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Posted by: themaclad - 08-10-2024, 12:55 - Forum: AFC Flyde
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Former Sunderland and England striker Kevin Phillips has been named the new head coach of AFC Fylde.
Chris Beech left The Coasters last month after picking up just one win from their opening eight National League games of the season.
Phillips departed Hartlepool at the end of last season, despite guiding Pools to 12th in the National League after arriving in January when they were four points above the drop zone.
The 51-year-old’s first game in charge will be the FA Cup fourth qualifying round clash at home to Rochdale on Saturday.
Goalkeeping coach Chris Neal and former striker Nathan Delfouneso have been in caretaker charge at Mill Farm, earning seven points from five matches to climb to 21st, a point from safety.
Fylde chairman David Haythornthwaite told the club website, external: “I am sure, like me, our fans will be excited with this appointment.
"I would like to thank Nathan and Chris for stepping in and taking charge for the last five games, during which time they have not only steadied the ship but put a smile back on people’s faces.
Phillips played for nine clubs during his 20-year playing career, including Watford, Sunderland, Southampton, West Brom, Aston Villa and Birmingham.
He scored a total of 287 goals, won eight caps for England and became the only English player to win Europe's Golden Shoe award in 2000.
Since retiring in 2014, he has held coaching roles with Leicester City, Derby County and Stoke City before a 15-month stint at South Shields, who he led to promotion into the National League North in his second season in charge in 2022-23.
Phillips had expected to remain at Hartlepool this season but claimed the club had withdrawn a contract offer in order to appoint former Woking boss Darren Sarll instead.
Phillips will be assisted by Wess Brown, who he worked at South Shields.
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| Prediction League Fixtures - Week 8 |
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Posted by: Zinman - 08-10-2024, 01:45 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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A rest week this week but due to a hectic travel schedule I'm posting the games for the 19th early.
Gamball:
Cardiff - Plymouth
Others:
Fulham - Villa
Ipswich - Everton
Southampton - Leicester
Luton - Watford
Oxford - WBA
Preston - Coventry
Sheff W - Burnley
Stoke - Norwich
Hull - Sunderland
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| HTAFC Prediction League 2024/25 Matchday 10 - another international break |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 06-10-2024, 17:33 - 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
Everybody has the same fixtures this week:-
Division One table after Matchday 9:
- themaclad = 161 pts
- St Charles Owl = 158 pts
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 155 pts
- jjamez = 153 pts
- SHEP_HTAFC = 143 pts
- Lord Snooty = 132 pts
Division Two table after Matchday 9:
- neonfoxinthebox = 187 pts
- Devongone = 177 pts
- theo_luddite = 174 pts
- ritchiebaby = 167 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 139 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 126 pts
Thursday 10th October:
UEFA Nations League:
England v Greece
Friday 11th October:
Iceland v Wales
Saturday 12th October:
Croatia v Scotland (17:00)
Belarus v Northern Ireland (19:45)
League One:
Crawley Town v Shrewsbury Town
Peterborough United v Rotherham United
Stockport County v Wycombe Wanderers
League Two:
Chesterfield v Notts County (12:30)
Sunday 13th October:
UEFA Nations League:
Finland v England (17:00)
Monday 14th October:
Wales v Montenegro
Tuesday 15th October:
Scotland v Portugal
Northern Ireland v Bulgaria
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Posted by: Dancingwilldoit - 05-10-2024, 08:56 - Forum: Chesterfield
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Gone on loan to Oldham for the rest of the season.
We loan out 2 promising youngsters ( Hobson to Barnet) and what? Stick with Grigg, Madden and Fleck? The 2 later seem to be somewhat injury prone.
Can't think of anyone Cook has sent out on loan who came back and made the cut at the end of the season.
Unless he's got a master stroke up his sleeve, I can see another season in league 2 looming.
