EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

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.

he's been connected with us p much since duchatelet took over?

another shitty karel fraeye interimanent tenure beckons, flirtation with drop zone, someone else steers us to safety in march or so, rinse/repeat

AS Vita came calling again in January 2011, which surprisingly led to another stint at the club. Chris led the Congolese giants to another title challenge which went down to the final day of the season. They just needed a win and they would be champions, but a 0-0 draw was all they could muster.

“Prior to the game I walked out into the stadium and there were about 50,000 in there that day and they were singing my name and all that stuff, we drew 0-0 and afterwards a riot broke out and we had to leave in army trucks. That was enough for me.”

little does he know... that nothing can prepare him... for the lacerating wit of CARD

taxi for roland!!!!

on some morbid day i'll rank the CARD stunts. obv pigs >>>>

The mcnulty hivemind

Posted at 124'
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Ryan Dickson (Yeovil Town) right footed shot misses to the left. Ryan Dickson should be disappointed

Sherwood has kicked in properly now

FLITCROFT'S AVAILABLE

if u do this 1 thing right katrien i swear

sounds like Lambo's got the champagne football flowing

popular messageboard fitba expert rtc arrives at ground 5 mins late, doesnt realise opposition were playing with ten men all game til he gets home

lol rtc

trying to imagine stevie at mk.....

tbf having just seen the difference a new manager can make i can say with some certainty that norwich could have had 15 men on the pitch and still been rubbish. neil is a goner

(really was exceptionally gracious of him to leave out pritchard, jerome, hoolahan and klose though)

http://www.skysports.com/football/qpr-vs-norwich/358312

also i am gutted to have missed the SUPERB red card incident. olsson, poppy between his teeth, valiantly mistakes the ball for a grenade

irl > ilm part 52627565656: loftus road crowd lowkey but unmistakably quite enjoying kda/tinashe 'just say' during half time break

we were very fun. powerful keeganesque folk magic has been unleashed

It sounds like we were giving free headers to Morrison and Lambert in the box every set-piece. Obv the rudiments of defending set-pieces is too much for some of these thick fuckers, Morrison had already had 2 free headers on target before he scored. Hopefully they will show Billing's 2nd wonderstrike since his debut to cheer me up later.