nPower Football League Thread 2012/13

[Lineker]

Cardiff City's owner has said that if the team get promoted (which in all likelihood this year they will), then he is considering renaming the team to Cardiff Dragons.

Now, since the interview he as backtracked a little in a statement, but they also backtracked over changing the shirts from blue to red, and they went ahead and did that eventually anyway...

[Lineker]

nPower are not renewing their title sponsorship of the Football League next season.

Swindon Town have appointed former Villa coach Kevin MacDonald as their new manager.

[Matt]

Danny Mills is a complete fuckwit. Luke Varney went down injured and didn't move for a good minute or so, the physio comes on and Danny Mills assumes he's time wasting.

Anyway terrible performance once again but we've undeservedly won again, so Warnock will escape criticism. That despite persisting with Luke Varney over Diouf, his constant public attacks on our goalscorers (he forced becchio out of the club and now McCormack looks completely drained of confidence), playing the aforementioned McCormack out of position and bringing on a midfielder who has no pace, no real footballing talent and notoriously gives away silly fouls as a method of closing the game out. I'm not overly sure why our best creative player is playing right back instead of right midfield either, not that Byram is bad at right back but he does make mistakes and you can't help but think we'd create more than one or two chances a game if he played in midfield. That's before we factor in the tactic of "Let's kick it up to Morison and hope for the best".

Edit: Oh and another gem, we're not playing a striker we signed in January because he can't defend, apparently. We will give him a place on the bench every week though but we won't bring him on even when we need a goal: see Blackburn. I'd really like to know why Neil Warnock is a manager.

[lanky316]

Stevenage can't buy a win at the moment, hoping that we're going to have done enough earlier on to stay up and rebuild in the summer but bad times ahead

On having seen the table properly I must modify my verdict... We're DOOMED!

Edited March 2, 2013 by lanky316

[Dan]

Stevenage are cunts, lost to teams around the relegation zone the past 2 weeks.

[Adam]

Finally a team manages to stay top of the table for a week...and it's us! . That's cheered me up no end but I'm a bit disappointed to have missed what seems like an excellent performance from us today.

[Dan]

[Lineker]

York have sacked Gary Mills.

[Lineker]

York have sacked Gary Mills.

And has now been replaced by Nigel Worthington.

[Gazz]

You'd think, given they're my hometown club I'd keep track of them, but holy shit, how did Wolves end up in that position?

[Lineker]

A date has been set for the High Court hearing that will finally determine the future of Portsmouth Football Club.

Pompey administrators PKF will attend the High Court on 10 or 11 April in an attempt to release Balram Chainrai's fixed charge on Fratton Park and force the sale of the club's stadium.

If a judge rules in the administrators' favour then the Pompey Supporters' Trust can proceed with their takeover.

The club have been in administration since 17 February 2012.

[Noah]

I checked the Championship table earlier and Brighton have managed to break into the top 6?

Also they apparently followed that up with a draw vs the bottom club.

[Lineker]

Heat lamps confiscated in raids on cannabis farms in Nottinghamshire are being used to help the grass grow at a football league club.

Notts County FC is using equipment seized by police to make lighting rigs for use on the Meadow Lane pitch.

University students are also involved in a project to design and build the rigs, with wheels for them being donated by a local golf club.

Supt Mark Holland said it was a "win, win" situation for all involved.

"This property would normally be crushed, so it is important it gets reused and a lot of people are getting the benefit from it," he said.

Stadium manager Greg Smith said it was "a massive saving for the club".

He said: "Normally to buy one rig you are looking at between £10,000 and £15,000.

"We have both sports at the club, football and rugby, and we've got a main stand that doesn't allow the light in during the winter.

"So, we can have them from the start of October through to the end of February, hopefully growing grass for us."

The grow lights will be used to heat up the soil and replicate warmer conditions.

The club has made a donation to a local charity supported by Nottinghamshire Police as a thank you for the lamps.

[Noah]

I checked the Championship table earlier and Brighton have managed to break into the top 6?

Also they apparently followed that up with a draw vs the bottom club.

Their last- 3 games have been 2 losses (one to a team in the bottom 3) and a draw(see above) and Brighon are now out of the top 6.

[Adam]

Brighton should be competing at that end of the league for a long time. The revenue they make from attendances alone should be enough to help them bat above a lot of teams in the league.

[Lineker]

Brighton's Ashley Barnes will be banned for seven games after the Football Association gave him an additional three-match suspension for his sending off in Saturday's defeat at Bolton.

Barnes was sent off for violent conduct after he appeared to trip the referee.

The 23-year-old forward was found guilty of behaviour which "constituted an offence whereby the standard punishment...was clearly insufficient".

He was serving a four-game ban before the FA's additional punishment.

Barnes denied the FA charge, but a regulatory commission heard the case on Friday morning and found him guilty.

His original four-match ban had included an extra game for his second dismissal of the season.

The former Plymouth player missed the 2-1 defeat at Barnsley on Tuesday and will now only be available for Brighton's last three games of the Championship season.

Following injuries to Craig Mackail-Smith and Will Hoskins, Leonardo Ulloa is now Brighton's only recognised first-team striker.

[Lineker]

No points deduction for Watford! Huzzah!!

[MDK]

Orient are now making their customary late charge for promotion, helped along by big Kevin Lisbie. Like our manager Russ said 'He could lose his man in a phone box'.

[Lineker]

No points deduction for Watford! Huzzah!!

Long story, but basically transfer embargo in place until August 31st, but players can still be signed with special dispensation. Lengthy explanation here.

[MJB]

According to some reports on Twitter, Blackburn have sacked Michael Appleton >_<