Thought you couldn't score from goal kicks, is that a rule change
― ukania west (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:17 (three years ago) link
lol Derby fans when we re-signed Duane Holmes the other day: good bit of business - I'd drive him to Hudds etc..
and then when they found out we got him for free: “Absolute joke of a club at the moment. Ridiculous.” and “That’s ridiculous, another 700K write off for the only successful permanent transfer brought in by Lampard.”
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 09:12 (three years ago) link
Touches on the fact that Lampard's decent season with Derby leaned heavily on loanees, he didn't leave anything much for the next manager to build on
― ukania west (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 13:05 (three years ago) link
Not going to preempt the FA investigation but it looks like we've been caught falsifying player contracts...
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
Circle, grimace emoji, send
― imago, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
ooops!
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
it can always be worse, like for example Wimbledon who rumours suggest are about to employ the Cowley brothers ( ̄x ̄;)
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
wtf their own legend our U23 coach Jason Euell has applied and so has Powelly how fucking dare they
mind you if the Cowleys are safely employed when Bowyer is fired next week I'll breathe easier
― imago, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
The short version is that it came to light over the acrimonious transfer of The Shop to Grimsby.
He wanted to see his contract because he was sure there was a clause in it that said if there were no fans then his contract was void so asked the FA for it. When he got it back from them that clause had been scored out and acceptance initialled, only his initials weren't in his handwriting and he says he don't know about it.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
Glenn Murray, the Sir Captain Tom of professional football, scoring goals in his 90s to raise money for the NHS
― Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
Lol I can still remember those heady days when Murray was arguably one of the hottest young talents in the shitty leagues, at Dale I think.
― calzino, Saturday, 6 February 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
Definitely a good idea to sell him and buy Benteke thanks pardyoo
― ukania west (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 8 February 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
Our lot had got to Barrow last night before the game was called off, poor sods.
On the plus side, I have been enjoying looking at Barrow's club badge. Submarine! Bee-arrow!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/New_Barrow_Football_Club_Crest_2014.png
― Tim, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 11:19 (three years ago) link
when they have their big derby game against Morecambe coming up I hear they often deploy their club submarine into the bay to spy on the Shrimps training ground through the periscope.
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
are we sure that's a submarine and not a Lemmings level?
― Mommas, don't let your scampoes grow up to be bacon fries (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
League 2 is totally a Lemmings level.
― Tim, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
On derby days they could replace the bee-arrow bit with one of thesehttps://chowhound3.cbsistatic.com/resize/b3d5948ab63a57d05e34cd1ac77819318bc08997/recipe_photos/30998_grilled_sweet_chili_lime_shrimp.jpg
― Tim, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
It was a picture of a shrimp kebab but fuck doing that again.
― Tim, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
apparently we have signed Ravel Morrison on a free who has had roughly as many managers in the last decade as he has played games in the last few seasons. probably a dud signing but at least he pissed off Big Sam and has a shitload of talent if he can be arsed putting in some graft with a relegation battle.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link
So our league has just been Null and Voided but we can still play in the Trophy because the NL proper hasn't.
Makes perfect sense.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 18 February 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
Bloody hell!
― imago, Saturday, 20 February 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
(to calz' lot)
― imago, Saturday, 20 February 2021 18:32 (three years ago) link
But also to aldo's lot :(
― imago, Saturday, 20 February 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
Yesterday's development is that Gloucester are pushing that they might go to court to ensure they are promoted because they're currently first - although they have played more games than everyone else and would be 5th I think on average points terms - and have thrown out bitchy public statements at the club's who voted for it. I'm sure it has nothing to do with going shit or bust on the money front this year to try and get promoted.
Of course there is a special irony in them doing it this season, when the rugby team have been a complete disaster and have only got their act together once the league decided there would be no relegation and took the pressure off them.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Saturday, 20 February 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
that 2nd Duane Holmes goal was sublime and it is extra pleasing because he is a homegrown town fan who most of us had dismissed as s lightweight with no end product and he's a very nice chap as well. lol some Derby fans seem to be taking it as proof that he couldn't be arsed playing for Rooney, who can blame him tbf.
― calzino, Saturday, 20 February 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
Just watched that goal calz absolute beauty
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 February 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
good day for the old warhorse Frasier Campbell as well he scored a scruffy goal, had one disallowed and got two assists, led the line like a good-old-fashioned-pro™. He gets lots of unfair stick but as a 33 year old often playing twice a week you can't really ask for more from him.
