Sky Bet Football League thread 2015/16

[The Lusophone]

Argyle are top. End the season now!

[MDK]

Argyle are top. End the season now!

I'll take it >_>

[Adam]

I won't, we're still in the bottom 4!

Huge, huge win over Barnsley yesterday. After a bit of a struggling performance and chucking away the lead, we snatched a last minute winner, only our second of the season and Rob Jones' first as caretaker manager. Though to be honest I'm hoping it's his last league game in charge. We should have a new man in by the next time we run out in League 1 (JPT on Tuesday being a bit of an irrelevance).

[lanky316]

End it, end it now! Before I find myself having to destroy my old Teddy Sheringham Corinthian figure in a rage  

[Adam]

Lee Clark is at our game tonight.

Looking forward to being back in League 2 next season.

[Matticus]

I feel obliged to apologise to everyone for this.

[MDK]

I feel obliged to apologise to everyone for this.

You don't need to apologise for the minority of people that support this shite.

*huggies*

[Lineker]

Neil Redfearn is the new Rotherham manager.

[Lineker]

Northampton Town's prospective takeover by an Indian consortium is off, after the group pulled out of the deal.

Cobblers chairman David Cardoza revealed in June that the unnamed London-based group were interested in the League Two club.

But the group said in a statement on Monday: "It became apparent there were a number of complications surrounding the proposed acquisition."

The news comes before Friday's deadline from Northampton Borough Council to repay a £10.25m loan.

[Lineker]

Northampton Town have been issued with a winding-up petition by HM Revenue and Customs while, to add to their problems, they have been given a deadline of close of play on Thursday to pay back a £10.25m loan to the borough council.

The club’s chairman, David Cardoza, issued a statement, saying we “‘are aware that HMRC have published that they have issued legal proceedings against the club for monies outstanding.

“The HMRC debt is a temporary issue due to the delays in completing the takeover and during this interim period the club not receiving the investment that it needs to meet all of its commitments when they fall due.”

He said he had “put a proposal to HMRC late on Wednesday to head off these proceedings. This proposal was too late to prevent the proceedings being published, but the chairman fully expects the matter to be resolved by the end of next week.”

The League Two club had hoped to strike a takeover deal with an unnamed Indian consortium but that had collapsed on Monday over what were described as “insurmountable” complications.

The consortium said that “during the process of due diligence, which is integral to any business deal, it became apparent that there were a number of complications surrounding the proposed acquisition.

“Sadly, at a very late stage in the process we concluded that these problems were insurmountable and, with great reluctance, decided we had no option but to withdraw our offer for the club.”

The £10.25m debt due to the council is for money which, according to the BBC, “was given to the club for the redevelopment of Sixfields Stadium, and was to be used to build the new East Stand, along with a hotel and conference centre – none of which have been completed”.

A spokesman for the borough council told the Northampton Chronicle: “We can confirm that [yesterday] afternoon we met with people introduced to us by David Cardoza. We have not received any firm proposals and any that we do receive would have to be subject to proper due diligence and scrutiny.”

Cardoza said: “We are putting proposals to Northampton borough council regarding the repayment of the loan which we hope will prove satisfactory to them and that process is ongoing as we speak.

“I fully appreciate that, off the pitch, there only seems to be bad news for supporters at the moment but we are working towards, and we believe we are close to, a conclusion on all matters that tidies up all of the issues surrounding the club and allows it to move forward to a much brighter future.”

[Colly]

They were rubbish anyway, even Newcastle can beat them.

[MDK]

Orient:

Most expensive match day ticket in L2
Lest expensive season ticket in L2

[Adam]

It looks like Darren Ferguson will be announced as our new manager tomorrow.

[The Lusophone]

Uwe Rosler has been sacked. That makes 5 managers gone since like April 2014.

[Benji]

So basically Leeds just said...

NO

UWE

[Lineker]

Steve Evans is at the Leeds training ground and is expected to replace him.

 

Sorry @Matt.

[Matt]

It's hard to care any more.

[Baddar]

It's funny how I noticed Matt had posted and the first thing that came to mind was "Leeds must have sacked another manager", and there you go.

[King Ellis]

 That 60% win percentage of Brian McDermott  under Cellino is looking pretty good right now.

[Matt]

5 out of 18 is a funny 60%. Still better than Hockaday, Milanic (was that his name?), Rosler and I'd wager Redfearn too, mind you.

 

I don't get bringing Steve Evans in at all, I hardly imagine he's going to get on with Cellino for too long, his style of play is completely different to how are players have been getting used to since June and to top it off he's painfully average.