The second half of the first midweek Football League fixtures of the season take place tonight, all from the EFL Championship.
The main TV game pits rock-bottom Stoke City against slightly better off Preston North End; the Potters still haven't come to terms with life outside of the top flight and despite Nathan Jones's heralded spell at Luton Town, he hasn't been able to recreate the free-flowing football that got him the job at the Bet365 in the first place, and Alex Neil's attacking prowess could see the Lilywhites come out on top. The secondary TV match could see a new leader at the top of the division with Lee Bowyer's Charlton Athletic hosting Sabri Lamouchi's Nottingham Forest; despite operating under utter prick Roland Duchatelet, Bowyer continues to prove his worth with 2 wins and a draw for the Addicks whereas his opponent tonight picked up his first league win at the weekend.
Elsewhere, Leeds can go back top with victory against Brentford, Mark Hudson's first game in charge of Huddersfield is at ex-Terriers' manager Neil Warnock's Cardiff, east meets west with Millwall crossing the capital to face Fulham and both Swansea and West Brom play hoops in the forms of QPR and Reading respectively.
All games kick-off at 7:45pm unless stated. Coverage of Preston v Stoke is on now on Sky Sports Football, while coverage of Charlton v Forest will start at 7:40pm.
>Cardiff City v Huddersfield Town >Charlton Athletic v Nottingham Forest (live on Sky Sports Action) >Fulham v Millwall >Leeds United v Brentford >Preston North End v Stoke City (live on Sky Sports Football) >Queens Park Rangers v Swansea City >West Bromwich Albion v Reading (8:00pm)
Shall be enjoying what will probably be our only televised game of the season
Daniel Morris
Swansea deserve more televised game. Not fucking shittiers like Charlton
Hudson Smith
For me, it's Brentford
Hunter Hughes
a lot of the matches are on the red button so should be streamable
Cameron Myers
Cope
Easton Wright
>tfw still at work putting in invoices because everyone else is too retarded to do work when they are told
Fuck my life
Caleb Watson
Forest are going to lose 4-2
Justin Torres
>Charlton Nah.
Jack Lewis
Charlton are fantastic under Lee Bowyer, reckon it'll be a draw at worst for Charlton.
Hudson Peterson
>still at work at 7:15pm fucking hell lad
Oliver Rogers
Wagie wagie don't be lazy
Leo Perry
It's kinf of alright, I don't turn up to work till 10.20 most days and I'm meant to start at 9, over the year I'm probably committing "wage theft" so I don't mind the odd night.
John Anderson
Honestly I wouldn't be able to argue against that; I've pretty much checked out following English teams, even Forest. I will check the result and catch the odd game on stream but the last time I was fully invested was when we had Assombalonga and Antonio.
and it's not like they're missing anything with shawcross kill
he was hopeless for them last season as well
Colton Rivera
everytime preston's no.10 gets on the ball he has all the room in the world and runners both sides stoke are absolutely hopeless it's like nathan jones has never watched a football match in his life
Nicholas Scott
makes you wonder how the fuck he was so good at luton
Benjamin Roberts
LYLE FUCKING TAYLOR YOU BEAUTYYYYYYYYYYY
Logan Turner
Maybe you're correct...
Julian Powell
>millwall
Luis Cook
NOW WEVE GOT LEE BOWYER
WERE FUCKING DYNAMITE
Daniel Rivera
Butland, oh my word what a howler
Julian Myers
>Joke City
Luke Ross
>butland
oh no no no no no no
Ryder Powell
Not my blog but finally leaving work lol. Fuck me, time for KFC and a cry.
Jose Bailey
>Butland lmao he is gonna get dropped
Dominic Watson
>I GOT IT, I GOT IT, I GOT IT >I don't got it...
Liam Hernandez
That's like his 3rd howler of the season already
Leo Nelson
>BUTLAND WAS ENGLANDS BEST GOALIE AT AND RUMORED TO BE GOING TO LIVERPOOL AT ONE POINT fuck me what a fall from grace
Bentley Anderson
No wonder Butland isn't getting back into the England setup.
still annoyed at carvalhal's horrific tactics in the huddersfield semi final first leg that year did the same in the hull final the year before and completely abandoned the style that had worked so well
Daniel Sanders
Getting two points away at Chelsea and City wasn't luck la.
