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#159359 The Lower League Thread
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22 Apr 2014 21:22:47
We're safe. With 50 points. And two games to spare. Unlike last season, where we weren't safe with 57 and 7 minutes of the season to go. Shows how mad last season was.
#157788 The Lower League Thread
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18 Apr 2014 21:17:00
First time I've ever seen an opposition side try and get a ball boy sent off.

Oh, wait, it's Brighton. Nothing new, really.
#155916 The Lower League Thread
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13 Apr 2014 09:50:37
Derby's first goal: what a great move.
#155715 The Lower League Thread
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12 Apr 2014 15:11:54
Darren Deadman'd to relegation.

His rap sheet against us with yellow cards is scandalous. Especially when it comes to two-yellow sending offs. Once sent Danny Schofield off for taking a free kick too quickly, Michael Collins for being somewhere near a Millwall lad headbutting GTF and today booked Lynch for taking too long over a throw-in before a second booking for a foul. Christ.

Now Clarke's off as well. Down to 9 at 3-1 down and we should have been 2-0 with 11, if we had a non-biased, non-cunt of a red.
#155297 The Lower League Thread
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10 Apr 2014 17:35:27
Sleepwalking to relegation.
#154444 The Lower League Thread
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07 Apr 2014 18:08:22
I've tried to be better this season. Honest!
#153579 The Lower League Thread
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05 Apr 2014 16:58:17
Play OK, better side, concede corner in the 92nd minute, concede goal to their only shot on target. So frustrating.
#153300 The Lower League Thread
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04 Apr 2014 20:10:59
Freedman describes Town as 'throwing money' at Nahki Wells.

It might just be me, but does anyone else find that unbelievably hypocritical of him and also appallingly derogatory towards another club's player? Talk about a lack of class. Hope we stuff them properly tomorrow - with a Nahki Wells hat-trick.
#151221 The Lower League Thread
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29 Mar 2014 17:10:34
Sounds like Reading got very, very lucky this afternoon. We've scored, hit the bar, forced blinding saves out of the keeper, had them cleared off the line, the lot. And they've got a dodgy penalty and taken it. We should have taken 6 points off them this season, and we've got one. And no, I don't care how high in the table they are - in both games, we've been vastly superior to them.
#150760 The Lower League Thread
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28 Mar 2014 15:05:54
Weird. From what I've seen of him he's never looked comfortable going forward! I can always hope he'll take the Jack Hunt career development path (thought of as dire at Conference side Grays Athletic, middling at Chesterfield in League Two, good option for us in League One, and best young right-back outside the Prem with us in the Championship).
#150682 The Lower League Thread
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28 Mar 2014 10:11:46
Leeds fail to pay players' wages. Non-playing staff paid (and quite right, too).
#150640 The Lower League Thread
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28 Mar 2014 00:44:40
43 players in the League alone, it seems. Those two will push it to 45. How's Jake Carroll getting on for you?
#149931 The Lower League Thread
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25 Mar 2014 22:46:09
Individual. Fucking. Errors. Again.

Middlesbrough had a grand total of two chances, both gifted to them by superb through balls from our midfield. Much better side again going forward and unlucky not to score more, especially when Wells had one (wrongly, I thought) ruled out for offside. But we gift wrapped two goals. Again.
#149449 The Lower League Thread
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23 Mar 2014 23:41:57
Sorry for the latest ref rant, just didn't want to express my opinion about being threatened and called a dickhead by a so-called Town 'fan'. Easier to criticise a poor referee than say what I want about that idiot - 36 hours down the line and I'm not convinced I've calmed down yet!
#149323 The Lower League Thread
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23 Mar 2014 12:17:13
Had enough of Town fans. Apparently we were gutless, spineless, etc. We weren't. We plugged away, but lacked quality and a bit of something against a team who sat deep and soaked up second half pressure, limiting us to only a small handful of chances. Nearly got decked by someone who disagreed with me clapping them off and was instead launching a barrage of abuse, particularly at Clayton.

