EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

How can someone make a show so shit that people are getting wistful about the BBC FL show, daft question - this is the fucking channel that once broadcast a naked Keith Chegwin show.

Good on Hogg for getting his first league goal today, it will probably also be his last one but he is still a gem.

Coady is finally starting to blossom this season.

Smithies is gonna wake up sweating in the middle of the night all week.

We actually got the first game on treatment - still grudge saying owt nice about us tho.

It looks like Coady is back in favour then, a lot of people have been commenting on his performance yesterday. Even he won't recognise half the players on saturday and how our impoverished outpost has been transformed into a sturdy festung :p I'm not getting too carried away after 4 games tbh. I can remember one season when Millwall made a good start and then barely won a game after xmas and got relegated. But I do genuinely believe Wagner is pretty special and it is probably a once in a generation thing that such a great manager rocks up at Town.

Coady was pretty poor last season but he was in a poor team that was getting changed week in week out as Jackett floundered. whether it's a confidence issue or better coaching and a more clearly defined role the improvement has been obvious in the first few games. he's still only a kid so it's great to see him taking this chance and running with it - see also Jed Wallace - especially since they must realise they are suddenly more disposable than they were last season if they don't step up.

He started very strongly for us and then faded a bit towards the end of the season. But that was under a mediocre manager + without much competition for places. I reckon he would have also really flourished under Wagner and perfectly fitted into his system.

Wagner definitely seems to be the difference for you, as Zenga has been for us so far - the team that thrashed Birmingham yesterday started 10 players from Kenny Jackett's squad - Bodi was the only new guy - and they looked like a completely different side.

did i read right that coady's playing right back now? seems a good idea

Proper game of two halves yesterday against our title challengers from last year.

1-0 down in the first minute and 2 down on 16 it felt like it was going to be a very long afternoon. Came out better in the second half but reached the hour mark with nothing to show for it.

First goal went in after they went to sleep on the right. Then we took the ball straight off them after the kick off and scored again. Then we took the ball straight off them AGAIN and brushed the woodwork. Then returned the goal kick and took the lead.

A late penalty made it safe, but three goals in under 4 minutes utterly broke their defence mentally.

xp Coady played a couple of games at right back while Iorfa was suspended but his best 2 games, including yesterday, have been more or less box to box centre mid

it looks like not all Rhodes are properly signposted en-route to the Prem :p

he'll be on his way to us then, or to Derby if we buy Martin

https://twitter.com/kierangill_DM/status/767355654214393857

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yay!

i haven't looked at the Express and Star for a couple of hours so of course we make 2 signings

think we could do with a centre half with a bit more experience but Ola John will fit right in, we're gonna play a fair bit of 4-3-3 i reckon

Think he's a very decent signing for youse, NV.

From wiki:

John married Jane, making her Jane John, in Liberia in 2014. The couple have three kids including their oldest child Jane John Junior.

only thing i'm wondering about now is i thought we would be after another outright centre forward but didn't expect to sign any more than the 2 we've signed today

this is great tho - love two-footed wide players

newcastle apparently about to sign deandre yedlin (£5m lol), alan judge and even possibly big mouth bassy dost. oh well.

Newcastle offloaded walking injury Siem de Jong at my beloved PSV. His brother is our captain, you see. I've zero expectations and don't even know how he could possibly be of any use to us. But the mere fact that the transfer (Siem won four titles with Ajax) has Ajax fans in a complete tizzy over this (he's a nazi, traitor, a cancer etc now, all the sane things one expects from decent football fans) alone makes it worthwhile.

Tim Krul supposedly on his way to Ajax on rent, because Barca are buying Ajax' Cilessen.

*on loan

Paul Gladon? LBI?

he looks like the Dutch Jordan Rhodes or something

Surprising. He's made a name for himself last year, and it was only a matter of time he'd leave Heracles. Think AZ and Utrecht had an eye on him. But I've not seen him play a whole lot tbf.

Don't let him take yr pens, he's missed two in one game two weeks ago (but did score twice in the same match)

totally out of left field for me but it looks like negotiations are ongoing

(I saw about the pen thing - he missed two inside the space of 2 minutes!)

He did! I was driving and had the radio on when that happened. Caught the post-match interview, where Gladon said 'Eh it was shit but I hope I'm still top of the pen-takers list', to which the reporter wryly said 'No. Your manager just told me you're defo not gonna take any more pens'.

You had to've heard it :)

Burton you beauties!! been sat here refusing to post for fear of kiss of death

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/dean-smith-defends-controversial-brentford-11801228

cool gibberish bro

are they gonna be allowed to do this all season just so's the first ref who failed to book them doesn't look stupid?

Dean Smith is a fucking cretinous knuckle scraper and is making Brentford + their players look very bad. Most teams will probably start giving it that extra few % just to teach them a lesson now.

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Pearson had 2 options

tweak a top 6 side

rip it apart

done neither

no shots, no passion, no goals, no points.

get rid now

never seen such an abject performance, and start to a season

if anyone disagrees, your wrong, and arguing for the sake of it

:D

Steve Bull is making a pre-match appearance at the White Rose club today, not that I'll be in that fucking horrible den of knaves. With a few exceptions the very idea of drinking with football fans makes me shudder these days. I predict a very tight game today and maybe Van La Parra will injure a couple more people in the upper hospitality area with his errant shooting :p

Holloway is tipping us to win 2-0 today, so the job is definitely fucked :(

why doesn't that douche shut his cakehole?

tight is right i think, or at least i'd settle for tight. my take on the these first few weeks is that your general organization and teamplay is way ahead of ours at the moment, we seem to have the flair to get back into matches when our defence's fuck-ups lead to the inevitable

on the other hand, we're likely to have a new lineup again so god knows

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Bristol City striker Jonathan Kodjia is set to leave the club and join Sky Bet Championship rivals Derby County in a multi-million pound transfer.
Kodjia was missing from City's squad for today's big home clash against Aston Villa at Ashton Gate.

The Rams tested City's resolve with a bid of £10m earlier this week and the Post understands the two clubs are close to agreeing a deal that could eventually net the Robins a club-record £14m.

sounded tight. looking forward to seeing Danny Ward's alleged wondersave.

vydra has now signed for derby. £8.5m

darryl murphy, 33, to newcastle. £5m

alfie mawson to swansea, £5m

shane duffy getting reamed on his brighton debut as i type, £4.5m

Didn't get a decent view of the Ward save because I was in the lower North side and even missed the goal today, but it looked top class on the Sky highlights and was deffo two points gained. I know clicking on Murdoch shit is bad, but I can't deal with ch5 any more. That save was at the point where we were wobbling under pressure and used to crumple and lose games last season.

i would've been very happy with a point so i'm not heartbroken at the result, especially given where we are in the season and the fact that Hull FC managed to win at Wembley today.

we seem to be in the habit of not getting properly started until the 2nd half tho.

Well Zenga really rated that save as well and he knows a thing or two about the ol' goalkeeping game.

Gary Monk "If not for the goals we conceded we would have won the game, definitely."

is it just me or did he not seem quite this much of a fuckwit before

mustve boiled away what little brains he had wearing his v neck sweater all year round

Yeah I ended up feeling bad for him when Swansea sacked him. Used to seem halfway competent too

He must have known what he was walking into and his short term job security prospects, he is only cultivating the v-neck sweater look for his CV

You'd think all that Brylcreem on his head would act as a coolant maybe

just seen that thing in the mail mentioning by-the-by that rb leipzig had a 10m bid for reece oxford rejected. seems extraordinary if true. like i know rangnick's a spod but what data is he even looking at for that sort of punt

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