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#135116 Gibraltar?
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They were given UEFA membership last year, so they will compete in the 2016 qualifiers.

They played Slovakia in a friendly after being accepted and drew 0-0.


This.

Our former full-back Scott Wiseman (now at Preston) and Danny Higginbotham were their only players of note. I think Higginbotham has since retired too.
#133431 Welcome to Goodison Park
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How are we all rating young Stonesy?
#126963 The Lower League Thread
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David 'Flickers' Flitcroft confirmed as our new manager.

GET IN!


Really pleased for him! I'm glad we got rid of him when we did, but he'll always be held in high regard for what he achieved last season.

Big weekend for us, Yeovil at home. Win and it looks like Mellon will get the job, draw/lose and who knows..
#125934 Olympic Stadium
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I've just finished my second season with Watford and, surprisingly guided the team to a Europa League place by finishing 6th.

Apparently an 11,000 seat stadium expansion is going to take 14 months! On the positive side, I get to move into the Olympic Stadium until it's finished.

Anybody else had this?
#115085 Tactics
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I've just bought FM14. What's happened to the tactics/team instructions? I can only choose between the Fluidity and Mentality.
#111138 The Lower League Thread
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Anybody seen Paddy McCourt's goal today?
#99965 UEFA Champions League Group Of Death
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I drew Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund & PSG in my Man City game (second season).
#99964 The Lower League Thread
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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.


No offence taken. I wouldn't blame you for expecting to come to Oakwell, and turn us over today. I expected it too.

Despite that, I thought we deserved our two goal lead at half-time. You rarely threatened and we looked in control of possession, but didn't create many chances ourselves. Second half you seemed to change a 4-3-3 (it looked like that anyway) and took control, but again, I can't remember Pollitt having to make a save. You'll have a decent season, no doubt. Disappointed with Hammill's performance, though.

Tom Ince aside, how the f*ck are Blackpool top of the league? By far the worst team I've seen all season.
#98269 The Lower League Thread
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Aye nice to have a relaxing afternoon at Ewood with a comfortable victory! Yep the red card just after they took the lead helped us big time - but at least we won. Good couple of goals from Rhodes. Was the best I've seen Josh King play too, he goes from being awful one week to MOTM the next, just needs more consistency.


Bad day at the office! According to Flicker, Rhodes admitted that he played for the foul/sending off.

Had we not gone down to ten men, I don't doubt that we'd have won. Josh King ripped us to bits again, just like he did at Oakwell back in December.
#98268 Football Manager 2014 Opinion - Live Transfer System
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It's a good addition, in my opinion. It happens in real life.

The loan back option is a good addition too.
#98267 Help with FM2013 editor
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Then after qualifying for Europe with Celtic in the Premiership i would never get in.......


Are you saying you finish in the top four of the Premiership, but don't get into the European competitions?

I'm not entirely sure, but you may have to change the nation of Celtic/Rangers to England, if you haven't already.
#87041 The Lower League Thread
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By Justicar | Permalink | On 08 July 2013 - 17:42 PM
Lewin Nyatanga: Free (YES!!!) (Yeovil a possibility)


He's signed for us on a two year deal. Quite happy with the signing, to be honest. I can see you don't rate him, but he was good during his three loan spells here.
#85168 The Lower League Thread
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By Phoenix Arrow | Permalink | On 26 June 2013 - 20:22 PM
He's generally solid but when he has a bad game, you know about it. I've heard that rumour too, not sure how much there is in it.
New manager. Very excited.


Flicker has said he's spoke to him but it's not something he (El-Abd) wants to go forward with, at the minute. Sounds like he wants to see if he'll be in the plans of your new gaffer before deciding anything.
#84591 The Lower League Thread
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PA - apparently we're in talks with Adam El-Abd. I can only really remember him from when we beat you at Oakwell this year. He had a shocker.
#84410 The Lower League Thread
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By gfnx25 | Permalink | On 24 June 2013 - 20:23 PM


We've signed a young keeper from you, Dibble, I think. What's he like?

By Fantastic | Permalink | On 25 June 2013 - 18:36 PM
Stead is gunt, but Hammill is a great signing.


This. Glad you signed Stead, because we were linked with him. More positive news - Steele and Cranie look to be staying.
#83327 The Lower League Thread
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So we've signed Dale Jennings and Chris O'Grady. Sounds like another signing may join tomorrow.

Justicar - we keep getting linked with Stead recently. He's always played well against us but his goal record is pretty poor. Thoughts?
#82132 The Lower League Thread
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Looks like we're also interested in Dale Jennings. Steele set to leave. O'Grady set to sign.
#74278 The Lower League Thread
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By gfnx25 | Permalink | On 10 May 2013 - 23:48 PM
If one of those sides end up in the EPL then I'm going to be sick.

How did these teams even end up in the play-offs? Horrible excuse of a football match. Leicester vs Watford was much better than this.


You thought they were bad? You should see Hull.

Hope Brighton go up through the play-offs. Enjoyed my away days there. Definitely one of the best grounds in the country, in my opinion.
#72799 The Lower League Thread
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By terriersmad | Permalink | On 05 May 2013 - 14:34 PM
You've got to admit - the build-up to your second was interesting. Push in the back, free-kick, fair enough. Surely common sense dictates that you'd wasted your advantage with playing it down the side of the wall when we were asleep and then chipping a pretty dire cross into Smithies' hands. Why he booked your bloke because he wasn't ready for a quick free-kick God only knows. What's the point of a free-kick if you can't use it how you want to use it? I wasn't best pleased when we failed to clear the retake properly and you scored from it. We could debate whether the retake should have taken place until the cows came home. Personal view is that you wasted the free-kick and common sense dictates that the ref should play on.

