Parachute money fails to deploy - the Football League and beyond 2015-16

Yes!

93rd minute!

Holy Shit! I have Ipswhich13/5,Sheff Wed 11/8, Donny5/4, Notts Co 21/10. Not quite 119/1 but I have £2 on it!

oh fuck

Leon f'ing Clarke as well!

lol that must be Leon's most valuable goal ever

i mean literally

i suspect we have not missed him today

4-1 was a decent enough start, plus we hit the woodwork three times. They were favourites to go up last week.

Attendance 4060, a league record. By over 2500. They brought 37.

tsk you money clubs

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

chin up rtc if twatt hadn't had a little incident in training during the week and been banished to the naughty step for 45 minutes it could have been worse

I haven't watched it yet but it sounds like Football League Tonight is a terrible show and some are even saying "we will even take Claridge back, anything but this!"

I might just catch it later for the league table review bit

lol, more on Clarke's at the death equaliser.

Doncaster allowed Bury to walk in an equaliser after netting a freak goal themselves in a bizarre 1-1 draw at the Keepmoat Stadium.

Paul Dickov instructed his players to clear a path for Bury to find the net after Doncaster scored by mistake in second-half stoppage time when attempting to return an act of good sportsmanship.

The midfielder Harry Forrester tried, following a throw-in, to return the ball to visiting goalkeeper Christian Walton who had knocked it out of play following an injury, but the ball bounced over Walton and found the Bury net.

Rather than take advantage, Doncaster allowed Leon Clarke to amble half the length of the pitch unchallenged before tapping home.

doncaster deserve more credit, having leon walk it in is like burying a 30 yard free kick

The C5 FL show was jawdroppingly bad

Crystal Palace have accepted an offer from Bristol City for striker Dwight Gayle, according to Sky sources.

It is understood the deal is worth £6m, but could rise to as much as £8m with incentives that have been included in the bid.

I knew that Landsdown was minted but their current chairman Dawe is only worth a modest £40m so there must be someone else bankrolling them

I was googling Bristol City chairman and found out that one of them was a former Pet Shop Boys/Bros keyboard player.

Images of him shoehorning in a Drop The Boy gag at every board meeting

Itt weak jokes that you make that could have been sketches on the laughter show

I couldn't care less about the league cup but jeez Powell, playing 5 at the back at home against L2 opposition and not changing anything when they are down to 10 is diabolical management.

Sometimes I think the last few managers we have had all resorted to self sabotage deliberately in order to get sacked because it is a shit job and some kind of malaise sets in after a season.

At least Brentford have the 10 changes excuse

11 changes tyvm

I couldn't get to the match last night but this league might not be a piece of pish after all.

we seem to have had a bid accepted for tim "rules everything around me" ream

the amount of times i've watched per mertesacker over the years and thought gosh i'd really love one of those at lr 👍

Reading go into the insect extermination business

Green>>>West Ham
Smithies>>>QPR
It looks like QPR have bid £2 mill for Smithies and they want him as no. 1 so this could be a goer. He is worth double that imo but our chairman seems a lot less resolute these days on transfer matters.

Today was a shocking game, both sides still looking in jittery pre-season mode and players like Rhodes & Marshall looking a shadow of their former selves. Town increasingly looking worse than they have ever been at this level, they are definitely missing the influence of Coady.

It's an ominous sign when Coventry who we have studiously avoided in the league since '72 are making a good start in L1.

not sure what of any of that situation to believe tbh - that green is actually wanted, that the club wouldnt still prefer daniel bentley (and if so that southend want more than 2m), that smithies is worth it (i'll take your word)

today was a hot mess p much, i'm none the wiser about any of it. quite bored of zamora's curse now tho

Smithies wasn't in the squad today so he is probs off.

he only bothered for 15 mins but i was intrigued by ben gladwin - real oddball autodidact non-league curio, looks like a cross between luke shaw and ivanovic but with a fancyman winger's sporadic airs and graces. gl fitting him into any type of system

chris waddle if we're going for a specific winger actually

i'm also really going to miss austin's traditional 55th minute "i am so bored and frustrated at this fucking hoofball that i'm going to charge over across cover my left back or something idk" play

ah forgot we had wolves away next. nv your boys are going to dick us no fear

Dave May ‏@davehmay 4h
@Lolleyj10 Failed fitness test, Joe?

