Throwing Bad Money After Good - the EFL and Beyond 2017-18

Just seen the Leeds result - I happened to be in the North Peckham area at half four or so, and there did seem to be a surprising noise from the Den. Now I understand.

'Arry out.

FA cup week again today, beginning to look like a team now. A good few of the players we'd brought up clearly reached their level last year and this season already feels like it's going to be a grind.

'Arry in until they're mathematically relegated, thanks.

new Holte End favourite Keinan Davis (recently of Evo-Stik League South's Biggleswade Town) scores his first ever Villa goal to put us three up away to Barnsley. been a very good day

lol oh fuck i hadn't read the news, i thought you were just trash talking

hahahaha good day gets better

pang of regret for the lolz lost but on the other hand...

14 players signed this summer and he walks after 8 games :D

thought it looked balanced until your second goal then Barnsley folded like the proverbial

Oh shit lol.Redknapp just realized

still been mostly shite (as usual) but today we've somehow parlayed that into a 3-0 win. not gonna sniff at it

Let's go for another battle! Come on, @Wolves! 🐺
Vamos para mais uma batalha! Vamos lá!#Wolves #wolverhampton #Bonatini #WeAreWolves pic.twitter.com/1ATG0KhcGR

— Léo Bonatini (@BonatiniOficial) September 22, 2017

Connor Coady the libero, didn't see that coming

oh good Sky have decided to show Villa and Forest for a change

Been looking forward to the Dortmund v Real match all week and now villa have gone and ruined it by going 3-0 up after half an hour in a game with no streams

Who are you and what have you done with the Aston Villa squad would be my question

To make matters even better, Cardiff look to be giving Leeds a bit of a shoeing in the Top o the Table Clash :)

And spare a thought for poor old Sunderland

gnaaaaargh

QPR - Fulham has been great.

2-0 Fulham in the 92nd minute and it seems remarkable it didn't subsequently end in a draw. Rangers' keeper had a free header in the 98th that would have tied it.

god bless Hull City

Lol yeah came here to say that this has been an absolute treat of an afternoon in the efl championship

get in
first goal i hope of many for our young starlet jordan ponticelli

Oldham will be total dicks if they give Scholes the job. I'm not saying winning 3 on the bounce after months of relegation form should guarantee Wellens the gig, but surely unproven golden-tosser generation ex-Fergie players is a bit of a tainted brand at this point.

Listening to our FA Cup Q4 match on the internet, really nervy stuff. 2-1 up but there's probably 15 to be added on after a bad injury.

Turns out to be 14, the video of the incident seems to clearly show their right back elbowing our left winger unconscious.

Gary McSheffrey has made a huge difference for them since coming on.

They're down to 9 now, their captain has just kicked the ball hard into our dugout in protest and lucky to stay on.

Stream died with seconds to go but it didn't matter. FIRST ROUND PROPER.

always nervous when we're bossing it but haven't scored

NV, dude, top of the league! Feel kinda bad this thread is lagging this season w/ Huddersfield playing with the big boys now, too (though I hear Calz way less about it than when they were in the Championship!).

Happy you don't seem to need Locadia after all, with a GD of +10 you're doing really well right? After mucking about he's been of proper use to us though, he's joint league top scorer and we're top, five points clear of Ajax and Feyenoord.

I'm starting to think there was never a serious intention to get another striker in - we've got at least 6 options for the front 3 and we're ridiculously fluid at times. That said I think the system works best with Bonatini who is a more orthodox number 9 and we could maybe do with one more of them. Other than we could maybe get another centre mid as cover but seriously I'm pretty sure we've got the best squad in the division and barring horrible luck we can win the league without any more additions

I'm starting to think there was never a serious intention to get another striker in

Perhaps, but Locadia sure thought he was well on his way to youse; he's been p sour about how it all fell through in September. All water under the bridge now bcz things are crescendo.

Do you feel Wolves are the 'team to hate and beat' this season with the Mendes link? I don't see it that way, but could see other teams scoff at the Premiership level players you brought in. (I don't know if Wolves get more sympathy or scorn from neutrals tbh).

Wish I could see more of it; it's not streaming here (anymore), miss the highlights since the Beeb got rid of them.

i think we definitely started the season a bit below the radar of the insular English football media - most of the signings/loans are youngsters and not yet established international names. i feel like even Neves was relatively unknown since the Prem's big dogs lost interest in him. the Mendes stuff seems to have died down but i don't read the gutter press so i dunno. i feel like we're ignored quite a lot by the media and i've no idea what neutrals think about the club, probably not much, yet. if we're still top 3 come March i think the "bought promotion" shit might ramp up.

I kind of hate Lee Johnson/Bristol City

The Kennedy Assasination

I don't want to interrupt that thread with ILF talk but I wanted to note it.

Clint Hill gets booked for climbing, is the gist.

haaa

mentioning him is a v quick way to make me sad that nakh and rtc are no longer among us tho

indeed, this thread has been a bit of a graveyard this year. maybe i will spice things up by (in an act of calculated hubris) predicting blandford's boys to go down by four tomorrow

Exeter are being weird, as usual, all up and down, but I never want to post when we're doing well - who wants to read about some nothing lower league team on a good run? - and I never want to post when we're doing badly, because in order to remain a decent human being and not make my lovely wife's life a misery when we lose, I try not to think about football.

I love Reuben Reid as much, I think, as I've ever loved a footballer. And that's even with him being ex-Argyle. But it was when the interviewer asked why he doesn't celebrate when he scores, and he thought about it and said (something to the effect of) "if I score I don't feel like celebrating because I'm mostly relieved". Man alive.

lol! I'm sure if mark was into football he would have found some way to introduce a Neil Warnock joke to the JFK thread or something.

I might put on Radio Leeds for a laugh tonight.

who wants to read about some nothing lower league team on a good run?

goddamit man this could've been the thread title

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/cwclp.gif

excited to sheffield united to get bad around xmas then make the playoffs then lose

could replace Sheff U with about 12 other clubs in that sentence

also i could say that sentence most years since 1997

anyway, as long as Cardiff, Derby and Leeds fail i'm good

Leeds still up there with the cushion of a good start, but have lost 4 out of the last 5 in the league ;-;

for the benefit of my non-Facebook pals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9AC00fs6hI

tbh a dignified silence would be the most fitting accompaniment to this promotion purchase :P

fcuk that i've been dignified long enough

also FUCKING COME ON BRISTOL YOU MOANING CUNTS

Clarke (53' minutes, 76' minutes, 80' minutes, 88' minutes)

great scott!

the Championship results today are insane haha :D

Birmingham in the relegation zone. No club deserves relegation more