Shit Noddy teams on Quest: EFL and beyond 21/22

Twitter West Brom is having a collective fit, clinging on to that 5-1 against the Wolves as the only good memory some of them will ever have in their lives. a decade in the Champo should be good for restoring a sense of reality

I feel the same sentiment towards L**ds Utd fans, even if it means them going down would include the displeasing result of Burnley staying up. Another decade in the champo slugging it out against Barnsley and Luton is just the medicine they need. In fact scratch Luton, they are serious playoff contenders and could be above them next season!

now Bielsa's gone i can get back to unreservedly hating them again, it's complicated tho, have a few Leeds mates

I could have told you a long, long time ago that Karlan Grant wouldn't make it in the Premiership

our free transfer Danny Ward now has just as many goals as Grant in the champo, who we sold for £15m. He's not as clinical a finisher as Grant but he's a very unselfish hard working player and his hold up play is exceptional these days. Grant is one of them strikers who contributes next to nothing in games where they don't score.

boing boing

lol at their keeper

a great week for current and former Boggies goalies

omg I thought Andy Carroll was at somewhere like Bishop's Stortford these days!

ah fuck I cursed it!

bullshit pen

What's a cow's favourite football team?

Uddersfield Town

not bovine moonich?

some ledge end dairy punning

He's ready.

https://i2-prod.lancs.live/incoming/article23456235.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_GettyImages-1338301690.jpg

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/phil-brown-manager-barrow-preston-23456254

That is a very 'ageing prog rock star' photo

It looks like Dave Grohl dressed as Austin Powers to me.

both of those people are prog rock as hell though :D

Haha I wasn't disagreeing with you!

It looks like Dave Grohl dressed as Austin Powers to me.

Apologies calz if you're legal again but we're watching the game in the pub and it's come on City

It’s a pretty standard day of the game fan YouTube thing but I did enjoy it from about 4:30 onwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdYLxhPj-LI

The last ten seconds or so are really great.

c u @ the valley tim

Yes! I’m very proud of my football club. We don’t get promoted very often - this is the sixth time in our 100 year + history - and we’ve been in this division for a decade. That’s what you get for not having a rich owner who can fund a loss-making season or two, but it makes successful seasons even sweeter.

Two consecutive party Saturdays to come, lovely.

Oh and Phil Brown was being a proper plank last night.

hadn't realised wholesomeness fc were stumbling the title so much too, that could be yours as well

congrats Tim and nice to see Phillips on the scoresheet. We have got a rich owner again after our previous chairman's ambulance chasing company went bust, but he's a Yorkshire bastard and looks under his bed on a morning to see if he's lost any sleep. But still we weren't expecting to make the playoffs as our budget is in the bottom 5 of the champo and the our new improved back line was built from free transfers including the 2nd choice goalkeeper from MK Dons. Not arsed about winning the playoffs, just want to stop Forest because their fans are vile and despite them beating us twice this season they had a meltdown after our glorious one nil, against the run of play victory at their place. And I'll add they were scab bastards during the miners strike - since they are so obsessed with history.

Phillips has been a strange one - hasn't managed to hold down a place in the side, has scored a couple of absolutely crucial goals. Clearly he's a decent footballer and has so much pace but somehow doesn't seem to affect the game very much when he's on the pitch. I suspect his game is playing off the shoulder of defences and that's not really how we play (our manager likes a CF to crash about and disrupt defences to make space for other attackers). His goal last night was so odd: picked up the ball in the middle of our half, took it all the way down the pitch and scored, but somehow managed to look slightly unconvincing throughout (from about 50 seconds in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55vjHPF1usk (don't watch the chance he blew just before that).

Anyway I am grateful to Calz personally for arranging the loan of Phillips and am rooting for Huddersfield to do the business in the last two games.

it's good when a young loan striker doesn't fit into a manager's system, looks out of his depth and fails to hold down a place and is still manages to score two crucial goals imo!

that deceptive miscontrol and in off the deflection is just part of the armory of yr top tier forwards

congrats Tim, no better feeling than a really meaningful promotion

congrats tim, good to see

Thanks chums!

I am taking NV's DN personally though.

for some reason whilst checking the tables a few weeks back I thought you'd blown auto, but it's very open league 2 this season.

We were down as low as 8th in the table in Feb, but with games in hand that we mostly converted.

I think the only teams in the top 4 divisions who've lost fewer games than we have are Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea.

I nearly choked on my coffee with that bit of Hudds Town erasure there!

we've only lost 2 since November

Oh I see - sorry. I meant all season. We've only lost 7 which is obviously unheard of for us.

a double figure positive goal difference is our rare achievement this season. But no keeper in the champo has kept more clean sheets than Nicholls, we'll be lucky to keep hold of him.

We've had Cameron Dawson on loan from Wednesday all season and he's been an unbelievable keeper at L2 level, I imagine they'll want him back or someone who can actually pay his champ level wages (ie not us) will grab him.

call the cops Luton are being murdered

oh dear they gave Nathan Jones the manager of the year award before the season was over. Some of our lot were moaning that Corberan should have won it. I'm superstitious enough to think manager awards are a curse. They'll probably get a result against Reading, but if they don't Middlesbrough could fuck their playoff plans on Saturday.

Bournemouth vs Forest tomorrow is a big one. I hate them both but want Forest to lose because their fans are almost more full of shit than the Leeds rabble and we can actually beat them and seemingly can't even compete against t'other lot.

Rob Edwards (Forest Green) got manager of the year in L2, but their collapse has been incredible to watch. Someone said they were 28 points clear of them at the start of Feb, and we overtook them this weekend.

I’d say it would be just like Exeter to throw it away now it’s in our hands but “it” has so rarely been anywhere near our bloody hands that no-one would know what we’re like in this position. Which is to say I still expect us to find a way to lose out on the L2 championship but we’re playing Vale who are experiencing their own little collapse so you never know.

sincerely hope you succeed in pissing on their bonfire, Dale Vince seems like a right twat.

There's always something to hate about all clubs, ECFC included. As far as rich dudes plaything clubs go, FGR seem pleasingly weird to me. I wish he'd decided to do this with a club in a place where people didn't have to drive to get there, and a place where a club might have a socially and economically (as well as environmentally) sustainable future. Like, I wish he'd taken on Gloucester City*, who weren't far from the league some years back, decent sized place and way better connected by public transport Hard to see FGR getting anywhere without a constant stream funding, feels like Rushden & Diamonds but made out of wood not leather.

FGR have been taking a modicum of heat about flying a Palestinian flag at their games, I note.

*I have literally no knowledge of what's going on or has gone on at Gloucester City, it's just Gloucester's nearby and might sustain a club once Vince has moved on.

I didn't know about the Palestinian flag. lol was assuming he is a smug eco-fash wealth creator who travels the world on the wooden solar powered sloop his minimum wage workforce made for him. And I still could be right! but kudos indeed for the flag.

Ecotricity have been my energy supplier for ten years and they're notably user-friendly, haven't had any bullshit off them. Plus, I liked Stroud just before everyone realised it was great and moved there

Our game there had better not be a fuckin midweek

(Actually if it is I'm taking the whole Tuesday off)

I always feel like Gretna in Scotland are the model for the Vince/post Vince world.

Gloucester are in our league (NLN), went shit or bust with the budget to go for promotion last year only for it to get announced nobody was going up, were relegation candidates up until February this season.