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  WBA vs Millwall - Match Thread
Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 22-09-2023, 00:44 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (11)

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Two points were the minimum ask from the last week, and two points were duly delivered in contrasting games; the first with a highly fortunate clean sheet, the second with some outstanding goals at each end but no winner to break the deadlock. And so the pressure is now on to keep the ball rolling as Millwall visit the Hawthorns on Saturday, just one point above Albion.

Recent history has "stalemate" written all over this fixture, with Albion winless against the Lions since February 2020 but Millwall winless in B71 since October 2001. After losing to Huddersfield at the beginning of the month, another defeat here would mean consecutive home losses for the first time under Corberan, and while that may not be the end of the world, it's also not a great prospect for a team that struggles on the road and has to travel to Preston next, so it's a milestone better avoided for the Spaniard. Chances of victory? Well, the charnel-house of broken strikers keeps claiming new inmates, but John Swift is on the best run of home goalscoring form of his career, netting five in the last eight at the Hawthorns including all three of those we've played this season. If he keeps it up and we shut Millwall out as we did Bristol City (however fortuitously), it's possible.

We probably do have to hunt for the win in the circumstances, with September shaping up to be an unrewarding month otherwise, but if history has the last laugh and delivers us less, it shouldn't be any kind of surprise.

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  Chesterfield Prediction League 2023/24 Matchday 11
Posted by: spireitematt - 22-09-2023, 00:18 - Forum: Chesterfield - Replies (7)

Woking 1-2 York
Altrincham 2-2 Ebbsfleet
Barnet 2-0 Halifax
Boreham Wood 1-0 Aldershot
Chesterfield 2-0 Wealdstone
Dag & Red 2-1 Hartlepool
Dorking 2-1 Rochdale
Eastleigh 1-0 Kidderminster
Gateshead 4-1 Maidenhead United
Oldham 1-2 Oxford City
Solihull Moors 2-1 Bromley
Southend 2-0 Fylde


League Table After Matchday 10

Spireitematt - 231
Amelia - 229
SaltergateBorn - 186
St Charles - 186
Dancing - 169
Lord Snoots - 164
Devon - 105

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  Rotherham United New York Stadium 23/9/2023
Posted by: themaclad - 21-09-2023, 16:12 - Forum: Preston North End - Replies (3)

Rotherham United v Preston North End
New York Stadium
23/9/2023 15.00 hrs

MANAGER

Matthew James Taylor (born 30 January 1982) is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a centre back. He is the current manager of EFL Championship side Rotherham United.

Exeter City
Taylor was appointed manager of League Two club Exeter City, who he had previously captained, on 1 June 2018 replacing Paul Tisdale.[31] A bright start led to Taylor being nominated for the August 2018 EFL League Two Manager of the Month award.[32] Taylor voiced his disappointment at missing out on the EFL League Two promotion play-offs, the side missing out on a third successive top 7 finish by a single point.[33][34]

Taylor won the August 2019 EFL League Two Manager of the Month award following a strong start to Exeter's 2019–20 season, with the side winning four and drawing two of their opening six matches.[35] A strong set of results over the festive period meant Exeter finished 2019 in second place,[36] with Taylor himself being named EFL League Two Manager of the Month for December 2019.[37]

With his side ending the month in fourth position after achieving thirteen points from an unbeaten five matches, Taylor was again awarded the League Two Manager of the Month award for February 2022.[38]

Under Taylor, Exeter City won promotion to League One for the 2022–23 season after finishing second in the 2021–22 League Two table.[39]

On 1 October 2022, following a 2–2 draw with Bristol Rovers, Exeter confirmed that they had given Taylor permission to speak to Rotherham United regarding the vacant managerial position.[40]

Rotherham United
On 3 October 2022, Taylor was confirmed as the new Rotherham United manager, pending talks.[41] The appointment was made official the following day, Taylor signing a contract with the EFL Championship club until 2026[42] and was joined by his assistant, Wayne Carlisle, on the same contract terms.

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MYSTICS MAC FORM GUIDE

MILERS 3 PNE 19

WE'VE MET BEFORE

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IN AND OUT

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BACK OF THE NET

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THE JOY OF EX

JORDAN HUGILL

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ANDRE GREEN

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INTERESTING BITS

The town in great part occupies the slopes of two hills; that in the west is the start of a 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west crest topped by Keppel's Column,a folly; that in the east is a narrower crest alongside the Rother known as Canklow Hill, topped by a protected laid out public area, Boston Park, less than 500 metres east of and 80 metres above the Rother. The Rother here is between 32 and 34 metres above sea level.[59] The south scarp here is slightly higher still, the Canklow Hill Earthworks, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, one of relatively few in the borough, as pre-dating recorded history.

