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TTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 2 Preview 2015-16

By Lloyd on August 4, 2015 in the Category TTU Go Predicting with 1 Comment
Tagged with Accrington, AFC Wimbledon, Barnet, Bristol Rovers, Cambridge United, Carlisle United, Crawley Town, Dagenham and Redbridge, Exeter City, Hartlepool United, Leyton Orient, Luton Town, Mansfield, Morecambe, Newport County, Northampton Town, Notts County, Oxford United, Plymouth Argyle, Portsmouth, Stevenage, Wycombe Wanderers, Yeovil Town, York City

Kicking off a week of divisional previews, we focus on the movers and shakers in this season’s League 2: Cambridge, Portsmouth and Luton are each backed for automatic promotion whereas we suggest it could be a long season for supporters of Carlisle, Dagenham, Hartlepool, Leyton Orient, Morecambe and Newport.

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AFC Wimbledon

For the first half of last season, Wimbledon looked like they might just push on. Matt Tubbs …

Hot Seat Narratives: Looking Beyond the Manager

By Lloyd on November 27, 2014 in the Category Hot Seat Narratives with No comments
Tagged with Cheltenham, Exeter City, Hartlepool, Huddersfield Town, Leeds United, Mansfield, Newcastle United, Scunthorpe United, Watford

The stats relating to the duration of managerial spells are, as you might expect, damning. This season, the average length of employment across the Premier and Football League’s 92 clubs is 1.64 seasons. In the Championship the mean is even worse, standing at 0.82 seasons. Between the Premier League and League Two, 47 of the 92 managers currently in position are yet to complete a full season with their …

TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 2 Preview

By Lloyd on August 5, 2014 in the Category Uncategorized with 3 Comments
Tagged with Accrington, AFC Wimbledon, Burton Albion, Bury, Cambridge United, Carlisle United, Cheltenham, Dagenham and Redbridge, Exeter, Hartlepool, Luton, Mansfield, Morecambe, Newport County, Northampton Town, Oxford United, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Shrewsbury, Southend, Stevenage, Tranmere Rovers, Wycombe Wanderers, York City

In the first of four divisional previews we focus today on who’s who in League 2, which once again looks set to be tight. The bookies are backing Bury, Luton, Portsmouth and Shrewbury - we think that they’ll each do well, but suggest that they’ll have plenty of competition, not least from Southend and York.

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AFC Wimbledon

It’s fair to say that the AFCW squad has more or …

TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 2 Preview

By Lloyd on July 22, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with 45 Comments
Tagged with Accrington, AFC Wimbledon, Bristol Rovers, Burton, Bury, Cheltenham, Chesterfield, Dagenham and Redbridge, Exeter, Fleetwood, Hartlepool, Mansfield, Morecambe, Newport County, Northampton, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Rochdale, Scunthorpe, Southend, Torquay, Wycombe Wanderers, York

We’re baaack! Kicking off this year’s look ahead to the new season, we focus today on the clubs who’ll be competing in League 2 this year and – because everyone likes a prediction – pass judgement on where they might finish. Then, tomorrow and Wednesday, we put the spotlight on League 1 and the Championship respectively before spending the rest of the time leading up to August 3 offering …

A Football League SWOT Analysis: The Strengths

By Lanterne Rouge on June 11, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with 3 Comments
Tagged with Barnet, Blackburn, Bradford, Brighton, Cardiff, Championship, Derby, Finances, League 1, League 2, Leeds, Mansfield, Middlesbrough, Newport County, Norwich, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, SWOT Analysis, Watford, Wolves

As the three divisions of the Football League steel themselves for life without npower and this website prepares for a month long summer break, we thought it would be appropriate to give the competition as a whole a health check, minus thermometers, but deploying that now established method of the SWOT analysis – beloved of the world of Business but pretty much applicable for any large organisation.

So the …