LEFT FIELD APPOINTMENT

Fleetwood have appointed former Scotland midfielder Charlie Adam as their new head coach.

The 38-year-old replaces Lee Johnson who was sacked on Saturday after a run of nine games without a win.

Adam retired in 2022 after playing for clubs including Rangers, Liverpool, Blackpool and Stoke City and is taking on his first managerial role.

He becomes the third boss at the League One club this season following Johnson and Scott Brown.

Adam has been working as a coach with Premier League side Burnley as their loan manager, and also with their under-21 players.

Maurice Ross will also join as assistant coach and former Fleetwood player Ross Wallace becomes first-team coach with their first game in charge at Shrewsbury on Monday.

THE MATCH

MONDAY 1ST JANUARY KO 5:15PM

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We ended the year just like we started the year with 3 very welcome points. We had the first real chance when Vaulks should have done better with a header. We took the lead when Cads played Johnson through on the inside left and he finished well from 12 yards. PNE had a few chance but didn't test Dawson. Onto the second and Preston nearly levelled but there effort hit the bar. Preston were edging it but we were defending well. Then near the end Byers was given a straight red, if it was for the challenge it will surely be rescinded, unless something else happened that we don't know about. We managed to hang on and reduce the deficit to 6 points.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Our first game of the New Year sees Hull make the short journey to Hillsborough. The Tigers are having a good season and are currently lying in the final playoff spot. If they can stay there is another matter as there is only a 5 point gap between themselves and 14th spot. There form of late has been mixed with 3 wins and 3 defeats in there last 6  games. They are managed by Liam Rosenior who has been in charge for just over a year. They have several threats, Connelly is there leading scorer with 8 followed by Delap & Tufan with 7 each, Tufan scoring a hat trick at there place earlier in the season

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 21
HULL 16 
DRAWS 20  

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                              

HULL                -                                                               

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

Referee – Darren Bond 
Assistant Referee 1 - Matthew Jones
Assistant Referee 2 - Jonathan Hunt
Fourth Official - Rebecca Welch 

THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Ihiekwe Bernard Famewo
Windass Bannan Vaulks Byers Johnson
Cadamarteri

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Cadamarteri

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

30

ATTENDANCE

25564

BML LEAGUE

Imre 14
Washington 13
Owlkev 11
Maddix 6
SCO 3

BMPL

Wereham 7
Stateside 6
Pei -3

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Liverpool v Newcastle
Middlesbrough v Coventry
Derby v Peterborough
Tranmere v Notts Co
York City v Gateshead

HDHAA

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This week with the extra random feature - what sort of teams will be selected for the cup.

Gamball:
Arsenal - Liverpool

Others:
Millwall - Leicester
Sunderland - Newcastle
Gillingham - Sheff Utd
Stoke - Brighton
Middlesbrough - Villa
Peterborough - Leeds
Maidstone - Stevenage
QPR - Bournemouth
Sheff W - Cardiff

I assume that there are replays for this round, but if not, scores will be taken at the end of the game after extra time but before penalties.

Hibs will be welcoming the Steelmen (do they have a new nickname nowadays?) to Easter Road on Tuesday afternoon before the New Year break kicks in. Hibs' recent form has been a bit patchy, with plenty of promise spoiled by individual lapses. This should be a great chance for them to get back on the winning trail with Motherwell going through a worse time, although only 8 points behind us.

We'll be losing Martin Boyle (a definite miss) and Lewis Miller (both good and bad) for the Asian Cup as well as Rocky Bushiri (no great miss) and Jojo Wollacott (don't really know enough about him as long as David Marshall retains the No1 jersey) for the African Cup of Nations. It'll possibly be mid-February before they're all back, so it's an ideal time for some newer faces (and older ones returning) to come into the first team reckoning.

After this game we have 18 days before the Scottish Cup-tie against Forfar to get a better idea of where we're going with new players coming in,etc. Nick Montgomery will definitely have a better idea of who fits into his playing style and who doesn't.

