EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

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.

you went all the way to romulus, congrats

Only about 100 miles nbd

"osset town and osset albion both in action today"

i used to work with someone who occasionally played for Albion. It was quite amusing when they told me ex-town player Malvin Kamara turned out for them this weekend.

well years ago I mean, but his descent was quite rapid.

http://www.htfc-world.com/reports/Wolves5/wolves270816.htm

Danny from HTFC World is a bit unkind to Wolves fans in this cartoon match report of last week's game.

our home gates have been underwhelming so far this season too

the only remotely defensive thing i would add is that i missed the chance to watch us at Hull at the end of last season, for the first time in 30 years, because we was that bad on Boxing Day when i went to Molineux - i'll watch us get beat, god knows that's easy enough, but i wasn't paying the money for 90 minutes of defending the edge of our box.

anybody not on the Zengabus is a dick who can fuck off tbh, tho i have heard some chuntering about nasty away clubs overcharging for our games because we're so massive

There is definitely something fishy about our attendance figures, they have been decent by our standards but they don't seem true. I think the club are doing that add the non-attending season ticket holders to the total figure thing that some clubs do. And with the cheap ticket offer that is a lot more season ticket holders than usual. Happily where I sit has banks of empty seats and not many arseholes, which has been a recurring issue with my match day experience in the last decade.

let's be honest in 2016 maybe there are a few less people who can punt 30+ quid for a football ticket once a fortnight, especially if they have kids

Absolutely. I am lucky enough to get a free carers season ticket because otherwise I'd be priced out at standard prices, although this year our most expensive adult season ticket was £179 - which won't be the case next season.

most expensive? that's a massive deal, good on Hudds

yeah the child season ticket only cost me £69 this year, and the under 8 ones were only £23. But it isn't like our owner can't afford it, but props to him.

https://youtu.be/PjIhTDz7-FA

woefully tedious tbh but our ceo lee hoos aka the revenuedriver gave an fairly detailed breakdown this week on stadium operational costs (which our ticketing revenue falls £3m short of every year...) and the impossibility in his view of "£20 is plenty" etc outside the epl. not applicable to every club but a rare insight anyway. if drainage fees sounds like a good time it's from 2:40 on

Lol excellent. I'm not especially moany about what tickets cost, nobody makes you go and this is the era we're in. But it must be brutal on families where there's a couple of kids and they're keen, and I wouldn't pay the going rate to watch, say, Pulisball week in week out

http://m.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/14718998.Thomas_Driesen__The_network_scout_for_Charlton_owner_Roland_Duchatelet/

http://i.imgur.com/p5RQ4Da.png

could have sworn I'd posted that Driesen thing already but no

it's marvellous tbh, caleb from pretty little liars running a football club in between boffing the ceo and cultivating dreads

i'm having a weston super. been offered a free ticket to today's game. having to choose outright between grimmest grey drizzly efl irl vs babylon epl tv drivel rly underlines how you're a fucking loser either way huh. think i'm just going to play the excuse to drink in pub card, cos yknow, that's healthy and productive

c/p to blue saturday obv

weirdly similar to my own thought process this morning except there's no prospect of going to Wolverhampton today and i'm wrestling with the possibility of an all-day rave just up the road instead.

can't get hype for the Prem title decider.

never mind, just been to the front door, it's filthy out there.

oh idk a rainy all day rave might be an amusing kind of grim. beats legcramp sat under a tin roof among the most ignorant whinging wife-beating cunts bellowing sort it out jimmy

fuck it i did preston i paid my dues I PAID MY DUES. idk who i am negotiating with

if we're comparing dreads (t driesen has us all beat tbf) i'm off to play irl football for my school's old boys' team - somehow they still keep inviting me back despite the fact that they're all v good amateur-to-semipro level athletes and i'm a plump waster who can just about keep the ball out of the net. these occasions are always slightly thrilling (the highest level of sport i will ever play, great to punch miles above level) but always, always daunting. it hasn't QUITE happened yet, but some day i will just have the howler of howlers and they will have to take me round the back and shoot me

add the MOM curse, mix with 100g of back slappy complacency and add a tsp of dirty white shite and you have perfect recipe for a disappointing day today.

wondered whether the international break was going to give Zenga his chance to develop the newbies into the kind of team he wants, looks like the answer was yes

guessing this team will be something like

Cavaleiro - Gladon - Costa

Teixeira - Coady - Oniangué

Borthwick-Jackson - Baath - Stearman - Doherty

Ikeme

god bless Coady sat in the middle of all that showboating

Kathryn Hannah, one of Radio Leeds resident whites on Green:
"he looks like he has spent the last 6 month at QPR watching Homes Under the Hammer"

lol, it sounds like Green could have got something on Mooy's shot if he wasn't half asleep.

course it had to be this week didn't it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_srIE-YAb8

we appear to have been playing against 12, mind

bastards

ordinarily i'd be glad Burton are having a good start to the season but in this case bastards

talking of Prince Buster(RIP) there is a bit too much Whine and Grine coming from the Leeds lot at the moment

i won 7-0 today btw, in non-league news

so sad to see Leeds going down the dumper

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrhmtDtXgAAPDgx.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrigRwfWcAAC9Zt.jpg

it is the law that all must be posted itt