Shit Noddy teams on Quest: EFL and beyond 21/22

Because still using the thread from two seasons ago displays a lack of respect to teams below the top flight

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he's not ready

well someone's missing the EFL

something something joey barton dot jpg

Perversely pleased to have had a euphoric draw followed by an unbelievably frustrating draw in the first two fan-attended games at the new plough lane.

Gillingham we’re fucking shit and had nothing of note about them beyond Steve Evans’ panto act on the touchline.

Ayoub Assal is the best player in the league btw and I’m excited to watch him all this season cos he definitely won’t be hanging about after that.

*were

it is still quite fucking hilarious that Evans' meteoric rise up the leagues led him to Leeds Utd at one point

you know who's begun the season really, really badly

well of course you do

we're cursed

and muggins here made an impulsive dash to fucking stadium mk which he is only now arriving home from

at least some of the other fancied sides have started slowly eh

Not tres Bonne #itfc pic.twitter.com/K2N9hxQ5NL

— Ben Chaplin (@Sir_Chappers) August 17, 2021

O'Brien played last night but this was clearly a move to force Leeds hand to stump up the cash and stop fucking about. He wasn't really there, not that he shit out of tackles but when his usual extraordinary energy level drops by a few percent he looks quite an ordinary player. He'll probably get found out fast in the prem I say with no bitterness. We just need two Sorba Thomas's now so he can get on the end of his own exquisite set-piece deliveries and average 2-3 goals a game.

Barnet: A week in the life

https://barnetfc.com/a-message-from-our-chairman

I used to go to the Bees a bit in the underhill days, so I've watched their decline to the neglected works team of a Stanmore leisure centre with morbid interest. To pick up Kleanthous on just one point among many, the 'Heineken strike' (actually a strike affecting the delivery contractors) was only due to start today, and was in any case called off on friday, so was obviously not the reason the club was scrambling around to source cans of Fosters for the opening game of the season lol.

that is a wonderful read ty

Most chances created in the Championship:

Sorba Thomas - 17
Ryan Giles - 15
John Swift - 12
Callum O’Hare - 11
Jeremie Bela - 11
Scott Malone - 11
Fabio Carvalho - 10

sigh if we had a striker who wasn't an injured Rhodes-to-nowhere or a 34 year old Frasier Campbell we'd be on fire. I think all our CBs are joint top-scorers now.

I think all our CBs are joint top-scorers now.

Same for Cardiff I believe, in fact I think Flint is top scorer in the league?

yeah he is! Although I think Mitrovic will probably get more by the end of season it's an impressive tally by this stage.

Just caught up on this week's Cup fixtures and you were pretty unlucky against Everton.

yeah very unlucky in having a goal ruled out and Sinani missing a sitter and then Lees getting subbed for Turton was not a good idea, he looks out of his depth against championship sides never mind Everton. The defence has become more settled with the so far very impressive Nicholls in goal. Most people had very low expectations for a keeper who was let go by the MK Dongs and so did I tbh!

if you don't put Naby up front at some point this season you're cowards

You must have enjoyed Vieira picking a strong line up to try and get some confidence going then getting gubbed anyway.

I didn't even notice! Too busy refreshing Charlton Life repeatedly to see if we've signed a left-back yet (we haven't, but we HAVE secured one of Rob Lee's sons on a season loan)

My interest in the Carabao is comparable to my club's tbh, and it was good of crisp to not come a-gloating after round 1, realising just how meaningless his boys' 1-0 at ours truly was

The fact that its such a shit noddy competition makes it even more annoying we haven't won it tbh

lol good old Noddy Sarr, man. He'll probably still easily score more than Rhodes with the kind of deliveries Sorbz puts in the box. He can do an absolute howler and then follow it up with a goal and a heroic perfectly timed game saving tackle in the space of 2 mins. But saying that if he didn't frequently make these mistakes he'd be at Barca!

my new hero Sorba Thomas ripping up teams every game. A goalkeeper where you don't have to look away every time the ball goes into the box. This is actually becoming entertaining to watch for the first time since 2017.

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— Quest (@QuestTV) August 28, 2021

Sorba Thomas!!!

on Quest

some very dodgy business going down at Reading. They are under a transfer embargo and Chelsea have loaned them Drinkwater and Rahman whose wages put together would almost equal their entire wage bill from last season. Apparently there are some links with the owners as well.

Saido Berahino has joined Wednesday on a permanent deal. I'm sure he used to be good!

now Andy Carroll in talks with Reading. Siri, explain to me in very simple language what a transfer embargo is.

buzzing that we've got Mipo Odubeko on loan after watching some vids - that old classic. Apparently we bid £2m and were told not a chance. Some West Ham fans don't seem happy he has been farmed out as their only outright 9 is Antonio. He's only 18 but so is Colwill and he's improved our defence immeasurably and scored a last minute winner.

getting £11m waste of space Mbenza off the wage-bill and O'Brien into new contract negging and despite not spending any transfer fees, it's been the best transfer window in years.

