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

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

Today's FL fixture list is a pure Murdoch's wet dream/Osborne's deficit target being met type cause for celebration.

fuck it i'm going to the pub anyway

The brave soldier on

Due to pressure put on the club by transactivists, #MillwallFC have informed me that they cannot host our event, TRANSGENDERISM AND THE WAR ON WOMEN.
The event will still take place on March 14 at a new venue.
Sad day for #lesbians #feminists #freespeech

I have a number of questions...

sad they can't play that one on home terf

kudos

Amazing

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/hilarious-referee-blunder-sees-former-leeds-and-wednesday-striker-shown-red-1-9051187

The week I'm having we'll get done tonight

Here's hoping

Still time

just sipping in and savouring some of the misery on Radio Leeds and it's almost better than the half decent Rioja I've opened.

couple of perfectly nice Leeds lads in the pub who i commiserated with as i was rolling in the luxury of this total evisceration

"The real problem with Radrizzani is that he thinks we are an ordinary Championship club like Brighton or Huddersfield. We can never get promoted on the cheap as expectations rise if we are any way successful and, even if we are not, we are still a huge game home or away for every club in the division, and never get a fair crack from referees"

low hanging fruit from the commentzz section!

some (of our) fans are the worst but the stench of sour grapes coming from Leeds et al is really pungent

i've had enough

steve evans manager bounce consumes se london football club

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CU7GY2hXAAAB2LJ.jpg

*hides under bed, weeping*

came home at half time because i'm dying of alcohol poisoning but that may look like a lame excuse now

am willing your boys on nv, there’s still time left

and they’ve just been robbed of a pen there

think that's stuck a fork in it

oopsy daisy

at least i'm at home with a satay rather than being mercilessly piss-ripped by Leeds and City fans in the pub

Leeds owner Andrea Radrizzani writes to FA, EFL & Premier League over Wolves' Mendes link

yeah, we're having a meeting with the EFL. he's pathetic, i'm pretty sure we're not in breach of anything, and i would anticipate no more than a token slap on the wrists if the FL decide we are.

meanwhile i haven't been able to bring myself to look at the Express and Star since Saturday because the sight of idiots panicking makes me feel poorly.