Darloboy

Guns N' Roses

Appetite For Destruction

Use Your Illusion I

Use Your Illusion II

GN'R Lies

The Spaghetti Incident

Chinese Democracy

Run DMC

Run DMC

Raising Hell

King Of Rock

Tougher Than Leather

Back From Hell

Down With The King

Crown Royal

Ian Brown

The World Is Yours

Golden Greats

Unfinished Monkey Business

Solarized

Music of the Spheres

He played at the recent charity game and looked unfit and crap. I know a charity game is no platform to judge a player, but still.

Could be interesting next season if we have 40 year old Windass playing up front with 16 year old Curtis Main, who broke out this season.

I'm stoked for this. I found Escape a bit disappointing and didn't really like the whole 3D thing, but 3D Monkey Island beats no Monkey Island.

And I'd kill for a pair of those shoes.

He's set to be our assistant manager. I don't know what to think of it really. I know he scored a few in the Championship two years ago but his spell at Oldham was a bit crap so I'm not sure how many goals he'll get for us. But considering our predicament it's still a pretty good coup I guess.

To be fair, my predictions in that thread are exactly the same.

Today, Accrington Stanley have been issued with a winding up order from HM Revenue & Customs, so it looks like they might be going out of business. They're blaming it on crap attendance figures, which at 1400 for a League Two club is poor, we regularly got 2500 in the league below, so I dunno why that's happened to them but it'll be a shame if they do go under. At this rate with all these teams in trouble not only will Chester and Luton be given reprieves but they'll be asking Cambridge if they wanna get promoted via losing the play-offs!

Out of interest, if, for example, Accrington, Darlington AND Southampton all went out of business and got chucked out of the league, what would they do? Have a 23-team League 2 for next season with both Chester and Luton getting reprieves? I know Chester are in administration as well, which makes it even worse.

Sucks for Accy, even if they do manage to survive this they'll have to reduce their budget considerably so they'd be favourites for relegation anyway.

Could so easily have been us, thankfully we're set to pull through after our stubborn wanker of a chairman finally agreed to sell up to our only bidder.

Great goal, c'mon Burnley!

What a fantastic day for football.

So in my Braintree game I managed to get promoted yet again, winning the League One playoff final 5-1 against Plymouth, taking me to four straight promotions

Finished 4th in the regular season, thanks mainly to Liam Dickinson who I managed to sign on deadline day, and he scored the vast majority of my team's goals. The Championship will be rock hard though, in any game I have where I take a lower league team up, I always ALWAYS do shite in the Championship. Got beat off Hull 3-0 away on the opening day. I signed a ton of old, experienced players over the summer, my new centre back pairing of Martin Laursen and Danny Higginbotham has a combined age of 68. Score. Got Jason Scotland and Marlon King up front to hopefully score enough to at least keep me in the division, but it'll be tough.

So apparently our chairman who put us into admin is buying back the club. Not sure how he's getting around the legality of it all, possibly as part of a consortium or something one would assume. Anywho, Colin Todd is expected to be our new manager. Just a shame this couldn't happen earlier so we could hold onto some of our players.

I'm implying that Darloboy could choose to copy your bets to give himself the easy win.

As if I'd do such a thing.

Actually, I probably would. PMed you my bets anyway.

It's getting tense at the top

Forgot all about the top minus the big four thing, guess I should be thankful for Villa's utter capitulation recently that I still have a good chance of getting points for that with Everton.

Have a fun game going on at the moment as Braintree Town. I'm currently in July 2011 and about to start the League One season, having won three straight promotions since the start of the game. First two seasons I pissed the league, and then in my debut season in the Football League I finished 7th, after a seven game winning streak saw me flirt briefly with automatic promotion, but a couple of injuries and a smallish squad meant I ended the season badly and ended up just hanging on to the last play-off spot. Beat Luton 2-1 at home and drew 1-1 away to get to the final, where I managed to beat Hartlepool 1-0.

I've given the squad a complete revamp over the summer, as I struggled to score last season and my defence was quite leaky, so I've been active in the free transfer market. I keep getting shitty budgets, so at the beginning of my 4th season in charge, I'm still yet to spend a single penny on transfers, but I'm always well over my wage budget because I'd never get any decent players otherwise

It's just nice to be able to have a squad full of players I've heard of. And I'm hoping my geriatric new strikeforce of Neil Harris and Robbie Blake can win me a fourth promotion on the bounce, but I doubt it.

Haven't heard of most of the bands, as usual. But it's an excuse to get pissed, the music is largely irrelevant.

I've been Banjo and Kazooie, playing Banjo Tooie on XBLA.

Hope Burnley go up, like seeing different teams in the Prem, Sheff Utd already had their turn.

10 on Bolton

10 on Bet 4

Man Utd 2-0 Arsenal

Yay for Rochdale choking again.

Hilarious

And it sounds really bad at Darlington-has this all stemmed from Reynolds and the ground and all that? It'd really suck to see a team go bust, specially one I like.

All that stuff didn't help, but the current chairman is the one who has done all the damage. Our first post-Reynolds chairman had us actually running at an even keel so it's been proved possible to run a self-sufficient club even at our ridiculous stadium. Our current chairman has spent big money on wages, and it backfired after we didn't go up last year.

Groundshare with Middlesbrough or even Hartlepool, fuck the chairman, leave him with the stadium and let him rot. In the close season all semi-local teams (like Leeds, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool) should put together to have a tournament with all proceeds going to Darlo. It won't happen because the world of football is full of cunts but that's what should happen.

Pfft, have you been to Hartlepool's ground? I don't think so

We do have some local-ish friendlies already booked despite our future being up in the air. We're playing Sunderland and I think Donny are coming up as well, although apparently we're trying to scrap Donny and get another Premiership team instead

There aren't many houses near the stadium but it has all sorts of conditions attached to it anyway so it's not really much good to the chairman without a team playing in it. If we do fold he'll probably just let it rot away for a few years until it becomes (even more of) an eyesore and then he'll offer to do it up again and stick a few football pitches on the land, because I think one of the conditions of the stadium land is that it has to have sporting facilities.

Yeah I am perhaps being harsh on the administrators, it's just that their silence is deafening, and really frustrating. Last time we were in admin, the administrators regularly kept the fans informed which I know they're not obliged to do, but it would be nice.

I thought we'd had it bad enough with George Reynolds. But to be honest he was just a fame-hungry megalomaniac who wanted the publicity, and ended up way out of his depth. The current chairman George Houghton is far more calculating, he knows exactly what he's doing.

I think penalties, while flawed, is still an infinitely better way to decide a winner than away goals. Never been a fan.

The Sun is reporting that darlo are fucked... but it's the Sun so...

We're doomed.

We had a whopping one serious bidder, whose offer the chairman won't accept. Unfortunately he holds the power because he split the stadium and the club into separate companies, and the bidder won't take one without the other. So the chairman is being a stubborn cunt. He seems quite happy to let us die.

We have 5 staff currently on the books after sacking the entire backroom and stadium staff, as well as asking the players to take 100% (!) wage deferrals, so they're all going.

The administrators have acted disgracefully in all of this, they're being very secretive, constantly contradicting themselves and keeping the fans in the dark. Noises are already being made about making plans to start an AFC Darlington or similar somewhere down the pyramid.

Darlington Football Club will not be playing League football next season. Not a prayer.

10 on Blackburn

10 on Everton/Spurs draw

West Ham 0-1 Liverpool

What an odious bunch of tossers, their behaviour at the end just showed why lots of people love it when they lose. Like me.