A little better tonight and had a rare treat of sitting in one of the lounges. Had a message before the schoolrun that Dyche was gone and Baines was in charge. Made up he's got a chance, he played for my dad's team with me as a kid and we were close growing up in senior school.
Quality on the pitch and sound lad off it. Apparently it's Moyes on a 18 month contract which I'm happy with. Would like him to maybe promote Baines to assistant or have him in and around the first team, have heard Charlie Adam as assistant which isn't very inspiring if I'm honest.
Be watching our game on the tele tomorrow and hoping we're in the draw together Sunday.
TBH, I am really hoping we beat Pompey tonight and then get drawn against Everton away in the next round. My brother-in-law and his son are season ticket holders there so it would be a great opportunity to go there before the the new ground opens up, plus there is a decent chance to meet up with @ryan_w_kirkby2 and perhaps @manchesterchairboy too? Always good to meet the extended Chairboys family.
That’s brilliant. I don’t think Limpar should be considered a laughing stock. One of my favourite reality series was the one where they managed to convince these people that they were flying in space, having undergone a sequence of training exercises, etc, when in fact they never even left the ground.
@Kim_il_Swan has correctly identified the weak point in the spoof, though…. If it was me, I’m sure all the plane shaking, scientists on board, and stuff would have been convincing, but then if they’d said Scotland won the World Cup, it would have been like ‘nice try, lads… you’ll be telling me Leicester won the Premier League and Wycombe got into the Championship next…’
Not sure what people make of the argument as to whether Darren Ferguson should have brought Tyler Young on last night but I think Fergie is spot on here. Apparently one of the Everton players had a pop at him for not bringing him on?
As it was one nil and they were still in the game, he's right to make the most attacking sub he had.
Imagine just bringing a sub on to make a nice story with a tight game!
Though you can say Gaz said he'd bring Bayo on whatever the situation v Sunderland for his last pro game.
Imagine if we were down to 10, holding onto 1 nil lead on 80. Would you bring Bayo who for all his strengths wasn't mobile, just when you know you'll be needing everyone to work super hard?
Barely is being generous. He's played 27 minutes in the EFL trophy. The fact he was on the bench was remarkable really - he's been on the bench for three first team games all year outside the EFL trophy! The outrage is stupid
This was an unfortunate ballot for Altrincham. Altrincham were sure of the votes of Grimsby and Luton but the Grimsby representative 'forgot' to vote and the Luton rep arrived from 'lunch' after the vote had taken place.
My kids' school just emailed everyone a family ticket (2 adults, 2 kids) to go watch Bedford Town against Telford tomorrow. Wonder if the dogs count as kids.
They were due to be away at Exeter, so bit of a shame from our viewpoint that they have a home game rather than travelling all the way to Devon. Probably gives them a chance to rotate a bit also.
Still the break and the confidence boost from yesterday should do us a world of good.
In a shocking 3rd Round weekend in the FA Cup, you already have a guaranteed 13 Championship teams out of the competition and that could rise as high as 17 by Tuesday.
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A little better tonight and had a rare treat of sitting in one of the lounges. Had a message before the schoolrun that Dyche was gone and Baines was in charge. Made up he's got a chance, he played for my dad's team with me as a kid and we were close growing up in senior school.
Quality on the pitch and sound lad off it. Apparently it's Moyes on a 18 month contract which I'm happy with. Would like him to maybe promote Baines to assistant or have him in and around the first team, have heard Charlie Adam as assistant which isn't very inspiring if I'm honest.
Be watching our game on the tele tomorrow and hoping we're in the draw together Sunday.
TBH, I am really hoping we beat Pompey tonight and then get drawn against Everton away in the next round. My brother-in-law and his son are season ticket holders there so it would be a great opportunity to go there before the the new ground opens up, plus there is a decent chance to meet up with @ryan_w_kirkby2 and perhaps @manchesterchairboy too? Always good to meet the extended Chairboys family.
That’s brilliant. I don’t think Limpar should be considered a laughing stock. One of my favourite reality series was the one where they managed to convince these people that they were flying in space, having undergone a sequence of training exercises, etc, when in fact they never even left the ground.
@Kim_il_Swan has correctly identified the weak point in the spoof, though…. If it was me, I’m sure all the plane shaking, scientists on board, and stuff would have been convincing, but then if they’d said Scotland won the World Cup, it would have been like ‘nice try, lads… you’ll be telling me Leicester won the Premier League and Wycombe got into the Championship next…’
Not sure what people make of the argument as to whether Darren Ferguson should have brought Tyler Young on last night but I think Fergie is spot on here. Apparently one of the Everton players had a pop at him for not bringing him on?
As it was one nil and they were still in the game, he's right to make the most attacking sub he had.
Imagine just bringing a sub on to make a nice story with a tight game!
Though you can say Gaz said he'd bring Bayo on whatever the situation v Sunderland for his last pro game.
Imagine if we were down to 10, holding onto 1 nil lead on 80. Would you bring Bayo who for all his strengths wasn't mobile, just when you know you'll be needing everyone to work super hard?
Fuss about nothing. It’s a competitive game and they had a chance to get a result.
Young had barely played for Peterborough. It was a nice narrative, but a bit of context wouldn't they've gone amiss - he was highly unlikely to play.
Barely is being generous. He's played 27 minutes in the EFL trophy. The fact he was on the bench was remarkable really - he's been on the bench for three first team games all year outside the EFL trophy! The outrage is stupid
Doing some research for an article and came across this: a comprehensive history of Football League election. Quite interesting to see which clubs have almost been in the FL.
Altrincham missed out by two votes in 1980:
This was an unfortunate ballot for Altrincham. Altrincham were sure of the votes of Grimsby and Luton but the Grimsby representative 'forgot' to vote and the Luton rep arrived from 'lunch' after the vote had taken place.
Oops...
I don't blame the Luton rep - we have established that there is a ring of broken glass around that town.
My kids' school just emailed everyone a family ticket (2 adults, 2 kids) to go watch Bedford Town against Telford tomorrow. Wonder if the dogs count as kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-4-4uIPE1w
Mansfield’s FA cup tie has been postponed to Tuesday, which means they play midweek before they play us
Tommy Mooney's son Kelsey has come off the bench for Accrington at Liverpool. Hands up who feels old.
Neil Danns' son scored for Liverpool
And Federico Chiesa's dad scored at Anfield at Euro 96 apparently
You say ‘apparently’ like Euro 96 wasn’t just a few years ago!
I was 2 🤷♂️
Best tournament ever.
Great weather, football on all the time, England were suddenly quite good, I was old enough to stay up and watch us horse the Dutch.
Almost as far now from 1996 as 1996 was from 1966.
They were due to be away at Exeter, so bit of a shame from our viewpoint that they have a home game rather than travelling all the way to Devon. Probably gives them a chance to rotate a bit also.
Still the break and the confidence boost from yesterday should do us a world of good.
The son of another Euro 96 goalscorer has just scored in the FA Cup
Exeter thrashing Oxford 3-1.
Good for us on two counts.
Cheers Oxford...bye!
In a shocking 3rd Round weekend in the FA Cup, you already have a guaranteed 13 Championship teams out of the competition and that could rise as high as 17 by Tuesday.
Is that unusual for the 2nd division?
So do we want a lesser club and a chance of romping through another round, or do we want the "big" draw now?
Always a good debate.
Brentford the first PL casualty
A lesser club and get through to the next round.
My opinion is another winnable tie gets our second string minutes and our first team a rest from their storming of the L1 title.