Putting Nailsworth On The Map: EFL 22/23

No I suspect it's just a sliver in the middle

Town have just allegedly spent a whole million on the very impressive Polish international CB Michael Helik. I fell asleep before it was announced and assumed this morning it would be another of their long list of transfer fails or they'd get gazumped by Luton or something. Barnsley turned a down a £5m offer for him last season. I'm also very happy with the Tyrone Simpson signing even though he's won't be available for selection for months. He was originally a RU player and was offered a pro deal at Leicester Tigers 4 years ago and is still a work in progress, but it's always worth taking a gamble on raw talent.

I meant Tyreece not Tyrone, always get those two names mixed up.

lol, this is a joke.

we've been robbed, the ball crossed the line and perhaps they forgot to switch Hawkeye on ffs!

at f/t Schofield was asking the ref to test if his GLT watch was working and he wouldn't do it. Fucking coward. All he had to do was a quick buzz check to confirm it was functional.

a picture has confirmed it went a foot past the goal line and touched the inside netting. Lol why do always get crooked or incompetent refs. It was a garbage performance from both sides, but they still deserved a point.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb0k_yYWYAMTNeW?format=jpg&name=large

Can't get clearer than that. Wow

poor Schofield sounds totally drained and defeated, but it doesn't paper over how badly he is doing tactically and as a motivator. He turned down a nice stress free coaching job in Holland after being offered the Town job. It always was a ridiculous appointment.

We have now received an initial assessment from Hawk-Eye, the providers of the Goal Line Technology service in the Championship, that during a second-half incident with Huddersfield attacking, the match officials did not receive a signal to their watch or earpiece as, due to multiple factors, the ball was no longer being tracked following it entering the Blackpool goal area.

Technology is there to support the decision-making processes of match officials in the Championship and it failing in such a manner on Sunday is a matter of great concern.

For clarity, the referee’s decision is final and the match result stands.

just making the daylight robbery and incompetence official, yeah thanks for nothing lads.

Just have a back-up camera installed inside each post ffs

the ref had a good enough view to see it was over the line if he was switched on and doing his job properly. Every player in the box knew it was a goal. If the technology fails then they should use their eyes and experience to make good decisions, rather than pedantically ruling out a goal just cos the watch doesn't buzz.

God, just catching up on this, looking forward to that ref being demoted to our hellscape league.

*half-heartedly drums up phony war with Tim*

fancy a pint after?

I didn't even take note of his name, but I can only commit to one fatwah at a time and Jon Moss is still top of the list. I won't be happy until he's been arrested on match-fixing charges.

Can't hang around after I'm afraid - got to be back somewhere near town for some family stuff.

Was trying to persuade some of my friends to do a tour of dicey Woolwich boozers pre-game but they've sensibly opted for Greenwich I think. We're all fairly pleased with our start to the season, we seem to be able to compete (at least with the teams you'd imagine by reputation would be middling or towards the bottom). After a decade in the division below, it's hard to know what to expect. That competitiveness was with only one new signing (a great big keeper) over the summer.

Also please to note we've tugged at the nation's heartstrings with the loan of Jay Stansfield, a balm in these terrifying times, not a dry eye etc etc.

Early days and all that but there seem to be a few clubs who are making an early bid for cast-adrift status.

I would love a website that gave a decent brief summary on what's going on at maybe-crisis clubs up and down the land. What's going on at Morecambe (up for sale by the owners who are in trouble at some boring rugby club somewhere?), Coventry (can our resident sky-blue shed some light, perennial stadium nightmares or something worse?), Gillingham, Rochdale, Burton...?

