of good sportsmanship.The midfielder Harry Forrester tried, following a throw-in, to return the ball to visiting goalkeeper Christian Walton who had knocked it out of play following an injury, but the ball bounced over Walton and found the Bury net.Rather than take advantage, Doncaster allowed Leon Clarke to amble half the length of the pitch unchallenged before tapping home.
Paul Dickov instructed his players to clear a path for Bury to find the net after Doncaster scored by mistake in second-half stoppage time when attempting to return an act of good sportsmanship.
The midfielder Harry Forrester tried, following a throw-in, to return the ball to visiting goalkeeper Christian Walton who had knocked it out of play following an injury, but the ball bounced over Walton and found the Bury net.
Rather than take advantage, Doncaster allowed Leon Clarke to amble half the length of the pitch unchallenged before tapping home.
― xelab, Sunday, 9 August 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
doncaster deserve more credit, having leon walk it in is like burying a 30 yard free kick
― r|t|c, Sunday, 9 August 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link
The C5 FL show was jawdroppingly bad
― imago, Sunday, 9 August 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
Crystal Palace have accepted an offer from Bristol City for striker Dwight Gayle, according to Sky sources.
It is understood the deal is worth £6m, but could rise to as much as £8m with incentives that have been included in the bid.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
I knew that Landsdown was minted but their current chairman Dawe is only worth a modest £40m so there must be someone else bankrolling them
― xelab, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
I was googling Bristol City chairman and found out that one of them was a former Pet Shop Boys/Bros keyboard player.
― xelab, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Images of him shoehorning in a Drop The Boy gag at every board meeting
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Itt weak jokes that you make that could have been sketches on the laughter show
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
I couldn't care less about the league cup but jeez Powell, playing 5 at the back at home against L2 opposition and not changing anything when they are down to 10 is diabolical management.
Sometimes I think the last few managers we have had all resorted to self sabotage deliberately in order to get sacked because it is a shit job and some kind of malaise sets in after a season.
― xelab, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
At least Brentford have the 10 changes excuse
― xelab, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
11 changes tyvm
― oppet, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 11:19 (nine years ago) link
I couldn't get to the match last night but this league might not be a piece of pish after all.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 11:30 (nine years ago) link
we seem to have had a bid accepted for tim "rules everything around me" ream
the amount of times i've watched per mertesacker over the years and thought gosh i'd really love one of those at lr 👍
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 August 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
Reading go into the insect extermination business
― imago, Friday, 14 August 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
Green>>>West HamSmithies>>>QPRIt looks like QPR have bid £2 mill for Smithies and they want him as no. 1 so this could be a goer. He is worth double that imo but our chairman seems a lot less resolute these days on transfer matters.
Today was a shocking game, both sides still looking in jittery pre-season mode and players like Rhodes & Marshall looking a shadow of their former selves. Town increasingly looking worse than they have ever been at this level, they are definitely missing the influence of Coady.
― xelab, Saturday, 15 August 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
It's an ominous sign when Coventry who we have studiously avoided in the league since '72 are making a good start in L1.
― xelab, Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
not sure what of any of that situation to believe tbh - that green is actually wanted, that the club wouldnt still prefer daniel bentley (and if so that southend want more than 2m), that smithies is worth it (i'll take your word)
today was a hot mess p much, i'm none the wiser about any of it. quite bored of zamora's curse now tho
― r|t|c, Saturday, 15 August 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
Smithies wasn't in the squad today so he is probs off.
― xelab, Saturday, 15 August 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
he only bothered for 15 mins but i was intrigued by ben gladwin - real oddball autodidact non-league curio, looks like a cross between luke shaw and ivanovic but with a fancyman winger's sporadic airs and graces. gl fitting him into any type of system
― r|t|c, Saturday, 15 August 2015 22:23 (nine years ago) link
chris waddle if we're going for a specific winger actually
― r|t|c, Saturday, 15 August 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
i'm also really going to miss austin's traditional 55th minute "i am so bored and frustrated at this fucking hoofball that i'm going to charge over across cover my left back or something idk" play
― r|t|c, Saturday, 15 August 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
ah forgot we had wolves away next. nv your boys are going to dick us no fear
― r|t|c, Saturday, 15 August 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
Dave May @davehmay 4h@Lolleyj10 Failed fitness test, Joe? Joe Lolley @Lolleyj10@davehmay No, feel fit!
what's all this about then btw xelab. i'd have him at ours
― r|t|c, Saturday, 15 August 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
Probably fucking too adventurist for Powell's liking. I had not actually heard anything and presumed he was injured. I think we have drained his vitality to the point that his heart flummoxes the beep test.
― xelab, Saturday, 15 August 2015 23:08 (nine years ago) link
just c+p that to the burgeoning Joe Lolley thread on our board.
― xelab, Saturday, 15 August 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
fuck me football league tonight on channel 5 is atrocious. can't believe the beeb let the rights go to channel 5, football league show was fucking great. manish and steve claridge, come on this was classic stuff. football league tonight is post-soccer am (groan) shite. get it tae fuck man.