Clayton was a bit lucky not to be sent off by a very officious little turd of a ref. He was booked for a perfectly good challenge, and nodded in agreement with Town fans who were aiming a barrage of abuse at the little twat. It was never a booking, but he needed to be a bit more careful - had the ref seen it (he was busy writing down Clayton's name with his nice shiny new pen his nan got him for his birthday last week) I have no doubt he would have shown Clayton a second yellow. The ref really enjoyed booking Town players for absolutely fuck all. Clayton was booked for a perfectly good challenge, Wells for a pretty nondescript first foul, and Woods for a challenge a million miles away from the man. The only booking I agreed with was Gerrard's for dissent, even if he had a point about the foul he'd conceded - you can't react like that to an official even when the official is demonstrably wrong.

Blackpool, on the other hand, got carte blanche to just boot Town players whenever and wherever they fancied. Oh well. Can't blame the little cunt for the defeat, no matter how one-eyed he was. Got the offside goal right, which is annoying.
#147636 The Lower League Thread
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By George14brfc | On 15 March 2014 - 20:34 PM
I would agree with your assessment of the game mate! You looked the better team and at 1-1 had 2 great chances to take the lead! Rhodes was clinical in front of goal and grabbed a great hat trick we didn't defend particularly well but you suffered alot of individual errors, Smithies should have saved Conway's shot and I am not sure what Clayton was doing for Rhodes 3rd goal. Good to get a win Also with regards to Gestede it looked serious and he was knocked unconscious we are still waiting for news from the hospital glad to see you asked though mate!

The obvious error was Smithies', but that doesn't excuse the midfield. Should have been out to him rather than letting him run for 30 yards unopposed and get a shot off. People seem to think that a keeping error lets the rest of the defence off the hook, and it doesn't.

Pleased to hear Gestede's injury isn't bad (I checked your official site). I don't think the ref missed it, but completely misassessed it. It doesn't surprise me. Thought he looked weak all game. Last time we had him he booked a Wednesday player twice without sending him off, and he just didn't look certain on anything which affected the players' confidence in him. Can't grumble that he affected the outcome, but he was poor.
#147570 The Lower League Thread
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15 Mar 2014 19:55:27
Also, is Gestede OK? Looked a really horrible injury from an innocuous incident. Not seen anything - do any resident Blackburn fans know how he is?
#147529 The Lower League Thread
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15 Mar 2014 18:51:06
Take the scoreline out of the equation, and anyone watching would have thought us much the better side for the bulk of the game.

Sadly, you can't take the entirely self-inflicted goals out of the equation. We had to work for both our goals. And we gave them four chances on a plate. And when three of those fall to the best finisher in the country, you're going to get punished. And a game which we should have won ended up in a 4-2 defeat.
#147468 The Lower League Thread
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15 Mar 2014 12:42:00
Mick Russell refereeing today. Not a talking point unless you recall his last memorable display at the McAlpine. And I suspect everyone does. Amazed he's allowed to ref our games after that one.
#147008 The Lower League Thread
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12 Mar 2014 20:18:17
Getting battered 0-0 by Charlton at the moment. Pre-match I was going to say we're owed a bit of luck against these guys, but sounds like, penalty appeal aside, we've really been riding ours as they've missed a fair few sitters.
#146338 The Lower League Thread
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09 Mar 2014 14:36:35
We're great! We're shit. We're great! We're shit. We're great! We're shit.

Repeat ad nauseum.
#144986 The Lower League Thread
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02 Mar 2014 12:08:09
By Ad. | On 02 March 2014 - 10:18 AM
You aren't wrong there. You may disagree, but up until you scored I thought we looked the better team. We had about three or four great crosses from the right that forced some good saves or some good defending. Then you scored, and we just capitulated. The heads went down, Frimpong went on his usual rampage, and Steele sh*t his pants every time the ball came near him.

After deservedly being booed off the pitch, Dawson decided to come over and argue with the fans and had to be dragged away. I wouldn't mind if he was actually half decent, but he's woeful with the ball at his feet.

On a positive note, the teams around us seem to be equally poor and amazingly we still aren't cut adrift.

