Parachute money fails to deploy - the Football League and beyond 2015-16

one has to fear that with a few of our fans his reputation is therein fixed for good

oh man i've just been offered an exclusive evening at Nando's with members of the first team

:D

you good with a hidden camera?

Queuing for a cup of tea out the back of Dagenham's away stand. 1-0 up at half time. Jamie Cureton is still playing. Stuff of dreams.

bbc london doing regular reports from that one, didn't know ryan harley went back to st james'

Love him so much. He has a good song to the tune of the bridge from "Can't Take My Eyes Off You".

Cup of tea achieved. Dream come true.

Thank fuck the chairman has ruled out selling up and selling Butters unless the offer is £4m+ at the canalside before the game and also promised the Coady/Smithies money is going to be re-invested. Also confirmed that Vaughan aint getting a new contract which is sensible considering his top earner/least games ratio.

Some kind of crisis of confidence in the first half and we could have been a few down and looked like fooking L1 hoofers, but right at 'em in the second and beautiful equaliser by Butters.

Any win is a pleasing win; that we've won two of our three league games so far and still have a minus 1 goal difference is weirdly satisfying though I know it shouldn't be.

Daggers look worse than usual this year, one of their lot really stood out as miles better than the rest - turns out he's a 17 year old youth product called Jodi Jones.

(I've always assumed their team has been made up of big strong willing cheap lads who didn't make the grade at London's bigger (but not biggest) clubs, augmented by a few who have drifted up from your Grays and Billericays; this year they don't seem as big or fast or scary, somehow, and dear old Jamie Cureton can't keep going forever.)

We've been linked with Jones but West Ham have too, so we probably won't sign him like we did Danny Green way back when. He's probably better than Danny Green though

He was impressive tonight for sure; I hadn't heard of him because I don't really pay attention, but he stuck out of a mediocre Daggers side.

oh i don't want the scouting report, always feels dreadfully patronising when premiership fans do it to our own youth prospects

dagenham & redbridge will probably always vacillate between league and non-league; they are almost the perfect cusp club in that sense. their break for freedom was valiant but alas short-lived

Except they haven't, have they? They came up and they've stayed, unlike Barnet and Torquay. I have half an idea that the Daggers understand how to scrape along on a shoestring in a way some others (ourselves included) have never quite got.

Yeovil look like they might make a bid to crash back out this year, which given they seem to attract crowds easily twice as big as the Daggers would be unforgivable. But there seem to be plenty of clubs in the early season running for having a total stinker of a year, and Yeovil did recruit a totally new squad ten of fifteen minutes ago, so maybe they're just gelling or whatever.

or, not of.

i mean in a grand sense, looking into the deep long-term

they've stayed, they've gotten into league one, but if they manage to stick it and establish themselves in the league over a period of decades i'll be impressed and amazed

My alltime second fave season was the 03/04 Season in the basement, so much degenerate action and so many new grounds to visit. It was a beautiful season. We got dicked 6-2 by Scunny + 4-0 by Macc and blew a 1-0 lead against Cheltenham via a suicidal Pav Abbott backpass. We completely fucked up auto on the last game and went up via a controversial ruled out goal by Clattenburg and penalty shoot out- (again)

For some reason I thought Lansdown had walked from Bristol City, more ffp madness when a team who have recently written off £35m worth of debt + just up from L1 can bid £9m for a rival club's striker. Sickening, really hope these fuckers fail.

That's ridiculous.

I am recalling how, when Daggers brought on Ashlee Chambers last night, I was wishing very very hard for him to have squad number 36.

dicking in the balance

i swear to god Claridge has just commented adversely on Le Fondre's "moving clubs a lot"

Ikeme back in goal at the weekend

we must've spent pre-season playing dominoes or something

wd love a stream of this, commentators talking so much bollocks idk how to perceive (i went for bbc london, preferring steve froggatt to claridge)

did lol at their bemusement at austin and phillips barely celebrating the first

steve froggatt was excellent for our game last night

or maybe he was just saying lots of nice things about us and coming off like an ex pro who's also a good bloke idk

p sure the two of them (a&p xxp) literally just had a word in the centre circle at 0-2 and said "ffs lets get ourselves the fuck out of here"

nv deserves everything he gets for 'dicking in the balance' tbrr

ya froggy just went on a real england rant about wenger letting afobe go

just wait until he sees akpom eh

lol someone's bunning on my bus btw

Claridge is a fucking cunt who must've got bullied to shit at Wolves cos he's always hated us, wd take Froggatt given the option obv

a night of two-twos xp

o no lies it is the man behind me rolling one

what's happening in the match

claridge doesn't like us either obv

smmfh

worst is this doesn't sound undeserved, and i wasn't impressed with the 70 minutes of us i saw on Sunday either

wow phillips is terrified of staying

just rly glad I wasn't online when we went 2 up over rtc's boys to commence premature gloating

my old man's health is shaky enough without this you feckless twats

i'd actually last minute bottled betting against us with afobe first scorer, wasnt a good moment

this game is basically kinda meaningless for both sides tho rly in the grand scheme, two class players on their way out perverting the natural course of justice

script says this is a late 3-3 btw

I hope Andre Gray is negotiating a decent relegation release clause into his Bristol contract.

see, luongo just declined to square a tap in xp

9m for gray is so obscene, you could pay off a whole ffp fine with that

If he decides not to sign for them at that price I'm going to be so angry.

at best we'll have dropped 4 points from our first 2 home games, thank fuck our fans are philosophical and patient

apparently Claridge only had 5 games for us, that explains a lot

it felt so much longer

9m for gray is so obscene, you could pay off a whole ffp fine with that

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