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#242237 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
#242210 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
We've also signed Ishmael Miller on a 6-month deal from Blackpool. If it had been a longer deal I wouldn't be too happy, but he's not the worst short-term fix we could have got. He bagged a few last season, even if he hasn't set the world alight at Blackpool, and will offer something different to Vaughan and Wells. We'll see how he goes.
#241707 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
I also have a habit of injuring myself without anyone else being involved. First time I dislocated my knee there was (I made a challenge on a lad who was pulling the trigger, and on his follow through he caught me bang on the knee - it was a mess, I don't mind saying), but the second time I did it I just went for a shot when stretching and came down awkwardly. Banged my kneecap on the way down as well, so it had flipped over. Still on the right side of the joint, just back to front - I went to one hospital, and they couldn't work out what I'd done. They needed an orthopaedic surgeon to come from a different hospital to diagnose and to put me under properly to correct it. The knee still isn't right, and I'm probably going to have to call it a day some time soon. Buggered tendons right up, that one.
Anyway, Tommy Smith is home from hospital and should be back in action sooner rather than later. I doubt he'll be playing down at Millwall on Saturday, because he'll have a heck of a case of concussion, but hopefully by the Bournemouth game.
#241610 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
The worst injuries are innocuous challenges. For all we talk about leg-breaking challenges, it seems to be those where sheer bad luck gets involved which end up in the worst injuries. Rudy Gestede had to go off in a neck-brace at our place last season after an innocuous collision. In my own playing experience, I once took a shot on the turn and collided with a lad while I was falling - he ended up breaking his leg in two places. Grant Holt did his ACL pivoting, Anthony Pilkington broke his leg and dislocated his ankle when colliding with a player on the follow-through from a cross. We could both think of many we've seen which were just down to wrong place, wrong time or bad luck.
#241602 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
You'll see a thousand worse challenges a season. Truly rotten luck. Just a player getting himself between a man busting a gut to get on the end of a ball, the ball, the goalkeeper, and the post. As I say, I think it's a foul, but you might disagree with me (I think it's a push in the back which makes him duck forward, but it's hardly a challenge that should end with those kind of consequences).
#241596 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Down my end. Made me feel physically sick. It was a foul, but not a dangerous or bad one, just a barge in the back from a player going for the ball but he collided with Joe Murphy and/or the post and spent at least ten minutes out cold. After that it was clear our lads just wanted to get off the pitch. Bad afternoon all round.
And having seen it again, it looks even worse. Looks like he gets caught between Murphy and the post from behind the goal, momentum of the collision with Sharp. Their lad had no blame, just running in onto the ball, wouldn't have had an inkling of what had happened until the kick-off was delayed.
#241303 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
#239726 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
It was a satisfying win, though, especially as their captain's notes in the programme had a heading, 'We should be beating teams like Huddersfield'. When you read what he'd said, he actually said something quite different, but their programme editor had obviously had a rush of blood to the head and now looks pretty silly. Nothing like bringing down cocky little so and sos.
#239666 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Oh, who cares. We won a bloody awful game. Wigan look only slightly less doomed than Blackpool. A nice 13-point gap has opened up between us and them (17 to Blackpool).
#238373 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
New striker needed for the rest of the campaign. Though given that the last one went back with an ACL injury...
#236397 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
#235967 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Great performance and result against Watford. We were always the better side - Watford looked like they wanted to be on the coach home from the kick-off - and should have gone in ahead at half-time. But when they levelled Nahki's opener you could just see it being one of those games where we played all the football but were punished for not killing the game. But Vaughan and Lynch scored great goals in the last 15 to secure a much-deserved 3 points.
It's probably a bit simple to blame the conditions for Watford not turning up, but they clearly didn't fancy it for one reason or another and we did. It was quite funny to see Gomes subbed after making a mess of one of two crosses and claiming to be injured. Apparently Brazilian internationals don't mix well with trips to Huddersfield in January!
#235002 Ched Evans
terriersmad
Rehabilitation is, of course, a key consideration. Being given a second chance is a big part of that. But rehabilitation should start with him admitting he has done wrong and issuing an unreserved apology (with the current caveat obviously being that he's protesting his innocence, so it's hardly something he can do with an appeal pending). Until he does that and asks forgiveness, he can't be rehabilitated and should not be given a second chance. He certainly shouldn't be given a second chance in football at this stage, given how high-profile it is.
My personal feeling is that miscarriages of justice happen. But I don't think this is one of them. I think a very arrogant, very stupid young man made a very big mistake. With the caveat that all rapes are exceptionally serious offences, I think this is one of the 'less serious' rapes that will pass through the justice system, but it's one that's ruined a girl's life (perhaps less as a result of what happened to her that night than the later actions of Ched Evans' supporters, who have forced her to change identity and move house several times). Evans has never shown remorse, and deserves his status as a pariah.
