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| Chesterfield Prediction League 2024/25 Match day 5 |
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Posted by: spireitematt - 04-09-2024, 22:07 - Forum: Chesterfield
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Barrow 2-0 Swindon
Bradford City 3-1 Carlisle
Cheltenham1-1 Harrogate
Chesterfield 2-1 Grimsby
Colchester 2-1 Bromley
Crewe 1-0 Morecambe
Doncaster 2-1 Gillingham
MK Dons 1-2 Walsall
Newport 2-0 Port Vale
Notts County 1-0 Accrington
League Table After Match day 4
Devon - 110
Lord Snoots - 96
Dancing - 78
Amelia - 64
SaltergateBorn - 61
Spireitematt - 55
St Charles - 49
Maclad - 43
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| Steve Bruce |
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Posted by: themaclad - 04-09-2024, 09:43 - Forum: Blackpool
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League One side Blackpool have appointed Steve Bruce as their head coach on a two-year deal.
The 63-year-old had been out of work since being sacked by West Bromwich Albion in October 2022 following a nine-month spell in charge.
Bruce has managed more than 1,000 competitive matches for clubs including Birmingham City, Hull City, Aston Villa and Newcastle United.
He takes over after the Seasiders sacked Neil Critchley on 21 August following back-to-back defeats to start the campaign.
They just missed out on a play-off spot last season, finishing in eighth position, but have only taken two points from their opening four matches this term.
Bruce's long-term assistant Steve Agnew will join him at Bloomfield Road, along with coaches Richard Keogh, Stephen Dobbie and Steve Banks.
"I'm delighted to be back in football and to take charge of this fantastic football club," Bruce told the club website., external
"I'd like to thank Simon, Julian and David for giving me this great opportunity. I look forward to meeting all of the staff and players in the coming days as we prepare for what we all hope will be an exciting season at Bloomfield Road."
The role is Bruce's 13th job in management since retiring as a player in 1999, and the 12th club he has managed after two spells at Wigan.
His appointment was announced moments after Blackpool beat Crewe 4-1 in the EFL Trophy.
"I'm confident that Steve's experience and leadership qualities will be a tremendous asset for Blackpool," owner Simon Sadler added.
"His organised approach coupled with his desire to build a hardworking and entertaining side is a large part of what attracted us to him.
“Additionally, Steve's ability to help grow and develop not only our playing staff but also our coaching talent was important to us.
"Alongside his assistant Steve Agnew, there is a great opportunity for two of our former players at the early stages of their coaching careers to learn from a duo who possess unrivalled qualities.
"We hope that this blend will get the very best out of our talented squad."
Bruce will have to wait until 14 September to take charge of his new side for the first time, when they face Exeter at home.
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| Prediction League Week 3 Results |
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Posted by: Zinman - 02-09-2024, 22:11 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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Group A
Twerton 12
A.A.A. 11
Themaclad 8
Amelia 7
Zinman 6
Minizin 1
Seems we are getting back into the sort of scoring averages we saw last season!! At least Zinman seems to be back in pre-season training finally!! Twerton once again tops the table, this time with a solid 12 points, he managed one of only 2 CSs this week and backed that up with a CR on the Bonus. AAA keeps up his good start with 11 points, he was one of only two players with positive points on the Gamball. Early league leader Themaclad is 3rd with 8 points, he also got a CR on the Bonus but not much else.
Amelia is 4th with 7 points, she was the other one who got the CR on the Gamball but couldn’t back that up with many other points. Zinman finally gets off the bottom rung in the weekly scoring with 6 points and is replaced with this weeks wooden spoon by Minizin with a miserable 1 point.
33 Themaclad
29 Twerton
28 A.A.A.
24 Minizin
21 Amelia
11 Zinman
Themaclad retains his lead but the chasing packs has all closed up. Twerton is now 2nd, a point ahead of AAA with Minizin the big faller this week in 4th. Amelia is still in touch in 5th spot and still has a healthy lead of 10 points over Zinman who is still bring up the rear.
Group B
BaggieOne 16pts
Lady Jane 13
BBB 12
Snooty 10
Stairs 8
SCO 7
Derby 7
Correct scores were scarce in a week that saw the highest number of correct result predictions - complete opposite to last week but overall scoring was at similar levels. the Oxford game proved to be this week's hardest pick with just one correct result and blowing 2 bonuses - this was my original pick for the gamball game, so the week could have been much worse.
