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| HTAFC Prediction League 2025/26 Matchday 6 - internationals week |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 31-08-2025, 17:40 - 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 5:
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 99 pts
- neonfoxinthebox = 92 pts
- jjamez = 89 pts
- ritchiebaby = 77 pts
- SHEP_HTAFC = 77 pts
- Lord Snooty = 76 pts
World Cup qualifiers:
Thursday 4th September:
Kazakhstan v Wales (15:00)
Luxembourg v Northern Ireland (19:45)
Friday 5th September:
Denmark v Scotland (19:45)
Saturday 6th September:
League One:
Town v Peterborough
Town scorers:
PishPosh scorers:
Bolton Wanderers v AFC Wimbledon
Doncaster Rovers v Bradford City
Lincoln City v Wigan Athletic
Plymouth Argyle v Stockport County
Port Vale v Leyton Orient
Rotherham United v Exeter City
Wycombe Wanderers v Mansfield Town
World Cup qualifiers:
Tuesday 9th September:
Serbia v England (19:45)
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
Division Two table after Matchday 5:
- themaclad = 110 pts
- Devongone = 83 pts
- theo_luddite = 80 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 74 pts
- St Charles Owl = 61 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 61 pts
World Cup qualifiers:
Thursday 4th September:
Kazakhstan v Wales (15:00)
Saturday 6th September:
England v Andorra (17:00)
League One:
Town v Peterborough
Town scorers:
PishPosh scorers:
Bolton Wanderers v AFC Wimbledon
Doncaster Rovers v Bradford City
Lincoln City v Wigan Athletic
Plymouth Argyle v Stockport County
Port Vale v Leyton Orient
Rotherham United v Exeter City
League Two:
Walsall v Chesterfield
World Cup qualifiers:
Sunday 7th September:
Germany v Northern Ireland (19:45)
Monday 8th September:
Belarus v Scotland (19:45)
*** scores for ***
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| All the way to Wembley - a Vertual journey! |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 31-08-2025, 17:35 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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Huddersfield Town in the Vertu Trophy 2025/26
starting on Tuesday September 2nd
ending on Sunday April 12th
at Wembley Stadium
Huddersfield Town welcome Newcastle United's under 21 team to the MacAccu Stadium on Tuesday evening in the first group game for this season's EFL Trophy. Hopefully, our last ever participation in this tournament.
Four weeks after this first game, we travel to play Harrogate Town in what will be our first official first team meeting. And then five weeks later, we will welcome Mansfield Town to the Nagle Arena for the final group game.
The other group games are.....
Sept 9th: Mansfield v Harrogate
Oct 15th: Mansfield v Newcastle
Nov 11th: Harrogate v Newcastle
Following his red card at Barnsley on Saturday for serious foul play, our number one goalkeeper, Owen Goodman will receive a three match ban. He will be available to play in the match against Newcastle though as this rule applies.....
Quote:A player suspended from league competitions can usually play in an EFL Trophy tie because disciplinary sanctions from league and cup competitions are generally specific to their respective competitions. A suspension incurred in an EFL Trophy match only carries over to future EFL Trophy games, and vice versa, meaning a player suspended from their league team is still eligible for an EFL Trophy tie.
So Lee Nicholls will be in goal for the games against Peterborough (h), Bradford City (a) and Burton Albion (h), does this mean that Goodman will play against the geordie kids? Or is Jacob Chapman fit yet? He was at Sunderland the other night, celebrating with the rest of the squad at full time.
Dion Charles is away with the Northern Ireland squad, as far as I can see the only one missing for international duty.
Depending what happens on Deadline Day, this could be a last chance for the likes of Radinio Balker, Freddie Ladapo and Bojan Radulovic. Some of our youngsters should be getting a run out as well. Dan Vost, Cameron Ashia and Jay Sway have already featured in the squad this season, but will we have debuts for any more?
