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  HTAFC Prediction League 2023/24 Matchday 13
Posted by: Lord Snooty - 22-10-2023, 19:36 - Forum: Huddersfield Town - Replies (16)

2 points for correct result
4 points for correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score   Laugh (correct score on a joker would give you 8 points)
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Random Badger gives you 2 points Badger

The random badger Badger is used for any random prediction used once in each matchday sequence. For instance, a scorer at a particular match, the number of red cards in the matches or yellow cards or own goals or owt you want really within reason, I do need to be able to check whether it's correct or not. Please don't put stuff like....."Commentator says...."  Rolleyes
The joker  Laugh is played for one match in each sequence and if correct you get double points. So if you've predicted 1-0 and it finishes 2-0, you get 4 pts, but if you've predicted 2-0, that's 8 pts. But if you get it wrong, it's minus 2.
Jokers and badgers are optional. You don't have to play one if you don't want.


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. Similarly with the badger, if your random prediction is affected by this, it'll be half the points.

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. Wink
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.  Rolleyes

End of season Play Offs: The one who finishes top of the league will still be champion, but after the season finishes there will be Play Offs between the top 4, with 1st v 4th and 2nd v 3rd. This will take in stuff like the EFL Play Offs, FA Cup Final, final day of Prima Donna League, European Finals etc. It will be one matchday for the semis and one for the Final. It will be the individual scores for each matchday against the allotted opponent, with some kind of tie breaker for a drawn match.

The prize for winning will be enormous. Another rep point. Whistle



So we have a new format for this season, which I put forward as an idea at the end of last season. Nobody offered any objections so here it is explained......

Firstly, I thought it was getting a bit boring towards the end with the league format as it was with the champion being so far ahead and everybody else not much to play for apart from the push for a play off spot, which was a bit of an anticlimax anyway. The most exciting bit was the tussle for 8th, 9th and 10th positions with Shep, Ritchie and Amelia.  Whistle

So I'm splitting the group up into two groups with the top six from last season in the top group and the bottom six in group 2. 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 New Years Day games and the FA Cup 3rd round weekend.

The second season will start the following week, finishing on the last game of the Championship 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 Championship fixtures and bonus matches. And not as many fixtures to go at. Hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.

The rest of the rules will be the same as before apart from the Badger which will still be in use, but I'm going to get arsey about it. Sometimes in the past, I've been able to just award two points immediately because it was such a nailed on thing to happen. Not accusing anyone of cheating. Far from it. I didn't put any boundaries on it, so anything was alright. So now I'm restricting it to three goal scorers in any of the games in your group. Sorry to all our more adventurous badgerers.

Here's how that will appear at the end of the fixture list. All you have to do is fill in the blanks.......


Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***

Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.

The joker  Laugh will still be the same as before, ie doubling your points for a correct prediction or minus 2 for getting it wrong.



Division One table after Matchday 12:
  1. St Charles Owl = 240 pts
  2. Baggiebob(BBB) = 226 pts
  3. jjamez = 199 pts
  4. neonfoxinthebox = 199 pts
  5. themaclad = 187 pts
  6. theo_luddite = 182 pts


Saturday 28th October:
Leeds v Town (12:30)
Town scorers:
Leeds scorers:

Hull City v Preston North End
Ipswich Town v Plymouth Argyle
Middlesbrough v Stoke City
Watford v Millwall

Sunday 29th October:
Sheffield Wednesday v Rotherham United (13:00)

Monday October 30th:
Coventry City v West Bromwich Albion

EFL Cup 4th round:
Wednesday 1st November:

West Ham United v Arsenal (19:30)
AFC Bournemouth v Liverpool
Chelsea v Blackburn Rovers
Everton v Burnley

Bonus matches:
Sunday:
Premier League:

Manchester United v Manchester City (15:30)

Wednesday:
League One:

Fleetwood Town v Blackpool


Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***




Division Two table after Matchday 12:
  1. Lord Snooty = 219 pts
  2. ritchiebaby = 181 pts
  3. WakeyTerrier = 179 pts
  4. Amelia Chaffinch = 178 pts
  5. Devongone = 168 pts
  6. SHEP_HTAFC = 157 pts


Saturday 28th October:
Leeds v Town (12:30)
Town scorers:
Leeds scorers:

Southampton v Birmingham City (12:30)
Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City
Cardiff City v Bristol City
Queens Park Rangers v Leicester City
Sunderland v Norwich City

EFL Cup 4th round:
Tuesday 31st October:

Exeter City v Middlesbrough
Mansfield Town v Port Vale

Wednesday 1st November:
Ipswich Town v Fulham
Manchester United v Newcastle United (20:15)

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Scottish Premiership:

Hibernian v Celtic

National League:
Kidderminster Harriers v Chesterfield
York City v FC Halifax Town (17:30)


Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***
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  WBA vs Plymouth & QPR
Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 20-10-2023, 11:10 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (7)

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The defeat at St Andrews was an unfortunate bump in the road just at the point when Albion looked to have turned a corner. It may be for the best that we've had a fortnight to recover; it may be even better that we're back on home soil for the coming week's matches, and resuming the campaign with our first game against Plymouth since February 2010. In addition to losing all five of their away matches so far this season, Argyle have lost their last five on the trot versus the Baggies, and you have to go back over thirty years - to the infamous 5-2 trouncing during that calamitous 1993 run-in that plunged Ossie's Albion down into the play-offs we were ultimately destined to win - to find the last time the men in green claimed three points from this fixture. So, a ripe time for them to don their bucket hats and bleached t-shirts and bring 1993 roaring back into fashion? Well, Albion negotiated the Sheffield Wednesday banana skin at the beginning of the month, and as long as we can keep a lid on Morgan Whittaker, the tireless winger who provides a large part of the visitors' goal threat, it should be no different here.

On Tuesday night, QPR then visit on a losing streak of three matches and a winless streak of six that's sunk them into the relegation zone. League positions notwithstanding, it's an historically tricky fixture that brings goals galore: you have to go back to Easter 2000 to find a goalless draw between the sides, and encounters at the Hawthorns since then have seen Albion average 2.8 goals to QPR's 1.7. Rangers shipped four at home to Blackburn before the international break, so it could well be more of the same in mid-week, but as always, no one ever made their fortune backing Albion to do things the easy way.

If the playoff race is our target, then we have to hunt for six points in the coming days; but allowing for injuries, defensive frailties and sheer sod's law, four is a tally we could settle for.

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  Chesterfield Prediction League 2023/24 Matchday 16
Posted by: spireitematt - 19-10-2023, 23:37 - Forum: Chesterfield - Replies (6)

Fylde 0-2 Ebbsfleet
Aldershot 2-1 Hartlepool
Altrincham 2-0 Dorking
Barnet 3-0 Maidenhead United
Bromley 2-3 Oxford City
Chesterfield 2-0 Gateshead
Dag & Red 1-1 Woking
Eastleigh 0-1 York
Halifax 2-1 Kidderminster
Rochdale 1-0 Oldham
Southend 2-1 Solihull Moors
Wealdstone 1-0 Boreham Wood


League Table After Matchday 15

Spireitematt - 368
Amelia - 323
SaltergateBorn - 301
St Charles - 263
Dancing - 245
Lord Snoots - 235
Devon - 173

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  Rangers v Hibs - Saturday 21 October
Posted by: ritchiebaby - 19-10-2023, 22:56 - Forum: Hibernian - Replies (5)

Hibs travel to Ibrox on Saturday desperate to improve their recent record there. Nick Montgomery seems to have instilled a new confidence and mental toughness in the Hibs' team and it will certainly be needed on Saturday. We have the flair and pace in attack and hope to put a sometimes shaky Rangers' defence under pressure. No doubt we will be playing against their twelfth man and maybe the relevant instructions will have not been received in time by the match officials.

As for Rangers, they might benefit from the new manager bounce as we did, but Phillipe Clement has not yet had much time to get the team playing his way. He says he is starting with a clean sheet with his players, so there might be a settling-in period, which could benefit us.

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  Gary gone
Posted by: themaclad - 18-10-2023, 21:49 - Forum: Millwall - No Replies

Now we are getting managers potted before we play them, it's usually afterwards

Millwall manager Gary Rowett has left the Championship club by mutual agreement after four years in charge.

The 49-year-old guided the club to top-half finishes in each of those years but was unable to secure them a place in the play-offs.

Rowett took over in October 2019 following a short stint at Stoke.

"I have thoroughly enjoyed being manager of Millwall and depart with a feeling that the club has progressed during my tenure," Rowett said.

A successor has not yet been appointed and assistant manager Adam Barrett will take charge of the team in the interim period.

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  MY CONCERN
Posted by: Baggiebob(BBB) - 18-10-2023, 19:34 - Forum: Huddersfield Town - Replies (4)

My thoughts having seen us win two matches, and a moral boosting win against Italy, if we haven't shown the qulifiers for the finals, our way of playing and our robable best team, so they can analize how best to play against us - especially the best teams.

I do realize we'll be doing the same to them, so my question is, do you think we'll be good enough to overcome this scrutiny and progress to the final? 

I would like to hear what you guys think.

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  MY CONCERN
Posted by: Baggiebob(BBB) - 18-10-2023, 19:32 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (2)

My thoughts having seen us win two matches, and a moral boosting win against Italy, if we haven't shown the qulifiers for the finals, our way of playing and our robable best team, so they can analize how best to play against us - especially the best teams.

I do realize we'll be doing the same to them, so my question is, do you think we'll be good enough to overcome this scrutiny and progress to the final? 

