Gary McSheffrey has made a huge difference for them since coming on.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Saturday, 14 October 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
They're down to 9 now, their captain has just kicked the ball hard into our dugout in protest and lucky to stay on.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Saturday, 14 October 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
Stream died with seconds to go but it didn't matter. FIRST ROUND PROPER.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Saturday, 14 October 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
always nervous when we're bossing it but haven't scored
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 October 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
NV, dude, top of the league! Feel kinda bad this thread is lagging this season w/ Huddersfield playing with the big boys now, too (though I hear Calz way less about it than when they were in the Championship!).
Happy you don't seem to need Locadia after all, with a GD of +10 you're doing really well right? After mucking about he's been of proper use to us though, he's joint league top scorer and we're top, five points clear of Ajax and Feyenoord.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 15 October 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
I'm starting to think there was never a serious intention to get another striker in - we've got at least 6 options for the front 3 and we're ridiculously fluid at times. That said I think the system works best with Bonatini who is a more orthodox number 9 and we could maybe do with one more of them. Other than we could maybe get another centre mid as cover but seriously I'm pretty sure we've got the best squad in the division and barring horrible luck we can win the league without any more additions
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 October 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
I'm starting to think there was never a serious intention to get another striker in
Perhaps, but Locadia sure thought he was well on his way to youse; he's been p sour about how it all fell through in September. All water under the bridge now bcz things are crescendo.
Do you feel Wolves are the 'team to hate and beat' this season with the Mendes link? I don't see it that way, but could see other teams scoff at the Premiership level players you brought in. (I don't know if Wolves get more sympathy or scorn from neutrals tbh).
Wish I could see more of it; it's not streaming here (anymore), miss the highlights since the Beeb got rid of them.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 15 October 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
i think we definitely started the season a bit below the radar of the insular English football media - most of the signings/loans are youngsters and not yet established international names. i feel like even Neves was relatively unknown since the Prem's big dogs lost interest in him. the Mendes stuff seems to have died down but i don't read the gutter press so i dunno. i feel like we're ignored quite a lot by the media and i've no idea what neutrals think about the club, probably not much, yet. if we're still top 3 come March i think the "bought promotion" shit might ramp up.
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 October 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
I kind of hate Lee Johnson/Bristol City
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 October 2017 09:04 (six years ago) link
The Kennedy Assasination
I don't want to interrupt that thread with ILF talk but I wanted to note it.
Clint Hill gets booked for climbing, is the gist.
― Tim, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
haaa
― imago, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
mentioning him is a v quick way to make me sad that nakh and rtc are no longer among us tho
― imago, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
indeed, this thread has been a bit of a graveyard this year. maybe i will spice things up by (in an act of calculated hubris) predicting blandford's boys to go down by four tomorrow
― imago, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
Exeter are being weird, as usual, all up and down, but I never want to post when we're doing well - who wants to read about some nothing lower league team on a good run? - and I never want to post when we're doing badly, because in order to remain a decent human being and not make my lovely wife's life a misery when we lose, I try not to think about football.
I love Reuben Reid as much, I think, as I've ever loved a footballer. And that's even with him being ex-Argyle. But it was when the interviewer asked why he doesn't celebrate when he scores, and he thought about it and said (something to the effect of) "if I score I don't feel like celebrating because I'm mostly relieved". Man alive.
― Tim, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
lol! I'm sure if mark was into football he would have found some way to introduce a Neil Warnock joke to the JFK thread or something.
I might put on Radio Leeds for a laugh tonight.
― calzino, Friday, 27 October 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
who wants to read about some nothing lower league team on a good run?
goddamit man this could've been the thread title
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 October 2017 03:44 (six years ago) link
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/cwclp.gif
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 October 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
excited to sheffield united to get bad around xmas then make the playoffs then lose
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 29 October 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
could replace Sheff U with about 12 other clubs in that sentence
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 October 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
also i could say that sentence most years since 1997
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 29 October 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
anyway, as long as Cardiff, Derby and Leeds fail i'm good
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 October 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
Leeds still up there with the cushion of a good start, but have lost 4 out of the last 5 in the league ;-;
― calzino, Sunday, 29 October 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
for the benefit of my non-Facebook pals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9AC00fs6hI
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 November 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
tbh a dignified silence would be the most fitting accompaniment to this promotion purchase :P
― imago, Saturday, 4 November 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
fcuk that i've been dignified long enough
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 November 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
also FUCKING COME ON BRISTOL YOU MOANING CUNTS
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 November 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link
Clarke (53' minutes, 76' minutes, 80' minutes, 88' minutes)
great scott!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 November 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
the Championship results today are insane haha :D
Birmingham in the relegation zone. No club deserves relegation more
― imago, Saturday, 4 November 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
some of those ILE big-club snobs disparage it, but what a fucking league!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 November 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
SECOND ROUND HERE WE COME
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Saturday, 4 November 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
fuck's sake City, we could've been 4 clear
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DN3evyKX0AMLa7W.jpg
― calzino, Sunday, 5 November 2017 12:56 (six years ago) link
Shame that sentiment extended to the pitch. We really only scraped past them, bless their hearts. Their keeper made a terrible mistake for our third, just when they looked like they might get back into it, Iβd have felt bad for him if heβd had a better haircut.
