Sunderland 'Til I Cry: EFL and beyond 19/20

Macclesfield bustness confirmed this morning. Odd since they've been signing players all week, including stealing Jason Cowley - who we've had as a trialist for about a month - by offering him loads of cash.

yeah, it's a grim start to the season, and worse to come probably

it's a shambles that they were still signing players with £500k of short term bills they couldn't pay and nearly £5m worth of debt hanging over them. I once said to my brother I hope this tinpot pub-team goes bust after they did us 4-0, but honest, I didn't mean it!

for my freebet treble I've got Blackburn who are 3-0 up and Reading who are 0-0 but a Barnsley player has seen red and then I've got Town ...sigh

now Blackburn 4-0 up and Reading 2-0 up against 9 men Barnsley. fucking typical why did I put Town on the treble after a lifetime of them knacking up my bets.

5-0!

you sign Naby Sarr and don't put him in your squad? deserve all you get

I forgot we'd even signed him! Although last time he was on the pitch with the Town squad he did give the ball to Grant for his first goal!

He'll definitely get a chance now, we just lost Schindler and Toffolo to injuries today.

I forgot we'd even signed him! Although last time he was on the pitch with the Town squad he did give the ball to Grant for his first goal!

― calzino, Saturday, 19 September 2020 19:01 (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that was Deji Oshilaja!

you'll have forgotten Schindler and Toffolo's names by the end of Sarr's first game

I'm not really that downhearted at how shit we are rn. It doesn't help our only striker Koroma is L1 standard and not even any good at that level. This Grant transfer saga (which will no doubt also include a nice little windfall for Charlton) going on forever is killing us, just tip up the cash Baggies, or boing boing fuck off! Oh we just signed a young central midfielder from Ajax, there is another positive.

a windfall that might just pay our wages while the crook who doesn't even own us holds us to ransom in the courts

we've got a useless owner who is clearly out of his depth, but I do suspect the blundering oaf is doing his best and it just hasn't been good enough so far. But at least he is a fan of the club and not some asset stripper who got their fingers burned trying to make a quick buck out of a club and playing hardball to get some cash back.

the fact that he was willing to pay off those repugnant Cowley brothers rather than persist with them after realising the dreadful mistake he had made shows at least he'll sometimes put the good of the club over money.

our last chairman made sure he grasped back any of the prem money legacy to cover the "debt" owed to him. Even when we'd got promoted to the prem I always maintained he was a total shit.

The Leyton Orient thing is pretty alarming. The majority of the first team tested positive for COVID but the only reason anyone found out is because Spurs paid for the tests. Their chairman's pointing out that it's not fair to make Orient players self-isolate, and to award Spurs the win, as other teams could be in the same situation but not have to be tested.

I'm behind on Leyton Orient ownership, thought it was still Barry Hearn. It's another arsehole now - some Brit from a US corporate background. Who'd have thought he'd be capable of such unscrupulous practises!

🤯 The club shop has done over £20k of sales since yesterday morning!

No words for your generosity, Spurs fans 🙏

You can still donate a child’s kit to our charity partners - read more below. #LOFC #THFC https://t.co/QPuMrv3OEE

— Leyton Orient (@leytonorientfc) September 23, 2020

that Forest manager will be gone by tomorrow, he's pissed away a fortune and if we weren't so "blessed" with players that literally can't even score a simple tap in or get a one on one on target and encumbered with a £16m star striker we can't even play, then these turkeys would have lost at least 3-0 tonight. As if they started with Grabban on the bench, manager hasn't got a clue what he is doing.

An agreement has been reached for Barnsley manager Gerhard Struber to join New York Red Bulls on a three-year contract. A reported €2m (£1.8m) fee has been arranged to bring Struber to America.

blimey

goes without saying but happy to have been saved

there will be a period of adjustment where he get's used to bairns not smoking again and politely ordering food rather than grunting fookin' chips!

Danny Cowley was Huddersfield Town manager until he was unceremoniously sacked a couple of days after guiding Town to Championship safety last July. Now he’s doing corporate gigs for ScrewFix Direct.

Cowley answered some heavily curated questions taken from fans on Twitter and then played a couple of slightly cringe-inducing games involving the ScrewFix catalogue, some ping pong balls and mugs.

it looks like charmless bellowing PE teacher Danny is discovering he isn't quite the hot property he thought he was and he has take whatever gigs he can get these days.

Apparently we are all being reimbursed our season ticket cash.

charlton are just converting theirs into streaming passes and merch vouchers haha

which is fine tbh

and away ticket vouchers for future use tbf. 'charlton cash' credit system

That may still happen, they haven't confirmed what form it'll take yet.

We got three options, two of which were not to be reimbursed. The third was to be not fully reimbursed.

guess you'll be watching the boys online then!

Haha they also announced three tiers of streaming today - £5, £10 and £20. No difference between the tiers, you can just choose to pay more if you like (supposedly it's if more of you watching the same stream would have paid to get in).

loooool

i guess gate receipts really are a matter of survival and this is their way of trying to get the supporters to one-up each other on how supporty they are. we're talking about In Rainbows on another thread right now, nice parallel

at Forest Sabri Lamouchi is gone, Chris Hughton is straight in. He was already gone weeks ago really and he knew it.

Southport's feed was useless tonight because they couldn't cope with the demand. They solved this for the second half by... errr... making it free for everybody streamed live on YouTube. Which was a bit of a kick in the balls to people who had paid for it.

We played in the Craig Levein 6-4-0 formation and didn't look too bad at the back but, unsurprisingly, created nearly nothing. It's going to be a long season at this rate.

And now Saturday's match is off, Bradford Park Avenue have a positive COVID test for someone who played last night against Gateshead.

Richard Williams just pointed out Forest go through more managers than kit designs, Hughton is their 30th in the 27 years since Clough retired.

This is a very sick prank by the Oxford social media department.

United sign Baldock!
JAMES Baldock joins United as Club Doctor#AnnounceBaldockhttps://t.co/5wuIl0V74C

— Oxford United FC (@OUFCOfficial) October 9, 2020

George Baldock was a legendary loan signing about 4 years ago

after a very uneventful transfer window our social media dept announced we'd signed a "record breaker" which turned out to be a 16 year old kid called Grubb who got released by Bristol Rovers. I'm not sure if he is a football player or a Roald Dahl character yet.

after a very uneventful transfer window

how dare you do Naby like this!!

there was some nonsense being spread on social media about him running from the scene of a car crash the other night. It was started by a snapchat user named Sniff Lines, Bang Nines was so of course it turned out to be true!

He had a quietly impressive debut by the sound of it and is only just getting his match fitness back and Corberán was impressed, the early signs are positive.

quietly impressive

lol, it will not ever be thus

down with social media depts pranking their fans. how much long must we stand for these pranksters?

the worse sort of irritating clickbait is when they do the same kind of "our latest signing" heading as above but it turns out to be some commercial partnership with a local tile company or a legal firm or something. Fair play to Rona on that score tbf

I'm all for it, punctures the clamouring embarrassment nicely

now have we signed a bloody striker yet

Morecambe are top of League Two with a negative goal difference after 5 matches.

lol Scholesly has installed himself as new Salford City manager, was sort of hoping the Danny Cowley rumours were true because fuck this tinpot made-up club.

that Morecambe thing is mad, 4 1-goal wins and a 0-5 to cambridge