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

haha - i'm excited! hope the game's fun, coventry at least play well, tisdale wears a hat and if we do falter, we at least can keep hold of mcnulty and jodi jones for next year

it's really my main gripe, promotion meaning we lose three or four of the best we have, i'd throw bayliss and grimmer in there
otherwise, i've much more enjoyed this season to the previous five or six, so if we exeter do go up, pls pls cov have a similar or better year next season

can't make it to wembley unfortunately, but three of my best friends are brackley fans who went last weekend and had a great time, told them to leave some luck behind for us

think exeter are the better team, but we've been so inconsistent this season between amazing and awful it could easily be 4-0 to either ha

So Sunderland end up with the guy Rangers should have gone for - if only he'd been a big enough name for them - put your money on Sunderland winning League One in a cakewalk...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44238168

They'll have the entire nation of Australia to contend with

there's Brucey's game plan knacked

Odoi off, Grealish should be.

more like Steve Puce, innit?

sorry Villa fans :(

not sorry Bruce :D

Well done Fulham. The EPL is no place for Alan Hutton.

... and John Terry.

Bruce was saying he'd have respectfully let JT take a day off against Chelsea next season in the EPL, it'll be a bitter blow for him to now have to play extra games!

gl tomorrow nxd + easy Tim, may the best team prevail.

somewhat glad shrewsbury didn't go up. looking forward to righting a few wrongs next season

I don’t suppose there’s anyone in the world who’s remotely invested in “the best team” winning tomorrow! Appreciated anyway. Obv I want very badly for us to win but all best wishes etc NXD.

Shrewsbury’s goal today was an absolute wonder, really well-worked free kick from the edge of the box, best I’ve seen for ages.

shrewsbury's goal today was reminiscent of one scored by iirc bristol city in the playoffs a few years ago

ten years ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNApMCBkS2s

the second pass was better this time around maybe

I liked this one better because the angles were tighter and it seemed to be designed to exploit the big space in the area left by an advancing wall. Have a bloke on the far end of the wall who just sits and makes sure he doesn’t get caught offside. V clever I thought.

Both the Shrewsbury chairman and manager look like complete fucking Tory jerkoffs, not that I'm particularly fond of Millers either!

gl tim! no idea what formation youre playing ha, seems you've changed a striker for a left back from yr last game

tbf we dont really use a formation especially in midfield, i think this one has goals in

I’m guessing he’s going 5-4-1 to try to keep it tight for an hour but that seems v risky on a hot day. If it’s 0-0 after an hour keep an eye out for Kane Wilson. I don’t think it will be 0-0 after an hour.

Anyway I am in a bedroom in an already-roasting Illinois (it’ll get to 100 degrees today most likely). I have my legal ESPN+ feed sorted but the stream doesn’t start until 5 minutes before kickoff so no tv build up. It feels weird. I’m going to have a bagel and try not to think about it for a few minutes.

Xp agree about the goals but we’ve very little pace in midfield so we’ll have trouble hitting you in the break unless Jayden Stockley does his solo act thing.

I really wanted to watch this, but I've got be at the swimming baths for 3. Another non-partisan gl lads! Although I still think Robins is a total bottling cunt after he walked out on Town after an opening day arsekicking from Bournemouth!

hahaha

Good goals tbf, tbf

Yeah I’m super-gutted obv but Coventry have obviously deserved it on the day. Well done nxd.

The approach of keeping the game quiet and winning the last half hour has been effective for Tisdale on the whole. The problem is that it’s miserable when it doesn’t work.

Haha we just scored.

4 great goals! commiserations tim, hope you guys can keep the team together and smash it next year
sat in the pub next to a 45 yr old cov fan who has never seen us promoted before, p weird feeling

ricoh feels like my annual away trip next season, congrats

no pen shootouts at Wembley this year, fucking disgrace!

xp the staircase to the casino is p nice

wtf!

Jumping on the Bielsa bandwagon fifteen years late it seems

has Tisdale gone to MK Dons?

Which reminds me, we were one Coventry goal away from GARETH AINSWORTH topping this list https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_Premier_League_and_English_Football_League_managers

could still happen if Morecambe fancy a change

Exeter acted quickly to get Matthew Taylor in, just as Tim wasn't feeling very Eazy Devin about the JT rumours bubbling about earlier.

Tizzer did not (apparently) give any response to the contract offer which had been on the road able fit some time. So the offer was withdrawn.

I don’t think he’s been announced as franchise manager; he used to say he wouldn’t take another job in football management. I expect him to join them in the next few days.

he might not be able to cope (well I hope so!) with a mo money mo problems job where if they aren't in an auto spot there will be pressure. I can't respect anyone who is willing to throw their lot in with them riff raff, probably harsh but it's the way I feel.

Yeah after Wembley he was implying that the great work done by him and his team was propping up the trust-owned football club model. I’m very keen to see him proved wrong (by our doing well obv). I’m also very keen to see franchise do badly forever.

a shitty four years just got much, much shittier

sorry about Bowyer

lol, Bowyer is literally the least of our problems right now

but in short

- the takeover might not now be happening

and above all

- two of our players on trial for rape

i know, i was being mean

kick a man while he's down eh :P

didn't know about the takeover tbf, saw the rape charges tho :(

one man to rape, one man to hold the girl down and a third to film it. cannot even begin to imagine what is in these people's heads

Didn't see this coming: Bielsa to Leeds

shaping up well for The Damned United 2

the HTAFC supporting writer of dark occult histories, might just pass this chapter of the dirty White Shite's rich history onto the Green Street 6 team!

Micheal Collins, new Bradford City manager was a garbage player and not much of a thorn in the side of the British government either - but he did once score an injury time winner against Leeds Utd, so much goodwill to him.