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| Motherwell v Hibs - Saturday 13 April |
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Posted by: ritchiebaby - 11-04-2024, 00:00 - Forum: Hibernian
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There's not much to say about this game as Hibs have to win it to stand a chance of a Top6 place, depending on Dundee's last 2 games. To be honest, I'd rather we didn't finish in the top half, as we'll get thumped at least thrice, maybe even 5 times. It looks as though Hibs need to score 3 or 4 goals in every game to compensate for our defensive mistakes. But are our forwards really that interested in doing that?
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| HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 15 |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 09-04-2024, 23:48 - 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 Random Badger gives you 2 points 
The random badger is used for any random prediction used once in each matchday sequence. For instance, a scorer at a particular match, the number of red cards in the matches or yellow cards or own goals or owt you want really within reason, I do need to be able to check whether it's correct or not. Please don't put stuff like....."Commentator says...." 
The joker is played for one match in each sequence and if correct you get double points. So if you've predicted 1-0 and it finishes 2-0, you get 4 pts, but if you've predicted 2-0, that's 8 pts. But if you get it wrong, it's minus 2.
Jokers and badgers are optional. You don't have to play one if you don't want.
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. Similarly with the badger, if your random prediction is affected by this, it'll be half the points.
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.
End of season Play Offs: The one who finishes top of the league will still be champion, but after the season finishes there will be Play Offs between the top 4, with 1st v 4th and 2nd v 3rd. This will take in stuff like the EFL Play Offs, FA Cup Final, final day of Prima Donna League, European Finals etc. It will be one matchday for the semis and one for the Final. It will be the individual scores for each matchday against the allotted opponent, with some kind of tie breaker for a drawn match.
The prize for winning will be enormous. Another rep point. 
So we have a new format for this season, which I put forward as an idea at the end of last season. Nobody offered any objections so here it is explained......
Firstly, I thought it was getting a bit boring towards the end with the league format as it was with the champion being so far ahead and everybody else not much to play for apart from the push for a play off spot, which was a bit of an anticlimax anyway. The most exciting bit was the tussle for 8th, 9th and 10th positions with Shep, Ritchie and Amelia.
So I'm splitting the group up into two groups with the top six from last season in the top group and the bottom six in group 2. 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, finishing on the last game of the Championship 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 Championship fixtures and bonus matches. And not as many fixtures to go at. Hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.
The rest of the rules will be the same as before apart from the which will still be in use, but I'm going to get arsey about it. Sometimes in the past, I've been able to just award two points immediately because it was such a nailed on thing to happen. Not accusing anyone of cheating. Far from it. I didn't put any boundaries on it, so anything was alright. So now I'm restricting it to three goal scorers in any of the games in your group. Sorry to all our more adventurous badgerers.
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.
The joker will still be the same as before, ie doubling your points for a correct prediction or minus 2 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 :- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off.
Division One table after Matchday 14:
- St Charles Owl = 306 pts
- Lord Snooty = 305 pts
- jjamez = 288 pts
- themaclad = 278 pts
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 274 pts
- ritchiebaby = 265 pts
Saturday 13th April:
Bristol City v Town
Town scorers:
Brizzle scorers:
Birmingham City v Coventry City
Hull City v Queens Park Rangers
Millwall v Cardiff City
Sheffield Wednesday v Stoke City
West Bromwich Albion v Sunderland
Tuesday 16th April:
Southampton v Preston North End
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur (12:30)
Sunday:
West Ham United v Fulham (14:00)
Arsenal v Aston Villa (16:30)
Scottish Premiership:
Saturday:
Motherwell v Hibernian
Champions League quarter finals 2nd leg:
Wednesday:
Manchester City v Real Madrid (agg 3-3)
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
Division Two table after Matchday 14:
- SHEP_HTAFC = 277 pts
- theo_luddite = 271 pts
- neonfoxinthebox = 270 pts
- Devongone = 269 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 204 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 191 pts
Friday 12th April:
Plymouth Argyle v Leicester City
Saturday 13th April:
Bristol City v Town
Town scorers:
Brizzle scorers:
Leeds United v Blackburn Rovers (12:30)
Ipswich Town v Middlesbrough
Preston North End v Norwich City
Southampton v Watford
Swansea City v Rotherham United
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Burnley v Brighton & Hove Albion
AFC Bournemouth v Manchester United (17:30)
Monday:
Chelsea v Everton
National League:
Tuesday:
Gateshead v Chesterfield
Champions League quarter finals 2nd leg:
Wednesday:
Bayern Munich v Arsenal (agg 2-2)
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
Matchdays still to come:-
Matchday 16: Saturday 20th to Wednesday 24th April
Matchday 17: Friday 26th to Tuesday 30th April
Matchday 18: Saturday 4th May
The regular season ends with both divisions playing the same fixtures of the final day of the Championship. Then......
