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| A trip to Donny in the Tinpot Trophy |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 01-09-2024, 16:30 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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Doncaster Rovers v Huddersfield Town
The Bristol Street Motors Trophy
Tuesday September 3rd - 19:00 ko
at the Eco-Power Stadium
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Huddersfield Town travel to Doncaster to the Keepmoat on Tuesday evening for our first EFL Trophy game since 2011. It's not a good place to visit for us, having played there three times and been beaten on each occasion without even scoring a goal.
After a great start to the season, Town go into this match on the back of two clumsy defeats, throwing away leads whilst trying to cling on following a red card. Unbelievably, we've had four red cards and conceded three penalties before the end of August. Can we please have a proper ref this time?
There are more details of team selection rules at the back end of this article, but basically we have to pick at least four first teamers for the game.
Obviously Danny Ward is unavailable. David Kasumu and Brodie Spencer are injured, so which of that rabble from Saturday would you give a start in this one? I'd go for Ollie Turton and Josh Ruffels, who are both short of game time following long term injuries. I'd give the two Wolves lads, Joe Hodge and Nigel Lonwijk a start as well. The game at Rotherham was the first game of the season for both of them, so minutes on the grass needed.
As for the kids, Ward out suspended, Bojan Radulović and Rhys Healey injured, Callum Marshall on international duty, Kian Harratt sent out on loan, is it time for a first team call up for Zak Abbott? Or do we use it as another chance for the first choice XI to get some game time together seeing as we don't have a game at the weekend?
EDIT: Ward is available. The suspension doesn't count for this competition. So he will now miss Bolton (a), Northampton (h) and Reading (a).
Rovers have one name in their squad which will send shivers down the spine of most Town fans. That's 38 year old Billy Sharp, a man with a career goal tally approaching 300, with quite a high percentage of those scored against Huddersfield Town.  This is his third spell at the Keepmoat, having had three seasons there from 2009 to 2012 when Rovers were in the Championship.
He was sold to Southampton towards the back end of 2011/12, the season they got relegated and we got promoted. They did come back up as champions of League One though, after a famous win at Griffin Park against Brentford, so we played them for the last time in the league in 2013/14 and even though they got relegated, we still couldn't beat them. And Sharp, who was back there on loan, scored against us. 
It's now nine games since we last won against Doncaster Rovers. 
Another veteran in their squad is former Wednesday, Coventry and Rotherham defender, Richard Wood. At 39 years old, he's even older than Sharp. Don't know if those two will be playing in this game though. I reckon both Michael Duff and Grant McCann will be making it a chance to revolve their squads and get some minutes in for the reserves.
This match is being broadcast live on the Sky Sports+ channel (Sky 412). It's the main game, so hopefully there'll be none of the problems with poor quality streaming.
And it's a seven o'clock kick off. Don't be late!
Tickets:
Adult - £10
Seniors (65+) - £5
14-24 years - £5
13 and under - £1
All tickets for this fixture are now on general sale, with all sales ending at 2pm on Tuesday 3 September.
A brief history of Huddersfield Town in the EFL Trophy (Part One): Starting out as the Associate Members Cup in 1983/84, Town weren't involved due to us being in the Second Division at the time. Our first entry came after relegation in 1988. We were drawn in Group 5 for the preliminary round and our first ever match in this prestigious tournament came in December of that year, at home to Scunthorpe United. Mick Byrne scored the only goal of the game in front of 2,216 eager supporters at Leeds Road.
Scunny had already lost at home to Halifax Town the week before, so in a three team group, their second defeat meant they were out and we would progress to the next round as the top two in the group went through. So our 1-0 defeat at the Shay a week later was of no significance. 
It did mean however that we would have an away tie in the first round proper and when the draw was made, we had the daunting task of a trip to Blundell Park to take on Grimsby Town. Eoin Hand, the Town manager, picked a strong team to take on the Mariners and it turned out to be a magnificent result. We beat them 3-1. Mike Cecere scored in the first half, Craig Maskell in the second half and then a goal from a sub to round things off. That sub was Hand's number two, Peter Withe, rounding off a magnificent career with his last ever professional goal. Not quite as memorable as the one he got to win the European Cup for Aston Villa.
