Football League Championship, League One and League Two 2023/24

[muppetman]

Don't have access to The Athletic.

https://archive.is/ndg9n

 

[UncleBuck]

Blimey, keeper is going to have nightmares about this, thirteen shots, nine goals!

 

[UncleBuck]

Really impressed with Soton here, playing some lovely football.
Amazing to think their first eight games they had a win percentage of 38 but over their last 23 games it’s up at 70.
Would sooner they come back up automatically as opposed to Leeds

 

[spurs mental]

This is class

 

[Marty]

This is class

Part of me sometimes thinks about MK Dons, "time to let it go now, it was over 20 years ago and kids who've grown up in MK since and become fans should be allowed to see them as a legitimate club without the mockery".

Another part of me thinks this is just fantastic comeuppance.

 

[Tucker]

Part of me sometimes thinks about MK Dons, "time to let it go now, it was over 20 years ago and kids who've grown up in MK since and become fans should be allowed to see them as a legitimate club without the mockery".

Another part of me thinks this is just fantastic comeuppance.

I think it’s one of those things that should never be allowed to rest. It should serve as a warning to any owners who’d think about doing such a terrible thing to a club again, and even more so to the impotent fools at the FA and EFL that allowed it to happen.

 

[RickyVilla]

Part of me sometimes thinks about MK Dons, "time to let it go now, it was over 20 years ago and kids who've grown up in MK since and become fans should be allowed to see them as a legitimate club without the mockery".

Another part of me thinks this is just fantastic comeuppance.

I agree with @Tucker . That chairman is a complete **** and should be reminded of that every chance he gets. Change the name to MK Concrete Cows. There's nothing "Dons"about that club.

 

[Marty]

I agree with @Tucker . That chairman is a complete **** and should be reminded of that every chance he gets. Change the name to MK Concrete Cows. There's nothing "Dons"about that club.

I totally agree with the principle, but it's just got to the point where I feel a bit bad for the kids. They face mockery and derision over something that happened before they were born. Just having to live and grow up there is bad enough!

 

[Marty]

Ashley Barnes still got it

 

[Misfit]

You can't teach that sort of thing. You're born with it.

 

[soflapaul]

 

[BorjeSpurs]

Set to be a really exciting ending to the Championship season. In large parts due to Leicester having 1 win in 5 and Sheff Wednesday having 4 wins in 5.

 

[UncleBuck]

Championship is bonkers, I love it. Ten points between second from bottom and the last play off spot.
I think Watford need to be really careful, badly out of form and promoting cleverly from the youth team just feels like a recipe for disaster.

 

[ukdy]

Championship is bonkers, I love it. Ten points between second from bottom and the last play off spot.
I think Watford need to be really careful, badly out of form and promoting cleverly from the youth team just feels like a recipe for disaster.

20 points

 

[UncleBuck]

20 points

Blimey, maybe I should have got my eight year old to do the maths…

 

[Shanks]

Man, such depressing news coming our of Reading FC (My sons club)... they have this chinese billionaire owner, who has quite frankly been awful, hasn't been funding the club, so many staff not paid on time, transfer embargo for years, constant points reductions taking place - without those points reductions, they'd be in the Championship still.

They have a brilliant training ground, a great stadium that rivals some premier league clubs, hence being a Cat 1 academy. The owner has today announced he has sold the whole training ground to rivals, Wycombe Wanderers... my son has turned up to work, to be told the clubs finished, and nowhere to train...

The owner is quite literally asset stripping the club down, in preparation for liquidation...

Even the management teams know nothing about what the owner is doing, he has sold players without letting the team managers know about it, the club themselves won't let me son leave and want him to sign his professional contract, and I really cannot do so given this much instability (which is a shame as they have done wonders developing him).

I'm a spurs supporter, but my son has played at this club since he was 9, so I definitely have a soft spot fo rhte club, and the staff are unbelievable, fully dedicated to the club they love, working for peanuts, or quite often nothing at all and even after not being paid, still turn up and work.. really such a sad thing to see

 

[dontcallme]

Man, such depressing news coming our of Reading FC (My sons club)... they have this chinese billionaire owner, who has quite frankly been awful, hasn't been funding the club, so many staff not paid on time, transfer embargo for years, constant points reductions taking place - without those points reductions, they'd be in the Championship still.

They have a brilliant training ground, a great stadium that rivals some premier league clubs, hence being a Cat 1 academy. The owner has today announced he has sold the whole training ground to rivals, Wycombe Wanderers... my son has turned up to work, to be told the clubs finished, and nowhere to train...

The owner is quite literally asset stripping the club down, in preparation for liquidation...

Even the management teams know nothing about what the owner is doing, he has sold players without letting the team managers know about it, the club themselves won't let me son leave and want him to sign his professional contract, and I really cannot do so given this much instability (which is a shame as they have done wonders developing him).

I'm a spurs supporter, but my son has played at this club since he was 9, so I definitely have a soft spot fo rhte club, and the staff are unbelievable, fully dedicated to the club they love, working for peanuts, or quite often nothing at all and even after not being paid, still turn up and work.. really such a sad thing to see

I've heard bits about what is going on there and it isn't good. I believe due to the tax bill they owe they get additional fines if they pay their staff.

It's an absolute mess.

 

[Shanks]

I've heard bits about what is going on there and it isn't good. I believe due to the tax bill they owe they get additional fines if they pay their staff.

It's an absolute mess.

A complete mess mate, tbh, there are league rules that determine that the players get paid over all staff first, but thats only part of the problem.

The training ground has now been sold to a rival club, the players literally have nowhere to train - I can't make my lad sign this contract under these circumstances!

 

[superted4]

Didnt realise he'd sold the stadium (all be it to himself through another company) as well

 

[Marty]

I follow some Wycombe folks on Twitter and a Facebook fan group of theirs, being from the area originally I've always looked out for them, and there's a real split in opinion on whether the club is doing anything morally wrong on this. Some people in the fanbase are really vehemently against it and would much rather help Reading FC out in a way that helps the club survive. Which is maybe a fair take, but how can anybody help them survive when the owner is quite purposefully killing the club?

It's a difficult situation for them, and the Wycombe owners haven't commented on this yet from what I've seen.