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| HTAFC Prediction League 2025 Matchday 8 |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 23-02-2025, 19:53 - 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 7:
- neonfoxinthebox = 127 pts
- jjamez = 114 pts
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 93 pts
- themaclad = 84 pts
- St Charles Owl = 83 pts
- Lord Snooty = 79 pts
Saturday 1st March:
Stevenage v Town
Town scorers:
Stevenage scorers:
Tuesday 4th March:
Town v Wrexham
Town scorers:
Wrexham scorers:
Blackpool v Peterborough United
Bolton Wanderers v Birmingham City
Cambridge United v Stevenage
Charlton Athletic v Barnsley
Lincoln City v Crawley Town
Mansfield Town v Wigan Athletic
Northampton Town v Stockport County
Rotherham United v Leyton Orient
Shrewsbury Town v Bristol Rovers
Reading v Exeter City (20:00)
Wycombe Wanderers v Burton Albion (20:00)
Bonus matches:
Friday:
Championship:
Sheffield Wednesday v Sunderland (20:00)
Saturday:
Leeds United v West Bromwich Albion (12:30)
FA Cup:
Preston North End v Burnley (12:15)
AFC Bournemouth v Wolverhampton Wanderers
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Division Two table after Matchday 7:
- ritchiebaby = 136 pts
- Devongone = 113 pts
- SHEP_HTAFC = 112 pts
- theo_luddite = 102 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 85 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 69 pts
Saturday 1st March:
Stevenage v Town
Town scorers:
Stevenage scorers:
Birmingham City v Wycombe Wanderers (12:30)
Wrexham v Bolton Wanderers (12:30)
Barnsley v Lincoln City
Bristol Rovers v Rotherham United
Burton Albion v Mansfield Town
Crawley Town v Cambridge United
Exeter City v Northampton Town
Leyton Orient v Charlton Athletic
Peterborough United v Shrewsbury Town
Stockport County v Blackpool
Wigan Athletic v Reading
Tuesday 4th March:
Town v Wrexham
Town scorers:
Wrexham scorers:
Bonus matches:
Saturday:
FA Cup:
Crystal Palace v Millwall (12:15)
League Two:
Chesterfield v Crewe Alexandra
Sunday:
Scottish Premiership:
Hibernian v Hearts (12:30)
FA Cup:
Newcastle United v Brighton & Hove Albion (13:45)
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| WBA vs Oxford - Match Thread |
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Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 21-02-2025, 15:04 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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By the calendar at least, Saturday brings us the last game of what's proved a turbulent winter; in reality, a glance at the horizon raises the suspicion that weather and on-field fortunes alike will continue to be fickle for some time to come. A typically rough ride down at the Den last weekend secured the point we required, but Albion need to return to winning ways, and the opportunity arises tomorrow with a visit from Oxford United.
The U's, going into their first Hawthorns league outing of the 21st century, have an unpredictable record of their own. Gary Rowett's tenure commenced with a 19-point unbeaten run from Christmas to the beginning of this month that's gone a long way to saving them from relegation, but they're now a full month without a win, and last weekend's home defeat to Pompey suggests the momentum may have finally run out. Or can Rowett still spoil our day? On the road Oxford have been keeping it tight, conceding just three goals in six games, and if there's one thing we've learned in recent weeks it's that Mowbray's Albion are as vulnerable as ever to the sucker punch after an hour of fruitless huffing and puffing.
A potential debut for Tammer Bany may offer hope in the promise of something different in midfield, offsetting the loss of Jed Wallace; whether Lankshear offered enough at Millwall to continue as frontman or Armstrong will return to that role is anyone's guess, but Daryl Dike will again be an option from the bench to boost our arsenal. It's hard to see anything but a low-scoring encounter one way or another, and none of the three possible outcomes would entirely surprise me, but nevertheless Albion have to be gunning for three points here.
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| The Posh #Believe |
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Posted by: jjamez - 20-02-2025, 23:03 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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It feels like its been a while since we last met in Yorkshire, but on Saturday, Huddersfield welcome a rival from yesteryear to the John Smiths Stadium in the form of Darren Ferguson's Peterborough United. The old rivalry stemming from when the two sides used to butt heads the last time Town were in this division, with both sides often chasing the same players like Craig Mackail-Smith, who rejected us to sign for them, and for a good few seasons the two sides often battled in and around the playoffs. Peterborough would gain promotion to the Championship at Towns expense over at Old Trafford but more on that in a bit, Town would gain their revenge a couple of seasons later, when they conspired to relegate the Posh back to League One. In more recent times that rivalry has somewhat died down with the two sides going in different directions until reuniting once again this season.
