LAST TIME OUT



Nigel speaks



FORM GUIDE

PNE 10 BRIZZLE 8

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In The Dressing Room

Deadline day addition Josh Onomah will be eligible to feature, but manager Ryan Lowe is aware he will need to get up to match speed, having not played many minutes so far this season.

The gaffer will have pretty much a fully-fit squad to choose from this weekend, aside from long-term absentee Emil Riis.

Greg Cunningham – coming up against his former side – would reach 150 league appearances in a PNE shirt if he is to feature this weekend.

A Look At Our Visitors


There could be a couple of debuts handed out by Bristol City this weekend, with the Robins bringing attackers Anis Mehmeti and Harry Cornick to the club on deadline day.

22-year-old Mehmeti has joined from Wycombe Wanderers, having scored nine times in the first half of their League One campaign, while Cornick has made the move from Luton Town, where he made over 235 appearances.

Manager Nigel Pearson will be hopeful the duo can help to fill the gap left by the departure of Antoine Semenyo to AFC Bournemouth, as they look to push up the table from 17th position.

Going Head To Head


Games played: 96
PNE wins: 34
Draws: 34
Bristol City wins: 28
Last victory: PNE 1-0 Bristol City, 18th December 2020

One To Watch


There could well be debuts for deadline day signings Anis Mehmeti and Harry Cornick, but striker Nahki Wells will be hoping to hold on to his starting spot.

He’s been the key man up top for the Robins so far this season, featuring in all-but-one Championship fixtures, with a return of nine goals.

The experienced Championship centre forward has previous against North End, too, having put four past PNE for Huddersfield Town earlier in his career.

Match Officials

Leigh Doughty will referee the fourth Preston North End fixture of his career this weekend.

Doughty first took charge of a PNE game in November 2021, while his most recent experience of officiating a Lilywhites match was in January earlier this year, when Ryan Lowe’s side won 1-0 away to Stoke City.

So far this season, Doughty has shown 92 yellow cards and five reds in his 20 matches as referee.

MACS VIEW

Another attempt too improve our woeful home record, more attacking options than last week against Spuds plus our new Josh, if only we could win at home we would be in a great top six position but hope springs eternal

This is gonna be a tough away match v opponents who are unbeaten for a while and they have just leapfrogged above us into 4th place in the Scot Prem. However, this is a great opportunity to poss change our season and lay down our credentials to push on for that 4th place by beating the Buddies! We've been robbed of 3 pts in our last game by another incredible ref decision ignoring a clear foul on David Marshall, the goalie apparently livid with the ref after this match ended! It would be good to see a positive reaction from the guys and continue with a win. We really need to "lay down a marker" that we wanna push up this league and keep going until season end. C'mon Hibs!

GGTTH

I've nothing against Leicester - far from it - but how can this sort of debt be just written off - more than once, apparently?
Where is the level playing field again??

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THE MATCH

SATURDAY 4TH FEBRUARY KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



The result we didn't want as we played out a dreary 1-1 draw and have to play a replay next week. Not much happened in the first half and we went in 0-0. Fleetwood took the lead early in the second when Omochere headed in from close range. We forced a replay when Earl put the ball into his own net. Gregory could have won it but headed over near the end

THE MATCH



A top of the table clash as we entertain league leaders Plymouth. Plymouth are having a great season, and like ourselves have lost only 3 times this season and it looks like a 3 or 4 horse race for the 2 automatic spots. There leading scorer Whittaker (9G 7A) has now left the club but they still have Hardie, Ennis & Cosgrove who have 24 goals between them. They are managed by Steven Schumacher who has been in charge since late 2021 and has a 56% win rate.

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 15
PLYM 13
DRAWS 16

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                      

PLYM               -                                             

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

JOHN BUSBY
Mark Dwyer and James Wilson
Fourth Official : Ross Joyce

THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Iorfa Famewo
Hunt Adeniran Byers FDB Johnson
Windass Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Smith

ATTENDANCE

N/A

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

BML LEAGUE

Owlskev 20
Imre 19
Stateside 19
Wash 18
SCO 16
Peiowl 12
Maddix 9

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Aston Villa v Leicester
Preston v Bristol City
Cambridge v Ipswich
Northampton v Walsall
Aldershot v Dorking

HDAHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

WEREHAM
PEIOWL




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Gamball:
Sheffield Wednesday - Plymouth

Others:
Everton - Arsenal
Norwich - Burnley
Huddersfield - QPR
Millwall - Sunderland
Reading - Watford
Rotherham - Sheff Utd
Preston - Bristol City
Nottingham Forest - Leeds
Spurs - Man City

2 things:

firstly British Broadcasting Clowns(BBC to the rest of us)  And ITV...for their total love affair with premier league clubs
during the last round of the F.A cup

all those games bar ONE were terrible to watch
only one game....one game was entertaining...and yes you guessed it,it did not involve a premier league side


2nd
with the transfer window about to close
is any player seriously worth 105 million quid?.....most of us had never heard of Enzo Fernandez until the world cup

stupid money being thrown around yet again
if chelsea do sign this fernandez guy hate to imagine what wages he will be on....(wont see him shopping at asda)
the richer clubs are obviously getting richer
but.
with this cost of living crisis going on who can afford to go to games?
these big clubs will soon be playing in half empty stadiums cause people will be priced out of attending

rant over

Well that demonstrates our ambition. We don't play him in order to sell him.

What happens when he gets injured during the loan period?

Same as it ever was. Take it away David Byrne.

New manager/Coach

Wigan Athletic have appointed former winger Shaun Maloney as manager on a three-and-a-half-year deal.

The 40-year-old replaces Kolo Toure, who was sacked after just nine games in charge on Thursday.

The Latics are bottom of the Championship table, four points adrift of safety.

"I have amazing memories here and created some fabulous moments with teams and with fans, and I'm excited to get started," Maloney said.

"The feeling that I have from those times as a player is a big factor for me. I have been here previously and have always felt a great warmth from the supporters.

"I want the fans to see a team that is giving absolutely everything, fighting to get better and the supporters need to feel that. The connection is there, we just need to reawaken it."

The former Scotland international made 91 appearances across four seasons with the Latics and was part of the team that won the FA Cup in 2013.

He moved into coaching with Celtic, where he had started his playing career, before joining the staff of ex-Wigan boss Roberto Martinez with Belgium.

Hibernian gave him his first job in management in December 2021 but he was sacked last April after winning just six of his 19 games in charge.

He now becomes Wigan's third manager of the season after Leam Richardson was sacked in November and replaced by rookie boss Toure, who failed to win any of his nine games.

Graham Barrow has left Exeter City to return to the club as assistant manager. The 68-year-old previously spent eight years at DW Stadium between 2009 and 2017.

Maloney's first game in charge will be a trip to promotion hopefuls Blackburn a week on Monday, 6 February.