omg! Leon Clarke is a Blade now, that be 17 clubs he's turned out for now.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 August 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
Been a fun first 20 mins between Fulham and Norwich. Marley Watkins could have had a couple already
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 5 August 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
I totally misheard that on 5 live and thought Norwich had signed Ollie Watkins
― calzino, Saturday, 5 August 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
Bonatini Lohner Maia has to be contender for best name in the league
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 5 August 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
Nathaniel Percival Knight is another cool name.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 August 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
i dunno this Brazilian lad he's not all that if he was any good he wouldn't of been playing in Saudi we shd spunk 20 mill on Andre Gray
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 August 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
Wycombe vs Lincoln City shouldn't be a football match, it should be a feight to the death between Adebayo Akinfenwa + Matt Rhead!
― calzino, Saturday, 5 August 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
omg didn't realise Akinfenwa was still playing
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 August 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
Blues losing :) very happy with how these games are going right now.
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 5 August 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
I would be if hadn't put the bastards on one of my accs where all the other 3 are winning, but on reflection - fuck 'em!
Burnley "friendly" abandoned after Reports of some Hannover fans with knives in the away end!
― calzino, Saturday, 5 August 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
given the number of chances we seem to be spurning maybe i was unfair on Mr Ward
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 August 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
am gonna do my best not to make kneejerk negative comments about Dave Edwards this season
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 August 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
fuck me i'd've took a battling defeat at 2.59pm
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 August 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
yeah that's a great start to the season. more of this please. Boro winning the division would be so tedious.
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 5 August 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
i think today, Charlton might have learned they can cope without Lee Novak in the team.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 August 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
My fave blunt quote on Mick from one of our lot is "he knows how to make a bunch of turds play ok"
― calzino, Saturday, 5 August 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
I could imagine Mick saying that at his job interview.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 August 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
winning with ten men for 84 minutes is pretty good
i was playing cricket alas, scoring 31 not out in a total of 76 all out and generally getting to feel right narked off about my teammates (except the one i ran out)
― imago, Saturday, 5 August 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
OH FUCK THEY FOUND A WAY TO MAKE THE CHANNEL 5 HIGHLIGHTS WORSE
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 August 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
Talking about cricket?
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Saturday, 5 August 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
Grimsby - Derby in the Malibu Cup has been abandoned cos of torrential rain, which judging by how bad it is here i can totally understand
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
I thought there was something missing in my life that was previously an ever-present. Yeah it has been pouring down hard all day here as well.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
that new bbc latest scores page is good enough in theory, but as soon as you click Show Scorers it reverts to earlier and doesn't update.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
i have a superstitious fear of following the BBC text when we're playing so i've not looked at it much but i noticed the other day that the live league table wasn't functioning either
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
We don't start until this weekend, so I forgot to look for the thread.
Final friendly was last weekend, comfortably beat Stourbridge but the first half was pretty woeful tbh. We've kept about 30% of the squad so who knows how we're going to line up any given week - we've got West Brom's 4th choice keeper training with us and filling in for injuries and you can see why he's 4th choice.
I'd take playoffs now, but I can see us finishing mid-table.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 12:39 (six years ago) link
PSA: Aston Villa are playing Colchester in the CuraƧao Cup tonight and it's gonna be on the telly. kick-off in just under an hour.
been drinking for free since about midday today after my trial got knocked off early and the barristers insisted, so if apologies in advance if i clog up the thread a bit tonight with inane and foul-mouthed minute-by-minute get-involvery as I watch what is sure to be a truly dire football match
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
Big Chris Samba flying in on the Colchester striker to give away a penalty after 7 mins, how much is this moron gettin paid?
Saved! Naww I feel pretty bad for that guy actually
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
In the pub watching it as far as I can focus Windsor :D
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
aaaaaand I think we can stick a fork in this one
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
Feel pretty bad turning up to someone else's gaff with our reserves,going 2-0 up thru a goalkeeping clanger and an own goal
Wouldn't resent it if they came back to win 3-2
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
Robbing harder working teams is gh
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
Whoops...is the essence of the league cup
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
Guess it makes a welcome change for villa not to be crashing out in the first round 2-0 to league 2 opposition following a goalkeeping clanger and an own goal. Progress is progress.
