[theo_luddite]

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The AccuMacPharmSmiths Stadium
In the late Summer Sunshine
Sun, Wind, Rain, Hail, Whatever
There'll be more there than last Tuesday
Kick-off 15:00 UK Time
Saturday 06/09/25

Pish Posh take the 2½ hour drive up the A1 (other routes are available) to hilly Yorkshire from their flatlands home on the edge of The Fens.
Peterborough truly is in the middle of nowhere. Too far east to be part of The Midlands, too far north to be darn sarf, too far sarf to be oop nooerth, too far west to be part of Anglia.
If it wasn't clinging on to the A1 it would have drifted out into The Wash years ago.

New Identity?

Someone has been charging Posh a small fortune to come up with new logos, fonts, backgrounds and all that other marketing guff, a bit like the crap we went through a few years back that turned a Yorkshire Terrier into something unrecognisable.
The new logo which will come into use next year is above.

New Reservoir

https://fensreservoir.co.uk/
Anglia Water and Cambridge Water have recognised there may be a shortage of water heading their way, in fact the way of the whole country. So they've published plans to dig a big hole in the Fens and fill it full of water.

Now, The Fens, as you might be aware, are many an acre of fertile farmland that is drained by the use of pumps because it's pretty much all below sea level and watered with the help of irrigation channels. So the concept of digging a big hole and filling it with fresh water when it's going to be even further below sea level than the surrounding land is an interesting concept. An amazing* feat of engineering.
What could possibly go wrong?
*pick your own word to go here.

On the tellybox

For reasons beyond me we're on an assortment of USofA channels including Paramount+and Amazon Prime plus the usual HTTV for the furriners and certain dodgy stick interweb feeds.
Edit - also on SkySports+ in the UK & Ireland.

Latest news

Did anyone mention Jordan Rhodes has retired? Probably. Well, he as good as retired from scoring goals a few seasons back.
Good luck Jordan, think I read somewhere he's now the Loans Manager at Blackburn.

It's International week again, but Town only have one player on International duty so no need to call this one off and shift it to a cold wet Tuesday night in November. A cold wet Saturday in September will do just fine

Huddersfield train station and the two pubs at each end are shut for over a month while they upgrade the tracks to electric and carry out other improvements to the old station stonework and platforms. So it's buses or drive and park up somewhere and a change of pre-match drinking venues. If you've booked a train from Peterborough, good luck with buses from wherever they kick you off.

Goooooch has been named B&W player of the month for August. I don't recall getting an email to vote this time.
Maybe they've knocked me off the list after I said I wasn't coming up to present The Keighley Caravan Man with his award last season.

Speaking of being Spursy, as I have several times below, Daniel Levy has stepped down as Spurs chairman.

Out Injured/Suspended/Isolating

With Goodman serving a 3 match ban, Nicholls will be in goal and rumour has it Chappers is fit enough for bench duty. Marcus McGuane still out.

Back training but not oven ready/Back in the frame

Two more new faces to bed in, Will Alves from Leicester, who we've already seen against us in the EFL Cup and Zépiqueno (Zippy) Redmond could be bungled on at any time on Saturday. Good job our Manager isn't called Geoffrey. He could be "Somewhere over the Rainbow" if it rains on Saturday.

Last time out

We kind of came 2nd in our Yorksha League fixture then battered the Newcastle Bairns on Tuesday in the EFL Trophy. They were so enamoured with the goals we were scoring they joined in and scored one for us too. It was a late consolation but their 2nd was well worked and possibly the best of the night. Taylor got a brace and was doing some major goal hanging when he pinched another back-pass for his first. Our other Marcus, who looks a lot like Sorba the Taff from a very long distance (up on Row Z) with that hairdo but without the attitude and the moaning at the ref, scored another penalty. Where have the refs been hiding these from us for the last 5 seasons?



Posh were Pish again on Tuesday losing 1-3 at home to Orient. Not a great start to their defence of the Trophy they won last season. Not a great start to the League season either. Their only point was a 1-1 draw at home to Bradford a couple of weeks or so back and they've only scored one more goal in their 6 League games so far.



In the EFL Trophy, the Prima Donna kids all went home with a defeat to ponder, some of them pondering a battering.
Spurs Kids went all Spursy and dragged a 4-4 draw from 0-3 and 2-4 leads at Brizzle Rovers, then lost 5-4 in the shoot-out.




Music Break

All the (ahem) famous music folk from Peterborough appear to have come from Peterborough, Ontario. I've not heard of any of them either.

Widening the net a little bit we find one or two you might have heard of ....

