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Wrexham 3 Robbie's boys 2
Kieffer hat trick!!! Fair does.
Kieffer hat trick!!! Fair does.
Not watched much Championship football this season, but did watch the lunchtime Norwich/Hull game on the box yesterday. Norwich had a good first half but couldn't score in a brothel. Hull came out second half and took over the game scoring a couple to win it. Norwich home support not happy at all and they didn't half show it - Delia had a face that could sour milk from 10 yards.
Just looked at the Champ table after yesterday's games with nearly a 3rd of the season gone. Ignoring the Wendies at the bottom who look dead and buried, who'd have thought the next three clubs would be Norwich City, Sheffield Utd and Southampton struggling to get off the trap door?
No last season Prem relegees anywhere near the top 6 spots either which currently includes Stoke, Millwall, Preston and the Wurzels. What a topsy-turvy Championship. Wish we were there with the management we've got now, but there again we probably wouldn't have had them if we had stayed there.
Just looked at the Champ table after yesterday's games with nearly a 3rd of the season gone. Ignoring the Wendies at the bottom who look dead and buried, who'd have thought the next three clubs would be Norwich City, Sheffield Utd and Southampton struggling to get off the trap door?
No last season Prem relegees anywhere near the top 6 spots either which currently includes Stoke, Millwall, Preston and the Wurzels. What a topsy-turvy Championship. Wish we were there with the management we've got now, but there again we probably wouldn't have had them if we had stayed there.
Its a valid point. If we'd hung on for another season we'd probably got another manager wanting to hang on, conservative style and journeyman players, wanting another half a dozen signings.
BBM isn't the finished article and neither is the team. His style of play has some limitations as has been seen by a couple recent performances and results. We still need to find a way to break stubborn teams down and find some consistency.
However, there are good foundations, a pathway for the accademy players and players with a smile on their face.
Promotion is far from a certainty, but the club and the team seem in a better place.
As for the championship, Southampton looking as if they're at risk of being the latest team to suffer a double relegation.
Swans can't complain that their owners didnt 'invest in the club' given the number of signings they made. Can't break into the top third though.
Some 'unfancied ' teams in and around the playoffs.
Norwich should have had it all wrapped up by half time, they didn't and were made to pay for it. After the goings on in the summer, a two window transfer embargo, sitting in seventh place at the moment is very acceptable.
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Norwich should have had it all wrapped up by half time, they didn't and were made to pay for it. After the goings on in the summer, a two window transfer embargo, sitting in seventh place at the moment is very acceptable.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Got a soft spot for Hull City historically from my working life back in the middle 80's which I've mentioned on here before.
Boothferry was marginally worse than NP, though I didn't realise or care about it at the time. Billy Whitehurst was an animal...........
As a youngster I thought Hull must have been a poor team after our successive 6-0 and 5-1 home wins under Scoular (one of these is out there on you tube).
Big Billy came to visit me in hospital in 1989, (don't argue with a Volvo from that period, not my fault though that the blind bastard didn't see me on my bike) and when he shook my hand it was like a toddler shaking hands with a giant.Got a soft spot for Hull City historically from my working life back in the middle 80's which I've mentioned on here before.
Boothferry was marginally worse than NP, though I didn't realise or care about it at the time. Billy Whitehurst was an animal...........
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Big Billy came to visit me in hospital in 1989, (don't argue with a Volvo from that period, not my fault though that the blind bastard didn't see me on my bike) and when he shook my hand it was like a toddler shaking hands with a giant.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I wasn't up there in '89. He was certainly an animal, but unless he grew a bit since around '85, I didn't think he was that tall - you must be a midget....
I meant the size of his hands, bleedin' shovels.I wasn't up there in '89. He was certainly an animal, but unless he grew a bit since around '85, I didn't think he was that tall - you must be a midget....
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The Hull v City last game of the promotion season to PL was some game with much drama culminating in Hulls’ anxious wait for the outcome at Watford v Leeds to seal their promotion.
I meant the size of his hands, bleedin' shovels.
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When I first met my wife back in the 70's (as a very young man
), she had an uncle Bill who worked as a fireman on the railways - virtually all steam back then.He was a big bugger and his nickname was "shovel hands" because he virtually didn't need a shovel to stoke the locos. I only found that out because the keeper in a team I used to play for worked with him. He said they only called him that behind his back at work because he could be a bit of an animal - just like Whitehurst.......
Elevated to "engine driver" later on but only doing shunting work in the sidings at the SCOW - they wouldn't trust him on mainline passenger service.....
Nothing to do with football I know - but there you go.............
For anyone complaining about thread drift/hijacking, remember that threads do not drift or get hijacked, they expand.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Had a thought earlier. Would a team from the Welsh League ever leave and join the lower pyramids on the Football League?
I’m thinking about teams like TNS who seem to win the league every year. But that’s it. No promotion.
Surely they would do a good job in the lower echelons of the football league and hopefully work their way up. Or are they tied to the Welsh FA by some sort on contract?
I haven’t really looked into this but I did notice that Merthyr are playing in the National League North.
I’m thinking about teams like TNS who seem to win the league every year. But that’s it. No promotion.
Surely they would do a good job in the lower echelons of the football league and hopefully work their way up. Or are they tied to the Welsh FA by some sort on contract?
I haven’t really looked into this but I did notice that Merthyr are playing in the National League North.
Its an interesting thought.
Don't know when the current Welsh teams joined the English pyramid. Certainly not Merthyr.
It probably happened in more enlightened times.
Back in the day Aberdare and Merthyr were in the Football League.
Reading about it, Merthyr have been a hokey kokey club. In and out, on and out.
Didn't know about aberdare.
Speaking of which, a long lost member of this forum.
Swansea Ladies keeper could lose few pounds - the slow motion makes it worse. Trott she is not.................
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