I have an idea Cheltenham might be in trouble - their points haul looks OK but their solitary win was a gross display of shithousery at our place, time wasting from the first minute, one attack one goal, all after we beat them 0-7 in the league cup.

xp Yes, that was a beautiful moment, although if he scores the winner on Saturday I can't promise to feel quite as sentimental as the rest of the nation

Lower-league football is one conjoined crisis zone atm; the only way out of crisis is to incur the sort of losses that would mean crisis to all but the most loaded of owners

As for Greenwich boozers, I'd recommend the River Ale House, not far from the ground - it's a home pub but historical Charlton/Exeter beef is, I am fairly certain, negligible. Failing that, the Prince of Greenwich in proper Greenwich is as good as it gets, probably. They closed the lovely craft-ale pub a few doors down and incorporated it into hideous hellhole Richard I a few years back :(

Ooh, or the Pelton Arms, that's a good one. I'd generally say to avoid the Trafalgar or the Cutty Sark, chintzy tourist traps as they are

We're debt-free but relatively poor, having no rich owners to fall back on, instead relying on transfer income to top up our playing budget. Our promotion last year was based around a team of mostly youth team products, we regularly have five of our own in our starting line up, sometimes as many as seven) topped up with talent funded by our slice of Ollie Watkins's transfer to Villa. Our crowds this year are roughly average for L1.

Still, though, reports are that we were being outbid on player wages all summer by L1 clubs, L2 clubs and even conference clubs - if the lower divisions are a crisis zone it hasn't stopped them collectively spending massive whacks of cash on average players.

I for one would welcome a proper crisis, points deductions flying around like confetti for clubs who've indulged in the miserably small-scale financial doping you see down here. Where's the reward for running a club "sustainably"?

xp thanks, I know all those places! Haven't been boozing in Greenwich in a few years but I hated that craft beer place next to the R1, and rather liked the R1.

i hope stockley scores 5 goals and celebrates them all

j/k i'll accept one, non-celebrated scuff

and look, yeah it was a slick modern gastropub, but it had a goddamn gueuze fridge. an entire fridge

as for lower-league finances, clearly there are quite a lot of loaded chancers knocking about. for a 'rockstar owner', our own T Sandgaard is running a very tight ship indeed. not much at all in the way of coked-up splurging. consequently our natives are restless. L1 will be so much nicer and easier to make waves in once Wednesday and Ipswich have finally gone up

My default position is that I'd generally take a draw away from home; we're not too bad so far this year though, so hopefully we can come away with more and leave you disappointed.

I hope Stockers scores an own goal and celebrates it.

I note that FGR attracted a crowd of 2007 for their tie against Accrington last night, 64 away fans.

we have that away game on valentine's day evening. i shall not be stopped

I hope you can find Nailsworth on the map

just a short 2-hour stroll from Stroud station right

Ex players should be obliged to celebrate by doing the ears in front of the disappointed fans, yellow card if insufficient gusto shown

OTM. Love a wind-up merchant.

coventry have had a rough start but we have 3 games in hand (all at home) as the commonwealth rugby 7s messed up the pitch

we've kept hold of our two best players ohare and hamer, but just sold our only quick centre back

obvs losing to preston at home is worrying but might not be as bad as it looks basically

Ah OK - fingers crossed then.

Rugby eh? Shouldn't be allowed.

rugby's a near enough town for a local derby soon I guess

but yeh fingers crossed, cheers
good luck to Exeter 👍

oh so it's like that is it

the nation's darlings

ha, and to Charlton obvs too x

I got nothing but hatred and ill will for at least 91 clubs in the pyramid. But Exeter and Charlton, well they can especially go fuck themselves. joeks obv!

aw I'm very sad to read about Marcus Stewart's MND diagnosis. I hero worshipped him when he was at Town and was in a complete rage when our dickhead chairman flogged him to Ipswich. This is the real sad news today :(

I used to have this friend known as Rocky who we called "the football groupie" because he always seemed to hang with shit Town players like Simon Baldry. But when I found out he was drinking with Marcus Stewart I was massively impressed and was all wide-eyed and saying wow you were drinking with Marcus fucking Stewart... what's that like!

Agh these bastards are gonna call off all the games aren't they

there could be a compromise, perhaps an hour's silence before KO?

wrongheaded morons

absolutely ridiculous decision. The government have released a statement which included that there is no obligation to postpone fixtures in the mourning period. Only the day the parasite get's planted.

the rugby going ahead of course. only the lower orders must be made to bend the forelock

heh! talking of thread titles or former ones, Ross McCormack has signed for Liversedge

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2NzAJjWYAA1X8A?format=jpg&name=small

was just looking as to why Ainsworth is trending before the new season has even begun .... he's ready

omg