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| Bradford City away |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 10-09-2025, 11:07 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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Bradford City v Huddersfield Town
Sky Bet League One
Saturday September 13th - 12:30 ko
at the University of Bradford Stadium
![[Image: pawdZ0y.jpeg]](https://i.imgur.com/pawdZ0y.jpeg)
Huddersfield Town travel to Manningham to the Pulse Stadium on Saturday lunchtime for a much anticipated West Yorkshire derby, the first in the league for 19 years.
I think it's safe to say that it will be a different starting XI from the last one. Our manager, Lee Grant is not one who likes the status quo and does like to keep his squad fresh by rotating. Lynden Gooch, Josh Feeney and Cameron Ashia weren't even on the bench against Peterborough United on Saturday, so I expect all three of them to be back in for this one. Unless of course, we've started another bunch of injuries. 
Hopefully, our players will have been made aware of how much this game means to both sets of fans. Theirs more than ours, having been languishing in the dark recesses of the basement of the Football League, while we've been lording it up in the Premier League. We need to be on it right from the start and definitely not half arsed like we were at Blackpool and Barnsley. This group of players haven't felt the wrath of a disgruntled set of Town fans. They got off lightly at the end of the Barnsley match. Defeat in this one is unthinkable and mustn't happen.
COME ON TOWN!!
Tickets: SOLD OUT!
A brief history of Bradford City: formed in 1903 and immediately elected into the Football League. They won the Second Division in 1907/08 and then won the FA Cup in 1911, their only major title.
The Final was played against Newcastle United at Crystal Palace (not Selhurst Park) and was a goal less draw, so went to a replay at Old Trafford four days later. City wo it 1-0 with a goal from their captain, Jimmy Spiers. It was the first presentation of the new trophy, which had actually been made in Bradford that year. It's the classic trophy that we see today, but not the original. That was retired in 1992 and replaced with a replica.
Since then, they've won sod all. Apart from the 3rd Division North twice (1928/29 and 1984/85), the 1996 3rd tier Play Offs (beating Swindon Town 2-0) and the 2013 4th tier Play Offs (beating Northampton Town 3-0).
Other than that, they've won promotion four times from the fourth tier and once from the second tier to the Prima Donna League. That was in 1999 and unbelievably they managed to avoid relegation. But not to worry, just like we avoided relegation from the Prima Donna League, they made sure they went down in the following campaign.
Last season, after six seasons in League Two, they won promotion to League One and so here we are today.
Head to Head
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Town lead the head to head with 21 wins to City's 13, with 16 draws.
Since our last league meeting in 2006/07, we've had two League Cup meetings and one in the EFL Trophy. In 2008, Jon Worthington, Gary Roberts (2) and Robbie Williams (not that one) goals gave us an easy 4-0 Carling Cup win at home. In 2011, we drew 2-2 then lost on pens at home in the Johnstone Paints Trophy. Then we beat them again in the Capitol One Cup in 2013 when two James Vaughan goals gave us a 2-1 win at home. Nahki Wells scored a late consolation for the Bantams, a few months before he signed for us.
So this is our first visit to Valley Parade since a 1-0 win there in October 2006. Mark Hudson scored the goal. No, not the ex club captain and caretaker manager, the other one that we signed from Chesterfield. We beat them again later in the season. Two-nil as they were on their way to relegation. Paul Hayes, on loan from Barnsley and future Head Coach, Danny Schofield with the goals.
You have to go back to March 2005 to the last time the Bants beat us. It was 2-0 at theirs with Andy Cooke (not the one who plays for them now) and Dean Windass scoring. So that's seven games unbeaten, if you call the penalty shoot out loss a draw.
Back in time, our first meetings were in the First Division. We had two seasons together in the 1920s and they were the only two times we've been in the top flight at the same time. Local boy Fred Lunn, only scored twice for the Town, but they were both against Bradford City. The first was at Leeds Road in 1920/21 when he scored the goal in a 1-0 win on the 11th of September. The second was a week later at Valley Parade, with Ernie Islip also on target as Town won again, 2-0 this time. Lunn only played six times for Town before being transferred to the Wednesday. He never made a first team appearance the Owls but went from there to Bristol Rovers where he had one good season, scoring ten goals before his career faded away.
Despite getting relegated at the end of the next season, City did the double over Town, which we won't mention. The next time that the two clubs clapped eyes on each other was the 5th round of the 1930 FA Cup. Town got to the Final that year and beat City 2-1 at home on the way there. England international Bob Kelly and Scottish footballing legend Alex Jackson scored ours in front of 45,659 spectators.
