English Football

[The Decemberists]

Not sure about since Christmas, but the form table for the last eight is thus,

 

1 Nottingham Forest (8 ) 8 6 2 0 20 5 15 2.50 0.62 2.50 20 WwWwDdWw

2 Bristol City (10) 8 5 2 1 18 7 11 2.25 0.87 2.12 17 wWlWwDWd

3 Southend United (1) 8 5 2 1 17 7 10 2.12 0.87 2.12 17 WdWlWwDw

4 Oldham Athletic (7) 8 5 1 2 13 7 6 1.62 0.87 2.00 16 LdWwlWWw

5 Scunthorpe United (15) 8 4 2 2 13 12 1 1.62 1.50 1.75 14 DlDwWlww

6 Rotherham United (20) 8 4 1 3 12 14 -2 1.50 1.75 1.62 13 WlWlWdLw

7 Gillingham (13) 8 4 1 3 10 15 -5 1.25 1.87 1.62 13 WwWWldLl

8 Huddersfield Town (3) 8 3 3 2 16 11 5 2.00 1.37 1.50 12 lWdWlDdW

9 Bradford City (12) 8 3 3 2 12 12 0 1.50 1.50 1.50 12 dWdWLwlD

10 Yeovil Town (17) 8 3 2 3 12 7 5 1.50 0.87 1.37 11 WlDwlDLw

11 Brentford (2) 8 3 2 3 11 10 1 1.37 1.25 1.37 11 DdwLllWw

12 Blackpool (19) 8 3 2 3 8 7 1 1.00 0.87 1.37 11 lWllWDWd

13 Port Vale (11) 8 3 2 3 10 11 -1 1.25 1.37 1.37 11 WWlDldLw

14 Tranmere Rovers (16) 8 3 1 4 12 10 2 1.50 1.25 1.25 10 lWdLWwlL

15 Doncaster Rovers (9) 8 2 4 2 8 9 -1 1.00 1.12 1.25 10 lWwDLDdD

16 Milton Keynes Dons (24) 8 3 0 5 8 13 -5 1.00 1.62 1.12 9 wlLLlWLW

17 Swansea City (5) 8 1 5 2 12 13 -1 1.50 1.62 1.00 8 llWDdDdD

18 AFC Bournemouth (18 ) 8 1 5 2 7 9 -2 0.87 1.12 1.00 8 dDdWLDlD

19 Barnsley (6) 8 1 5 2 7 9 -2 0.87 1.12 1.00 8 DlDdlDdW

20 Hartlepool United (21) 8 1 5 2 7 10 -3 0.87 1.25 1.00 8 dDlDlWDd

21 Swindon Town (22) 8 2 2 4 8 14 -6 1.00 1.75 1.00 8 DWldLlLW

22 Colchester United (4) 8 1 3 4 2 7 -5 0.25 0.87 0.75 6 lDddWlLl

23 Walsall (23) 8 1 3 4 5 13 -8 0.62 1.62 0.75 6 LlDLwddL

24 Chesterfield (14) 8 1 1 6 11 19 -8 1.37 2.37 0.50 4 dLlLlLwL

 

Also...

 

We have five games left;

 

Three of the teams we play (Tranmere, Yeovil and Bradford) are in the bottom six in terms of results against top-half teams.

 

Two teams (Bournemouth and Hartlepool) are in the bottom seven in terms of recent form - eight games.

 

Two of our away games (Hartlepool and Bradford) are in the bottom three on the Home results league table

 

Hartlepool and Bradford are in the bottom six in terms of goals scored.

 

 

 

It's amazing to be excited about Forest again, even if it just about getting promoted from out of the third divison...

[Murmuring Beast]

Oh God, we blew the play-offs.

[deancoles]

The Premier League Exit Trials is going on at Lilleshall today, we usually get priority on bringing trialists in because of our Academy status.

 

Edit: We've got 6 Graduates from the Academy with 1 injured player with an offer on the table.

[The Decemberists]

Police have confirmed an investigation has been launched following allegations of "financial irregularities" at Pride Park.

 

The inquiries centre around chief executive Jeremy Keith, finance director Andrew Mackenzie and former director of football Murdo Mackay.

 

A spokesman for Derbyshire Police said: "We can confirm an allegation has been made about financial irregularities involving Derby County Football Club. Derbyshire Constabulary are making initial inquiries to ascertain whether there is any legitimacy to this allegation and whether any offences have taken place."

 

The Rams, who continue to labour under debts estimated at £45million, have confirmed a club statement is to be made in due course.

 

Meanwhile, Keith is in the midst of negotiating a refinancing agreement while a consortium of five local businessmen are preparing a takeover.

 

[TheFranchise]

It's unreal, isn't it?

 

And hey, remember that bit about Stuart Pearce saying he'd never manage Derby?

 

He's turning out for us in a testimonial next month, which I thought was cool/weird.

[TheFranchise]

Furthermore, is there any up to date FM2006 updates anywhere?

 

Thedugout.net has only December of 2005 as their latest update.

[The Decemberists]

There's one with all the January transfers on the SI site that I've got. Just use the check for updates button thing on the main screen when you load the game and it'll take you to it.

[deancoles]

I'd download the No Data patch(link at bottom) plus get a Good unofficial update(latest one at bottom), to be honest you can choose any update and you'll probably have to correct your clubs Reserves/Youths,Finances and add any Sell On Clauses.

 

Edit: http://fmfreaks.dk/data/downloads/fm06/upd...p_2.0_final.exe

 

http://rapidshare.de/files/13710728/fm2006..._6.0.3.exe.html

[The Decemberists]

ANOTHER WIN!