Katrina made some Waves with this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeIGVR3P85o

You might have heard of these guys too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi7cuAjArRs

and a Tom (not a Dick or a Harry) that sang about a Motorway (going back to rainbows again)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY361xu3I-E

At the risk of writing his team talk, (I seem to be good at it recently) this one's for Fergie and the town of Peterborough in general, if you change a couple of the lyrics. The best thing about Peterborough is the (fairly new) bypass. That and that The Flying Scotsman rattled through on it's way to setting a speed record for steam trains. Would you have stopped?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DXFtCe-RIg

The Sack Race

Speculation more than fact at the moment, but it might be a case of how long is too long?
With last Monday being the last day of the transfer window, there's a few that we might say are on the bubble, north and south of Hadrian's Wall.

West Ham won at Vanilla on Sunday to keep Hairy Potter in a job for now. Questions might be being asked again at Wolves and maybe Vanilla, but then again, maybe not. Spurs went all Spursy again at the weekend and lost at home to Bournemouth. More rumblings already? Been a bit of a Spursy week down White Hart Lane way this week all round.

In the Chumpionship, Sheffield Utd are getting what they asked for. After sacking local lad and hero Chris Wilder at the end of last season, Ruben Selles has carried on where he left off at Hull and they've lost all 4 so far. To make things worse in the S2 and S6 postcodes, woeful Wendies are above them, but only by one point and one place. Boro being top after replacing Michael Carrick with Rob Edwards is going to smart a bit too.

Neither Celtic or Rangers have set off like a house on fire in Scotland or Europe so far and they drew 0-0 on Sunday. Two cooking on the back burner there if you ask me.

Young Mr. Ferguson could be swapping chairs with Grant McCann or Steve Evans again (their usual Barry Fry go-to's) if he doesn't start winning a few games. It's more likely to be the latter as McCann is currently at Doncaster. It's not helped Fergie's cause that last season's centre forwards and somewhat leading scorers Poku and Riki-Jade Jones both left on freebiess to QPR and FC St. Pauli when Posh have developed a long habit of selling on decent players for decent fees. Is the mercurial Barry Fry losing his touch?

Innies and Outies

I've already mentioned two that left. In addition to these below, Posh brought in a slack-handful of loanees late in the transfer window so they'll be looking to head up the table sometime soon.



Who's banging 'em in

Nobody so far, they've only scored 2.



They can't all win

There's a handful of games amongst teams in the top 6 postponed due to international call up's. The winners of the Yorksha League clash could go top or joint top as a result. Town's game and Donny v Sadfud are the only games amongst the Top 6 being played



At the other end, Posh are somewhere in Yorkshire, I'll look it up later, (what?), Port Vale are also still looking for a win at home to Orient. Wycombe will be looking to get out of the bottom 4 with a win at home to Mansfield and Plymouth likewise at home to Stockport who will jump into the Top 6 if they win. Blackpool's home game to Luton is off so they could find themselves back in the bottom 4 come 5pm Saturday (or shortly after).


We've played 'em before

Due to a few play-off and relegation scraps in recent years, there's a bit more of an edge to this fixture than would otherwise meet the eye of the outsider. It's just a guess but I reckon there could be a few more than 10x the gate we had on Tuesday night in the stadium on Saturday. A few fans might be back from their August holibobs too.



Next up?

Another Yorksha League fixture away to Sadfud.

Pressers

If you're in furrin lands you'll need a VPN, set to the UK, to listen to this. So much for free speech eh Nigel?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0m0w2j2

More fan friendly versions are below.



The View from the Fens

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/art...rqjjk504qo

[Lord Snooty]

Nice one, theo.

On the tellybox. It's on Sky Sports+ as well. Summat to do with there being no Prima Donna games on, I think.

[theo_luddite]

Thanks Snoots - that's still not showing on the website I generally use

[WakeyTerrier]

All League one and two games are shown when it’s an international break.

Hoping to get to this one myself. I’ve given my England tickets away to a mate as I don’t want to be too far away from home right now as you can imagine.

the team will probably be 9 or 10 changes but for the first time in a long time it doesn’t really matter because most of the squad is capable oholdi g down a first team spot and the beauty of it is Pish Posh will have no idea which team we are going to put out

[theo_luddite]

Got the feeling Ferguson doesn't know what team to put out for Pish Posh either from his comments. They won at ours last season but quite honestly Huddersfield Schools could have beaten us with the way we played.

[theo_luddite]

Lee Grant names four changes
Joe Taylor leads the line for Town
Ryan Ledson starts as captain
Lee Nicholls continues in goal
Low at Whatmough at the back

[Lord Snooty]

Well let's hope Tom Lees takes this opportunity to add to his tally of own goals scored FOR Huddersfield Town.

[theo_luddite]

Watching, listening from home today.

I'll spare you the details but let's just say I was worried at one point that I'd struggle to travel from Service Station to Service Station let alone manage a 2 hour plus drive and then what I do to get to the ground after I park up. As it happens I'd probably have been OK and wouldn't have needed the wet wipes.

[Lord Snooty]

Well that was a dreary first half.

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For goodness sake

[theo_luddite]

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