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

Pulis told Albion’s website on Tuesday: “I had a chat with him and explained what we do as a football club and the way we are and I think he’s fine with everything.

“He’s got to turn towards the flag like everybody else has and he recognises that.

“So hopefully we’ve nipped it in the bud and we can get on with our things and he can get on with his things.”

"Broadfoot was born into a Protestant family in Ayrshire and is known to be a staunch supporters of certain cultural traditions relating to his religion."

this is the most perfect, wryly humorous euphemism for "Broadfoot is a dirty orange bastard".

Le Fondre undergoing a medical at the Wolves allegedly

realistically he's cover for Dicko and Afobe but i've always had a soft spot for the lad and will be pretty chuffed if he's in gold and black next season

also we need new threads i guess, even if we are in the dying throes of ILF

dying throes of ALF morelike

gtfo

:D

A goal every odd game at Bolton wasn't bad work for a faded journeyman, he can still do a job - although he was a tosser for turning us down for Bolton. I read somewhere that Bolton fans were trying to crowdfund the permanent signing of him and had raised £645, obv they are as clued up as Gartside on the economics of football.

confirmed! so much better than a faded journeyman imo, but i'll allow for your bitterness xe :p

I have always rated him tbh. I still have photos somewhere of a day out at Spotland where he tore us a new arsehole in a pre-season 3-0 defeat. He reneged on a verbal agreement in the Jan window to join Lennon, so yay bitterness! As a squad signing that is very good because apart from his Cardiff nightmare he always scores and will put pressure on Dicko and Afobe.

yeah, he shd be suited to the way we play along the deck too. alongside our 17 year-old wonderkid Bright Enobakhare we've got a shit-hot-looking attack now, no kiss of death.

if we could get a loan of this young Liverpool winger that's been mentioned, Sheyi Ojo, then i reckon the promotion challenge is feasible. really need to replace Kevin Mac in the end i think, whether he agrees a new contract or not, but Coady looks to have plenty in him.

this is going to be the most absurdly strong second division in world football history

thought about calling new thread "Best Feeder League in the World" but, y'know, tongue in cheek

there are about 15 teams who have assembled promotion squads

none of them are leeds

According to the bookies Charlton, Town and Rotherham are going down this season. Ffs even franchise are fancied to do better. Obv Bristol City fans on the glue and meth is the only reason they have been backed into 20/1.

Does William Bloody Swygart usually do this thing by now?

it's open to anybody, i just can't come up with a satisfactory title at the moment

15 teams who have assembled promotion squads and none of them are leeds

sounds good to me, nobody complained about Champocentrism last year

this thread will never be elected if we don't etc etc....

Oh shit Bobby Z is back with the Albion

Brightons major problem last season was not having a goal scorer after ulloa went - think they've now signed five different strikers this transfer window

Row Z just became more a dangerous place to sit at the Amex :P

https://vine.co/v/eHHOKn29aDe

Ojo signed for the season too. shit's getting interesting

ugh konchesky. ffs

http://www.qpr.co.uk/cms_images/gallery/bpi-qpr-paul-konchesky-006364-2593867_478x359.jpg

realness queen succession locked in

johann berg gudmundsson licking his chops and buying extra-strength shinpads as I type

Leroy Fer has failed a medical at Sunderland and will return to QPR, according to Sky sources.

oh fuck off sunderland!

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

fuckingdisgrace.gif

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

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

nice one