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| Hibs v Motherwell - Saturday 5 October |
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Posted by: ritchiebaby - 04-10-2024, 21:08 - Forum: Hibernian
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The eternal optimist in me thinks that Hibs' recent improved form will continue on Saturday against an impressive Motherwell side. The 'Well have only lost once since mid-August and will be a tough test, especially at set pieces.
Gayle and Hoillett have looked good and, although they probably won't last a full game, 60 or 70 minutes from them should be enough to see off most teams. Despite his dreadful penalty miss against Rangers, I expect SDG to start Kuharevich, on the basis of him being a bit of a handful. All we need is for Kwon to find his shooting boots and I'm sure we can pick up another 3 points.
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| WBA vs Millwall - Match Thread |
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Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 04-10-2024, 17:14 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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Another international break heaves into view, and could well be a blessing for Albion after a week in which our unbeaten start to the campaign came a cropper with two pretty well-deserved defeats. However, before the hiatus we have the chance to make amends for those back-to-back reversals as Millwall visit the Hawthorns on Saturday.
Recent history has "stalemate" written all over this fixture, with Albion winless against the Lions since February 2020 but Millwall winless in B71 since October 2001; the last four encounters in West Bromwich have all ended as draws, the last two of them goalless. The Lions don't have the greatest record on the road otherwise, and come into this on the back of a midweek defeat at Cardiff, but even before Albion's largely toothless display against Middlesbrough it was already evident that we're not prolific scorers at home lately, and have been relying on clean sheets and the odd goal to see us through. The changes will have to be rung to some extent this weekend, and after being rested on Tuesday Tom Fellows certainly needs to be back on the team-sheet, perhaps with Mikey Johnston given a start too to maximise our creativity in the final third, although his cameos so far haven't quite been as explosive as we were used to seeing last season. Alex Mowatt remains a solid midfield engine, and Racic is doing well alongside him, but if we're going to cause the Millwall defence problems then the attacking set-up has to be shaken up.
A combination of history and immediate form doesn't bode well for us putting the Lions to the sword, and if tomorrow's match were abandoned due to a sudden eruption of the hitherto-undiscovered volcano lying dormant beneath Smethwick, then the pools panel would be stamping NO-SCORE DRAW on their card faster than you could say "a goal every 135 minutes on average in this fixture this decade." But all things considered, a draw would stop the last week's rot and give us chance to regroup for a fresh offensive later in the month.
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| Burnley Turf Moor 5/10/2024 |
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Posted by: themaclad - 04-10-2024, 07:46 - Forum: Preston North End
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Burnley
Turf Moor 5/10/2024
https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/
MANAGER
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Scott Matthew Parker (born 13 October 1980) is an English professional football coach and former player who is head coach of EFL Championship club Burnley
Fulham
2018–19: First-team coach and caretaker manager
Shortly after his retirement from playing, Parker returned to Tottenham Hotspur, coaching their under-18 squad, as well as being announced as a club ambassador.[76] In July 2018, Parker left Tottenham to return to Fulham, who had just gained promotion back to the Premier League, serving as first-team coach, linking up with former manager Slaviša Jokanović.[77] He was retained in his coaching position after Claudio Ranieri was brought in to replace a dismissed Jokanović that November.[78]
Ranieri was dismissed on 28 February 2019, having overseen no improvement to the team's results, leaving the club in a relegation battle.[79] Parker was then appointed as caretaker manager that same day, the club now sat nineteenth in the Premier League table.[80] He took charge of the team for the first time three days later, where they lost 2–1 to visitors Chelsea.[81] Fulham were relegated to the Championship after a disappointing returning league campaign, their relegation confirmed after a 4–1 thrashing by Watford, with five games remaining.[82]
2019–21: Premier League promotion and relegation
