Do people think Jenkins went because 
A/ he wanted to and he had achieved his goal of getting us back in the PL. 
or 
B/ he knew there was no money to spend, so he thought, he was on a hiding to nothing.

I originally thought A but I am starting to worry it is B!

Alright, so the ones I've done before were all from the silent film era. Well here's a player some of you may have actually seen play.

Iwan Roberts was born in 1968 in Bangor, but grew up in the seaside town of Barmouth on the west coast of Wales. He signed for Town at the start of the 1990/91 season, brought in by Eoin Hand to replace Craig Maskell. We paid a record fee for him as well, but it was just the money we had received for Maskell from Reading. We bought him from Watford, where he had been given his debut by Graham Taylor, by which time he had already had his two front teeth knocked out. He scored his first professional goal in a First Division match against Manchester Utd at Vicarage Road, the only goal of a 1-0 win. Taylor left though for Aston Villa and the Hornets got relegated. Iwan took the plunge, dropping yet another league to join us in the 3rd division, in order to get regular first team football.

He was 35 years old by the end of his Norwich career, but still played on, signing for Gillingham, who were a Championship club then. His debut was against Norwich's arch rivals Ipswich. There must've been a bit of the old East Anglian rivalry still in him as he got yellow carded five seconds into the match! He had been signed for Gillingham by Andy Hessenthaler, but when he got sacked, some twerp called Stan Ternent took over and didn't get on well with Iwan. He was sent out on loan to Cambridge United, managed by his old Norwich team mate Rob Newman. He scored his 200th league goal on his debut but at the end of the season he decided to retire. He now works in the media, splitting his time between Sky Sports, BBC Wales and the Norfolk local press.

Millie Bright.

Why does the Mosbrough Killamarsh area produce England centre backs, and Chesterfield ones?

Not sure if we’ve had this thread before but here goes...
1. Banana Splits
2. Double Deckers
3. Robinson Crusoe (black and white always shown in school summer holidays)
4. The Flashing Blade (ditto apart from the black and white bit)
5. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

We first met these lads in a FA Cup tie in 1949 , the next meeting was 31 years later when Alan Ball Senior was the manager.

LAST MEETING AT DEEPDALE

PRESTON NORTH END 1 MANSFIELD TOWN 0 Auto Windscreen game 27/1/1998

LAST MEETING

MANSFIELD TOWN 0 PRESTON NORTH END 4 League Cup 21/9/2004 in the Town side that night Alex Neil

MACS MEMORIES

This one is an oddity Town played a reserve game at Deepdale early 1990's We on 6-0 in the Town side was Daley Thompson Olympic Decathelete,I know this for a fact I was at the game

The first competitive action of the 2020/21 season gets underway on Saturday – two weeks before the Championship starts – as North End take on Mansfield Town in the first round of the Carabao Cup.
The Lilywhites are two weeks into the preparations for the start of the league campaign, but will hope to be ready for the clash with the Stags, who are playing their first competitive match since they beat now-promoted Northampton Town back in March!

This will mean it is their first experience of the behind closed doors environment, with PNE returning to Deepdale for the first time since they defeated Birmingham City back in mid-July.

Team News
PNE manager Alex Neil has confirmed that he will be without goalkeeper Declan Rudd, who played every minute or every league game in 2018/19, with Connor Ripley and Mathew Hudson competing for the slot between the sticks.

Darnell Fisher is also missing, along with Louis Moult, who is back running outside, but is yet to join his team-mates in full training after a year on the sidelines with an ACL injury suffered at Swansea City in August 2019.

For the visitors, midfielder Ollie Clarke will continue to be assessed in the days leading up to the fixture after a recent calf strain, but defender Joe Riley will miss the game due to an ACL injury suffered in training.

Opposition View
Stags boss Graham Coughlan is looking forward to bringing his side to PR1. Speaking to Mansfield Town’s official website he admitted it would be a new experience – without the supporters – but one they were ready for.

“We can’t wait to get going and we’re looking forward to Saturday,” he began. “It’s been a long, long time [since we’ve played competitively], but we’re getting close to our first competitive game.

“The adrenaline starts to kick in and we can’t wait to get going. You miss that adrenaline rush and the atmosphere.

