SkyBet Football League thread 2013-2014

[Drew.]

Ok mate

http://www.thefa.com/~/media/images/thefaportal/pillars/fa-competitions/the%20fa%20cup/season-2012-13/the-final/martinez-watson.ashx?w=620&h=349&c=facupgallery&as=1

[Black Dagger]

They'll be holding that again this year. We'll be happy enough with our PL title.

[King Gizzard]

Ipswich have signed with Adidas, good stuff

[King Gizzard]

Playoff race heating up fam

[Locke.]

Massive win for Bournemouth, be amazing if they somehow pulled it off

[Novo]

Did Leicester just rest everyone tonight

[Novo]

Lol they actually had their regular XI out

[King Gizzard]

I wish Bournemouth and Ipswich could go up, Brighton as well

[Drew.]

I knew we'd win tonight, Leicester players will all be recovering from a heavy weekend of drinking. 4 out of our 5 remaining games look winnable, the dream is well and truly alive.

[King Gizzard]

COME ON you ****ING FOXES

[King Gizzard]

:joker:

[Marcus.]

Come on charlton

[Novo]

Looks like Wigan have secured their play off spot, 7 clear and game in hand

[Drew.]

Burnley up if Derby fail to win.. so which tit decided to have the Burnley match on sky before the Derby one.

[Marcus.]

Come on charlton

[King Gizzard]

Sheffield Wednesday!!!!

[King Gizzard]

Come on Huddersfield!!!

[Drew.]

This will be amazing if Rotherham get one more

[Marcus.]

Nooooooooo

Charlton 42
Millwall 40
Barnsley 40
Yovill 37

Need Millwall/Barnsley to lose

[Drew.]

Oh no, i spoke too soon, 5-4 Wolves

[Shaun]

of course torquay would leave it until the third-from-final match to win an away derby :bored:

[Drew.]

Need this Ipswich game to stay at 2-2 and for Brighton to grab a winner

[Drew.]

Ridiculous, 2 games we should have comfortably won thrown away, 4 points dropped which would have all but guaranteed the final play off spot.

[King Gizzard]

Exactly the same for Ipswich lol

[King Gizzard]

Come on leeds, rule Forest out

[Ryan57]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2610459/Leeds-youngster-Simon-Lenighan-filmed-friend-raping-women-hotel.html

WTF.

[Drew.]

Reading slip up tomorrow, we beat Forest on the final day and that play off spot is ours.

[King Gizzard]

The dream is over

[Drew.]

A Doncaster win will round off a perfect weekend

[Marcus.]

Come on Charlton win and Blackpool lose we are saf e

[Drew.]

COPPINGER!!!

[Marcus.]

Nooooooooo

[Black Dagger]

Wigan pls win tonight, Brighton pls win tomorrow, Reading pls lose, k thanks.

[Drew.]

If Birmingham & Watford both win tonight it'll set the final day up perfectly, 4 teams playing for the final play off spot and 5 teams trying to avoid relegation. Wigan must lose tonight though, Both Reading & Wigan have tough fixtures on the final day so we'd have a great chance.

[Marcus.]

We are stay up we are staying up

[King Gizzard]

Birmingham nearly relegated. Lose to Bolton and they're definitely down. I'll wait till after our game at the weekend to laugh...

[Black Dagger]

Apparently Wigan have confirmed their play off spot now?

[Drew.]

Down to Reading to slip up then, play offs looking unlikely now.

[Marcus.]

we are safe lalalalala

[Locke.]

Carlisle's relegation pretty much confirmed now, no way they'll beat Wolves and make up a -4 goal difference.

Straight shoot out between Tranmere, Crewe, and Notts County now for who gets the last spot. Can't believe it's probably going to be Tranmere after they were top of the table about 14 months ago.

[Novo]

Tranmere have avoided relegation for to long in recent years, it was always going to be sooner rather then later

[Drew.]

Get in, sky are showing Forest - Brighton and Burnley - Reading on the weekend, plenty of channel hopping.

[Drew.]

This is going to be a long afternoon

[Shaun]

goals...goals everywhere

[Black Dagger]

****ing score a goal, Brighton!!

[James]

I've been interested in seeing Blackpool stay up since I heard they made Barry Ferguson manager.