Ethan Morris
huddersfield staying up was a miracle in itself
Isaiah Thompson
business idea: pulis return to stoke
Julian Sanders
>did the same in the hull final the year before and completely abandoned the style that had worked so well kek still remember that >desperately need a goal >have big cunt nuhiu and lucas joao on the bench >put joao on >spend rest of game hoofing big balls into the box >jeremy helan has only chance of note and twats it 50 feet above the goal
Robert Jones
>jeremy helan shame he had no end product, was quick as fuck retired to dedicate himself to religion IIRC
Juan Carter
The best thing about those playoffs was Jokanovic sulking in the press conference after Fulham lost to Reading.
Christian Brooks
>0 shots on goal at home
Good job, boggies
Ryder Morgan
>Slaviša Jokanović is a Serbian former footballer, currently manager of Qatari club Al-Gharafa well that's his english managerial career over... probably
Nathan Fisher
do remember sky building fulham up as a real madrid-esque side that were seemingly unstoppable that year
Wyatt Perry
TalkShite are doing that to Lelds this season, citing Bielsa staying as the main reason
Michael Rivera
no
Matthew White
I bet he could get a job at Championship level easily enough
Kayden Miller
is oatcake fanzine the best football forum in the world at current moment?
Not sure about that, but they certainly were treating the semi finals as a pointless diversion before the main event that was going to be Fulham vs Wednesday.
Kevin Cruz
Niche post here: but fuck Matt Glennon. Get back to your hairdressing you miserable ponce.
Sebastian Morris
bit like the year before with derby and brighton as well
Grayson Bailey
stoke looked really dangerous when ince went out to a wing position before half time (his natural role) and he comes out second half back in the no. 10 role what's nathan jones thinking?
Jose Gutierrez
Easy payout for getting sacked.
Adrian Hall
>what's nathan jones thinking? thinking about fucking sheep
Can't believe how short Scott Parker is in person, absolute fucking dwarf. Not sure how I never noticed that during his playing career.
Ian Garcia
Didnt stop West Ham signing Wilshite
Aaron Cooper
preston are very good tbf
Ryan Wood
Can anything stop West Ham signing over the hill shitters?
Parker Martin
>sky playing fake crowd noise when there's a chant with swearing what in the ever loving fuck
Logan Morgan
they always do this
seem to remember forest(?) fans chanting FUCK SKY last season and it got drowned out
Logan Turner
Good point, well made
I do hope they get relegated this season
The Wolves game was awful for this. I think they replayed the Reuben Neves chant about 20 times
Jeremiah Fisher
Just like Pep he has 100 million plus worth of a squad
Aaron Barnes
>colin wanker
Samuel Turner
>Villa almost paid 25mil for butland
Dodged a bullet there
Connor Wilson
they did this at a sheffield united game last season during a minute's silence accidentally a minute silence that was perfectly observed, no less
Ryder Scott
Saw a video on twitter of a team doing a silent protest, stadium was packed but no one made any noise and it was really effective
They probably are trying to avoid stuff like that
Sebastian Reed
Cardiff are still looking by far the better side desu, our equaliser came out of nowhere.
Elijah Fisher
Pep has 100 million plus worth of right backs
Joseph Lewis
I was aware they lowered the crowd noise for swearing chants before but this is the first time I heard them just outright play fake crowd cheering over the top of it
Joseph Nguyen
Yeah, I didn't know about this before either.
Mason Russell
well that's neil harris out of a job tonight
Cameron Davis
His career has gone downhill since how I met your mother ended 2bh
Joseph Thomas
9th after 4 games aint bad for Millwall, unless the natives are getting testy
Tyler Turner
I'm watching a stream of the iFollow thing and they've got radio commentary over the tv footage which is deeply odd.
Logan Richardson
shit, I completely forgot they'd won 2 games including one against THE MASSIVE
he's fine then
Joseph Reyes
Hey Manchester City, United, Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool fans
stoke are making daniel johnson look like prime ronaldinho
Brandon Price
Wouldn't want to play them after Jones gets sacked they'll probably win 5 games in a row
Josiah Butler
>Pulis comes back >Stoke still in the bottom 3 near the end of the season despite going full shithouse tactics >Pulis leaves to preserve his "never-relegated" accolade
Knockaert, mitrovic, cairney and cavaliero is a filthy attack. Think Fulham will get top2
Anthony Russell
Nketiah winner incoming lads
Ethan Jenkins
>Pardew poured petrol over everything true, but they were fucking doomed after that
maybe if they'd given the job to moore straightaway they might have stayed up but who knows
Luis Gomez
>Boro under Pulis at home last season >they try to time waste first half at 0-0 to get a point >They concede a goal >Instantly bring on a striker and change tactics >We end up winning about 3-0 >Pulis: "I think we were the better team, their shots went in and ours didn't"
Swansea are winning thanks to him. Been the best so far this season
Brayden Wood
Are you thick mate?