After speculation arose over who would replace Ranieri on a permanent basis following relegation, chairman Shahid Khan appointed Parker as manager permanently on a two-year contract.[83] Parker was able to retain the majority of his players, despite relegation, with star striker Aleksandar Mitrović signing a new contract during the summer.[84] During his first season in charge, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in all English sport being suspended from March until June 2020; Fulham ultimately finished the season in fourth place, missing out on automatic promotion by two points, thus qualifying to the promotion play-offs. After defeating Cardiff City over two legs in the semi-finals, they beat Brentford in the play-off final to achieve promotion back to the Premier League at the first time of asking.[85]
Fulham's return to the Premier League however did not begin smoothly: they lost their first four games and failed to win until November, when they beat relegation rivals West Bromwich Albion 2–0 at Craven Cottage.[86] Towards the end of the 2020–21 season, Parker reportedly became a surprise contender for the Tottenham Hotspur managerial vacancy, after José Mourinho was dismissed, but he remained at the club.[87] Parker's side were relegated to the Championship once again in May 2021 after suffering defeat to Burnley, who were above them in the Premier League table.[88] Following relegation, Parker said that Fulham must try to break the cycle of relegation and promotion and establish themselves in the top flight.[89] On 28 June, the club announced that Parker had left by mutual consent.[90]
AFC Bournemouth
The same day his departure from Fulham was finalised, Parker was appointed as head coach of AFC Bournemouth, replacing Jonathan Woodgate on a three-year contract.[91] After guiding the club to 13 points from a possible 15, Parker was awarded the league's Manager of the Month award for September 2021.[92] Parker won the award again in October after leading Bournemouth to five wins in five matches, conceding just one goal in the process.[93] Parker guided Bournemouth to promotion back to the Premier League after two years away in his first season as manager. The side finished as runners-up to Fulham sealing second place on 3 May, with one game remaining in the season, with a 1–0 win against fourth-placed Nottingham Forest.[94]
Bournemouth won their first game back in the top flight, defeating Aston Villa 2–0 at home on 6 August. After that win, the team lost its next three games by an aggregate score of 16–0, losing 4–0 to Manchester City, 3–0 to Arsenal, before a 9–0 loss away at Liverpool on 27 August, a joint-record for the largest score margin in Premier League history.[95] Following the Liverpool match, Parker expressed his frustrations with the club's transfer policy, stating they were currently "unequipped" for the Premier League.[96] Three days after the Liverpool match, Bournemouth announced they had parted company with Parker.[97]
Club Brugge
On 31 December 2022, Parker was appointed manager of Belgian champions Club Brugge, succeeding Carl Hoefkens at a team in fourth place and 12 points off the lead.[98][99] His first game on 8 January was a 3–1 loss at leaders Genk in the Pro League.[100] Parker inherited a team that had reached the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League, where his team lost 7–1 on aggregate to Benfica. On 8 March, the day after the 5–1 second leg defeat at the Estádio da Luz, and having won twice in 12 overall games to fall to 21 points off the lead, he was dismissed.[101]
Burnley
On 5 July 2024, Burnley confirmed the appointment of Parker as head coach on a three-year contract.[102]
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The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine hill range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire, England.
Completed in 2006, it is part of the series of four sculptures within the Panopticons arts and regeneration project created by the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network (ELEAN). The project was set up to erect a series of 21st-century landmarks, or Panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire as symbols of the renaissance of the area.
Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu, the Singing Ringing Tree is a 3-metre (10 ft) tall construction comprising pipes of galvanised steel which harness the energy of the wind to produce a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound covering a range of several octaves. Some of the pipes are primarily structural and visual elements, while others have been cut across their width enabling the sound. The harmonic and singing qualities of the tree were produced by tuning the pipes according to their length by adding holes to the underside of each.
In 2007, the sculpture won (along with 13 other candidates) the National Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for architectural excellence.
In March 2017, a second Singing Ringing Tree was set on the outskirts of Austin, Texas in the United States in the rural area of a small town called Manor.
While the exact location is unknown, Tonkin Liu also helped in the creation of a third sculpture which is found somewhere in Saudi Arabia.