And then we embarrassed ourselves by losing 2-1 at home to Scarborough.
Some more embarrassing scorelines followed in the next couple of seasons. A 3-0 defeat at Rotherham and a 4-1 loss at home to Hartlepool, before we started to go deep into the tournament.
In 1991/92, we reached the northern semi finals. Getting through the group stage with Wigan and Scarborough as opponents, we then faced Blackpool at Leeds Road on a foggy Tuesday night. Town led 1-0 at half time through a Iwan Roberts goal, which nobody saw, because the fog was so thick, the game got abandoned.
A week later, Iwan scored again in the re-match, but the game ended in a 1-1 draw and so went to penalties. This was our first ever penalty shoot out and the first of many that we won. Goalkeeper Tim Clarke was the hero, saving twice, with Mark Wright tucking away the winner to earn us a trip to Gigg Lane to take on Bury.
Another Roberts goal, as well as one from Iffy Onuora gave us a 2-1 win, which then brought us to the area semi. That was away at Burnley, where a crowd of 10,775 turned up. Simon Charlton was dismissed early on, stopping a shot on the line with his hand and we went out 2-0 on the night.
It was another near miss in the next season, getting to the same round and losing at Wigan.
1993/94 was the year we got to Wembley for the first time since 1938. We played Swansea City in the Final of what was by this time known as the Autoglass Trophy. We had another succesful penalty shoot out along the way, beating Preston 5-3 at Leeds Road with Darren Bullock slamming home the winner.
By the time we got to the northern semi final, we had dropped into the relegation zone and there were rumblings about manager Neil Warnock and would he be sacked before the season ended. The Autoglass game at Stockport came shortly after we had been hammered there in the league and optimism wasn't high. However, this match turned out to be the season's turning point. We won 1-0 with an Iain Dunn goal, from an almighty goalmouth scramble.
Such a turning point was this that we set off on an unbeaten league run of eleven games to the end of the season and mid table security. Wily young Warnock got the team up for the best performance of the season in the Northern Final, in the first leg at home to Carlisle. We beat them 4-1, with Bullock and Dunn finding the net again as well as Peter Jackson and Phil Starbuck.
The second leg was one hell of a struggle though and we were two-nil down on the night very early on. We managed to see out the rest of the game though as the ref added on an unbelievable ten minutes of injury time. We won 4-3 on aggregate.
The Final was a bit of a damp squib. Richard Logan scored the equaliser as we drew 1-1, but then came our worst ever penalty shoot out. Only Pat Scully scored as we lost 3-1.
The following season saw a bit of history as Dunny scored the first ever Golden Goal in English football, against Lincoln. We lost at Bury in the quarter final, in what should've been our last ever game in this tinpot trophy, as we ended the season getting promoted.
Part Two to come in the Barnsley thread.......
Head to Head
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Town lead the head to head with 20 wins to Donny's 13, with 10 draws.
Those figures include the four times that we have met in this competition, in it's various guises......
1989/90: Preliminary Round Group 5; Town 2-2 Rovers. Town scorers, Mark Smith and Craig Maskell.
1992/93: Round 2; Town 3-0 Rovers. Town scorers, Gary Barnett, Iain Dunn and Kieran O'Regan (pen).
1993/94: Round 1 Group 5; Town 3-1 Rovers. Town scorers, Phil Starbuck and Iain Dunn (2).
2006/07: Round 1 North East; Town 1-2 Rovers. Town scorers. Andy Booth.
Recent form - last six matches:
Rotherham 2-1 Town
Walsall 3-2 Town (EFL Cup)
Town 1-0 Shrewsbury
Town 2-1 Stevenage
Town 3-0 Morecambe (EFL Cup)
Peterborough 0-2 Town
Port Vale 2-3 Donny
Everton 3-0 Donny (EFL Cup)
Donny 1-0 Morecambe
Newport 3-1 Donny
Salford 0-2 Donny (EFL Cup)
Donny 4-1 Accrington
Town are 5th in the League One table with 9 points. Rovers similarly are 5th in League Two also with 9.
There has been one match already in our group with Barnsley losing 3-2 at home to the Manchester United u21s.
