Cry Wolves (Ooh-ooh-woooh!): The Football League and Beyond, 2013-14

SM was on loan for the 11/12 promotion season and enquiries were made and the chairman said at a fan Q+A that he was beyond our budget. Since then they must have noticed he is good, he signed a 4 year contract extension last year and was a decent performer in the prem. Our chairman made a similar mistake with Lambert and didn't want to pay a mill for a 28 year old player from Bristol Rovers "because he had no resale value at his age". Tbf on him he has invested a lot of money on training facilities, wrangling the stadium shares back from the RL chairman who knicked it for 2 quid and set up a rental formula that financially crippled the club for years.

Injury problems for Town today, Hunt and Hogg out. That is a major blow.

Huddersfield: Smithies, Clarke, Gerrard, Lynch, Hammill, Clayton, Norwood, Gobern, Carroll, Vaughan, Paterson. Subs: Scannell, Ward, Bennett, Stead, Wallace, Hunt, Crooks.

QPR: Green, Simpson, Onuoha, Hill, Yun, Granero, Barton, Henry, Hoilett, Austin, Johnson. Subs: Dunne, Wright-Phillips, Jenas, Zamora, Murphy, Ehmer, O'Neil.

LOL granero and henry what a combination

bewildering recall - granero looked to have been totally frozen out, the big pansy. no faurlin is a kick in the balls

Oh Hunt is on the bench, someone said Hunt is out on a msg board. Manager was livid with Hunt after tuesday's cup game. The team is weaker without him, despite his lapses of concentration.

weren't swansea rumoured to be interested in him? i've certainly heard rave reviews

Yeah I think they turned down a bid from the Swans a couple of months back.

seldom seen at this level three at the back for hudds, hmm

live commentary on bbc london btw if you can get it

Hunt is a versatile player who can play on the right of either defence or midfield, where he can showcase his general all-round athleticism. He currently lives in Rothwell, Leeds. He is often referred to by Huddersfield Town fans, most notably the writer of the unofficial fansite "HTFC World", as "The Helmet" following a comment made on Twitter.[2][3]

www.htfc-world.com/reports/Bradford7/bradford060813ios.html

Danny Gee's cartoon match reports are top notch. Hunt is always calling critical or abusive fans "helmets" on twitter.

at what stage in our vocab development do we settle on the snap-default insult that we reach for in an instant for the rest of our lives i wonder

http://nadnerbsregdor.blogspot.co.uk/

no comms stream damo

remarkably the radio is a couple of seconds behind the video. this is brilliant

Awesome. I had no idea this was on.

bollocks

It is in perfect sync with BBC Leeds digital. Gah just missed the goal typing this.

super dozy defending, no one cutting out a simple throughball, hammill (i think) with a good cross across the face of the box and header into the ground and in from a yard out

oh equaliser!

lol i missed mine typing that

i am wrong it is out of sync, bollocks.

Does the "and beyond" make this thread the appropriate place for non-league chat too?

Just spent an enjoyable afternoon watching Dulwich Hamlet (nominally my English side) beat Lowestoft Town 2-0 on their return to the Rymans Premier despite being under the cosh most of the game and going down to 10 men after 55 mins.

We signed Daniel Carr from Dulwich Hamlet not long after there were reports in the press that Chelsea + Liverpool were after him. He has only featured for the U21's so far, but some folk say he could be one to watch.

we're gonna play much harder teams than Gillingham this season but that was pretty great. total dominance, excellent performances from Griffiths, Ismail, Davis, Evans and Batth, proper football, probably shd've scored 8 or 9, Mad Dog dressed up as Santa as an extra treat. gonna have to do the 300 mile round trip every fortnight now.

How shit were Gillingham? We completely outplayed Sheffield Utd today and it's Gills next week. I worry that an ex-Brentford manager and 3 ex-Brentford players will suddenly remember to play properly, or at least be sufficiently motivated to kick us into submission.

hard to tell, i think they try and play it the right way and were just thoroughly outclassed. our guys had a lot of time and space on the ball and they had no answer to the wide players. if you get a chance, see Leigh Griffiths' first goal - he has half an hour to turn on the edge of the box and slot it home. altho today may've shocked them enough to rough it up a bit in future.

i'm probably psyching myself up. tbh if the Gills play like today every week they will get butchered.

Their squad looks pretty crap. Forgot about Nelson so it's actually four from us, none of them much good. Bloody Big Dog has got a bit of a knack tho.

Hang on... Neal Ardley and Neal Eardley are pronounced the same now? (Also: look at the Yeovil away end! Cars on the verge!)

Those Sky Sports people were not entirely wrong about Wade Elliott's haircut, either.

SIDNEY SCHMELTZ

Classic Martin Allen performance there.

Jesus, Griffiths really did have a fortnight to cross the street there.

Yeah that was extraordinary defending.

Ohhh, that Stanley goal there. That was absolutely gorgeous.

xxxp yeah, i think Carr had a week or so on trial at Liverpool before signing for Huddersfield. Never got the chance to see him play but by all accounts a good prospect.

Stephen Ward out on a season long loan to Mumford and Sons, Kenny Jackett keeps on doing the Lord's work

teen striker comes on for debut 83rd minute, scores winner in the 90th

what is this feeling in my cold dead heart... is this the football of which you humans speak

we had two first-time scorers as well today, including a teenager (well he might be 20 actually)

more importantly, millwall are bottom, pointless

So you have succumbed to a temporary state of Frenzy?
xp

I am glad with town's hard fought win at the den, not got anything there for a long time.

spiralli's lot monstering that deficit. 'the spark we needed' perhaps

i did say millwall would struggle tbf

also, whisper it but phil brown's brewing something up at roots hall

He might do well if he resists touting himself for every L1/Championship vacancy when sacking season begins.

cracking start to the season for my boys the O's, keep it up lads!

Bees equalised with 3 seconds of injury time left. I'm sure Big Dog has saved his best for the football league show.

First QPR youth product to score since Antonio German in spring 2010. Only the second to have even been on the pitch since German.

I don't think Lomas is going to endear himself further to Milwall fans by saying today was their best performance so far. Even if it did sound like they could have got something from the game. I guess Jackett knew it was going to be a slog when he jumped ship.

Lomas had only really got the hang of post match interviews when he left Saints. Didn't always sound reassuring. Hope he turns things round, though.

I think this is the thread where we are grateful to the Conference for picking a sponsor with a sufficiently stupid name that everyone will refer to the leagues as Conference Premier/North/South, because Skrill North... that just sounds rubbish.

Skrill is a very unwise name for a company. I have already seen people referring to the Conference as the "Skrillex Division". Bad juju on brand awareness from the start of their sponsorship.

i quite like it tbh, "minnows" is overused so a seeming association with krill feels pleasingly appropriate

and yes, edm brostep, why not

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69399000/jpg/_69399540_177064798.jpg

not to piss on the man's chips but leon barnett may possibly be a tad too chuffed with equalising against doncaster