Grimsby Town manager Paul Hurst and his assistant Chris Doig have extended their deals with the League Two side.

The pair returned to the club for a second spell in December 2020.

They were unable to stop them from being relegated that season but led them back to the English Football League at the first attempt in 2021-22.

"We are delighted to sign new deals and looking forward to continuing to help the club progress, both on and off the pitch," Hurst told the club website.

The Mariners have not disclosed the length of deals the pair have signed.

Hurst, 47, initially took over at Blundell Park alongside Rob Scott in March 2011.

Scott left in September 2013 and Hurst went on to lead the club to promotion from the National League in May 2016.

He left to take over at Shrewsbury that October, before having brief spells at both Ipswich and Scunthorpe.

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/ci...-postponed

All Cinch Prem matches postponed as a mark of respect for the sad passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II.

I thought you would like to know who the true predictors were, who score a game correctly.

So out of 147 games predicted this season, THEO is the top of the tree with 22 correct.

20 - Them
18 - JJ

17 - Ritchie.
17 - Devon.
15 - Lord Snooty
15 - Shep
10 - St Charles
09 - Amelia.
09 - BBB.
09 - Neon
05 - Wakey

BBB

As you will already know this game takes place on the 24th September 3:00 KO.  What you may not of seen yet is the announced line up of 'some' of the players, it's pretty much a who's who of more recent Albion legends.  Shows the respect these two players are held in, to be able put players like this on the pitch.

Jonas Olsson
Roman Bednar
Peter Odemwingie
Billie Jones
Marc-Antoine Fortune
Ishmael Miller
Craig Gardner
Simon Cox
Steven Reid
Paul Robinson
Gareth Barry
Robert Koren
Wes Hoolahan
Goran Popov
Paul Scharner
Nicky Shorey
Filipe Teixeira
Leon Barnett
Zolton Gera
Graham Dorrans

More to be announced

Have to travel back for this one, perhaps we should re-sign a few, they will have their boots with them.

Thomas Tuchel: Chelsea sack manager following Champions League defeat - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62817993

Premier League

Stairs      12pts 2CS 5CR 0GB -3BB 1SB
Minizin      10pts 0CS 4CR 0GB 3BB 1SB
Sanjay        8pts 1CS 3CR 5GB -3BB 0SB
Derby        5pts 1CS 4CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Zinman      4pts 1CS 2CR 0GB -3BB 1SB
Blue            4pts 0CS 3CR -3GB 3BB 0SB
Snooty        3pts 0CS 4CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
SCO            2pts 1CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 0SB

The mediocrity continues into another week. Once again the gamball proved costly with just one positive score while player choice bonuses weren't much better.

Stairs doubled his season's score with a table topping 12 points with his refusal to play the gamball paying off for him. He was the only player to get 2 correct scores, though, like most of us he missed out on his bonus. Minizin continued his consistent scoring to take 2nd place, another one grateful for opting out of the gamball, though his failure to get a correct score kept him from top place. Minizin was also one of only 2 players to score from his bonus.

Sanjay got his season started with 8 points in 3rd place - his best score of the season so far, though as his previous best was just 3, that isn't saying much! Nothing much to write home about for the rest of us - Derby came in 4th with just 5 points, Zinman only scored on 2 games but was grateful for not playing the gamball and Blue was the other positive bonus ball to match Zin's magnificent 4 points.

Snooty equalled his worst week so far with SCO's bright start to the season now just a distant memory as he picked up his 3rd low score in a row - just 7 points from the last 3 weeks.

Snooty 44
Minizin 44
SCO 25
Derby 24
Stairs 24
Zinman 20
Blue Baggie 16
Sanjay 12

Minizin joins Snooty at the head of the table and these pair have opened up a bit of an early season gap, helped more by the others' ineptitude rather than great scoring! SCO's poor run sees him dragged back towards the pack with Sanjay clawing back some of his early season deficit.

Some stats: Derby is the only player yet to score from his bonus but is also the only player to be positive from the gamball - maybe I should choose your bonus ball game this week? Only Minizin has a positive total from the bonus; With Derby's first extra point, everyone now has at least one scoreball point.

Zin


Championship

Lady Jane 15pts 1CS 3CR 5GB 6BB 0SB
BBB 11pts 1CS 3CR NPGB 3BB 0SB
Dingle 11pts 1CS 4CR -3GB 3BB 1SB
AAA 6pts 0CS 4CR NPGB -3BB 1SB
BaggieOne 6pts 0CS 4CR -3GB 3BB 0SB
Themaclad 5pts 1CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Twerton 5pts 2CS 1CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Amelia 4pts 0CS 3CR NPGB -3BB 1SB


Starting to see a bit more consistency in the scoring finally, although its still distinctly mediocre!!  Topping the charts this week is Lady Jane with 15 points.  She was the only one to get positive points on the Gamball and backed that up with a CS on the Bonus as well!!!  BBB continues his better form and is joint 2nd place with our Mr Consistent so far this season Dingle, both on 11 points.  BBB didn't play the Gamball and that cost him 3 points, Dingle again scored on more games than any other player.

AAA and Baggieone scored 6 points in 4th place, closely followed by Themaclad and Twerton with 5 points each and Amelia with 4 points.  The common thread for these 5 was their inability to score points on their balls with just one BB CR and three Scoreballs between them!!

57 Themaclad
57 Dingle
50 BaggieOne
46 BBB
46 Lady Jane
19 AAA
16 Twerton
8 Amelia

The table has definitely split into two separate leagues.  Themaclad is now joint first with Dingle and they are joined by BaggieOne in reaching the half century.  Lady Jane has joined BBB in joint 4th.  There is now a 27 point gap between 5th and 6th, with AAA, Twerton and Amelia all looking a bit stranded!!

Some Championship stats of note:

BaggieOne has yet to score on the scoreball, whereas Dingle has managed to score in 4 of them. A points swing of 4 points!!
Amelia has yet to predict a correct score, whereas Themaclad has the most with 6.  A points swing of 24!!
Twerton has predicted incorrectly on every Gamball and every Bonus Ball and is -28 points overall on his balls, whereas Themaclad has now on a total of 21 points from his balls. A points swing of a whopping 49 points!!

Cheers
SCO

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62771360

Celtic outclassed by top class opponents, but not embarrassed. It just places into perspective where a lotta Euro teams like Celtic are really placed in the "pecking order" of Euro footie. A good game to watch and the better team won. Gotta take the few scoring opps that arise - didn't do that!

Gamball:
West Ham - Newcastle

Others:
Bournemouth - Brighton
Leicester - Aston Villa
Birmingham - Swansea
Blackpool - Middlesbrough
Coventry - WBA
Sunderland - Millwall
Wigan - Blackburn
Plymouth - Sheff Wed
Crystal Palace - Man Utd

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Melissa

Just as if we haven't been through enough, one of our players was allegedly involved in a fight with an Oldham player after the game. Sounds bad as their player will miss 4 games. God knows who it was but it sounds like he kept the winning streak going.