Rotherham's commercial town centre occupies the valley in between these hills on the navigable part of the River Don flowing from the south-west after it has turned approximately due north. The town centre is less than 0.5 miles (0.80 km) below and north of the confluence of the Rother flowing from the south. The Mid Don Valley continues adjoining towns in the north of the Metropolitan Borough.

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  Swansea v The Owls SBC Match Thread
Posted by: Owlkev71 - 21-09-2023, 13:53 - Forum: Sheffield Wednesday - Replies (87)

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER KO 3:00PM

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LAST MATCH



Still winless in the league but we did get get our first point at Hillsborough this season. We actually did ok in the first half, we even had a shot on target which got a round of applause and then we had another shot on target and we scored, Musaba firing in Bernards pull back. Valentin was a threat down the right but none of his good work lead to any goals. Onto the 2nd half and Boro made one change and the game changed (a familiar story of 2nd halves) and Boro quickly levelled from a corner due to poor defending and Vasquez maybe could have done better. Boro continued to be a threat and had a goal disallowed for offside while Byers had our best chance but put it wide.

THE MATCH



Next up and a long trip to Swansea. The Swans have made a bad start to there season, winless in 7 games drawing 3 and losing 4 and lie 22nd in the table. They are managed by Michael Duff, who was the Barnsley manager when we beat them in the playoff final just a few months ago, how things have changed since then Doh We are due a win at Swansea, out last coming back in the early eighties. They have lost there best striker Piroe, who signed for Leeds in the transfer window. I expect them to escape the relegation mess and finish a bit closer to mid table

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 13
SWAN 9
DRAWS 13

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -            Confused Angry Confused Angry  Angry Angry                                                                             

SWAN              -            Confused  Angry  Angry  Angry  Confused Angry                                                         

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT Thumb up  Thumb up

ANTHONY BACKHOUSE
Alex James and Adam Crysell
Fourth Official : Will Finnie

THE TEAM

Vasquez
Palmer Diaby Famewo Berrnard James
Buckley Byers Bannan
Musaba Gregory

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Gregory

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

55

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Maddix 2
Washington 2
Owlkev 1
Imre
SCO

BMPL

Stateside 2
Wereham 1
Pei -11

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Luton v Wolves
Plymouth v Norwich
Bolton v Peterborough
Stockport v Wrexham
Barnet v Halifax

HHHDD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

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  Prediction League Week 6 Results
Posted by: St Charles Owl - 20-09-2023, 23:39 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (3)

Premier League

Stairs 24
Blue B 24
Zinman 22
Derby 20
B.B.B. 19
Minizin 18
Lady Jane 14
Dingle 11

A record week so far this season by quite a large margin!!  Everyone scored on the Gamball and only one player missed on the Bonus.  Joint first place goes to Stairs and Blue Baggie who both amassed a fine 24 points!!  Stairs scored on 9 games but incredibly his score was "kept" down by only getting 1 CS.  Blue outdid this through and scored on all 10 games, not sure we have seen that before, but like Stairs he too only had 1 CS!!  Just behind them on 22 points is Zinman, he got 2 CSs including the Bonus and lost a point on a 0-0 on his scoreball.

Derby was 4th with 20 points, closely followed by BBB on 19 and Minizin on 18.  Derby was the only one to get a spot on Gamball, BBB got 2 CSs but Minizin failed to get any so dropped some points there.

Two of the promoted players are continuing to struggle in comparison but both scored in double figures, Lady Jane got 14 points and Dingle ended up with 11.  Dingle saw a six point swing against everyone else by being the only player to miss on the Bonus.

101 Stairs
89 Minizin
88 Derby
78 Blue Baggie
76 Zinman
64 BBB
56 Lady Jane
53 Dingle


Stairs doubled his lead at the top to 12 points and broke through the century mark with Minizin in 2nd now only a point ahead of Derby.  Blue moved ahead of Zinman although both will be happy with their score.  BBB is 6th and there is a bit of a gap emerging to the bottom two with LJ in 7th and Dingles second last place finish sees him fall to the bottom of the table. 

There is already a 48 point gap between top and bottom and the top 3 are setting a blistering pace this season.  At this stage last season the leader was on 52 points, Stairs is almost double that!!  The total points in the PL has now surpassed 600, last year after week 6 it was only 273!!!  Slightly different scoring on the Gamball but I am not sure thats the only reason for the difference.