[Drew.]

LuaLua on at half time, need some more pace and width

[Locke.]

Brighton bottling it on the same day Tranmere pull off the great escape

[Black Dagger]

Yesssssssssssss!

[Drew.]

****ing get in, please hold on Burnley

[Black Dagger]

**** off Reading.

[Drew.]

Bollocks

[Headie]

Brighton scoring in the dying minutes, sending Reading out of the play-offs in the last second.

I kept channel hopping and almost missed the Brighton goal :laugh:

Rooting for Wigan to win play-offs.

[Kyle]

What a parallel for Donny. Scoring in the last minute to get themselves promoted then Birmingham scoring in the last minute to send them down next season.


This is what football is all about. What a day.

[Locke.]

League 2 should be good, 3 teams that can still win the title today

[Kyle]

All about play-off positioning for Rotherham now in league 1.

[MTVN]

Donny :'(

[Black Dagger]

Dickov </3.

Elated for Brighton.

Brighton/Wigan pls. But I'd not be surprised or gutted with Derby.

[Locke.]

PENNINGTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Locke.]

****, Crewe are also winning

[MTVN]

Down you go

[Locke.]

PARK THE BUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MTVN]

Bristol Rovers going down as it stands, good stuff

[Shaun]

not a very good season for south west football

[Locke.]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OLDHAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Locke.]

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Locke.]

Ah.. Relegated.

Unbelievable.

[MTVN]

All of Mersyside in tears by the end of the weekend

[MTVN]

Get in Rovers relegated, get a decent local derby at Forest Green next year now

[MTVN]

Typical Rovers fans smashing up the place now

[Drew.]

ULLOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74623000/jpg/_74623784_74623783.jpg

[Drew.]

First legs:

Thursday 8 May - Brighton v Derby (19:45 BST)

Friday 9 May - Wigan v QPR (19:45 BST)

Second legs:

Sunday 11 May - Derby v Brighton (17:15 BST)

Monday 12 May - QPR v Wigan (19:45 BST)

[MTVN]

Mon the Seagulls

[Novo]

Over 2.5 goals at Evens looks a steal

[MTVN]

No chance

[Novo]

Should have been 3 already

[Novo]

there we go

[MTVN]

What is Stevie Mac sitting up there for

[MTVN]

Upson :facepalm:

[Novo]

Red card!!!!!! Ref!!!!

[Novo]

Bryson is great, the most underrated player in the Championship with Airfield and Trippier

[MTVN]

Bloody typical

[Drew.]

This is turning into a disaster, get LuaLua on!!!!

[Novo]

Over 2.5 goals at Evens looks a steal

you can never say I don't give you good tips

[MTVN]

At least two more goals this game

[Novo]

Big Johnny Russell to smash one in soon

[Brother Leon]

What was Lingard's goal like?

[Novo]

Scrappy toepoke

[Locke.]

Wisdom with Lua Lua in his back pocket, all too easy

[MTVN]

Maybe there won't be two more goals in this game after all

[Novo]

this is the worst game of football I have ever seen

[Novo]

and Ive been watching part timers every week for the past 2 years

[Kyle]

and Ive been watching part timers every week for the past 2 years

Don't be so hard on Ian Black and Ricky Foster. It's not their fault Rangers signed them :ninja2:

[Novo]

Caldwell wouldn't look out of place in Scottish league 2

[MTVN]

A travesty if its one of those two which get promoted

[MTVN]

Orient scum

[MTVN]

Assombalonga!!!!!!!

[Drew.]

Thats Derby in the play off final then, we have bottled it again, hopefully they can go on to get promotion.

[Drew.]

Good stuff, no chance of Wigan coming back up now.

Hopefully Derby can go on and win but as bad as QPR's ground is it wouldn't really bother me if they came up either, i quite like their owners.

[MTVN]

Derby vs QPR
Leyton Orient vs Rotherham
Fleetwood vs Burton Albion
Cambridge vs Gateshead

Bold to win their play off finals. First one kicking off in a few mins with Cambridge-Gateshead

[MTVN]

Good old Cambridge

[Locke.]