Brilliant, Darlo win their game in hand and we go bottom.

yeah it's been a terrible start

looking at the embryonic championship table I reckon those tricky trees are going to get a shellacking on saturday.

Chris Hughton gone, damnit I cursed it.

We finally sign a centre half. He lasts 20 minutes before limping off, having fucked up to give them the opener.

How the fuck have we beaten York?

Sorba Thomas stats this season (Championship Rank):

Assists | 6 (1st)
Big Chances Created | 7 (1st)
Chances Created | 33 (1st)
Accurate Crosses | 30 (1st)

just been confirmed he's in the Wales Squad to face the Czech Republic. From playing for Boreham Wood to being the backup for Gareth Bale in the space of 9 months.

Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo) at 9:40 28 Sep 21
How the fuck have we beaten York?

We beat York at their place last season too, when they were top of the league.

A missed penalty and then a miskick by their keeper seems to have been enough to sink them. Sounds like it was quite an open game, but only a couple of clear-cut chances each.

happy for Sorba to get his first full Welsh cap. But playing him as a fullback and not letting him near the set-pieces and especially when Wilson/James were wasting them all is a criminal waste of his talent.

The South Wales Derby is slowly turning into a BTEC Old Firm Derby.

“London is our Capital. No Surrender”, says yer Da. pic.twitter.com/8fzlpRAQxu

— Propaganda Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️ (@PropagandaWales) October 17, 2021

jesus wept.

What's weird is all the defensive Cardiff replies, like, 'no it's not, that's only one of the teams support doing that' - what do they think happens at an Old Firm game?

I see the 95th minute enjoyer has once again deigned to comment on the pain and suffering of the lower orders

yes I'm okay yes of course I'm okay we're gonna smash Stanley later oh yes

it seems Adkins is at that stage where (to probably misquote Gianni Paladini in Four Year Plan) "When managers start losing games all the time, they lose their fucking minds.."

We have drawn four consecutive games 2-2.

I hate seeing Forest Green (aka the Coldplay of L2) at the top, the chairman is such a smug prick.

What's weird is all the defensive Cardiff replies, like, 'no it's not, that's only one of the teams support doing that' - what do they think happens at an Old Firm game?

Tricolors, Palestinian flags, Ooh ah up the 'RA, Fuck the Queen etc. (One of those is banned now tho tbf)

A trip to Stroud would be class though tbf (provided we stay up ffs lol)

Much as my own trip to Lincoln last weekend was class - what a brilliant place, performance/result notwithstanding

I had a very fun day in Lincoln for L2 playoffs first leg fixture. We won 2-1 and the own goal winner was credited to the barely perceptible touch of Iffy Onuora. Had a delicious vegetarian sausage sandwich at a cafe and drinks at a hotel bar that was owned by a Sikh family and they were excellent hosts. And then we got to laugh at some bitter L66ds fans on the train back who were returning from a 4-0 thrashing at Stamford Bridge and had just been relegated from the prem. I miss going on those happy drunken away trips.

Lincoln away is always fun - probably the friendliest home fans I’ve ever encountered, also good beer to be had. And a fairly decent cathedral.

Superb castle, lovely free museum, excellent old quarter...

Tonight, however, was the End, surely

congrats also due unto Exeter for not stuffing up against ten men under the formidable command of John Yems

I am looking forward to dear old Yemsy’s interview. I’m guessing he won’t be terribly pleased with the ref. (They went one up, looked like they’d won a pen shortly after, ref booked their striker for diving, he’d already had a soft yellow. I’d have been furious. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.)

"I had the fourth official telling me ‘you keep whinging’, well get things right. If I don’t get it right I get sacked, they get to go on to their next game. Useless.

"They must get them out of Lidl’s or something."

yemmmsssss

the most charmless ogre I've seen since in a while is Grant McCann. Like the Cowley brothers he spends the entire 90 bawling at officials while his dirty cheating shithousing game plan falls to pieces.

yes I'm okay yes of course I'm okay we're gonna smash Stanley later oh yes

New manager bounce should see you past Havant and Waterlooville tbf

Yemsy actually rather charming here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJPfV4CoKhI

and here we see the Gaffer in his natural habitat, a cave in Mallorca

Give it Jacko ten-year contract obv

Huddersfield
6/4
1 - 0
Stoke
17/20
3 - 3
Blackburn Rovers
13/8
1 - 2
Blackpool
5/1
0 - 1
Stake:
£4.00
Est. Returns:
£364.22

oh fuck off and die Cardiff

It turns out Adkins really was rubbish lol

yeah but aren't Doncaster total shat?

