The Lower League Thread - Real World Football - FM24/25 Update

gfnx25

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14 Dec 2014 23:42:32

By Chera | On 13 December 2014 - 22:35 PM

Bury are on the slide! 4 defeats in a row.

That's a pretty friendly description for 'Bury are shit', which would be perfectly correct at the moment. I'm fed up to be honest

Slashman X

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15 Dec 2014 11:20:05

Blackburn, Leeds and Nottingham Forest handed transfer embargoes

Blackburn, Leeds and Nottingham Forest have all been given transfer embargoes for the rest of the season for breaching Financial Fair Play rules.
The Championship trio have been given the bans for not meeting the Football League's Fair Play Requirement.

Under existing rules, clubs are permitted to lose no more than £3m a season, with a maximum of £5m of shareholder investment.
The clubs will have the opportunity to have the embargoes lifted in June.

BR.

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15 Dec 2014 13:55:02

Meh, saw it coming, bad times. Thought more would have been involved than just us 3.

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15 Dec 2014 16:37:34

By gfnx25 | On 14 December 2014 - 23:42 PM

That's a pretty friendly description for 'Bury are shit', which would be perfectly correct at the moment. I'm fed up to be honest

Why couldn't we play you away when you were shit?! Sheridan out.

George14brfc

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15 Dec 2014 19:41:22

Not good

least our squad is fairly strong as it is. As BR said I am surprised there weren't more clubs involved. Bit disappointing as I think we may have bought a couple of new faces in, just need to make sure we don't let anyone go.

terriersmad

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15 Dec 2014 20:11:43

By BR. | On 15 December 2014 - 13:55 PM

Meh, saw it coming, bad times. Thought more would have been involved than just us 3.

It will be. Bet Bolton haven't announced their accounts yet. Expect a fine the size of a small African country's national debt.

Got to be honest, I think only Forest really deserve any kind of embargo. Yourselves and Leeds are at least trying to cut cloth accordingly (although in your case after a bit of a splurge on players in the first season in the division). Unlike Forest. And even then the embargo is hardly an embargo, is it? Can still bring players in on free transfers for up to about £12k a week, albeit on a one in, one out basis. Daft, really - FFP hasn't got the teeth and doesn't have the common sense in its application.

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19 Dec 2014 22:44:15

Hereford have been wound up.

hammer9

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20 Dec 2014 17:01:48

FANTASTIC BOURNEMOUTH 6-1 at poor Blackpool!

terriersmad

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20 Dec 2014 18:06:01

Birmingham City can fuck right off. Worst team I've seen two years running. They've beaten us both times. Last year we were shocking and frankly could have been beaten by a pub team (which Birmingham were on the day). Today both sides could at least defend. We were very poor, but they were even worse. At least we tried to play, even if it involved a lot of mis-hit passes and players taking the safe decision time after time. They had ONE shot in the whole game, and it was a Ronaldo-style free-kick which went in. Classic playing for a point but taking any chances while we huffed and puffed and promptly failed to blow their house down.

Ref needs shooting for not doing anything about their time-wasting. When you're a goal up away from home you waste time, of course. It's down to the ref to handle it by booking players and taking appropriate action. They made a double sub at one point - by which I mean one player walked off very slowly from the far side to be replaced, and once he'd gone off they announced a second sub, whereupon exactly the same happened. Ref just stood and watched rather than get his cards out or force them to re-start with ten, which is what I'd have done. Three minutes for those two subs, which took the piss. I think after they scored half their team had treatment, the keeper faffed about with goal-kicks, the lot. Didn't even have a word. Not the reason for the defeat (that was a soft free-kick which was inflicted by taking fucking stupid decisions in the back four), but very annoying when the other side are allowed to use the dark arts with impunity to waste the better part of half an hour.

Number 1

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21 Dec 2014 00:22:34

I really wasn't expecting a Christmas Day top trio of Bournemouth, Ipswich and Brentford for the Championship. Not bad though. Its nice to see complete batshit unpredictability. Brentford winning at Cardiff City is pretty fucking mad.