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
Except for when it comes to the sponsorship of the efl cup. What the FUCK is a carabao. Wish the commentators weren't quite so earnest when using the name
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
one touch football from Colchester
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Lol
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
Yesssss Chris Nichol reference! My dad must've told me that story fifty times
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
no sound in here, ELO on the jukebox tho appropriately
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
Wrt the Colchester player getting a goal after scoring an O.G earlier. Chris Nichol being the lad that once scored all four goals in a 2-2 draw
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
That Colchester right winger was quick then, we might even have a game on
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
well that fizzled out
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
spent the second half chatting with a girl on facetime, stream froze up on 49 mins. was pleasantly surprised to find we didn't blow it. no complaints here
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
I was chatting. Saw Colchester have one decent shot that was well saved but it wasn't gripping
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
Wolves 2-0 up and Villa being thrashed. This day continues to get better and better.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 12 August 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
44 games to go yet. Out with my oldest boy today and we're working hard on managing our expectations
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 August 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
fuck it, be arrogant early pacesetters and enjoy it. It is always much more fun - even if you end up bollocksing it all up by October!
― calzino, Saturday, 12 August 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 August 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
I can make it even better for you: Paul Gladon (how many games did he play for you last year? Two?) showed Heracles the way today, scoring in a 2-1 shock win against Ajax! Top lad.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 12 August 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
there were at least 3 ex-Wolves scored in England today! Vokes for Burnley, Saville for Millwall and Mendez-Laing for Cardiff.
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 August 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
pleased for Gladon, he never got a fair look in for us. bought during the panic spending spree last summer after Fosun took over when i don't even know who was calling the shots but there was clearly no strategy. have no trust in the opinion of Lambert and i don't even know what Zenga's thoughts were tbh.
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 August 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
Beginning to feel really weird being away for the start of the season on Saturday but not as weird as listening to a radio commentary on a non-league game at 2am.
Scraping the playoffs, calling it. Team changes in September when it isn't working, Beadle goes in the spring.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
When you said "no progress at all" up there I thought you were feeling doomy about your prospects for the season, rather than reckoning you were play-off bound.
I think we might well get to the play-offs this year again, with the caveat that I don't think changing a manager after twelve years is a recipe for a smooth season. But I think our squad looks pretty good. People have been saying nice things about Oates's showings in PSFs, it'll be interesting to see whether he goes straight into the first team. We could still do with another centre back, I think (though not necessarily in week 1, more for when one of our current ones breaks).
We've the local derby against Carlisle on Saturday, and due to ground redevelopments we'll have even less than the half-a-ground we played with last season: the capacity on our big* standing terrace is reduced as a result of work being done on one of the exits.
*It's simultaneously not very big and the biggest in the football league.
― Tim, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link
We're on the telly this Saturday, breathing fresh life into Sunderland
― imago, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 09:49 (five years ago) link
I'm being bold, mainly because I saw that the bottom team making the playoffs last year lost 15 and scraped 63 points together. More a case of reduced expectations for the league rather than thinking we were better.
We have the local derby against Blyth on Saturday so it's clearly the season for it.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
we've just signed jordy hiwula from huddersfield - wikipedia has informed me (a) his goalscoring record looks p good and (b) his school nickname is 'deckchair'
― nxd, Friday, 3 August 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
in fact i think his goalscoring record looks completely made up
i hope we didn't sign him based on this haha
― nxd, Friday, 3 August 2018 10:22 (five years ago) link
Oh god yeah the walk along the canal on Kraanlei was super-atmos, lots of likely-looking places to eat round there in Patershooi also IIRC.
― Tim, Friday, 3 August 2018 10:29 (five years ago) link
EASY, DEVIN: English Football League and beyond, 2018/19
― imago, Friday, 3 August 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
Ahaha that post was for a different thread on a different board, I wondered where it had gone.
See you on the other thread, thanks for giving me a year-long reminder of my personal autocorrect pain, LJ.
― Tim, Friday, 3 August 2018 11:09 (five years ago) link