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#120521 Fitness Thread
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16 Nov 2013 20:03:05
By Poe | On 14 November 2013 - 14:09 PM
I do fuck all excercise, it's glorious. Saying that I am playing a game of football tonight.

Lucky bugger. Been out for 6 months with a knee injury. Been exercising like mad - 1km run warmup, 7 1/2 mins on 3/4 sprints, 20km on the bike, 1km run warmdown, normally taking 45 mins - to get fit on top of my physio's recommendation for building up the muscle. Seems to have got me nowhere whatsoever. That said, I'm risking it on Thursday.
#117814 The Lower League Thread
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09 Nov 2013 21:35:02
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).
#112981 The Lower League Thread
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27 Oct 2013 10:13:01
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.
#110903 The Lower League Thread
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19 Oct 2013 13:18:24
If Gary McKenzie hasn't ended another professional's career at some point with his consistent cowardly, thuggish attacks on other players then it's a minor miracle. And he gets away with it all the time. Just got away with a stamp on James McLean which actually saw McLean sent off (completely wrongly). Utter, utter disgrace of a footballer.

And now we're fucked. Vaughan sent off in an incident that should have been a yellow either way. Their lad comes across to block and catches Vaughan. Vaughan gives him a shove in the back. Ref has a moment where his brain forgets to function. Vaughan off. Fucking fantastic. As ever, we're playing those bastards without a key man because of shit reffing.
#109182 The Lower League Thread
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12 Oct 2013 10:21:57
His interview on Tuesday night was painful - I really felt for the guy, no matter that his results just weren't good enough. Maybe management was just beyond him (although it's not particularly fair to judge on 13 games at the start of his managerial career).

Sheffield United's squad is good enough for the play-offs, just something obviously hasn't clicked. Confidence is low, and they can't score goals. Whoever takes over, though, has a great job. I reckon Nigel Clough will be in the running.
#107921 The Lower League Thread
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05 Oct 2013 16:47:34
Really disappointing to lose today. Two individual errors eclipsed a very positive performance. Just never dropped for us in the box - on another day it could have been Town coming away with the win.

Forestieri still a very talented diving wanker. Referee complicit and sodding hopeless - if there's a foul and the lad then runs 30 yards before running into traffic, you don't then award a free-kick where he lost the ball when there's no question of a foul; the advantage has been played and it has been wasted. It isn't your job to ensure they get another chance to get a shot away.
#106683 The Lower League Thread
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29 Sep 2013 11:54:22
By JL94x4 | On 28 September 2013 - 15:28 PM
Really rate him, i'll be suprised if he doesn't move onto the Premiership very soon, he really lifted the crowd too.

Wouldn't go that far - he has 60 minutes of first team football under his belt. I also have high hopes, but the kid's only 18 and I've seen too many Town youngsters start promisingly and tail off (albeit because they were thrown in for week-in, week-out football much too soon). Handle him well, and we have a complete gem. Ask me how I rate him in a year.
#106451 The Lower League Thread
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27 Sep 2013 22:59:24
Two points dropped against Blackpool, not helped by having a perfectly good goal ruled out. Missed a late penalty as well. Should have had a penalty in the first half as well, in a game that must have been a nightmare for Mr Mathieson to referee. The incident where the penalty was given could have seen, in a ten second period: a penalty to Blackpool when Gobern prodded the ball away from Ince through the moaning cunt's legs, a red card for McKenzie when he took out Gerrard halfway up his shin with a shocking challenge, a straight red for the lad who pulled Scannell (sent off second yellow) and a penalty to us. Ten seconds and all those decisions. Which he got the lot right, erring on the side of leniency for McKenzie, who continues to be a thug.

Oh, and Duayne Holmes was absolutely sensational when he came on. 18 years old, League debut. Within five minutes he's set up the equaliser and lifted the whole place. A glimpse of the next player off the Academy production line.
#105256 The Lower League Thread
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21 Sep 2013 21:20:39
Delighted with a point from a ground where we never, ever get anything.
#104741 The Lower League Thread
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18 Sep 2013 19:59:55
Good win last night against a tidy side. In fairness we controlled it for 70 minutes and then managed to make life difficult for ourselves. Fortunately Vaughan had given us the lead and it had been doubled through an absolute screamer from Joel Lynch - 35 yards out and from a standing start he gave the keeper no chance - before a quality goal from Charlton made life very interesting. We dropped too deep and gave the wing-backs no cover when we came under severe pressure at the end, although Charlton never created a clear-cut chance to equalise.
#104079 The Lower League Thread
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15 Sep 2013 19:55:39
6 games. Much too early to make any kind of judgement.
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14 Sep 2013 16:58:35
As 0-0s go, it wasn't bad. Dickov's team didn't feel like a Dickov team either - not a single pretend head injury or group mugging of the referee. Only the elbowing sod up front and Richie Wellens gave real bad feeling to the game, and how they both stayed on is a mystery. Wellens, on a booking, decided to very deliberately trip Jon Stead when Stead was surging through and somehow they got a throw, while the elbowing sod up front completely got away with leaving Gerrard with a very, very large bandage following one elbow to forehead collision. The first mystifying referee of the season also managed to completely miss the Donny right back shoved Hammill over in the box (we may have had another very good shout, when Turnbull went for the same ball as Vaughan - Vaughan hurdled the challenge, but it looked like he might have been clipped forcing him to ground, going on the players' reactions - although that was a difficult one).

