'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

and then you have Salford city who are also pretty much a vaguely hobbyist Man U surrogate at this point. Can understand the disgust at the glazers etc but eh modern football and they’re hardly the worst of it

either #0 or NBS posted quite a lot about FCUM until I basically bullied them into silence

wonder if they still follow them on the sly though

I'm deliberately going to go to a FCUM game next time I'm in Manc just to troll you lj

and Dulwich Hamlet if I'm ever in the great wen again

have softened a bit on them, they've had it rough

I doubt i've ever posted about FCUM

lol at the idea of you bullying me into silence though

yeah it was NBS and we pretty much hashed it out this time two years ago

Tim spoke eloquently about why they weren't a force for evil really i mean idec now it's fine

I can remember that now. I was probably being an obnoxious prick and got bollocked by Tim for pushing too hard on this "support your local club" canard. Apologies NBS, but I still genuinely hope nothing but the worst on FCUM!

FCUM were one of our earliest patron clubs when we reformed so I have a bit of a soft spot for them regardless.

Anyway, hasn't sunk in blah blah blah. Maybe our worst performance of the season, 1-0 from the spot against a club with no goalkeeper but they all count.

It's going to be strange playing in 'proper' football grounds every week but I'll miss the lower league awaydays. Whether we go north or south will be determined by who goes down and who comes up through the playoffs. North definitely is the harder league.

One of the forgotten stats is that 2 out of the three seasons 100+ points hasn't been enough to get you promoted with us. This year Slough are the only side in the playoffs that can't get to 100 (but it is 99 so ymmv).

Does that mean there are a handful of pretty good teams and a load of poor ones in that division?

I note poor old Torquay are heading in the other direction: lottery winner has gone, club bought by a property developer who masquerades as a sporting company, all but relegated to the Conference South. I feel bad for the Chipnickers.

xp leamington representative here! look forward to losing to you next year* :)

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That's pretty much it Tim, or you get a perfect storm of sides in form at the same time. This year, for example, Slough bought nearly the entire Hitchin team that lost the playoff final last year and so the players have performed at the same level. Some abject teams though, Gosport and Dunstable are Swindon in the Premier League bad.

Amazing that Gosport have managed to get just 11 points in 43 games and a single win could still stop them getting relegated.

I see ILX's Spurs EPL thread has taken a turn for the better

Gosport brought in a load of ex-league players at Christmas to help them try and catch Dunstable. Has almost worked.

Scrolled down their first-team squad - had that slightly uncanny feeling you get when you look at football video games and future seasons' squads are made up of recombining names. Until I got to Rowan Vine and Craig McAllister, both of whom turned out for Exeter years ago. Playing those two together, combined age of 72, would stretch the limits of the word 'lumbering'.

I can remember when Vine was just a nipper on loan at Brentford, it was probably his FL debut and he scored as well, I think.#livingtoolate

Vine previously played League football for Portsmouth, Brentford, Colchester United, Luton Town, Birmingham City, Queens Park Rangers (QPR), Hull City, Milton Keynes Dons, Exeter City, Gillingham, St Johnstone, Hibernian and Greenock Morton, and non-league football for Welling United, Havant & Waterlooville, Gosport Borough (two spells), Basingstoke Town, Southall, Hayes & Yeading and Hartley Wintney.

Something of a journeyman then. And what a journey.

Also LOL @ Hibs for buying this guy.

The Poundland Pfannenstiel!

Goal difference of -114! (Gosport B). You have to say that's munificent.

in other news aguero makes pfa team of the year for the first time!

Will be interesting if we're in the National League North next season, as we'd be playing with Kidderminster Harriers, Stockport County, York City, Boston United, Telford United, Chester and FC United of Manchester!

Don't forget Darlington. The first three you've named are still in with a shout of promotion too.

either #0 or NBS posted quite a lot about FCUM until I basically bullied them into silence

That would definitely be me, not Number None, but I have no recollection of either posting 'quite a lot' or being bullied into silence. I think I posted on the non-league thread about once or twice a season to universal indifference so stopped bothering until Tim specifically asked me my thoughts on the civil war at the club a couple of years ago.

I can remember that now. I was probably being an obnoxious prick and got bollocked by Tim for pushing too hard on this "support your local club" canard. Apologies NBS, but I still genuinely hope nothing but the worst on FCUM!

Yeah, I remember that bit.

killer finish from rom there

lovely weight on the Pog pass too

holy shit, it's daley blind

rejected Half Man Half Biscuit song titles

oh daley ;_;

Back on our league in the wrong thread for a minute, you all probably (rightly) missed Jamie Cureton playing against for 3 different clubs this season and the whole Grant Holt farrago at King's Lynn.

Jamie Cureton is still about eh

holy shit, Jamie Cureton still plays? Being in a coma for the last 10 yers has discombobulated my mine!

Daley is dead, p much ;_;

LOL Grant Holt, another Hibs old boy, with the emphasis on old.

Holt and Lambert at Rochdale were a formidable strike partnership, many many years ago!

before Holt got to that stage where his apologists would often mention his "fantastic hold up play"

Wenger out

RIP big man, never forget

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Big Sam will probably available at the end of the season.

his last ever game as manager at our place, fuck they might even turn up!

Unless they get to the Europa final of course

his last ever game as manager at our place

Not if they reach the EL final! I'd be ok with Arsenal winning the Europa League. For Wenger. And for the 'fam' to beg him to stay at that point.

xp

I presumed they were knocked out of everything, and relegated to League 1 - if you listen to Arsenal fans on 5 live.

haha

Will Wexit mean Wexit though?

support the troopz

Give it Sean Dyche.

his last ever game as manager at our place, fuck they might even turn up!

He'll play the Invincibles, all of them. Even Wiltord.