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| HTAFC Prediction League 2025 Matchday 6 |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 09-02-2025, 16:52 - 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:
- jjamez = 78 pts
- neonfoxinthebox = 75 pts
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 63 pts
- Lord Snooty = 57 pts
- St Charles Owl = 57 pts
- themaclad = 54 pts
Saturday February 15th:
Barnsley v Town
Town scorers:
Barnsley scorers:
Cambridge United v Exeter City (12:30)
Blackpool v Mansfield Town
Bristol Rovers v Burton Albion
Crawley Town v Wycombe Wanderers
Leyton Orient v Lincoln City
Shrewsbury Town v Bolton Wanderers
Tuesday 18th February:
Shrewsbury v Town
Town scorers:
Shrews scorers:
Crawley Town v Wigan Athletic
Bonus matches:
Championship:
Saturday:
Preston North End v Burnley (12:30)
Millwall v West Bromwich Albion
Sheffield Wednesday v Coventry City
*** scores for ***
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*** scores for ***
Division Two table after Matchday 5:
- ritchiebaby = 102 pts
- SHEP_HTAFC = 86 pts
- theo_luddite = 84 pts
- Devongone = 83 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 67 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 57 pts
Saturday February 15th:
Barnsley v Town
Town scorers:
Barnsley scorers:
Northampton Town v Wrexham (12:30)
Birmingham City v Charlton Athletic
Reading v Rotherham United
Shrewsbury Town v Bolton Wanderers
Stevenage v Peterborough United
Wigan Athletic v Stockport County
Tuesday 18th February:
Shrewsbury v Town
Town scorers:
Shrews scorers:
Mansfield Town v Lincoln City
Wycombe Wanderers v Bristol Rovers
Bonus matches:
Saturday:
League Two:
Walsall v Chesterfield
Sunday:
Scottish Premiership:
St. Mirren v Hibernian (14:00)
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| Terriers v The Club They Can't Sell - 08-Feb-2025 |
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Posted by: theo_luddite - 07-02-2025, 15:48 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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Old McGalphsmiths Funny Pharm
Home for the infirm and the rapidly unabled
'Can I Twang That Tendon or Hamstring For You'-on-Colne
HD1 6PG
Kick-off 15:00 UK Time
Saturday 08/02/25
It's FA Cup 4th Round weekend, and just for a change,  Town aren't in it. Fortunately we have a game to play because Reading aren't either.
Our old Wemberlee mates head up through the Friday afternoon traffic jams on the M40, M42, M1 and M62 so they can rest their weary heads in the hotel up on top of The Ainleys before a short coach ride in more traffic jams into town for Saturday afternoon's match. The good news is Town can't drop any lower than 5th even if our 2nd dismal run of form this season continues. The bad news is we need Stockport to lose or draw if we win (possibly by 2 or more, as if?) to reclaim 4th place. Even then, that 2nd place we should have been capable of achieving is disappearing into the distance faster than some of our lads can tie their boot laces, but not quite as fast as we can injure our own players.
Reading are a club suffering from Chinese Take-Away syndrome. Not too many years ago, aided by President Xi's Government money, Chinese "investors" were buying English clubs left right and centre in the hope of getting more involved than just gambling company shirt sponsorships in the money-go-round that is the Prima Donna League. Well, could you translate our shirt sponsors at the time into anything you could lose your shirt on?
Having discovered that getting there, staying there and the costs of playing there (don't mention the agents fees Fu Yung, you'll have Egg on your face), even if you do, came at a heftier price than President Xi's coffers were expecting. They quickly started realing in their free Spring Roll and Prawn Cracker with every meal offers a few seasons into their folly. In the case of Reading, the lack of cash has resulted in numerous points deductions, which mainly resulted in their relegation to League One and nearly resulted in another to League Two. If you've got a pair of vintage Huntley and Palmers biscuit tins to rub together to sell on Antiques Road Show, oh, and prove you can pay the club wages, they are all yours. They are under a transfer embargo as they are late again with their accounts. Like, a year late. Leading horses to water might come to mind here.
