I didn’t feel there was much to be worried about in terms of how we can compete against either of them. Connor Bradley looks a real handful, though, and will present quite a challenge to Obita/Tafazolli/Jacobson.
Someone please remind me if, when and where we are due to play Bolton and Derby.
I fear that any heroic push will be too late unless something clicks pretty soon. Hear that one or two players are on the way but think they probably need to shift ten or fifteen already.
After Chelsea on New Years day, their next five fixtures are Southampton, Leicester, Bournemouth Fulham and Leeds which are all winnable. I am sure they would hope to get a minimum 9 points.
I think, in the near future, we will be talking about West Brom in the same manner we have been about Birmingham, Coventry and Derby. It won’t be long before another team from the EFL folds.
I think you can add Reading, Bristol City and Watford to that list who all have huge loans. Burnley also have massive debt but fortunately for them are strolling back to the Premier League.
Crawley and their crypto boys seem to be on the danger list too, despite boasts of investment they've just sold their best player to Gillingham and Manager and assistant have quit after 34 days.
Honestly, I think Derby showed that clubs above a certain size will always get rescued. It is when you get below a certain line and get to the likes of Bury and Macclesfield that things become different.
I agree with all of this - I just think there is a kind of demarcation point above which there will always be someone with stars in their eyes willing to step in. Up to this point there have been some very close shaves, such as Bolton, Derby and Portsmouth, but a way is always found in the end. So until a Championship type club does actually go under, it is hard to envision it happening. I suppose there is always a first, though!
One of the Crypto Bro owners joined the acting manager in the dugout this evening to "support him" and was apparently seen asking the 4th official around how substitution works. They lost 3-1
I have just settled down to watch my home town club (Maidstone United) play Dagenham & Redbridge. I was an enthusiastic fan in the late‘forties/early‘fifties.
Confess I didn’t realise they are now managed by a former Wycombe player, Hakan Hayrettin. I remember him as a fairly slight midfielder, signed in the early nineties and helping Wycombe to their first promotion in the Football League. He suffered a very serious knee injury soon after leaving Wycombe and playing for Cambridge United. He’s put on a pound or two in the meantime.
I’m going to go all ChasHarpsy now by asking what most people probably best remember him for (Hakan, not Harpsy). It was at a ground which has something in common with this afternoon’s venue.
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They are, but will either be with us next season?
Bolton 0-0 Derby. We are back out of the playoffs, but probably the best result, as we gain 2 points on both instead of 3 points on only one of them.
Agreed.
Neither team out of reach but we will need to finish a point ahead of either by the end of the season as our goal difference is likely to be inferior
I really enjoyed Bolton v Derby, had the feel of a frenetic Cup tie. Just the finishing from both sides was awful. Long may that continue!
I didn’t feel there was much to be worried about in terms of how we can compete against either of them. Connor Bradley looks a real handful, though, and will present quite a challenge to Obita/Tafazolli/Jacobson.
Someone please remind me if, when and where we are due to play Bolton and Derby.
The young lad who was stabbed to death last night in a Birmingham nightclub has been named as Cody Fisher of Stratford Town.
Nobody should go out on a night out and not return home.
Forest look poor tonight against United (Amazon Prime)
I fear that any heroic push will be too late unless something clicks pretty soon. Hear that one or two players are on the way but think they probably need to shift ten or fifteen already.
After Chelsea on New Years day, their next five fixtures are Southampton, Leicester, Bournemouth Fulham and Leeds which are all winnable. I am sure they would hope to get a minimum 9 points.
Southampton sounds like a big one, all of the others seem to have a lot more about them and would need a step up.
Sounds like a silly little dream to me.😉
Started well, sloppy 2nd goal killed it early doors. Henderson back next game will help and Scarpa soon too.
https://www.wba.co.uk/news/west-bromwich-albion-group-limited-secures-msd-loan
I think, in the near future, we will be talking about West Brom in the same manner we have been about Birmingham, Coventry and Derby. It won’t be long before another team from the EFL folds.
I think you can add Reading, Bristol City and Watford to that list who all have huge loans. Burnley also have massive debt but fortunately for them are strolling back to the Premier League.
Crawley and their crypto boys seem to be on the danger list too, despite boasts of investment they've just sold their best player to Gillingham and Manager and assistant have quit after 34 days.
Worse than that - he was sacked. I didn't realise it was Matthew Etherington.
Honestly, I think Derby showed that clubs above a certain size will always get rescued. It is when you get below a certain line and get to the likes of Bury and Macclesfield that things become different.
A wealthy individual stepped in to save Derby.
You can't force people to buy football clubs to save them.
You need to prevent the need arising by having much stricter governance over the ownership of football clubs.
This hasn't, of course, happened and I would imagine the next Derby are just around the corner.
Didn't that happen to us to a degree @eric_plant, although the Couhigs are not particularly wealthy in football terms?
I agree with all of this - I just think there is a kind of demarcation point above which there will always be someone with stars in their eyes willing to step in. Up to this point there have been some very close shaves, such as Bolton, Derby and Portsmouth, but a way is always found in the end. So until a Championship type club does actually go under, it is hard to envision it happening. I suppose there is always a first, though!
One of the Crypto Bro owners joined the acting manager in the dugout this evening to "support him" and was apparently seen asking the 4th official around how substitution works. They lost 3-1
I have just settled down to watch my home town club (Maidstone United) play Dagenham & Redbridge. I was an enthusiastic fan in the late‘forties/early‘fifties.
Confess I didn’t realise they are now managed by a former Wycombe player, Hakan Hayrettin. I remember him as a fairly slight midfielder, signed in the early nineties and helping Wycombe to their first promotion in the Football League. He suffered a very serious knee injury soon after leaving Wycombe and playing for Cambridge United. He’s put on a pound or two in the meantime.
I’m going to go all ChasHarpsy now by asking what most people probably best remember him for (Hakan, not Harpsy). It was at a ground which has something in common with this afternoon’s venue.
That goal against PNE at Deepdale, from the halfway line. If the net hadn't stopped the ball it would still be going now (in my mind anyway)!
https://youtu.be/0GitBn28ovY
And the common factor @Twizz - for the first prize.
Artificial playing surfaces ...
Too easy for someone of your coleyeber, @Twizz. That’s a cup of coffee with me for company. Second prize, two cups of coffee.
Bayo scored for Watford at Norwich today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64092510
Spending what you actually have (or can reasonably expect to take) never really has been the fashion in football
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64139910
Pompey sack Cowley
Looks like Leam Richardson will take it.