Leading scorers:
Terriers:
Ben Wiles (2)
Josh Koroma (2)
Callum Marshall (2)
Rovers:
Luke Molyneux (5)
Billy Sharp (3)
EFL Trophy rules: Who can play? A minimum of four qualifying outfield players in their starting XI. A qualifying outfield player was one who met any of the following requirements:
Any player who started the previous or following first-team fixture.
Any player who is in the top 10 players at the club who has made the most starting appearances in league and domestic cup competitions this season.
Any player with forty or more first-team starting appearances in their career, including International matches.
Any player on loan from a Premier League club or any EFL Category One Academy club.
A club can play any eligible goalkeeper in the competition.
Any player out on a long loan term at a National League, National League North, or National League South team can play as long as the loaning team agree to allow the player to return for the match.
So we could play six lads from the Academy and an Academy goalkeeper, if we wanted to.
Clubs will be awarded three points for a win and one point for a draw.
In the event of a drawn game (after 90 minutes), a penalty shoot-out will be held with the winning team earning an additional point.
The top two teams in each group will progress to the knockout stage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80...EFL_Trophy
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| HTAFC Prediction League 2024/25 Matchday 5 - international break |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 01-09-2024, 15:51 - 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 4:
- jjamez = 76 pts
- themaclad = 74 pts
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 70 pts
- St Charles Owl = 64 pts
- SHEP_HTAFC = 62 pts
- Lord Snooty = 49 pts
Thursday 5th September:
UEFA Nations League:
Scotland v Poland
Friday 6th September:
Wales v Turkey
Saturday 7th September:
League One:
Barnsley v Bristol Rovers
Charlton Athletic v Rotherham United
Wrexham v Shrewsbury Town
League Two:
Bradford City v Carlisle United
UEFA Nations League:
Republic of Ireland v England (17:00)
Sunday 8th September:
Bulgaria v Northern Ireland (17:00)
Monday 9th September:
Montenegro v Wales
Tuesday 10th September:
England v Finland
Republic of Ireland v Greece
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
Division Two table after Matchday 4:
- Devongone = 87 pts
- neonfoxinthebox = 82 pts
- theo_luddite = 71 pts
- ritchiebaby = 62 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 54 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 51 pts
Thursday 5th September:
UEFA Nations League:
Northern Ireland v Luxembourg
Friday 6th September:
Wales v Turkey
Saturday 7th September:
League One:
Barnsley v Bristol Rovers
Charlton Athletic v Rotherham United
Wrexham v Shrewsbury Town
League Two:
Chesterfield v Grimsby Town
UEFA Nations League:
Republic of Ireland v England (17:00)
Sunday 8th September:
Portugal v Scotland (19:45)
Monday 9th September:
Montenegro v Wales
Tuesday 10th September:
England v Finland
Republic of Ireland v Greece
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
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| WBA vs Swansea - Match Thread |
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Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 30-08-2024, 22:37 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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After several trips to the GP and a lengthy Friday evening phone conversation with NHS Direct, it seems the strange and unfamiliar symptoms I've been experiencing since last Saturday - which range from intense tingling sensations to bouts of uncontrollable elation, with a general feeling of benevolence towards the world at large persisting throughout - are attributable to a condition commonly known as "optimism." Unfamiliar as I am with this affliction, apparently the only known cure is to continue watching Albion until the disease naturally (and rapidly) subsides, so that end, we welcome Swansea to the Hawthorns tomorrow.
With the caveat that anything I write could be a hostage to fortune in the last ninety minutes of the transfer window, the reacquisition of Mikey Johnston would appear to be the icing on the cake of a successful summer's business. But we'll need to be at our best against a Swans side with a solid record against us, winning five out of the last six encounters, with only last season's corresponding fixture finishing narrowly in Albion's favour. Encouragingly, they've gone winless in six of their last seven league games on the road, and though they're no strangers to scoring at the Hawthorns - failing to do so only twice in the 21st century so far, from thirteen visits - Josh Maja's four goals so far suggest he's got the confidence to cause them a few problems in turn.
Knocked out of the League Cup in midweek by League One Wycombe, Swansea are liable to want a quick bounce back to form, but may still be reeling a little from the defeat. I expect goals, and fingers crossed, Albion can finish off an excellent August with our first home win of the campaign.