Evan Moore
think you'll find butland is the best in the league future england number one and top goalkeeping prospect
Charles Rogers
Not so fast, leeds are top mate.
Gabriel Wright
You're the thick one here lad.
Palace look absolutely fucking hopeless. Their only talent of any note is having a temper tantrum over not being sold in the summer. They're going nowhere but down.
Asher Sullivan
Leeds are scum trying to buy the league. They'll fall apart soon enough
David Rivera
>wet bum >reading will stay up yet again ffs
Evan Mitchell
Think we're gonna get relegated two seasons in a row lads.
Dominic Parker
I'm going to stop replying to you now, I think you're too dumb for your own good
Thanks for biting though
Bentley Hernandez
They'll still end up going up, the biggest yo-yo club ever.
Blake Bennett
The /htafc/ /trans/ OP is gonna be SEETHING. Good
Robert Robinson
Siewert must have the lowest win percentage of any permanent manager at any club over the past few years.
5%. Embarrassing.
Isaiah Garcia
Thought Elphick was supposed to be decent?
Jaxon Lee
he meant are you thick because you keep replying to obvious bait, retard
Landon Edwards
>I can't offer an actual argument I was just baiting
Elijah Morales
>Stoke score >but it's poppy boy
Nolan Robinson
>Leeds are scum trying to buy the league. They'll fall apart soon enough We spent fuck all and shipped out £30mil worth of players you silly cunt.
>Leeds are scum trying to buy the league. They'll fall apart soon enough
Blake Sullivan
Sorry for actually wanting a discussion.
Grayson Taylor
Maybe he would be in another side, we're just fucking hopeless right now.
Justin Jenkins
Paul jewell at derby county must be close to that
Cooper Cox
Who's palace's biggest rivals? I don't think I've ever seen someone seeth over such obvious bait before
Julian Hernandez
I swear every Charlton game gets +5 minutes
Jackson Moore
Leeds were in the champions league when I first started watching football on ITV in 2001 LOL
Levi Watson
>tfw you realise you're not the most autistic person in the thread
>champions league on itv know we all slagged itv at the time but actually quite miss champions league nights on there desu
Gabriel Baker
They won the league the first season I can remember following football.
Jack Rivera
Reminder that it wasn't even his wife in that sex tape Porno Paul got fully JUSTed during that season
Jace Morales
>His last position was as an assistant coach at West Bromwich Albion, to which he was appointed in January 2015, but from which he resigned after only one week.
Jose White
I forgot they're rivals, there's a reason right? They're miles away from each other
Andrew Bennett
dunno, but brighton changed their emblem to a seagull because their fans chanted "seagulls" to drown out the palace fans shouting "eagles"
Zachary Hall
they met a load of times in the 70s and it went from there
>trying to buy the league >over £14m in sales and only loans to replace them
Parker Gomez
Flattering scoreline for Forest tbqh, Charlton dominated that first half
Jordan Torres
they did it against Leeds as well. I reckon they'll fluke their way into the play-offs
Jaxon Clark
Had a feeling mate. Kids Quailty.
Colton Martinez
In the Leeds documentary Bamford was convinced that el Ghazi touched him during THAT dive
Hope they rot forever
Ayden Barnes
Palace would have been Brighton's closest league club for a long time right? Or tied with Portsmouth.
Luke Moore
Swansea had £37 million in sales and made only loans. Leeds have it easier
Brandon Brooks
Yeah but I'm guessing palace have a closer league club, it must be a bit one sided
Luke Cox
We were naff in the second half though and probably should have had a red card and penalty to Forest. Don't get why some Charlton fans are doing their nut in on twitter, it's gonna be a tough long season, I just want to stay up so I'm happy with every point we get.
Christopher Lewis
Charlton and Millwall would be the obvious ones, I guess they just don't give a fuck about Palace though.
Yeah I hear you but you have to admit we've got some real talent in that squad, Bowyer is a miracle worker. Oztumer played well and will be a key player this season guarantee it.
Carter King
Yeah he's rapid and because he's so small he can take every cross down with his head which sets him away nicely, did it to us all game when he was playing for Walsall.
Brody Price
well done, you spotted the joke. I'm sure you feel very intelligent