I put on a £4 acc and then added another quid because I don't like the no. 4 and felt like this was going to come in today. Fucking Stoke 3-0 up and they fucked it up!

Lol oh god

Adkins did alright in the past but I think his rep was inflated by rocking up at Southampton when they had the best squad outside the prem

anyway lookit the acca didn't come in but did you even in your wildest thing corberan could have youse in this position 15 or whatever games in

no not really, but I'm confident we'll be midtable by jan/feb. There is only so far being quite defensively solid can get you, all the attacking players are out of form/lacking confidence - it's a rum game when you are relying on Hogg to score. Lol maybe Jordan Rhodes will come back from injury and show us the player Bruce wanted to chuck Grealish in a ditch for!

I hesitate to share our pink and black third kit with you but look at the moment we beat the bad and hated Salford City:

Losing a game in the 93rd minute 😨

Losing a game in the 93rd minute because of an own goal like this 😨😨😨😨 pic.twitter.com/F5o8MGjCRd

— Soccer AM (@SoccerAM) October 30, 2021

Oh that's darling

The kit, the goal, the whole lot

loooool quality

hah! fuck Salford

our chairman's ambulance chasing legal firm has just gone into administration. Fun times ahead no doubt.

Yes apparently this is what was happening on England’s largest standing terrace this evening.

Came to watch Exeter for the first time and they started singing “shoes off if you hate Argyle” pic.twitter.com/XAPbQy6hCd

— AmirafromForestGate (@Munyajiri) November 10, 2021

seeing your local rivals boss it can do funny things

relax daerest grecians we shall vanquish thy foe

We’ll I hope so but I’ll believe it when I see it.

Their form is a flash in the pan. It must be.

I mean we'll hardly finish ahead of them but I reckon we're playing them at a good time - the time when the Run Of Form naturally peters out. Ipswich and Rotherham should finish 1st and 2nd, the rest sorts itself out in theory

Oh and Wigan. Yeah those 3 teams will go up tbh

plympton argula

that's apropos of nothing, just a weird phrase that goes through my head when I see mention of the green clad historic underachievers

Since it's Bradford day on ILX I should note that we beat them 3-0 after extra time last night, their manager is a sour ex-Argyle piece of work, but it seems we used six subs and look like being booted out of the cup as a result.

Would have offered to get you down on a free ticket this Saturday on an anyone-but-Argyle remit but I didn't think in time, and I also notice your lot have to serenade the Carlisle fans towards their ten-hour return journey

Good work with the subs though, a fine flourish

It's a nice though, thanks, but I'm not wasting any Saturdays on the Snot in any case, I'm off to see the Carlisle game.

"thought", that says

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59320476

this is nothing compared to the time Jeremy Helan got 3 yellow cards and remained on the pitch against the bastard "massive" Wendies!

for Wednesday against Town in a game we lost I meant!

There were some bizarre decisions in our game on Tuesday night including a player being booked twice and staying on the field, a player continuing after being knocked out cold (he got helped to the side of the pitch then literally staggered about for the next 10 minutes) and a defensive wall being walked back 10 yards for a drop ball.

I don't know where I got this third yellow card from, early morning brain.

Turns out we have to replay the match (oh good, more Mardy Adams) which I think means the FA must have found this to be pretty much entirely the fault of officials.

Graham Poll booked Josip Simunic three times in a game at the 2006 world cup, but iirc he did brandish the red after the last one, thus preserving some of the honour of English refereeing.

True story- I bought a Croatia shirt from a charity shop with a blurry felt tip signature on it, which turned out to be Simunic's. Too bad my man is a nazi lol

Looks like we're about to do a two mins silence on the *checks phone* 20th of November

Tim, we have delivered. They won't be going up now.

very surprisingly straightforward and comfortable 1-0 win for injury ravaged Town today. I think the way Valerien's management style was very good and effective at Barnsley and made them extremely hard to beat last season - it will conversely fall well short of what is needed at the Baggies this season. Oh what a shame!

also a powerhouse performance by Naby was a big factor in how comfortable the win was!

So I gather! You should maybe not drop him so often lol

We’re on a twenty game unbeaten run (roughly, depending on how you count them) without having played terribly well. We should do this more often, it’s really fun.

We’ll done on beating the slimers, Louis.

Stoked 4 Exeter and Stroud away next season

(that wasn't sarcastic btw!)

Folks, a small update here. It’s Bradford City that this group is up for buying a revolutionising using crypto, NFTs, assorted magic beans.

Farewell, then, football. You had a good run.https://t.co/YSdIarBPjM

— tariq panja (@tariqpanja) December 16, 2021

poor Bradford City. I wouldn't wish these wankers on any club.

Maybe they can buy Derek Adams and leave BCFC alone - Adams aside Bradford are a decent solid club AFAICT

maybe they'll replace Adams with an AI Holo-NFT

Holo NFT would be an absolute picture of charm and class, by comparison.