If only Reading could find a rich American investor that knows what he, or she, is doing? If only Town could find a rich American ...... ? Seems to be the trend. A load of Arabs you say? Well, if you want to be rude about it, fine, but they seem to have gone from buying clubs to buying players for a League that nobody watches or cares about. I couldn't tell you where to find highlights let alone live games.
If only you could find a 2nd hand car sales advertising bloke that's worth a small fortune when you need one?
I guess you'd need a lorra, lorra cash to splash on that though chuck. Maybe 'ave a word wi' ar' Graham.
He could even get the stadium named after you again.
Then again, given that HRH isn't paying his bro' out of the public purse any more, maybe The Royals could be bought by The Royal Household. Wouldn't that be a Mews ing? I'm here all weekend. 
On the tellybox
Not showing anywhere at the moment other than HTTV or Bet365 (maybe) if you have an account. You might find other streams elsewhere but make sure your Aunty Virus has her best pearls on and her sharpest set of teeth in. You don't want to be that sucker that sees all his bank details splattered all over the web, dark or otherwise.
Latest news
Well, in case you were sleeping, we brought another Loan Wolf in, Tawanda Chirewa, who seems to be dividing opinion already, based on little evidence in my opinion. We also sent Mr. Bojangles and his "little mouse" clogs back to Holland to go play for Fortuna Sittard against some of the biggest clubs in the Dutch Eredivisie.
Now, many a Dutch and quite a few German clubs were or still are "factory sponsored" and the last time I looked the Fortuna brand was well known across Europe, Spain in particular, for selling cancer sticks. So has the name been allowed to stick (sorry) at Sittard and Dusseldorf as it's historical, or is cancer stick sponsorship in sport still a thing in some parts of Europe? It could of course be entirely innocent as it translates to something like good luck or fortunate. Hmmm, yeah, OK.
Elsewhere, Ozzy Osbourne has announced that him and the lads are having one last thrash in a day of Metal Mayhem at Villa Park this summer. Ozzy will stand on stage again with original members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward – playing for the first time in 20 years. With amps cranked up to 25 you might just about hear it in Yorkshire and Berkshire on the day. Saturday 5th July if you want tickets, Saturday 5th July if you don't. Don't be surprised if they suddenly decide to play on Sunday too "due to unprecedented demand". Nothing better than pissing folk off who think they bought tickets to the "final" show.
Out Injured/Suspended/Isolating
Oops, we did it again. Our waiting list at Canalside outside the treatment room continues to grow and it's mostly our new expensive signings that are having the 6 hour NHS style waits for treatment followed by a 6 week layoff before we can break, sorry play them them once (and I do mean once) again. Yes, we knew some of these guys had a history of being broken, not so much Born to Run as Born to Hobble, but we're doing it in spades and in record time this season. That we sacked our head of medical (or whatever) for this and it's still happening stinks of someone who's done a good job of covering their arse and deflecting the blame if you ask me.
I hope Mr. Chicken accepts a reference to his "We Are Terriers" email in return for nobbling his excellent summary below ...
Nigel Lonwijk will get another scan on his hamstring and will miss another couple of weeks.
Ruben Roosken awaits scans after hyper-extending his knee at Northampton. From fellow Town fans, Wakey and Snoots and anyone else I missed, it seems this will be another long layoff.
Joe Taylor is predicted to miss all of February with a hamstring injury.
Mickel Miller remains out until spring with an MCL injury.
Rhys Healey needs surgery and is set to miss the remainder of the season with cartilage damage.
Danny Ward is out for the season with a knee ligament injury.
Back training but not oven ready/Back in the frame
Tom (Phantom of the Opera) Lees will wear a mask due to a broken nose but is available.
Josh Koroma is expected to be back following a minor quad issue.
David Kasumu has been training and is available to return to the side after his hamstring injury.
Extended Musical Interlude
Well, with that eardrum splitting news, I've got to start with some "Metal", ay I?
Don't blame me if your Huntley and Palmers are reduced to a pile of crumbs in the biscuit tin.
