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

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.

Stroud is batshit crazy, was the centre of UK LSD production for years and is now so vehemently anti-vaxx I managed to get my booster by booking the day before when there was a 2 week waiting list everywhere else.

yeah Gretna were quite contentious and hated by some Scottish football fans. I learnt this from ILX after years of wrongly thinking they might have had some broad novelty appeal ... what with the freescoring doctor and that.

EFL playoff final wins

Huddersfield 4/5
Forest 0/0
Luton 0/0
Millwall 2/4
Sheff Utd 0/4
Boro 1/2

...intimidating

That's some result for the Gas today.

Poor old Cobblers, eh?

I am mildly disappointed about missing out on the L2 title on goal difference, really only because Saturday night in Exeter would have been a proper laugh if we'd done it. Promotion was always the main thing. Saying that, there's a photo going around of an EFL branded arch saying CHAMPIONS sitting unused behind one of our stands, I confess to finding that a bit upsetting.

Seeing Argyle crash out of the L1 playoff placess to Franchise, 0-5 at home, only to see Franchise limply surrender to dirty old Wycombe in the playoff semi, is a small footballing joy.

it was a great feeling when we dumped Franchise out the L1 playoffs semis, despite losing the home leg 2-1. It was even sweeter that they had dirty cheating ex-L66ds barsteward Alan Smith being the pantomime bell end in both games.

just saw a clip of Nathan Jones suggesting Town paid big money for free-transfer players and even mentioning Hogg, who we got for pennies nearly a decade ago because he hated living in the south. Lol, Town even missed out on Luton's top striker, Elijah Adebayo because our chairman baulked at the price and they outbid us. If I was a Luton manager playing dubious underdog mind games I'd mention what a shithole Kenilworth Road is. They are only the underdogs in the sense that Corberan is a much smarter and more likable manager on a learning trajectory that will take him to a top job at some point. Regardless of Monday's result.

here we fucking go!

Geddon!

just getting ready to inject that Nathan Jones post-match interview straight into a vein

feels like huddersfield and forest deserve to compete in the final

their long winning run after losing 5-6 games on the bounce with Hughton started at our place, but then we had a classic 1-0 against the run of play smash and grab at their place and then got beaten by them in the cup. I fucking hate them tbh and am not confident we could beat them again this season. I hope the Blades have an against the odds turnaround against them tomorrow.

Rhodes volleying it in on the stretch like that, lad's still fucking got it, lol!

Rhodes must fall imo

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he's ready (for our big game against Sunderland next season)

Commiserations Calz. Guessing Forest will be pretty fucked next season.

we got done by a BALD ref doing his last big gig, the replay and VAR showed there was contact on Tofollo but BALD overruled, and that was just one of the shit decisions that went against Town. But I'm not really that arsed tbh. The last time was only fun for about 6 games and it took us nearly two seasons to get rid of all the overpaid garbage players, fuck the prem tbh.

Don't let your internalised baldhate blind you! But aye, dreadful ref. Retiring to run a record shop called 'Vinyl Whistle' which, jesus.

hah hah what a cnut!

the only two playoff finals (I think out of 6 now) I have not gone to with my step-dad and my brother in the last 30 years are the only ones Town have lost. I only turn up for the wins!

I have a 100% record in playoff finals, 4 wins in 4 different stadiums (wasn't at the steve claridge shin game)

Comiz though, even tho i was leaning towards forest for their fa cup exploits

they have already blown most of their transfer budget for next season when they signed up Jon Moss

what have I just read?

https://stainestownfootballclub.co.uk/club-statement-june-2022/

what was it? the account is now suspended

Some choice cuts here

Maddest statement ever. Worth a read, even if it's just the screenshots https://t.co/GFq2EwkUWt pic.twitter.com/rvazjFMSbb

— money wasting expert (@CruelBritannia) June 18, 2022

lol wtf

could with a Paul Mason style dynamic chart on LLP

Our third today was a bit special.

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