NEWS: I can announce that I have agreed on a deal to acquire Bedford FC from their current chairman Lui.

There is a lot to cover and I will do my best in this thread. If you want to follow:
- Twitter: @realbedford
- Website: https://t.co/P51dyHXyw1

1/n pic.twitter.com/U6LPOhXwti

— Peter McLasso (@PeterMcCormack) December 16, 2021

another cryptocurrency bro buying a club, his genius strategy to get Bedford into the Prem as a bitcoin club is by simply just keeping on winning games and not losing them.

i've run the numbers and that checks out

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGuXWtdXIAU_WHh?format=jpg&name=large

heh!

Where local teams can only tap into a local community of fans/companies to drive revenue, we have a global army of #bitcoin holders and companies who can get behind this.

the commercial dept at my club have done us proud again. Norwich dropped betting firm BK8 as a kit sponsor after discovering the kind of degrading and sexist ad campaigns they'd been running in Asia. My club, with recent history of having an eviction/legbreaking firm with anti-GRT, pro-Trump stuff on their social media account as the one off match-kit sponsors, have made them their global betting partners for the remainder of the season.

"We have spent a lot of time speaking to BK8 in order to understand their values."

lol yeah, show me how much do values cost, Siri.

some incredible reffing from Jeremy Simpson today. Lees is knocked unconscious by an elbow smash and Mr Magoo sees something different and plays advantage Blackpool, repeatedly looking back at the unconscious + unresponsive player on the deck. Then he books Toffolo for politely informing him of his appalling mistake. Justice was served to the donkey lashers in the end though.

still in the playoffs and now our former quite wealthy bastard chairman has sacked the CEO and temporarily installed himself in his place after making noises that he'd "like to be given some problems" in the jan transfer window. Didn't see this coming.

lol I thought my acc was down and Luton scored in late injury time, at which point I'd already repeated my bet.

The fucking clueless muppet who took Ipswich into L1 for the first time in 60 years is apparently going to be the new majority shareholder at Town. It could be worse but I can't see anything good coming from this.

Wayne Rooney's Derby are gonna do this, aren't they

tbf on him adversity seems to have turned him into a real manager.

also tbf on him he's not fucking Gary Neville

prefers old ladies lol

https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/club-statement-derby-county

it seems Derby are deep in the shit and their inability to find a new owner is further complicated by Steve Gibson still going for £45m compensation for them depriving the Prem of everyone's fave away trip by cheating P+S rules and finishing ahead of them in a playoff spot. Oh yeah and Wycombe were tragically relegated to L1 because of their FFP breaking shenanigans as well.. lol!

There was that time in the prem when West Ham coughed up £20m to the relegated Blades over the Tevez business. But Middlesbrough's claim seems pretty dodgy to me. And as for Wycombe, when you get into the playoffs via the duckworth lewis method then don't complain when shit happens.

boing boing

Afobe lol you beauty

Sunderland getting hit for six as well ..heh! And Reading with a top four wage-bill looking doomed. Fulham dropping points at home - some decent results. We might not make the playoffs but aren't doing too shabbily considering our budget is a Peterborough level budget again these days.

four penalties scored by Oxford's Brannagan against the Gills today

Pint of carlsberg at Millwall (@MillwallFC)

💷 £5.59 pic.twitter.com/uHM4NLEOpR

— Footy Bevs (@FootyBevs) January 29, 2022

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Tino Anjorin is joining us on rest of season loan from Chelsea, we've had a lot of good use from their best youth players in recent times. If he's anywhere near as good as Levi Colwell has been this season then it's a bit of a coup for us. Especially as Southampton were also in for him.

The mighty Bradford City selling their club captain Niall Canavan to Barrow for an undisclosed fee is not making me laugh as much as it would have done 20 years ago.

I am pleased to see we have loaned some lad from Huddersfield to replace the guy we loaned from Barrow (he got injured after 1.25 matches, scored once) to replace our main striker who got injured. Maybe they'll all be back and scoring for fun come the end of the season.

Statistically speaking, though, this chap from Huddersfield is due a nasty injury some time in the next three games.

rescued from his Walsall hell!

Which featured a 10 minute cameo against us a couple of weeks ago, which no-one seems able to remember. (Apparently they were playing him on the wing and neither he nor Hudders wanted that - he’ll certainly be played at centre forward for Exeter.

we seem to have the best crop of youth players in our entire history, this is the first time I've seen multiple players out on L1/L2 loans who are consistently getting rave reviews.

Phillips suffered a 2 year layoff due to a degenerative knee issue which had him bed-ridden for 3 months. The club just tied him down to his first long-term contract so they obviously rate him. The Walsall loan showed he's over his injuries and up to the rigour of regular football and 5 goals isn't a bad return when they were deploying on either side rather than as a CF.