Ryan Lowe leaves Tranmere and resigns for Bury :(

He's 35 and wanted a 2 year contract extension, club weren't willing so it looks like he forced himself out of the remaining 12 months on his current deal. Was confident they'd get promoted right away with him leading the line but they have 20+ goals a season to replace now.

[Black Dagger]

C'mon Derby.

[Drew.]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69055000/jpg/_69055842_174547580.jpg

[Black Dagger]

shut up ya celery.

[MTVN]

You rams

[MTVN]

Penalty!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Novo]

Big Johnny Russell!!!!!!!!!!

[MTVN]

What's O'Neil playing at, the most obvious attempt to just hack someone out of all time

[Crimson Dynamo]

Was a red card. harry under pressure now.

[Drew.]

:omg: oh my

[MTVN]

Jesus Christ

[Crimson Dynamo]

Bobby Z

[Black Dagger]

Well there is 1/3 I already want relegated next season.

[Drew.]

Brighton legend

http://www.seagulls.co.uk/cms_images/news/zxamora-l229-1493249_478x359.jpg

[Black Dagger]

Oh go away QPR.

[MTVN]

Only got themselves to blame really Derby

[Drew.]

Lets just hope they do a better job and dont make a joke of themselves again next season.. wonder if Taatabt will stay on now.

[MTVN]

Was a decent finish but think Harry is getting a bit carried away going on about what a worldie it was

[Drew.]

They'll want even more for Remy now

[Brother Leon]

Oh go away QPR.

You should love them :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Pleased for Harry

[Novo]

Really undeserving, even in the Semis they were lucky to get through but like Matt said it was Derby's own doing, can't defend like that so close to the end of 90 minutes

[Ryan57]

Good ol' 'arry back in the big time.

[Drew.]

Tony Fernandes is amazing :joker:

[Novo]

Look at that tit Barton grabbing the limelight

[Locke.]

The heart and soul of the team, one of only two positives of QPR coming back up is having Barton back in the PL

[Novo]

Their is no heart and soul in that team, just a big dark abyss of scum and jobbers

[Drew.]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoafI6hCUAEcL2r.jpg:large

[Black Dagger]

****ing 'We Are The Champions' for a team that effectively finished 4th. Piss off.

[MTVN]

Best way to go up the playoffs

[Black Dagger]

You should love them :laugh:

Only happy for the ex City players like Dunne & SWP :laugh:. The rest of the squad can do one, plus I've never liked Harry </3

[MTVN]

QPR won you the league you ungrateful sod

[Novo]

Needs to be a rule in place where they give most money to the actual league champions and cap how much the playoff winners get, takes to much credit away from the league winners

[Brother Leon]

Easy away day at least even if their ground is a ****hole in the middle of an estate lol

[MTVN]

****ing Orient

[Drew.]

Yes Orient!!!

[MTVN]

Revell!!!!!!!!!

[MTVN]

Revell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! Unbelievable Jeff!!!

[Drew.]

****

[Drew.]

Penalties it is, come on Orient!!!

[MTVN]

Rotherham!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Drew.]

noooo

[MTVN]

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/webimage/1.5937243.1376032558!/image/682840785.jpg_gen/derivatives/articleImgDeriv_628px/682840785.jpg

[Novo]

SARCEVIC!!!!!

[Drew.]

Hyypia!!!!!!!!

http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/67/590x/182712032-434580.jpg

[Locke.]

Right, time to start liking Brighton again

[Novo]

Non league news really but Hereford have been expelled from the conference and Chester will remain there now because of Hereford's financial problems

[MTVN]

What the hell are Leeds doing about to appoint Dave Hockaday manager when he is just off the back of failing at Forest Green in the Conference. Crazy stuff.

[King Gizzard]

Non league news really but Hereford have been expelled from the conference and Chester will remain there now because of Hereford's financial problems

they've moved lowestoft into the conference north because of this, some of there games are going to be at least 5 hours travel

[Drew.]

This is how to promote a new shirt

S9mUNFQyT04

[Locke.]