You should have put them in the shed, out of harms way. So the mice can eat them.
https://youtu.be/cen1SvpTsYk?feature=shared
It was that or War Pigs .... oh, what the hell ... I'm not embedding these anymore.
https://youtu.be/zY5nYmTUfnQ?feature=shared
Reading is well known for its part in the annual Reading and Leeds Music Festivals, played over the same weekend, typically around August Bank holiday, with many big name headline acts appearing on both bills. They sort of change ends of the M1/M40 at half-time. It's also well known by me as I used to book flights and travel by train through Reading to get to Heathrow on the RailAir bus. My (ahem) reserved Virgin (as it was then) train seat was often taken up by some stoodent types with big rucksacks that looked like they'd packed for a month let alone a long weekend. Says me with 2 suitcases, but I was going over the pond for two weeks. Since Cross Country took over they pushed the prices up into rip-off country, so I now mostly use Chiltern.
One or two of these you may have heard of from 2023 and, erm, a few a bit before that.
https://youtu.be/4hbZbdXIf7c?feature=shared - we could do with a bright side right now. How did all of them that can't sing in tune get closest to the mikes? I'm sure there's hardly a football fan in the world that can sing in tune but together the harmonies are brilliant. Give me an eeeeeeeee.
https://youtu.be/hM0giyIWOH4?feature=shared - stick your fingers in your ears if easily offended. We need to pull our finger out to stop us from going (7th and) under the play-off's right now, let alone 17th.
https://youtu.be/gpmO_7yKUHM?feature=shared - the others are Creep(ing) up on us.
https://youtu.be/_u1SW0s9Hig?feature=shared - they make it impossible to play most of these embedded anymore, but they still put ads in halfway through. Tossers. As Dave Grohl might say - it's times like these we need to stop (effing) injuring our own players. Clearly his mum has no control or influence over his (mostly Anglo-Saxon) language.
Last time out
Groooaaaannnn!! We pulled a 3rd defeat on the trot from the jaws of another 0-0 draw, allowing Northampton to score after 30 mins and notch up 3 unreplied goals again before we, erm, tried to make a game of it in the last 20 minutes. When Hoggy is scoring with a screamer you know we've got a problem up front. 6 goals conceded and two defeats against a club sitting proudly on the trap door. 
We've spent small fortunes on a legion of expensive but quickly injured cast-off's, mostly folk that supposedly know where the onion bag is but would actually struggle to find the little blue bag in a pack of salt-'em-yourself crisps, when all we had to do was spend it all on Alfie May. That said, we'd have injured him by September and he wouldn't be fit until Easter with our record.
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Reading kick started their recently improved run of form by dragging a 1-0 win from the jaws of a 0-0 draw against Bolton by scoring in added time. They'd lost the previous 3. What are the odds on both of us continuing our recent form?
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In other League One games, the top three continued to sail into the distance as far as we're concerned and that Reading have sold their leading scorer to Wrexham is not likely to help either of us. Brum beat The Millers and Wycombe came back with a point from Cambridge. The Taffs beat Creepy Crawley and per above Smogport won at Orient to go 4th and halt The O's charge. They are 6th on goal dfference from Charlton, Bolton and Reading.
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Down amongst the dead men, Cambridge stay bottom, The Shrews beat mansfield 2:1 but stay just above them. Crawley are next with Burton remaining under the trap door after a 0:0 at Barnsalee. Trpa door dwellers Northampton and Posh are five points clear at the moment.
The Sack Race
Mike Williamson got the heave-ho at bottom of the 92 Carlsisle on Monday, to be replaced by Mark (Sparky) Hughes, who has been signing on in the Job Centre for the last year and a half after Sadfud decided he was too good for them. I guess he fell for the local scenery. It might not be quite (Wainw)right how they went about this but if he can spring them back into life and hike them up the league, he might turn out to be a bit of a, er (oyster) catch(er). I suspect a mountain or two to climb though to view the long term prospects at this club. A bottom of the League wet Tuesday in Carlisle is a lot bleaker than a wet premier League Wednesday in Stoke no matter how you look at it.
Mike Dodds, in the backgound at Blunderland several times, has also been appointed full time at Wycombe. Despite seemingly everyone leaving Wycombe in droves, they've still got something going on there that is better than we've got going on here right now.
