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

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

wonder if that means the Max Clayton deal will fall thru.

anyway, hurricane giving it lots outside plus some mickey mouse friendly on the other channel means i don't think i'll bother going to the pub this afty, it's streaming time

I'm off to play football against a team from Norfolk, so if Wolves lose, at least we might avenge you

it's quite funny - they're called Norfolk In Chance, which is meaningless and defeats the pun, but I worked out that they COULD be called Norfolk Enchants, which works beautifully, but they simply lack the requisite imagination. this portends well

lazy zing about living in Norfolk being punishment enough etc

oh shit, it's the battle of the narrow boat heavens

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

Parachute money fails to deploy - the Football League and beyond 2015-16

nice one