Sounds hopeful! Hope his pins hold up.

https://www.grunge.com/img/gallery/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-colossus-of-rhodes/intro-1618347377.webp

he's back ..lol

the dozy studs up tackle on LoB and red for Stearman after 2 mins made the game so much harder, it was such a grind.

Charlton v Hudds Town 1981 on ITV 4 rn!

Cowling, Stanton, Robins - reet set of ugly bassas!

Kindon!!!

https://www.castrust.org/wp-content/uploads/ColinPowellsticker.jpg

ITV4 absolutely the best channel on tv right now

In the first half Naby Sarr was narrowly deprived of scoring the FA cup own goal of the weekend by the post. He just can't help himself!

waghorn missing a one on one for us with his first touch is very on point

still in hope tho

ah well never mind. Win a couple of those games in hand + your lot are still in the chase.

Forest looking like the prem side against Leicester rn!

Steve Cooper’s commitment to the one facial expression, even as Forest take a three-nil lead over Leicester, is superb.

they couldn't buy a goal against us a few weeks back and his facial expression was pretty much the same!

gosh imagine doing Arsenal and Leicester in very good style and then getting knocked out by little old Hudds in the 5th round.

Been enjoying Steve Cooper's expression a lot lately in my local

I didn't rate him at Swansea but he seems to have developed into a much better manager at Forest. He did show his other big toothy school photograph smile expression at f/t tbf on him!

fuck me, a bit of genuine cup magic. well done Boreham Wood.

Apparently the FL's bastion of goodness and morality had a set-to with our lot the other day. Admittedly after we sung some MK Dons songs at them. Excellent show all round

I'm so happy that Phillips scored the winner on his debut against the chickens! On Radio Leeds most the talk was about Matt Daly who we've loaned to Bradford and scored 8 from midfield whilst at Hartlepool. But no, it was Kieran's day today!

It was a fun game, bit nervy at the end mind. I think I counted six separate songs piling abuse onto puffa-coated panto villain. Derek Adams. Bradford had the off chance but were mostly woeful. Fifth time we’ve played them this season, they haven’t beaten us once. “Derek Adams, it’s happening again”.

I’ve nothing against Bradford City but if you’re going to attract these big crowds by making the season tickets 50p each , it’s not going to do you much good if they all just main and grumble.

Moan and grumble, that says.

Adams said this about Exeter in August.

5 games against them this season and we haven't beaten them once. 💀 #bcafc pic.twitter.com/UIOLGrLgvO

— ßen (@BCAFCBH) February 12, 2022

they seem more obsessed with their big-club status (fans, owner and local bbc team) than even those Wednesdayites are. On RL yesterday one of their commentary team was talking about how Daly might be initially a little fazed by their absolutely huuuge crowds after previously playing at a club as small as t'monkey hangers. I mean obviously cheap tickets is a good thing, but consistently giving it large about how maaassive your club is gets very tedious. hah! one of their fans was commenting that we had banks of empty seats against the blades yesterday, like yes you do get banks of empty seats on 12.30 sky tv games if you aren't Man Utd!

Brett Huxtable, in case you are wondering. I haven’t seen the Crawley footage but Yemsy’s words ring true.

ENJOY IT POOLS FANS🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/1W0DUWrA9U

— Jakeee (@Jakerich18) February 12, 2022

Big Brett Huxtable eh? Already seen that clip. Yems, as has been established, is the Last Gaffer

From North Devon apparently; sadly that doesn’t equate to his being disqualified from reffing our games.

Derek "Cheer up Derek Adams" Adams has been given the heave-ho by Bradford. Poor fellow.

Grant McCann might be in next, a very jolly fellow in comparison to Adams, perhaps!

Benito Carbone has applied for the Bradford City job.

The 50-year-old Italian – most recently assistant coach for the Azerbaijan national team – has told the club he is interested in replacing Derek Adams.

lol them days when he was being paid 40 grand a week and living rent free in a spare mansion Geoffrey Richmond owned must seem like it was all a dream to some older Bradford City fans.

another one of my beefs with Bradford is that during their short lived prem era they were putting season ticket adverts in parts of the Heavy Woollen District that were always split between Hudds/Leeds. They thought they were bigger than NATO.

it was fun listening to the sky commentary spend the first half hour of the match wanking over and raving about how unstoppable Fulham are while we made them look quite stoppable and took a 2-0 lead. One of them a soft penalty, but perhaps a bit of payback to that cheating thug Mitrovic. If we had an ordinary keeper this probably would have been a draw at best. But even the Fulham commentary guy was saying that Nicholls is probably the best keeper in the championship he's seen by miles. Not bad for a freebie who couldn't even get a game at MK Franchise last season.

unbeaten since NOVEMBER?! christ. corberan for leeds ;)

he's probably actually better than Bielsa because he's stopped off that murderball nonsense in training that he imported here from L**ds, that was probably the main cause of our injury crisis last season. There are already rumours they want Corberan in next and who can blame them, he took on a very hard job and so far, after a difficult first season has overachieved without having fuck all money to spend!