Tables, Form & Stats
Town dropped to 5th after last weekend's results and have gone from being comfortable in 4th to nervous ninnies in 5th. As fast as Orient have shot up the League, we could plummet the other way if current results continue. See Coventry not that long ago in The Chumpionship.
Reading have been a model for consistent inconsitency this season compared to Town who are either consistently crap or consistently good at getting results despite playing like crap. Reading are better than mid-table mediocrity but as soon as they win a few they lose a few. That the've only drawn 5 and the last one was 4th Jan says this game screams win or lose. Maybe back your house on a 2-2 draw but don't blame me if it doesn't happen. I've predicted a 1-0 win for Town but in more hope than expectation.
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Innies and Outies
I may have mentioned their top scorer has left for pastures new.
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Who's banging 'em in
His Knibbs is going to have to step up now that Smithy has defected to Welsh Wales.
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They can't all win
Mansfield and Northampton get things rolling on Friday night with League One goal machine Jordan Rhodes looking to get a bagfull for Mansfield. All the top 3 games are postponed due to FA Cup involvement. Thankfully we don't get involved in that nonsence. Smogport are home to Barnsalee in an early kick-off. Orient were due at Wrexham so that's them out of the mix too. In the scramble for 6th, Charlton are home to Stevenage, Bolton are home to Creepy Crawley and you might have worked out by now where Readiing are.
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Down amongst the dead men, Cambridge are at Lincoln, The Shrews are at The Millers, Creepy Crawley you know about and Burton are home to Blackpool. The trap door dwellars are covered above (Posh v Brum off).
We've played 'em before
So, setting aside what was probably the most easily forgotten 120 minutes of football at Wemberlee before the penalties since the easily most previously easily forgotten 120 minutes before the penalties (Town v Blunts) .... Reading are battering us in the League Head2Heads.
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Our recent home record against them is a tad better than average, but then, Reading were on a spiral of 'win points' and then 'get them deducted' for the most part. It didn't help that their dickhead owners didn't understand that offering wages you couldn't afford to pay, let alone on time were the main cause of their problems.
Next up?
Just darn t'road at Barnsalee for t'Maggie Thatcher Miners Memorial Cup fixture. Presented to the losers by Arthur Scargill and medals handed out by Dickie Bird.
Pressers
Duff Duff and the new Loan Wolf get the Radio Local grillings
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kpm9x0
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kpmb3l
The views from The Reading Festival site - a load of big fields near the station that can get very muddy, very quickly. Big Frank would have been in his element.
https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/sport...ith-shoes/
https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/sport...-addition/
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| WBA vs Sheff Wed & Blackburn |
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Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 07-02-2025, 15:13 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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It's fair to say that the return of Tony Mowbray has, in just a brief fortnight, reminded us of the best and worst of his first spell in charge, as the thumping of Pompey gave way to a hapless outing at Plymouth in which we laboured too long to pick apart their defence while getting caught out horrendously at the back ourselves despite coming under no sustained pressure. So it's anyone's guess what awaits in tomorrow's early game, which sees Sheffield Wednesday - two points behind us, with the third-best away record in the division since the start of October - arrive at the Hawthorns unbeaten in three. Granted, we tend to be formidable on home soil, where we've lost just one in the last fifteen, but the flurry of ins and outs at the end of the transfer window means it'll be a new-look Albion taking the field. With Alex Palmer gone, it's between Josh Griffiths and Joe Wildsmith to get the gloves, with the latter's unencouraging performance at Bournemouth in the cup perhaps counting against him; hopefully Kyle Bartley will be back in to steady the defence for whoever gets the nod. And if there are still a few nerves in that department, then we can only hope the new attacking options will compensate: you'd have to think at least one of Will Lankshear and Adam Armstrong will make their debut, if not both.
Late addition Tammer Bany, on the other hand, will have to wait until Wednesday night when Blackburn are the visitors. Though one place above us in the table as things stand, their recent form has been no better than ours, sinking to defeat in four of their last five against opponents as lowly as QPR and Oxford. To put it simply, we have to make our home advantage count in at least one of these two crucial matches, and four points between them would be a solid week's work.