Can't complain in the end, though. We got level, it was enough, the footballing gods smiled elsewhere (making a nice change), Peterborough went down.


I didn't really understand that either. He wasn't good at all, typical of a 'Premier League' referee in the Championship.

Quite a few good videos on our official YouTube channel.. Clicky..
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By terriersmad | Permalink | On 05 May 2013 - 11:55 AM
On the day you were much the better side, especially in the first half. We froze, but still had the sheer firepower of Beckford and Vaughan to keep us in it. Hope we can keep those two, but I get the feeling we'll not be able to afford both.


I hope the same for O'Grady too, but I think we will be able to keep him. No idea why Dave Jones let us have him.

I bet the referee's performance was another highlight for you yesterday?
#72685 The Lower League Thread
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Well, that was some day. I expected to see one of us going down, and plenty of post-match punches being thrown around the ground..

I thought we were safe when we went 2-1 up, then within the space six minutes the equaliser came and I thought we were doomed. Small bunches of fans started cheering, Palace had equalised. I'm still not sure if people thought that meant we would've been safe, but we wouldn't have been. All of a sudden our dugout erupted, Palace had scored again. The players stood around the middle of the pitch whilst Steele walked around, unchallenged, with the the ball at his feet. I thought we deserved a point at least, we were the better side in the two games. Smithies pulled off a couple of cracking saves.

Never seen anything like that after the game, and probably won't again. Huddersfield fans on the pitch in front of the away stand, all singing together, applauding each other, whilst our players were partying away on the pitch. A nice touch by Huddersfield by allowing Flitcroft to speak to the crowd after the game. Huddersfield and their fans have massively gone up in my estimations after that, so much so that I even applauded Mark Robins at the end (never thought I'd be doing that).
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By terriersmad | Permalink | On 29 April 2013 - 19:57 PM
Predict a 2-0 Barnsley win. Get the feeling we'll choke on the day (because we always do at home in the pressure games in front of big crowds), and almost every side involved in the battle has a history of getting one over us (yourselves, Peterborough, Millwall, Crystal Palace). But I'm hoping that Peterborough get hammered, we're leading with a few minutes to go and can let one in to save yourselves and put Posh down.

I would recommend the Gas Club, but I've not been there in ages, and I'm not sure what the police arrangements will be. WYP overreact to anything more threatening than a child's balloon (or an Oliver Norwood floated corner), so 4,000 Barnsley fans descending on Huddersfield will have them panicking. They've already stipulated the home ends will have to be all-ticket, probably limiting the crowd to 17,000 rather than the 20,000+ it could have been.


We've sold out today, and we can't have anymore tickets. I'd imagine that's just the usual away stand we've got then?
#71007 The Lower League Thread
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Cannot wait for our trip to Huddersfield next week. Win and we're safe, draw and we may be safe, lose and we're f*cked.

Really hope the 'massive' club from Sheffield manage to fall into the bottom three. Every time I've seen them this season they've been awful.

What are your predictions for Saturday tm? P.s. where's good for a few beers in Huddersfield?
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By terriersmad | Permalink | On 01 April 2013 - 17:31 PM
Wasn't meant to be an argument. Was meant to just be a change from 'the ref', 'Deadman', 'dickhead', etc.

Would be nice to have a break. We haven't got a thing this season. But it's written in the stars that we'll go down. Absolutely proven by the Sheffield Wednesday fiasco earlier in the season - we should have faced 10 men for 70 minutes but the ref booked the same player twice and didn't send him off. That point will keep Sheffield Wednesday up at our expense. It's got them above us now. We're owed some luck. It has to start tomorrow night, but Bolton used up their bad luck in having two sent off on Saturday - so that bodes well.


Give the moaning a rest. It's boring now.
#61948 The Lower League Thread
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Back-to-back home wins against Brighton and Udinese B. Big game after the international break for us, Sheffield Wednesday away. Proper 'six pointer'.
#61082 SimCity
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Was considering buying this. Not sure if my computer/internet connection will be up to scratch though.

How are you all finding it?
#61080 The Lower League Thread
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Bounced back, from the defeat at the Etihad, with a win against Brighton last night. We deserved the win, despite what Poyet says.

Apparently we have Ricardo Gardner on trial too.
#53061 The Lower League Thread
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By gfnx25 | Permalink | On 11 February 2013 - 13:59 PM
Imagine his chant "GIVE US A J......."


What was your opinion of Stephen Dawson? Turning into some player for us, one of the best this season.
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By Justicar | Permalink | On 10 February 2013 - 17:24 PM
Cracking up-turn in form for Bristol City of late, sadly all the other teams at the bottom have won when we've won. If we carry on like this we hopefully will be safe from relegation. We need some loanees in sharpish.

We have Brian Howard in on trial at the moment. Unconvinced that he'll be able to do a job.


I'm sure he's carrying some form of injury. He's been trying to talk up a move back here but Flicker has come out and said he's injured at the minute, so it's a no-go.
#40543 FIFA 13
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Anybody got Manuel Neuer that they'd like to sell me on Xbox?