The Cunt With The Bell: Resurrection - EFL+ 24/25

Xps about coventry, a few bookies have us around playoffs again, I'm not so confident but looks like we have a decent your gk this season at least

*young

Overall I think our team is slightly weaker than last two seasons, but the league might be a little easier

Coventry have started badly the last two seasons iirc

Yes we were relegation zone end of November when we eventually made play off final

Couple of attacking signings in Mason-Clark and Thomas-Asante tho I'm not too familiar with their game to have an opinion

there was a great keeper moment for us yesterday with Nicholls, not a miraculous save or anything but just a supremely confident feint that sent the Posh striker sliding past him as he was kicking the ball out, without breaking a bead of sweat. A tiny moment in the game, but I loved the swashbuckling arrogance of it.

Nice result for Hereford yesterday.

Great game, first half was pretty even but they might as well have not come out for the second half. Could and should have been 5 or 6.

They're a good footballing side and Bartlett looked just as sharp as last year. If we get the same outcome against all the other playoff candidates then it's going to be a great season.

Mason-Clark was quite possibly the best player I saw in L1 last season

yikes! just saw the Wednesday/Plymouth highlights. Can see why Miller turned down a contract extension there, shambolic defending. Rooney, why do you keep doing this to yourself. Well because clueless fuckers keep offering him jobs of course. He needs to try something new, maybe enrol on a b-tec photography course or something!

One game into the season

Preston North End have confirmed Ryan Lowe has left the club by mutual consent

they got beaten by a parachute money side that played in the prem last season, so hardly a disgraceful result. They have been the second most boring opposition side to watch, next to Swansea for me in the last couple of years, so I don't think their fans will be crying.

Didn't score in their last five games last season with five losses
No idea why they didn't do it in the summer

I wonder how long till Wazza gets put out of his misery, it was 2 wins in 18 that finished him at Brum.

embryonic L1 table otm imo :p

looking pretty grim here - fourth loss on the trot for Cambridge this month (Stockport and Crawley, QPR in the league cup and a 6-0 pre-season drubbing from Colchester) - everyone looked miserable trudging out of the abbey stadium.

we conceded a penalty in the last 40 seconds of play with a combined keeper going through the player + Spencer dragging the fucker down at the same time. Same kind of shit they were dishing out to us for 90 mons, but never mind!

got a strong feeling that Hull City's flirtation with the play-offs last season was a one off

league 1 will be very tight this season, especially considering rotherham's inevitable promotion

good luck huddersfield and charlton x

we've got the first manager since the 1970's who has won their first 3 games in charge, and still he's moaning about how shit they were in the 2nd half today. He's won me over.

a Hull City fan I heard was saying they fear Medya is getting bored with the project and the common theme in this summer's pre-season prep was top-down inertia.

yeah that seems very plausible, it's felt like a vanity project from day one

embryonic L1 table otm imo :p

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 17 August 2024 20:11 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

okay I'm listening

good luck huddersfield and charlton x

― nxd, Saturday, 17 August 2024 20:31 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

churlish to omit Devon's bastion of pure-hearted working-wonders-on-a-tight-budget goodness imo

(but ty lol)

oh of course my apologies - good luck exeter too!

What on earth has happened to Sheff Wed since last week

diagnosed with a severe case of not playing a team managed by wayne rooney

Okay calz you can almost say the line now

really flat, listless performance by my lot today. But fuck it, the embryonic L1 table is still otm!

lying in bed this afternoon getting over (prob) covid, heard a bizarre succession of sounds coming from the Abbey Stadium, seems Cambridge were playing Blackpool, went one nil down after five mins, got an equaliser, then let in three, then scored three, to finish up 4-4.

enjoying the total absence of madcap thrillers from our season so far ngl

Four games so far this season we've been 1-0 up in each. the first we won and in the three since we've gone on to lose 2-1. This is annoying but doesn't yet feel like a disaster.

On a happier note, I went to see our women's team play at Lewes yesterday, very pleasant day out indeed drinking Harveys Sussex Best on the terrace with the South Downs forming a picturesque backdrop and watching our lot win 4-0 to stay top of the league after two matches. Our manager more or less promised we'd get slaughtered by Ipswich next week.

Lewes is a lovely town! The Snowdrop Inn is one of my shouts for 'best pub in England'

I always enjoy visiting Lewes but I have a more conflicted relationship with the place (I get that pleased-with-itself feeling which makes me itch a bit). I like the Snowdrop too but it wouldn't be in my top three pubs in Lewes even. I recommend visiting the Dripping Pan if you get the chance, it really is a tremendous ground.

I get that pleased-with-itself feeling which makes me itch a bit

oh, totally get this. think when i visited Stroud in 2018 it was at its peak, literally on the cusp of this exact heelturn

three pubs in Lewes better than the Snowdrop? crikey. that's a pretty good hit-rate. although i've now recalled Derby's Exeter Arms (and Alexandra) so it's probably over for most other English pubs

Birmingham have bid something in the £10m range for Fulham's Jay Stansfield, what league is this again. Some of their fans seem to think their owner's bogus sponsorship deal or whatever the hell it is will insulate them from any inevitable FFP issues down the line if they get promoted.

bid rejected, maybe £20m will cut it.

