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Post by brisfitboy on Jun 22, 2023 18:32:09 GMT
MULTIBALL / TOWELS The EFL will introduce a multiball system in all its competitions for the 2023/24 season. Match balls will be placed on cones in designated areas at pitch side to help increase the time of the ball being in play. Meanwhile, Clubs will no longer be permitted to use towels or other articles, including items obtained from spectators to dry footballs during matches. This has been done in Scotland for a number of years now at least at Caley Thistle and it certainly keeps the game going. Does this include drying the ball with one’s shirt though?
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Post by Andy K on Jul 4, 2023 14:19:36 GMT
An odd one - the first managerial casualty of the 23/24 season. Less than 24 hours after annoucing his pre-season plans for FGR, Duncan Ferguson has quit as manager.
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Post by Amber Aleman on Jul 4, 2023 14:33:33 GMT
An odd one - the first managerial casualty of the 23/24 season. Less than 24 hours after annoucing his pre-season plans for FGR, Duncan Ferguson has quit as manager. Dale Vince and Duncan Ferguson did strike me as an 'odd couple'. Despite the warm words from the former, I suspect there were tensions behind the scenes.
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Post by davethegrave on Jul 4, 2023 17:08:24 GMT
An odd one - the first managerial casualty of the 23/24 season. Less than 24 hours after annoucing his pre-season plans for FGR, Duncan Ferguson has quit as manager. Dale Vince and Duncan Ferguson did strike me as an 'odd couple'. Despite the warm words from the former, I suspect there were tensions behind the scenes. You can't imagine Duncan enjoying Veggie Burgers. And maybe he'd been held up by just stop oil protesters.
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Post by andycapp on Jul 5, 2023 7:41:45 GMT
Forest Green have appointed Hannah Dingley as caretaker manager following Duncan Ferguson’s departure.
She is the first woman to lead a men's senior club in England's top four divisions.
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Post by Stewart on Jul 11, 2023 10:37:11 GMT
League Two 1-24 transfer table. Follow the link below to see our position. LINK
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Post by andycapp on Jul 13, 2023 18:46:02 GMT
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Post by brisfitboy on Jul 13, 2023 21:24:46 GMT
What a tosspot talking out of his ‘arris. He must be on a bunce to write such trite as he certainly has no brain cells to stimulate intelligent thought.
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Post by VCLXI on Jul 13, 2023 21:39:32 GMT
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, he's not wrong as such but I happen to disagree with him. What he is though is ill informed, therefore an article like that should justifiably ignored. But at least Sutton, in his opinion, aren't getting relegated.
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Post by andycapp on Jul 17, 2023 18:59:24 GMT
www.skysports.com/share/12922543Hannah Dingley was named Forest Green's interim head coach, becoming the first woman to lead a professional English Football League team; Dingley took charge of Rovers' pre-season draw at Melksham Town; Southampton Under-23s coach David Horseman has been hired as permanent manager
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Post by davethegrave on Jul 17, 2023 21:48:34 GMT
www.skysports.com/share/12922543Hannah Dingley was named Forest Green's interim head coach, becoming the first woman to lead a professional English Football League team; Dingley took charge of Rovers' pre-season draw at Melksham Town; Southampton Under-23s coach David Horseman has been hired as permanent manager So much for being the first club employing a female first team coach.
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Post by terrier on Jul 24, 2023 18:32:12 GMT
Gillingham have signed Scott Malone, left back from Millwall. He’s had a good career in the Championship, struggled a bit in the PL in his fairly brief spell with my side, Huddersfield. Surprised to see him in L2, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Gillingham do well this season.
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Post by davep on Jul 26, 2023 14:04:57 GMT
Wrexham beat a predominantly Man Utd youth team 3-1 in front of a sell out crowd of 35,000 in San Diego. Apparently the predominantly American crowd spent a small fortune on Wrexham memorabilia before and after the game. Whatever you think of Wrexham, Ryan Reynolds has done an incredible job raising their profile and marketing them in the USA and worldwide. On the (very) bad news front, their star player, Paul Mullin, suffered a punctured lung after a bad challenge by the young United goalkeeper.
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Post by Stewart on Jul 27, 2023 13:07:24 GMT
English Football League referees will be told to increase their threshold of fouls, cut down on time wasting and ensure player behaviour does not overstep the mark ahead of the new season.LinkThe PA news agency understands the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), the governing body of match officials in England, is committed to making the EFL a better product for the forthcoming campaign, which gets under way this weekend. It has worked with clubs, the EFL, the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) and League Managers Association (LMA) to ensure the key decisions made are acceptable to everyone in the game. Officials have been instructed to adopt a higher threshold for penalising contact in challenges, taking into account how much contact there was, the consequences of it and what the attacking player’s motivation was. They will also be more vigilant of sustained holding at set-pieces. After the 2021-22 campaign saw less playing time than ever before, referees will also be more proactive in curbing time-wasting and will be prepared to sanction players early on in the game.Participation behaviour will also be strongly managed to ensure incidents of dissent and other poor behaviour are stamped out. As well as the introduction of five substitutions this season, there is also a minor law change which sees goalkeepers now allowed to have one foot behind the goalline when facing a penalty. Although last season’s play-off finals at Wembley had VAR, the decision-review system will not be in place for the forthcoming campaign.The PGMOL is on a FIFA Working Group to help develop ‘VAR Light’ and its possible use, and that would be offered to the EFL if collectively the clubs in each division vote to implement it. That would not be a quick thing to happen, though, with around 12 months needed to set it up.The EFL campaign kicks off on Friday with Huddersfield hosting Burnley in the Championship.
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Post by terrier on Jul 27, 2023 14:06:59 GMT
English Football League referees will be told to increase their threshold of fouls, cut down on time wasting and ensure player behaviour does not overstep the mark ahead of the new season.LinkThe PA news agency understands the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), the governing body of match officials in England, is committed to making the EFL a better product for the forthcoming campaign, which gets under way this weekend. It has worked with clubs, the EFL, the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) and League Managers Association (LMA) to ensure the key decisions made are acceptable to everyone in the game. Officials have been instructed to adopt a higher threshold for penalising contact in challenges, taking into account how much contact there was, the consequences of it and what the attacking player’s motivation was. They will also be more vigilant of sustained holding at set-pieces. After the 2021-22 campaign saw less playing time than ever before, referees will also be more proactive in curbing time-wasting and will be prepared to sanction players early on in the game.Participation behaviour will also be strongly managed to ensure incidents of dissent and other poor behaviour are stamped out. As well as the introduction of five substitutions this season, there is also a minor law change which sees goalkeepers now allowed to have one foot behind the goalline when facing a penalty. Although last season’s play-off finals at Wembley had VAR, the decision-review system will not be in place for the forthcoming campaign.The PGMOL is on a FIFA Working Group to help develop ‘VAR Light’ and its possible use, and that would be offered to the EFL if collectively the clubs in each division vote to implement it. That would not be a quick thing to happen, though, with around 12 months needed to set it up.The EFL campaign kicks off on Friday with Huddersfield hosting Burnley in the Championship. This is from before last season, not this.
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