George14brfc

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21 Dec 2014 10:09:16

Good win for us yesterday. We played well especially first half with some good passing and pressing. It was great too see Rhodes grab 2 goals and back on a scoring run! Second half was not great and not alot happened bar a couple of chances for us. Charlton were awful the worse team I have seen us play this season by a long way I have no idea how they were only 1 point behind us before this game. Their keeper struggled too dropping a simple catch which Gestede nearly scored from. And he should have done better for Rhodes' second goal. He made a couple of decent saves from shots by Lowe and Tunnicliffe though. Bolton on boxing day up next which will be a tough game as they have kept 4 clean sheets on the bounce.

One Night In Grimsby

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By Vercoe | On 26 December 2014 - 09:42 AM

We're on a European tour today, travelling to Newport (not me personally), the weatherman says torrential rain and wind and Arctic conditions! Which is good because Newport's standing terrace is uncovered! And yes, a very safe journey to everyone travelling to support their team today.

Newport away end is horrible in bad weather! Driving rain and bitter wind last time I went there.

Vercoe

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26 Dec 2014 16:21:50

That's the gist of it so far I believe, plus we're losing to a decent Newport side. Our away form is shocking.

gfnx25

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26 Dec 2014 16:58:24

WE ACTUALLY WON A GAME WHAT EVEN IS THIS???

We also conceded straight from a corner. To shame.

hammer9

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26 Dec 2014 17:06:09

Bournemouth back on top of the league after beat Fulham 2-0

terriersmad

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26 Dec 2014 18:13:35

On the plus side, Vaughan's back. Actually back. And had a cracker - the ball went up, the ball stayed up, the defenders didn't know what to do with him.

On the minus side, Holt's now injured, Vaughan can't play 90 minutes yet, and we conceded two stupid late goals to sure-fire League One fodder who we'd outclassed for 88 minutes without killing off (albeit thanks to getting absolutely no luck - double deflection from only their second proper shot for the equaliser just sums it up). New striker and some backbone needed.

Also, Steve Evans is a vile cunt.

George14brfc

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26 Dec 2014 21:11:00

By terriersmad | On 26 December 2014 - 18:13 PM

Also, Steve Evans is a vile cunt.

I agree

George14brfc

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26 Dec 2014 21:23:15

Well I am very pissed off tbh. First half we were excellent and we should have gone ahead earlier than we did as Rhodes hit the post and also put a one on one wide, Cairney had a shot saved and Evans missed the follow up and Marshall had a one on one saved. But eventually we did go ahead King rounding the keeper and finishing well. They had a couple of chances Gudjohnson and Hall missed from close range. But second half we were nowhere near it they bought Heskey on at half time and he equalized sliding in from close range.. but our defending was awful someone has to go to the ball everyone was just backing off.Then Pratley scores as Hanley heads the ball out for a corner under no pressure and we don't mark Pratley. We still should have got something as there was a Huge goal mouth scramble and the ball somehow went wide when it should have gone in. We also had a couple of other half chances. Bolton fans are awful. The ref was also shocking for both teams though. Rhodes had a goal disallowed for an apparent foul on Matt Mills when he fell over the ball which was ridiculous so overall a very frustrating day.

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27 Dec 2014 10:15:34

By terriersmad | On 26 December 2014 - 18:13 PM

On the plus side, Vaughan's back. Actually back. And had a cracker - the ball went up, the ball stayed up, the defenders didn't know what to do with him.

On the minus side, Holt's now injured, Vaughan can't play 90 minutes yet, and we conceded two stupid late goals to sure-fire League One fodder who we'd outclassed for 88 minutes without killing off (albeit thanks to getting absolutely no luck - double deflection from only their second proper shot for the equaliser just sums it up). New striker and some backbone needed.

Also, Steve Evans is a vile cunt.

And this is why I love football... How many different opinions people can I!

Yeah we were average yesterday.. but Huddersfield were very poor, how you can say outclassed us is beyond me!! The tactic seemed to me like give Vaughan the ball and hope he did all the work.

We deserved that point based on the never say die attitude, but they are the teams we should be looking to beat if we want to stay up.

And as for Steve Evans.. You can't knock his management record.. This time 2 years ago, we lost to Bristol Rovers at home in League 2.. Now we just played Cardiff, Forest, Wigan and Huddersfield in the Championship and none of them could beat us!!

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