Tom Iorpenda shone in the Trophy games last season, but he's now on loan at Notts County. His younger brother George Iorpenda, spent some time with the first teamers in pre season, so maybe he'll get a run out in defence. Peter Thomas looked lively on his debut in the match at Doncaster last season and he might get another run out.
Or maybe manager Lee Grant will just go full on, first team and show everybody that we mean to get to Wembley and win this thing.
A brief history of Huddersfield Town in the Football League Trophy:
1988/89: Out in Northern quarter final (beaten by Scarborough)
1989/90: Out in 1st round (beaten by Rotherham)
1990/91: Out in Group stage: (humiliated by Hartlepool)
1991/92: Got to Northern semi final (lost at Burnley)
1992/93: Same again (lost at Wigan)
1993/94: Got to Wembley (beaten by Swansea)
1994/95: Quarter final (lost at Bury)
1995 - 2001: Didn't qualify
2001/02: Northern final over 2 legs (beaten in extra time by Blackpool)
2002/03: Out in 1st round (lost at Wrexham)
2003/04: Same again (lost at Carlisle)
2004/05: Out in 2nd round (extra time loss at Blackpool)
2005/06: Out in 1st round (beaten at Boston)
2006/07: Same again (home defeat to Donny)
2007/08: And again (stuffed at Grimsby)
2008/09: And again (lost at Darlington)
2009/10: Out in 2nd round (lost on pens at Chesterfield)
2010/11: Nortern final over 2 legs (aggregate loss to Carlisle)
2011/12: Out in 2nd round (lost on pens to Bradford)
2012 - 24: Didn't qualify
2024/25: Got to 2nd round (lost at Bolton)
A brief history of Newcastle United under 21s in the Football League Trophy:
2017/18: Out in group stage
2018/19: Out in 3rd round (Lost at Sunderland)
2019/20: Finished bottom of group
2020/21: Finished bottom of group
2021/22: Finished bottom of group
2022/23: Finished bottom of group
2023/24: Finished bottom of group
2024/25: Finished bottom of group
They have only got out of the group stage once, in 2018/19. They topped the group, winning all three games. A 3-1 win at Doncaster, a 2-0 win at Notts County and a 3-2 win at Grimsby. That was followed by a home game against Macclesfield Town at Sid James' Park in front of a massive crowd of 1,126 in which they progressed to round three after winning a penalty shoot out, which came after a one all draw.
That third round game had a much bigger crowd when they played away at the Stadium of Light against local rivals, Sunderland. A crowd of 16,654, more than the attendances of the other ties combined with 2,780 from Tyneside.
Since then, they haven't won a single game in this competition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80...EFL_Trophy
2025/26 EFL Trophy:-
The 2025–26 EFL Trophy, known as the Vertu Trophy for sponsorship reasons, is the 45th season in the history of the competition, and is a knock-out tournament for clubs in EFL League One and League Two, the third and fourth tiers of the English football league system, as well as the "Academy teams" of 16 Premier League teams.
The defending champions are Peterborough United, who defeated Birmingham City 2–0 in the previous season's final. They have won two consecutive EFL Trophy finals, after beating Wycombe Wanderers in the 2024 final.
Eligibility criteria for players:
For EFL clubs:
- 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.
For academy teams.
- Minimum of six players in the starting line-up who are aged under 21 on 30 June 2025.
- Maximum of two players on the team sheet who are aged over 21 and have also made forty or more senior appearances.
Competition format:
Group stage:
- Sixteen groups of four teams will be organised on a regionalised basis.
- All groups will include one invited club.
- All clubs will play each other once, either home or away (academy sides will play all group matches away from home).
- 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.
- Clubs expelled from the EFL will be knocked out of the tournament automatically.
- The top two teams in each group will progress to the knockout stage.
- In an Event of which group stage match has been postponed, the postponed group stage match will be rescheduled to no further date than the second Tuesday of November 2025.
Knockout stage
- The Round of 32, the Round of 16 and the quarter finals of the competition will be drawn on a regionalised basis.
- In Round 2, the group winners will be seeded and the group runners-up will be unseeded in the draw.
