EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

Scenes today, we score an 87th minute 'winner'.

One of our fans goes in the pitch and laughs in their keeper's face and their back 4 jump in the crowd and start punching their way through the rest of our fans. The ref then asks their captain if he feels safe enough to continue in light of our violence and he says no which results in the match being abandoned.

This was a game with two red cards and our manager sent to sit in the dressing room (because there isn't a stand to be sent to) and 5 other yellow cards in a game without a single malicious tackle.

"because there isn't a stand to be sent to"
sounds like a real football ground does that, I like it!

clownery and shit biased ref aside, I still feel like Town might get something out of this game. Ward won't be in a rush to see that replay, I get the feeling there might be a goalkeeper substitution coming up.

Not a total disaster, no more silly fucking cup adventures and a fading Brighton with a far tougher runout says 2nd spot is still very doable. We were the far better side in the second half, if lacking some vital incision at times - but we had the champions elect on the back foot for an hour.

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2017/03/07/cameron-borthwick-jackson-well-short-of-required-level-for-wolves-boss-paul-lambert/

the debate continues

computer says yes, manager says no.

surely Lambert could have had a quiet word with him.

I thought he'd gone back to United in January tbh

maybe the player rating computer has bias towards Man Utd players but I'm pretty sure the 2 loanees we have from Chelsea are probably going further than this kid.

omg Slade sacked again, getting sacked twice by February is pretty good going.

he had a good run

so Bobbins has gone back to you, he is a serial quitter is that guy.

i think it's all pretty redundant right now tbh

bit bummed kinda wanted to see slade in a nice suit at wembley

Your club is another sad chapter in the ongoing shit asset stripping club owners part xxxxvivivi. Gl at Wembley.

ya

we're in the shit as well but i'd say it doesn't rly compare to what cov/orient are going through

maybe its not evil owners at all but actually russell slade asset stripping these clubs

lol

what is the experience of being a coventry fan? it must be something hellish and unending, a purgatorial torment that surpasses anything else in football

I can't think of a bigger football club indignity than being reduced to a groundshare with the Cobblers. I really did scream out "The Humanity!" when I read about that. Would rather start again from the bottom wrung with a clean slate than do that.

I've never been to Sixfields but it can't be as bad as the old ground

the only thing i can think of comparing it to is when those guys watched grown ups 2 every week for a year
every year

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It is just a typically soulless nu-stadia in the middle of a retail park. Once during a windy game someone a few rows in front of me got injured by part of the stadium falling on them, nothing serious but the game was called off.

I went when they played on the cricket pitch, probably the worst pro "stadium" I've ever visited

One of my fave ever seasons was spent going to loads of shit old grounds I'd never been to before. I've never been to Kenilworth Road but love the legend that you have to trespass through someone's garden to get into the away end.

That is really amazing. Cheltenham is the one I hate most, though the two old sides of our place are probably the "worst" in the league now. They'll have all the character* knocked out of them soon enough.

I used to enjoy going to weird non-football towns when we were in the conference: days out in Farnborough or Canvey or Grays. Leigh RMI!

*asbestos

I wonder how many of these old stands still have asbestos in their roofs. Was just googling it and apparently Tynecastle Park - before it was re-developed - had a saftey net to "protect" people from dislodged chunks of it when the ball would hit the roof o_O

I'm sure I've normally seen asbestos removal professionals doing air tests in space suits - not perforated gear!

THIS IS WOLVESBALL

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6V6MfnXQAAHap7.jpg:large

lol!

that pic reminds me of a Welsh left-back from 16 years ago who became known as the Transparent Taff for his miraculous diaphanous qualities on the pitch!

just sack everybody ffs

I wonder what Brucie thought of seeing a team that is a lot greater than the sum of it's parts.

do you know you've scored 5 more goals than us all season loooool :/

There was a point where we conceded from nearly every set-piece so our goals against column isn't too pretty either. But 2-1 or 1-0 is our default sort of win score. And you probably already know how quality VLP is until the final third - like a few other of our attacking players. but fuck it, i love them all right now!

yeah i'm surprised but sort of pleased VLP has lasted, just goes to show what a difference it makes when a manager knows how to use his players

I'd forgotten what winning felt like :)

nothing like a last minute winner

iirc

I have sat through some serious defeats to the fucking Irons - 6-2 away and 1-3 at home comes to mind - so congrats LJ. This has got me thinking of when Burnley used the FM computer/or some kind of idiotic moneyball divination to decide that Brian Laws was a top class manager!

a last minute winner scored by an absolute wasteman while half the team can't look, indeed

my current game has peter crouch the best manager in the world

haha just checked charlie adam is his assistant

this is real madrid ftr

i'm no psychic but i'mma stick my neck out and say if we don't win this one we're fucked

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6Z3aoSWcAA0nJ0.jpg:large

getting unintentional Dennis Cooper's Frisk vibes from this one.

it occurs to me these all look like badges for overpriced microbrews

there might be a place for a completely not arsed about overpriced beer in the new era thread!

Carling, Strongbow and Jaegerbombs in the new era

if you like your jazz and film classy, strikes me you'd want fine beer as well :P

i've got nothing against any beer but drinking the horror away on a budget requires something with a little less attitude

My budget is more supermarket brand plonk and lager, as much as I'd love to be a full on bon viveur. I am too much of a pisshead to go down the pay more for quality and less quantity route. If I cut out the booze for two nights it feels like a week!

lol! thread is turning into AA confessional space! I need to some googling on the Reading manager from the 1930's who was apparently a pisshead + whose insouciant attitude to team affairs was along the lines of *pulls hip flask from pocket and takes swig* "who we playing today then lads?"