EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

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

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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!

There was a piece on Radio 4 this morning about Portsmouth's possible sale from supporter ownership to some ex-Disney dude. Classic bit in which Barry Hearn said he thought Pompey should bite the hand off this "investor", seconds later he was talking about how he had thought the bloke he sold Orient to was exactly the right buyer. Hmmmm....

In other news, this morning I felt very buzzy and excited after last night; this afternoon's experience suggests that actually I was still just drunk.

I'm glad they are turning R4 into talksport because it couldn't get much worse at the moment anyway. It is funny how so much of the population that seem think national austerity is just what we need guv. But as soon as some rich sociopath turns up at their club with promises of arms race style wasting of millions they are like "bite their hand off!".

The last time I went to Wembley I packed a thermos flask full of red wine and a pop bottle full of courvoisier for on the coach. Not much chance of getting a hangover with the £5+ pints of watery lager at Wembley, and I'm going by 2012 prices there.

Sounds like a plan, I remember going to Wembley as a kid in the 80s and my dad having an eppy when somebody tried to charge him a quid for a can of pop

They hadn't put the prices up by last year, although they did have some sort of weird system in place to try and stop you buying multiple drinks at once.

enjoying the l1 final

you'll never believe it but it's why yes finely poised exactly how did u know

bradford obv the better side having most of the play but wall with the better chances, couple of sitters and now it's just getting bitty and tense etc

wall have yet to take john sitton's classic advice and bring on fred onyedinma (who qpr are signing on a free after this game supposedly)

bugger. white feather morison 1-0. but bradford faded out badly since i last typed

the full pitch invasion and Neil Harris telling a thug to fuck off was quite amusing.

the silver fox wasn't too happy about it either! Oh god, poor Bradford.

one of the many bad social ills from Khan's affordable gentrification will be that some of the Wall's worst racist shit4brains will end up getting housed in the north.

hope they get 10 points next season

"well stuart webber, it's cost us a pretty penny but glad to finally have your unique recruitment expertise aboard here at carrow road. what do we... right... get the bloke from... right.... er..."

anybody would look like an expert after Moxey tbf

he never stays anywhere too long does Webber. Overrated huckster who made some good decisions and made some bad, now he is just repeating the formula - albeit on massiver wages!

got to say though, bullshit merchant or not Wagner and VLP were great acquisitions, but Wagner's own signings have been great value as well.

have a feeling this might just turn out to be that extremely rare occasion where vaguely trendy cosmopolitanism has done a reasonably qualified brit candidate (heckingbottom) out of a job :O

whoa monk!!

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When your brand has been tainted so much so, you have to struggle that much harder to distinguish yourself from the morass of troglodytes R us. Although the Brum owners haven't read this memo yet.

Lol! speak of the devil!

local coverage on the next Leeds manager will supersede lil old us, even if we get promoted to the prem on monday. We have to do it just rub some manure all over those bitter Whites involved with local BBC.

guess that can only be steve "we will smash the league next year" gibson whispering tastefully in monk's ear

moyes for leeds please

I was looking for the oddschecker page for next Leeds manager and google gave me this vintage book.

Dave Bassett 4
Gary McAllister 4
Micky Adams 8
Paul Ince 8
John Sheridan 9
Steve McClaren 10
Andie Ritchie 12
Glen Hoddle 12
Gary Speed 14
Chris Coleman 14
Adi Boothroyd 14
Gianluca Vialli 14
Billy Davies 16
Martin Allen 16
David O'Leary 16
Lawrie Sanchez 16
Sam Allardyce 16
Steve Cotterill 20
Terry Venables 25
Neil Warnock 25
Gordon Strachan 33
Eddie Gray 40
Howard Wilkinson 50
Kevin Blackwell 66

If Leeds and Moyes collide the subsequent black hole could very well destroy the galaxy as we know it

*pulls up a deckchair and gets out Galilean binoculars*

There is something very UKIP about Monk's attitude and mannerisms that really grinds my gears, but getting into the politics of footballers/managers is a probably a complete waste of energy.

I just found out my step-dad has booked a train for the monday Wembley trip, beautiful - I won't even need to hide my booze.

I'm jealous - I'll be in Norwich pretending to be an artist until Sunday then will be dashing down without enough time spare to ensure I remember nothing at all about the day out at Wembles.

The security goons at Wembley seemed a bit keen last time, one of them accused me of being too drunk which was only about half right. I am going have a good drink but maybe a bit less than last time. It sounds like taking any bags is a no as well, wouldn't even be sure if you could leave one in a locker at Victoria station atm. Probably travelling light will be the order of the day.