EASY, DEVIN: English Football League and beyond, 2018/19

Grrr

calzino/michael white beef is what this thread needs tbh

One cup final won ✅
18 cup finals to go 🏆

ONE CLUB UNITED. Weston vs Billericay, this Saturday, 3PM...

📷 @Willtphotos #SeagullsMedia pic.twitter.com/kqUsSkr6Oz

— Weston-s-Mare AFC (@WSM_AFCOfficial) January 3, 2019

The people photographed in the background here watching Gloucester lose on NYD might add to the story of Chris Todd being Mutually Consented today.

what am I looking for?

Beadle & Jenkins, management duo for hire.

they sound like a wreckers firm

Mills back playing in Hereford. On loan at Westfields.

Not a very festive period: 4-1, 3-1 and 4-0 defeats now on my way home from another one (2-0).

Aldo, do you reckon the corner has been turned at Hereford? Today's result was ok, looked like a good goal too. But I haven't actually seen them play this season.

Sorry NBS but tonight thank God it's them instead of you.

Things are coming together for sure. It's not pretty a lot of the time and there's a propensity for light and heat without much product but yesterday I think we actually looked good for lots of the game and that's the first time this season I've been able to say that honestly.

The players seem to be performing for Richards even if it's not always clear to the spectator what he wants them to do, but he's just unlikeable. It's like being managed by Neil Warnock.

We absolutely need an actual striker though.

Lolz

https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2019/01/club-statement-3

like the swedish spy from.the world cup

Can't believe Leeds bend the rules, their chairman seems so keen on them

Thinking about it this must be the most Leeds picture in the history of the world. Disgusting club. Employing nothing but absolutely despicable disgraceful violent awful cheating scum of the earth, from manager to player to back room staff. Each one of them a virus in football pic.twitter.com/alrJdd27M5

— John Ison (@Almightyram) January 12, 2019

this lad's not very happy.

football things you just don't care about: managers spying on other teams

I love how the replies are all from Leeds fans proving his point

Love Bielsa

A local landlord who was a massive Leeds fan was buried today. His pub The Vulcan was a popular match day boozer and he wasn't an arrogant twat and always pretended/claimed Town were his 2nd club so RIP Pete.

now that Pierce is weighing in on spygate, no doubt seething at the idea of cheating foreigns (lol saying the result should be reversed even tho Derby got a total fucking apparently) - I'm actually warming to up to Bielsa and fuck Lampard 4eva.

is bielsa off?

gonna join us in readiness of poch out

Looks like he's out yeah.

Marcelo Bielsa: football’s new philosopher king

there would major lolz until i die if he was to announce at the press conference that he's Wagner's replacement.

... or vice versa?

Imagine having to resign because you sent someone to spy on the chokiest club in English football.

I note that the Bielsa presser has started with a powerpoint presentation - can that possibly be a prelude to a resignation?

surely not

Announces they've watched the opposition before every game this season!

Gotta love him really.

Bielsa: "I don't want to compare my behaviour with previous behaviour that are similar. I heard there are others which also affected fair play but absolutely, I don't want to defend myself by attacking others." #lufc

— Phil Hay (@PhilHayYEP) January 16, 2019

This dude's livetweeting the press conference and I'm enjoying it.

this is superb.

"Apart from the players in a staff, you have around 20 people. These 20 people create a volume of information which is absolutely not necessary. It doesn't define the path of a competition. Why do we do that? Because we feel guilty if we don't work enough."

haha

Is Bielsa the Prime Minister now?

yet

I love how he's now sharing all the illicitly obtained Derby County information for everyone else in the league to see.

All I hope is that they were able to get the mole out of Derby before they had the chance to turn him.

ranieri revealed as tinkerman

when you suddenly find yourself wondering where Joe Mason is

dean saunders weighing in on bielsa now. next week we have the drummer from shed 7 talking about how he reckons that max roach didn't do anything he couldn't do.

We have turned another corner. Unfortunately they were both ninety degree corners so now we are heading the same way as before, which is out of the league.

Utterly abject. Everyone below us has taken points off us, and have been far better than us when we played them. Even if Nuneaton go under, we will benefit less than the sides under us so we really need them to stay afloat. Grim stuff.

You're still two points ahead of us with two games in hand

We haven't won away since August. 5 of our next 6 are on the road.

national league heavily weighted towards the start of the alphabet this season
darlington are the 12th team alphabetically

not quite as good as ayr being 5th alphabetically out of 10 teams in 2017-18 scottish league one but more teams i guess to best

I want to know what the four A's before them were now, but I'm too lazy to actually google it

Airdrie
Arbroath
Alloa
Albion Rovers

Would be my guess? Annan another option and Aberdeen obviously too senior.

Emergency board meeting in 10 minutes. Hopefully some decisive action while it's still possible.

Are you hoping for any outcome in particular?

take a bow saudi prem league

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order
Al-Ahli Jeddah
Al-Batin
Al-Ettifaq
Al-Faisaly
Al-Fateh
Al-Fayha
Al-Hazem
Al-Hilal
Al-Ittihad
Al-Nassr
Al-Qadsiah
Al-Raed Buraidah
Al-Shabab
Al-Taawoun
Al-Wehda
Ohod

Hopefully get rid of the Dymock mafia, whether someone would leave a club at this stage of the season is doubtful so you'd have to be looking at someone currently out of work (e.g. Gary Rowett) or get the Davies/Green partnership back in to try and steady the wheel.

Lots of clamour for Beadle/Jenkins back as expected but them not being able to find another job since - and not even making the Gloucester shortlist - is telling. And holding up Billericay as an example of returns happening before just makes the club sound like a basket case.

We're desperate for a striker and at the weekend I was advocating an old pro, inspired by Jamie Cureton doing a job on us more than once last season. Then today I find Pascal Chimbomba is to play ever further down the pyramid.

A decent experienced striker can do quite a lot for keeping the team shape together also. There is something slightly tragic about watching one take up a really intelligent position for a particular ball, see the move work as anticipated and then just not have the turn of speed to get there. Cases in point: Clinton Morrison, Marcus Stewart for us. They were both worth the shirt but a tiny bit of extra pace and they'd have been worth a shirt for much better sides than ours.

IIRG Cureton is the last current professional footballer to have been in FIFA 96? Or one of the last?

Hope yr board makes a good choice.

Vote of confidence FFS.