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#49262 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
So satisfying to get one over Crystal Palace. Timewasted from the off. Seven times the physio was on in the first half for their players. They came for a draw, and only attacked after we scored a deserved goal. We outfought them, dominated the first hour and a bit, and hung on for a deserved three points. Nice to see that some teams don't know how to lose with grace, though - Holloway's a wanker.
#47823 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
#47715 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
You're right, in that Bolton, Blackburn, etc, will see their big stars leave over the next season or so if they don't go up, and we'll start to see them come into line with developing clubs like Town and Charlton. But we'll continue to see this season on season.
#47654 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
But are those three names 'bigger' clubs in terms of regular financial income than such as Town and Charlton? Take the parachute payments and mad Indians out of the equation, and all five sides are in the 13,000-17,000 bracket in terms of attendance and will, therefore, have similar incomes assuming similar ticket prices, merchandising, etc - and you can even throw in TV money. Yet three are still spending £40m+ on wages a year, while the other two are sub-£10m. What the article does show is the massive disparity between sides who have just come down from the Premier League and those who have just gone up, even though there's no real difference in the 'size' of the clubs.
#47199 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
I'm more surprised at the timing - if I'd have been doing the sacking, he'd have been gone first thing on Monday morning and given Mark Lillis and Steve Eyre the week to work with the team. But 12 without a win tells its own story. We've been unlucky in more than one of those, granted, but we've capitulated too readily in recent weeks and looked like getting dragged into the dogfight.
#47183 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Bring back the two GMs!
#47125 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
An interesting analysis of the Championship's wage structuring. From a Town POV, but interesting nonetheless.
#45391 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
#44547 FA Cup Thread 2012/13
terriersmad
Seconded.
#42670 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Good point in the end today. Kept going to the end and got a brilliant goal. Crowd was absolutely shocking, every misplaced pass got moaned at. The three fucktards sat opposite me spent the whole game going on at Scannell, when he was probably our best player. Yeah, he does run up blind alleys at times, but he committed people, had the defence dropping off to deal with him, and provided our best creative outlet. But he got bawled and moaned at because he 'didn't get down the wing' by people who aren't intelligent enough to string together a coherent sentence. I really hate those morons. Next time they start going on at Scannell they'll be getting told what a modern winger is and why they should shut the fuck up.
#42573 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Maybe, but he's carried on scoring despite having had about 8 managers in the past 12 months.
#42416 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
#41364 FA Cup Thread 2012/13
terriersmad
As it's Suarez, everyone's making a big fuss of it. If this was his only offence, no one would bat an eyelid. It's probably not deliberate, but he does get a massive advantage from inadvertent use of his hand, so I'd personally disallow it for handball. But with his previous record, people have got all worked up over it, when they probably shouldn't have. It's an injustice on Mansfield, but it's not the big story it's being made out to be.
#40637 FA Cup Thread 2012/13
terriersmad
#40612 FA Cup Thread 2012/13
terriersmad
Again.
#40193 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Other bizarre stuff, who's seen the Watford sub-loaning going on? How's that allowed?
#38900 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
#38195 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
The video sums up the FA, really. Ref invents goal, naff all done. Replay certainly should have been arranged in that instance.
The difference between the 99% of referee errors and this is that with most refereeing mistakes it's a matter of interpretation. This isn't a matter of interpretation, as a player received two yellow cards and wasn't dismissed - there's no interpretation there, the law of the game is absolute. Compare that to such as the Anthony Gerrard red card against Palace, which the referee interpreted - wrongly, as it happens, with the FA upholding our appeal - that the tackle was dangerous. Had he scored a late winner then what would happen? He shouldn't have been on the pitch.
And we'll beg to differ on the first yellow. I thought at the time it was a blatant dive, and the replays I've seen suggest to me I'm right - not least because ten of your players don't appeal and only Helan seems surprised by the yellow card. Thought at the time he might have been hard done to on the second, though, as from the far side it looked like he took the ball.
On the replay front - no thanks, to be quite honest. Sat through it once, don't want to go through it again, kindest thing that could be said about either side is that they put in the effort. Both sides had chances to win it, but neither really deserved it.
#37765 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Think in context that's a reasonable statement. Bearing in mind that the officials' attention was drawn to the two yellow cards, and they ignored it, only to later apologise for the error, their professionalism and decision-making needs to be placed under severe scrutiny.
