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

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.

Marcelo Bielsa: New Leeds United boss has 'watched all 51 games' from last season. <This seemed mightily impressive until he also confessed that in the same month he happily binge-watched all the Marvel TV series as well.

It's still mightily impressive if it included Inhumans

Perfect prep for managing Leeds

One of the Champo summer transfer rumours doing the rounds is VLP to Leeds. VLP recently said he was using Town as a stepping stone to a bigger club - he might need some of that Revie Ecstasy to convince him of how fucking truly massive the "Champions Of Europe" are though!

Much handwringing as we fail to hang on to John Mills over an alleged £30 a week increase and he moves to Bath. Much less handwringing this week as the FA charge him with 166 gambling offences and the club reveal Mills' leaked increase was huge misinformation.

Friendlies going well, routine wins with a few goals.

Much less welcome was club captain and first choice RB Jimmy Oates turning out for Exeter as A. Trialist. He was there on loan a few years ago and the new Exeter manager knows him from Harptbury College. I'm on the fence because there were times last year when he looked like he'd reached his level but if it all comes off then I'm pleased for him.

I should be going Saturday and Tuesday. Just don't tell Mrs aldo because I only get back in the country Friday and leave again the following Saturday.

I don’t recall Oates’s loan, Aldo - where does he play / what kind of player is he?

I am a liar, I was confusing him with someone else

Anyway he played 70 minutes last night apparently. Good signing imo, an overlapping RB with a decent cross on him (if a particularly weak throw). I always thought he had higher level football in him even if this season was a challenge at times.

Thanks - Captain Oates well known for heroic sorties outside.

Our forum is full of divided opinions - as you'd expect - but I'd never grudge someone the chance to go pro when we're only offering him pay-per-play.

The first season was kind of hilarious because we got to three games to go and he was the only squad player who hadn't scored so was being teed up for shots and given dead balls that he just wasn't ready for. Missed a penalty even in the last home game.

Finally scored his first about 5 games into the second season together during a home game. We had a pitch invasion to celebrate. The fine was worth it.

Player of the year unanimously between players management and both fan groups in the second year and made library captain as a result.

Mixed third season if I'm absolutely honest but missed a couple of weeks with a minor injury and we were glad to have him back.

A solid 7/10, play a system where he can overlap successfully - an outside right that always cuts in for example - and you'll get an 8+ out of him.

Might have been our best player across the past 3 years.

Sounds interesting - we had a fellow called Kane Wilson in from West Brom last year, who was very good and very quick; he's gone back to the Baggy mothership and rumour has it he'll be in contention for their first team squad. He wasn't starting every game, though, because we have a right back called Pierce Sweeney who's much more in the mould of yr trad lower-league full back - gets up and down, hard as nails, liable to drift from time to time; I like him.

Strange times for us, having had the same manager for more than a decade, it's so weird to see the squad being re-shaped. So far franchise have taken our manager, assistant manager, first-team coach, club captain and most experienced midfielder, plus a centre forward we'd released. I hope they all fail utterly, not because they left us but because franchise.

Weirdly, I'm quite pleased. It was definitely time for a change and the new manager seems to be saying (and doing) roughly the right things. Liable to be a bumpy season though.

As I said, manager knows him from Harptbury College so not surprising. Trialling Sid Grant from Westfields and looking to secure Mustafa Bundu from Aarhus are the other logical steps.

The West Brom thing is interesting because we had Dara O'Shea on loan last year and they haven't been answering calls on him either.