Joe Lolley @Lolleyj10
@davehmay No, feel fit!

what's all this about then btw xelab. i'd have him at ours

Probably fucking too adventurist for Powell's liking. I had not actually heard anything and presumed he was injured. I think we have drained his vitality to the point that his heart flummoxes the beep test.

just c+p that to the burgeoning Joe Lolley thread on our board.

fuck me football league tonight on channel 5 is atrocious. can't believe the beeb let the rights go to channel 5, football league show was fucking great. manish and steve claridge, come on this was classic stuff. football league tonight is post-soccer am (groan) shite. get it tae fuck man.

sub not used adam virgo as a studio guest for the love of christ

you thought this was bad, last week was apocalyptic. mad dog martin allen for fucking crying out loud

Full name Benjamin Thomas C. Gladwin

how many footballers affect an initial

There is a lot of noise that our owner wants to sell up and is disillusioned with the club and Powell is pissed because funds that were promised didn't materialise. It sounds quite credible seeing as we seem to be selling players at the first offer and there has been a lethargy at the club for the last year. We not at the Blackpool level of crisis club yet but the squad is wafer thin + lacking championship class at the back in particular.

I can't bring myself to watch that C5 shite, I agree with jim, the beeb show wasn't really that bad and Mannish was sound.

thank fuck the art of Scottish goalkeeping isn't dead

Butterfield >>> Derby confirmed by his step-bad who posts on the Barnsley board. The club is rudderless right now and accepting first bids on all the best players, what a wretched start to the season :(

well this has gone slightly better than expected at coventry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2jahZBzjjc

Allan McGregor you beautiful man

Just seen that ceballos corner for charlton, poor lad

ok that is aggravating. i could just see a justification for applying it in a group stage but in a knockout competition the side you choose to play has no real bearing on anybody else.

on the other hand looking at available players at the moment half our Academy team are going to have full Champo experience already/ongoing

pajtim kasami moves on a season loan from olympiakos to forest, who are definitely not both owned by the same crook

lol! one minute Brighton fans thought they had Pritchard and now they have Norwood. Not a bad player tbh but hardly a marquee signing.

yeah i like norwood

think that might mean dale stephens to burnley. can only hope a big sell-on fee will at least in some small way help to alleviate the pain of relegation for duchatelet

Norwood can be a gamechanger, but he is guaranteed to go missing for long periods.

our moron fans hated stephens and thought him a league one player because he didn't maul opponents every game

He did a good job of mauling one of our players once! but it was Hammill who wasn't beyond assaulting female ambulance staff himself, so scratch that!

good to see Ross McCormack stepping up as the new Jordan Rhodes now we've finally lost the original

There is time in the transfer window yet for him to make a dream return and he does love those signing on fees! There were rumours last month he was being "touted to rich championship clubs".

he must be forced to at least try a season in the Prem just so we can snigger knowingly

sing to me of kevin foley, noodle

always a darling of Big Mick's, make of that what you will. pretty sure he won our fan's Player of the Season award one year, either the promotion season or the first season in the Prem under McCarthy i think. he wasn't quick when he was with us and i'm sure he's got no quicker but he's a decent enough defensive full back, should still be fine in League 1 i reckon, also plays solid but unspectacular left/centre midfield. a born utility player basically.

that is all pretty reassuring ty

wonder if he made it to swygart's unglamorous colback thread, or whether he was too unglamorous for that

quick flick thru Wiki suggests fitness might be your biggest worry but on a 5-month contract i wouldn't be sweating

it's a shame wolves went down cos they were chocka with this sort of lad, i never had a clue which one was stearman, craddock, edwards or ward

― r|t|c, Friday, 28 December 2012 18:32 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not glam enough for this post

craddock is a fucking painter though, he should never have been mentioned

brb checking out jody's latest works

an artist on the pitch and off

somewhere in my mom's house i think there's one of Jody's prints :(

Stears, Edwards, Ward and Foley would be the great interchangeables altho i swear on his day Stears has been known to be actually good

real tiefighters, real tones

https://twitter.com/MrJodyCraddock/status/761516842724757504

kevin foley also had the added problem of his equally memorable coeval keith fahey of birmingham

(am only in a position to bring him up at all after coincidentally seeing this yday https://twitter.com/TVsCarlKinsella/status/761306174528643073)

"shay mulligan, gerry daly, pat irishman, fintan flood, tadhg o'rourke... etc"

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 15:03 Bookmark