BaggieOne sits on top this week tahnks to a full set of balls and 2 correct scores. Lady Jane's good start to the season continues with a decent 13 point return and a good ball return - she has scored on every gamball so far which may just explain her early season lead. BBB takes 3rd place with a week's high of 6 correct results though he was unable to turn asny of them into correct scores and was one of just 2 players to miss out on the bonus. Snooty is the 4th player into double figures - he only got 3 correct results but these included the gamball and bonus, showing how important it is to get those damn balls right!
Talking of which... Stairs equalled BaggieOne's correct scores/results but only scored half as many points due a wipe out on his balls. He was though able to outscore SCO and Derby both of whom scored on just 3 games but at least got their bonuses correct.
41 Lady Jane
31 Derby
30 BaggieOne
28 Stairs
26 BBB
25 Snooty
24 SCO
Another good week, and another gamball win sees Lady Jane extend her early lead to a healthy 10 points. Derby retains 2nd place but it's getting a bit crowded with just 7 points separating 6 players. Stairs is the only player not to score on the gamball while Derby and Snooty have 100% records with the bonus.
A week off for the International break, arranged so that SCO can climb into his Speedos and enjoy his holidays - yes, he has that level of influence!
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| A trip to Donny in the Tinpot Trophy |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 01-09-2024, 16:30 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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Doncaster Rovers v Huddersfield Town
The Bristol Street Motors Trophy
Tuesday September 3rd - 19:00 ko
at the Eco-Power Stadium
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Huddersfield Town travel to Doncaster to the Keepmoat on Tuesday evening for our first EFL Trophy game since 2011. It's not a good place to visit for us, having played there three times and been beaten on each occasion without even scoring a goal.
After a great start to the season, Town go into this match on the back of two clumsy defeats, throwing away leads whilst trying to cling on following a red card. Unbelievably, we've had four red cards and conceded three penalties before the end of August. Can we please have a proper ref this time?
There are more details of team selection rules at the back end of this article, but basically we have to pick at least four first teamers for the game.
Obviously Danny Ward is unavailable. David Kasumu and Brodie Spencer are injured, so which of that rabble from Saturday would you give a start in this one? I'd go for Ollie Turton and Josh Ruffels, who are both short of game time following long term injuries. I'd give the two Wolves lads, Joe Hodge and Nigel Lonwijk a start as well. The game at Rotherham was the first game of the season for both of them, so minutes on the grass needed.
As for the kids, Ward out suspended, Bojan Radulović and Rhys Healey injured, Callum Marshall on international duty, Kian Harratt sent out on loan, is it time for a first team call up for Zak Abbott? Or do we use it as another chance for the first choice XI to get some game time together seeing as we don't have a game at the weekend?
EDIT: Ward is available. The suspension doesn't count for this competition. So he will now miss Bolton (a), Northampton (h) and Reading (a).
Rovers have one name in their squad which will send shivers down the spine of most Town fans. That's 38 year old Billy Sharp, a man with a career goal tally approaching 300, with quite a high percentage of those scored against Huddersfield Town. This is his third spell at the Keepmoat, having had three seasons there from 2009 to 2012 when Rovers were in the Championship.
He was sold to Southampton towards the back end of 2011/12, the season they got relegated and we got promoted. They did come back up as champions of League One though, after a famous win at Griffin Park against Brentford, so we played them for the last time in the league in 2013/14 and even though they got relegated, we still couldn't beat them. And Sharp, who was back there on loan, scored against us.
It's now nine games since we last won against Doncaster Rovers.
Another veteran in their squad is former Wednesday, Coventry and Rotherham defender, Richard Wood. At 39 years old, he's even older than Sharp. Don't know if those two will be playing in this game though. I reckon both Michael Duff and Grant McCann will be making it a chance to revolve their squads and get some minutes in for the reserves.
This match is being broadcast live on the Sky Sports+ channel (Sky 412). It's the main game, so hopefully there'll be none of the problems with poor quality streaming.
And it's a seven o'clock kick off. Don't be late!
Tickets:
Adult - £10
Seniors (65+) - £5
14-24 years - £5
13 and under - £1
All tickets for this fixture are now on general sale, with all sales ending at 2pm on Tuesday 3 September.