 

Annoyingly the Oldham v Barnsley game wasn't a draw so we're still not quite in the top six, but we're still kicking ass and I think all the other results went out way. Second is now a even greater possibility...

[Mystery Eskimo]

Every game we win I sit back and imagine how Gary Megson must be feeling. It's like nails being driven into the coffin of his career.

 

Until some stupid chairman takes pity on him, anyway.

[deancoles]

We also won again, we're 9th now with a positive goal diff and hopefully can finish above Oldham who we play at home next week.

[Anorak]

We scored after 9 seconds....and still lost.

[The Decemberists]

2-1

 

[deancoles]

2-1 to us as well, in our last 2 games we get a chance to relegate Swindon and be at Southend for their Promotion party/see Goater's last game.

[The Decemberists]

Some more showing off...

 

Yesterday our attendance was 28,193.

 

Only Chelsea, Sunderland and Spurs had more people at their games.

[Anorak]

Every game we win I sit back and imagine how Gary Megson must be feeling. It's like nails being driven into the coffin of his career.

 

Until some stupid chairman takes pity on him, anyway.

 

Yeah, an amazing run for Forest. I thought it would be too late for you to make the play-offs by the time you got rid of him but it's looking good for you right now. Maybe Megson could try his luck in Scotland like Craig Levein will probably be doing again.

[deancoles]

http://www.leaguemanagers.com/awards/tissot-league.html

 

Haven't been top of that since we won 11 in a row.

 

Edit: http://www.bcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/javaImages...~2895405,00.jpg

 

Our Home Kit Next Year, can't wait to see what replaces our awful Champagne away strip which Johnson's admitted he hates.

[The Decemberists]

Huddersfield lost to Chesterfield last night, so the top eighgt now reads...

 

1 Southend 43 29 78

2 Colchester 43 15 72

3 Brentford 43 18 71

4 Huddersfield 43 12 69

5 Barnsley 43 17 67

6 Nottm Forest 43 16 67

7 Swansea 43 19 66

8 Oldham 43 -1 63

 

 

I'm telling you, we're going to finish second.

[deancoles]

Think what the table would look like if we both had our current managers and squads last summer, we'd have been up already.

[The Decemberists]

Nottingham Forest - Living In The Past?

 

Steve Bloomer can kiss our asses.

[deancoles]

http://www.bristolcityst.org.uk/trust_news...icle00074.shtml

 

30 years since we were promoted to the top division.

 

Edit: Did come at a price though, we went down in 80,81,82 and ended up selling 10 year season tickets for £500, we were only saved by the Ashton Gate 8.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/artic...8_feature.shtml

[deancoles]

3-0 at Tranmere, 5th win on the trot, all the results went our way as well.

 

Swindon go down if they don't win at Ashton Gate next week.

[k thx]

Pompey 2 Sunderland 1

 

I'm getting too old for this shit.

[The Decemberists]

Pos Team Pld HW HD HL HF HA AW AD AL AF AA GD Pts

1 Southend United 44 12 6 4 36 16 10 6 6 33 25 28 78

2 Colchester United 44 14 4 4 37 21 7 8 6 18 17 16 75

3 Brentford 44 10 7 5 34 22 10 7 5 35 27 20 74

4 Huddersfield Town 44 13 6 3 39 23 6 9 7 32 34 14 72

5 Barnsley 44 11 10 1 37 19 6 7 9 23 24 17 68

6 Swansea City 44 11 8 3 40 21 6 8 8 32 32 19 67

7 Nottingham Forest 44 14 4 4 39 14 5 6 11 26 36 15 67

8 Bristol City 44 11 6 5 37 21 7 4 11 28 39 5 64

 

 

 

Bastards...

[deancoles]

From the Local Paper, shows how the Swans have bottled it in the run in.

 

"On December 7th Bristol City were bottom of league one 25 pts behind then leaders Swansea City.

Today theres just a three point gap, as City close in on the Swans play off place"

 

sending down Swindon on Sat would be good, they beat us on Sky in November to go above us at the time.

[TheFranchise]

Now that Derby's season is over, I just look forward to following Arsenal for the CL and England in the World Cup.

[King Cucaracha]

Arsenal for the CL? Can't bring myself to do it, I'm sitting here routing for Villereal right now. Although to be fair, Wenger's actually got one Englishman in his team tonight, that's a nice change.

 

Anyone else got FM Handheld? I'm playing as Norwich, 3rd in the Championship and the board are telling me to "Ignore those supporters who have been calling for your resignation". I've heard of demanding fans, but come on now.

[Anorak]

Arsenal were crap last night but thank god for that Lehman penalty save. No wonder players continue to dive so much. It's depressing that one of the most notorious divers in European football for the past decade can so easily con a top official in the last minute of a CL Semi. It was the safest bet in the world he'd fall over in the box sometime before the final whistle when he came on, I just didn't think the ref would be daft enough to give it.

[deancoles]

Season isn't even finished and our best player is been linked with Norwich for 750K, looks possible as well, when Port Vale bought Dinning they took out Brooker's Promotion Payment and now we're trying to flog Fortune to them in exhange for the Sell On Clause being took out.

 

Edit: Speaking of sell on clauses, every time we sell a player for a fee we include one(Akinbiyi,Lita,Hill,Rosenior,Amankwaah,Anyinsah)

[Guest Damn You Helmsley]

You know, I hear that some countries believe that the best way to hire the national coach is to just go ahead and do it. But then why do that when you can have months of hear'say and rumour to give those clowns on Sky Sports News something to talk about? "Coming up after the break, the thoughts of John Aldridge, Viv Anderson, Peter Reid and a some hobo we found outside Anfield on who should be the new England manager". Give. Us. A. Break.