nPower Football League Thread 2010/2011

[Adam]

Then prepare to be underwhelmed! It's a 15,000 seater which we don't come close to filling and the atmosphere is terrible. Are you going to the Portsmouth game or the Ipswich game?

[EddieG]

Pompey.

[Adam]

You should've gone tonight instead Eddie...and witnessed our worst ever home performance. Brilliant stuff.

[EddieG]

My mum ended up going instead of me on Saturday, I had to work. Thank fuck for that.

[Starvinho]

Big Connor Wickham with his first pro hat-trick, surely the Prem clubs are gonna come knocking in the summer. He looks a class act this lad.

[Adam]

I'd have scored three goals tonight if I was playing up front for Ipswich to be fair. He looks like a real prospect though.

[britneyspearsisgod]

Don't fear Adam - you can't be doing any worse than Bristol Rovers are at the moment

[Jimmy]

Hands off Wickham.

Fucking brilliant to see Town get such a great result. I'm hoping we can hold on to Wickham for another season or so. Because if we can keep this kind of form up next season, we could be a real contender for a promotion place.

[badotori]

It's official - Yakubu is fucking awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PFcpqjeZxQ

[Lineker]

Watford couldn't even beat Preston.

Looking forwards to Bournemouth.Huddersfield, massive six-pointer there.

[Starvinho]

It's official - Yakubu is fucking awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PFcpqjeZxQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G55c8tFAIAQ

[DFF]

2-0 up away to Scunthorpe after 7 minutes. It might not sound like too much, but that's amazing for us lately!

[Colly]

2-0 up away to Scunthorpe after 7 minutes. It might not sound like too much, but that's amazing for us lately!

Kiss of death much?

[Lineker]

Port Vale manager Jim Gannon got off the Valiants' team bus heading for Aldershot after an alleged argument with his assistant Geoff Horsfield.

Gannon met his legal representative at a service station in the West Midlands and returned to Vale Park for talks with chairman Bill Bratt.

Horsfield also left the coach further into the journey.

BBC Radio Stoke understands that Gannon will be at Saturday's League Two game, but Horsfield will not attend.

Vale goalkeeper Stuart Tomlinson said on Twitter: "Awesome events on the team bus."

The former Crewe and Burton man later added: "Someone has left the bus."

"It is an internal matter that will be dealt with on Monday," Bratt told BBC Radio Stoke.

Former Stockport, Motherwell and Peterborough boss Gannon took charge of the Valiants in January after Micky Adams' departure for Sheffield United.

At the time, Vale were fourth in League Two but his reign began with a five-match winless run.

A 1-0 success over Rotherham began a four-game unbeaten streak but that was halted with Tuesday's 3-1 defeat by Stevenage which has left Vale sixth in the table, three points off the automatic promotion places.

Gannon inherited his backroom team, including Horsfield, from Adams, and has appointed Ben Cooper and Andy Mulliner as coaches.

In January, Gannon said that the Valiants were "understaffed" and that "the staff are probably under-qualified for the jobs they've been asked to do".

Of Horsfield, he added: "Geoff's been a great assistant. He helps with coaching, the warm-ups and the management of players.

"He's a good lad but he needs to gain a lot more experience and he'll become a better assistant manager as time goes by."

...wow

[Adam]

I'm sure they can work something out to bring Adams back, I don't think Sheffield United have been enjoying his tenure so far

[Lineker]

A Southend United footballer has been jailed for 20 weeks following an argument at the club's Christmas party.

Ryan Hall, 23, admitted affray over the incident which took place on 19 December.

The midfielder was jailed at Southend Magistrates' Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to the charge.

The court heard the player retaliated after comments made to him and an argument continued outside a nightclub in Chichester Road, Southend.

Hall joined Southend from non-league Bromley last summer and scored his first goal for the club against Rotherham in January, hitting three more since.

Footballers. >_<

[lanky316]

These bloody prima-donna multi-millionaire footballers think they can do anything. About time they got taken down a peg or two. What next, shooting trainees?

Nolongerboro started scoring goals recently. Still a shout of going up but not quite there yet. Good thing defence has been (generally) so tight to keep them close if we can have our traditional strong finish I'm hopeful.

[Lineker]

Great news! Malky Mackay and his assistant Sean Dyche have been handed new three-and-a-half-year deals!

Elsewhere, Plymouth enter administration, QPR are in talks to sell two thirds of the club, and Gary Johnson is the new Northampton manager.

[Starvinho]

Macclesfield Town fine whole team after Wycombe brawl

Macclesfield Town have fined every player, the manager and assistant manager involved in the fixture against Wycombe after an injury-time brawl.

Chairman Mike Rance said: "Clearly the majority of the participants on both sides were attempting to calm rather than exacerbate the situation.

"But we have concluded the actions of Macclesfield Town players on the pitch could not be condoned."

Both clubs have requested a personal hearing for their misconduct charges.

"After reviewing the evidence available to us we have reached the conclusion that it is difficult to differentiate between the roles played by and the intent of the many players involved," he added.

Both clubs have been charged with a breach of FA rule E20 (a) - a failure to ensure that players and/or officials conducted themselves in an orderly fashion and/or refrained from provocative and/or violent behaviour.

The match, which Wycombe won 1-0, was referee James Adcock's debut in a Football League contest.

I feel sorry for the ref, couldn't have been the easiest first game to ref in the Football League. Props to Macclesfield for taking action against everyone involved though, other teams should take note.

[Lineker]

It was the ref's first ever league game too!