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| Saturday 8th Feb Games |
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Posted by: Dancingwilldoit - 07-02-2025, 10:28 - Forum: Chesterfield
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Bradford 2-0 Harrogate
Swindon 1-1 Port Vale
Accrington 1-2 Wimbledon
Barrow 1-0 Gillingham
Colchester 2-0 Walsall
Crewe 3-0 Newport
Fleetwood 1-1 Cheltenham
Grimsby 1-2 Carlisle
MKDons 2-0 Bromley
Notts C 3-1 Morecambe
Salford 1-1 Tranmere
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| Mark Hughes |
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Posted by: themaclad - 06-02-2025, 17:04 - Forum: Carlisle United
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Carlisle United have appointed Wales legend Mark Hughes as their new head coach.
Hughes has signed a rolling contract to replace Mike Williamson who was sacked on Monday with the club bottom of League Two.
The 61-year-old, who will have Glyn Hodges alongside him as assistant coach, has been out of work since being sacked by Bradford City in October 2023.
Hughes has managed six clubs in the Premier League as well as the Wales national team after a glittering playing career.
He spent 18 months at Bradford and in his only full season in charge the Bantams finished sixth before they were beaten in the League Two play-offs by Carlisle.
That was his only managerial job outside the top-flight, having previously been in charge of a total of 466 Premier League games at Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Fulham, QPR, Stoke City and Southampton.
Before that, he had managed Wales for five years, leading them to a play-off for Euro 2004, but he was not able to guide them to a major tournament.
Hughes won 11 major honours during a playing career as a centre forward with Manchester United, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Southampton, Everton and Blackburn Rovers. He also won 72 caps for Wales.
'Mark will instantly command respect'
But his new job is to try to drag Carlisle away from relegation to the National League.
They are 24th in League Two, five points from safety, and he is their third boss of the season after the departures of Williamson and Paul Simpson, who left in August.
The Cumbrians have won only twice at Brunton Park all season, and brought Williamson's reign to an end after a humiliating 5-1 defeat at home by Swindon Town on Saturday.
Williamson's exit came despite bringing in 11 new players in the transfer window, backed by the club's American owners, the Piatak family.
But sporting director Rob Clarkson has acted quickly to bring Hughes in for the final 18 games of the season, starting at Grimsby Town on Saturday.
"Mark's experience and stature in the game speaks for itself," Clarkson told the club's website, external.
"He is someone who will instantly command respect from all staff and players and I am really excited to work with him.
"The players we have here will suit the way he wants to play and I'm sure our fans will really get behind him and the team in our remaining 18 games."
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| Wycombe Wanderers Deepdale 8/2/2025 |
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Posted by: themaclad - 06-02-2025, 16:54 - Forum: Preston North End
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Wycombe Wanderers
Deepdale 8/2/2025 15.00hrs
It's the joy of the Cup
https://www.wwfc.com/
MANAGER
New manager bounce ?
Mike Dodds (born 3 June 1986) is an English football coach, who is the Head Coach of EFL League One club Wycombe Wanderers.
Coaching career
At the age of 18, Dodds joined Coventry City as a youth coach, after acquiring his UEFA B License whilst still at college.[1] In 2009, Dodds joined Birmingham City's academy in a coaching capacity. In 2020, Dodds made the step up to academy manager at Birmingham.[2] During Dodds' time at Birmingham, he was credited with having a positive impact on the development of Birmingham academy graduates Nathan Redmond, Demarai Gray and Jude Bellingham.[1]
In August 2021, Dodds left Birmingham to join Sunderland as head of individual player development.[2] On 2 February 2022, Dodds was appointed interim manager of Sunderland, following the sacking of Lee Johnson and again following the sacking of Tony Mowbray.[3] On 19 February 2024, he was once again appointed interim manager until the end of the season following the sacking of Michael Beale.[4]
On 2 February 2025, Dodds was appointed head coach of League One second-placed side Wycombe Wanderers on a three-and-a-half year deal.[5]
LAST ROUND
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MET BEFORE
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Last three meetings all behind the doors that were closed when we played in front of fans wwe won 5-1, I know I was there
NEWBIES
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HOT SHOTS
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The Fitness Test
After picking up an injury against Blackburn Rovers, defender Jordan Storey will be sidelined at least until the March international break.