Huddersfield fans singing “he’s fallen asleep how shit must you be” after a person working on new stand fell asleep#HTAFC pic.twitter.com/Mo8d8NsHJc

— The Away Ends (@_theawayends) February 19, 2022

chef's kiss

Yeah, really good. Not unreasonable to grab a quick snooze at Craven Cottage, mind.

Shit noddy teams on YouTube: Exeter u23 vs Wolves u23 on live right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgZCh8a_rHI

(we're already out of this competition so it's a dead rubber)

Steven Bull! Robert Plant! Kenny Hibbitt! Stan Cullis! Bob out of Shrag! Derek Dougan! Kevin Rowland. KEVIN ROWLAND!!! Your boys took a hell of a narrow defeat in a dead rubber that was probably quite handy as a run-out for some of our players!

damn i missed it

The main enjoyment was Hednesford Town's ground TBH. Up the Pitmen!

Oh and some Wolves fans giving it the oooooooooOOOOOOOOOH! YOU'RE SHIT AAAAAARGH! at our child goalie was funny.

(NB this is not football knowledge, they just had a banner that said "Up the Pitmen!")

the pit near Hednesford has been a long time shut now

there's a museum tho tbf

not 90+ this time but coventrys commitment to last minute gosk

goals*
this season is ridiculous

almost spelt gyökeres with that typo

What if Nate Silver but for English football and no irritating thinkpieces?

http://www.probs4.club

(Use of comic sans these days is more often an indicator of something good rather than the opposite IMO)

Good link ty, a good link for a grim old season

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-60523752

Birmingham City Football Club will revert to its original name of the Small Heath Alliance for one match by order of the Peaky Blinders.

it's possible that i am biased but seriously is there a more contemptible bunch of cunts

oh god

do they have Millwall coming up soon, do it then imo, no police within 3km of the ground

small heath mentality

"This club's been in the Premier League for 13 years out of the last 20," Bruce added. "With that there comes pressure.

on Monday we have a chance to go to the fa cup quarter final against Liverpool and then next the world famous Baggies on Friday, which is as good as a cup final according to Bruce.

It would be really petty of me to enjoy Bruce fucking the Boggies OH GOD I CAN'T HELP IT I LOVE IT ITS FUCKING HILARIOUS

Seriously that 13 years is a surprise who remembers anything they did in the Prem apart from finally getting rid of Big Mick for us

I hadn't been paying much attention to them other than having a vague memory of them in the top two a few months back and then them quite dramatically falling off. What's gone wrong here I wondered. Ah I see, the Spruce Bruce landed on them!

It seems like they did the same as we did on the prem - pissed away money on dud signings with rotten attitudes and got relegated. Lol they are still paying us for Karlan Grant, who felt like he was destined for greater things than Hudds. He's odds on to score against us on Friday though, that is certain.

Twitter West Brom is having a collective fit, clinging on to that 5-1 against the Wolves as the only good memory some of them will ever have in their lives. a decade in the Champo should be good for restoring a sense of reality

I feel the same sentiment towards L**ds Utd fans, even if it means them going down would include the displeasing result of Burnley staying up. Another decade in the champo slugging it out against Barnsley and Luton is just the medicine they need. In fact scratch Luton, they are serious playoff contenders and could be above them next season!

now Bielsa's gone i can get back to unreservedly hating them again, it's complicated tho, have a few Leeds mates

I could have told you a long, long time ago that Karlan Grant wouldn't make it in the Premiership

our free transfer Danny Ward now has just as many goals as Grant in the champo, who we sold for £15m. He's not as clinical a finisher as Grant but he's a very unselfish hard working player and his hold up play is exceptional these days. Grant is one of them strikers who contributes next to nothing in games where they don't score.

boing boing

lol at their keeper

a great week for current and former Boggies goalies

omg I thought Andy Carroll was at somewhere like Bishop's Stortford these days!

ah fuck I cursed it!

bullshit pen

What's a cow's favourite football team?

Uddersfield Town

not bovine moonich?

some ledge end dairy punning

He's ready.

https://i2-prod.lancs.live/incoming/article23456235.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_GettyImages-1338301690.jpg

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/phil-brown-manager-barrow-preston-23456254

That is a very 'ageing prog rock star' photo

It looks like Dave Grohl dressed as Austin Powers to me.

both of those people are prog rock as hell though :D

Haha I wasn't disagreeing with you!

It looks like Dave Grohl dressed as Austin Powers to me.

