The Football League Thread

Oh god... Dropped a bit of a clanger here, ey? If there's any talk about the Football League, great, but I'm not against deleting the thread if it gets no traction.

Call it getting used to the new forum, expecting everything to come through the new posts view like EG, completely forgot the sub sections exist.

Please feel free to move it over / delete as necessary.

We've carted off about 14 players now, fucking off the last of the chaff from the relegation hangover and bought in players with a good attitude. I've been a Stoke fan long enough not to expect a run through the season with any sort of success at the end, but there's something really fresh about this team. And they're actually playing football which is a bonus on the last few years. Seeing fans talk about the potential of promotion at this point makes me vomit.

I'm a Forest fan and we are getting punished by the football gods for laughing at Derby.

Not the football league, but somehow my local side Grimsby have managed to sell 6700 home seats for the home game against Wrexham tonight. Wish I was going. Not bad going for non league.

Derby in administration. Hard not to laugh. Ownership are utter scum. Feel for the fans a bit though, never fun watching your club collapse.

It’s not unexpected. It’s the old ‘you need a billionaire not a millionaire’ thing.

Mel threw a load of money at trying to go up a few years ago and when that failed whined about having to to put his hand in his pocket at every opportunity. He was going to turn the rap off sooner or later, I’m actually surprised it took this long.

I was just chatting about this with my dad. I’m no Gabriel Marcotti but I don’t think we will be able to weather 21 points this season.

Funnily enough, I’m also no mystic meg but I said this would happen when the 9 points got deferred. We were definitely going to go pop at some point this year, we were just deferring the pain.

Moved to sport.

Shit state of affairs. The whole of football is fucked.

Perhaps The Great Reset conspiracy theory was all about football. Shit football, but no-one cared as it was cheap to get in and you could have a laugh with your mates. Even terraces are coming back. We've already got the hooliganism.

It was the Clement era when Morriss first bought the club that the rot started. We bought two or three really shit players for 7 million every year and topped that up with even worse 4m ones. Then we went through a load of managers and were paying severance packages.

That first push 15-17 saddled us with absolute dogshit on super high wages and we never really recovered from from it. The lampard season was a fluke, really. We were carried by three extraordinarily talented loan signings (I mean, Mount became an England regular the year after). I don't like him myself but the Nigel Pearson fiasco is us summed up.

The usual play seems to be let the club sink as low as possible then buy it at the low point? Or at least that's always been my uneducated and completely speculative view.

Is that Man Utd’s champions league super sub Nick Powell scoring for Stoke? Was a tidy finish.

Not surprised that Keogh won his claims in court, how the hell did the Derby management and board expect that misconduct and payoff to stick, whilst the perpetrators had not much more than a slapped wrist. Absolute shambles.

They are now our nearest 'big' club and my lad follows their soap opera as some of his classmates were in the youth academy and others ard diehard Rams fans. Unsurprising that a lot of the supporters have been up arms in some for some time now.

Results like yesterday, and potential for further points deductions are making for a grim year all round. Just hope thay can resolve this and push on before it is too late.

New favourite thing.