Play Off semi final 1st leg: Thursday 9th to Monday 13th May
Play Off semi final 2nd leg: Thursday 16th to Sunday 19th May
So the final whistle for the Play Offs will be when the last ball is kicked on the last day of the Premier League. We're not going to go as far as the finals of the Play Offs or the FA Cup.
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Prediction Leaue Results Week 32 |
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Posted by: Zinman - 09-04-2024, 00:03 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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Premier League
Stairs 10
Lady J 5
Derby 5
Minizin 2
B.B.B. 2
Zinman 1
So after last week poor showing, this week got even worse!!! A complete washout on the Gamball, only one positive score on the Bonus and only 3 CSs across the whole lot!! Last week two players got into double figures, this week it was only one, so well done to Stairs for bringing a little bit of competency to this weeks proceedings!! He ended with 10 points, mainly thanks to a spot on Bonus!! Big drop to Lady Jane and Derby who ended with just 5 points each. These two along with Stairs Bonus were the only ones to get a Correct Score.
Minizin and BBB finished on 2 points each, both did it the same way, missed on all their balls and scored 3 CRs to stay positive. Zinman is still on the beach with a Pina Colada, he finished with 1 point, so he doubled his score over the last 4 weeks to a whopping 2 points!!!!
353 Zinman
335 Minizin
335 Derby
333 BBB
308 Stairs
254 Lady Jane
Only one change this week with Derby's marginally better week seeing him draw level with Minizin and hop over BBB in the process. Lead at the top is now down to 18 points. Stairs goes over the 300 mark as predicted and LJ is rooted to the bottom.
Championship
SCO 5
Sanjay 5
Twerton 4
BaggieOne 3
Snooty 0
Themaclad -1
AAA -1
Well it was a record breaking week for the Championship, though not in a good way:
 The lowest points total of the season.
The lowest total number of correct predictions.
The lowest score needed to top the weekly table.
The first time that 3 players have failed to score a single point.
It was only the second time that nobody has reached double figures and the total number of points from the balls, minus 17, has only been lower on 2 occasions.
So nobody emerged with any glory on what proved to be a very difficult week. 4 games produced negative points with just one positive gamball and one bonus. For the second week in a row we had 3 negative scoreballs. SCO proved to be the stand out predictor (or at least not as bad as the rest) as he scored on 4 games including one correct score. Unfortunately he managed the worst possible minus 5 on his balls to drag him back down with the pack. Sanjay's correct bonus prediction saw him level with SCO though he only got 2 predictions right with no correct scores. One of Twerton's 3 correct predictions was the gamball but his negative scoreball stopped him from taking a share of the lead.
BaggieOne managed to stay positive with 2 correct predictions and one maximum but the rest had a nightmare week, all with just 1 correct prediction each. Snooty and Themaclad at least managed to turn their one correct prediction into a correct score though Themac was dragged into negative territory thanks to his nil - nil scoreball. AAA also scored minus 1 with just 1 correct result plus a scoreball point.
Carnage!
334 SCO
327 Twerton
301 Snooty
290 AAA
289 Themaclad
271 BaggieOne
231 Sanjay
Unsurprisingly, no change in the overall table this week!
No beach, but it's definitely hammock time in the garden with a refreshing G&T as I wait patiently for some competition!
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| Huddersfield Town Deepdale 9/4/2024 |
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Posted by: themaclad - 08-04-2024, 12:12 - Forum: Preston North End
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Preston North End v Huddersfield Town
Deepdale 9/4/2024 19:45 hrs
https://www.htafc.com/
MANAGER
André Breitenreiter (born 2 October 1973) is a German professional manager and former player, who is currently head coach of EFL Championship club Huddersfield Town. Breitenreiter’s entire playing career was in his native Germany, appearing in both the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 for nine different sides.
