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

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

really flat, listless performance by my lot today. But fuck it, the embryonic L1 table is still otm!

lying in bed this afternoon getting over (prob) covid, heard a bizarre succession of sounds coming from the Abbey Stadium, seems Cambridge were playing Blackpool, went one nil down after five mins, got an equaliser, then let in three, then scored three, to finish up 4-4.

enjoying the total absence of madcap thrillers from our season so far ngl

Four games so far this season we've been 1-0 up in each. the first we won and in the three since we've gone on to lose 2-1. This is annoying but doesn't yet feel like a disaster.

On a happier note, I went to see our women's team play at Lewes yesterday, very pleasant day out indeed drinking Harveys Sussex Best on the terrace with the South Downs forming a picturesque backdrop and watching our lot win 4-0 to stay top of the league after two matches. Our manager more or less promised we'd get slaughtered by Ipswich next week.

Lewes is a lovely town! The Snowdrop Inn is one of my shouts for 'best pub in England'

I always enjoy visiting Lewes but I have a more conflicted relationship with the place (I get that pleased-with-itself feeling which makes me itch a bit). I like the Snowdrop too but it wouldn't be in my top three pubs in Lewes even. I recommend visiting the Dripping Pan if you get the chance, it really is a tremendous ground.

I get that pleased-with-itself feeling which makes me itch a bit

oh, totally get this. think when i visited Stroud in 2018 it was at its peak, literally on the cusp of this exact heelturn

three pubs in Lewes better than the Snowdrop? crikey. that's a pretty good hit-rate. although i've now recalled Derby's Exeter Arms (and Alexandra) so it's probably over for most other English pubs

Birmingham have bid something in the £10m range for Fulham's Jay Stansfield, what league is this again. Some of their fans seem to think their owner's bogus sponsorship deal or whatever the hell it is will insulate them from any inevitable FFP issues down the line if they get promoted.

bid rejected, maybe £20m will cut it.

We get a decent percentage of any Stanno profit Fulham might make, still I’d rather see him sit tight and establish himself at Fulham tbh. Love the lad.

we've got a loan move for Luton's Joe Taylor being held up until they've resumed whatever business they are doing. He apparently did the medical yesterday and had to return to the club in case they require him on the bench tonight. One of them potential transfers just designed to collapse at the last minute. Or maybe Birmingham will swoop in with an insane 11th hour offer.

kerching! Tim

Guess so, and we seem to have "invested" some of the spoils on a child from your third team. Happy days all round.

tbf Pat Jones was always more on the periphery of the first team, and if not for injuries etc.. He scored an incredible individual goal against Norwich on his debut. There is a player there no doubt.

I should add he has shown lots of flashes of potential since but his development was also hindered by a succession of fuckwit managers and all the usual stuff when a club is in a period of decline. He could be potentially be a fantastic player in L1.

think the gambling commissioner should have a look at this

Hahahahahahahahaha wtf is going on here fine the lot of them pic.twitter.com/nOOX3G5x4r

— jakefloyd_97 (@j_floyd97) September 14, 2024

that is one gk who won't be getting a good night's sleep tonight

Both our goals against them were from them losing the ball at the back. Evatt surely gone by the morning

otmness of table alas short-lived

about time Wrexham got a reality check, although Brum with 15m worth of J Stansfield could be a bit much for a lot of us

"Both our goals against them were from them losing the ball at the back."

both Posh and Bolton played out from the back very badly. It will play into the hands of any half decent, well organised high press.

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