Too Poor To Prosper - Division 2 2020/21

[Gangster Octopus]

Yay!

[Gangster Octopus]

And now there's the utterly awful concept of hope...

[Amor de Cosmos]

Well done GO. Boy we screwed the pooch royally. Great goal by Lyndon 'Di Stefano' Dykes who couldn't buy one for twenty-three games, has become our top scorer (not a very high bar) inside of three weeks. Then we utterly fell apart.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Looks as if Sits's boys could be in serious FFP trouble.

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[Tony C]

Blackburn needed that win. Derby, however, really didn’t need that defeat.

[diggedy derek]

Reading needed a win tonight to stay in with a serious chance of a playoff place, too.

[Sits]

Probably a relief given AdC’s post above. 2019/20? You wouldn’t know it from the results.

[Diable Rouge]

Norwich officially promoted after Brentford and Swansea both slip up - the Canaries also just need five points to clinch the title.

[Satchmo Distel]

Good luck to Rotherham today. Put the shits up Derby. Sheff Wed and Wycombe cannot now reach 50 points, if that's still the threshold.

[Satchmo Distel]

FFS

[Mr Beast]

Derby are in serious danger of relegation. Alex Ferguson was an indisputably great manager and yet it seems nobody who played under him managed to pick up a fucking thing.

[Gangster Octopus]

They're safe. We can't score to save our lives.

[longeared]

I don't expect it to become directly relevant, but they're playing us on the last day.

[Amor de Cosmos]

They're safe. We can't score to save our lives.


You scored three against us (see above.)

We won at Swansea tonight for the first time since they moved into their present digs. If we can keep most of this squad together, we just might be able to make some serious noise next season.

[Gangster Octopus]

That's the only time we've scored in the last six or seven games. Says more about you than us.

[Gangster Octopus]

Fucking Nescaff.

[lambers]

Just caught up with Quest and saw that Bayo finally broke his duck at this level, at the age of 38. Pleased for him, looks like it meant a lot, not just to him, but the entire team — plus the goal won the match.

[Ray de Galles]

I had the final twenty minutes of that game on live as I needed something to distract me on the exercise bike and the Villa v Man City games became dull and predictable after a lively opening.

Akinfenwa's goal came from the penalty spot after Wycombe's keeper twice had shots blocked while up for injury time corner, the second time by a defender's arm.

I didn't realise that The Beast hadn't scored for them since February 2020 or at all in D2 and was absolutely made up for him, much as I can't stand the Chairboys' brand of anti-football and find Ainsworth tiresome.

[lambers]

He's not played a great deal of minutes since Feb 20. Lockdown then injury struggles for most of 2020, plus fitness struggles in 2021. Meanwhile, Uche Ikpeazu's stock has risen in a similar role, so that he would be picked ahead of The Beast anyway.

[ad hoc]

Today's the day we'll officially go down. Not before time really. Last week's inability to put 10 man Bristol City away was the game at which 50 points became unattainable, but Derby are bad enough to leave some vague hope out there. But today Neil Warnock has the chance to hammer down the coffin lid and seems unlikely that he'll fail (after Middlesbrough beat Rotherham in the week he expressed regret because the result made Wednesday infinitessimally less certain to go down)

[Tony C]

Great effort by Brentford to win at in-form Bournemouth after having a player sent off early in the second half.

[Gangster Octopus]

Bloody hell, already...

[ad hoc]

Wednesday are the only team in the top five divisions to have not got a single point after falling behind this season.

We've just fallen behind

[longeared]

Think of a team you don't like and hope they sign Julian Borner in the summer.

[Billy Casper]

Complete travesty at Oakwell today.

We took the lead when Carlton Morris hit their goalie in the face with his elbow (looked unintentional but you never know) and then the ball skimmed off one of them into the net. Morris looked at the linesman and ref for a long time before celebrating - the goalie went off injured.
Then for the rest of the match we try to prove the saying 'good teams win when they play badly'. Rotherham had all sorts of chances but didn't score due to good goalkeeping and bad finishing (Ladapo nutmegging himself when presented with an open goal).