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

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

CLASH OF THE CANALS

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

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none of this vile cricket sledging on the field of play plz, keep the beautiful game beautiful

were u forced to play cricket at school or something

i was actually! vivid memories of standing bored senseless at deepest midwicket in the boiling sun praying nothing ever came my way. think i knocked my own bails off once too :/

they never taught anyone anything and just left it to the cliquey cricket poshos who rumour had it listened to the divine comedy on the tour bus

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.