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| The magic is back |
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Posted by: 4evaabaggie - 30-08-2024, 18:30 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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Welcome home Magic Mikey.
We’re buzzing just as much as you are, we love you as much as you love us.
Go set the league on fire.
Just read King Carlos telling how Magic said to him after the saints defeat that he wanted to come back to the Albion. He didn’t think it would be possible.
When the chance arose he jumped at it.
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| Kilmarnock v Hibs - Sunday 1 September |
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Posted by: ritchiebaby - 30-08-2024, 11:43 - Forum: Hibernian
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This will be a great chance for a confident, assured Hibs team to go into the international break feeling good about themselves.
The question is "will a confident, assured Hibs team" turn up at Rugby Park? We're looking better now at certain times again, but the defensive issues still persist. Kilmarnock still haven't scored in their 3 Premiership games and have lost 9 goals, so the opportunity for a Hibs win is there. I'm certain we'll gift them a goal through poor defending and have a good chance of scoring ourselves.
Kieron Bowie looks like a great acquisition and, if he can link up with the other attackers, might prove the difference between the sides.
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| Win(d)less Millers v Tooth Loose Terriers |
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Posted by: theo_luddite - 29-08-2024, 21:51 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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The Noo Yark Stadium
Definitely more "East of the M1"
Than "East Coast USA"
Get your Aesseals down there early.
What do you mean we've already sold our allocation?
S60 1FJ
Kick-off 12:30 UK Time
Saturday 31/08/24
How we started the month or What's the Story Town Fan's Glory?
Hello? (Hello, hello, hello)
Is there anybody out there?
Just like if you can read me
Is there anybody home?
Come on (Come on, come on), now
I hear you're feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax (Relax, relax, relax)
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
Relegation you say? Oooh, nasty. Take a chill pill and pint of Yorkshire Terrier. It's from the House of Trembling Madness and it's good for you.
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Not to be taken with a pint of Magnet or Greasy Chip butties, but then, they are prescribed for some of those of ill health in South Yorkshire to the west of the M1.
Is it really 5 months since I last did this thread a division higher? A game we probably expected to win as Rotherham hadn't won (or drawn) since just after Santa Claus went home to collect his pension for another 11 months and a bit. Seems like 5 weeks ago. For those that haven't been paying attention, zoom down to the Tables & Form section to see how much we've both, er, improved (?) since that exciting 0-0 snooze fest ....
This is the 2nd of 3 games on the trot against teams that play in red and white, let's hope things go a bit better than the 2nd half of the first one.
On the tellybox
It's been moved to an early kick-off so it will be on Sky+ in the UK and Ireland. For the rest of the world, HTTV, which is what used to be iFollow and is pretty much the same thing and price with the added bonus of replays this season, in case you've been writing (on) a thread, brewing a cuppa, weeding the garden, getting it on with your other half/neighbour or otherwise found a way to miss something, like a Town goal. Of course, if you've a dodgy-stick you might pick it up elsewhere, good luck with that.
Latest news
For the Town fans that have been camping with the fossils in Victoria Cave in The Dales, or any Rotherham fans reading, we signed two kids from Wolvo on loan, if 21 year old's can be called kids? Well that makes a change from old blokes with an occassional long throw and not much else from Stoke. Could one be the speedy centre back and the other the creative/destructive midfielder that can actually pass a ball we've been crying out for to go with the (ahem) goal machine we've got on loan from West Ham? Nigel Lonwijk (long what?, oh) was on loan at Plymouth when they got promoted and most recently was at Wycombe. Joe (Spiny Norman) Hodge was formerly a Blue Manc and spent the back end of last season at QPR. It appears they both owe us a favour after last season.
Pies, pees, how to get there - assuming you have a ticket.
I'm not copying and pasting this, but welcome to the info on The Rugby Union FC Stadium. What?
Noo Yark, Noo Yark
We've sold out - didn't I just mention that? So if you're otherwise going to Rotherham, find a pub to watch the game in. Why you'd go to Rotherham to watch a game in a pub beats me, but hey, it's like the Euro's, it's for the atmosphere and the fan parks innit? Quite honestly you'd be better off going to The Magna Centre to see how steel used to be made before we let China do it for us.
https://www.visitmagna.co.uk/
Otherwise go for a paddle in the River Don at the back of the stadium. Rotherham A&E, if you do, isn't far away.
