EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

a sense of the moment

xxp i'm only kidding btw calzino, this is all bravado and if there is one demographic i have nothin but contempt for and could happily talk down to, it is the arseholes who think that Villa are owed something due to the club's history etc. that said, i wasn't kidding earlier, it IS fun pretending to be a superclub, this is like when I got dropped to the bottom set of maths at school and suddenly i found myself a genius

except we're still losing most games

oops sorry.

Are Peterborough going to get fined for non trying tonight? I could imagine the (not ILX) DarraghMac telling them lose it.

you're not allowed to have draws in the group stage of the Checkatrade? jesus lolled

Stearman coming home on a year-long loan???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0

rtc are you reading this

Three years and three months since officially retiring from playing, 43-year-old Wycombe Wanderers manager Gareth Ainsworth stepped out on to a football pitch for the 601st time when he came on against Northampton on Tuesday.

Facing an injury crisis and with his side 2-0 ahead, former QPR midfielder Ainsworth came on as an 85th-minute substitute to help see out the game.

But wouldn't you just know it - he set up his side's third goal, laying the ball into the path of Garry Thompson to help end Northampton Town's 29-match unbeaten run.

it's all about group d of the southern section of the efl trophy :)

adama-adomah swap almost excuses the latter's base greed

5m for adam reach from boro to sheff wed is eye-watering but good young player imo at least. pritchardesque investment

7m for Ivan Cavaleiro, he'd better be as good as Steven Fletcher

cavalier...o spending more like!!

we signed a polish international winger on loan with a view to perm. looks v good

honestly i'm p delighted with our business this summer. hurrah for ffp. shame we'll prob beat the (now ludicrous) rap and backslide in january

bodvarsson is good i gather?

best of the new signings so far, too skillful to be a big but big enough to play up front in the Champo.

must have been a close decision between stearman and mangala

Stearman is definitely the odd one out in this bold new era, like really he was the best option available?

and i like him, but

West Ham United ‏@WestHamUtd 22m
The Club and @diegopoyet7 have mutually agreed to terminate the midfielder's contract

£9m fulham paid for chris martin

well they are at least guaranteed a certain goal or two against one "higher table" side with that outlay.

really disappointed that Crouch to Leeds was bullshit.

wondered whether we would go for a cheeky last minute Martin bid but bollocks to 9m tbh, i think the 11 or 12 we've bought should manage

glad to have sold nobody and signed Wolf City

feared the worst when i saw the lookman palace rumour

our fans are experiencing a weird displacement of anti-katrien rage this morning. where to direct it? mostly derision at poor prodigal diego tbh

i guess not even katrien could sanction the Worst Transfer Of All Time. like, imagine selling qpr's best player to chelsea (has this happened recently)

not even best player more like youthful recherche of quick feet perdu

loic remy, but it was impossible to get radge about an unusually graciously mannered mercenary

ya and he was hardly the starchild, the heart music, the raheem sterling

will be a miracle if lookman somehow avoids going to chelsea to be loaned out interminably before ending up at palace at 26 tbh

interest from arsenal and spurs might indicate a path less travelled but that is always the fear yes

how likely is it that rules against chelsea's player farm will be put in place

looking over the wreckage, it's pretty incredible how newcastle wednesday villa wolves have been recruiting not just big but also not in aid of a "missing piece of the jigsaw" style defined first xi either. everywhere just super bloated optionsssss. how many places can brendan rodgers be in at the same time?

yeah the daryl murphy signing is almost sublimely absurd, it's like he's being kept in store for burton away and burton away only

it's like when chelsea signed parker, wright-phillips and sidwell basically so that charlton, man city and reading couldn't beat them again, except in the championship

http://www.molineuxmix.co.uk/index.php?threads/team-for-burton.190061/

hilarious thread

Look we only signed 4 wingers

tbf i can't really talk; due to a botched offloading we have 6 centre-backs all of top-end L1 standard or better. we've got all the defending you could dream of

yeah the daryl murphy signing is almost sublimely absurd, it's like he's being kept in store for burton away and burton away only

5m will do nicely thanks. Sadly with the resulting line up of new loanees it looks like it's Marcuse Vans that will benefit, not the sputtering tractor.

coffers not full after the olympics?

newcastle refused to loan us adam armstrong and sent him to barnsley instead cos we are a promotion rival apparently [shreds 'dont fear the reaper' solo]

i like how a month ago Newcastle were title certs and already they look like a team in the mix

https://twitter.com/NUFC360/status/771256666654248960

handy cut out and keep guide to nukey's squad. dat £10m reserve defence tho

NUFCTactics ‏@nufctactics Aug 28
On Murphy, don't underestimate the value of having an archetypal Championship striker on the training ground to play against every day #nufc

loll

gathered round. prodding him. what is it. trying to communicate. "channel... ball?" i think it's hungry

The Emirates FA Cup Qualifying - Tie of the Round?

quite tickled by Portishead Town 1 - 4 Swindon Supermarine

almost tempted to throw ilx america a quaintest tie poll

Brightlingsea Regent 1 - 2 Billericay Town
Squires Gate 2 - 5 Handsworth Parramore
Billingham Synthonia 2 - 2 Ossett Town
Pontefract Collieries 2 - 3 Tadcaster Albion

guess this would end up winning though

South Park 2 - 1 Dorking Wanderers

osset town and osset albion both in action today

We had the misfortune of quite the worst refereeing performance I've ever seen at our tie today. Some highlights:

Giving a player FOUR final warnings, including one where he brought the captain over to underline the point.

Taking a yellow card halfway out of his pocket before remembering he'd booked the player already, so putting it back in and changing the free kick to a throw in.

Sending a player off with a straight red because he fell on the player that came through the back of him two footed (although that did warrant a free kick).

Gave a penalty for vague leg waving near a player heading for the corner flag chasing the ball, and nearer it than the edge of the box.

Booked the wrong player (6ft+ with a beard vs 5'6" and shaved head) for kicking the ball away when they weren't close enough to confuse.

Missed a full on flying Superman punch clearance from the left back.

He didn't actually book the player in the first example by the end either.