The "Singing Ringing Tree" sculpture was donated to the City of Abilene in July 2022 by its owner in the Austin, Texas, area. The anonymous donor covered the installation and moving costs, which were arranged by the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council. The council contracted with JK Welding to dismantle and reassemble the sculpture, which is composed of nearly 27 tons of pipes, east of the Frontier Texas! museum in the grassy median where Treadaway Boulevard splits and flows into South 1st St. The sculpture's position has been optimized to maximize the wind blowing across the pipes, taking advantage of wind channeled through two nearby underpasses. However, the sculpture is mostly silent in the Abilene location, with director of the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council admitting that “most [visitors] haven’t heard it yet.” The reason why the tubes have failed to consistently produce noise is unknown.
MACS VIEW
Diffiult game, equally difficult trying to leave the place, the land of Zak and Seth and the extra digit. Second in the table do not think they are as good as when Vinny took them up, but expect them to be close to going up at the end o the season. We are getting better although this may be a setback, take a point.
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| Chesterfield Prediction League 2024/25 Match day 10 |
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Posted by: spireitematt - 03-10-2024, 20:53 - Forum: Chesterfield
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Saturday 7th October
Fleetwood 3-1 Bromley
Grimsby 1-1 Doncaster
Accrington 2-1 Morecambe
Barrow 2-0 Cheltenham
Chesterfield 2-1 Walsall
Colchester 3-2 Carlisle
Crewe 0-2 Gillingham
MK Dons 1-1 Tranmere
Notts County 2-0 Port Vale
Salford City 1-2 Wimbledon
Swindon 1-3 Harrogate
Monday 7 October 2024
Bradford City 2-2 Newport
League Table After Match day 9
Devon - 204
Dancing - 180
Lord Snoots - 164
Spireitematt - 157
SaltergateBorn - 151
Maclad - 144
Amelia - 136
St Charles - 123
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| Around The World In 128 Days: England on tour, 2024-25 |
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Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 03-10-2024, 00:51 - Forum: Cricket
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October
Monday 7th - 1st Test vs Pakistan, Multan (England win by an innings and 47 runs)
Tuesday 15th - 2nd Test vs Pakistan, Multan (Pakistan win by 152 runs)
Thursday 24th - 3rd Test vs Pakistan, Rawalpindi (Pakistan win by 9 wickets)
Thursday 31st - 1st ODI vs West Indies, North Sound, Antigua (West Indies win by 8 wickets, D/L)
November
Saturday 2nd - 2nd ODI vs West Indies, North Sound, Antigua (England win by 5 wickets)
Wednesday 6th - 3rd ODI vs West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados (West Indies win by 8 wickets)
Saturday 9th - 1st T20I vs West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados (England win by 8 wickets)
Sunday 10th - 2nd T20I vs West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados (England win by 7 wickets)
Thursday 14th - 3rd T20I vs West Indies, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia (England win by 3 wickets)
Saturday 16th - 4th T20I vs West Indies, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia (West Indies win by 5 wickets)
Sunday 17th - 5th T20I vs West Indies, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia (Match abandoned)
Wednesday 27th - 1st Test vs New Zealand, Christchurch (England win by 8 wickets)
December
Thursday 5th - 2nd Test vs New Zealand, Wellington (England win by 323 runs)
Friday 13th - 3rd Test vs New Zealand, Hamilton (New Zealand win by 423 runs)
January
Wednesday 22nd - 1st T20I vs India, Kolkata (India win by 7 wickets)
Saturday 25th - 2nd T20I vs India, Chennai (India win by 2 wickets)
Tuesday 28th - 3rd T20I vs India, Rajkot - 13:30
Friday 31st - 4th T20I vs India, Pune - 13:30
February
Sunday 2nd - 5th T20I vs India, Mumbai - 13:30
Thursday 6th - 1st ODI vs India, Nagpur - 08:00
Sunday 9th - 2nd ODI vs India, Cuttack - 08:00
Wednesday 12th - 3rd ODI vs India, Ahmedabad - 08:00
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