Gateshead have appointed former player and coach Carl Magnay as their new manager.

The 35-year-old made more than 120 appearances as a player in two spells at the Tyneside club and later joined Rob Elliot's coaching staff.

Elliot left the National League club, along with his assistant Louis Storey and first-team coach Antony Sweeney, to take over at League One Crawley earlier this month.

"We are fully confident that Carl is the right person to continue the club's progression - just as he has done in his previous spells as a player and a coach," chairman Neil Pinkerton told the Gateshead website., external

Magnay has spent time coaching at MK Dons and Carlisle this season under former Heed manager Mike Williamson, having left Gateshead in the summer.

He will be assisted by former Brighton, Sunderland, Leeds and Nottingham Forest midfielder Liam Bridcutt, with whom he played at Chelsea at youth level.

Former Scotland international Bridcutt, 35, has been coaching in Newcastle's academy system after retiring from playing earlier this year.

As a player Magnay helped Gateshead earn promotion from National League North in 2022 - scoring the goal in a final day draw at Chorley which sealed the title.

He also appeared in the 2014 Conference Premier play-off final at Wembley and the 2023 FA Trophy Final, before being part of the coaching staff as the Heed won the FA Trophy at Wembley in May.

"We are delighted to confirm the appointments of Carl and Liam," Pinkerton added.

"It was hugely important to the board that the necessary time be taken to bring the right people to the club, and we appreciate our supporters patience over recent weeks.

"We look forward to seeing them get to work this week."

After picking up 17 points from their first seven matches this season, Elliot left the club fifth in the league with 23 points from 11 games.

Ben Clark has been in interim charge, beating Wealdstone 1-0 before losing 2-1 at Tamworth.

They face an FA Cup fourth qualifying-round replay at home to Hednesford on Tuesday.

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER KO 3PM

v

LAST MATCH



We entered the waste of time International break with a last gasp win at Coventry. Coventry started the better and took the lead when Rudoni fired in from about 25 yards. That seemed to wake us up and in injury time Gassama fired in from the edge of the box. Onto the 2nd half and Coventry hit the bar through Wright, while we had a goal disallowed. Just as the points looked like being shared, Musaba burst forward and fed Charles who slotted home.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



First up after the break and Burnley come to town. Burnley have made a good start to life in the Championship, with just 1 defeat in there first 9 games. They are just a point off the automatic spots and you would imagine they should be there or thereabouts come the business end of the season. They are managed by Scott Parker, who had a decent playing career and took charge of Burnley in the summer. Brownhill is there leading scorer with 4 goals so far.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 39
BURN 43
DRAWS 20

CURRENT FORM

OWLS W D W L W D                                                            

BURN D W D W W D                                       

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

Michael Salisbury
Scott Ledger and Derek Eaton
Fourth Official: Andy Davies

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Charles
Musaba Ingelsson Gassama
Ugbo

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Ugbo

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

27546

BML LEAGUE

Wereham 7
Maddix 7
Washington 5
Imre 4
SCO 2

BMPL

Southey 10
Owlkev 4
Stateside 4
Pei 2

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Newcastle v Brighton
QPR v Portsmouth
Lincoln v Birmingham
Swindon v Doncaster
Sutton v Oldham

HHAAD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Friday 18 October
Newport 1-3 Chesterfield

Saturday 19 October

Accrington 1-1 Barrow
Bradford City 2-1 Gillingham
Bromley 0-1 Tranmere
Carlisle 0-2 Harrogate
Colchester 2-1 Cheltenham
Crewe 3-0 Salford City
Grimsby 0-1 Walsall
Morecambe 1-0 MK Dons
Notts County 1-2 Wimbledon
Port Vale 3-2 Fleetwood
Swindon 0-2 Doncaster

League Table After Match day 11

Devon - 216
Dancing - 203
Maclad - 191
Spireitematt - 190
Lord Snoots - 179
Amelia - 175
SaltergateBorn - 171
St Charles - 152

No wonder the FA Cup is dying on its feet. It is organised by the myopic and certainly geriatric and creakingly patriarchal FA and presented by the out-of-touch and very suburban maiden aunt we fondly call Beeb as she shuffles into her dotage.

Brilliantly they chose to present the draw for the "exciting" first round proper of the FA Cup from stately old Bradford City and ended up in a room of tightly-panelled middle-aged men from around the country, trying hard to evince the odd smile. To head proceedings Auntie Beeb wheeled out fourth-rate miniature presenter Kelly Somers to rehearse her perfectly researched one-line factettes about any club which happened to hove into view.

The problem is the FA has designed its flagship event to leave the dock with a whimper rather than a stunning aurora of galaxy-busting fireworks. The Cup launches on 34 non-league names, some very small indeed, joining giants like Accrington, Morecambe and Bromley. They might draw Wrexham or even Birmingham, we struggle to keep breathing as the lack on excitement mounts and clunky balls flop from a velvet bag to pair perhaps a non-entity against a wannabe or a has been.

Forty games are scheduled, so unexciting that many newspapers next day do not even report the draw, despite the interest of the 80 towns and cities involved. And, of course, to top up that mild absence of interest the FA finds itself then left with 40 clubs of varying levels of decay pitched into a second round designed simply to add 20 clubs to the 44 clubs from the Premier League and Championship, so far absolved from competing (with precious little jusitification). So the Third Round, with the competition, already well under way, is meant to sprinkle the magic dust about and and pitch the odd set of disregarded losers in against a club full of over-paid superstars, which will then have the arrogance to bench most of its stars and give the finger to an expectant crowd.

Apparently this lunatic arrangement saves the BIG clubs from two rounds of games, but in truth it is simply an unusual sleight of hand designed to destroy most of the magic. Small clubs who have fought their way through several rounds of qualifying have precious little chance of getting near a big name.