I would like to hear what you guys think.

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  Millwall Deepdale 21/10/2023
Posted by: themaclad - 18-10-2023, 15:30 - Forum: Preston North End - Replies (5)

Preston North End v Millwall
Deepdale 12.30 pm 21/10/2023

https://www.millwallfc.co.uk/

https://millwallonline.com/forum/forums/...-banter.6/

Manager

Gary Rowett (born 6 March 1974) is an English professional football manager and former player, who is currently manager of Championship club Millwall.

As a player, he was a defender, and played in the Premier League for Everton, Derby County, Leicester City and Charlton Athletic. He also played in the Football League for Cambridge United, Blackpool, Birmingham City and Burton Albion. His professional career ended in 2004, through a knee injury.

In May 2009, he was appointed assistant manager to Paul Peschisolido at Burton, and took over as manager in 2012. He was appointed the manager of Birmingham City in October 2014 and served until December 2016. He became Derby County manager in March 2017, and joined Stoke City in May 2018. After failing to mount a promotion challenge, he was sacked in January 2019 and was appointed manager of Millwall that October.

Not lost a game as manager against PNE

FORM GUIDE

PNE 5 MILLWALL 11

LAST TIME OUT



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INS AND OUTS

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HOT SHOTS

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Danger Man

Flemming as he got three against us last season however signing Joe Bryan is a masterstroke always rated him

A BIT OF PREVIOUS

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  Williamson
Posted by: themaclad - 18-10-2023, 15:04 - Forum: MK Dons - No Replies

MK Dons have appointed Gateshead manager Mike Williamson as their new head coach.

The former Newcastle centre-back replaces Graham Alexander, who was sacked on Monday after a run of eight League Two games without a win.

Williamson, 39, was in charge of Gateshead for four years and leaves them sixth in the National League.

He is the fourth head coach appointed by the Dons, who were relegated last season, in the past 10 months.

Although also registered as a player at Gateshead, Williamson only made a handful of appearances over the past two years - the most recent in a 2-1 win over Oldham in February.

They won the National League North title under him in 2022 and last season reached the FA Trophy final, but lost 1-0 to FC Halifax at Wembley.

"It's been a quick turnaround and it was a tough decision to leave Gateshead but when a club like this comes in, it's a no brainer," he told the MK Dons website.

"We have a talented squad, with strength in depth, and we'll come in and start getting to know the group.

"They've got to trust us and buy into what we stand for - we have a lot of ideas that we want to implement, but it will be one thing at a time. It is going to be an evolution."

Williamson will be joined at MK Dons by assistant head coach Ian Watson and first-team coach Chris Bell, who both worked with him at Gateshead.

Chairman Pete Winkelman said Williamson would be given "every ounce of support" at Stadium MK.

"Mike is a winner," Winkelman said.

"He has achieved promotions throughout his playing career and already as a manager."

MK Dons, who are 16th in League Two, next visit Accrington Stanley on Saturday.

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  Watford v The Owls SBC Match Thread
Posted by: Owlkev71 - 18-10-2023, 14:15 - Forum: Sheffield Wednesday - Replies (85)

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER KO 3:00PM

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LAST MATCH



Our first game without Xisco, a switch to a familiar formation, players playing in there right positions but still no one to put the ball in the net and we end up with a point and a clean sheet on DM return. It wasn't a game full of chances, with only one shot on target the entire match. Huddersfield did get the ball in the net but was ruled out for a foul on Dawson, who was back in goal. A couple of the youngsters made the bench but didn't get on.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB Thumb up  Thumb up  Thumb up

THE MATCH



So our first game with DR in charge takes us down to Vicarage Road and Watford. Watford have made a poor start to the season and currently languish in 20th place. I would expect them to recover from the poor start but probably a mid table finish might be the best they could finish. They are managed by Valerien Ismael who used to manage Barnsley and WBA. There leading scorer is Bayo with 4 and have a couple of noticeable players in Livermore & Ince.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB Thumb up  Thumb up  Thumb up

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 16
WATF 23
DRAWS 10

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                Confused Angry Angry Angry Confused Angry                                                                            

WATF              -                Confused  Angry  Angry  Angry  Confused  Big Grin                                                         

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT Thumb up  Thumb up

DEAN WHITESTONE
Daniel Leach and Andrew Dallison
Fourth Official : Sunny Singh Gill

THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Ihekwe James
Vaulks Bannan Byers
Gregory Windass

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Gregory

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

55

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Washington 6
Maddix 4
Owlkev 1
SCO 1
Imre 0

BMPL

Stateside 2
Wereham 2
Pei -11

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Chelsea v Arsenal
Norwich v Leeds
Shrewsbury v Derby
Bradford v Wrexham
Rochdale v Oldham

DDAAA

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

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