Out Injured/Suspended/Isolating
We still seem to be in the habit of hurting ourselves on every Friday (or Monday) training session. On top of that Pearson has a ban for a straight red, unless we're first in the door for the appeals and it is somehow rescinded. Kasumu apparently will be out for 4-6 weeks, so I'd better fix my Town scorers on Snoots's weekly prediction thread. Kane will be out for a while as will Brodie Spencer. Could be a bit of a wonderwall when they all come back when you roll with it.
Spencer had been on the call-up list for Norn Iron, which partly lead to our home game v Blackpool being called off. The fact he won't be available to them or us doesn't mean the game will be reinstated.
Back training but not oven ready/Back in the frame
Tom Lees will be available, Healey definitely a maybe. More fixing on Snoots's thread required, afterall.
Musical Interlude
Could Town be in XTC with our new signings?
Of course, Joe could also be Stepping Out on Saturday
These lads seem all reyt too
https://www.thergf.org.uk/
Book 'em for a lunchtime session in your works canteen. What can possibly go wrong?
Wot do you mean the gaffer won't pay? They'll even cook your lunch.
Apologies, but these YouTuber's don't seem to like you transplanting their video's on here or elsewhere anymore.
Last time out
On a wet Tuesday night in Walsall, our lads turned up for some of the first half. The Keighley Cannavaro got himself a red card for daring to touch a Wa'sall lad who immediately fell to the floor - he'd 'a' got a good kicking if he tried that round here on a Sunday morning, even in the U11's. Black Country? No metal but saddle soaped the ref enough to get us down to 10 men. Our lad's stayed in the changing room for the 2nd half. We then saddled ourselves with a Round 2 Cup defeat snatched from the jaws of a 3rd round tie against Leicester. We got leathered.
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Rotherham meanwhile lost (again, though they did score) 2-1 at Fleetwood. Fat Boy Slim aka Steve Evans is getting the same out of the Rotherham squad as predecessor Leam Richardson managed to get.
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Strangley it wasn't raining in my part of Wolvo during the game. I was stir-upping or rather BBQ'ing my steak dinner whilst we were falling apart in the 2nd half.
This was after extending our winning run to 3 in the League in a game that was so boring I've already forgot who we played. (Checks fixture list) .... Shnoozebury.
The Sack Race
Things seem to have quitened down in Greater Lancastria and elsewhere ... for now.
Tables, Form
In the League, whilst Town have got out of those losingsville blues that got us relegated last season, you wouldn't have thought so Tuesday. If those new Wolf Cubs were watching us they'll know we're not the snappiest of Terriers. That said if they we're watching Wolves last weekend agin Chelski .... 'nuff said.
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The Millers meanwhile ...
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Innies and Outies
The doors and windows ain't quite shut yet, so who knows?
For us
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For them
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Who's banging 'em in
Helik is yet to get his name on a scoresheet for us, just what is he doing? I mean, Wiles is our leading scorer? A midfielder. Ooo'd a thunk eh?
Down Noo Yark Stadium way, Rotherham are carrying on where they left off. Not a goal to be seen in the League so far. I'm guessing we might fix that for them. We often do.
They only won 2 games in 2024 last season. They only scored in 7 of them. After a run of 11 games where they only scored (and won 2:1 v Millwall) in one of them, they somehow won 5:2 at home to Cardiff in the last match of the season. It's not known if Cardiff complained that they took the bell out of the ball.
They can't all win
Town are one of 3 teams with 9 points from 3 games, can we make it 12 points?
Smogport, current leaders, are at Mansfield, Charlton are at Reading, so all 3 of us are away this weekend. Darn t'other end, The Shnooze are home to Orient, can either or both get a point? Blackpool are home to Wycombe, we know what Rotherham are doing and Cambridge are at Brizzle Rovers.
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We've played 'em before
For a change, we have played them more than a handful of times and we're well in the lead.
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Next up?
