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  Bolton away in the Vertu Trophy
Posted by: Lord Snooty - 09-12-2024, 16:29 - Forum: Huddersfield Town - Replies (24)

Bolton Wanderers v Huddersfield Town
Bristol Street Motors Vertu Trophy - round 2 (North)
Tuesday December 10th - 19:45 ko
at the Toughsheet Community Stadium


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Huddersfield Town travel to Horwich to the Reebok Stadium on Tuesday evening to play Bolton Wanderers in the 2nd round of this season's EFL Trophy.

It's now a straight knockout, with drawn games going to a penalty shoot out instead of extra time.


Tickets:

£10 Adults and £5 Concessions (Over 65s and Under 18s).





Head to Head

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Bolton lead the head to head with 46 wins to Town's 37, with 20 draws.

Those statistics are from Soccerbase, which sadly hasn't included the game in the FL Trophy. We have only met once in this competition and that was on the 2nd of February 1993 at Leeds Road, four days before they would come back here for a league game.

Town won the Trophy game 3-0. There was a crowd of 2,996 there for what was an Area Quarter Final game. Our goals came from Iwan Roberts and Mark Stuart, with future Hibs, Rotherham and St Mirren manager, Alan Stubbs gifting us an own goal. They came back on Saturday and came away with a point in a 1-1 draw, which left us bottom of the 3rd Division. The Trophy results probably keeping manager Ian Ross in his job.

We lost the Area Semi Final 5-2 away at Wigan Athletic's Springfield Park.




A brief history of Bolton's recent record in this competition:

2023/24: Lost on pens in q/f at Blackpool.
2022/23: Won it, beating Plymouth 4-0 at Wembley.
2021/22: Lost in rd 3 at Hartlepool.
2020/21: Out in group stage.
2019/20: Lost in rd 2 at Accrington.



Trotters profiles:

Joel Coleman, our reserve keeper in the David Wagner promotion season, is there now. He hasn't played this season but was the one who played in all of the Trophy games last season.

Kyle Dempsey, who played 24 times for us in 2015/16, is now in his 4th season at Burnden Park. He's been a naughty boy and has to wear an electronic tag when he's not playing football, following his conviction for assault last year. He was given a 12 month suspended sentence.

The third ex Town player in their squad is Scott Arfield. Released in 2013 after three seasons at the Galpharm, he went on to have a great career despite that setback. He went to play for Burnley, winning promotion twice to the Premier League. Then on to Rangers for five seasons, winning the title in 20/21 and the Scottish Cup the year after.

He was a Scotland u21 player when he joined us, but later switched to Canada because his dad was born in Toronto, earning himself 19 caps.




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Bolton's scores in Group D:

Sep 3: Barrow 2-3 Bolton
McAtee, Collins, Dempsey

Oct 8: Bolton 1-1 Aston Villa u21s (Villa won penalty shoot out 4-1)
Adeboyejo

Nov 12: Bolton 2-1 Fleetwood
Collins (2)


Click here for the Wiki page for this season's competition


Anagrams of players who have played or managed both clubs:

  1. Tran Twink Foghorn
  2. Glowing Anal
  3. Lady Caramels
  4. Aires Vegan
  5. Iguana Shackle
  6. OK Babe Fine
  7. Noel Cleo Jam
  8. Costa Trifled
  9. Pesky Medley
  10. June Alsop


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  The Owls v Blackburn SBC Match THread
Posted by: Owlkev71 - 09-12-2024, 14:51 - Forum: Sheffield Wednesday - Replies (36)

THE MATCH

TUESDAY 10TH DECEMBER KO 7:45PM

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LAST MATCH



We managed to salvage a point after a disappointing performance. Preston were at it from the start and after a few missed chances deservedly took the lead when Riis tapped in from a few yards. Preston had further chances with Beadle keeping us in the match. Onto the 2nd half and Preston should have doubled there lead but Potts missed with only Beadle to beat. We were then awarded a penalty only for Windass to have the pen saved. We did then equalise, Musaba getting down the left and actually decided to cross it for Smith to fire home. We hade one or two scares near the end but managed to get a point.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB Thumb up  Thumb up  Thumb up

THE MATCH



Next up and a second Lancashire team make the journey over the Pennines. Despite losing their top scorer from last season, Szmodjics, Rovers have made a good start to the season, currently lying in 6th place in the table after winning there last 4 games. If they can keep it up they could sneak a playoff spot. They are managed by John Eustace who took over in February this year. There joint leading scorers are Weimann & Ohashi who have four goals each.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB Thumb up  Thumb up  Thumb up

