EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

that went better than expected, I am totally pumped up for the away leg now!

Good result, on the face of it?

Oh deffo a good result. We lack a lot of quality in the final 3rd, but we are operating on the same budget as Rotherham. For all expenditure of Wednesday they had 3 shots and none on target!

I suppose it quite strange the way Wednesday always play 10 behind the ball against us, like they are the underdogs. but you can't argue with their results so far - today is the first time they haven't beaten us in a while.

In some ways going to Hillsborough without a goal advantage could be a blessing, we have previous of parking the bus with a 2nd leg goal advantage and getting stuffed.

I was just saying to my younger brother that for me a day out at Wembley in the sun, after sneaking a load of booze onto the coach is far more important than the trifling matter of getting promoted to the Prem!

just lolling at a comment that Grant Holt would have put at least 2 of those chances we had today, mainly because it is absolutely true.

I'd like to congratulate Forest Green Rovers on their promotion to Div 4 but I really can't bring myself to. They genuinely are the Gretna of English football:

http://miltonsfootballfinance.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/forest-green-rovers-financials.html?m=1

And that was before this announcement:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/03/forest-green-stadium-wood-you-believe-it

that Dale Vince seems a bit of a tosser, a very smoothies aesthetic style multi-millionaire. Plus I've mad love for Tranmere.

I suppose if you are a dodgy crim type chairman, like the 90's Doncaster Rovers one - there are plenty of benefits for a wooden football ground!

fake underdogs Reading played well tonight, missed a gubber, some class saves from Al Habsi

If we get past the massive tomorrow - I'm happier to face them.

was gonna ask! feel like the fake hoops won by default but if i was you i'd rather play them than the cottagers

A team that has put 9 past you unanswered in the last season is a big no no for Wembley! Although tonight I felt we are just as capable of doing a defensive job against them as Reading did earlier, although recent evidence suggests otherwise. Anyway, now just the small matter of beating Wednesday. I would much rather the 2nd leg at Hillsborough, we actually a good record there.

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Extra time!

watched the entire game in a pub, and am seen to want a medal

I am listening to this at home and rooting for Huddersfield but oh god the agony, it's making me dread tomorrow night when I'll have an actual emotional stake in the matter. At least I'll just be in the pub so can slink home if it all goes wrong.

this is quite clearly an old england v germany rerun

And on cue, Seven Years begins to play

see. see.

Dang...

Geddon you Terriers.

Hahahaha couldn't happen to a bigger wanker

Yeahhhhhhh

Hey calzino!

Endured an Alan Partdige soundalike and Schteve McL on 5live to witness this. Excellent stuff.

I am too stoned to comment right now

this is all

:D

trolling the Express and Star has become irresistible tbh

hope you're going to Wembley calzino

I'm definitely going, we have won all playoff finals at old/new Wembley/Cardiff that I went to. The only complete dud was the final at Old Trafford against Posh, but I watched that one int pub.

Quaner gets so much unfair stick, he was a game-changer last night and made Rhodes look like an overpaid amateur. I fucking love alcohol fuelled Wembley trips.

Forestieri had gotten so used to scoring against us he thought his tame effort would suffice, oh no!

"Endured an Alan Partdige soundalike and Schteve McL on 5live to witness this"

Sadly, our chairman is probably about to employ Schteve as the next director of football/stalking horse for the manger's job type wasteman. Not particularly sure Wagner will remain in the UK whether we go up or not - whatever the case ultimate legend status is assured forever at this point.

On the radio Schteeve made a particular point of saying he wasn't interested in any Director of Football role, at HTFC or elsewhere, that he was a coach and a manager and that he couldn't wait to get back to that and a DoF was years away for him. ALso that yes he has been to see HTFC quite a lot but that he lives nearby and the games are always exciting, plus Wagner's tactics are interesting and he wants to understand them better.

I took that to mean that he considers himself suited, ready and willing to step in as Manager at Huddersfield if and when Wagner leaves.

I am actually rather nervous about this evening's torture.

that is the only way to feel before playoff games, because of course they can go so wrong and bring much more despair or elation than ordinary wins/defeats. GL Exeter, will be watching an acestream of the game later when the hangover has worn off.

GL with the hangover. I must try to keep my drinking manageable this evening, Monday was a horror.

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Wagner wouldn't like a shot at the PL if you progress? He's done great; would seem odd for him to back out (are there other reasons, family etc?).

Prospect of Schteve at Terriers is humbling; you can't ever be too comfortable or happy a fan. Danger looming around the corner is part of football's nasty deal iirc.

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inspired substitution of the season was that, but Quaner is probably about 6 inches taller than Henry and is thin as a lat! He isn't a fan of having high balls lumped into the box either, which is unforgivable for such a tall player according to some of our eejit fans.

Wagner is currently living away from his family in Germany and has no intention of uprooting his teenage daughter from her school, even for a shot at the prem. Obv with his rep enhanced times a thousand at the moment, there will be a shitload of Bundesliga giants that will take him in a shot. Yeah, Schteve would be such a retrogressive step back to the mediocre old days of A Nother wasteman/pretender stealing a wage.

Haha I read that as "a Northern wasteman" which would have been a surprising tack for you to take.

it would an appropriate epithet for loads of our ex-managers though, tbh.

nice one Exeter! I didn't feel like watching e/t + another pen shootout tbh.

good luck hudds and exeter in the finals

but above all,

good luck bradford

definitely yeah. I don't like Bradford with below us status, would much prefer getting back to the business of hating them!

I don't suppose I'll ever enjoy watching a game with n the pub as much. The place we were in had maybe 50 Carlisle and 20 Exeter fans, but the way the game went made it amazing, they were giving us some when they equalized but they had to eat it all back up off the floor.

I may be in my cups.

it's been a bumper week for the EFL thread

http://greece.greekreporter.com/files/marinakis11.jpg

took a while but i'd every faith shaun harvey and the lads would eventually come to appreciate that big ange was merely the victim of a series of simple misunderstandings

not to mention hull's former admirers also passing the stringent efl "seems legit" test after somehow failing the epl's

he looks like he is bracing himself for that next wave of Greek austerity measures, hold in their pal I can lend you a five-spot for the leccy tokens!