A brief history of Huddersfield Town in the EFL Trophy (Part One): Starting out as the Associate Members Cup in 1983/84, Town weren't involved due to us being in the Second Division at the time. Our first entry came after relegation in 1988. We were drawn in Group 5 for the preliminary round and our first ever match in this prestigious tournament came in December of that year, at home to Scunthorpe United. Mick Byrne scored the only goal of the game in front of 2,216 eager supporters at Leeds Road.
Scunny had already lost at home to Halifax Town the week before, so in a three team group, their second defeat meant they were out and we would progress to the next round as the top two in the group went through. So our 1-0 defeat at the Shay a week later was of no significance.
It did mean however that we would have an away tie in the first round proper and when the draw was made, we had the daunting task of a trip to Blundell Park to take on Grimsby Town. Eoin Hand, the Town manager, picked a strong team to take on the Mariners and it turned out to be a magnificent result. We beat them 3-1. Mike Cecere scored in the first half, Craig Maskell in the second half and then a goal from a sub to round things off. That sub was Hand's number two, Peter Withe, rounding off a magnificent career with his last ever professional goal. Not quite as memorable as the one he got to win the European Cup for Aston Villa.
And then we embarrassed ourselves by losing 2-1 at home to Scarborough.
Some more embarrassing scorelines followed in the next couple of seasons. A 3-0 defeat at Rotherham and a 4-1 loss at home to Hartlepool, before we started to go deep into the tournament.
In 1991/92, we reached the northern semi finals. Getting through the group stage with Wigan and Scarborough as opponents, we then faced Blackpool at Leeds Road on a foggy Tuesday night. Town led 1-0 at half time through a Iwan Roberts goal, which nobody saw, because the fog was so thick, the game got abandoned.
A week later, Iwan scored again in the re-match, but the game ended in a 1-1 draw and so went to penalties. This was our first ever penalty shoot out and the first of many that we won. Goalkeeper Tim Clarke was the hero, saving twice, with Mark Wright tucking away the winner to earn us a trip to Gigg Lane to take on Bury.
Another Roberts goal, as well as one from Iffy Onuora gave us a 2-1 win, which then brought us to the area semi. That was away at Burnley, where a crowd of 10,775 turned up. Simon Charlton was dismissed early on, stopping a shot on the line with his hand and we went out 2-0 on the night.
It was another near miss in the next season, getting to the same round and losing at Wigan.
1993/94 was the year we got to Wembley for the first time since 1938. We played Swansea City in the Final of what was by this time known as the Autoglass Trophy. We had another succesful penalty shoot out along the way, beating Preston 5-3 at Leeds Road with Darren Bullock slamming home the winner.
By the time we got to the northern semi final, we had dropped into the relegation zone and there were rumblings about manager Neil Warnock and would he be sacked before the season ended. The Autoglass game at Stockport came shortly after we had been hammered there in the league and optimism wasn't high. However, this match turned out to be the season's turning point. We won 1-0 with an Iain Dunn goal, from an almighty goalmouth scramble.
Such a turning point was this that we set off on an unbeaten league run of eleven games to the end of the season and mid table security. Wily young Warnock got the team up for the best performance of the season in the Northern Final, in the first leg at home to Carlisle. We beat them 4-1, with Bullock and Dunn finding the net again as well as Peter Jackson and Phil Starbuck.
The second leg was one hell of a struggle though and we were two-nil down on the night very early on. We managed to see out the rest of the game though as the ref added on an unbelievable ten minutes of injury time. We won 4-3 on aggregate.
The Final was a bit of a damp squib. Richard Logan scored the equaliser as we drew 1-1, but then came our worst ever penalty shoot out. Only Pat Scully scored as we lost 3-1.
The following season saw a bit of history as Dunny scored the first ever Golden Goal in English football, against Lincoln. We lost at Bury in the quarter final, in what should've been our last ever game in this tinpot trophy, as we ended the season getting promoted.
Part Two to come in the Barnsley thread.......
Head to Head
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Town lead the head to head with 20 wins to Donny's 13, with 10 draws.
Those figures include the four times that we have met in this competition, in it's various guises......
1989/90: Preliminary Round Group 5; Town 2-2 Rovers. Town scorers, Mark Smith and Craig Maskell.
1992/93: Round 2; Town 3-0 Rovers. Town scorers, Gary Barnett, Iain Dunn and Kieran O'Regan (pen).
1993/94: Round 1 Group 5; Town 3-1 Rovers. Town scorers, Phil Starbuck and Iain Dunn (2).