― calzino, Saturday, 20 February 2021 22:55 (three years ago) link
Feel like Frasier fucked himself career wise on more than one occasion but fair play. 40 year-old James Coppinger scored a pearler of a free kick for Donny today
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 February 2021 23:15 (three years ago) link
lord, he's been at Donny Rovers since they still played at Bell Vue! My brother used to work for the dodgy fucker chairman that plotted to burn it down for an insurance job. When my brother left his employment in a huff he later found out the dodgy crook had paid someone to break his legs but they must have been as shit as the arsonist he hired because it never happened!
― calzino, Saturday, 20 February 2021 23:29 (three years ago) link
beware championship defences...beware 🤡
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
Top ten in L2 all neatly queued up one point behind the club in front. 1 Cambrg. 31 52 2 Forest G 29 51 3 Cheltenm 29 50 4 Morecam 30 49 5 Tranmere 29 48 6 Newport 29 477 Exeter 28 46 8 Salford. 29 45 9 Bolton 30 4410 Carlisle 26 43
― Tim, Thursday, 25 February 2021 07:30 (three years ago) link
NATHAN FERGUSON! 🚀🚀🚀THAT’S OUTRAGEOUS.@SUFCRootsHall 👀pic.twitter.com/My5ZEZoOe6— The Sportsman (@TheSportsman) February 24, 2021
― Tim, Thursday, 25 February 2021 07:48 (three years ago) link
Nice one, Luke, any chance of a new BBR album?
PENALTIES | HEREFORD PROGRESS!!!Luke Haines fires Hereford into the semi-finals of the #FATrophy!ALDERSHOT ✅✅✅❌HEREFORD ✅✅✅✅✅— HerefordFC (@HerefordFC) February 27, 2021
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 27 February 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
Hahaha
The highlight was our official account celebrating victory in the 89th minute, before commentators curse struck.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Saturday, 27 February 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
Sheffield fucking Wednesday :D
― imago, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
Rotherham down to ten and incapable of beating an egg at the best of times.. there's hope for all of us!
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
McCarthy's thugball Cardiff side are the worst, it was like watching a tribute team to every Warnock side of the 90's. They only ever look like scoring from set pieces and have been beating sides with 20-30% possession. I hate them more than Leeds rn! And last night Aaron Rowe won us a pen and up steps the guy who got voted the worst Arsenal player of all time and looking nervous and awkward and not up for it at all and then blasts it wide. Our 4th penalty miss of the season.
― calzino, Saturday, 6 March 2021 10:28 (three years ago) link
Big Mick's back baby
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 March 2021 10:38 (three years ago) link
It really is a indictment of the champo that such a boring, grisly anti-football side are in playoff contention. Gl Cardiff!
― calzino, Saturday, 6 March 2021 10:44 (three years ago) link
mind you at one point I heard a bbc Leeds commentator say that Warnock's Middlesbrough were averaging one shot per game, and they didn't say one shot on target. But their big playoff push seems to have faded since.
― calzino, Saturday, 6 March 2021 10:48 (three years ago) link
lol @ Bournemouth. or some might have it Boscombe Manor.
― calzino, Sunday, 14 March 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
lmao we're playing Birmingham City the mother of all hospital passes, what a glorious day
― imago, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link
oh it's official now!
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 00:43 (three years ago) link
he'll be thanking the new-manager gods for Rotherham being so wretched, but brum have previous for escaping on the last day if it gets a bit sticky
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
fingers x'd
― imago, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 01:42 (three years ago) link
Woking have gone public to say Saturday is shit or bust for them, if they don't win the semi them they're furloughing all their plays and (presumably) not completing the season.
To help(?) this state of affairs they have signed two new players for the semi. One of whom is cuptied because he played for Slough in an earlier round thus ineligible. Fucking tinpot.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 25 March 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
I have met a Woking fan, a teenager. Poor lad
― imago, Thursday, 25 March 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
There's a Woking fan on ilx, though I don't think she hangs about on this thread.
― Tim, Thursday, 25 March 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
idk, seems like they might be a fun club to support. Remember in the 90s they used to win the Trophy almost every year, decent FA cup record too
― maybe the beeple would be the times or between clark and hill (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 26 March 2021 10:17 (three years ago) link
Woking itself a grim place tho lol