The final chance to qualify for the World Junior Curling Championship 2025 will begin this week in Lohja, Finland at the men’s World Junior-B Curling Championships 2024. The event will run from Sunday 8 December until Friday 13 December where the three medallists will secure their World Junior spots.

Teams will be placed in three groups where the top two teams in each group, plus the two third overall ranked teams with the better Draw Shot Challenge, qualify for the quarter-finals. Teams will then be ranked 1-8 to determine the quarter-final matchups. Group play will end on Thursday 12 December at 12:00 with the quarter-finals beginning later that day at 19:00. The semi-finals will be played the following day 13 December at 10:00 and the medal games following at 16:00.

Group A: Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Korea, Latvia, Philippines, Poland and Sweden
Group B: Australia, China, Japan, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Türkiye
Group C: Chinese Taipei, Czechia, England, New Zealand, Slovakia, Switzerland and Ukraine


England are represented by Matthew Waring (Skip), Callum McLain (Third), Benjamin Gillard (Second and Vice-skip), Troy Caunce (Lead) and Benjamin Holcombe (Alternate). Also pictured is coach James Whittle with a grown-up's beard. Callum plays at my local Ice Rink, is determined to sweep as hard as Hammy and Lammie and will be looking to be involved in the later stages of this competition.

They play Slovakia at 12 noon tomorrow with games against Chinese Taipei at 7am on Monday, then Czechia at 5pm on Monday.

JUST NOTICED PLYMOUTH AN CARDIFF GAMES OFF RE WEATHER.  DO YOU HAVE REPLACEMENTS, AS GAMES IN PREMIER ARE ON SUNDAY...

NICE TO HAVE 10 GAMES NOT 8

Crew 2-0 Bradford 
Port Vale 1-1 Walsall
Accrington Stanley 3-2 Bromley 
Barrow 1-2 Milton Keynes Dons 
Chesterfield 2-1 Tranmere Rovers 
Doncaster Rovers 3-1 Cheltenham Town
Gillingham 0-0 Salford 
Harrogate Town 1-2 AFC Wimbledon
Morecambe 2-2 Grimsby Town 
Newport County 3-1 Carlisle United 
Notts County 2-0 Colchester United 
Swindon Town 2-1 Fleetwood Town

I won't bother you with all the statistics buzzing around ahead of Saturday's game, suffice to say that the omens are not good. The game should be treated as a free hit and a gritty determined performance might be the best we can hope for from Hibs.

Celtic are already runaway leaders in the Premiership and don't show any signs of lessening their grip on that lead. If we can come away with the right performance and attitude and continue it against Ross County the following weekend, we can continue with our new-found optimism.

Jon Brady has resigned as manager of League One Northampton Town.

The 49-year-old leaves after three and a half years in charge with the club 21st in the table.

The announcement comes just 48 hours after Brady had talked about his pride at the work that had been done during his time at Sixfields Stadium before his 200th game in charge against Stevenage.

The Cobblers lost that game 2-0 - their sixth league match without a win.

Brady's assistant Ian Sampson has been put in interim charge and will lead the team in Monday's home game against Peterborough.

The club said they received Brady's resignation on Wednesday and accepted it "given the circumstances".

"We really appreciate what Jon has done for the club, initially within the academy and over the last four years or so as first-team manager," chairman Kelvin Thomas said., external

"I personally appreciated Jon's kind words earlier this week when he acknowledged how well-supported he had been by the club.

"However we also all fully understand the real pressures that come with being a manager and while we all would have preferred things to be different, we understand Jon's decision.

"We will now work with Jon and the LMA [League Managers' Association] on his exit agreement."

Although unable to save Northampton from relegation to League Two when he took interim charge in February 2021, Brady led the Cobblers back to the third tier two seasons later.

He consolidated their place in League One last term, finishing 14th and a comfortable 16 points clear of the relegation places.

But this season has been tough with only four wins so far, leaving the club in the bottom four.

National League strugglers Braintree Town have appointed Steve Pitt as their new manager.

Pitt has replaced Angelo Harrop, who was recently sacked. He worked at the club as Harrop's assistant from the summer of 2022 until last December.

Karl Duguid will be Pitt's assistant and Phil Coleman has been installed as first-team coach.

Justin Moseley, who was placed in interim charge following Harrop's dismissal, was offered the chance to stay on as part of Pitt's coaching team but has opted to leave the club.

"I'm honoured and privileged to take on the role of first-team manager and will now look to build on the foundations that Angelo has already laid," said Pitt.

Braintree are 19th in the table, just one point above the relegation zone.

Harrop was appointed in May 2022 and guided the Iron to promotion last season with a 4-3 win over Worthing in the National League South play-off final.

But he lost his job after a run of just five wins from 20 games this term.

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 7TH DECEMBER KO 12:30PM

v

LAST MATCH



We made it back to back away wins as we beat Derby in dramatic fashion. Derby started bright and were soon 1-0 up when as Adams fired in from close range after a pull back. We were struggling to do anything of note and thankfully went in only 1 down. DR changed the formation and we were a bit more progressive. We then levelled things up with a Bazza special from 25 yards. It looked like the game would end level until Pato created a bit of havoc and crossed for Lowe to tap home the winner.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Back to Hillsborough and Preston make the journey over the Pennines. Preston have found wins hard to come by, just 3 in there 18 games played, hence why they are currently in 18th place in the division and haven't won a game in there last 8. They could be in for a relegation dogfight if they can't find a way top win more games. They are managed by Paul Heckingbottom, who took over after Ryan Lowe was sacked after the 1st game this season. Heck has also managed the Blunts, L**ds and the Dingles. There leading scorer is Greenwood with 4 goals and 2 assists.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 45
PREST 46
DRAWS 25

CURRENT FORM

OWLS W W D L W L                                                            

PRES D D D L D L                              

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

ROBERT MADLEY
Blake Antrobus and Darren Williams
Fourth Official: Adadm Herczeg

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Charles
Windass Ugbo Gassama
Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Smith

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

25456

BML LEAGUE

SCO 10
Imre 10
Washington 9
Maddix 8
Wereham 7


BMPL

Southey 10
Stateside 9
Owlkev 8
Pei 4

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Everton v Liverpool
Plymouth v Oxford
Portsmouth v Bristol City
Barnsley v Birmingham
Chesterfield v Tranmere

AHDAH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




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