After he retired from playing, he became a manager, and he won the Swiss Super League with FC Zurich in 2022.
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Breitenreiter started his coaching career in 2009 and worked as scout for Kaiserslautern. On 3 January 2011, he was appointed as head coach of TSV Havelse, club playing in Regionalliga Nord.[3] In 2012, he won Lower Saxony Cup with TSV Havelse. On 15 May 2013, it was announced that Breitenreiter would take over SC Paderborn starting in the 2013–14 season.[4] On 11 May 2014, his club gained promotion to Bundesliga for the first time ever in club's history. On 20 September 2014, after four undefeated games (two wins, two draws) in the German top tier, Paderborn was top of the league, ahead of European powerhouses Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen.[5] Breitenreiter became the 14th head coach for Schalke 04 in the last decade on 12 June 2015.[6] He left the club after a single season.[7] He was appointed as the new head coach for Hannover 96 on 20 March 2017.[8] He was sacked on 27 January 2019.[9] In May 2022, he signed for TSG Hoffenheim.[10] He was sacked the following 6 February 2023, with the club three points above the relegation zone.[11]
On 15 February 2024, Breitenreiter was appointed head coach of English Championship club Huddersfield Town on a two-and-a-half year contract.[12]
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PNE 10 TOWN 7
RED HOT FORM!!!!!!!!
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| Preston North End v Huddersfield Town |
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Posted by: Amelia Chaffinch - 07-04-2024, 19:55 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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We travel to Deepestdarkestdale on Tuesday for another bitter battle in our bid to get precious points to save ourselves from The Drop.
Thankfully, our win against Millwall puts us in a slightly better position.
I started Saturday accepting relegation and was going to stay calm in the face of adversity.
However, as soon as the whistle blew, I was screaming like a banshee and swearing like a trooper, trying to will them on.
Then we score in the dying moments, crawl over the line to take us above the relegation zone and we're back to having hope again.
I don't know what's worse.
Contrary to what was said by some fans, I actually thought we were the better team on Saturday and were unlucky not to score at least a couple of times, especially against a lacklustre, if slightly dirty side, whose main aim was to get a 0-0 draw.
I'm not convinced it will be our night on Tuesday, we haven't got the best record against them at their place or recently at all. Although we did win at their place last season, something we hadn't managed since 1969!
A small step for Kaine Kesler-Hayden; one giant leap for Huddersfield Town.
From that match to Saturday's game against Millwall, only Connell (or Nicholls as some people call him), Helik, and Kasumu started both those games.
Head to head
League-wise, it's neck and neck. Recent results favour PNE.
Our last meeting at home... don't look, Ethel.
Table
Still precariously placed in 21st but one better than we were and two places up on what could've been.
Their last match away to Watford ended 0-0. This is how they lined-up.
Top Scorers
Former Town midfielder, Duane Holmes, is in the mix although, if you noticed, he was only on the bench on Saturday. I think he's had a recent injury.
Your suffragette and female activist for this match thread is Edith Rigby who was born in Preston. She formed the Preston branch of the WSPU, started a school for female mill workers to continue their education after the age of 11, she stood up for servants of her neighbour's and gave her own servants privileges not given to many.
She was arrested and sent to prison more than once. Firstly for taking part in a march at the Houses of Parliament, and later obstructing Winston Churchill. Her father paid her fine after a few days the second time blaming the women she protested with. I would bet that she wasn't impressed with her father. She was sentenced to 9 months with hard labour for planting a bomb at the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, despite it causing little damage. There was also an admission that she set fire to one of William Lever's homes (Lever Brothers fame).
Whilst in prison, she took part in the hunger strikes and was force fed.
She later split from the WSPU and joined the IWSPU because she believed protesting should continue during the Great War, I have to say that I agree with her. And, given that she did help the war effort, she wasn't working against those fighting. She just realised that there was more than one battle to fight. As many women who worked jobs previously believed could only be done by men knew, women were equal to men and still should have the vote, war or no war.
Edith Rigby was the first woman in Preston to own a bicycle!
She continued to live in Preston until 1926 when she moved to Wales where she and her husband planned to retire. Unfortunately, he died before this happened but she went there alone. She died there in 1950. She was 77.
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