Throwing Bad Money After Good - the EFL and Beyond 2017-18

some of the philistines around us were getting a bit antsy by half time but it was just patient methodical build up until they cracked. Brentford played some good stuff but didn't really have anybody who could add the final touch

Surely you must already be thinking about PL football for Wolves next season. How does that grab you?

Terriers for example are holding their own quite admirably, yet the whole affair lacks a certain je ne sais quoi tbh. The weak become heroes, the heroes get promoted and then... The heroes are adrift in the small space of that wormhole somewhere between 11th and 16th. Tri-weekly McNult write-ups, Grary Lnikekerer "interviewing" yr manager every other week, fourth or fifth up on MotD. It's getting by, but it's not pretty.

I kind of care too much about Huddersfield and Wolves for them to be demoted to figurants in the moneyball that is the PL. But there's no way to turn. You do well and get promoted, which seems great, only to get eaten by the filthy rich.

Idk I am only getting myself down with this post but fuck me if I will delete this. Will post for shame.

Terriers havent got Jorge Mendes personally handling their acquisitions tho have they. sky's the limit once that tv moolah starts rolling in

scuttlebutt is that Andre Silva might be back on the market sooner rather than later due to the financial woes over in Milan, hooooo boy

According to some reports emerging from Italy, Wolves had a bid of £34.7m rejected by AC Milan for Portuguese international forward André Silva. #wwfc is expected to make a second bid.

— The 4th Official (@Official_T4O) January 9, 2018

well well

dude mustn't be allowed to play in the Championship tho ffs, it's cheating

i don't know, he's no Jordan Hugill

he's the lad who kept Depoitre on the bench at Porto, so he must be pretty fucking good tbh!

just trying to pretend we're not the unacceptable face of football capitalism

VIDEO - RED CARD INCIDENT - SLOWMO

Lots of requests for this so here is an edited version of @StonesGoals Video of @HerefordFC’s O’Shea Red Card Incident Slowed Down.

The game is gone but should@the red card stand?

Doesn’t look much like O’Shea touched him 👀 pic.twitter.com/UYTzzXDsvY

— 🐮Hereford📱Goals⚽ (@HerefordGoals) January 13, 2018

Straight red for this, 10 minutes into the game. Shocker.

i think this is the first time i've ever enjoyed something Darren Ferguson has done

his dad was both subtler and more murderous tbf

also, that red card - even if he took him out, the keeper is always getting that first. refs need to be professionalised

or shot

Ref didn't give it, linesman did. But I take your point.

what is the ETA of Hereford in League 2 at projected rate btw

3 promotions away. We can go top of our league on Tuesday with 3 games in hand but fixture congestion is a real thing with 14 games before end Feb.

But how many seasons iyo

I think we'll go up this year. Would rather be in Conference North for closer away games but we might get through Conference South (based on current makeup) at the first crack and North is much tougher. Conference itself is imo the most competitive league in the country, at least half a dozen v strong teams every year plus any surprises (Dover, FGR) and whoever comes down.

Our performances against teams from leagues above has been consistently good in both cup and trophy so I think we can compete but... minimum 5 years, probably longer. Maybe 5 till we're good enough to be Conference playoff contenders.

Poor old Tranmere still there. Fifth atm too - more playoff heartbreak beckons

Yeah we was just talking about them. Modern football is rubbish.

somewhere out there, Kenny Irons is crying into his 10th pint.

So, the FA took about 30 seconds to rescind that red card.

Game on! Jota was on for what, 30 seconds?!

nevermind -_-

have only been checking periodically out of superstition, thanks for the heads up

no problem. down again now though.

Pleased to see this classic resurfacing. Just too real for the real England thread.

This just cropped up on Facebook timehop. Still one of my favourite football related pics. So much going on - The Torquay United Ultras pic.twitter.com/J4vcSwRdPv

— Tom Burr (@TomB_CFC) January 17, 2018

oi noodle, talk me some zyro

signed under Jackett as a left winger who can also fill in as a striker, after a couple of months settling in he was starting to look promising, a few good performances had people think he was gonna be at least a good Championship player, pretty quick and skilful, then Antony Kay tried to finish his career with an evil tackle, 16 months out getting his leg put back together, came back to fitness beginning of last summer but hasn't had a look-in since the Nuno regime began

still young, and if his leg's anything like fixed i'd've thought he should be a good addition for a League 1 team

excellent thank you. we're slowly putting together a functioning bunch of forwards, bodes well for putative playoff campaign

16-month layoff though, must have been one hell of a bad challenge

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd3IxIpDinY/

all our fans have a lot of time for him, i hope he goes on a right streak

aww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK2Gijn4FLg

there's the tackle, at least the cunt's in League 2 now

jfc

um

that is p much as bad as it gets

Anthony Kay still pulling a wage? Jesus wept. He's from Barnsley and one of Gough's drinking buddies, so he definitely deserves to be turned into fertiliser.

darren gough? presumably

yeah

yeah kind of shite how he's an obnoxious tory twat

and i probably don't know the half of it

..and it was worth noting other players that weren't in the club's future plans all got into the party spirit after the Wembley pen shootout in '12. Kay's glowering presence was ridiculous, he was out of the team because he was shit and a liability.

holy shit!

MK Dons defender Kay was yellow carded for the challenge by match referee Mark Heywood

shall we see whether Mark Heywood is still a ref

haha he didn't ref at championship level again. still active in L1/2

ahahaha

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— Leeds United (@LUFC) January 24, 2018

just been savouring this on the charlton board

white pride!

Lol! Couldn't have happened to a nicer etc

Personally I'd go for something more colourful tbh:

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