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 16 August 2015 07:48 (nine years ago) link
sub not used adam virgo as a studio guest for the love of christ
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 16 August 2015 07:50 (nine years ago) link
you thought this was bad, last week was apocalyptic. mad dog martin allen for fucking crying out loud
― imago, Sunday, 16 August 2015 07:51 (nine years ago) link
Full name Benjamin Thomas C. Gladwin
― imago, Sunday, 16 August 2015 07:56 (nine years ago) link
how many footballers affect an initial
― imago, Sunday, 16 August 2015 08:03 (nine years ago) link
There is a lot of noise that our owner wants to sell up and is disillusioned with the club and Powell is pissed because funds that were promised didn't materialise. It sounds quite credible seeing as we seem to be selling players at the first offer and there has been a lethargy at the club for the last year. We not at the Blackpool level of crisis club yet but the squad is wafer thin + lacking championship class at the back in particular.
I can't bring myself to watch that C5 shite, I agree with jim, the beeb show wasn't really that bad and Mannish was sound.
― xelab, Sunday, 16 August 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
thank fuck the art of Scottish goalkeeping isn't dead
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 16 August 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Butterfield >>> Derby confirmed by his step-bad who posts on the Barnsley board. The club is rudderless right now and accepting first bids on all the best players, what a wretched start to the season :(
― xelab, Monday, 17 August 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link
well this has gone slightly better than expected at coventry
― nxd, Monday, 17 August 2015 10:10 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2jahZBzjjc
Allan McGregor you beautiful man
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 August 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
Just seen that ceballos corner for charlton, poor lad
― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 17 August 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
one has to fear that with a few of our fans his reputation is therein fixed for good
― imago, Monday, 17 August 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
oh man i've just been offered an exclusive evening at Nando's with members of the first team
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
:D
you good with a hidden camera?
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Queuing for a cup of tea out the back of Dagenham's away stand. 1-0 up at half time. Jamie Cureton is still playing. Stuff of dreams.
― Tim, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
bbc london doing regular reports from that one, didn't know ryan harley went back to st james'
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Love him so much. He has a good song to the tune of the bridge from "Can't Take My Eyes Off You".
― Tim, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
Cup of tea achieved. Dream come true.
― Tim, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
Thank fuck the chairman has ruled out selling up and selling Butters unless the offer is £4m+ at the canalside before the game and also promised the Coady/Smithies money is going to be re-invested. Also confirmed that Vaughan aint getting a new contract which is sensible considering his top earner/least games ratio.
Some kind of crisis of confidence in the first half and we could have been a few down and looked like fooking L1 hoofers, but right at 'em in the second and beautiful equaliser by Butters.
― xelab, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
Any win is a pleasing win; that we've won two of our three league games so far and still have a minus 1 goal difference is weirdly satisfying though I know it shouldn't be.
Daggers look worse than usual this year, one of their lot really stood out as miles better than the rest - turns out he's a 17 year old youth product called Jodi Jones.
― Tim, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
(I've always assumed their team has been made up of big strong willing cheap lads who didn't make the grade at London's bigger (but not biggest) clubs, augmented by a few who have drifted up from your Grays and Billericays; this year they don't seem as big or fast or scary, somehow, and dear old Jamie Cureton can't keep going forever.)
― Tim, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
We've been linked with Jones but West Ham have too, so we probably won't sign him like we did Danny Green way back when. He's probably better than Danny Green though
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
He was impressive tonight for sure; I hadn't heard of him because I don't really pay attention, but he stuck out of a mediocre Daggers side.
― Tim, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
oh i don't want the scouting report, always feels dreadfully patronising when premiership fans do it to our own youth prospects
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
dagenham & redbridge will probably always vacillate between league and non-league; they are almost the perfect cusp club in that sense. their break for freedom was valiant but alas short-lived
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
wonder if he made it to swygart's unglamorous colback thread, or whether he was too unglamorous for that
― imago, Friday, 5 August 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
quick flick thru Wiki suggests fitness might be your biggest worry but on a 5-month contract i wouldn't be sweating
― the Zenga bus is coming (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 August 2016 16:02 (eight years ago) link
it's a shame wolves went down cos they were chocka with this sort of lad, i never had a clue which one was stearman, craddock, edwards or ward
― r|t|c, Friday, 28 December 2012 18:32 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not glam enough for this post
craddock is a fucking painter though, he should never have been mentioned
― imago, Friday, 5 August 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
brb checking out jody's latest works
― imago, Friday, 5 August 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
an artist on the pitch and off
― the Zenga bus is coming (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 August 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
somewhere in my mom's house i think there's one of Jody's prints :(
― the Zenga bus is coming (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 August 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
Stears, Edwards, Ward and Foley would be the great interchangeables altho i swear on his day Stears has been known to be actually good
real tiefighters, real tones
https://twitter.com/MrJodyCraddock/status/761516842724757504
― imago, Friday, 5 August 2016 16:07 (eight years ago) link
kevin foley also had the added problem of his equally memorable coeval keith fahey of birmingham
(am only in a position to bring him up at all after coincidentally seeing this yday https://twitter.com/TVsCarlKinsella/status/761306174528643073)
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 August 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
"shay mulligan, gerry daly, pat irishman, fintan flood, tadhg o'rourke... etc"
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 15:03 Bookmark