I'd say still managed by Darren Ferguson, but this is probably his 12th stint as manager of the club, he got them promoted against us and was manager of the side when we condemned them to relegation in his second spell as manager. His first spell in charge came in 2006 and lasted until 2009, having recorded back to back promotions from League Two to the Championship, only to return in 2010, for the aforementioned promotion against us. He left for the second time in 2015, to be replaced by David Robertson until Graham Westley was appointed as full time manager. He didn't last the season and Robertson was back at the helm until Grant McCann came in as boss, another who seemed to bounce back to Peterborough often enough. His first stint lasted a year and a bit until Steve Evans came in to show them what football should look like, he failed and once again owner Darragh MacAnthony wielded his axe and sent out an SOS to Ferguson. He was in charge during the COVID years and got them promoted back to the Championship in 2021, with Jonson Clarke-Harris bagging 31 goals in the league that season. The next season, Clarke-Harris couldn't match his goalscoring feat and Ferguson was once again sacked and replaced by McCann for his second stint in charge. That season Town drew 1-1 in Peterborough with Danny Ward scoring, whilst Tom Lees bagged a brace in a 3-0 win in Yorkshire. Incidentally, it was the last time the sides met until this campaign. McCann remained as manager until the January of 2023, when, once again, he was sacked by MacAnthony and replaced in the dugout, Ferguson who came in for his fourth spell in charge and has been at the helm ever since. So maybe not the 12th spell as I said, but close enough.
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This season, the Posh were largely expected to be in and around the play offs, but have been disappointing so far this term and currently sit in 20th, 2 points above the drop zone. With one win in their last 5, they have been on the receiving end of a few chastising defeats, including a 3-1 loss to fellow strugglers Bristol Rovers and a 5-1 defeat away at Lincoln. I'm not going to go into what has happened since we last played them as it was the first game of season, however, discipline seems to be a bit of an issue with 3 players being sent off since boxing day, but Town hardly ever do well against 11 men, let alone 10. Town meanwhile should, should being the key word, be looking to capitalise on the two recent away wins and looking to keep the pressure on the automatic chasing teams. Whilst the performances against Barnsley and Shrewsbury haven't been great, they have yielded the right results, Wycombe are currently 8 points ahead, which is a fair whack considering they don't seem to lose many and often get awarded late penalties, it still only takes them to have a run of form similar to what we have just had for them to get drawn back in. Wrexham have had recent form similar to ours and have come back to only 3 points ahead, whilst Stockport are the form side at the moment and whilst only 2 points ahead of Town, they have come from behind to get to where they are, obviously not fazed by the loss of Louie Barry. Town do have to play all three once again plus the surging Leyton Orient and Charlton, Wrexham, Wycombe and Orient all have to come here, whilst Town still have to travel to Charlton and Stockport. Orient is the last game of the season which could be tantalizing and nervy, but there's still a few twists and turns to come before then.
It is fair to say that Peterborough have been under achieving this season considering some of the players they have at their disposal, the likes of Ricky-Jade Jones, Kwame Poku, Archie Collins and Hector Kyprianou, all of whom have been highly sought after in recent transfer windows, with Jones attracting interest from Cardiff in the last window and captain Kyprianou rumoured to have been close to a move to Cardiff's rivals Swansea. The Posh managed to keep hold of the two for now but may find it a struggle come summer, as they found out last year when talented youngsters Harrison Burrows and Ronnie Edwards both departed for decent money to Sheffield United and Southampton respectively. Whilst Poku is expected to be out injured for a couple more weeks, manager Ferguson hoping to have him for the last dozen games, stating he felt that he was the best player in the league, typical Ferguson delusion considering the quality in Birmingham's squad alone. The rest are the ones to look out for, coupled with former Chelsea youth Malik Mothersille, who once had a trial with us. Collins and Kyprianou both operate in the centre of midfield, both offering energy and robustness much like David Kasumu, Mothersille offers a pacy option usually from the left flank, whilst Jones is arguably one of the quickest players in Europe let alone England, still quite raw in what he does, he causes trouble with pace alone, but maybe hasn't quite got the end product sorted just yet, he still has 7 goals this term and will need to be watched, especially if he gets isolated up against Tom Lees, to make things worse, Brodie Spencer will be missing once again, meaning the backline pace will have to be Sorensen and Balker, they also possess a bit of height at the back so it does make it confusing as to why they are where they are.