And that was the last we saw of the Chickens for 45 years, apart from every year when we played them in the West Riding Cup of course. We had slumped down to their level, the 4th Division and drew both games in the 1975/76 season.
Over the next few decades, a real rivalry came about with some proper ding dong games. One of them, an absolute classic on New Year's Day 1983, which we won 6-3.
It didn't start well, with City scoring very early on, Cec Podd in the sixth minute getting it. Now Cec was from St Kitts and Nevis, but ended up becoming City's all time appearance holder. In that time from 1970 to 1984 he played 565 times for them and his goal on this day against us was one of only three he ever scored in his entire career.
Not to worry, Town stormed back and Brian Stanton finished the day scoring four of our six goals. His first three were the quickest hat trick ever scored by a Town player, coming in the space of 6 minutes, beating the previous record of George Brown, who took a ridiculously long time of 8 minutes to score his.
Town's other goals came from a Malcolm Brown penalty (given away by a reckless tackle from City's teenage centre back Peter Jackson) and one from Phil Wilson, two minutes from time. Ex Town striker Bobby Campbell got one of the Bantams' others. Trevor Cherry was also in their line up, he was at the time, their player/manager.
A few years later in 1986/87, another player scored four goals for the Terriers against Billy Bantam's Circus. That was Duncan Shearer in a 5-2 victory at Leeds Road and this was just five days after the controversial sacking of Mick Buxton.
There was another high scoring match in the promotion season of 1994/95. That was a 4-3 win at Valley Parade with Andy Booth (2), Ronnie Jepson and Paul Reid on the score sheet. And another one a couple of years later at the McAlpine when we fought back from 3-0 down to force a draw. Paul Dalton, Ian Lawson and Gary Crosby on target that Friday night.
Here's hoping for lots of goals in this latest Sky Sports fixture on a Saturday lunchtime. Obviously in the Bradford net.
Recent form - last 6 matches:
Town 3-2 PishPosh
Town 6-2 Newcastle u21s (EFL Trophy)
Barnsley 3-1 Town
Sunderland 1-1 Town (EFL Cup, won on pens)
Town 1-0 Stevenage
Town 2-0 Donny
Donny 3-1 City
City 2-1 Grimsby (EFL Trophy)
City 3-2 Wimbledon
Stoke 0-3 City (EFL Cup)
PishPosh 1-1 City
Stockport 1-2 City
Town are 3rd in the League One table with 15 points. City are 5th with 14.
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| HTAFC Prediction League 2025/26 Matchday 7 |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 07-09-2025, 16:09 - 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 6:
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 127 pts
- neonfoxinthebox = 114 pts
- jjamez = 113 pts
- SHEP_HTAFC = 101 pts
- Lord Snooty = 90 pts
- ritchiebaby = 89 pts
Saturday 13th September:
Bradford City v Town (12:30)
Town scorers:
City scorers:
Leyton Orient v Bolton Wanderers
Luton Town v Plymouth Argyle
Mansfield Town v Stevenage
Peterborough United v Wycombe Wanderers
Stockport County v Cardiff City
Wigan Athletic v Doncaster Rovers
Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
West Bromwich Albion v Derby County
Premier League:
West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur (17:30)
Scottish Premiership:
Hibernian v Dundee United (17:45)
Tuesday:
EFL Cup 3rd round:
Brentford v Aston Villa (20:00)
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
Division Two table after Matchday 6:
- themaclad = 132 pts
- Devongone = 103 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 98 pts
- theo_luddite = 98 pts
- St Charles Owl = 77 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 77 pts
Saturday 13th September:
Bradford City v Town (12:30)
Town scorers:
City scorers:
Northampton Town v Blackpool (12:30)
AFC Wimbledon v Rotherham United
Barnsley v Reading
Burton Albion v Lincoln City
Exeter City v Port Vale
Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
Preston North End v Middlesbrough (12:30)
League Two:
Chesterfield v Milton Keynes Dons
Sunday:
Premier League:
Manchester City v Manchester United (16:30)
Tuesday:
EFL Cup 3rd round:
Sheffield Wednesday v Grimsby Town
Crystal Palace v Millwall (20:00)
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
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Posted by: themaclad - 05-09-2025, 18:43 - Forum: Lincoln City
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Indycar driver Jack Harvey has bought a stake in his hometown football club Lincoln City.
