A Barrow-load of laughs - Division 4 2020/21

[E10 Rifle]

Even by fourth-tier standards, this season's League Two is absurdly tightly packed and hard to call. You'd predict Southend and Grimsby as the likeliest to go down, unless Paul Hurst can bring the good times back at the latter, but up the top, fuck knows. I've got a niggling feeling that Mark Cooper's well drilled but basically fucking horrible Forest Green are gonna go the distance this time, though Newport, Exeter and Cheltenham are the best three teams I've seen. Exeter's innate Exeterness will probably keep them down though.

[elguapo4]

Sounds like April and May when I was playing football, and working as well.

[Satchmo Distel]

Eventually some clubs in the 3rd and 4th tiers will be playing Saturday-Mon-Thurs-Sat, like they had to do after heavy snow in 1978-79.

[Simon G]

Very good win for us last night at home to Oldham. Seems Harry Kewell was more concerned at our use of towels for throw-ins than actually how his team fared against us on the pitch.

Our first win after 7 without and we're two points off the top of the table. Yes other teams have games in hand, Carlisle especially, but it just shows how weird this season has been.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

...and at Mansfield too. Carlisle still have 25 games to fit in between now and the 8th of May - we are already Saturday/Tuesday throughout February and think we only have 23 March, 11 April and 4 May available now as Tuesday slots.

[Satchmo Distel]

Tonight's games at Barrow and Salford were also called off due to the effects of bad weather.

[Janik]

Locusts.
Yes, in Cumbria.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Newport v Carlisle postponed due to a waterlogged pitch which I think makes in six consecutive postponements for Carlisle for four different reasons (one frozen pitch, one power cut, three Covid, one waterlogged pitch), although that included the same match postponed twice (again for two different reasons).

Saturday's forecast is for "sunny intervals and a gentle breeze", so bet on Exeter's bus breaking down en route as the most likely next cause of a postponement.

[ingoldale]

Well, that was painful and even if their third was offside, it was a good move and well taken. We are desperate.

[Simon G]

I've seen that so many times in the last 18 hours I think it's now a permanent scar on my brain!!

[Diable Rouge]

As is this:

https://twitter.com/SkyFootball/status/1351643667447083014

[Kevin S]

Wowsers, this is a heck of a strike.

https://twitter.com/EFL/status/1351817490020651008?s=20

[Antepli Ejderha]

After banging in 16 goals in 18 games, Max Watters has left Crawley for Cardiff. Whilst that probably knackers any chances of making the playoffs, the transfer fee (undisclosed, but rumoured to be just shy of 1 million) secures the club's immediate future.

I've read rising up to 1 million including add ons. Is he any good?

Swansea had a good look but were put off by the fee, however Cardiff appear to have bought him for less than we were quoted.

[Gangster Octopus]

Makes a change from Cardiff yoinking our top scorers.

[Simon G]

I wouldn't be so sure - no-one seems to want to take the bull by the horns this season. We've not won in 7 league games, scored 3 goals in that time, and are still in with a shout of topping the league.

[andrew7610]

After banging in 16 goals in 18 games, Max Watters has left Crawley for Cardiff. Whilst that probably knackers any chances of making the playoffs, the transfer fee (undisclosed, but rumoured to be just shy of 1 million) secures the club's immediate future.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

2,500 properties affected according to Harrogate Town. Now that the game is off our manager has revealed that three of our players have tested positive and are going into isolation.

[Capybara]

Tonight's Harrogate v Carlisle match - itself a rescheduled fixture after having been abandoned after 10 minutes a fortnight ago - is now in doubt due to a power cut in the area.

Must be very localised. I just told my mother who lives less than a mile from the ground, and it's the first she knew about it.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

...and it's called off.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Tonight's Harrogate v Carlisle match - itself a rescheduled fixture after having been abandoned after 10 minutes a fortnight ago - is now in doubt due to a power cut in the area.

[E10 Rifle]

Would have been an interesting game too. After a poor run, we've played really well in our past two games and at last put in a proper front-to-back team performance to see off the Salford vanity project last week. But you wonder how many games any of our teams are gonna get in in the next few weeks.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Carlisle v Orient called off in good time, so that Orient don't need to travel. There is no chance of things changing before 3pm tomorrow given that it is already like Ice Station Zebra here and it is forecast to be -7 tonight. Still, leaves a hole in the weekend plans and means we'll have to wait to see our new signing Ozzy Zanzala in action - hopefully on Tuesday.....goes to check weather forecast in Harrogate....

[jwdd27]

I think his age/experience will prove useful, as it's mostly kids we've got now who need some on field guidance, and he talked a good game in his joining interview, so I've got high hopes if he stays fit.

[Foot of Astaire's]

Scunthorpe look set to extend that "most players" record, they've signed midfielder Jem Karacan, who was a free agent. New one on me, mainly played for Reading in this country, and has most recently been in Australia, but has played for Galatasaray and Bursaspor.
He's got Turkish U21 caps too, and is described as Turkish, although he was born in Catford, which is even more of a foreign country.

He was just what we needed to seal promotion from league 1 in 2017. A busy, combative midfielder who scored the opening goal in the last day win that took us up.

He didnt look the same player at championship level and there were rumours he and Phil Parkinson had fallen out before he was moved on.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Scunthorpe look set to extend that "most players" record, they've signed midfielder Jem Karacan, who was a free agent. New one on me, mainly played for Reading in this country, and has most recently been in Australia, but has played for Galatasaray and Bursaspor.
He's got Turkish U21 caps too, and is described as Turkish, although he was born in Catford, which is even more of a foreign country.

Of Turkish Cypriot descent I believe with limited Turkish language skills. Looked a decent player at one stage in his career, I think he got badly injured by another player, possibly Sheffield United and that knocked him back.