First half Doncaster were much the better side and it was only because of one outstanding save from Alex that we went in level. We were on top in the second half and proceeded to miss three sitters. Doncaster apparently couldn't shoot on target to save their lives at times (although where the BBC stat of them having 23 shots comes from I really don't know - by my reckoning they had about half that). Draw a fair result, all told.
#103701 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
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14 Sep 2013 12:53:16
Without having seen it, I'd say that's the linesman's call, not the referee's.
#102254 Republic Of Ireland Thread
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08 Sep 2013 09:52:59
Hope Pilks goes on to have a cracking international career with Ireland. I'm a bit gutted he was never picked by Hodgson, as at present he's streets ahead of the likes of Raheem Sterling and Andros Townsend. For my money, he's the best crosser of a ball in open play in the Premier League, can play on the left and the right, genuinely two-footed, the lot. I'll admit to being biased after seeing him rip up League One in Town colours, but he really is a class player.

Shame about the beard, though.

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#100006 Capital One Cup 2013/14
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01 Sep 2013 09:47:31
By Number 1 | On 01 September 2013 - 00:12 AM
Aye that's what I was referencing. Hull fans were especially irritated that all sorts of elaborate conditions were required to get away tickets for their game at the Terriers ground. When Saturday Comes had some articles on the hysterical mess around it.

Seemed like a fairly pointless police hullabaloo for no reason. I daresay its necessary for some games - Wrexham v Chester earlier today, for example - but this seems like one of those games messed around with so as to justify police budgets. Have WYP got something similar lined up for the tie at the KC next month?

It really was pointless police hullabaloo. And ultimately it was the fans who missed out. It's now down to Humberside Police if they want to impose restrictions on Town fans, which I can't see happening after all this has gone on.
#99955 The Lower League Thread
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By NiceLad | On 31 August 2013 - 21:38 PM
We've turned into Huddersfield under Lee Clark (no offence terrier) we take a lead and try and sit on it, pretty awful at the minute. Gardner's picked up an achilles injury which will probably keep him out for a long time, so we'll be having a centre back pairing of Zayatte and Llera which will be a show of comedy defending and own goals

Are you going 2-0 up and then ballsing up spectacularly two weeks out of every month? With the standard of football plummeting, becoming slightly too reliant on one stupidly good striker, and players frozen out for no easily apparent reason? If so, congratulations - you'll be getting Simon Grayson in to troubleshoot shortly
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31 Aug 2013 20:36:04
By mr.SPANKY | On 30 August 2013 - 03:44 AM
Think you mean Liverpool old chap

Nah, I've seen Liverpool. Never seen Man Utd, Aston Villa or Spurs.

Dammit, didn't mean to double post. What happened to the old software where posts would be merged?
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31 Aug 2013 20:33:25
By Number 1 | On 30 August 2013 - 10:41 AM
Aren't there some shenanigans involving Hull, Huddersfield and West Yorkshire Police?

There were last season. WYP are genuinely incompetent and take the mick when it comes to criminalising football fans. We had two home games selected for Sky that they blocked from moving to Friday nights (Leeds and Cardiff), had a further three made lunchtime kick-offs, and then there was the Hull fiasco. Despite only one incident between the two clubs, they deemed it high risk and initially moved it to a lunchtime. Then Sky decided to televise it, and the police tried to block that as well, at which point the FL stepped in as Town had a contractual duty to have at least one televised home league game. Had it not been televised, we could have been docked points or (more likely) been given a massive fine.

The police made their conditions for the game going ahead as per Sky's request clear, and absolutely refused to budge. Recently released documents showed that their 'evidence' of trouble coming from Hull fans came from (among other pathetic things) a 3-year old YouTube video showing a rowdy pub full of chanting Hull fans. The full request can be found on this thread. However the response from the HTSA was, 'After lengthy procrastination, a response was received last Friday to a Freedom of Information request made at the time. The details of that response have raised serious questions about the decision-making process and HTSA welcomes the investigation called for by West Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner.'.

