[Football] The Championship 2023/24

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

He was regularly the no.1, but has had a long spell out with injury - maybe the bench is a first step back. Although to be fair, his long term deputy Hladky has done a good job while Walton was out injured.

Walton was injured at the start of the season but he's been fit and on the bench for them since the beginning of October. Like you say though Hladky has been outstanding for them this season. My best mate is an Ipswich fan and was really concerned that losing Walton at the start of the season would have a huge effect as they adjusted to the Championship, but they are going great and it's difficult to force your way back in when a side is winning.

Will Walton push for a move though, he knows there is a good chance he could be back in the Premier League next season and he might want to back himself to get back in the side and prove himself at the top level. That injury he got in pre-season a few years ago against Chelsea was a real sliding doors moment for both him and Robert Sanchez.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I just assumed @FatSuperman was comparing to those eejits who describe our rivalry with another club as The M23 derby

Oh, probably.
My works Christmas party was last night so my irony filter isn't functioning as well as I might like.
The same can be said for various other functions and faculties but I won't get into that.

 

[GT49er]

Walton was injured at the start of the season but he's been fit and on the bench for them since the beginning of October. Like you say though Hladky has been outstanding for them this season. My best mate is an Ipswich fan and was really concerned that losing Walton at the start of the season would have a huge effect as they adjusted to the Championship, but they are going great and it's difficult to force your way back in when a side is winning.

Will Walton push for a move though, he knows there is a good chance he could be back in the Premier League next season and he might want to back himself to get back in the side and prove himself at the top level. That injury he got in pre-season a few years ago against Chelsea was a real sliding doors moment for both him and Robert Sanchez.

Yes, he does seem to have an unfortunate knack of getting injured at just the wrong times. I think at the time of that Chelsea injury he might have been ahead of Sanchez, at least in the eyes of the coaching team, although some of us thought that Sanchez had inched ahead.
Wonder if we'll soon have the same scenario with Rushworth and Beadle?

 

[FatSuperman]

Oh, probably.
My works Christmas party was last night so my irony filter isn't functioning as well as I might like.
The same can be said for various other functions and faculties but I won't get into that.

Perhaps it was a touch subtle

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Perhaps it was a touch subtle

I'm in no fit state to handle subtley today.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Norwich really pressing the lacklustre Leeds, a slow Duffy from the back might be helped by Aye Aye Ash coming on.

Come on Naaaarich.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

All the talk seems to be about Leeds being 'back in the title race' this morning, but there's SO MANY games to go. Hope they lose in the play-offs or, better still, drop down to 7th!

 

[Is it PotG?]

That'll do, nice one Leicester.

Pawson then illustrates what a clown he is.

 

[LamieRobertson]

That'll do, nice one Leicester.

Pawson then illustrates what a clown he is.

Nice end to end match

 

[Eric the meek]

You can see why Leicester are top on 81 points.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Dear dear dear….Leicester should have been three up..now losing 2/1

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I can't stand f***ing Leeds and their fans.

 

[Eric the meek]

Dear dear dear….Leicester should have been three up..now losing 2/1

Yep. You've got to put your chances away. Kill them off.

 

[Acker79]

Yep. You've got to put your chances away. Kill them off.

And hope the officials don't disallow a perfectly legitimate goal.

 

[The Wizard]

Anyone else find the weird noises commentators make since Neville starting doing it brain numbingly annoying

 

[Eric the meek]

And hope the officials don't disallow a perfectly legitimate goal.

Agreed. I forgot about that !

 

[The Wizard]

And hope the officials don't disallow a perfectly legitimate goal.

Very very hard to see that, at full speed I thought that came off the Leicester player, that’s a normal and understandable refereeing error imo

 

[Justice]

Surely the officials ruled that goal off correctly if we go back the the weekend and Sheffield Utds goal.

Is KDH thinking ffs I could be playing Roma in a couple of weeks instead of losing at this shithole

 

[Lady Whistledown]

What IS the obsession that northern blokes have with taking their shirts off at football matches? I really don't get it, especially as most of them aren't exactly catwalk models. Leeds, The Massive, Newcastle....it's like they have a need to prove their Northern masculinity by waving their shirts around when they win.

Nobody wants to see it, lads.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Surely the officials ruled that goal off correctly if we go back the the weekend and Sheffield Utds goal.

Is KDH thinking ffs I could be playing Roma in a couple of weeks instead of losing at this shithole

Nope. Not the same.


in the Albion game the Sheffield United player was in an offside position when the ball was last deliberately played by his team-mate - so when they adjudicated that Buonanotte’s touch was not a deliberate attempt to play the ball, his position at the time of that earlier touch is what matters.

in tonight’s game the Leicester scorer is NOT offside when Faes heads at goal. The fact he’s in an offside position at the end doesn’t matter because it’s not his team mate that has played it, in that later instance.