Happy New Year to all Hibees everywhere and look forward to an upturn in our fortunes. GGTTH

Saturday 30th December

Barnet 2-1 Southend
Bromley 2-1 Ebbsfleet
Kidderminster 1-1 Boreham Wood
Oldham 2-0 Hartlepool

New Year's Day

Fylde 0-1 Rochdale
Chesterfield 2-1 Solihull Moors
Eastleigh 1-3 Dag & Red
Halifax 1-2 Altrincham
Oxford City 1-3 Dorking
Wealdstone 2-0 Maidenhead United
Woking 1-2 Aldershot
York 2-1 Gateshead

League Table After Matchday 26

Spireitematt - 556
SaltergateBorn - 545
Amelia - 465
Dancing - 444
St Charles - 444
Lord Snoots - 421
Devon - 353

The fat lady approaches the stage soon be up and running or not as the case may be

Huddersfield Town v Middlesbrough
The Sky Bet Championship
Friday December 29th - 19:45 ko
at the John McAlpharm Stadium

Quote:That’s what we’re talking about!

A nice Boxing Day gift for all!!

Very proud of the staff and especially the players for going all out when shorthanded. Everyone played together and we got a much deserved result!

Very pleased to give the home supporters an entertaining match, now let’s get some momentum going this weekend.

Can’t WAIT to get out there for the month and pitch in.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but today was a great start!!

The most recent game was a 1-1 draw up at the Riverside Stadium. Our London Welsh wizard, Sorba Thomas fired in a corner from in front of the Town fans, which appeared to go straight in. Replays showed that it went in off the unfortunate Dael Fry to be the first of "Own Goals" entries into our leading scorers chart this season.

That was shortly after half time. Boro equalised on the hour through Hayden Hackney.

That match came just a week and a bit after we had met in the Carabooboo Cup first round. We lost 3-2 after taking an early lead through the nasty wee prick, Kian Harratt, after good work from Josh Austerfield winning the ball off an over elaborate Boro side trying to play out from the back.

They went route 1 for the next significant happening in the match when with less than a quarter of an hour on the clock, a long ball played over the top ended with Jaheim Headley inadvertantly touching one of the Boro attackers and getting sent off. That changed the game and within five minutes, Boro were level.

They went 2-1 up and then 3-1 up in the second half before Kyle Hudlin stooped higher than the Boro defence to score his first first team goal for the club in injury time to make the final score 3-2 to Middlesbrough.

Boro went on to get knocked out by (checks Wikipedia).....they're still in it. Having beaten us, they then won at Bolton 3-1, won 2-0 at the Manningham Tip, won 3-2 at St James' Park, Exeter. Then just before Christmas, won 3-0 at Port Vale. So all away ties, but against lower league opposition.

If only we'd take that competition seriously once in a while.

They'll play Chelsea in the New Year over two legs to see who will play Liverpool or Fulham in the Final.

THE MATCH

FRIDAY 29TH DECEMBER KO 7:45PM

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LAST MATCH



It was back to back defeats as we went down to Coventry. It was a quiet first half punctuated by Coventry's first shot on goal, while we were down to 10 men, Sakamoto steering a pull back into the net. Onto the 2nd half and while we better we weren't creating many clear cut chances, Musaba & Cads having our better chances. The Sky Blues wrapped up the points when Sakamoto cut in from the right and curled one past Dawson. After the the FT whistle Diaby & Kitching were both shown red for an altercation.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and a trip to Deepdale to take on Preston. North End are in mixed form at the moment, winning and losing 2 of there last 4 games. They do lie in 9th position on 35 points and are just 1 point off the playoffs. If they can sort out there inconsistent form they could make the playoffs. They are managed by Ryan Lowe, who has been in charge since December 2021. There leading scorer is Will Keane with 6 goals.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 44
PNE 46 
DRAWS 25  

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                              

PNE                 -                                                             

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  



THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Ihiekwe Bernard Famewo
Windass Bannan Vaulks Byers Johnson
Cadamarteri

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Cadamarteri

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

30

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Washington 10
Owlkev 8
Imre 8
Maddix 6
SCO 3

BMPL

Wereham 6
Stateside 3
Pei -6

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Wolves v Everton
WBA v Leeds
Exeter v Portsmouth
Walsall v Wrexham
Barnet v Southend

HAAAH

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