it's actually quite a historic win, we haven't won there in 50 years. But imo the best time to sack a dud manager is straight after a historic win!
― calzino, Monday, 26 December 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
The yank crypto bros at Crawley are now looking at their 5th managerial appointment since they bought the club in April. They’ve just sold their ‘star’ striker to their relegation rivals, Gillingham. They ‘collaborated’ with a YouTube group, ‘the Sidemen’, who apparently make content videos, and put three contributors on the bench, for an actual EFL game, having undertaken a trial. And the latest is that one of the leading shareholders sat on the bench for the last game, taking a more ‘hands-on’ role though he refused to confirm he has a hand in selecting the squad.
Bradford City had a very lucky escape
― calzino, Saturday, 31 December 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
oh yeah they are also apparently launching the first NFT kit in the league, whatever the fuck that means
― calzino, Saturday, 31 December 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
i think there was a Hans Christian Andersen story about that
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 December 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
about the grimm crypto bros?
― calzino, Saturday, 31 December 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
Just as we were all really pleased that we didn’t sell our best player (Jevani Brown) to Pompey in this window…
📝 Club Statement: Jevani Brown did not train with the team today and will not play in tomorrow's game against Charlton Athletic due to a club disciplinary matter. pic.twitter.com/eanA4GGlIq— Exeter City FC (@OfficialECFC) February 3, 2023
― Tim, Friday, 3 February 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
ooh result
― imago, Friday, 3 February 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
:(
I'm off to the game on Saturday anyway, I'll pretend you're there and flick some vs especially for you.
― Tim, Friday, 3 February 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
sadly i am saving myself for Derby away, half term and all that
― imago, Friday, 3 February 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
NEXT SEASON
― imago, Friday, 3 February 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
You're assuming Charlton won't get relegated?
― Tim, Friday, 3 February 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
I'm just heartily enjoying the schadenfreude of LoB/ToF having a mare at Forest. LoB is out of the squad and a loan move to Blackburn fell through in the dying minutes of the window on some stupid legal technicality. ToF's move to Anderlecht was kyboshed by Forest, also in the last minutes, because their 1st choice lb is weeks away from fitness. It's a better feeling than getting to autoglass trophy final at old Wembley!
― calzino, Friday, 3 February 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
get it where you can!
also u cheeky sod tim lol
― imago, Friday, 3 February 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
seems we didn't forget to pack a gun keeper
― imago, Saturday, 4 February 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
Liverpool lose to Wolves and Hereford lose to Farsley Celtic, yet Everton manage to beat Arsenal. Only way this day could have gone worse would be someone picking up an injury.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 4 February 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
Hwang did his hamstring tbf
― the sex lives of quoll-ish girls (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 February 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
I mean a Liverpool or Hereford player, sorry about Hwang
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 4 February 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
lol i know i was just revelling, soz
― the sex lives of quoll-ish girls (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 February 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
also sad about Dyche tho tbf
Farsley went down to 10 with about 15 minutes to go, Gowling responded by bringing on two unfit 36 year olds. His time's up.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
I'm praying that Fotheringham gets pumped tonight. He would have been gone months ago, but there is an empty chair running the club.
― calzino, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
Went to the stadium formally known as the ricoh for the Huddersfield game,both teams looked a bit lost but gyokeres was the differenceAs has been p much every win for us this seasonHamer goal was beautiful, he'll probs go epl next year
― nxd, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
Pleased to report that Hereford United just beat Birmingham City 3-1 in the League Cup (in Fifa 2009 on the Wii)
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:47 (one year ago) link
xp
Robins made a comment after that match that he'd watched them training when they were both in Spain during int break and they seemed to do "a lot of running". This amused the Town fans because an insider has suggested running is about all there is to the Fotheringham training regime!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:52 (one year ago) link
lol perfect for the manager garbage talk thread
― nxd, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
and even though Waghorn scored today, it masked a piss poor performance and he looks slow and shite. I can see why Robins was happy to farm him out!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 February 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
I'm having one of them days where I'm driving myself nuts constantly refreshing news sources to check if Fotheringham has been sacked yet. I've never disliked a manager as much as him, right from the day he was unveiled and his first declaration was that he wasn't interested in tactics!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 13:18 (one year ago) link
One of the QPR commentary team yesterday noted that although their injury depleted lot are quite shit and on a terrible run of form, Hudds he said looked like a team that hasn't had any coaching at all. Just a bunch of strangers who met in the car park for the first time half an hour before KO.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
Gowling mutually consented. Just as well as we couldn't afford to sack him.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 5 February 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
that's precisely our problem, the club is up for sale and the pot of money left to keep it out of administration until a new owner is found won't be enough to pay him off, and our idiot DoF was so bowled over by his interview he gave him a 3 year contract.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
Thoroughly unproven rumours but a genuine source says his deal was two separate ones as player and manager, having refused to sign himself on as the former in his capacity as the latter but drawing the wage as the former because it wasn't his fault he wasn't getting picked.
Sounds ludicrous but stranger things must have happened in football.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
heh!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
one of the previous holders of "most deranged idiotic EFL manager" Nathan Jones. Apparently he had a fist fight with some Southampton players earlier today.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 February 2023 22:54 (one year ago) link
THERE IS LIGHT
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
congrats
― nothing (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
I'm not joking he was so bad, just any manager with the lowest base level of a football brain (or even just a brain) will be enough to get us out of trouble. No hyperbole here, he was the worst I have ever seen in my life. Not just for trying to cram 8 defensive midfielders in one starting XI but also for the corrosive effect his horrible various negative personality traits were having on the team: He drove out our most creative attacking player on loan to a rival. And destroying the confidence of a few of the highly rated young players we have. Just an all round shite sandwich without the bread.
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
cowleys are available! j/k, grats!
― imago, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link
rumour is it's an out of work manager with a lot of Championship exp coming in ... gulp!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
lol uh oh
― imago, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
enjoy Lampard
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
probably more chance of 74 yr old Warnock coming out of retirement .... shit, I'm probably best off not even joking about that!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
every couple of years i end up googling to see if Dave Bassett's still alive
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
Alan Pardew has just been sacked by Aris Thessaloniki, just putting it out there.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link
bloody hell, he's only 4 years older than Colin!
the new manager was interviewed this afternoon, gut feeling tells me it's Wilder
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
Our top candidates seem to be Ian Long (who I was quite vocally in favour of to replace Beadle but his total failure since - apart from the FA cup run - should rule him out) and John Askey (although York sacked David Webb today and the clamour for Askey back has brought insiders out of the woodwork saying there were non-football issues behind his sacking, which makes me cautious).
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
Still missing Graham Turner after 13 years.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
David Webb didn't last very long at York! It didn't seem that far back since he was a "technical director" at town - what the devil that means is beyond me. Some chancer who gives good interviews and talks a load of shite is my best analysis.
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:15 (one year ago) link
Designs next generation of footballing cyborgs, at a guess
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:18 (one year ago) link
GT assisting with the new search apparently
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:31 (one year ago) link
75 years old is too old to come back isn't it? But hope he can at least find someone less mediocre.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link