― Tim, Sunday, 5 November 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
Wild blades game
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 5 November 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
Clarke is a bit of an enigma wrapped up in piddle. He goes on these incredible goalscoring runs which usually result in a sideways or upwards move in the next transfer window, and then he's shit again. I think by now he'll know this will be his last big gig, and his last chance to get into the bigtime.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 November 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
He's an absolute wasteman ffs
― imago, Sunday, 5 November 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
I have some pretty low standards of "absolute wasteman" in my old memory bank, as in players like Eddie Youds, Malvin Kamara, Simon Baldry, Danny Adams, Kwami Houdoto etc.. that made you wish you'd taken up a heroin addiction habit rather a season ticket. But Clarke when he is "on it" is quite a formidable presence in a team, the rest of the time he is a wasteman.
― calzino, Monday, 6 November 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
always thought he was a tryer, just not actually any good. and yet
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 November 2017 07:08 (six years ago) link
shall we just drink this in
2003β2007 Wolverhampton Wanderers 74 (13)2004 β Kidderminster Harriers (loan) 4 (0)2006 β Queens Park Rangers (loan) 1 (0)2006 β Plymouth Argyle (loan) 5 (0)2007β2010 Sheffield Wednesday 83 (18)2007 β Oldham Athletic (loan) 5 (3)2007β2008 β Southend United (loan) 16 (8)2010β2011 Queens Park Rangers 13 (0)2011 β Preston North End (loan) 6 (1)2011β2012 Swindon Town 2 (0)2011 β Chesterfield (loan) 14 (9)2012β2013 Charlton Athletic 7 (0)2012 β Crawley Town (loan) 4 (1)2012 β Scunthorpe United (loan) 15 (11)2013 β Coventry City (loan) 1 (0)2013β2014 Coventry City 34 (23)2014β2015 Wolverhampton Wanderers 29 (3)2015 β Wigan Athletic (loan) 10 (1)2015β2016 Bury 32 (15)2016β Sheffield United 36 (15)
― imago, Monday, 6 November 2017 10:10 (six years ago) link
who knows what that could extend to by the time he's 37
― imago, Monday, 6 November 2017 10:11 (six years ago) link
oh yes13/14 was the season we had leon clarke and callum wilson up front :)
― nxd, Monday, 6 November 2017 10:19 (six years ago) link
That is 189 (79) since the start of this decade, and of course decent goalscoring stats can paper over a multitude of deficiencies (The entire career of Micheal Owen for starters) but still he has been a far better striker than Lee Novak, for starters!
― calzino, Monday, 6 November 2017 10:37 (six years ago) link
why are we just listing charlton wastemen now, lemme guess you'll want to talk about andy gray next
― imago, Monday, 6 November 2017 10:41 (six years ago) link
Anyone you'd particularly like to draw in the second round, Caek? Shrews at your place would sound tasty? Second round really is just something I desperately hope to get through, though, all second round draws make me nervous.
MAtt Oakley (who took charge of our lot for yesterdays game actually did say "It was a banana skin waiting to happen."
― Tim, Monday, 6 November 2017 11:23 (six years ago) link
Someone to knock us out tbh. Too many season ms ruined by cup runs
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
That's kind of how I feel too. Didn't really want to get through to the next round of the Trophy either.
We're ball 13. Unlucky for us.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Monday, 6 November 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
That was pretty much the worst conceivable draw.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
Not so bad if your objective was to get knocked out? Could've done with a team who drew better crowds, obv.
We're away at Forest stupid Green, where we've already won this season, but they've gained some form and we've lost some since then. Would take the draw and replay right now if it was offered.
― Tim, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link
we have boreham wood at home which hopefully means a chance of a tv game
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link
also, hope they smash us
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 10:33 (six years ago) link