Ryan Porteous was brought in on deadline day to add competition in that backline, however he is unavailable having featured in Watford’s third round tie against Fulham.
Hero of the last round, Milutin Osmajić is expected to be back in contention after struggling with illness last week. Ben Whiteman and Robbie Brady will miss out through injury, and Will Keane is a doubt.
The Chairboys
Wycombe Wanderers will begin a new era at Deepdale this weekend as Mike Dodds takes charge of his first match as head coach.
The former Sunderland assistant has succeeded Matt Bloomfield at Adams Park and will now look to finish the job off in terms of their search for promotion.
Wycombe have enjoyed a brilliant season so far and sit second in the League One table. In Richard Kone, they possess the EFL's top goalscorer, and the Chairboys will also be hoping to enjoy a cup run on the side of their league success, having already defeated a Championship side in Portsmouth in the third round.
The Officials
Referee: Benjamin Speedie
Assistant Referees: Conor Brown and Graeme Fyvie
Fourth Official: Martin Coy
North End will be hoping they can come close to replicating what they did the last time Benjamin Speedie took charge of one of their matches, as PNE progressed to the next round of the Carabao Cup thanks to a 5-0 win over Harrogate Town.
In total this season, Speedie has refereed 27 matches, showing 91 yellow cards and one red.
MACS VIEW
We have a chance to make a rare visit into the 5th Round, which could lead to an even rarer visit to the 6th Round which in the nearly 56 seasons of misery I have witnessed is a round I have never reached
Not be easy against these lads, new manager bounce as well
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| WBA v The Owls SBC Match Thread |
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Posted by: Owlkev71 - 06-02-2025, 14:28 - Forum: Sheffield Wednesday
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THE MATCH
SATURDAY 8TH JANUARY KO 12:30PM
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LAST MATCH
We dropped 2 points after missing a number of chances in the 2nd half. We weren't at the races in the first half, only having 1 shot, and although Luton didn't create a host of chances, they did take one of them, a 25 yarder, belted in by Doughty. Onto the 2nd half and a couple of subs came on, Smith and Armstrong, and we looked much better and were on the front foot and creating chances. We were rewarded when Gassama went on a long run and was brought down for a pen, which Smith put away. We continued to have chances but couldn't find that elusive 2nd goal and had to settle for a draw despite having 17 attempts in the 2nd half.
DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB 
THE MATCH
Next up and a trip to the Midlands to take on the Baggies. The Baggies are having a decent season and are currently in the final play off spot. The Automatics look gone at the moment but if they can keep up there form they should have a pretty good chance at making the playoffs. They are managed by Tony Mowbray, who has returned to the club after previously being in charge 16 years ago, after recovering from bowel cancer which forced him to leave his last job at Birmingham. There leading scorer is Maja with 12 goals and 2 assists.
DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB
ALL TIME H2H
OWLS 55
WBA 39
DRAW 28
CURRENT FORM
OWLS D W D L L D
WBA L W L D D W
EFL STOOGES
DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT
TOM NIELD
Johnathan Hunt and Bhupinder Singh Gil
Fourth Official: Sam Purkiss
THE TEAM
Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Ingelsson
Musaba Windass Gasama
Smith
SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)
2-1 Gassama
WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME
26
ATTENDANCE
N/A
BML LEAGUE
SCO 21
Imre 20
Washington 19
Maddix 18
Wereham 11
BMPL
Stateside 15
Owlkev 13
Southey 12
Pei 8
OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST
Norwich v Derby
Bristol C v Swansea
Huddersfield v Reading
Colchester v Walsall
Solihull v Oldham
HHHAA
THE MUPPETT LEAGUE
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| Prediction Week Week 21 Results |
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Posted by: St Charles Owl - 04-02-2025, 02:58 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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Group A
Minizin 15
A.A.A. 9
Zinman 7
Twerton 1
Amelia 1
Themaclad -2
Another poor week in Group A with the top 3 scoring a half decent 31 points and the bottom 3 scoring zero!!! Only one player scored positive points on the Gamball and only one on the Bonus and that was the same player, so the continued struggles on the balls is keeping the scores down.
