The Lower League Thread

Well, if Sheridan would actually attack any of your problems, then that'd be fine but how this cretin can actually say you were the better side on Saturday is beyond me. Bitter, bitter, biased spin doctor

He's said stuff like this after many defeats/disappointing draws, against Cambridge, when we lost 1-0 he said we were the better team. I know that you want to keep your players' morale up but if he stopped the bullshit it'd help fans' morale!

We won 6-1 away at Gateshead on Saturday and then 7-0 at home to Alfreton yesterday. Winning.

Hockaday has gone.

I am shocked.

No surprise there. Wonder how he got the job in the first place

Bolton fans losing their shit on Twitter over Jermaine Beckford. What happened?

So happy for Bournemouth draw with Norwich 1-1 at away.

I went to Wolves away today and it was really poor today. Gestede was injured but we should have still gone 2 up front as Rhodes struggles on his own. We defended poorly as well and Dicko and Sako were very good. Shame we conceded when we did though as we were getting back into it

Guessing it was that header that he somehow headed straight at the keeper from 6 yards out!

Only seen the very brief highlights on the FLS but it looked, and sounded from other comments, awful. So predictable too, not good signs at all and the defence needs sorting ASAP.

That might be part of it, although from what I saw on Twitter, Leeds fans chanted "Give us a wave" and when he did it Bolton fans lost their shit. It was mainly Bolton fans going "Get out of our club fuckface"

Yeah it was poor. All 4 defenders were very poor yesterday and Robbo looked like he could of done better. Rhodes was too isolated and we should have started with 2 up top. Having said that we were playing well at 2-1 but Then we conceded a poor goal

Hahaha yeah never good especially when it was probably sarcastic singing.

Seeing as some Leeds fans want him back and Bolton fans clearly don't want him there, maybe a move (loan or permanent) back to Yorkshire is in his best interests. Then again, maybe not.

He's past it. Soooo past it it's unbelievable. Sticking with Leeds, Grayson seems to be the favourite for the managerial post there. Would be interesting but a good appointment if this happens.

We won 2-1 against Accy Stan yesterday. Poor game but three points, so who cares?

Going forward: good.

Defending: not sure where to start. Sure, players were missing, but that's no excuse for not picking up on set-pieces and generally being a mess at the back. Doesn't help to have four left-sided defenders in the back four in terms of balance in open play, but we need to bring in someone to sort them out, and fast.

Beckford should be joining Fulham

What a load of aids losing to Pompey last night! Yeo looked poor once again! Honestly won't be surprised if we get relgated this year!

It would be a real shame if that was the case

It would but it wouldn't surprise me one bit, we look so poor this year!

terriersmad, is Duane Holmes any good?

Chris Powell is the new Huddersfield manager good appointment as I thought he was unlucky to be sacked by Charlton! How do you feel about it though Terriers mad?

Could be top-notch. Got the technique, just needs to learn where to actually play. Which is a big if, I have to say.


Very pleased with the appointment. I think he's someone who'll fit in to the club's ethos and has the ability to take us to the top end of the league. We have a good squad - better than the Charlton squad which finished 9th under him a year back, imo - and a good man to bring the best out of it. (Watch us fail spectacularly and get relegated by March now I've said that).

Sheffield Wednesday have said the planned takeover has collapsed. Which is puzzling given on the BBC site it said it had gone through two months ago.

It's Non-League day this Saturday, a lot of clubs have special offers in order to try and boost attendances. Anybody going to a game?

I'm going to see my local team, Gresley FC play Lincoln United in the Northern Premier League First Division South. (quite a mouthful that)

Hope he's better than Burke, McIntyre, Carroll or any other Huddersfield bloke that came here, played one game and disappeared into the abyss

Mandaric announced it being complete way to early. Basically Mammadov agreed a price to buy the club, but couldn't access any funds to pay for the club, I think its to do with the unstableness between Azerbaijan & Armenia. Mandaric's had enough of waiting and pulled the plug, we agreed a deal to have the 'Azerbaijan Land of Fire' sponsor on our shirts as a separate deal to the takeover, but we've not received any payment for it yet, so I think Milans going wild and getting his lawyers involved.

In defence of the first two, they always had 'development squad' written all over them. Carroll is now in the SPFL, and might make it.

We're not so much owed 'a bit' of luck as a deluge of it. Three more points robbed by a bastard ref. Boro had two real chances - both given them by a very poor referee. One was a 35-yard free-kick twatted in the top corner in frankly stunning fashion, the other a 92nd minute penalty given for a 'tug'. If that's a tug then I'm going to go to Weston-Super-Mare and run through the town centre naked. It's especially hard to take after the penalty we weren't given against Charlton 3 weeks ago - to say they're on the opposite ends of the spectrum is putting it mildly.

With the exception of the Newcastle, Chesterfield and Forest games, every game has had a shocking referee giving decisions against Town. By my reckoning we've conceded 6 goals as a direct result of refereeing decisions wrongly going against us, costing us 5 points. Then again, I'm no believer that luck evens itself out. I fully expect a triple somersault with pike by a Wigan man to be given as a penalty on Tuesday night in a decision which will cost us.

Not saying we deserved to win, but neither did Boro. We had the better of the opening exchanges, they then scored (assisted ably by the ref) and started to control it. We huffed, puffed, and finally got an equaliser with 4 minutes to play - maybe a little undeserved, but then Boro didn't deserve their goal either. Then the ref decided to fuck up the game more than he'd previously managed and Boro took 3 thoroughly undeserved points.

I've also lost all track of what constitutes a yellow card these days after too many baffling decisions. How Butterfield was booked for a mistimed challenge on their winger I don't know, and how Leadbitter didn't get carded after half a dozen niggly ones is also beyond me. I assume it's done on a wheel of fortune basis, or possibly on an ITV call-in line which results in weird decisions and no consistency.

Another one to annoy me - Vaughan was booked for a foul on the keeper after sliding in to try and retrieve a poor touch. Fair enough. The foul took place on the penalty spot, or near enough, after the keeper went to ground to gather and Vaughan slid in a split second late. Their captain, prior to scoring the worldie, decides to stick his oar in to what is a straightforward decision before, after the booking, deliberately flattening Wells off the ball. Peltier gets involved. Ref - rather than get his cards out for Leadbitter (see above) decides to have a chat with him and Peltier, who is presumably stand by while his players get assaulted. By this time, the ball has migrated to the edge of the D, where the keeper takes the free kick from. One, this is a good ten yards further forward. Two, if he's handled it there then it's a red for the keeper and our free-kick. So why wasn't he told to get it back into his box for the free-kick, at least? Or do refs get paid by the idiotic moment? There's being such a thing as too pernickety about free-kick positions, but you can't let them do that.

And one of my ex-girlfriends who I actually really liked got married this afternoon. I can't blame the ref for the break-up, but if I could I would.