Apologies calz if you're legal again but we're watching the game in the pub and it's come on City

It’s a pretty standard day of the game fan YouTube thing but I did enjoy it from about 4:30 onwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdYLxhPj-LI

The last ten seconds or so are really great.

c u @ the valley tim

Yes! I’m very proud of my football club. We don’t get promoted very often - this is the sixth time in our 100 year + history - and we’ve been in this division for a decade. That’s what you get for not having a rich owner who can fund a loss-making season or two, but it makes successful seasons even sweeter.

Two consecutive party Saturdays to come, lovely.

Oh and Phil Brown was being a proper plank last night.

hadn't realised wholesomeness fc were stumbling the title so much too, that could be yours as well

congrats Tim and nice to see Phillips on the scoresheet. We have got a rich owner again after our previous chairman's ambulance chasing company went bust, but he's a Yorkshire bastard and looks under his bed on a morning to see if he's lost any sleep. But still we weren't expecting to make the playoffs as our budget is in the bottom 5 of the champo and the our new improved back line was built from free transfers including the 2nd choice goalkeeper from MK Dons. Not arsed about winning the playoffs, just want to stop Forest because their fans are vile and despite them beating us twice this season they had a meltdown after our glorious one nil, against the run of play victory at their place. And I'll add they were scab bastards during the miners strike - since they are so obsessed with history.

Phillips has been a strange one - hasn't managed to hold down a place in the side, has scored a couple of absolutely crucial goals. Clearly he's a decent footballer and has so much pace but somehow doesn't seem to affect the game very much when he's on the pitch. I suspect his game is playing off the shoulder of defences and that's not really how we play (our manager likes a CF to crash about and disrupt defences to make space for other attackers). His goal last night was so odd: picked up the ball in the middle of our half, took it all the way down the pitch and scored, but somehow managed to look slightly unconvincing throughout (from about 50 seconds in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55vjHPF1usk (don't watch the chance he blew just before that).

Anyway I am grateful to Calz personally for arranging the loan of Phillips and am rooting for Huddersfield to do the business in the last two games.

it's good when a young loan striker doesn't fit into a manager's system, looks out of his depth and fails to hold down a place and is still manages to score two crucial goals imo!

that deceptive miscontrol and in off the deflection is just part of the armory of yr top tier forwards

congrats Tim, no better feeling than a really meaningful promotion

congrats tim, good to see

Thanks chums!

I am taking NV's DN personally though.

for some reason whilst checking the tables a few weeks back I thought you'd blown auto, but it's very open league 2 this season.

We were down as low as 8th in the table in Feb, but with games in hand that we mostly converted.

I think the only teams in the top 4 divisions who've lost fewer games than we have are Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea.

I nearly choked on my coffee with that bit of Hudds Town erasure there!

we've only lost 2 since November

Oh I see - sorry. I meant all season. We've only lost 7 which is obviously unheard of for us.

a double figure positive goal difference is our rare achievement this season. But no keeper in the champo has kept more clean sheets than Nicholls, we'll be lucky to keep hold of him.

We've had Cameron Dawson on loan from Wednesday all season and he's been an unbelievable keeper at L2 level, I imagine they'll want him back or someone who can actually pay his champ level wages (ie not us) will grab him.

call the cops Luton are being murdered

oh dear they gave Nathan Jones the manager of the year award before the season was over. Some of our lot were moaning that Corberan should have won it. I'm superstitious enough to think manager awards are a curse. They'll probably get a result against Reading, but if they don't Middlesbrough could fuck their playoff plans on Saturday.

Bournemouth vs Forest tomorrow is a big one. I hate them both but want Forest to lose because their fans are almost more full of shit than the Leeds rabble and we can actually beat them and seemingly can't even compete against t'other lot.

Rob Edwards (Forest Green) got manager of the year in L2, but their collapse has been incredible to watch. Someone said they were 28 points clear of them at the start of Feb, and we overtook them this weekend.

I’d say it would be just like Exeter to throw it away now it’s in our hands but “it” has so rarely been anywhere near our bloody hands that no-one would know what we’re like in this position. Which is to say I still expect us to find a way to lose out on the L2 championship but we’re playing Vale who are experiencing their own little collapse so you never know.

sincerely hope you succeed in pissing on their bonfire, Dale Vince seems like a right twat.

There's always something to hate about all clubs, ECFC included. As far as rich dudes plaything clubs go, FGR seem pleasingly weird to me. I wish he'd decided to do this with a club in a place where people didn't have to drive to get there, and a place where a club might have a socially and economically (as well as environmentally) sustainable future. Like, I wish he'd taken on Gloucester City*, who weren't far from the league some years back, decent sized place and way better connected by public transport Hard to see FGR getting anywhere without a constant stream funding, feels like Rushden & Diamonds but made out of wood not leather.

FGR have been taking a modicum of heat about flying a Palestinian flag at their games, I note.