2006/07: Round 1 North East; Town 1-2 Rovers. Town scorers. Andy Booth.
Recent form - last six matches:
Rotherham 2-1 Town
Walsall 3-2 Town (EFL Cup)
Town 1-0 Shrewsbury
Town 2-1 Stevenage
Town 3-0 Morecambe (EFL Cup)
Peterborough 0-2 Town
Port Vale 2-3 Donny
Everton 3-0 Donny (EFL Cup)
Donny 1-0 Morecambe
Newport 3-1 Donny
Salford 0-2 Donny (EFL Cup)
Donny 4-1 Accrington
Town are 5th in the League One table with 9 points. Rovers similarly are 5th in League Two also with 9.
There has been one match already in our group with Barnsley losing 3-2 at home to the Manchester United u21s.
Leading scorers:
Terriers:
Ben Wiles (2)
Josh Koroma (2)
Callum Marshall (2)
Rovers:
Luke Molyneux (5)
Billy Sharp (3)
EFL Trophy rules: Who can play? A minimum of four qualifying outfield players in their starting XI. A qualifying outfield player was one who met any of the following requirements:
Any player who started the previous or following first-team fixture.
Any player who is in the top 10 players at the club who has made the most starting appearances in league and domestic cup competitions this season.
Any player with forty or more first-team starting appearances in their career, including International matches.
Any player on loan from a Premier League club or any EFL Category One Academy club.
A club can play any eligible goalkeeper in the competition.
Any player out on a long loan term at a National League, National League North, or National League South team can play as long as the loaning team agree to allow the player to return for the match.
So we could play six lads from the Academy and an Academy goalkeeper, if we wanted to.
Clubs will be awarded three points for a win and one point for a draw.
In the event of a drawn game (after 90 minutes), a penalty shoot-out will be held with the winning team earning an additional point.
The top two teams in each group will progress to the knockout stage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80...EFL_Trophy
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| HTAFC Prediction League 2024/25 Matchday 5 - international break |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 01-09-2024, 15:51 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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2 points for correct result
4 points for correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score (correct score on a joker would give you 8 points)
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Badger gives you 2 points 
The prize for winning the league is one rep point.
Cup games: In the event of a draw, it's half the points if you've predicted a draw when it gets to 90 mins and the full points if it's still a draw after extra time. Half the points will be awarded for correctly predicting the winner of the match if it goes to penalties. However, if you do predict a draw and it's a match that won't be going to a replay, you can get a possible extra point by stating which of the two teams you think will eventually win.
Random score generator: I will be using the random score generator again for those who miss predicting, so we shouldn't get some people too far behind that after missing a couple of weeks they lose all interest, because I know it's not easy getting on here every week.
To be fair to everybody, this is going to be like, say if three people in one week miss their predictions, the first one in the table will be given all 0-0, the second one down the line will get 1-0 and the third will get 0-1 and so on, like if there's four missing the 4th will get 1-1, then 5th 2-1, 6th 1-2. and if there are so many missing, might as well pack in. 
And if you miss two weeks on the trot, I'll stop until you come back on again. Not doing it for half a season like I did t'other year. 
At the end of the season, the winner of group 2 and the bottom of group 1 will swap places in what is commonly known as "promotion" and "relegation". It's something that most football fans will be familiar with, unless you're a fan of Liverpool or Arsenal or one of those other fashionable clubs.
The second placed player in group 2 will then have a play off with the player who finishes second from the bottom in group 1 to decide whether they will be going up, down or staying where they are.
We're going to have two seasons in one though, just to try and make it a bit more interesting and not so long drawn out. The first season will end on the Boxing Day fixtures, with the play offs being on the dates of the Twixtmas fixtures and the NYD fixtures.
The second season will start the following week, which is usually the FA Cup 3rd round, finishing on the last game of the League One season. Then another period of relegation/promotion play off games, taking in such fixtures as the EFL play offs, FA Cup Final, UEFA finals and such like.
Each group will have it's own set of fixtures. Both groups will have the Town games, with scorers to predict as before. Then it will be a split of League One fixtures and bonus matches, hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.
The random badger is restricted to three goal scorers in any of the fixtures in your group.
Here's how that will appear at the end of the fixture list. All you have to do is fill in the blanks.......
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.
