EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

this has been a good, inept game

c'mon Wolves we can do these casual gamer cunts

jesus christ open goal from 6 yards

incredible save tbf!

yeah i was more bewailing the fact that he was stood there unmarked

lovely pass tbf!

anyway cmon, game needs an equaliser

ah well

i think Lambert can get this shower into shape tbh, still need at least one centre half with a brain and a proper centre mid beast but if we can get on top of games we should start winning

what's the word on saiss and prince wotsit

what i've seen of either of them hasn't been that convincing although i don't think the Prince has had a proper go in his preferred position

i think it was stupidly early to sack Zenga but when you look at relative lack of progress and some of the rumours about his laid-back approach to turning up and doing his job, it's basically too early to judge any of the noobs as i suspect none of them have been properly managed

so yeah either/both might be the solution to the midfield ish. the defence on the other hand is wretched. i still believe in Hause and would like Iorfa to have a spell at CB but they're kids and they need somebody alongside them with a slightly better ability to read the game and stand in the right place than Danny Baath is ever gonna have

the other reason i'm mildly optimistic about Lambo is because i think he will look to use the players we've got to build some fluidity rather than just replace everybody with Aryan shitkickers but i feel frightened even as i type that

34' Dismissal
Second yellow card to Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers) for a bad foul.

Karl doesn't do good fouls tbf

38' Goal!
Nottingham Forest 1, Queens Park Rangers 0. Britt Assombalonga (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pajtim Kasami.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ProbPpO_8oo

brb adapting this to sherwood

lol you bastard you've ruined it for me

Lambert made official, let the moaning begin

how tf are reading 4th

the scum are only 3 pts behind us now, that cushion provided by a good start is slowly deflating.

Tony Fernandes ‏@tonyfernandes 4h
Take the point. Strange how we played better with 10 men. Day and night. Thanks for keeping the fight and not folding over.

Tony Fernandes ‏@tonyfernandes 4h
Bemused, 17th 6 points of play off. It's tight. But it's not good enough. Need to improve. Plenty of points to play for 90 .

don logan's in front of the mirror again

JFH gone

there are a few commenters on the Express & Star pages that i'm pretty sure are Fosun stooges. love it.

we may be appointing ian holloway and marc bircham today, unless rowett loses his mind. mob rule...

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/44262

this is a v otm and amusing round-up of the contenders

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/44261

and, if u gaf, this is a v accurate assessment of jfh's time summing up everything i haven't had the strength to patiently explain to outsiders this week

"He even fell out with Shittu while there, unthinkable when the pair were together at QPR and the players called the centre back ‘Son of Holloway’. "

this made me lol!

I saw something the other day about a bunch of QPR fans that were going to support Brentford as a Sherwood contingency plan.

think you'd have to go a long way to find a qpr fan without a soft spot for brentford; formerly as prelapsarian hovis ad, now as uncanny depiction of everything we once desired and can never have again (last season's euro ultra stats model approach aside). they absolutely and baffingly detest us of course, the way we do chelsea, and i suppose the fact that some of us would blithely go off and patronise them in hard times as if they were hayes or harrow borough in non-league is exactly why... bless em

and on that note!!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw5jokvWIAIjs8S.jpg

We’re excited to reveal our new crest for the 2017/18 season onwards.

Over the past 18 months we’ve been on a journey to better demonstrate who we are to the wider community, to try and make more of the unique aspects of Brentford FC. As a result, we’ve seen a gradual change in the way we communicate with fans of our Club and those we hope to convert into fans over time.

As part of this process we have made the decision to evolve our crest, in order to make it more recognisable, iconic, and practical to use. Given that our crest is such a key element to our identity, updating it is not a decision we have taken lightly.

The final crest design is loosely based on the crest we used from 1972-75 and the 1960s Brentford Supporters Club badge. We believe it’s simple, the clean bee design will help us become more recognisable as a Club over time and we hope you will all be proud to wear it for many years to come.

bit sad about that tbh... the old one, font particularly, was so delightfully dated it was vaporware cool

I'm really not into literal representations on badges, our Yorkshire terrier one was awful as well. This Barnsley one has a combo of flares, Prussian military symbols and a gryphon smoking a pipe - it seems quite appropriate tbh.
http://www.htafc.com/cms_images/team/bfc-crest-font-gloss238-3062.gif

“This is one of the biggest appointments the club has ever made. We’re still a bit shocked that we’ve managed to persuade Tim to take it on,”

Swindon might have to finally build a fourth stand to accommodate their new fookin massive Director of Football's ego.

Lol just in time for us

“People will be a little bit surprised that I’ve chosen Swindon over a few opportunities that I had, but it doesn’t surprise me."

“My job role is a bit of everything. I think the playing style will be tweaked somewhat, not totally, there’s not a lot wrong but at times they need to go a little bit more direct or turn the page over."

what a fucking tool, but it couldn't happen to a nicer club really.

any games on now?

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/800/cpsprodpb/131FB/production/_92413387_tim_sherwood_rex1.jpg

oh dear, sometimes there is a new manager bounce and it isn't the best time to play a side. I didn't realise that Charlton were known as the robins as well.

classic L1 table that, everyone from the middle downwards either 3 pts from relegation or pushing for playoffs.

our four attacking players removed by international callups and injury, slade proceeds to pick the worst charlton xi in living memory

i'm sure you've all been really missing the ollyisms over the last decade so

"This is a working mans club that people would die for. [...] I've painted a picture in my brain of the QPR badge up on a mantelpiece covered in gold. It needs to be looked after and worshipped."

QPR: Fernandes gushes praise for Ian Holloway on Facebook

"Many will say Ian will not take us forward due to old school methods. Wrong. He's as astute as anyone I have met."

marriage made in heaven that pair tbh

mm. needy mcclueless discovers populist h-bomb

idk fuck it maybe les can harness the nonsense energy

otoh

Ty ‏@Tblackwood17 20h
Congrats to @marcbircham A few months ago he was coaching @QPRFC on @FootballManager, now gonna be doing it for real. #LovesTheClub

Marc Bircham ‏@marcbircham 19h
@Tblackwood17 and what a season it was https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxA9FLaUAAAm62K.jpg

I'd take Peter Jackson back for a third time over Sherwood. If he could be persuaded to leave the care home he is currently managing in Brighouse that is. Ollie's Colin Hunt routine does my head in, but him not being Sherwood is cavernous gap on the rungs of twatdom imo.

The clown show continues

(right decision though - Slade was beyond useless)

(well, the right if completely clownish decision; there was no right move really)

chris o'loughlin.... the random toadies are getting more interesting at least

I've never rated Slade and when some of his awful sides did inflict damage on us it was more an indictment of our own decline.

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/PA-670948.jpg
Back in those halcyon days at Scarborough it sometimes seemed Slade was destined for much bigger things...

I know these new manager betting markets are 90% clickbait (Bubba Watson's papacy betting etc) but there does seem to be something to o'loughlin's favouritism.