This Fulham side look so good, they are tearing Ipswich apart

[Novo]

They are ****e, so bad defensively and they are relying on to many young players to step up

[Locke.]

They have been great until they get within 10 yards of the box, they are crying out for a clinical finisher that will get in behind, and McCormack/Mitroglou aren't that.

[Novo]

That's only because Parker and David are two workhorses, they aren't game winners though, they are going to leak goals for fun before they mention to score, that lesser dembele is terrible as well, send him to Bootle fc

[Locke.]

Forgot they signed Adam Taggart actually, the answer to all their problems, they need to put him on in the second half to play next to McCormack

[Novo]

Felix probably had them running 10 miles in yesterday's training session so Ipswich should get another 2 or 3 here

[Novo]

What are the odds on a red card in this half

[Locke.]

What are the odds on Stafylidis making the Championship team of the year

[Novo]

See Dembele miss an easy tap in then

[Novo]

Berra has Ross in his pocket

[Novo]

I feel sorry for Parker playing with this ****

[Locke.]

Quick Mitroglou, abandon the ship!!!!!!

[Locke.]

Hoogland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MTVN]

Football highlights back on a Saturday night again :flutter:

[Drew.]

Going for Watford to win the Championship if they keep Deeney.. Probably the best partnership in the league with Vydra

[Novo]

Derby for me

Hendricks, Will Hughes (been a bit off lately but still great) Russell, Dawkins, Martin,, Mascarell from real Madrid, Bryson. Would have had a better chance if thorne didn't get himself injured though

[Locke.]

Who have Derby signed to replace Wisdom at right back

[Novo]

Cyrus Christie from Coventry, he got the assist today

[Novo]

3 cleansheets in a row for Derby now, Fulham continue to look terrible and Bournemouth and Millwall stay 100%

[Brother Leon]

Oh dear Fulham.

[Locke.]

Tex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Scores 5 minutes into his first Brighton start

[Novo]

3 defeats from 3 for Fulham now, bet they wish they never sacked Jol now, he took Fulham to 9th and 12th and when they sacked him Fulham were 18th and still well in touch to get out the relegation zone, Rene came in and made a mess of things and now Felix is finishing the Job and Felix seems like a nightmare though for any player,Hangeland would literally **** on his grave the way he has talked about him after he left

[Locke.]

Felix done a pretty good job with them at the end of the season once they were used to him, doesn't really seem to be working in the Championship though. Teams that just got relegated always seem to start pretty slow in the Championship though for some reason.

Mitroglou has been liked with Deportivo a lot this week but he was still at the game tonight and has been training with Fulham so there's still a chance he'll stay, he will get at least 20 goals if he does and recover this terrible start

[Novo]

Don't be silly, they are ****ed if they don't sack Felix be no one respects him there, they haven't even got a good team anyway really, their defence is awful, Gingerbear laid the blueprint when he scored that screamer past them in pre season, it is at least 2 years in the Championship for them

[Locke.]

They have great full backs, they need a better keeper though. Not sure if that Amorebieta is staying either. Some great attacking players there as well.

Wonder how many goals Hugo can score in the Championship

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/11/19/article-1331387-0C219976000005DC-352_468x549.jpg

[Novo]

0 because hes always on the bench, has he even played yet this season? time for him to abandon the sinking ship

[Locke.]

Not sure, only seen the first game

[Locke.]

LAIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tranmere are flying

[Locke.]

Tex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He has done it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Drew.]

What a great loan signing, two wins in a row since he arrived, looked terrible in the opening 2.

[Novo]

Tranmere collapsing, oh dear.

[Novo]

Felix has got to go now, tomorrow morning I'm guessing

[Locke.]

Tranmere collapsing, oh dear.

2 goals up then concede 3 in 6 minutes, it is like Chester all over again

[Novo]

You mean that last game of season that ended up meaning nothing

[MTVN]

Christ Fulham really are in the sh*t

[King Gizzard]

they let magath build a new squad this summer practically, he'll be gone soon and they'll still probably go down

[Locke.]