*I have literally no knowledge of what's going on or has gone on at Gloucester City, it's just Gloucester's nearby and might sustain a club once Vince has moved on.

I didn't know about the Palestinian flag. lol was assuming he is a smug eco-fash wealth creator who travels the world on the wooden solar powered sloop his minimum wage workforce made for him. And I still could be right! but kudos indeed for the flag.

Ecotricity have been my energy supplier for ten years and they're notably user-friendly, haven't had any bullshit off them. Plus, I liked Stroud just before everyone realised it was great and moved there

Our game there had better not be a fuckin midweek

(Actually if it is I'm taking the whole Tuesday off)

I always feel like Gretna in Scotland are the model for the Vince/post Vince world.

Gloucester are in our league (NLN), went shit or bust with the budget to go for promotion last year only for it to get announced nobody was going up, were relegation candidates up until February this season.

Stroud is batshit crazy, was the centre of UK LSD production for years and is now so vehemently anti-vaxx I managed to get my booster by booking the day before when there was a 2 week waiting list everywhere else.

yeah Gretna were quite contentious and hated by some Scottish football fans. I learnt this from ILX after years of wrongly thinking they might have had some broad novelty appeal ... what with the freescoring doctor and that.

EFL playoff final wins

Huddersfield 4/5
Forest 0/0
Luton 0/0
Millwall 2/4
Sheff Utd 0/4
Boro 1/2

...intimidating

That's some result for the Gas today.

Poor old Cobblers, eh?

I am mildly disappointed about missing out on the L2 title on goal difference, really only because Saturday night in Exeter would have been a proper laugh if we'd done it. Promotion was always the main thing. Saying that, there's a photo going around of an EFL branded arch saying CHAMPIONS sitting unused behind one of our stands, I confess to finding that a bit upsetting.

Seeing Argyle crash out of the L1 playoff placess to Franchise, 0-5 at home, only to see Franchise limply surrender to dirty old Wycombe in the playoff semi, is a small footballing joy.

it was a great feeling when we dumped Franchise out the L1 playoffs semis, despite losing the home leg 2-1. It was even sweeter that they had dirty cheating ex-L66ds barsteward Alan Smith being the pantomime bell end in both games.

just saw a clip of Nathan Jones suggesting Town paid big money for free-transfer players and even mentioning Hogg, who we got for pennies nearly a decade ago because he hated living in the south. Lol, Town even missed out on Luton's top striker, Elijah Adebayo because our chairman baulked at the price and they outbid us. If I was a Luton manager playing dubious underdog mind games I'd mention what a shithole Kenilworth Road is. They are only the underdogs in the sense that Corberan is a much smarter and more likable manager on a learning trajectory that will take him to a top job at some point. Regardless of Monday's result.

here we fucking go!

Geddon!

just getting ready to inject that Nathan Jones post-match interview straight into a vein

feels like huddersfield and forest deserve to compete in the final

their long winning run after losing 5-6 games on the bounce with Hughton started at our place, but then we had a classic 1-0 against the run of play smash and grab at their place and then got beaten by them in the cup. I fucking hate them tbh and am not confident we could beat them again this season. I hope the Blades have an against the odds turnaround against them tomorrow.

Rhodes volleying it in on the stretch like that, lad's still fucking got it, lol!

Rhodes must fall imo

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he's ready (for our big game against Sunderland next season)

Commiserations Calz. Guessing Forest will be pretty fucked next season.

we got done by a BALD ref doing his last big gig, the replay and VAR showed there was contact on Tofollo but BALD overruled, and that was just one of the shit decisions that went against Town. But I'm not really that arsed tbh. The last time was only fun for about 6 games and it took us nearly two seasons to get rid of all the overpaid garbage players, fuck the prem tbh.

Don't let your internalised baldhate blind you! But aye, dreadful ref. Retiring to run a record shop called 'Vinyl Whistle' which, jesus.

hah hah what a cnut!

the only two playoff finals (I think out of 6 now) I have not gone to with my step-dad and my brother in the last 30 years are the only ones Town have lost. I only turn up for the wins!

I have a 100% record in playoff finals, 4 wins in 4 different stadiums (wasn't at the steve claridge shin game)

Comiz though, even tho i was leaning towards forest for their fa cup exploits

they have already blown most of their transfer budget for next season when they signed up Jon Moss

what have I just read?

https://stainestownfootballclub.co.uk/club-statement-june-2022/

what was it? the account is now suspended

Some choice cuts here

Maddest statement ever. Worth a read, even if it's just the screenshots https://t.co/GFq2EwkUWt pic.twitter.com/rvazjFMSbb

— money wasting expert (@CruelBritannia) June 18, 2022

lol wtf

could with a Paul Mason style dynamic chart on LLP

Our third today was a bit special.

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