- Semi-final pairings are determined by means of an unseeded draw with no regionalisation.
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| Stoke vs WBA - Match Thread |
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Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 29-08-2025, 19:31 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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An unlikely promotion six-pointer awaits us this weekend in the last fixture before the September break, as Albion - whose 100% record subsided last week thanks in no small part to some Specsavers refereeing - travel to table-topping Stoke, still luxuriating in their maximum points return. And if ever there was an opportune time for the Potters to break their once-unthinkable six-game winless streak against us, it's here and now, as a late transfer flurry has permanently deprived us of Darnell Furlong, Tom Fellows and Caleb Taylor at the eleventh hour with no time for their incoming replacements to bed in.
It'll be a changed and possibly disjointed XI taking the field at the Britannia then, with Krystian Bielik liable to deputise at right-back, George Campbell reprising his role in central defence and Jed Wallace returning to the wing. Hope springs eternal, however, in Aune Heggebo's performances so far, with the Norwegian looking more capable of bullying defenders and holding the ball up than any striker we've had in years. I'd happily settle for another draw here, but if we manage more, expect the Bergen Bargain to be at the heart of it.
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| Maynard |
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Posted by: themaclad - 29-08-2025, 16:00 - Forum: York City
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York City have appointed Stuart Maynard as their new manager.
The Minstermen parted company with Adam Hinshelwood despite him taking them to second place in the National League last season and beginning this campaign unbeaten, with one win and three draws.
Maynard, who had a nomadic non-league career as a player, began his coaching career as assistant to Dean Brennan at Hemel Hempstead Town, Billericay Town, Kingstonian and Wealdstone.
When Brennan resigned as manager after taking Wealdstone to the National League, Maynard took on his first senior role and led the club to their highest league placing for 35 years - 16th in the fifth tier.
After taking them to 13th in 2022-23, Maynard landed the Notts County job in January 2024 but was sacked at the end of last season after losing to AFC Wimbledon in the League Two play-off semi-final.
In a statement , externalon the club website, York co-chairs Matt and Julie-Anne Uggla said: "He comes with a high pedigree of football knowledge and holds the same ambition as ourselves in taking this football club to the EFL."
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| Portsmouth Fratton Park 30/8/2025 |
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Posted by: themaclad - 28-08-2025, 13:45 - Forum: Preston North End
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Another local away match before the meaningless International weekend off, 4am alarm, 6.30 coach, every possibility it will be dark when we start and end the marathon trip.
Mates on holiday, so it's a solo journey.
https://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/
MANAGER
John Michael Lewis Mousinho (born 30 April 1986) is an English professional football manager and former footballer. He is the head coach of EFL Championship club Portsmouth.
Mousinho began his professional football career at Brentford, having previously played for Chesham United and Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the latter whilst studying at the University of Notre Dame. He spent two and a half years at Brentford, before joining Wycombe Wanderers in June 2008 on a free transfer. Mousinho played regularly for Wycombe for two seasons, experiencing both a promotion and relegation during his time there. He signed for Stevenage in June 2010 on a two-year contract. In his first season, Mousinho helped the club earn the second of back-to-back promotions, scoring the decisive goal in the 2011 League Two play-off final, and finishing as the club's joint-top goalscorer for the season.
Following an injury-disrupted 2011–12 season, Mousinho left Stevenage and signed for Preston North End. In his final season at Preston, he was loaned out to Gillingham and then returned to Stevenage before being released and joining Burton Albion in June 2014. He made 127 appearances for Burton over three seasons, winning the League Two title in his first season and achieving promotion to the Championship a year later. In August 2017, he signed for Oxford United, where he made 151 appearances before retiring from playing in January 2023. Alongside his playing duties, Mousinho was elected as chairman of the PFA in May 2021, a position he held until January 2023, when he stepped down to take on his first managerial role, as head coach of League One club Portsmouth. He led the team to promotion to the Championship as champions of League One in the 2023–24 season.
