EASY, DEVIN: English Football League and beyond, 2018/19

Lol yes exackly that was an xpost

Noted brainbox Lee Hendrie reckons that Bruce has taken the club "back to where it belongs", intentional or not that is a+ trolling of his audience

Ugh comedy goalkeeping, comedy goal

If I were grealish I'd be making a beeline for the exit, can only hope that his diehard villa fandom blurs his vision

We're gonna miss JT this season

Why are our kits always so shit

Absolutely mesmerised by Hull's failure to even attempt to dispossess Alan Hutton there

Dogshit performance redeemed by the quid I stuck on us to win 3-1 at 19/1 in a pre-match giddy fit, paid for my takeaway at least. Hull are so bad

The Heff is being linked with QPR. He's one paced, looks and runs like a lower league clogger, but he's bizarrely + deceptively quite an awesome CB, just what is needed for the long haul of a champo promotion campaign. The platonic ideal of a 90's football style 'legend' - good in the dressing room almost certain cult status with a majority of fans after a month!

Hey Aldo, any particular opinion on Dara O'Shea? It's our turn to have him on loan this year, apparently.

Just woke up and saw that. Great player, no disrespect but too good for your league even never mind ours. Ball playing centre half, good with his head and feet. Full of confidence going forward and marshalls a defence well.

I had assumed after relegation he would waltz into the West Brom side.

Well that sounds lovely. Thanks.

Colin Quaner was a done deal to Preston North End, and then apparently the deal collapsed when he told Alex Neil that he disapproved of his training timetable, and would have to train separately at his preferred hours if he wanted him to sign! Lol! he barely even resembles a park footballer at times, bless him!

"I've got VAR here. I'll show you my phone. Prick." https://t.co/ggcRmw3aAl

— The Dulwich Remainer 🏝 (@DulwichRaider) August 8, 2018

"Ref you're a lizard".

aldo, how were leamington this evening?

All the bars in Buenos Aires appeared to be showing Leeds vs Bolton in the Carabao earlier. The Bielsa effect is having an impact here.

The prospect of Leeds Utd actually employing a good manager for the first time in their post 1960 history is causing me some serious angst.

Still not back, don't leave till tomorrow.

According to mates at the game, Leamington started playing for time after about half an hour including the manager telling their #9 (who by all accounts was their best player) to "go down as if you're injured" on the hour mark. (Our seats are directly above the opposition benches otherwise I'd be sceptical.) Two blantant handballs in the lead up to our first which was given for a third handball in the same move although apparently this one was ball-to-man.

10 points from 4 games not a bad start. Still need someone else up front.

haha thanks, sounds like a classic - gl for the season!

I'm into dirty leeds now because of bielsa.

ffs! get a grip jim!

Listening to that twat Noel Wehlan on 5Live the other night has me praying for a sign that this latest Leeds project is made from bielsa wood.

I think it's high time rtc started posting again

sounds like Smithies was a big loss, especially as Schteve seems to be doing that thing when malfunctioning managers try and get average sides to set up like Man City!

Injury time winner for Chorley during the 8 minutes added because the ref had to be replaced through injury. Then again we beat Leamington with an injury time winner during the week so we've got 3 points from the games instead of the two we would have had with the 'right' results.

Just signed Jordan Lam from Cardiff Met, apparently he's the best forward player in the Welsh Premier League whatever that's worth.

I doubt for Chester's viability. Lost 8-1 to Blyth a couple of weeks ago, the manager called the players out on it and a couple (including their real talents) have gone. The club then suffered some 'storm damage' which looked like just a couple of collapsed ceiling tiles but has somehow rendered their ground unable to play games ever since. They told us on Saturday the BH Monday fame probably isn't going ahead which will mean they gave cancelled more games than they've played. All the rumours are that insolvency is days away.

York sack their management team after 5 games.

Norwich City paint Carrow Road away dressing room pink

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45247073

a wanker move on multiple levels

Top of the emergent league tonight, ahead of Lincoln on goal difference. This is progress From Saturday when we were top of the league, ahead of Lincoln on alphabetical order.

Franchise on Saturday. I have choices to make.

whoever tonight's ref was I am going to remember his name and maybe unveil a hex or three

bielsa's 100% record gone the way of the dodo.

still undefeated mind.

good stuff exeter

hate leeds hate hate

having just been handed the win by the ref, steve evans moans about the ref. apparently we should have had multiple red cards. fuck that cunt, why does calzino like him ffs

I guess there is kind of an art to what Evans does, he's a proper heel

hate leeds hate hate

― imago, Tuesday, August 21, 2018 11:44 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aye. QPR bringsh the lolz tho.

Bielsa is doing terrible things to my natural instincts

Whenever Leeds make a good start to the season the overheated hysteria and bollox talked on Radio Leeds/Look North/Calendar is easy to ignore or treat with the laughable contempt it deserves, normally. But this Bielsa seems like the real deal. What a troubling situation. I might even get the rosaries out and say a daily morning prayer for their season to go to shit and for Danny Mills and Noel Whelan to die in a M62 pile up.

I can't really stand Evans imago, I just thought he looked a bit deathly a couple of years back, but the mood I'm in right now - I wouldn't gaf if the ugly bassa had a violent brain-stroke and expired during a match!

calzino is back

I have so far managed to maintain my boycott of Franchise (we've played them a couple of times) but these are special circumstances and I really really want to go to this one.

I am working up a Franchise Ticket Fee Offset Scheme (FF-Offs I call it) where any of my mates who'd
(a) ordinarily buy a beer or two at half time in the bar (I know who they are) and
(b) choose not to buy any "refreshments" at the ground

can have an additional pint on me after the game.

I reckon if I can divert approx. £20 - £25 of bar spend to a pub rather than the club bar that will offset most of the benefit to the club of my ticket.

do it, it's a nice stadium with almost no home fans in it and there's a pizza express 20 seconds' walk from the exit

A pizza express? SWOON.

lol

you can do a bletchley park tie-in as well!

the good thing about bielsa for the haters of leeds is that he's a bit bloody "mercurial" and things could go tits up by season's end

Nahki won't be the answer to QPR's woes, he's hardly played in the last year and his profligacy in front of goal makes him not much better than Conor Washington these days. And he is a bit of a needy fragile ego type, who doesn't knuckle down. Last type of player you need in a relegation scrap. Although maybe a bit early for the "r" word, but lets face it, Schteve is a fucking useless twat!

Really strong rumours Beadle and Jenkins are going to Cheltenham to replace Gary Johnson despite not featuring in the betting at all.

Pretty sure QPR's woes don't start across the front line atm

Tim - I was cycling down in Devon the other week and took a detour to your stadium. One end is missing (but I imagine you know that).
Aldo - I might possibly see your lot this season.

Yeah we are re-doing our away end and old grandstand. Particularly sorry to see the old main stand go but it was knocking on 100 years old and mostly made of wood and asbestos aiui, at severe risk of falling down.

Am slightly sorry our new away end will have a roof, watching Argyle fans standing in the hammering rain and losing is unbeatable.

alas ... those good old days when you could have snowball fights with clumps of asbestos that had fallen from the roof of your dilapidated stand are just never going to come back!

Yeah. From what I've read it doesn't meet League requirements for sponsorship logo size but they're planning on wearing it for pre-season games

HTSA statement on Town's 'new kit'
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very dignified and impressive response from our Supporters Association on this travesty, proud of 'em apart from "top notch banter" of course!

At least they didn't use "bantz"