The Cunt With The Bell: Resurrection - EFL+ 24/25

I guess we're all ready right? Okay cool

Looking forward to tomorrow. We have a big enough squad and a short term loan to cover the injury from pre-season, plus an announcement today that Ceesay has signed back on after his move to the French league fell through.

How are Coventrys chances of promotion this year?

Fans broadly upbeat for a playoffs place but likely formation is Simms on his own up top and the rumours of him to Bournemouth won't go away which will knacker their season - either they'll have to try and play without him which could well result in next to no goals, or they will have to overspend late to replace him which would be a disaster given their already precarious finances.

we held and contained top of the championship table Blades last week to a 1-1 (which sent their manager into a deep gloom) during a solid pre-season in which we also beat US Lecce and Hertha Berlin. so we're going down, obv. Got one great striker with injury doubts, the rest aren't worth talking about. Can't speak for the Irish kid we just got from West Ham, but he has been scoring and creating against L1 opposition in the Trill budgie-food cup or whatever the fuck its called these days.

"How are Coventrys chances of promotion this year?"

they signed one of the problem players off us, Rudoni to replace O Hare, for a fee which I thought was at least double his true value. Should have realised what a wanker he was when he first signed and was asked: it must been tough getting relegated last game with Wimbledon and he replied not so bad, because at least I scored a goal in that game. And then he developed a knack for missing gilt edged sitters in pivotal 6-pointer games for us... again and again and again.

The BBC website said Blackburn had recorded a thumping win over Derby and I was like ah "thumping" means 4-0, then I click through and see that, well

Good finishing from Blackburn tho, last one was super classy

Leeds have hit the crossbar 3 times in the first 6 minutes, and now they've scored a pen. the cunt with the bell not clanging anymore.

probably is now tho

really enjoying the Radio Leeds commentary team's despondent mood change after seemingly thinking this was going to be a stroll in the park because they are class above Pompey for the first 15.

oh ffs, I cursed it

Barry Fry is still the DoF at posh and despite this they always seem to pick up shit-hot non-league prospects that progress to the bigtime. I'm slightly nervous really, need to dig out my Believe shirt.

omg Fergie jr is still there, talk about scraping the barrel

embryonic L1 table otm imo

hmm

the highest goal bonus in L1 history was activated, yet Brum just about scraped a point at home. More of this please. Wednesday managed to spend their way out of this league with a terrible manager, don't know if Davies is that bad, but he's a rookie who probably knows little about this league, as a former big club cone organiser who has never achieved shit as a head coach.

oh yeah them failing would be incredible

passing it to nowhere while others shithouse to glory (hi)

Steve Evans typically gracious in defeat.

them failing too would be excellent, ty for your service

Talking of Wednesday, they seem to have done a pretty comprehensive job on the greenies in poor old Wayne’s first game.

those match stats are brutal and reports say it easily could have been much worse.

Xps about coventry, a few bookies have us around playoffs again, I'm not so confident but looks like we have a decent your gk this season at least

*young

Overall I think our team is slightly weaker than last two seasons, but the league might be a little easier

Coventry have started badly the last two seasons iirc

Yes we were relegation zone end of November when we eventually made play off final

Couple of attacking signings in Mason-Clark and Thomas-Asante tho I'm not too familiar with their game to have an opinion

there was a great keeper moment for us yesterday with Nicholls, not a miraculous save or anything but just a supremely confident feint that sent the Posh striker sliding past him as he was kicking the ball out, without breaking a bead of sweat. A tiny moment in the game, but I loved the swashbuckling arrogance of it.

Nice result for Hereford yesterday.

Great game, first half was pretty even but they might as well have not come out for the second half. Could and should have been 5 or 6.

They're a good footballing side and Bartlett looked just as sharp as last year. If we get the same outcome against all the other playoff candidates then it's going to be a great season.

Mason-Clark was quite possibly the best player I saw in L1 last season

yikes! just saw the Wednesday/Plymouth highlights. Can see why Miller turned down a contract extension there, shambolic defending. Rooney, why do you keep doing this to yourself. Well because clueless fuckers keep offering him jobs of course. He needs to try something new, maybe enrol on a b-tec photography course or something!

One game into the season

Preston North End have confirmed Ryan Lowe has left the club by mutual consent

they got beaten by a parachute money side that played in the prem last season, so hardly a disgraceful result. They have been the second most boring opposition side to watch, next to Swansea for me in the last couple of years, so I don't think their fans will be crying.

