Topic: Skybet Championship Thread

[thaddeus]

Foster was some no mark on Gerrard's staff in Saudi. How Plymouth have gone for him and Rooney beggars belief.

I think they know they're a minnow in a relatively big pond so they try for left field managers.  The type of managers that can have you punching well above your weight (like Steven Schumacher) or embarrassingly uncompetitive (almost certainly Rooney's fate).

It could also just be that they're cheap!

[The G in Gerrard]

Be careful what you wish for.  If Rooney's not managing a team then he's nailed on for one of the high profile punditry jobs.

Guaranteed he will be unfortunately.

[Legs]

Foster was some no mark on Gerrard's staff in Saudi. How Plymouth have gone for him and Rooney beggars belief.

He isnt a no mark he won a world cup with England youth team and he had like 15 games or something at Plymouth not exactly alot to go off.

This is the problem now if you dont hit the ground running you are sacked quickly not saying Foster is good but he must have something about him.

[Gerry Attrick]

He isnt a no mark he won a world cup with England youth team and he had like 15 games or something at Plymouth not exactly alot to go off.

This is the problem now if you dont hit the ground running you are sacked quickly not saying Foster is good but he must have something about him.

Won 1 of his last 11 games, lost 5 consecutive home games without even scoring a goal (a club record) and played some of the most eye splittingly painful football you could ever see. Oh and he ostracised the club captain who as it turned out scored the goal that kept them up after they’d finally realised Foster is a fraud.

[Fromola]

He isnt a no mark he won a world cup with England youth team and he had like 15 games or something at Plymouth not exactly alot to go off.

This is the problem now if you dont hit the ground running you are sacked quickly not saying Foster is good but he must have something about him.

England have been beasting youth tournaments for a while now..the volume of talent produced is much better than most.

To be fair Steve Cooper won one and kicked on as a club manager but Foster was plucked out of Saudi Arabia by Plymouth and managed to alienate everyone in the time he was there.

[thaddeus]

Manager in the Championship sacked after one game of the new season... and it's not Rooney.

Preston North End have parted company with manager Ryan Lowe after just one match of the Championship season.

Lowe leaves following their 2-0 defeat at home by Sheffield United on Friday.

The 45-year-old had been in charge at Deepdale since December 2021 when he joined from Plymouth.

But despite finishing in 13th, 12th and 10th, he has departed after discussions with the club’s board on Sunday.

In a statement,, external club director Peter Ridsdale said it was "mutually agreed that now was an appropriate time for a changes to be made.

[Ray K]

Manager in the Championship sacked after one game of the new season... and it's not Rooney.

Way to bury the lede that Peter Ridsdale is still a director of a Championship-level football club. After serving a 7 year ban as a company director.

[Baby Huey]

https://vipleague.im/football/luton-town-vs-burnley-streaming-link-1

[Baby Huey]

1-0. Burnley winning.

[Fromola]

1-0. Burnley winning.

Be waiting 5 minutes in the PL to see if he was offside.

[Baby Huey]

Be waiting 5 minutes in the PL to see if he was offside.

I'm so looking forward to that on Saturday morning.

[afc tukrish]

1-0. Burnley winning.

Goal fashioned and taken ruddy bravely...

[Baby Huey]

Goal fashioned and taken ruddy bravely...

Scotty Parker bravely...

That was my first thought when I saw that he's now the Burnley manager.

[Baby Huey]

2-0. Luton defending there was abject.

[afc tukrish]

2-0. Luton defending there was abject.

Luton really haven't been at the races, have they?

Burnley have been brave, though...

[Baby Huey]

Luton really haven't been at the races, have they?

Burnley have been brave, though...

Getting caught out twice, by by more or less the same play, say's they've not been working hard on defending.

But, Burnley, as you say...reflections of their manager.

[Baby Huey]

2-1.

[afc tukrish]

Now 4-1, fourth goal started with a dribble inside the Burnley box, before sashaying three quarters of the length of the pitch.

Luton have basically decided that defending is something of a bother, so they're just not, well, bothering...

[LallanaInPyjamas]

Burnley are the new yoyo on the block.

[Alisson Wonderland]

Foster was some no mark on Gerrard's staff in Saudi. How Plymouth have gone for him and Rooney beggars belief.

There must be a scouser on the board down at Plymouth.  Their recent managers are Rooney, Foster, Schumacher and Lowe. 

[Elzar]

There must be a scouser on the board down at Plymouth.  Their recent managers are Rooney, Foster, Schumacher and Lowe. 

Their director of football is Neil Dewsnip, a former Liverpool trainee who was in Evertons youth coaching set up for years until 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Dewsnip

[Oskar]

Sunderland are destroying Sheffield Wednesday, second-half has just started and they've gone 4-0 up.

Chris Rigg looks a talent for them in midfield, 17 years old and he's been brilliant. Think he made his senior debut at 15.

[Fromola]

Rigg is quality. The left back Cirkin is really good.

[Draex]

Walsall fan thought he got a bargain when he booked his hotel in Portsmouth 11 miles away, he didn't realise it was on the Isle Of White…

[Keita Success]

Burnley - Blackburn is a feisty game. Feels like Rovers have been hard done by - goal incorrectly chalked off for offside.

Catch Weimann’s goal if you can. Worldie.

[Gerry Attrick]

Burnley - Blackburn is a feisty game. Feels like Rovers have been hard done by - goal incorrectly chalked off for offside.

Catch Weimann’s goal if you can. Worldie.

Very similar strike to the one Blackburn were on the end of last week from Oxford.

[gerrardisgod]

Not quite Championship, but I see another club have been hoodwinked by Steve Bruce and his fat head again, Blackpool this time.

[thaddeus]

Not quite Championship, but I see another club have been hoodwinked by Steve Bruce and his fat head again, Blackpool this time.

It does make you wonder what the owners expect to happen.  Basic football and making treading water for a season or two is about the best that will happen.

[afc tukrish]

It does make you wonder what the owners expect to happen.  Basic football and making treading water for a season or two is about the best that will happen.

Tides might shift a bit...

[Statto Red]

Not sure where to put this but mental penalty shootout in the Preston vs Fulham EFL cup tie, which Preston won 16-15.

[Gerry Attrick]

So we can chalk Owen Beck up as another who’s thick as mince. Most braindead red card you’ll ever see.

[Fromola]

So we can chalk Owen Beck up as another who’s thick as mince. Most braindead red card you’ll ever see.

Never a red though.

[Gerry Attrick]

Never a red though.

What? He literally just has a swing at somebody

[disgraced cake]

Ref looked far too keen to get the red out there, it wasn't even that malicious considering he'd just been bitten. Not just saying that because he's technically a Liverpool player 

I do like to see that sort of aggression though

[Elzar]

Biting? No worse crime in football is there apparently. 10 game ban surely.

Oh a yellow, never mind they can't follow it up now.

[Gerry Attrick]

Ref looked far too keen to get the red out there, it wasn't even that malicious considering he'd just been bitten. Not just saying that because he's technically a Liverpool player 

I do like to see that sort of aggression though

Except the kick out was before he alleges the bite, so that’s no excuse for being a total moron. Osmajic grabs him after he’s done it.

[Statto Red]

Except the kick out was before he alleges the bite, so that’s no excuse for being a total moron. Osmajic grabs him after he’s done it.

From what i've seen it looks Osmajic does bite him, Osmajic looking at a lengthy ban if it's proven.

https://www.skysports.com/football/preston-north-end-vs-blackburn-rovers/report/509409

[Hazell]

Oh dear Meslier

[In the Name of Klopp]

WTF 

[smicer07]

Meslier has been shit for years.