Postponed matches will only count if the match is re-played before the next Matchday is under way. Abandoned matches will be awarded half the points for the score at the time of abandonment, so 1 point if you have the correct result, 2 points if you have the correct score.
Substitute or scorer in one of the Town games:- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off.
Prediction League Archive: https://www.sportsbabble.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=12830
Division One table after Matchday 4:
- jjamez = 76 pts
- themaclad = 74 pts
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 70 pts
- St Charles Owl = 64 pts
- SHEP_HTAFC = 62 pts
- Lord Snooty = 49 pts
Thursday 5th September:
UEFA Nations League:
Scotland v Poland
Friday 6th September:
Wales v Turkey
Saturday 7th September:
League One:
Barnsley v Bristol Rovers
Charlton Athletic v Rotherham United
Wrexham v Shrewsbury Town
League Two:
Bradford City v Carlisle United
UEFA Nations League:
Republic of Ireland v England (17:00)
Sunday 8th September:
Bulgaria v Northern Ireland (17:00)
Monday 9th September:
Montenegro v Wales
Tuesday 10th September:
England v Finland
Republic of Ireland v Greece
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
Division Two table after Matchday 4:
- Devongone = 87 pts
- neonfoxinthebox = 82 pts
- theo_luddite = 71 pts
- ritchiebaby = 62 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 54 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 51 pts
Thursday 5th September:
UEFA Nations League:
Northern Ireland v Luxembourg
Friday 6th September:
Wales v Turkey
Saturday 7th September:
League One:
Barnsley v Bristol Rovers
Charlton Athletic v Rotherham United
Wrexham v Shrewsbury Town
League Two:
Chesterfield v Grimsby Town
UEFA Nations League:
Republic of Ireland v England (17:00)
Sunday 8th September:
Portugal v Scotland (19:45)
Monday 9th September:
Montenegro v Wales
Tuesday 10th September:
England v Finland
Republic of Ireland v Greece
*** scores for ***
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| WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread |
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Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 30-08-2024, 22:37 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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After several trips to the GP and a lengthy Friday evening phone conversation with NHS Direct, it seems the strange and unfamiliar symptoms I've been experiencing since last Saturday - which range from intense tingling sensations to bouts of uncontrollable elation, with a general feeling of benevolence towards the world at large persisting throughout - are attributable to a condition commonly known as "optimism." Unfamiliar as I am with this affliction, apparently the only known cure is to continue watching Albion until the disease naturally (and rapidly) subsides, so that end, we welcome Swansea to the Hawthorns tomorrow.
With the caveat that anything I write could be a hostage to fortune in the last ninety minutes of the transfer window, the reacquisition of Mikey Johnston would appear to be the icing on the cake of a successful summer's business. But we'll need to be at our best against a Swans side with a solid record against us, winning five out of the last six encounters, with only last season's corresponding fixture finishing narrowly in Albion's favour. Encouragingly, they've gone winless in six of their last seven league games on the road, and though they're no strangers to scoring at the Hawthorns - failing to do so only twice in the 21st century so far, from thirteen visits - Josh Maja's four goals so far suggest he's got the confidence to cause them a few problems in turn.
Knocked out of the League Cup in midweek by League One Wycombe, Swansea are liable to want a quick bounce back to form, but may still be reeling a little from the defeat. I expect goals, and fingers crossed, Albion can finish off an excellent August with our first home win of the campaign.
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| The magic is back |
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Posted by: 4evaabaggie - 30-08-2024, 18:30 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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Welcome home Magic Mikey.
We’re buzzing just as much as you are, we love you as much as you love us.
Go set the league on fire.
Just read King Carlos telling how Magic said to him after the saints defeat that he wanted to come back to the Albion. He didn’t think it would be possible.
When the chance arose he jumped at it.
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| Kilmarnock v Hibs - Sunday 1 September |
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Posted by: ritchiebaby - 30-08-2024, 11:43 - Forum: Hibernian
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This will be a great chance for a confident, assured Hibs team to go into the international break feeling good about themselves.
The question is "will a confident, assured Hibs team" turn up at Rugby Park? We're looking better now at certain times again, but the defensive issues still persist. Kilmarnock still haven't scored in their 3 Premiership games and have lost 9 goals, so the opportunity for a Hibs win is there. I'm certain we'll gift them a goal through poor defending and have a good chance of scoring ourselves.
Kieron Bowie looks like a great acquisition and, if he can link up with the other attackers, might prove the difference between the sides.
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