Donny Rovers away in the EFL Trophy (Paint, Car Windscreens, Car Dealers, Pizza, Leasing, Vans, Checkatrade, whatever ....)
Pressers
Duff Duff and Lee Nicholls get the grilling on the spit this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl1t8H7C74
You'd have thunk by now we could edit these, especially with an IT/VPN company sponsoring us, but no, we still can't.
Nicholls wastes time for about 10 minutes, starting about 12:00 minutes after the kick off before getting yellow carded. Duff Duff turns up around 50 minutes in.
The views from Tinsley Viaduct
Steve Evans Sings Mary Hopkin/The Byrds
Mary Hopkin sings the original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjEu5vlRfiY
How we are finishing the month?
Well it's all hands to the pumps so a back five of Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb is my expectation. Windy Miller can then grind his way up the wing and get some floury balls into the area for Mitzy, Daphne and Lulu to get on the end of in the hat box. They are the nearest we've got to terriers up front right now. Will Captain Flack be replaced by Spiny Norman? Gotta roll with it. Watch this space.
There's pain again, we are receding
A distant win smokes on the horizon
We are only coming through in (occassional) waves
Your hips move, but I can't see where you're passing
When I was a child, I ducked a wayward shot
In the corner of the Cowshed End
I turned to look, but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown, the ball is gone
Grab a drink and get yourself Comfortably Numb.
Apologies to Plank Floored - The Dark Side of the Shed, though this was really down to banging my head on a big bit of The Wall that Banksy hasn't defaced yet.
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| Prediction League Results - Week 2 |
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Posted by: Zinman - 28-08-2024, 21:26 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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Twerton 11
Themaclad 8
A.A.A. 6
Amelia 6
Minizin 6
Zinman 2
After a decent first week the scoring dropped off a lot this week. A complete blank on the Gamball, just one player getting a point from the score all and 4 games ending with negative points didn’t help!! Twerton lead the way this week with 11 points, the only one in double figures as well. He only managed one CS but it was on his bonus!! Themaclad is in the top 2 again with 8 points, like Twerton he didn’t score on many games but hit the max on the Bonus.
AAA, Amelia and Minizin all scored 6 points. They all got there in different ways with AAA getting 2 CSs, Amelia just one and Minizin getting none!!
Bottom of the pack again is Zinman, he scored one less point this week as well. He missed on all his balls and ended with just 2 points. He really is giving other a head start!!
25 Themaclad
23 Minizin
17 A.A.A.
17 Twerton
14 Amelia
5 Zinman
Themaclad’s second week in the top 2 sees him take over solo possession of top spot. Minizin is 2 points behind, with a bit of a gap then to AAA and Twerton in 3rd and 4th. Amelia is three points back of them.
Zinman is now already 9 points adrift at the bottom and a healthy 20 points off top spot!! It’s early so plenty of time but he needs to pack his Speedos and get off the beach and back into training!!
Group B
Lady Jane 18
Derby 17
Snooty 13
Stairs 11
BBB 11
SCO 6
BaggieOne 3
If anyone is still reading this having got over the scary thought of me in Speedos, I'll rapidly move on to this week's Group B scores. A big improvement on last week's showing with the main difference being the contribution of the balls. Last week the 3 balls contributed minus 6 points in total, this week 26. Though the number of correct results was pretty much unchanged, Group B players were able to turn far more of them into correct scores.
Lady Jane heads the table with 18 points. She only scored on 4 matches but they included a full set of balls with a maximum from the gamball. Derby is just a point further back even though he only got 3 correct results - in his case they included maximums on both the main balls - LJ and Derby were the only players to score on all their balls. Snooty recovered from last week's poor showing by matching the week's best scores/results totals but failure to land the gamball held him back. Stairs and BBB both made double figures, Stairs landing a maximum bonus with BBB also scoring on this and the scoreball.
Not such a good week for SCO and BaggieOne - SCO got 2 correct scores but missed out on all his balls, while B1 had a week to forget with just 2 correct results, though at least his scoreball preventing him from equalling the week's lowest score across the 2 groups!
28 Lady Jane
24 Derby
20 Stairs
17 SCO
15 Snooty
14 BBB
14 BaggieOne
As the only player to hit double figures in both of the opening 2 weeks, Lady Jane sits on top of the early table - it helps when you start with 2 correct gamballs! Early days so no need for anyone to hit the panic button just yet.