“Saturday will be different – it will be hard as we won’t have the fans. But there will be a competitive edge, and you do miss that competitive side of the game.

“We’ll give a good account of ourselves [on Saturday] and the lads are looking forward to it. Let’s go, enjoy it, do our best, and see where we are at five o’clock on Saturday.

“Make no mistake, we want to win the game. We’re going down there to try and make a name for ourselves.

“We want to get through it injury-free, but if there’s a tackle to be made, we’ll tackle, if there’s a header to be won, we’ll win it.”

Match Officials
The referee for Saturday's game will be Ross Joyce, with Geoffrey Liddle and Paul Newhouse the assistants and the fourth official will be Simon Mather.

Ross was last the referee of the weekend’s opponents when Mansfield lost at Bradford City back in December 2019, 2-0 at the home of the Bantams.

However, after five years on the EFL lists, this will be his first time officiating the Lilywhites


Opposition fans view

stagsnet.net/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=8

Here we go again, the new season of the Prediction League. Hope you can all join in again this year and if there are any onlookers wanting to play, well you're all welcome to have a go. Just join in, the rules are quite simple as listed below.

2 points for a correct result
4 points for a correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score      
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.


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.

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.  

EFL Cup:
Friday 4th September:
Middlesbrough v Shrewsbury Town (17:30)
Burton Albion v Accrington Stanley (19:30)

Saturday 5th September:
Rochdale v Town (played at JSS)
Town scorers:
Rochdale scorers:

Derby County v Barrow (12:00)
Walsall v Sheffield Wednesday (14:15)
Barnsley v Nottingham Forest
Bolton Wanderers v Bradford City
Salford City v Rotherham United
Sunderland v Hull City
Tranmere Rovers v Harrogate Town

Plymouth Argyle v Queens Park Rangers (12:30)
Luton Town v Norwich City
Milton Keynes Dons v Coventry City
Newport County v Swansea City

Sunday 6th September:
Brentford v Wycombe Wanderers (12:00)



Final Table 2019/20:

1. jjamez = 855 pts
   
2. themaclad = 820 pts
   
3. Baggiebob(BBB) = 819 pts
   
4. neonfoxinthebox = 818 pts
   
5. theo_luddite = 791 pts
   
6. St Charles Owl = 763 pts
   
7. ritchiebaby = 739 pts
   
8. SHEP_HTAFC = 738 pts
   
9. Lord Snooty = 731 pts
   
10. Beefy 1965 = 674 pts
    
11. Amelia Chaffinch = 668 pts
    

Well this is a home match where I wanna see Hibs "flying out the traps" to take on Aberdeen in a really positive way. The way I see this impending confrontation is the fact that the Dons have played out a Europa League quali match tonight and I definitely wanna see Hibs testing out tired legs on Sunday. This is a game to try and grab 3 pts v a close challenger and they have also incurred some bad injuries to key players and IMO can be beaten by a form team. However, Hibs must play better than of late. C'mon Hibs!

GGTTH

so they have decided to "Retire"
their soccer saturday pundits
or as we normal folk call it  "Sack"

wont be the same without 
Charlie
Matt 
Phill

rumour has it they will be replaced by at least one woman
Alex Scott apparently

Our Loz has tweeted in favour of brother Hazza.

Interestingly (or not) I'm reading David Mitchell's latest novel Utopia Avenue, in it a member of a band is arrested in Italy, having been beaten up by police and having had cannabis planted on him. He is charged with assaulting the police. After much delay and contact with the British Consulate he is asked to sign a document, admitting he's done wrong and apologising and he'll be released. I won't spoil the plot any more than by saying he refuses to sign and that leaves the corrupt Italian police without a leg to stand on.

Harry doesn't strike me as the sharpest football brain in England, but his old alma mater St Mary's Chesterfield thought he was university material off the field of play - so he isn't a complete idiot either.

Our police spent years chasing the imaginings of a nut called Nick ruining lives and reputations in the process. So why are we so keen to trust the account of Greek police, who find themselves thrust into the position of having arrested the world's most expensive defender?

Shouldn't we avoid making assumptions about badly-behaved footballers or power-crazed police until the truth emerges? Certainly the phraseology attributed to Maguire in Greece doesn't sound as though it originated around Mosbrough.