No, I agree. For 30 minutes we looked pretty woeful ourselves, with no passing rhythm and no physical presence up top meaning we couldn't stop you from coming at us. After we scored we never looked like doing anything other than running up a large goals tally. The wonders of confidence.
#144870 The Lower League Thread
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01 Mar 2014 18:46:14
Barnsley are well and truly doomed. They're going to need a miracle to stop up. Only a couple of their players looked interested after we scored. Frimpong looked the worst of the lot - complete big-time Charlie incapable of adjusting to the reality of the lower end of the Championship. Keith Southern utterly dominated him - that's the same Southern who hasn't started in 3 months and is the wrong side of 30.
#143391 The Lower League Thread
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22 Feb 2014 20:04:17
Got to give Wednesday credit. They pressed high, took their chances, and won the loose balls. We were very poor.
#141753 The Lower League Thread
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15 Feb 2014 23:23:11
Very fair point about doing the best he can in the circumstances. But he does still have quality he can rely upon - Caddis and Burke being two obvious names. I'm also speaking from having seen the early Clark team of 2008/9 when he inherited quite a bit of dross from the disastrous Stan Ternent regime. Granted, he was able to bring in Anthony Pilkington almost straight away, but he still had to struggle with a side containing Robbie Williams, Andy Butler, Chris Lucketti, Jim Goodwin, Keigan Parker and Phil Jevons and got them playing entertaining football before he was able to really invest in the squad six months later. Three years later he was negative with a much more talented squad which badly underperformed with the exception of Jordan Rhodes, having regressed from playing attractive football to being utterly terrified of losing.
#141700 The Lower League Thread
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15 Feb 2014 19:53:23
Six points from nine. Quite happy with that. Nice to see an opposition manager give us credit as well, critical as he was of his own team. Then again, Lee Clark, for all his failings as a manager, was always classier than 90% of the others in the Football League. Shame that things aren't working out for him, but he's unfortunately somewhat lost his nerve. His 2009/10 Town team was exhilarating to watch; these days, his sides are short on entertainment, and are scared of losing games. Strange as it sounds, I think he needs to be sacked by Birmingham and have a year out of football to rediscover the attacking instincts which made Town so great to watch a few years back.
#141471 The Lower League Thread
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By George14brfc | On 12 February 2014 - 20:14 PM
doesn't sound good mate the refs in the championship are awful. Deadman is the worse of the lot!

I'd like to say Miller is worse, but I can still remember the first time I saw Deadman ref us - Michael Collins sent off after a Millwall man headbutted Gary Taylor-Fletcher for standing somewhere near the incident. Predictably, Millwall man got off scot free.

I've been trying to keep quiet about refs this season. But Miller just took the piss, not least because every time the ball went into the box for either side he immediately blew for a free-kick to whoever was defending. It was almost like he wanted to relieve pressure by allowing the side on the back foot to clear their lines; especially frustrating when a header on goal is blocked by a blatant handball. There was a five-minute spell where he gave quite literally nothing despite two or three heavy fouls either way, including one on Scannell inside the Forest box. And throughout the game he kept getting in the way of passes - at one point he was the star holding midfielder for both sides - which suggests he has little understanding of the game.

We didn't lose 3-0 because of Miller, though. We lost 3-0 because we were sloppy and Forest were clinical. The ref might have changed the game at 0-0 when he didn't send Darlow off (much like Attwell not sending Stephens off against Charlton the other week), but it's not his fault that a 5'0" midget got a free header in front of goal, or that Gerrard lost an aerial duel with Henderson, or that Gerrard completely cocked up a backpass when he should have put it in the stand. And we got nil because we're not clinical ourselves. 18 shots, one on target. Forest are a good side, to be fair, although 3-0 did flatter them.
#140813 The Lower League Thread
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11 Feb 2014 22:57:19
Holding ground - yellow card. Elbow to head knocking opposition player unconscious - no foul. Foul five yards inside the box - free-kick five yards outside the box. Breaking up three attacking moves by getting in the way of the ball. Just a few of Nigel Miller's highlight's from tonight. The incident which saw Hogg KO'd by Karl Darlow was a certain red and changed the game completely. Where they get these monkeys from is beyond me. Can't get worse, surely.

Well, we have Deadman on Saturday, so that's anyone's guess...
#139974 The Lower League Thread
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08 Feb 2014 18:04:09
Apparently I'm talking to myself. No different to a day in the office.

Good win today in awful conditions. Town v Wigan should have been a match between two footballing sides, but the wind and rain put paid to that. We deserved the win against a side who couldn't muster a single shot on target. We used the conditions well (Norwood's 40-yard screamer nearly breaking the woodwork was just one example of us being prepared to have a go), and it paid off with Clayton's 25-yard winner. And what a difference it makes when you have all your best players back! Bring on Nottingham Forest!
#139340 The Lower League Thread
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05 Feb 2014 19:56:34
Normality restored: Leeds on brink of administration, according to reports.