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In their current squad they have 3 former town players in the form of current number one Jed Steer, who had a loan spell here the season before Danny ward helped us to promotion I believe, their number two Nicholas Bilokapic, the Australian joined them last season when town surprisingly sold him when he initially thought he was going on loan. However, maybe we kept the right Australian keeper in Chapman. Bilokapic definitely had potential, but he has lost his place this term after a few costly blunders. The final member that has been at town is Donay O'brien-brady, who never made a professional appearance for town and was released, joining Peterborough after a trial. Going slightly further back, Ramoney Critchlow was part of the Peterborough side, another who was tipped highly at Town, he suddenly made the move away and it looked like the right move when he became a feature of their backline, but for one reason or another he found himself exiled, even dropping into non league for a loan at Dagenham and Redbridge, in January he returned to Bradford City where he had had a loan whilst on Towns books. Towns highly desired striker Joe Taylor hails from Peterborough and had a 2 year spell at the club but failed to score before moving to Luton, where he also failed to score, but had impressive loans at Colchester and Lincoln which caught Mark Cartwrights eye, taking up to January to get him through the door, he will once again be missing Saturday through injury with his return expected sometime next month. Midfielder Reece Brown had three separate loan spells at Peterborough from Town, making 56 appearances for the Posh, he failed to make a league appearance for Town, another questionable signing that we have made, although this one came when we had just been relegated from the Premier League. Another midfielder that seemed to have promise or that was the reason we signed him was Kyle Dempsey, the versatile player was used in a few different roles by David Wagner before being loaned to Fleetwood. He would sign permanently for the west coast club and had a short loan at Peterborough before heading south to Gillingham, he is currently injured at Bolton.
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Harry Toffolo had a short loan early in his career at Peterborough as did journeyman striker Liam Dickinson. Goalkeeper Paul Rachubka had a short loan, making 4 appearances for the Posh in 2006 when he deputised from Town. If you want to go further back, Aidy Boothroyd finished his career at Peterborough, having started it at Town, even further back, Ian Bennett played for the Posh, before I was even born, and he was still playing well into my time as a fan for us. Iain Dunn had a short stay at Peterborough before he made a home in Huddersfield and if anyone can add any more please feel free to do so.
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In terms of head to heads, 29 meetings in total, with Town winning 12, drawing 7 and losing 10. The first meeting was back in 1957 when Town would beat the Posh 3-1 in the FA Cup 4th round. The first league meeting would take place nearly 20 years later when the Posh did the league double over Town in the old Division Three, winning both games 2-1. It would be 4 years later when Town registered their first league victory, this time in Division 4. Over a decade later and the sides would meet again in Division three, with Peterborough once again coming out on top, beating Town in the play offs to boot. Town would get promoted the following season and the sides would reacquaint themselves in Division Two, but Peterborough would once again prove to be a bogey side. In the mid 90's Town would again knock Posh out of the FA Cup in the 4th round but would not face up until after the turn of the century when both sides were in Division Two. Town would go on a streak against Posh, winning 2-1 and 3-1 in the 2001/02 season, a year later the two sides would trade 1-0 victories as Town were relegated. In the 04/05 season Town would do a 2-1 double over Peterborough as they dropped down, with the sides then not meeting for a further 3 years, when Town succumbed 4-0 down at London Road, there was a slight bounce back as Town won 1-0 at home with Lee Clark now at the helm, the Posh would get promoted that season as Town missed out on the playoffs but a season later Peterborough would drop from the Championship and Town would lose in the playoffs against Millwall to meet once again. Posh would win 4-2 down at London Road before a 1-1 at the John Smiths thanks to a last minute Jack Hunt equaliser, this was either side of a 3-2 win in the Johnstones Paint trophy, despite Town trying to throw away a 3 goal lead. The end of the season finished in tears for Town as the sides met at Old Trafford in the Playoff final, with Lee Clark opting to bench the prolific Jordan Rhodes in favour of playing Benik Afobe as the lone striker. It would be 0-0 up to the 78th minute before 3 goals in 7 minutes for Peterborough blindsided Town, at 1-0 down, instead of bringing a goal machine on, Clark elected to bring Cadamarteri on, it would be 2-0 before Alan Lee and Rhodes were thrown on in a desperate attempt to rescue something. Cue a lot of believe shirts being tossed away and Peterborough owner MacAnthony saying we could shove them up our arses at their victory parade.