#233815 FA Cup 2014/15
terriersmad
Join the club. Football has a habit of ruining otherwise palatable weekends.
#233769 FA Cup 2014/15
terriersmad
Add in Town's poor overall performance, two stick-on penalties not being given in the later stages, their lad at the back being an almighty dick and the fact it was a 1-0 defeat to fucking Reading, and you can make it an all-round miserable afternoon. In another shit draw in what is fast becoming a frankly shit competition. We've got one decent home draw in the last 50-odd years, so I may as well stay at home when we draw Bournemouth next year.
#232254 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
So you'd like to sign Ched Evans, a convicted and unrepentant rapist, because he'd keep you in the Championship? Sometimes principles matter far more than the standard of football being played.
Anyway, we won, and deservedly. Looked like a long afternoon when we made a mess of a) defending a bloody kick-off and b) the resultant free-kick to go a goal down inside 40 seconds. But we battled back and got the equaliser. Lennon's moaning about Heskey having one ruled out for offside, but he looked several yards off, didn't moan, and had pretty much stopped before the whistle had gone before sticking it past Alex (who had also stopped). He's also moaning about our winner, which he has more of a point about, but to be fair to Hogg, the ball was blasted at him from about two yards away when it hit his arm. We got the break and scored, which is a nice break of fortune, and no less than we deserved. I think Alex only had one real save to make (though it was a game-changer, as had Gudjohnsen scored it would have put them 2 up), whereas Lonergan was busy throughout. Butterfield's goal was a cracker, snap-shot on the half-volley from the edge of the area, and Nahki took his ever so well after a goal drought.
#232035 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
But he is a criminal, convicted on his own admission. He shouldn't be allowed to take part in football in any way after the Boston fiasco. Then there's his touchline behaviour. I have no problem with passion, but I do have a serious problem with bullies, and he's a bully. He's been removed from a ground with a game in progress by the police in the past because of his touchline behaviour, as well as having been sent to the stands however many times. He was probably lucky to avoid police involvement when he exposed himself to a female Bradford City official (for which he got the 6 match stadium ban the other year) after being directly involved in a mass punch-up.
Pretty much everyone here will agree with me when I say there's a difference between being a good man inside football and being a good man out of it, and one doesn't affect the other. Steve Evans is not a good man either in the game or out of it. He's a crook, a liar, and a bully. And he has no place in the game of football.
#231744 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
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.
#231554 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Stat of the day: Town haven't won away on a Saturday yet this season. Wins have been midweek matches at Reading and Wolves. Hopefully we can continue the decent 'not a Saturday' trend at Rotherham tomorrow.
#230075 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
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.
#228662 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
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.
#228334 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
I don't understand what constitutes a clear goalscoring opportunity these days. Wallace was sent off against Charlton when there were 2 covering defenders for a bouncing ball 40 yards out as well as yesterday (which was overturned - though we're in the ludicrous situation now where he's got a 2 match ban because it was his second red of the season, despite the fact the first was overturned), but watching MOTD last night Dummett of Newcastle hauled an Arsenal lad down eight yards out and about to shoot and wasn't sent off. I don't see how that isn't a red card but ours are under the same law of the game. It's a nonsense.
#226579 Champions League 2014/15
terriersmad
#226576 Champions League 2014/15
terriersmad
Didn't look like it to me, tbh, but if he was touched I will happily retract my comment.
#226573 Champions League 2014/15
terriersmad
#226118 FA Cup 2014/15
terriersmad
But then I have no doubt that the next day the apocalypse will strike.
#225399 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Ref did have the most entertaining moment of the game. After their central defender clattered Holt he pitched a proper five-year-old's hissy fit, complete with foot stamping. When he started berating the referee when he got called over, the ref did an impression of him then booked him. A rare moment of good reffing.
#224395 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
#223095 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Having seen it, there's no way that should be given as a foul on the keeper. It's a collision between two players going for the ball, nothing more. If the keeper is a defender no one bats an eye at that collision, but because it's the keeper he gets special privileges about no one being allowed to breathe in his vicinity. Karanka has no grounds to complain whatsoever.
Poor result for us today at Bolton. Disappointing in front of goal again. We seem to go through gluts where we score freely when have droughts. More worrying is that both Lynch and Scannell came off injured. Brentford (and their five-match winning streak) next up.
#220607 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
That was the third. First half made a poor one (probably entitled to go for it, to be fair, but the ref should still have booked him for a poor challenge), second half left a very deliberate foot in, and third one Murphy had had enough of getting sod all protection. May had ten minutes to slow down and didn't. Good, commanding goalkeeping, and he had every right to be unhappy with the player and the referee who hadn't given either free-kick at that point.
Also, I retract my statement about it being a nailed-on penalty. Ref got it absolutely spot on (though in real-time, I really thought it was a stick-on, and Lynch still got lucky):