Cry Wolves (Ooh-ooh-woooh!): The Football League and Beyond, 2013-14

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not to piss on the man's chips but leon barnett may possibly be a tad too chuffed with equalising against doncaster

Owen Coyle had a long discussion with Owen Coyle about this result. Full statement coming from Owen Coyle when he ceases talking to Owen Coyle about Owen Coyle's results.

so then, Hogan Ephraim, good enough for League 1?

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think hogan played for charlton in l1

i wouldnt really know as he hasnt featured for us in four years or whatever. good lad, enthusiastic, seems to be nice to have around (presumably, since no one's gone out of their way to show him the door), doesnt particularly excel at anything

paolo sousa once thought a lot of him iirc, back when he was a poor man's routledge to a newly arrived adel

When ignorant football people snottily refer to smaller clubs as "the likes of..".

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haha excellent piece

won't be much left to like when we're finished with 'em

hogan ephraim is yer archetypical decent little player. will pop up unnoticed in the box. his littleness is his greatest asset.

That Doncaster post is absolutely majestic.

Agreed, it's brilliant. I hope I never come across a real life Annan Athletic or Montrose fan, because I find myself doing that "likes of" thing a LOT.

unlucky noodles

oh never mind!

good little match even before this

that ismael looks a player eh

totally legit penalty

brought the situation on ourselves tho, just played backwards after 30 minutes or so, Crawley can consider themselves unlucky

on the other hand, these kids will be playing top flight in the next 5 years

oh yeah definite pen no question

quite impressed with crawley, decent quality fitba

sako was pretty rub? and jesus doyler is for the glue factory

Sako is nowhere near worth what we're paying him but the transfer interest has dried up. His end product is usually shite, over-hit crosses or shots from 30 yards that nearly kill some poor kid in row T.

i have a soft spot for Doyler and i do think he's got something to offer, but again the money he's on is way too much to justify in League 1. weird that Griffiths didn't come on til so late, he was excellent in the first home game. i'll take the scrappy win over good opposition tho, Crawley will probly be thereabouts come the end of the season.

good old meat and potatoes this

lol at the effing and blinding coming through crystal clear on the comms. "barton with the corner... DICKHEAD!!!... well defended"

trying to figure out who dougie freedman reminds me of exactly, maybe a lil bit of gabriel byrne in there idk

The Championship is billed as the most competitive and therefore most entertaining league in Europe in some quarters, but this game was, like so many others in this division, rather like watching two slightly overweight men bumping into each other on a narrow staircase. The league is evenly matched, but I’m more inclined to agree with Mick McCarthy’s assessment that “everybody is as bad as each other” than see it as some kind of positive. Rangers have settled into the monotonous pattern well, happily bashing into both Sheff Wed and Huddersfield and waiting for the errors, set pieces and very occasional moments of individual brilliance that cause 90% of the second tier’s goals to come along.

loftforwords otm 4eva

card-happy n00b ref will be the undoing of us here i'm feeling

i always knew the post-adel comedown would be rough as fuck but barton/henry/o'neil, my word

just watched for 5 minutes. qpr look decent, bolton are terrible. the lure of arsenal lolz has proven too strong, plus jenko's starting

lure of adel is tempting even me rn tbh. fuck a fulham though

barton/o'neil are two of the best passers in the division, surely

sort of. they're competent but tend not to stretch the play particularly let alone unlock anything. faurlin's unappreciated subtleties far superior obv

thank fuck for ht. might go excite myself by clipping my toenails or something

fuck, watching this after fulham-arsenal is brutal

haaaaaaaaaaaa @ bolton forward* petulantly putting close-range finish wide of the post after whistle blown for a foul

*gonna say darren pratley

well, pleasant we most certainly aint (efforts of real spanish realness queen clinti hillba aside)

still musnt grumble

powell...out? obv not yet but srsly wtf is this >:| we'd best come back like last week

right that's it

hahaha match abandoned

if this starts again 0-0 then tbh lol forever

hmm, they're waiting for it to dry

we're the australian cricket team of championship clubs

back on

the final 20 minutes will be played with the world's eyes upon us, presumably 5-1 down

XD

Lol! Donny Rovers chairman just said "It is health & safety gone mad". I was at Sixfields once and 1-0 down, getting outplayed. Very windy day and a hoarding blew off one of the stands and injured a fan about 5 rows in front of me. Game called off and we won the replay which happened to fall at a time we were on an unbeaten run.

I don't how we got James Vaughan for a song, what a player!. Well I do know how we got him, his injury record scared off most other suitors. If he stays fit we might be struggling to keep hold of him cometh the next transfer window.

Flicroft on the Mvoto red card today.
"I got the opportunity to speak to Jordan Rhodes who I know really well and I've seen the incident.

"What Jordan's told me is that he's backed into him [M'voto] and propelled himself forward, so he's got a very good decision for his team.

"That's cute, clever and why Jordan will become a Premier League player. He's incredible at this level and is one of the most honest kids I know. I looked him in the eyes and he had to tell me the truth and he did.

"Has the referee been conned? From what I know now, he has been. He's got to make a split decision, I understand that, but the decision is too big, just don't make it."

Sorry if my posting is a bit wayward I am shitfaced and need a nap.

only way to post to this thread imo

Marseille? Terrible reference showing him up there.

lol just read about Milwall having to play in Wednesday's away kit because they forgot their own. how did that get forgotten?! surely there's a bloke whose job that is, this isn't sunday league

It is a strange kind of fuck-up when your only job requirement is to turn up with the kit, not a lot to fuck up there. Kit bloke ambles off coach, pulls hip-flask out of pocket and swigs. "Who are are we playing today?".

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Steven Pressley has built a house of fun? Bloody hell.

It looks like Elvis has instilled a siege mentality. 10 point deduction, playing 40 miles away from home and 80% of fans staying away. Most of the hard work has already been done for him. But good job all the same.

let's see how sprightly they are come December when nobody's been paid for 6 weeks

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what with this lad, Sako and Davis, we're assembling some quality hair this season

Hunt having a medical at Palace, prior to £2 million transfer. No big surprise as it looked like Robins was planning for life without him from the first game of the season.

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^ that man appears to be operating an air raid siren, one of several improbable things about the recent 8-3 win for Harlow over Barkingside. He seems to do it after every goal. I doubt anyone has the patience to check (seeing as the youtube clip is over 20 minutes long), but if you jump to about 8:20 you can see and hear him in action.
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Just holding my phone while that thing plays, I feel like it's left me with vibration white finger

dunno what it must be like actually operating it