Wednesday should be docked their point for their part in this farce, though. Not fair on anyone if they're allowed to keep it, just as it would be unfair to award Town all 3 points or to order a replay which may result in Town defeat. Why should the misleading party get any profit? Sadly, I think no action will be taken other than to enforce a 1-match ban for the player concerned and the referee to be rested for a few weeks.
#37718 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
He was awful all game. Helan got two of ours booked after he should have walked, nearly scored a last-minute winner, and injured Jack Hunt. It affected the outcome. Awful.
#37295 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
If that happens then there's hope for my managerial career yet. Might even apply myself. Get Rochina between the lines, don't bother with wingers (attacking full-backs ftw), get supply-line to Jordan Rhodes*. Sorted.
But in all seriousness, that's insane. I'm all for giving young coaches a start in the game, but that's just ridiculous. May as well appoint Danny Murphy player-manager and make Mr Blobby and Roland Rat his assistants. And wasn't Kevin McDonald part of the Allardyce setup?
* - provided I don't sell him back to Town, that is.
#36812 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Anyway, we were thoroughly dire today. First half was as bad as I've seen, and but for some highly entertaining 'finishing' could have gone into the break 3 or 4 down. In the second we were much improved (though that achievement was achieved after the second successful pass) and took the lead after a good little spell where we'd made a couple of chances for Beckford, who worked his socks off, with Gerrard powering in a header from a corner. We actually defended well until stoppage time, when two men decided to not bother even closing Ince down, and he crossed for Delfouneso to score with a flashy little backheel. Gutting to lose two points like that, but we wouldn't have deserved a win against a better Blackpool side.
Only gripe about the officials is the ref's baffling decisions on throw-ins. Other than that, absolutely fine game.
#35624 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
#34430 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Correction: Marcus Stewart outplaying Huddersfield. Still want his alice band from that day.
#33741 English Premier League 2012/2013
terriersmad
If you call up an overrated teenage fucknugget ahead of him again it'll just prove I know more about modern English football than you do.
#33638 English Premier League 2012/2013
terriersmad
Amazes me that no one's stuck one on Shawcross or Huth up to now. No doubt Pulis will be on MOTD tonight complaining about it, when what his players do week in, week out is just as bad.
#33634 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
#31325 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
I ask purely because I reckon their left-back alone cost more than our entire first XI today. Flashes of Premier League quality (particularly in the first 30 minutes of the second half), some nice football (and Kevin Davies), but absolutely no fight. We didn't have the quality, but we had the guts and determination and the spirit to keep going. Absolutely battered them after going a goal down. Two blinding saves from Bogdan in the dying moments, one just before Vaughan levelled, one in the sixth minute of a mysterious amount of stoppage time.
Belting football match, actually. Dominated the first half after a shaky start and should have been 2-0 up when Novak missed an open goal before Bolton bossed the second. Smithies saved a penalty (was a pen, but should have been our dead ball in the first place) in between two goals from Bolton before Town absolutely battered the Trotters. Vaughan's goal showed his Premier League class, firing in brilliantly after a lay off from Alan Lee, before Bogdan produced a sensational save to rescue a point for Bolton.
#29793 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Chants will always be offensive to a minority. Working in child abuse means I winced at the 'Jimmy Saville's fucked your kids' chant (though I might have done anyway, it was unbelievably moronic), for instance. But there's a line that shouldn't be crossed, and that line's crossed with every 'yid' chant. Fundamental difference between this and what Spurs fans chant.
#29723 The Lower League Thread
terriersmad
Erm, actually, no.
First half we bossed it, then decided to not defend for five mental minutes. Smithies will get the criticism for the first, but someone should have got to the ball before the shot. Think it took a deflection, to be fair to Alex. Second half we didn't get a kick, Leeds' midfield just bossed it, all their experience showing. Ref was the best I've seen in years, absolutely no complaints.
Our fans are now under investigation for anti-Semitic chanting. Yep. Bang to rights. Sadly the club's name will be dragged through the mud rather than the section of support who chanted. However, there's one cunt who's been caught giving a Hitler salute to the away fans. Ban him for two years and see how quickly people realise anti-Semitism isn't acceptable.