Didn't score in their last five games last season with five losses
No idea why they didn't do it in the summer

I wonder how long till Wazza gets put out of his misery, it was 2 wins in 18 that finished him at Brum.

embryonic L1 table otm imo :p

looking pretty grim here - fourth loss on the trot for Cambridge this month (Stockport and Crawley, QPR in the league cup and a 6-0 pre-season drubbing from Colchester) - everyone looked miserable trudging out of the abbey stadium.

we conceded a penalty in the last 40 seconds of play with a combined keeper going through the player + Spencer dragging the fucker down at the same time. Same kind of shit they were dishing out to us for 90 mons, but never mind!

got a strong feeling that Hull City's flirtation with the play-offs last season was a one off

league 1 will be very tight this season, especially considering rotherham's inevitable promotion

good luck huddersfield and charlton x

we've got the first manager since the 1970's who has won their first 3 games in charge, and still he's moaning about how shit they were in the 2nd half today. He's won me over.

a Hull City fan I heard was saying they fear Medya is getting bored with the project and the common theme in this summer's pre-season prep was top-down inertia.

yeah that seems very plausible, it's felt like a vanity project from day one

embryonic L1 table otm imo :p

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 17 August 2024 20:11 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

okay I'm listening

good luck huddersfield and charlton x

― nxd, Saturday, 17 August 2024 20:31 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

churlish to omit Devon's bastion of pure-hearted working-wonders-on-a-tight-budget goodness imo

(but ty lol)

oh of course my apologies - good luck exeter too!

What on earth has happened to Sheff Wed since last week

diagnosed with a severe case of not playing a team managed by wayne rooney

Okay calz you can almost say the line now

I'm not going to comment on opposition sides pissing about at the back and presenting easy goals to us anymore. I jinxed it last week and one of our duds did a suicidal back pass that led to a goal and today we've conceded an equaliser while pissing about at the back. At least it's good to have a manager who get's furious with the players when they do this and calls it out as dud and seems to want to coach this shit out of them.

I'm pretty cool with playing out from the back and it's fun to watch, I've been getting pissed off with pundits tutting about how inappropriate it is for the little teams to do it, they should know their place and hump it forwards at every turn unless they're a proper Big Club, which is stupid as fuck at least in part cos the effectiveness of a tactic is as much about who you're playing as anything, if you wanna try Pepball in the Conference you gotta remember you're also veong pressed by teams at your level so why the fuck not?

Also the Windass goal was a lovely treat

our back line has too many garbage footballers with less passing ability than the average under 9's side for trying anything other than quickly getting it forward, preferably not straight to an opposition player!

Don't get me wrong watching Sam Johnstone with the ball at his feet is taking years off my life and he's only been with us for 2 months

I think if we concede a goal like that, Nathan Jones will personally eat the player responsible. The karmic cost: we simply don't score from open play any more

Albion back in this ffs come on Wednesday you feebs

not mentioning a pleasing current scoreline here because I don't want to curse it

look at Brum, a £30m squad and they can't even muster a shot on target.

the gaudy arrogance of the club last Tuesday night. Flashing their stadium lights and serenading their undefeated galacticos like it was last game of the season. I knew this was coming.

I didn't!

God they were hilariously shit though. And to think I thought we'd gone off the rails

they were bang average on Tuesday night as well, unfortunately we were still going through a cursed run of pisspoor performances at the time. The funniest moment was the highest paid striker in L1 managing to intercept a goalbound shot and nodding it over the bar. But in the end we still let him through for an easy goal 15 mins later. Useless fuckers.

Didn't do so badly today! Table slightly more otm than it was yesterday

correction: the 2nd highest paid striker in L1. Stansfield probably has a wardrobe full of gold bullion bars.

Couple of them must have gotten nicked given how he went off at the final whistle

I'd be absolutely delighted for any club to win this L1 title and would forget all historical grudges, barring the current top 2 - both of which I fucking despise and wish nothing but failure upon them.

I'm surprised the Wrexham promotion bump has been so sustained. They've gotta start running out of juice soon. They're our next home opposition, bring it on tbh

yeah tbf on them it seems to be more a case of winning momentum rather than thermonuclear transfer splurges. But tbh I've hated them since their Lee Trundle era and the current ownership are despicable.. so fuck them!