There ended up being protest marches in Huddersfield on the day of the game, and WYP have found themselves under PCC investigation. Hopefully we'll start to see positive policing, rather than the consistent treatment of fans as something below rats by WYP.
#99910 The Lower League Thread
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31 Aug 2013 20:06:34
By Shola | On 31 August 2013 - 20:52 PM
Hate when fans boo their own players. No idea what they think they can achieve.

Zat Knight's always been awful anyway

Let him head it and kick it away and he's fine. Ask him to control a football and pass it... yeah, let's not go there.

Much like our result today. No offence to Ad, but I'm really disappointed with it given our respective form compared to Barnsley's. Still, a poor performance is to be expected from time to time, so not worried. Had a great start to the season up to today.
#99702 The Lower League Thread
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30 Aug 2013 23:53:06
I know next to nothing about him, tbh, other than that he's looked OK when I've seen Coventry on the telly. Hunt deal isn't done and dusted yet, it seems, so goodness knows what could happen.
#99626 The Lower League Thread
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Jack Hunt's played his last game for Town - he's off to Crystal Palace for £2m. And we're in for Coventry's Cyrus Christie (think that's his name) as a replacement. Cov fans less than impressed, and they'll be even less impressed when they realise their situation will have brought his value down by a zero.
#99239 Capital One Cup 2013/14
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29 Aug 2013 17:53:56
Of all the quite frankly ridiculously dull draws it's possible to get, Hull away takes the biscuit. Oh well, beat them, get Man Utd at home next round.
#98277 The Lower League Thread
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26 Aug 2013 10:36:40
The FA's usual level of bollocks has carried over to this season, I see. All records of the abandoned Charlton v Donny game expunged except disciplinary, meaning the very soft sending off of Keegan stands and he's got a one-match ban! Poor lad doesn't even get to keep his goal. This obviously following on from last season's fiasco with Sheffield Wednesday's Jeremy Helan, who, after not getting sent off for two yellow cards against us, was then banned for a game he wasn't eligible for in the first place. Magnificent all round.
#98122 The Lower League Thread
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25 Aug 2013 16:38:51
Fair to say Coventry aren't going the boring route this season (for pretty much the first time ever).
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By hammer9 | On 24 August 2013 - 17:12 PM
Huddersfield destroy Bournemouth 5-1 at away AGAIN!!

Away are terrible and Home are better.

Hope you defend better at home. First two, great play from Town. The third saw a gap between full-back and centre-back that you could have driven at least four buses through. The penalty (which somehow Bournemouth though wasn't, despite the late, clumsy challenge on Carroll three yards inside the box*) was nearly missed, but wasn't. And the fifth was a quality goal from range.

* - possibly not accurate, but it looked well inside.
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23 Aug 2013 23:00:07
I never really rated him at Town, but he had his moments. A 30-yard screamer against Scunthorpe stands out, probably our goal of the season that year. Played his part in the play-offs alongside DJ. Had times where he looked like a midfield conduit who could recycle possession like nothing else. Had problems with tackling and being able to move faster than a geriatric snail. Played 40 times for Swindon in another play-off team, so still has something.

Sinnott, on the other hand, I rate highly. The loan will do him the power of good. He's a competitor (with a habit of bending the rules), tremendous drive, and more than capable of getting up and down. Brilliant debut against Leicester last season, when we drew 1-1 in the Cup. Gave a proper defensive shield and showed discipline. Ran out of steam in the replay, but he's 18 and was playing against a very good team.
#97678 The Lower League Thread
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23 Aug 2013 17:03:38
Sinnott and Miller in midfield? Interesting.
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By BR. | On 17 August 2013 - 17:09 PM
Tom Hitchcock scoring the winner for QPR - mental that, was in my year at high school.

The situation at Millwall is worth keeping an eye on too - ex West Ham Lomas in charge, haven't got a point yet and haven't scored I don't think.

Feel sorry for the bloke. Four games in and under pressure to save his job. Don't think Jackett should have left there, myself, but given time Lomas should do OK with a committed, experienced Championship side (that we just beat 1-0 to complete a trio of tricky opening fixtures - pleased with 4 points, because I expected nothing against Forest or QPR and anything at Millwall's always a bonus).
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10 Aug 2013 16:58:50
Great point. Weakened by the loss of Hogg to illness at lunchtime, I was dreading playing QPR, but we got a deserved point. We had to dig in and battle, but we still managed to play football and carry a threat against a very good team. Gobern was excellent. And we went within inches of nicking it at the end through Scannell. Very pleased with Town today.
#93706 The Lower League Thread
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By Simply Cas | Permalink | On 10 August 2013 - 00:49 AM
The council were involved in the passing of the Sainsbury's development plans. The plans were Pickles'd a couple of months ago

The judicial review would be into the process and the legality of the council's decision.

Who's bringing the review?