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SO FAR
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NEWBIES
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HISTORY
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HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate[Note 1] built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire. Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. Obsolescent following the 1873 commissioning of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation, she was placed in reserve in 1875, and was "paid off" – decommissioned – in 1883.
She subsequently served as a storeship and depot ship, and in 1904 was assigned to the Royal Navy's torpedo training school. The ship was converted into an oil jetty in 1927 and remained in that role until 1979, at which point she was donated by the Navy to The Maritime Trust for restoration. The restoration process took eight years, during which many of her features and fittings were either restored or recreated. When this was finished she returned to Portsmouth as a museum ship. Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Warrior has been based in Portsmouth since 1987.
T'OTHER GAMES
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| Barnsley v Huddersfield Town |
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Posted by: Amelia Chaffinch - 27-08-2025, 19:57 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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Our sixth match of the season sees us travel to Barnsley. This is also our second match of the Yorkshire League. I think theo_luddite is keeping track of that.
We are second in the table and Barnsley are doing OK, too, in 6th.
That said, both our sides can wobble by the second half of the season. We're neither of us strangers to cocking it up.
Still, make hay whilst the sun shines. Another win could see up top.
This is how their results have gone so far:
They've chalked up 8 goals in the League but one was an og v Plymouth.
Who's scoring?
Head to head
Last year was the first season back in the same league and all results went our way, including the FL Trophy.
Ben Wiles scored in both the League games and Jon Russell got their only goal for them. The other two scorers Kasumu and Koroma. Ther FL Trophy scorers were Ward and Ladapo.
League highlights last season:
Who's the manager?
Conor Hourihane was promoted from assistant to head coach in March 2025 following the departure of Darrell Clarke.
Hourihane is originally from Ireland and started his playing career at Sunderland, oddly enough. He's had two spells as a player at Barnsley. The last one segwayed into his management role.
Talking of coaches; one of our assistant coaches, Paul McShane, had a brief spell on loan at Barnsley in 2011.
Others with club connections include Adam Hammill, Jack Hunt, Matty Pearson, Antony Kay, Danny Drinkwater, Kallum Higginbotham, Jacob Butterfield, Dean Gorre, and Michal Helik. Lets face it, there are loads!
Sorry, couldn't get the other images to save.  Spot the pillocks. I miss Michal and Matty.
A Celebration of Women's Suffrage in Barnsley
Celia Wray was born in Barnsley and qualified as an architect. Her father was twice Mayor of Barnsley. As well as protesting outside the Barnsley Chronicle offices in 1910, she defaced the 1911 census. She was a member of the Barnsley Women's Suffrage Society and was the secretary from 1908 to 1920. With Alice Emberton (her partner), Evelina Hadfield, and Vera Holme, she founded the Foosack League, a lesbian secret society. She eventually settled in Suffolk.
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| Prediction League Week 3 results |
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Posted by: St Charles Owl - 27-08-2025, 17:16 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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Group A
BaggieOne 18
Minizin 12
BaggieVic 11
A.A.A. 10
Twerton 3
B.B.B. 3
Zinman 3
Stairs 2
Better week in Group A this week over last week……………………..but only for half of the participants!! BaggieOne leads the way with 18 points, he failed on his Gamball but made up for it with 3 CSs including one on his Bonus. Minizin was 2nd with 12 points, he was one of two players to get a spot on Gamball, the other being Baggie Vicar who is 3rd with 11 points. AAA was the 4th player to reach double figures this week ending on 10 points.
After this group the score fell off the proverbial cliff!! Three players - Twerton, BBB and Zinman ended with 3 points and the league leader Stairs ended up bottom with just 2 points. At least no one put in a negative score and for the first time Zinman was not bottom!!!
40 BaggieOne
38 Stairs
35 Twerton
31 B.B.B.
30 A.A.A.
30 BaggieVicar
30 Minizin
9 Zinman
So the top three from last week were in the bottom three scorers this week, so we have seen some changes in position. BaggieOne has taken over top spot from Stairs, who is only 2 points back. Twerton is now 3rd and BBB drops to 4th. There is then a 3 way tie for 5th place between AAA, BaggieVicar and Minizin. Only 10 points separate the top 7, so pretty close even at this early stage.