If ALL the EFL clubs and the Premier League Clubs entered the draw at the FIRST ROUND STAGE and the FA added just 2 more qualifying non-leaguers one round less of the competition would be played and the small clubs would have a better than one in seven chance of drawing a very big name opponent. The excitement of the First Round Draw would then make tiny Kelly Somers redundant and even Auntie Beeb might recognise the need for a Celeb' or three and a bit of American-style razzamatazz.

The big clubs would only have to agree to play one more game to revive this dying competition. Do the maths - 128 clubs in the first round (36 non-league and 92 league), 64 in a newly exciting second round, 32 only by the third round (where currently we overload on 64), 16 in the 4th, then 8, 4, 2. Move the excitement to the beginning of the competition like any other MAJOR sporting event. Excitement is at its peak when everything is to play for, and imagine the delirium in Horsham if they had been able to draw Man City away instead of Chesterfield.

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 10:

1. themaclad = 177 pts
   
2. St Charles Owl = 170 pts
   
3. Baggiebob(BBB) = 167 pts
   
4. jjamez = 165 pts
   
5. SHEP_HTAFC = 149 pts
   
6. Lord Snooty = 144 pts
   

Thursday 17th October:
Shrewsbury Town v Exeter City (20:00)

Saturday 19th October:
Town v Bristol Rovers:
Town scorers:
Rovers scorers:

Reading v Crawley Town (12:30)
Wycombe Wanderers v Peterborough United (12:30)
Blackpool v Barnsley
Bolton Wanderers v Burton Albion
Cambridge United v Wigan Athletic
Charlton Athletic v Stockport County
Lincoln City v Birmingham City
Mansfield Town v Stevenage
Northampton Town v Leyton Orient
Rotherham United v Wrexham

Tuesday 22nd October:
Wrexham v Town
Town scorers:
Wrexham scorers:

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
Oxford United v West Bromwich Albion (12:30)
Preston North End v Coventry City (12:30)
Sheffield Wednesday v Burnley

Monday:
Premier League:
Nottingham Forest v Crystal Palace (20:00)


*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

1. neonfoxinthebox = 197 pts
   
2. theo_luddite = 190 pts
   
3. Devongone = 189 pts
   
4. ritchiebaby = 175 pts
   
5. WakeyTerrier = 155 pts
   
6. Amelia Chaffinch = 136 pts
   

Saturday 19th October:
Town v Bristol Rovers:
Town scorers:
Rovers scorers:

Tuesday 22nd October:
Wrexham v Town
Town scorers:
Wrexham scorers:

Barnsley v Charlton Athletic
Birmingham City v Bolton Wanderers
Bristol Rovers v Shrewsbury Town
Burton Albion v Wycombe Wanderers
Crawley Town v Lincoln City
Exeter City v Reading
Leyton Orient v Rotherham United
Peterborough United v Blackpool
Stevenage v Cambridge United
Stockport County v Northampton Town
Wigan Athletic v Mansfield Town

Bonus matches:
Friday:
Championship:
Leeds United v Sheffield United (20:00)

League Two:
Newport County v Chesterfield (20:00)

Saturday:
Scottish Premiership:
Dundee United v Hibernian

Sunday:
Premier League:
Liverpool v Chelsea (16:30)

*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

Town injury news:- As far as I know, Koroma is out for the next few weeks, as are Helik and Hodge. Nicholls is as well, but none of you put him down to score anyway.

Ward, Healy and Kane are now back in action.

I was watching us playing Notts County and suddenly wondered if that was the smallest side Chesterfield had fielded during my lifetime (1952 on). Jatta, their centre forward towered over our back four - no wonder he scored with a header, especially as our young keeper didn't seem keen to exercise his giant hands on coming for crosses. We didn't start Banks so Metcalfe looked our most physically capable midfielder and Berry, whose skill I like very much, looked our most robust forward threat. Madden looked tiny up against their defenders, Markanday doesn't look much for head tennis, and even Dobra, cocky as ever, looked to be getting a crick in his neck from looking upwards.

Amazingly, statistics show we won more aerial challenges than our opponents. Even more amazingly I found myself fantasising about bringing Grimes on.

At times I thought we played some nice stuff and showed good skills, but there were also periods when we looked like Year 1 taking on the post-pubescent 4th Form. And the penalty we conceded was a first for me too (yes since 1952). I've never before seen three players all handle the ball, whether accidentally or deliberately. If it hadn't resulted in a penalty it would have looked ridiculous. It looked like a dramatisation of the point at which rugby was invented.

County's permanent gangly deathwish of trying to pass out from the back whatever the situation baffled me almost as much as the all-subbuteo team we fielded.

I'm not sure about our young keeper either. If you are fourth choice at Newcastle and you stay rooted to your line when a corner curls across your six-yard area which is manned by vertically-challenged defenders up against a 6'5" centre forward I can't help questioning your future ..........

Still a point's a point, however tall.

Stairs was kind enough to send me a few old Albion pictures this week, so I've had a crack at sticking some colour into them and am sticking them up here along with other old Baggies pictures and mementos that come to hand. Everyone's welcome to contribute if they've got old photos or keepsakes of their own!

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/2024/...1946-2024/

Peter Cormack was a Hibs legend who had a huge element of charisma about him - well known to an older generation of Hibs fan who witnessed some of his great moments with HFC, including that famous 2-0 win (and his cracking goal!) v Real Madrid (the great Puskas et al wearing their strikingly impressive gold strips!) in the 1960s, before heading south in 1972 to play in the English 1st division. Great times and a great football career. RIP.