McGath is just playing the kids (and Parker), it's stupid. The likes of Mitroglou and Ruiz probably aren't going to be staying but they are still training with the squad and actually attending all of the games so it isn't like they've refused to play or anything, he might as well use them because they clearly need to.

[Novo]

That Hooland does seem like a decent player, when they have scored goals its usual him that has been involved, they did terrible business though looking back now, spending 12 mil on McCormack and Shed Wed spent under 1 mil on Stevie May, there were so many cheaper better options

[Locke.]

Fowler in the running for the Leeds job, the only man that can save them

[Novo]

Derby v Forest this weekend, the greatest fixture in the Championship

[Kyle]

If any of the mods could update the season on the title a year or just remove that bit entirely that would cure my OCD brain a lot pleeeeeeeeeeze, thank you

:laugh:

[Novo]

What are your views on Stevie May Kyle?

[Kyle]

Too early for me to know either way yet mate. Apparently he used to bang them in for St. Johnstone before he signed so the kid has obviously got talent and didn't he score the other night for Scotland's U21's?

10-15 goals in a mid table team would be an achievable target I think. Feck me though he don't half stand out though? There's no getting him mixed up with Maguire from a distance. :laugh:

[Novo]

Fulham 1-0 down and down to 10 men, the show goes on

[Locke.]

Hartlepool - 2 Shots, 0 On Target
Tranmere - 17 Shots, 3 On Target
Result - 0-0

:facepalm:

[Novo]

5 goals in 6 games now for Assombolonga, him and Antonio look great together still not sure they are good enough all round though, Derby matched them without Hendrick and Ward

[Novo]

Assombolonga hat trick for Forest in a 5-3 win against Fulham

[Locke.]

Fulham 3-2 up going into the last 15 minutes

[Novo]

Jamie Ward having a great season for Derby as well, they missed him on the weekend

[King Gizzard]

someone will buy Assombalonga for 10+

[Novo]

Hopefully he stays there if they go up, him and Antonio are great together at the minute

[Locke.]

Fulham are 15 points off Automatic promotion and 12 off the play offs already, they need to sack Felix tomorrow

[King Gizzard]

Wonder if they'll offer Pulis whatever he wants

[Locke.]

Felix and Solskjaer sacked, both correct decisions

[Locke.]

Rob Edwards needs to be sacked.. Supposed to be challenging for promotion but he is leading Tranmere to the conference

[Marcus.]

yeee smash and grab 3 points boom

[Novo]

Right come on Stevie May

[MTVN]

Dave Whelan: Wigan owner in anti-Semitism row over Mackay

Wigan owner Dave Whelan has been accused of anti-Semitism over comments he made to a national newspaper.

It comes the same day a sponsor ended its agreement with the club over the appointment of Malky Mackay as manager.

The Football Association is looking into allegations Mackay sent offensive text messages while Cardiff manager.

Attempting to defend the Scot in an interview with the Guardian, Whelan reportedly said: "Jewish people chase money more than everybody else."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30137728

What a partnership Whelan and Mackay are gonna be

[Drew.]

I thought it was impossible for that club to get any worse

[Drew.]

BENT!!!!!!!

[Locke.]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30628138 **** sakes :joker: How could you be so stupid

[Drew.]

This is ridiculous, fingers crossed it remains this tight until the final few weekends of the season

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_gqRcoUIAA6hhh.jpg

[Drew.]

Going for Watford to win the Championship if they keep Deeney.. Probably the best partnership in the league with Vydra

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDdVLEvW0AIBx0-.png:large

[Shaun]

the child in me is happy bc it means a yellow kit (#Torquayfan) and isn't a team as terminally dull as Norwich

[Locke.]

Rob Edwards needs to be sacked.. Supposed to be challenging for promotion but he is leading Tranmere to the conference

Left it too long to act, this useless bastard had already dug the 6 foot hole.

94 years in the football league has come to an end.

[Kyle]

Congratulations to Watford on promotion to the premier league.

Commiserations Tranmere. Football obscurity awaits.

[Kyle]

Congratulations Bournemouth, it's pretty much nailed on now. :clap1::clap1::clap1:

[Shaun]

bloody hell

[MTVN]

G'waan Norwich

[Shaun]

Gross.