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They would survive the next season and Town would obviously get promoted at Wembley against Sheffield United, the season back in the Championship saw Town lose heavily at London Road 3-1 before drawing 2-2 at the John Smiths. That season would see Town and Barnsley play keep ball as both sides survived and sent Peterborough down. It would be nearly a decade before the sides met again, Town would endure the Premier League, Peterborough League One, the game at London Road would end 1-1 with Danny Ward scoring for Carlos Corberans side, the game at the John Smith's would finish 3-0 with Danel Sinani and Tom Lees scoring inside the first 10 minutes with Lees grabbing a second late on, Peterborough would get relegated that season and Town would fail to turn up at Wembley and ultimately join Peterborough two seasons later. The first game of the season saw Town win 2-0 thanks to goals from Ben Wiles and Anthony Evans, both of whom would be most welcome scorers come Saturday.
With regards to team news, Town have an extensive list of players out, with Herbie Kane now joining them for 8 weeks. He won't be alone and will have Mikel Miller, Rhys Healey, Danny Ward, Matty Pearson, Joe Taylor, Ruben Rooskens and Tom Iorpenda for company. Brodie Spencer is still suspended but Nigel Lonwijk is set to return to the squad after being out with the rare muscle injury, although it is probably too much to expect him to start. Radinho Balker picked up a few knocks on Tuesday night, but it seems as though he will be good to go for another game in quick succession, not that he has much choice in the matter considering how threadbare we are at the moment. Peterborough will be without Kwame Poku and will be looking to register a rare away win having registered just two all season, both coming at the end of August when they beat Exeter and Shrewsbury.
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| Coventry City CBS Arena 22/2/2025 |
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Posted by: themaclad - 20-02-2025, 16:54 - Forum: Preston North End
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Frank Lampard's Coventry City
CBS arena 22/2/2025 1500hrs
One day shy of a year since we won 3-0 there, since then they have been officially renamed by Sky as Frank Lampard's Coventry City
https://www.ccfc.co.uk/
Manager
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Frank James Lampard OBE (born 20 June 1978) is an English professional football manager and former player who is the manager of EFL Championship club Coventry City. Widely regarded as one of Chelsea's greatest players ever and one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, Lampard has the record of the most goals by a midfielder in the Premier League and most goals from outside the box (41).[4][5][6] He ranked highly on a number of statistics for Premier League players for the ten years from 1 December 2000, including most games and most wins.[7][8]
A box-to-box midfielder, Lampard began his career in 1995 at West Ham United, the club where his father Frank Sr. also played. In 2001, he was signed by London rivals Chelsea for £11 million. In his thirteen years with the club, Lampard established himself as a prolific scorer from midfield, becoming the club's all-time leading goalscorer, with 211 goals in all competitions.[9][10] At Chelsea, Lampard won three Premier League titles, the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League, four FA Cups, and two League Cups. In 2005, he was named FWA Footballer of the Year, and finished runner-up for both the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year. After leaving Chelsea, Lampard played for league rivals Manchester City[11][12] and Major League Soccer club New York City FC before retiring in 2017.[10][13] Lampard played 106 matches and scored 29 goals for the England national team, after making his debut in 1999. He represented his country at three FIFA World Cups – in 2006, 2010 and 2014 – and in UEFA Euro 2004, where he was named in the Team of the Tournament. Lampard was voted England Player of the Year in 2004 and 2005.
Lampard is one of 11 players, and the only midfielder, to have scored 150 or more goals in the Premier League. He is fourth in the Premier League's all-time assists ranking, with 102 assists.[14][15] Lampard holds a number of additional Chelsea and Premier League records, and has won PFA Fans' Player of the Year and the FWA Tribute Award. During his career, he was named in the PFA Team of the Year three times, Premier League Player of the Month four times, Premier League Player of the Season once and finished as the Premier League's top assist provider three times, and was named in the FIFPro World XI and a MLS All-Star. After departing, Lampard was named in the Chelsea Team of the Decade as voted for by Chelsea fans,[16][17] and into the Premier League Hall of Fame.[18]
After retiring from international football, Lampard was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2015 for services to football.[19] Lampard served as a team captain on the ITV sport panel show Play to the Whistle from 2015 until 2017. He has also written a number of children's books.[20] Lampard began his managerial career with Derby County in 2018, leading the club to the final of that season's Championship play-offs. He was appointed as Chelsea's head coach a year later, guiding them to fourth place and the FA Cup Final in his first season, before being dismissed in 2021. Following a one-year spell with Everton, and a brief return to Chelsea, Lampard joined Coventry City as manager in 2024.
