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

9/11 away wins in the champo today!

glad to've bucked that trend

dying throes of ALF morelike

― imago, Monday, 3 August 2015 13:49 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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lol i forgot about that

I had to leave just after the first half but up to that point we could have been ahead and often were better than or matching QPR, too many positives to moan. I am not too dispirited or worried yet because we have an improving team here, we just need that transfer window to fuck off.

I was talking to my brother + my step-dad at the game today and they both hate Smithies, I was weakly arguing with them about his superb distribution and lightning shot-stopping skills. They countered that I was too much of a vicarious fan for the last 5 years to know shit!

my old man does that line on me if i ever express an opinion he doesn't fancy

why u sell stearman idgi

well maybe:

Jackett talks about wanting to strengthen elsewhere, and needing cash from Stearman and Van la Parra. cautiously i think Stears is dispensible, and the needs in midfield are way greater. we have Hause, Ebanks-Landell, Iorfa and Danny Batth who all look Championship class at centre-half to me. all of them apart from Batth can play more or less anywhere across the back 4, and the more games they get now hopefully the better they'll become.

i think any defensive frailties at the moment are down to a lack of strengt in centre mid and not enough shielding the back 4. as my dad pointed out tonight, it's not even like Stears is the cool older head, he can be just as gung-ho as any of the rest of them.

if it was me then i wd still prefer to keep him but that might be sentiment - i really don't think we run much more risk without him in the back four than with, and the problem areas are elsewhere. so i'm prepared to trust Kenny Jackett that it's a straight squad-building decision at this stage.

don't see us bringing anybody in permanently before tuesday tea-time tho. we'll see, the club play their transfers v close to their chest under KJ

yeah idk i agree the kids look good but all together learning on the job in the champo is p intense... hause especially has looked raw

wasnt coady the ball winning answer tho. neither he nor mcdonald getting dropped i'm assuming so maybe dicko injury a blessing in disguise wrt having to change formation and fill the midfield?

i sincerely hope Coady is the long term answer to a lot of the midfield ish but he's young too and something's not clicking yet. personally feel like 2 up front plus Dave Edwards is always a mistake, it inevitably seems to lead to gaps further back. tbf to the squad as is, the problems might be youth plus underdeveloped team cohesion, we'll see.

as i said about Stears if it was me i'd keep him but Jackett has always seemed to keep a small squad, he seems to want the players he settles on playing as regularly as possible. given the potential in the back line i think he wants to develop it as quick as poss now. he may not have accounted for this being the most entitled, impatient set of fans he's ever worked with.

alternative is Morgan and Moxey are a pair of money-grubbing cunts who don't care how the club performs in the league. this is over-stated by some of our fans i think but there's elements of truth in it.

and also as i said Stearman has the experience but it has not really converted into wily old game-reading elder statesman leadership skills imo

"I didn't feel the mix was right necessarily in the early days.

"And I think we have to make some big decisions. If it's getting some money in and strengthening in other areas it's best to do it early.

"The early games there's been some promise but we do need to get sorted out, we do need to improve.

"The season is still early enough, if we make the key decisions and the big calls. Obviously we all realise within the club this is a big call."

At this stage he's lying thru his teeth or he's taking a big gamble in which case good luck to him.

Van la Parra is more worrying in a way, Jackett brought him in, he's never really worked out, who's scouting these boys?

the familiar feeling: "how the fuck are we losing to these cloggers"

according to my West Midlands-based correspondent we need to sack the owner, the chief executive and the manager and put Big Sam in charge but i'm not so sure tbh

We are beginning to look a bit better and our second today was a thing of beauty.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MattQuinn75/status/642796108889108480

According to a section of our myopic fans we need to be freed from the yolk of our evil despotic fan chairman who is carrying a 2 mill annual operating loss, just to be a shit selling championship club. Deal with it you fucking arseholes.

could powell get sacked if you lose at the valley on tuesday? kind of wondrous/horrifying if so

Redfearn has been spotted at about every home game recently x0== and I get a strong feeling Powell's days are numbered so I wouldn't write off that possibility. Thus far he has been the most boring and conservative manager we have had since Lou Macari. This probably sounds a bit harsh but, but he really is starting to piss me off. Another in a long fucking line of fucking shite mediocre cunts, fucking up my club :(

hopefully we'll be the latest in that line :D

Powell has benched some of our most creative attacking players and given his reluctance to make substitutions, this is looking like a fucking awful homecoming for him tonight. Wells on the bench for the woeful Miller who cant even trap a bag of sand, mind you neither can Wells at the moment tbf. I am just trying to cast some magic here, sometimes it works and Powell sure needs a helping hand at the moment or a new team selection tombola or something.

Miller scores, you have a FP :)

you twat

Lol! Good night tonight because Leeds lost as well and were denied a blatant penalty call and Pearson has just walked out on them. That is the former Hull City Pearson who probably was a moderating influence on their fucking insane chairman.

well at least someone's in a good mood

just be thankful we have a sieve for a keeper

awesome night for us, don't play, go up one place, think we have a new plan

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Obv all credit goes to big Ish who lead the line so well tonite :p

Some Bobby Fischer quote to NV.

What's worse than losing 3-0 at Blackburn? Losing 3-0 at Blackburn but being on a train that's shortly to arrive at Milton Keynes just in time to be flooded with sodding Leeds fans

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/SethJohnson02.JPG

that loaded v slowly but was obv seth.jpg before it got down to the eyes

be sure to update that rate people on public transport thread u revive from time to time when the dread beasts enter the carriage

the vile revenants

the very same, lj, the very same

just one family got on, but they're loud, and quite fat, and one of them is wearing a Smiths t-shirt

Bolton got off lightly today, in the 2nd half it was some Big Ish profligacy that spared them further humiliation. Huws has been some good business, we need to get the best out of him before he is recalled and sold in january, freescoring midfielders don't fuck about with shit like Town and he has already refused to play for his host club.

you've got yr swagger back all right

tbf it was said powell had these two games to save himself. and how

It was only reactionary, hysterical tossers like me saying that. I think after selling so many players our chairman was always going to give him some leeway.

"We took 6 thousand to Mk Dons, no other club in this division can do that"
*dead Bremner farts*

We were on the verge of signing free agent Shola Ameobi, but the latest word is he is talking to Wolves.

http://www.mkdons.com/news/article/club-break-attendance-record-1452294.aspx

go fuck yrselves dirty Leeds

oh i was wondering which Newcastle ledge my dad was trying to describe on the phone tonight

cuuuuuuunts

o lol

hoping this one gets 'tasty' at full-time!!

best bit of that complete and utter fucking shambles was chery, unjustly hooked at 35mins, eschewing the bench and slowly walking round the whole pitch applauding the fans on his way to the dressing room and presumably home

ahaha dear me

and there goes austin's hammy

shit we've got these on Tuesday

can't beat an injury time equalizer

Preston finish with 9 men

oh football

nggghgh

i guess Morgan's taken us as far as he could - turns out it's the same place we was when he bought us

Even in that short time the levels of spending in the 2nd tier seem to have escalated madly. Seven years ago our chairman, in his moment of hubris was saying he would gift us hundred quid season tickets in our first prem season. Since then he has been on a sharp learning curve, especially since we returned to the championship.

i think there is truth that Morgan invested in the team unwisely and then inadequately, but i don't know where the billionaire Wolves diehard that the idiot section of our fanbase expects is coming from