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 62
BLACK 57
DRAWS 39

CURRENT FORM

OWLS D W W D L W                                                            

BLACK W W W W L L                             

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT Thumb up  Thumb up

JOSH SMITH
Sam Lewis and Jonathon Block
Fourth Official: Geoff Eltringham

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Charles
Windass Ugbo Gassama
Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Smith

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

23456

BML LEAGUE

SCO 10
Imre 10
Washington 9
Maddix 9
Wereham 7

BMPL

Stateside 11
Southey 10
Owlkev 8
Pei 4

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Luton Town v Stoke City
Plymouth Argyle v Swansea City
Portsmouth v Norwich City
Sunderland v Bristol City
Leeds United v Middlesbrough

HDDHD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

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KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

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  Dan Ashworth
Posted by: harrogatebaggie - 09-12-2024, 01:04 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (3)

Dan has been released from his job at Man U. Another team who don’t know a good thing when they see it. 

Come back to the Albion Dan.

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  Cardiff City Cardiff City Stadium 11/12/2024
Posted by: themaclad - 08-12-2024, 20:03 - Forum: Preston North End - Replies (2)

Cardiff City
Cardiff City Stadium 11/12/2024 19.45 hrs

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/

MANAGER

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Omer Karime Ali Riza (born 8 November 1979) is a football coach and former player who is the current manager of EFL Championship club Cardiff City.

LAST TIME OUT

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FORM GUIDE

BLUEBIRDS 4 PNE 6

HOT SHOTS IN BLUE

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NEWBIES

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PREVIOUS

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THINGS TO SEE IN CARDIFF AT NIGHT

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LEAGUE STUFF

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  Transfer window January 2025
Posted by: Lord Snooty - 08-12-2024, 19:01 - Forum: Huddersfield Town - Replies (79)

New thread starting with a quote from Wakey off the old thread

(08-12-2024, 18:26)WakeyTerrier Wrote: Still in for Taylor from Luton who is desperate to move here but once again we are waiting for Luton to get a replacement in first.

Also in for at least one more striker but as of yet no clue as to who or from where.

Left wing back is a priority signing in January and was before Miller got injured. It's safe to assume Duff doesn't rate Headley much.

Someone he does like though is Balker, can't wait for him to be fit again

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  2025 World Junior Championships
Posted by: ritchiebaby - 07-12-2024, 23:42 - Forum: Winter sports - Replies (21)

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

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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.

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  WBA vs Sheff Utd & Coventry - Match Thread
Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 07-12-2024, 15:41 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (9)

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The frustration goes on and on, as Albion clung on for a point at Deepdale last weekend with little sign of the ability or ambition to do any better. And so we plod on into back-to-back home games this week, beginning with the visit of high-flying Sheffield United on Sunday afternoon. Though spared the worst of the weekend's storm, we're still facing the hurricane of a Blades side whose seven-game unbeaten streak may not match Albion's ten (though both, coincidentally, began off the back of losing 1-0 to Middlesbrough) but comprises a far happier six wins and just one draw. Our last three head-to-heads have all ended 2-0 to them, and keeping clean sheets has become a speciality for them this season too, with a dozen under their belt; the joint most in the division alongside Burnley. Another stalemate for Albion here would give us five home draws in a row for the first time in twenty-one years, since Gary Megson kept our promotion campaign on course in November and December 2003 with away wins compensating for our indifferent form at the Hawthorns; it's a different story here and now, but 0-0 would, on this occasion, be a decent outcome.

Yet that's not the case on Wednesday evening, when Coventry are the visitors. Even allowing for the fact that there are no easy games in the Championship, and the Sky Blues certainly upset the apple cart a few times last season, their present struggles have them in 17th, winless (at least prior to playing Millwall today) in the last five. It's practically become a weekly motto now, but The Wins Have To Come From Somewhere. If we don't have another under the belt by the end of Wednesday then questions have to be asked.

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  GAMES OFF
Posted by: Baggiebob(BBB) - 06-12-2024, 22:12 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - No Replies

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

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  Prediction League Sat 7 Dec
Posted by: Dancingwilldoit - 06-12-2024, 12:24 - Forum: Chesterfield - Replies (7)

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

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  Celtic v Hibs - Saturday 7 December
Posted by: ritchiebaby - 05-12-2024, 23:50 - Forum: Hibernian - Replies (2)

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.

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