And then there is Zinman, he is 21 points behind 7th spot and by my calculation has posted one of the worst scores after the first three weeks (seems certain players in Group B are vying with him for this title though). Plenty of time left but 31 points off top is looking daunting already!!
Cheers
SCO
Group B
Tough set of fixtures this week!!
A quote from SCO on submission of his predictions this week - it proved to be one of the few things anyone got right!
Derby 5
SCO 5
Themaclad 1
4eva 1
Snooty 0
Lady Jane -2
Salop -4
Week 1, 75 points; Week 2, 56 points; Week 3, 6 points.
Down to earth with a bump as week 3 proved just how difficult predicting football results can be. 4 matches yielded negative points, just 2 correct gamball predictions and a complete blow out on the bonus ball. Add just 1 correct score prediction and the result is the worst total score I've reported on since the epic week 6 of 2024/5 (minus 1 in total).
Not a week anyone will want to recall but Derby and SCO did set themselves apart from the rest by scoring 5 points. Derby had the most correct results, 4, and was one of 2 players to pick up a scoreball point. SCO scored on 3 games but one of them was the gamball.
Themaclad's good start came to an end with just a single point. He only got one result correct but managed to get the score right and the scoreball point kept him in positive territory. Snooty ended up with zero points, his 2 correct results balancing out his incorrect balls.
The first negative scores of the season belong to Lady Jane and Salop. LJ did at least get one prediction correct while Salop, back after a few years' absence, is finding it tough - he managed a complete wipe-out, no correct results and also missing out on the scoreball to produce the minimum possible score and manage to make me look good! Thanks, Salop!
36 Themaclad
26 4eva
25 SCO
20 Lady Jane
18 Derby
8 Snooty
4 Salop
The 2 negative scores provide the only overall table movements this week, Lady Jane swopping places with SCO and Salop dropping to the foot of the table. Now to see if I can find another tough set of fixtures. .
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| HTAFC Prediction League 2025/26 Matchday 5 |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 25-08-2025, 12:44 - 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:
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 83 pts
- SHEP_HTAFC = 75 pts
- neonfoxinthebox = 72 pts
- jjamez = 69 pts
- ritchiebaby = 65 pts
- Lord Snooty = 64 pts
Saturday 30th August:
Barnsley v Town
Town scorers:
Barnsley scorers:
Doncaster Rovers v Rotherham United (12:30)
Blackpool v Bolton Wanderers
Bradford City v AFC Wimbledon
Burton Albion v Luton Town
Exeter City v Peterborough United
Stevenage v Wycombe Wanderers
Tuesday 2nd September:
EFL Trophy Northern Group F:
Town v Newcastle Utd u21s
Town scorers:
Newcastle scorers:
Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
Stoke City v West Bromwich Albion (12:30)
Sunday:
Scottish Premiership:
Hibernian v St. Mirren (15:00)
Premier League:
Aston Villa v Crystal Palace (19:00)
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Division Two table after Matchday 4:
- themaclad = 84 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 70 pts
- theo_luddite = 68 pts
- Devongone = 59 pts
- St Charles Owl = 51 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 49 pts
Saturday 30th August:
Barnsley v Town
Town scorers:
Barnsley scorers:
Cardiff City v Plymouth Argyle (12:30)
Leyton Orient v Northampton Town
Lincoln City v Mansfield Town
Reading v Port Vale
Wigan Athletic v Stockport County
Tuesday 2nd September:
EFL Trophy Northern Group F:
Town v Newcastle Utd u21s
Town scorers:
Newcastle scorers:
Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
Portsmouth v Preston North End
Sheffield Wednesday v Swansea City
League Two:
Chesterfield v Crawley Town
Sunday:
Premier League:
Liverpool v Arsenal (16:30)
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