Big week for Minizin at the top of the table with 15 points, he scored a CRT on both the Gamball and Bonus and then proceeded to add two CSs to boost his score. AAA had a better week than he has been having, he wisely did not play the Gamball so saved a pointy as he got it wrong anyway. Zinman rounds out the top 3 with 7 points, he mossed on both main balls but did manage a weeks high score on 5 other games including one CS.
Twerton and Amelia scored a single point each, which in both cases ended up being the scoreball in the Arsenal rout of Man City. Themaclad posted his worst score of the season with -2 points, he missed on all his balls and managed just one CR, a really poor week from him!!
222 Themaclad
215 Minzin
195 Zinman
188 Twerton
171 A.A.A.
152 Amelia
So while there were no positional changes this week we did see some significant closing of gaps. With Minizin adding 15 points this week to his 15 points last week, compared to Themaclad total of only 10 over the same period, the gap between them at the top has shrunk to just 7 points!!! Closest it’s been since the early weeks!! Zinman also closed the gap on Themaclad and increased his lead over Twerton in 4th. AAA is not firmly in 5th and Amelia is rooted to the bottom.
Group B
Lady Jane 9
BBB 8
SCO 5
Stairs 4
Snooty 1
BaggieOne 0
Derby -1
Another spectacularly bad week for Group B. Nobody in double figures, a full set of misses on the bonus ball and just 2 players securing a correct score.
After a few poor weeks, it's a familar name at the top of this week's table. Lady Jane only scored on 2 matches but she did get those 2 spot on and one was the gamball. BBB was by some distance the best predictor of the week with 4 correct results and matching Lady Jane's 2 correct scores, but yet again he was let down by his balls, failing on all 3, something of a regular occurence for him this season!
SCO and Stairs both scored on the gamball to at least give them some points as not much else went well for them. Snooty was saved from a big fat zero by being one of 3 players to score on the scoreball but only got 2 correct predictions. BaggieOne matched Snooty but missed out on the scoreball leaving Derby adrift at the bottom with minus 1 point. Derby got just 1 result correct but at least got the scoreball right!
211 Lady Jane
182 SCO
180 Derby
178 Stairs
162 Snooty
152 BBB
126 BaggieOne
At last we see some movement at the top of the table! SCO's magnificent 5 points sees him overhaul Derby and climb into 2nd place (the move may be more to do with Derby's performance rather than SCO!). With just 4 points separating 3 players, the battle for the 2nd play-off spot is getting interesting!
Just a brief stat on the balls for Group B - Lady Jane has now scored 61 points from these over the season while BaggieOne has minus 8. BBB is in danger of joining him in the list of negative ballers as his total currently stands at just one single point. The bonus ball has contributed minus 42 points to the total score so far - I guess the games I choose aren't very predictable!
Group A fares a bit better with a total of 205 points from the balls but like Group B they are only on -6 on the Bonus Ball!! Themaclad leads the way with 64 points from his balls with Minzin just behind with 61. Zinman is on -21 on the Bonus ball alone but thankfully for him he is second on the Gamball and top on the Scoreball!!
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| Antony Limbrick |
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Posted by: themaclad - 03-02-2025, 20:23 - Forum: Hartlepool United
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Lennie Lawrence is stepping back from his role as Hartlepool United manager with Anthony Limbrick becoming head coach.
Lawrence, 77, became caretaker boss in October after Darren Sarll left the club, before getting the job to the end of the season in November.
But he is now handing over to Limbrick, who had been assistant to Lawrence, with immediate effect with Hartlepool 12th in the National League.
"I recommended to the board and the owner that me and Anthony should flip it, with me stepping back to number two and that Anthony should step forward as head coach," Lawrence told the club's website.
"That was decided last week on my recommendation."
Lawrence was in charge of Hartlepool for 17 matches and only lost three on those, but real progress in the league was hampered by drawing eight of those games.
The Pools job was Lawrence's first permanent managerial role since he had left Cardiff City in 2005, while he was also one of the first Premier League managers with Middlesbrough in 1992.
"I'll be there to support and fit in wherever I'm required and I'll give Anthony whatever support he needs to make a success of it," Lawrence added.
"I felt it was the best time to do it. Hopefully the transition will be smooth."
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