LAST TIME OUT
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FORM GUIDE
COVENTRY 16 PNE 10
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Lady Godiva (/ɡəˈdaɪvə/; died between 1066 and 1086), in Old English Godgifu, was a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who is relatively well documented as the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and a patron of various churches and monasteries.
Today, she is mainly remembered for a legend dating back to at least the 13th century, in which she rode naked – covered only by her long hair – through the streets of Coventry to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation that her husband, Leofric, imposed on his tenants. The name "Peeping Tom" for a voyeur originates from later versions of this legend, in which a man named Thomas watched her ride and was struck blind or dead.
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T'OTHER GAMES
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| Harris back again |
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Posted by: themaclad - 20-02-2025, 09:59 - Forum: Cambridge United
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Neil Harris has been reappointed as head coach of Cambridge United on a two-and-a-half-year contract.
Harris was in charge of the U's for just over two months during the 2023-24 season before leaving in February 2024 to take over at Millwall for a second time.
The 47-year-old, who left The Den in December, has replaced Garry Monk after his exit on Sunday.
Cambridge, who are bottom of League One and eight points from safety, have also announced the return of former boss Mark Bonner as director of football.
The club's majority owner, Paul Barry, said: "This has been a challenging season which has not gone as any of us would have hoped. There have been lessons for all of us to learn.
"Clearly, Neil left us in a unique set of circumstances last season and we all feel there is unfinished business for him at Cambridge United.
"He made a significant impact at the club over a short period last season. He is a winner and his track record as a head coach speaks for itself."
Harris, who is Millwall's all-time top goalscorer and oversaw their promotion to the Championship in 2017, also managed Cardiff and Gillingham prior to his brief stint with the U's.
At that time, he took over from Bonner, who spent several years on Cambridge's coaching staff before becoming manager in 2020 and guiding them to the runners-up spot in League Two a year later.
Bonner, whose eight-month spell as Gillingham boss came to an end in January, has been tasked with leading an ongoing review of football operations at Cambridge.
Barry added: "Mark knows the club inside out - its strengths, its culture and values, and also the areas that we must seek to improve.
"He is an exceptional individual and we believe his leadership, strategic thinking and deep understanding of the game can make him an outstanding director of football for us over the long term."
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| Colour me shocked NOT |
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Posted by: themaclad - 20-02-2025, 09:57 - Forum: AFC Flyde
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AFC Fylde have confirmed they have parted company with manager Kevin Phillips "by mutual consent" with the club locked in a relegation battle.
The former Sunderland and England striker took over at the National League outfit in October after spells in the dugout at South Shields and Hartlepool United.
But after a disappointing run of just five wins in 18 league outings, the 51-year-old leaves with Fylde in 22nd place, a point adrift of safety.
Fylde were promoted to the National League as National League North champions in 2022-23 before finishing five points above the relegation zone last season in 18th place.
Current assistant coach David Longwell is to take charge of the team on an interim basis until a permanent replacement is found.
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| Predictions Sat 22nd |
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Posted by: Dancingwilldoit - 19-02-2025, 21:30 - Forum: Chesterfield
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Crewe 2-0 Barrow
Morecambe 1-1 Walsall
Accrington 2-2 Doncaster
Bradford 1-3 MKDons
Bromley 2-1 Harrogate
Carlisle 0-0 Gillingham
Colchester 2-0 Wimbledon
Grimsby 0-1 Fleetwood
Newport 1-2 Cheltenham
Notts C 3-0 Tranmere
Port Vale 1-0 Salford
Swindon 1-2 Chesterfield
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| Burnley v The Owls SBC Match Thread |
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Posted by: Owlkev71 - 19-02-2025, 18:31 - Forum: Sheffield Wednesday
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THE MATCH
FRIDAY 21ST FEBRUARY KO 8PM
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LAST MATCH
We handed Coventry all 3 points after a major blunder by Beadle and ourselves not taking our chances. We started brightly and had a few chance, but Coventry scored with the first chance, Simms heading in from close range. We continued to have chances but couldn't find the net. Onto the 2nd half and it was still us looking the most likely, but it would be a Coventry player to score next, thankfully into his own net. We chased the win with Johnson going close and a couple of penalty appeals turned down. Then just as the game looked to be heading for a draw, Beadle dropped a straightforward cross and Simms got the ball and fired into the empty net.
DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB
THE MATCH
Next up and we travel across the Pennines to take on Burnley. Burnley are having a very good season and currently lie in 3rd place, five points off the automatic spots. The reason they are in 3rd and not the autos, is that they have drawn too many games (14) despite having the best defence in the league which has conceded just 9 goals, which is the best in Europe. If they can find there goalscoring boots they should have a chance of the autos. They are managed by Scott Parker who has been in charge since the summer. There leading scorer is Brownhill with 9 goals and 4 assists.
DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB
ALL TIME H2H
OWLS 39
BURN 44
DRAW 20
CURRENT FORM
OWLS L W L D W D
BURN D W W D D W
EFL STOOGES
DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT 
STEPHEN MARTIN
Mark Dwyer and Carl Fitch-Jackson
Fourth Official: Lewis Smith
THE TEAM
Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Ingelsson
Musaba Windass Gasama
Smith
SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)
1-1 Gassama
WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME
26
ATTENDANCE
N/A
BML LEAGUE
Imre 22
SCO 21
Maddix 21
Washington 20
Wereham 12
BMPL
Stateside 15
Owlkev 13
Southey 12
Pei 8
OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST
Southampton v Brighton
Plymouth v Cardiff
Rotherham v Barnsley
Accrington v Doncaster
York v Halifax
AHAAH
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MADDIX PREDICTIONS
2-3 Patonaldo
69
HAHAA
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| Prediction League Week 23 Results |
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Posted by: Zinman - 18-02-2025, 02:49 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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roup A
Twerton 9
Amelia 8
Themaclad 7
Minizin 4
Zinman 4
A.A.A. -3
So after the highs of last week where some season long records were beaten Group A this week came right back down to Earth with a bang!! One of the lowest totals of the season and no one reached double figures!! Twerton leads the way with 9 points, there were only 5 CSs this week in total and Twerton got 2 of them. Like everyone else he got the Gamball wrong and in his case missed on the Bonus as well. Amelia is in 2nd spot with 8 points, bit of a nose bleed position for her recently but it was virtually all done on the back of a spot on Bonus. Themaclad rounds out the top 3 a further point back on 7 points, he was the only other player to get any points on the Bonus.
The Zins were joint 5th on 4 points and the got their exactly the same way - missed on all three balls, has one CS and little else!! AAA had an almost complete disaster, he got all 10 matches wrong, missed on his Bonus and Scoreball and if it wasn't for his wise decision not to play the Gamball he would have been even lower. His -3 was a season low for him and also the worst score by anyone so far this season!!
242 Themaclad
233 Minzin
223 Zinman
219 Twerton
179 A.A.A.
168 Amelia
So again, not positional changes and not much else going on with the table. Themaclad stretched his lead over Minizin a bit to 9 points and Twerton closed to within 4 points of Zinman. Amelia is now closer to AAA than she has been for weeks, a nice 11 point swing will do that!!
Just a little focus on the Bonus Ball use in Group A this week. Its always been a tough one to play and the jeopardy is harsh so getting it wrong makes a dent. So far we have had 138 BBs played, just 16 of them (11%) have been spot on to grab the full 6 points and only 38 (28%) have been a correct result. This means that 61% of them have been incorrect and while that is a bit ahead of the Gamball (65% wrong), the Bonus is a ball that each player gets to choose which game to play it on rather than the tricky games Zinman forces on us for the Gamball!! So its a fair assumption that players pick the match they are the most confident in what they are predicting and still get it completely wrong 6 times out of 10 picks!!! If we ever see someone who can actually do well on the Bonus, I would bet they would walk away with the title!!
Group B
BBB 11
BaggieOne 7
Derby 4
Lady Jane 3
SCO 3
Stairs 0
Snooty -1
So it appears that last week's high scores were a one-off as this week saw a reversion to previous form. Just 27 points scored across the group - the 3rd worst performance of the season. for the fifth time (and twice in the last 3 weeks) the bonus ball was a total wipe out - 7 incorrect predictions out of 7! What makes this stat worse was the fact that no single game attrated more than 2 bonus balls so it wasn't as though just 1 banker let everyone down.
