The Lower League Thread

HOLY SHIT WE WON A GAME!!

Decent point today ! esp with a last minute own goal. DJ Campbell for us and Robinson for them both got sent off amidst a 20 man brawl when Campbell went in a bit late on there keeper there was fighting in the tunnel too. Our fans were brilliant though ! Tom Ince is a also a great player for Blackpool.

Back home for a week so went today! Was a decent result yeah. Need to see the red cards again, was hard to tell what happened from our view of it! Best is off his head, running off the bench to get involved when the brawl was in the net basically, he's a bit of a tool really.....

ah good good, it was a decent result and same really. But as you say there is no need for Best to be involved he went down the tunnel as well with him.

Having seen it again now Campbell's challenge was just an attempt to go for the ball but after he does a small headbutt on one of there players but then they start punching him !

Don't know what game Brian McDermott was watching, because Leeds got what they deserved: sod all.

Only one team tried to play football for the whole game. Leeds put together one move of note (though it has to be said it was a great sequence of passing and movement which carved us open and created a glorious chance) in 90 minutes. Their only real tactic was to lump it to the big man. Although it was effective in the opening seconds and gave them a threat on set-pieces, it's not how football should be played - there's a Brian Clough quote on the subject.

By contrast, after barely getting a kick in the opening five minutes Town went on to dominate proceedings. Once level through Ward's thunderbolt, there was only one side who ever looked likely to win the game. Leeds' defending was deep and last-ditch on more than one occasion. Kenny turned one fizzer over the bar. Holmes was denied three times by last-ditch blocks. In the second half we got the luck we deserved when Lees flicked Hammill's cross home for an own goal. That was the cue for Town to spent 10 minutes overloading the Leeds defence. Stead hit a post after rounding the keeper, his heavy touch forcing him too far wide. A goal then would have seen Town go on and deliver an absolute thrashing, I'm absolutely certain. As it was, Leeds scored a completely undeserved equaliser from a needless free-kick. Not to worry - Scannell showed strength, pace and guile to beat his man and pull it back to Stead, who turned and fired home the winner.

3-2 flattered a Leeds side who were thoroughly outclassed for most of the game. McDermott's been banging on about a penalty they should have had - a penalty that should have seen their lad booked for an outrageous dive in stoppage time (the ref had his whistle in his mouth to blow up for the dive until Clarke hammered it clear). In truth, we should have been two or three clear by then anyway.

Tranmere's Joe Thompson diagnosed with cancer today. Shocking, shocking news.

it is hoping he gets better !

Great win today for Rovers ! Now just 4 points off the play offs Jason Lowe scored a great goal his first in 84 games for us and it was a wonder strike ! I thought Scott Dann deserved man of the match though he was fantastic for us today

Another late-late show from us! Northampton had the best of the middle and were better in the tackle but we worked their 'keeper way more than they worked ours. I just hope we don't make a habit of playing crap and winning, eventually the winning will stop and a decent team will pick us apart easily - all the have to do is let us have the ball and we'll either pass it back to our goalie or give it to the opposition anyway!

Supporting this club is more painful than masturbing with sandpaper. Fucking disgraceful performance once again

I wanna die so bad

Finally won yesterday and absolutely destroyed Reading! Wickham and Fryatt were unplayeable

Nice to see Matty Fryatt doing well again, I've always had a soft spot for him since he first broke through with us.

They were crap but played as a team. We were crap but looked like a bunch of individuals and couldn't mark on set-pieces for toffee. Didn't even have a go at them when the ref very sportingly sent off their centre-half for taking his shirt off whilst celebrating his first ever career brace. Gerrard managed to piss off his own fans with his goal celebration (cupped ears at the boo boys - well done, Anthony, please engage brain before pissing off your own fans, some of us don't expect you to be Franco Baresi and know your strengths). The training ground bust-up saga rumbles on with Paterson and Clayton still missing, much to my irritation because we don't have the squad to go dropping players to make points to them. DATM now filled with muppets who want Robins sacked for not buying Lionel Messi or getting us promoted last Thursday.

MOTM: Duane Holmes (unused substitute).

fuck off ex-Bournemouth Ings scored for Burnley! GRR!

our game was called off #revolution

We're appalling, Im assuming Nigel Atkins felt sorry for us last week and let us win

We're not much better.

Football in Sheffield is embarrassing at the minute

Is any Bury fan going to call their ground the JD Sports Stadium?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24911458

I can safely say nobody will be calling it that. It's Gigg Lane or Gigg.

No, will always be Gigg Lane for me

Derby County have renamed their stadium.


Always love the 'outrage' caused by commercial decisions. By fans who now feel less detached to 'their' clubs after these decisions, whilst simultaneous demanding the owners put more money into the club to reach the riches of the Barclays Premier League....

16 long years of history traded for 30 pieces of silver...

Most supporters will still call it Pride Park anyway so I don't see why it's such a big deal. I don't think I've ever heard a fan reffer to our ground s the Banks's stadium, it's always the Bescot.

Danny Nardiello re-joins the club on loan until january which will then be made permanent.

Great news. Was clinical in his fist spell but also part of one of the worst football memories in my lifetime

In case you missed that one

Its like the principle from St. James' Park being renamed the Sports Direct Arena only for nobody to call it that, or at least seriously.

As Blackburn weren't playing went to watch Morecambe V Rochdale ! At Morecambe stood in the away end with the Rochdale fans and it was a good atmosphere ! Hogan and Henderson were class for Rochdale! Never seen a worse team than Morecambe though

Drew 1-1 with Brizzle Rovers.

Booo

Coventry

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