The 32-year-old, who was born in the Lincolnshire village of Bassingham, and his family are said to have put a "modest investment" into the League One side.
Harvey, a former British Formula 3 champion who has been based and raced in the United States since 2014, most recently featured in the open-wheel Indycar Series for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing/Cusick Motorsports this year.
"This has been a very organic thing," Harvey told the Lincoln City website., external
"It means a lot to be an ever-so-tiny part of my hometown team, but also to show everybody that we're prepared to give back to our local community, where the club does so much.
"A lot of my family go to every game, so this becomes another way to unite and bond even when I'm having to follow from overseas via Imps+ or on social media."
Harvey says his move to invest in the Imps "grew out of a conversation" he had with the club's majority shareholder Harvey Jabara.
"I know it sounds cheesy, but first and foremost I consider them [Jabara family] just great friends - I'm lucky to have people like them in my life," Harvey said.
"They are race fans and I'm sure they were surprised when they first saw me at a game. They're great people to learn from, are involved in lots of cool projects and I'm delighted to share in this adventure with them."
Harvey's investment in the club coincides with the American quartet of Ken Maurice Newcomer, Mark Talarico, Dan Marolis and Alexander Schreck becoming involved as 'club patrons'.
The new stakeholders have put money into the club just weeks after Imps chairman Clive Nates said Lincoln was looking for further investment in their efforts to reach the Championship.efforts to reach the Championship.
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| Town v Pish Posh 06-Sep-2025 |
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Posted by: theo_luddite - 04-09-2025, 20:27 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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background from https://www.sportsstadiaart.co.uk/
The AccuMacPharmSmiths Stadium
In the late Summer Sunshine
Sun, Wind, Rain, Hail, Whatever
There'll be more there than last Tuesday
Kick-off 15:00 UK Time
Saturday 06/09/25
Pish Posh take the 2½ hour drive up the A1 (other routes are available) to hilly Yorkshire from their flatlands home on the edge of The Fens.
Peterborough truly is in the middle of nowhere. Too far east to be part of The Midlands, too far north to be darn sarf, too far sarf to be oop nooerth, too far west to be part of Anglia.
If it wasn't clinging on to the A1 it would have drifted out into The Wash years ago.
New Identity?
Someone has been charging Posh a small fortune to come up with new logos, fonts, backgrounds and all that other marketing guff, a bit like the crap we went through a few years back that turned a Yorkshire Terrier into something unrecognisable.
The new logo which will come into use next year is above.
New Reservoir
https://fensreservoir.co.uk/
Anglia Water and Cambridge Water have recognised there may be a shortage of water heading their way, in fact the way of the whole country. So they've published plans to dig a big hole in the Fens and fill it full of water.
Now, The Fens, as you might be aware, are many an acre of fertile farmland that is drained by the use of pumps because it's pretty much all below sea level and watered with the help of irrigation channels. So the concept of digging a big hole and filling it with fresh water when it's going to be even further below sea level than the surrounding land is an interesting concept. An amazing* feat of engineering.
What could possibly go wrong?
*pick your own word to go here.
On the tellybox
For reasons beyond me we're on an assortment of USofA channels including Paramount+and Amazon Prime plus the usual HTTV for the furriners and certain dodgy stick interweb feeds.
Edit - also on SkySports+ in the UK & Ireland.
Latest news
Did anyone mention Jordan Rhodes has retired? Probably. Well, he as good as retired from scoring goals a few seasons back.
Good luck Jordan, think I read somewhere he's now the Loans Manager at Blackburn.
It's International week again, but Town only have one player on International duty so no need to call this one off and shift it to a cold wet Tuesday night in November. A cold wet Saturday in September will do just fine
Huddersfield train station and the two pubs at each end are shut for over a month while they upgrade the tracks to electric and carry out other improvements to the old station stonework and platforms. So it's buses or drive and park up somewhere and a change of pre-match drinking venues. If you've booked a train from Peterborough, good luck with buses from wherever they kick you off.
Goooooch has been named B&W player of the month for August. I don't recall getting an email to vote this time.
Maybe they've knocked me off the list after I said I wasn't coming up to present The Keighley Caravan Man with his award last season.
Speaking of being Spursy, as I have several times below, Daniel Levy has stepped down as Spurs chairman.
Out Injured/Suspended/Isolating
With Goodman serving a 3 match ban, Nicholls will be in goal and rumour has it Chappers is fit enough for bench duty. Marcus McGuane still out.