Wrexham apparently were p bad today

great result for Charlton that, love to see it

Yeah I hope their fans enjoy the ride and I look forward to them going bust.

We’ve just scraped consecutive 1-0 wins against poor poor teams (Orient, Cambridge) but I will take the inflated league position all day long.

Dicing with making the trip next month...the game sounds like it's going to be a bit of a grind

our first choice colossus gk legend Nichols breaks down in prematch warmup and needs surgery - out for ages. Our no.2 keeper is recovering from an inflamed heart and is currently restricted by protocol for how long he can even train. 3rd choice keeper Chapman steps up - everyone fears the worst. Turns out he's a pretty good allround keeper who isn't only NOT shit but also growing in stature, game by game. Like it when stuff like this happens

Cambridge really circling the L1 drain this time, just one point from nine games. My son is no longer asking to go, he says he wants them to go down to the national league again so he can come and be their star player in 2032 or so and get them promoted to the championship, then get a transfer to Liverpool. But yeah for this season, if you other L1 people want to have an almost guaranteed win away day I would recommend it, good transport links and the computer museum is ten minutes away. Food at the stadium is crap though.

Bojan Radulovic, our Serbian/Spanish striker was doing an interview the other day. Generally these player interviews are so anodyne, but this lad delivered, bigtime - it was very funny. He said life was hard for him at first because he was living in Huddersfield and that is so crushingly dull because it is such a boring place to live in, with nothing to do there, no fucking hope, a grey hopeless shithole! But now he has acquired a flat in Leeds he feels alive again, thank fuck I got out of that monotone shithole (just slightly paraphrasing), he was basically saying, without realising how much trouble he is in now!

lolll

i mean, serbia

I think his parental home is in Spain, and he was just missing his supermodel/influencer girlfriend or watev. But I'm old enough to remember that Denis Law lodged in a very average terraced house in industrial Milnsbridge when he was a Town player. In an an era when it when it was a much greyer and grimmer, sootier, an altogether more fucking disgusting place to live!

thought thread bump might be for this
https://www.charltonafc.com/news/mark-goldbridge-valley-wrexham-clash

the glitz, the glamour

Not too proud to offer Tim some congrats for belated supremacy. Decent outfit this season looks like. You will say nothing about our own playing style that I do not already, painfully, know

― imago, Saturday, 9 November 2024 19:33 (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

we beat Tim's lot quite comfortably but I still wouldn't call us a decent outfit, in fact I'd go as far as saying we are often inconsistent and frequently mediocre. We beat Barnsley twice without even getting into 2nd gear and they are above us. This is Wycombe's league to lose! (which kind of cheers me up - cos anyone but Brum)

hoping to pick up the Wycombe boss as the other bookies favourites look awful

hold out for R Martin tbh

Inconsistency is the name of the game in L2, we were apparently schooled by Hudds the other week, we’ve had a few games where we’ve really got going and mostly we look tidyish but not-quite-there. Dimitri Mitchell back from injury might make a difference.

I wasn’t there today, my friend said “We won a 0-0 there and got 3 points, been on the wrong end of many of those”.

this playing-a-bogus-fixture-against-some-fucking-ManU-U21s in the autoglass trophy is a new indignity for me. I refuse to acknowledge that this is a real fixture win, lose or d. As far as I'm concerned it was a behind closed doors game to improve match fitness and couldn't care less about the result. I will never accept bullshit fixtures like this as legit.

REG dive secures massively undeserved penalty equaliser lmao

followed by a weird red card for our captain

it sounds like your headcase manager is still riling up players to commit gbh!

congrats to the Shrews for such a good result

for both the pen and the red were from completely unnecessary challenges

we never get more than a point against 10, often we get nothing. Literally no advantage for us!

was starting to think our injury woes might be over, the starting XI barring Helik on the bench, was for the first time in ages, our strongest. Then Healy and Taylor both limp off sounding by worrying comments form local bbc, looking long term injured ffs

Leaburn has gone close twice now, should have just equalised then!

so as you can see, we play extremely lovely and effective football

should have drawn though, our expensive summer striker missed an open goal from 2 yards...again

thank fuck our keeper was awake for that quickly taken free kick at the death, that would have hurt

i'm taking a sabbatical

I'm Frankie Lamps

Fwanks for the memories

frankly my dear, I'll be gone in march