A few weekly records broken this week, the highest scoring game is now Huddersfield v Rotherham with 36 points and the best non-Gamball scoring game was set this week in the Preston NE v Plymouth Argyle game.  As mentioned above Blue Baggie broke the record for the number of scoring games by scoring on all 10, a record that can only be matched but not beaten.

Cheers
SCO

Championship

SCO            26
Snooty        21
AAA            21
BaggieOne  16
Themaclad  12
Twerton      10
Sanjay          8

An easy set of fixtures this week and most of the Championship took advantage with the overall highest points total of the season by some distance. Everybody scored on the bonus and the Gamball generated a good return for a change!

We saw our first breach of the 20 point barrier with 3 players achieving this feat. SCO had a great week turning 4 of his 7 correct predictions into maximums - his only regret will be that his balls weren't amongst those 4 - still 26 points from the week must represent his best return for some considerable time. Snooty and AAA also had a good week, AAA helped by getting both the Gamball and bonus spot on, Snooty scoring on 6 games with a correct score on his bonus.

BaggieOne was another player with a spot-on Gamball but lost a point with his scoreball played on the week's only scoreless game. 16 points would head the table most weeks but this time is only good enough for 4th spot. Themaclad scored on all his balls but was unable to turn any of his 5 correct predictions into correct scores, a similar story for Twerton but only picking up the bonus point with his balls.

Sanjay's woes continued being the only player to fail to reach double figures. He was one of just 2 players to miss out on the Gamball (Twerton being the other) and scored on just 4 games.

Twerton 72
SCO 68
AAA 66
BaggieOne 63
Snooty 62
Themaclad 51
Sanjay 43


Twerton retains his overall lead but the pack is closing in after his fast start to the season. Just 10 points separates the top 5 with Themaclad and Sanjay falling behind.

Zin

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  Darren to Hudds ?
Posted by: Blue Baggie - 20-09-2023, 11:10 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (2)

The big man is installed as a favourite to take over from Colin this week.

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  The '5,000' Clubs
Posted by: talkSAFT - 19-09-2023, 11:51 - Forum: Preston North End - Replies (2)

I see your friends, Rovers, celebrated their 5,000th League match the weekend. Do you know where PNE stand, Mac?
There are only 6 Clubs who have chalked up 5,000. (I'll give you that elite 6 later).

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  The '5,000' Clubs
Posted by: talkSAFT - 19-09-2023, 11:43 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (6)

Have I missed something?
Blackburn celebrated their 5,000th Football League match the weekend, so I asked my brother how many had Albion accumulated, 'cos I've heard no mention.

Interestingly, only 6 have made the 5,000 - so get your brains going (without looking it up!)
A lot depends on early inclusion, but also on playing 46 matches p.a. instead of 38.

I'll tell you the 6 later.

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  Prediction League Fixtures - Week 7
Posted by: Zinman - 19-09-2023, 02:05 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (16)

Gamball:
Plymouth - Norwich

Others:
Leeds - Watford
Middlesbrough - Southampton
Rotherham - Preston
WBA - Millwall
Stoke - Hull
Crystal Palace - Fulham
Luton - Wolves
Brentford - Everton
Arsenal - Spurs

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  Birmingham City Deepdale 19/9/2023
Posted by: themaclad - 18-09-2023, 16:27 - Forum: Preston North End - Replies (2)

Preston North End v Birmingham City
Deepdale 19/9/2023

First league match under the lights this season also live on Sky Extra or something like that forecast is pap for most of the day

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BIRMINGHAM CITY

MANAGER

John Mark Eustace (born 3 November 1979) is an English professional football coach and former player who is head coach of EFL Championship club Birmingham City.

During his playing career, he played as a central midfielder for Coventry City, Stoke City, Watford and Derby County. He also spent time on loan at Dundee United, Middlesbrough and Hereford United.

After retiring as a player, Eustace served as manager of Kidderminster Harriers between 2016 and 2018, eventually leaving to become assistant manager of Queens Park Rangers in 2018. He had a brief spell as caretaker manager at QPR in 2019.

Talk of replacing him with Rooney, mistake if you ask me but this is Brum made the same mistake with Gary Rowett

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TRANSFERS THE INS AND OUTS

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ONE TO WATCH

JAY STANSFIELD

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WE'VE MET BEFORE

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FORM GUIDE

PNE 19 BIRMINGHAM 12

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