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Re: Data driven WWFC
I think we were early adopters (at least in L1). I remember Dereck Adams trying to get a game against Plymouth called off until we produced the FA paperwork proving they were legal.
Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
Please someone go in and post this on the same thread in Luton’s forum 😂😂
Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
You conveniently omitted him getting a club promoted to the Premier League!
Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
Goodness knows. I just wanted to get “envision” out of my mind.
Re: Attendance Prediction - Huddersfield Town (h) - Tues 7th Jan '25 - Match 25 in 24/25
Top Twenty for the Total Crowd: [4095]
This became delayed - I can't really pretend it was the weather, but it didn't help!
Many belated congratulations to @Commoner who was closest and didn't miss a single digit score by far. Please belatedly take the title of Forecaster of the Week, this particular accolade will last longer than many of the recent ones.
Congratulations to @ryan_w_kirkby2, who was nearly as close and to @our_frank who were both within one hundred.
Those three may well register well on the Leaderboard when that is finalised. The next three in this table are all close to the top of the Leaderboard and may well have not improved much if at all on their current tenth best scores.
However worth noting that @Twizz in 7th on here has continued a recent upturn in form and whilst the ground is frozen may well have scampered across some more of it.
Welcome to @tewkesburychairboy predicting for the first time this season - feel free to give it another go!
Top Twenty for the Away Crowd: [Given as 552]
Many congratulations to @DevC, who topped this table, missing by just seven.
Congratulations to @MindlessDrugHoover; @perfidious_albion; @MFH_Blue; @Forest_Blue; @Twizz: @93Chairboy ; @Manboobs ande@a40 all of whom were within 23 - [5%].
Nine people within 5% was pretty good IMHO, as I thought circumstances made this particular figure not easy to predict.
Top Twenty for the Home Crowd; [Calculated 4206]
Many congratulations again to @Commoner, who tops this table as well as the one for total attendance.
Congratulations to @ryan_w_kirkby2 and @NewburyWanderer who were within one hundred.
For those who have read this far - I do think there is a really good case for the EFL to change the rules on postponements in League One (Two) for international breaks. The current ones are easy to game. My own suggestion is that clubs should opt in or opt out before the fixtures lists are published and the clubs which opt out play each other on the Saturdays of International breaks.
I reckon this game would have been a 5000 - 6000 home crowd on a Saturday.
Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
Though that is just on Skybet, Bet Victor’s odds are significantly closer. I would suggest no one has a clue at this stage and the money being placed is minimal but who knows
Re: The definitive ex-player news thread
He is but surely it doesn't matter what level of football you're at when taking a pen?
Re: Rumour Mill
If his contract does run until the end of next season I'm not sure it is sensible to extend it now. What I would hope is that they have increased his current salary together with a very large bonus for achieving promotion.
How many managers last for more than two year (Gazza was a one off)? If Blooms doesn't like a data driven recruitment of players he isn't going to stay long term anyway.
The owners have made a clear decision on how our club is to be run and we have to accept it, particularly whilst it seems to be successful. All staff have to be on the same page to achieve the best outcome.