The Football League Thread 2024/25 Championship, League 1, League 2

not much quality apparent in this Southampton team from what I saw. Leeds a no show.

From Jan 2025 ITV will show 10 EFL games and more League Cup games including the Final live

https://www.efl.com/news/2024/may/30/sky-sports-and-itv-agree-deal-in-principle-to-broadcast-select-carabao-cup-and-efl-championship-fixtures-free-to-air-from-2025/

Awful awful Leeds goal keeper, I dont know why Leeds continue to persist with Meslier

Rooney this, Rooney that….blah blah.

Did his teams non-participation really overshadow Danny Rohls utter demolition job?

Musaba could've had a hat trick of tap ins and didnt score a single one.

UTO

The Championship is so unpredictable but I think Albion and Leeds will come up Plymouth to go down

Good 24 hours for Birmingham. Last minute winner at home today and smashing the League 1 transfer record last night. Definitely don't think Stansfield is worth the reported 10-15 million at this stage, but is was quite clear all summer that the owners wanted a statement signing. Certainly got the attention we wanted. Already the favourites for the league but will definitely feel the pressure to have a 100 point season.

Agreed especially after the success of Robbins at Coventry it’s make or break for him. I think he needs to make the play offs as a minimum.

On another note although he is struggling I do have a bit of respect for Wayne Rooney taking on a club like Plymouth but similar to Frank the reality may soon set in that good as they were at playing they’re not cut out for management.

Seems like the same issues that plagued Rooney at Birmingham have happened again: tactical naivety, slamming players, criticising the fans, poor team culture, and Rooney being overly focused on other things beyond football.

Hard to see a way back in English football for him. He doesn't have the experience or skills for either a promotion push or a relegation fight. May be relying on an owner wanting a big name / autograph hunting. He doesn't appear to want to manage abroad again but I imagine a middle east team would be interested in having the Rooney brand associated with it.

Rooney will be fine anyway, will be back in the punditry and media circuit straight away. Former team mates and the media will rally around him and the narrative will be that he performed exactly as expected at Plymouth and that the owner and fan expectations were unrealistic.

Both Schumacher and Lowe were successful so I'd say that both would be welcomed back.

Wayne Rooney regarded as "one of the best Pundits iin the business" you have to laugh…TV punditry is a joke these days, not one of them know how to breakdown and analysis a game to any great detail. Carragher is probably the best, but he's also painful to listen to at times. Neville was decent when he first moved across to Sky, but I do wonder do he even look at any football outside of the games he does commentary on.

Anyways, not to get distracted. I reckon that's Rooney done in management. I was actually shocked he got awarded the Plymouth job in the first place. He has never even given the slightest hint that he maybe bcapable of good things on the management side of things.