Just one player scraped into double figures - take a bow BBB. He was the only player to score on the gamball and also got 2 correct scores to sit at the top of the week's table. BaggieOne takes 2nd place, matching BBB's 4 correct predictions but, like everyone else, missing out on the two major balls. Derby scrambles into 3rd place with just 4 points, with Lady Jane and SCogether a point behind. Lady Jane did get half of her correct predictions spot on but before she gets excited, there were only 2 of them. SCO got one more correct result but failed to nail a correct score.
Stairs had a poor week, just 2 correct predictions and a wipe out on his balls. Snotty bettered Lady Jane, getting 100% of his predictions spot on.....or 1 out of 10. He's sent into negative figures by planting his score ball on a nil-nil game.
217 Lady Jane
200 SCO
195 Derby
195 Stairs
172 Snooty
172 BBB
147 BaggieOne
Lady Jane's recent form would suggest she doesn't want to get into the play-offs - just 36 points in the last 7 weeks. Unfortunately it looks like everyone has the same plan as she still has a comfortable lead of 17 points over SCO in 2nd place who at least managed to crawl his way to 200 points this week. Derby climbed level with Stairs in 3rd place while BBB also drew level with Snooty in 5th.
BBB had mentioned consecutive weeks of ball failure s I thought I'd take a look for Group B.
For the Gamball it's Stairs with 8 consective weeks of failing to score on it (the first 8 weeks of the season). BaggieOne also managed 7 weeks.
The bonus has BaggieOne with 7 failures in a row.
BBB will be glad to see that he does appear in one of the worst runs - for the scoreball. He hasn't scored on it for the last 6 weeks...well not strictly correct, he did get a minus 1 during that run!
As for Group B's bonus balls, only 9% of them have been spot on but this Group has outperformed Group A on correct bonus predictions with a total of 31% - so that's a 40% positive prediction on a ball that's played on a game of the player's choice! Still better than the gamball which shows a positive prediction rate of 30%.
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| Shrewsbury away - take 2 |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 17-02-2025, 20:50 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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Shrewsbury Town v Huddersfield Town
Sky Bet League One
Tuesday February 18th - 19:45 ko
at the Croud Meadow
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Huddersfield Town travel to Shrewsbury in Shropshire to the New Meadow on Tuesday night for a re-arranged game of football.
We will be without Brodie Spencer, who will be starting a two match ban for amassing ten yellow cards. There will be doubts too about David Kasumu and Tawanda Chirewa, who both limped off in the 2-1 win at Barnsley on Saturday.
It's only a few weeks since I did the match thread for this match, so I'm not doing a full re-write. If you want to read my original ramblings and watch the videos, have a click here........
https://www.sportsbabble.co.uk/showthrea...#pid276756
This game was originally due to be played on the 11th of January. Since then, the temparature has gone up a couple of degrees so there's little chance of another postponement. I've looked at the tv schedule on Sky Sports+ and it ain't there for some reason, so it'll be a night of Radio Leeds for us.
We have struggled a bit since we nearly headed down to Shropshire. Having just won down at Wycombe, our brave lads would've gone there full of confidence against a team languishing in 22nd place in the League One table. The win at Barnsley was our first victory since however. But that was our last game and as the old saying goes, you're only as good as your last game.
Shrewsbury still sit in 22nd place, four points away from safety, but their first game after the postponement was their "cup final" when local rivals Wrexham came across the border to a highly charged atmosphere at the Meadow. John Marquis scored twice, the second coming from the rebound after his penalty had been saved.
It didn't kick start their season though as they followed it up with two defeats, away defeats at Charlton and Stockport. They did then go and beat Mansfield at home and then Rotherham in New York. Next was a draw at Reading, but on Saturday, after taking the lead through Vadaine Oliver, they went three-one down at home to Bolton before Luca Hoole pulled one back in injury time. It was too late. They lost 3-2.
Recent form - last 6 matches:
Barnsley 1-2 Town
Town 0-0 Reading
Northampton 3-2 Town
Town 0-1 Birmingham
Town 0-1 Bolton
Blackpool 2-2 Town
Shrews 2-3 Bolton
Reading 1-1 Shrews
Rotherham 1-2 Shrews
Shrews 2-1 Mansfield
Stockport 1-0 Shrews
Charlton 1-0 Shrews
Town are 5th in the League One table with 52 points. The Shrews are 22nd with 27.
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