We get a decent percentage of any Stanno profit Fulham might make, still I’d rather see him sit tight and establish himself at Fulham tbh. Love the lad.

we've got a loan move for Luton's Joe Taylor being held up until they've resumed whatever business they are doing. He apparently did the medical yesterday and had to return to the club in case they require him on the bench tonight. One of them potential transfers just designed to collapse at the last minute. Or maybe Birmingham will swoop in with an insane 11th hour offer.

kerching! Tim

Guess so, and we seem to have "invested" some of the spoils on a child from your third team. Happy days all round.

tbf Pat Jones was always more on the periphery of the first team, and if not for injuries etc.. He scored an incredible individual goal against Norwich on his debut. There is a player there no doubt.

I should add he has shown lots of flashes of potential since but his development was also hindered by a succession of fuckwit managers and all the usual stuff when a club is in a period of decline. He could be potentially be a fantastic player in L1.

think the gambling commissioner should have a look at this

Hahahahahahahahaha wtf is going on here fine the lot of them pic.twitter.com/nOOX3G5x4r

— jakefloyd_97 (@j_floyd97) September 14, 2024

that is one gk who won't be getting a good night's sleep tonight

Both our goals against them were from them losing the ball at the back. Evatt surely gone by the morning

otmness of table alas short-lived

about time Wrexham got a reality check, although Brum with 15m worth of J Stansfield could be a bit much for a lot of us

"Both our goals against them were from them losing the ball at the back."

both Posh and Bolton played out from the back very badly. It will play into the hands of any half decent, well organised high press.

I lived in the Woolwich/Plumstead area for 2 years, but still never been to the Valley. Fuck 'em!

xp I’m not really complaining (much) and some Devon derbies will be v welcome, I’m just noting how weird it is to have a season which would be in our top 5% finishes historically but still feels so flat.

Oh, I understand. Even though we've achieved the same as Exeter this season i.e. not much at all but not going down. But even when we looked a lock for the playoffs the performances were garbage. Sometimes there is just an unpleasant smell around a group of players and a manager, where it's hard to to put finger on it, but nothing is right. Nothing feels good.

Sonny Cox seems like a good acquisition though. Need to check out his hard bop period!

Even I'm probably not going to the Charlton game next weekend due to playing cricket, but if you do attend Tom I hope it's a humdinger. We're not a terrible watch tbf, yesterday excepted. Oh right we're not going to talk about that

Keep my powder dry for Wemberley

Season just petered out despite technically being in the mix until the end. Even with other results going our way we never looked like beating either Kiddy or Scunthorpe, and if we believed we were going to get through the playoffs we would have faced one of them again for sure.

All those dropped points against sides down the bottom we hadn't played before - Needham Market probably being the lowest point - and shockingly bad refereeing decisions - the goal that never was against Kings Lynn, the offside decision at Alfreton - could have seen us go up automatically, never mind the playoffs, but ultimately we're still not good enough. Again.

Even I'm probably not going to the Charlton game next weekend due to playing cricket, but if you do attend Tom I hope it's a humdinger. We're not a terrible watch tbf, yesterday excepted. Oh right we're not going to talk about that

Changed my mind, there's nothing to play for in the game, Charlton are in the play-offs and Burton are safe from relegation. Now, if Orient had been playing at home I'd have gone to that game but they're away to Huddersfield and obviously no way on God's green earth I'd go to Huddersfield (sorry calz). Oh well, next season I suppose.

Excuse me, we're playing for a home semi-final in the second leg!!!

Yeah, I'll play cricket

Tom, you don't want to visit the retail park built on the site of the Leeds Rd cafe where Shanks used to take young Denis Law to, to fatten him up on steak and milk? There is an incredible aura of lost football history in the car park between the Staples and the B+Q.

I've never seen a more gift-wrapped, signed and sealed "L" in my life. Just put a grand on Orient and use the guaranteed payout to fund the beer, food and train tickets for a jolly good daytrip to sunny Hudds!

I see Truro City went up to the National League, meaning they have trips to Carlisle (439 miles) and Gateshead (458 miles) to look forward to, assuming Gateshead don't' squeak through the play-offs into the league.

the lads insist on ruining my sunday huh

yes coventry did the decent thing the other night

oh fuck lol, our first VAR'd game I believe

oh don't worry, they always get the big VAR calls right in playoff finals, unless the cunt has been paid off iirc!

not a bad season for gillesphey ay

it was just so written in stone that this would be textbook Nathan Jones one nil victory - I should have put a ton on that scoreline. Congrats imago.

oh fuck we are playing the bantams next season. I saw Dean Windass in Leeds last month, he wasn't looking in good health.

Hard to tell with Deano

lol, true.

think i'm still drunk

love sufferball now

Jones dependant est tbh but congrats

Fucking spellcheck you know what I meant

ty ty

s london and w midlands locking horns now i see

Always welcome to do the Boggies, Jones aside

congrats imago and matty godden

josh brownhill still out of contract? seems p weird after the season he had but guess he's just having some time off

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