For anyone worried about me, I can confirm that the Speedos are off and I've climbed into the lycra ready for the season - all I have to do is avoid any mirrors.
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| Chesterfield Prediction League 2024/25 Match day 4 |
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Posted by: spireitematt - 28-08-2024, 21:17 - Forum: Chesterfield
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Saturday 31st August
Gillingham 0-1 Chesterfield
Port Vale 0-2 Doncaster
Accrington 0-3 Colchester
Bromley 2-1 Crewe
Carlisle 1-1 Tranmere
Grimsby 0-2 Bradford City
Harrogate 2-1 Barrow
Morecambe 0-3 Newport
Swindon 0-2 Notts County
Walsall 2-1 Cheltenham
Wimbledon 1-3 Fleetwood
Monday 2 September 2024
Salford City 0-2 MK Dons
League Table After Match day 3
Lord Snoots - 76
Devon - 74
Dancing - 60
SaltergateBorn - 49
Amelia - 41
Spireitematt - 38
St Charles - 30
Maclad - 21
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| Oxford United Kassam Stadium 31/8/2024 |
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Posted by: themaclad - 28-08-2024, 18:34 - Forum: Preston North End
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OXFORD U
KASSAM STADIUM 31/8/2024 15.00HRS
THE BAXI DERBY
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OXFORD UNITED
Oxford United Football Club (/ˈɒksfərd/) is a professional football club based in Oxford, England. The club compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football, after achieving promotion in the 2024 EFL League One play-off final. Founded as Headington Football Club in 1893, the club adopted its current name in 1960. Nicknamed The U's, it has played its home games at the Kassam Stadium, replacing its former home of Manor Ground in 2001.
The club joined the Football League in 1962 after winning the Southern Football League, reaching the Second Division in 1968.[2] After relegation in 1976, between 1984 and 1986 the club earned successive promotions into the First Division, and won the League Cup in 1986.[3] However, Oxford were unable thereby to enter the 1987 UEFA Cup because of the UEFA ban on English clubs in European competitions.[4] Relegation from the top flight in 1988 began an 18-year decline which saw the club relegated to the Conference in 2006, becoming the first winners of a major trophy to be relegated from the Football League. After four seasons, Oxford returned to League Two in 2010 via the play-offs, and six seasons later achieved promotion to League One, after finishing second in League Two in 2016. In 2024 they were promoted to the EFL Championship via the play-offs.[5]
THE CAR PARK KASSAM STADIUM
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The Kassam Stadium (also known as Grenoble Road) is the home of Oxford United F.C., and is named after the ground's owner and former chairman of the football club, Firoz Kassam.
The Kassam Stadium was built whilst Oxford United played in Division Two (third tier); however, Oxford were relegated to Division Three (fourth tier) the season before the new stadium was built and were further relegated to the Conference National (fifth tier) in 2005–06. The club was previously based at The Manor Ground from 1925 until the opening of the Kassam Stadium in 2001. Following Oxford's promotion from League One at the end of the 2023–24 season, the stadium will host Championship (second-tier) games for the first time in its history.
https://www.oufc.co.uk/
MANAGER
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Des Buckingham (born 7 February 1985) is an English professional football manager who is the head coach of EFL Championship club Oxford United.
Buckingham became the youngest head coach in the history of the A-League during the 2016–17 A-League season.[1]
HOT SHOTS
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PREVIOUS
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Sad anorak fact the 4-0 win was the only game played that night and was given full match commentary on Radio 5
Other games
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League table
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Murders every week
Inspector Morse is a British detective drama television series based on a series of novels by Colin Dexter. It starred John Thaw as Detective Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. The series comprises 33 two-hour episodes (100 minutes excluding commercials) produced between 6 January 1987 and 15 November 2000. Dexter made uncredited cameo appearances in all but three of the episodes.
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The View
What a difference the last week has been, positivity back in the club eagerly awaiting being drawn against some club miles from Preston in the next round of the Fizzy Drink thing, weather's getting warmer again and a second new ground in a week.
This is only the third league meeting since 1984
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