As we're less than couple weeks away now from the start of the season most squads should be taking shape... what starting line-ups are people expecting to go into the season with, and which positions are you still looking for players who can come in and start?
for us...
Kind of content with ours. Home to Fleetwood on the first day, our first ever league meeting with them. Wigan come to BP early season too. Away to derby on the last day of the season.
Half the teams in the division in action Tuesday night.
Stevenage could go top with a win at Swindon
All the teams currently in the playoffs spots are playing, as are Walsall and Stockport who could go into the playoffs with a win. Wimbledon aren't far behind either.
Hartlepool, Crawley and...
The last day of the season was due to be on May the 6th, a Saturday as is normal. However it has now been moved to Monday the 8th as on Saturday a man in frock is putting a golden hat on an old dude.
A few games being played that were postponed due to the Queen's death (I'd assumed there would be more but the other postponed games must have been played already)
AFC Wimbledon v Leyton Orient
Harrogate Town v Carlisle United
Mansfield Town v Bradford City
Rochdale v Salford City
The four...
Carlisle v L'Orient
Creepy v Mansfield
Crewe v Donny
Gills v Barra
GY v Bratfut
Harrogant v Tranny
Newport v Colchester
Rochdale v Wombles
$alford v $tockport
Satanage v Northampton
Sutton v Walsall
Swindon v Hartlepool
Big big game for us. Could be a good time to play Orient who seem to have...
Thought we could do with a general thread about club ownership, since we're one of a few clubs with issues that probably don't really warrant their own thread, and overall it's just the sort of thing that could benefit from a general thread.
Following the collapse of takeover talks, that I...
Ball numbers are out. We're number 9 as usual.
There's a few interesting non-leaguers that we might fancy. The usual assortment of tinpotters with names that just sound Sunday League with a smattering of storied non-league names such as Corinthian Casuals and Grimsby Town. There are a few teams...
Since everyone's talking refs on the match thread, perhaps we're overdue have a ref thread. Be useful for just getting used to the names of refs that are constantly being slagged off, as well as those who get praised.
Here's your refs for the weekend games on the 21st of August
The EFL post...
I was gonna post something in the Coronavirus thread we have, but nobody has posted in it since August so seemed better to create a new thread for what impact Covid will still have on the football going into the 2021/22 season.
The EFL have concluded their investigation into our outbreak in...
How's everyone's going? I know Port Vale have already launched their new kit, did FGR release theirs before the end of the season?
Ours is launched tomorrow, but here's a sneak peek
From a fan of the smallest club to ever reach the top flight to probably the second smallest, well done. We've gone in very different directions since that JPT final. When I felt we were probably two similar sized teams. Don't begrudge you your success though.
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/19285786.southend-united-grimsby-town-submit-proposal-efl-league-two-relegation/
What nonsense is this? Unfair to relegate them because nobody is being relegated from the conference? What difference does it make? Then presumably it would be unfair to relegate...
Yeah yeah I know it's very early, there's still a lot to play for this season and we don't know who's going to be down here next season yet, but that shouldn't stop those of us for whom this season is effectively over from discussing the next one, what signings might happen in the summer and who...
With talk of covid vaccination passports being used to allow fans into the ground when that happens, what do people think about it?
Clubs desperately need to start admitting fans but it could be a double-edged sword if it comes with the withdrawal of other support from the Premier League etc...
We've announced some shifting around of the Easter Weekend and with the agreements of both Southend, Scunthorpe and Morecambe so that instead of playing Friday and Monday and having both Tuesdays off, we are playing Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday, as normal. We're not playing Morecambe but Southend...
I was thinking about this last season and the fact I'm still thinking about it this season makes me think I might have a point.
The geographic balance of football is changing.
In League Two right now you have the top four made up of three south western teams (Cheltenham, Exeter and FGR) and...
Time I think to get this going.
Looking at the table, I can't see anyone below the current top 10 featuring in this; apart from maybe Colchester who will move into the top 10 if they win their game in hand and have enough about them. Morecambe, Crawley, Port Vale and Harrogate are on the...