Back training but not oven ready/Back in the frame
Two more new faces to bed in, Will Alves from Leicester, who we've already seen against us in the EFL Cup and Zépiqueno (Zippy) Redmond could be bungled on at any time on Saturday. Good job our Manager isn't called Geoffrey. He could be "Somewhere over the Rainbow" if it rains on Saturday.
Last time out
We kind of came 2nd in our Yorksha League fixture then battered the Newcastle Bairns on Tuesday in the EFL Trophy. They were so enamoured with the goals we were scoring they joined in and scored one for us too. It was a late consolation but their 2nd was well worked and possibly the best of the night. Taylor got a brace and was doing some major goal hanging when he pinched another back-pass for his first. Our other Marcus, who looks a lot like Sorba the Taff from a very long distance (up on Row Z) with that hairdo but without the attitude and the moaning at the ref, scored another penalty. Where have the refs been hiding these from us for the last 5 seasons?
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Posh were Pish again on Tuesday losing 1-3 at home to Orient. Not a great start to their defence of the Trophy they won last season. Not a great start to the League season either. Their only point was a 1-1 draw at home to Bradford a couple of weeks or so back and they've only scored one more goal in their 6 League games so far.
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In the EFL Trophy, the Prima Donna kids all went home with a defeat to ponder, some of them pondering a battering.
Spurs Kids went all Spursy and dragged a 4-4 draw from 0-3 and 2-4 leads at Brizzle Rovers, then lost 5-4 in the shoot-out.
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Music Break
All the (ahem) famous music folk from Peterborough appear to have come from Peterborough, Ontario. I've not heard of any of them either.
Widening the net a little bit we find one or two you might have heard of ....
Katrina made some Waves with this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeIGVR3P85o
You might have heard of these guys too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi7cuAjArRs
and a Tom (not a Dick or a Harry) that sang about a Motorway (going back to rainbows again)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY361xu3I-E
At the risk of writing his team talk, (I seem to be good at it recently) this one's for Fergie and the town of Peterborough in general, if you change a couple of the lyrics. The best thing about Peterborough is the (fairly new) bypass. That and that The Flying Scotsman rattled through on it's way to setting a speed record for steam trains. Would you have stopped?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DXFtCe-RIg
The Sack Race
Speculation more than fact at the moment, but it might be a case of how long is too long?
With last Monday being the last day of the transfer window, there's a few that we might say are on the bubble, north and south of Hadrian's Wall.
West Ham won at Vanilla on Sunday to keep Hairy Potter in a job for now. Questions might be being asked again at Wolves and maybe Vanilla, but then again, maybe not. Spurs went all Spursy again at the weekend and lost at home to Bournemouth. More rumblings already? Been a bit of a Spursy week down White Hart Lane way this week all round.
In the Chumpionship, Sheffield Utd are getting what they asked for. After sacking local lad and hero Chris Wilder at the end of last season, Ruben Selles has carried on where he left off at Hull and they've lost all 4 so far. To make things worse in the S2 and S6 postcodes, woeful Wendies are above them, but only by one point and one place. Boro being top after replacing Michael Carrick with Rob Edwards is going to smart a bit too.
Neither Celtic or Rangers have set off like a house on fire in Scotland or Europe so far and they drew 0-0 on Sunday. Two cooking on the back burner there if you ask me.
Young Mr. Ferguson could be swapping chairs with Grant McCann or Steve Evans again (their usual Barry Fry go-to's) if he doesn't start winning a few games. It's more likely to be the latter as McCann is currently at Doncaster. It's not helped Fergie's cause that last season's centre forwards and somewhat leading scorers Poku and Riki-Jade Jones both left on freebiess to QPR and FC St. Pauli when Posh have developed a long habit of selling on decent players for decent fees. Is the mercurial Barry Fry losing his touch?
Innies and Outies
I've already mentioned two that left. In addition to these below, Posh brought in a slack-handful of loanees late in the transfer window so they'll be looking to head up the table sometime soon.
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Who's banging 'em in
Nobody so far, they've only scored 2.
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They can't all win
There's a handful of games amongst teams in the top 6 postponed due to international call up's. The winners of the Yorksha League clash could go top or joint top as a result. Town's game and Donny v Sadfud are the only games amongst the Top 6 being played
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At the other end, Posh are somewhere in Yorkshire, I'll look it up later, (what?), Port Vale are also still looking for a win at home to Orient. Wycombe will be looking to get out of the bottom 4 with a win at home to Mansfield and Plymouth likewise at home to Stockport who will jump into the Top 6 if they win. Blackpool's home game to Luton is off so they could find themselves back in the bottom 4 come 5pm Saturday (or shortly after).
