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

SunderLLLdLLand. I'd still rather Wednesday went down, but both of them bismarcking in the same season would be poetry.

it would make some room for Stoke and West Brom

oh shit, Nuno Out

sack him already. A Brucie side wouldn't have conceded that goal ffs!

Grealish to Adomah, I love them both

Hourihane with a beauty

well that's cut our lead back but i can't grudge you sticking it to the Brum

'cut our lead back'

:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmENMZFUU_0

some of you might want to try outplaying doncaster for 94m, missing a few one-on-ones and then letting them equalise from their maybe second chance of the game

i winced when i heard that come thru on the radio tbf

hey at least it was a 94th minute equaliser this time. last week it was an 89th minute equaliser and a 94th minute winner

Grayson has rocked up at Bradford now. I can't think of another piece of Gammon that was managed all "the big three" of W Yorkshire.

"But people are saying 99 per cent of Bradford City fans are happy with the appointment.

"I'm not being big-headed, they should be because I'm a Championship manager.

"To get someone like myself is a coup for the club and the owners have worked extremely hard to do that.

*shudders* at the thought of a time when I used to live off bin-foods and pavement-foods.

I miss those days when the hubris odf broken fules seemed gud!

I meant to mention this week: going 1-0 down after 88 minutes and ending up winning 2-1 is probably the actual best thing.

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(i just like the googly eyes tbf)

Our first goal from yesterday is worth a look.

https://youtu.be/Vg71UcmJyTw

All the other top teams lost so now we're 7 clear with 2 games in hand. Beginning to feel a bit more confident.

Belter! Love the sound.

We should take a moment to laugh at Billericay too.

Glenn Tamplin resigned yesterday as manager after being spanked by Wealdstone but never fear, he installed himself as assistant manager until the end of the season. A man of his word though, he did say in a twitter meltdown midweek (which he's since deleted) that he would.

It's been quite a February for him though:

• He's being investigated by the police for death threats made to Elliot Kebbie because he wouldn't accept a month's pay as suitable buy-out for a two year contract.

• Sent texts and money to Jamie O'Hara's wife saying she could do so much better than Jamie and he'd show her what she was missing out on if they met in private.

• Sacked the entire cheerleaders squad after he found out one of them had given her phone number to a player.

• Asked the team to give up a week's wages after piss-poor performances against Leiston and Folkestone Invicta. All but 4 told him to fuck off.

• Revealed he has spent TWO MILLION POUNDS so far and his WEEKLY wage bill is over £25000.

that is wonderful psychopathy

i think tbh he crosses over into prime Real England

out to stud

cocaine is a wonderful drug

Billericay update:

• Glenn Tamplin sacks Glenn Tamplin as manager on Saturday following defeat to Wealdstone

• Glenn Tamplin appoints Glenn Tamplin as assistant manager to Harry Wheeler (promoted from assistant manager) on Sunday until the end of the season

• Glenn Tamplin appoints Glenn Tamplin as caretaker manager on Monday when it turns out Harry Wheeler doesn't want the job after all

• Glenn Tamplin appoints Glenn Tamplin as permanent manager on Tuesday after Glenn Tamplin and Glenn Tamplin unanimously agree a better candidate won't be found than the person acting as caretaker

^ Tonight's game has been abandoned after 20 minutes due to frozen pitch

Steve Evans walking out on Mansfield and heading to Posh is a heartwarming story.

woah we won away at Wycombe wanderers
the dream is still, slightly, alive

Luton Town manager, Welshman Nathan Jones, tells BBC Look East that it's "nice to be compared to Manchester City"

What a fucking tool, seriously. I've seen dicks like that before go straight up again or straight down again after a L2 promotion. But they never amount to shit.

nxd: from 14th upwards the dream is very much alive!

haha yeh it's very tight, although we got 1pt from 4 games before this and only dropped five places
aka everyone is equally great/shit

also fuck luton
they stole james collins from under our nose preseason, altho i'd rather have jamie collins tbf

Yeah I went to Luton the other week in the cold and the rain and we lost 1-0 and it was not terribly joyous. They looked good in that big-strong-well-organised-lads way that usually wins this division. We went to a really odd pub in Harpenden which seems to double as a genteel home counties tearoom but that is another matter. I don't have anything particular against Luton Town. In a division featuring the likes of Ainsworth and (until this morning, apparently) Evans, Nathan Jones seems OK.

(Coventry fwiw put on the best performance I have seen this season as they/you blew our outrageous early season unbeaten run to pieces, Coventry always an excellent day out also obv.)

I am very keen for Wycombe( at least under Ainsworth) to go absolutely nowhere. I am even keener for them not to be in the same division as us.

:D

Big strong well-organised lads can prosper in L1 as well, as Shrewsbury are showing. It was tremendously disappointing that we basically let them have their way entirely last week. Karl Robinson is supposed to be some kind of tactical wizard who can transcend the drudgery of lower-league football *pukes*

Obviously Hurst is doing an amazing job

did i hear correctly that the transfer window will shut after gw1 in the efl next year?

That is my understanding; I'm not sure what difference that is supposed to make, but our club board seem chill about it so I am not worrying too much.

i guess it means we won't get players like ben stevenson nabbed a couple of weeks in with no means to replace him

I guess? But I don't see how it stops you / us having players nabbed one week in (or no weeks in) with no means to replace them?

our club board seem chill about it so I am not worrying too much.

^^ qf use in a future thread title

well for cov, sisu don't seem to keen to buy players so we kinda rely on free transfers in the summer
quite loose terms for supporting it from me i guess haha

We've bought (IIRC) three players in the last 15 years or so, and one of those was £10K.

touché :)

haha wasn't trying to touché! I guess this will stop clubs panic-buying when they start a season really badly, but that aside it just seems to change the date without changing the conditions. I imagine there are times when a club thinks things are all sorted for the autumn and then they get blindsided by an unrefusable bid at the last minute but I bet that doesn't happen often.

(Regular placeholder here to note that Chelsea still haven't paid a fee for Ethan Ampadu; rumour has it we're after £3m and they won't budge over £1.5M. Tiny sums to them, massive to us. Going to tribunal, at which (no doubt) they'll be paying expensive representatives handsomely in order to keep the fee to us as low as possible. He has already seen first team action and Conte's always on about how good he is. Gah.)

dang that sucks
i'm about 7 years into the future on my champ man game and he's now a chelsea regular - and we all know cm games turn out canon

ChampMan OTM. (That £1.5m would not quite equal our entire gate receipts for a normal season, by my rough calculations, but would go most of the way.)

well there goes my pub excuse for the day