We've played 'em before
Due to a few play-off and relegation scraps in recent years, there's a bit more of an edge to this fixture than would otherwise meet the eye of the outsider. It's just a guess but I reckon there could be a few more than 10x the gate we had on Tuesday night in the stadium on Saturday. A few fans might be back from their August holibobs too.
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Next up?
Another Yorksha League fixture away to Sadfud.
Pressers
If you're in furrin lands you'll need a VPN, set to the UK, to listen to this. So much for free speech eh Nigel?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0m0w2j2
More fan friendly versions are below.
The View from the Fens
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/art...rqjjk504qo
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| Prediction League Week 4 Results |
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Posted by: St Charles Owl - 02-09-2025, 21:16 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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Group A
BaggieOne 21
Stairs 14
Minizin 12
A.A.A. 6
B.B.B. 5
Zinman 4
Twerton 2
BaggieVicar 0
For the second week in a row we have a results table that is split into two distinct halves. The Gamball turned out ok for most with 12 points being scored on that but the rest of the balls saw very few positive scores. The Oxford v Coventry game produced a seasons low score with -11 points due to 4 incorrect Bonus balls but this was offset by 3 other games scoring double figures.
Easily leading the way this week is league leader BaggieOne with a very good 21 point haul. He scored 2 CSs including the Bonus and 4 CRs including the Gamball as well as the added point from the Scoreball. In 2nd spot is Stairs on 14 points, he scored on the same number of games as BaggieOne but missed on his Bonus causing the difference. Third was Minizin with 12 points, the last one to score double figures this week. He managed 2 CSs but missed on the Gamball.
Big drop to the rest!! AAA with 6 points and BBB with 5 points at least managed to get a CR on the Gamball but little else. Whereas Zinman, 4 points, Twerton, 2 points and BaggieVicar, 0 points, missed on all their balls and backed that up with very little else!!
61 BaggieOne
52 Stairs
42 Minizin
37 Twerton
36 A.A.A.
36 B.B.B.
30 BaggieVicar
13 Zinman
Some gaps now appearing in the table. BaggieOne has a nice 9 point lead over Stairs, who in turn is 10 points ahead of Minizin in 3rd. Interestingly Minizin is the most consistent player so far with only 2 points separating his highest and lowest scores for the first 4 weeks. Twerton drops to 4th, just a point ahead of the alphabet boys. Bit of a gap to BaggieVicar in 7th and then the 17 point chasm down to Zinman in last place. He is now 48 points off top place, so it looks like at best the Playoffs for him!!
Cheers
SCO
Group B
SCO 9
4eva 9
Themaclad 8
Derby 7
Lady Jane 6
Salop 6
Snooty 5
Amelia 5
A very tight week for Group B with just 4 points separating all players. The Gamball proved fruitful, 6 players gaining points from it, while Sheffield Wednesday's demise (sorry, SCO) was correctly predicted by all but one player and yielded 21 points. Four fixtures proved to be less predictable, with the results at Sunderland, Stoke Blackburn and Oxford all generating negative returns thanks to a number of blown bonus balls. For the 2nd consecutive week, nobody reached double figures.
SCO and4eva share top spot with 9 points made up the same way - 5 correct results including the gamball but no correct scores and misses on both the bonus and score balls. Themaclad sits just a point behind with 3 correct results, one correct score, a gamball and scoreball point. Derby nearly matched Themac but missed out on the scoreball. Lady Jane and Salop are together with 6 points - Lady J scored on more games, 4, but failed with all her balls while Salop had 3 correct results, no correct scores but did get his gamball correct.
Snooty was the only player to get his bonus correct - and he scored a maximum 6 points from it! Unfortunately that was all he got right so shares bottom spot with our late arrival, Amelia who scored on 3 games including her gamball. So she's nearly level with me!
44 Themaclad
35 4eva
34 SCO
26 Lady Jane
25 Derby
13 Snooty
10 Salop
5 Amelia
Unsurprisingly no positional changes this week. Themaclad still enjoys a healthy lead with gaps beginning to open up between 3rd and 4th, and 5th to 6th. Slow starts for Snooty, Salop and, obviously Amelia, but it's still very early (as I keep telling myself).
Enjoy the international break and I'll post the next fixtures towards the end of the week.
Zin
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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.......
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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)
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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)
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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
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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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