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Welcome to the League 1 thread for the 2012/2013 season.

Last season saw Charlton run away with the league with an impressive 101 points and Chris Powell's men will be looking forward to championship football next season, Sheffield Wednesday will join them in the championship after securing 2nd place ahead of their bitter rivals Sheffield United despite the exit of Gary Megson midseason. Whilst Huddersfield secured promotion in dramatic fashion by beating the 90 point Blades on penalties in the play-off final.

We must also say farewell to Rochdale, Exeter City, Chesterfield and Wycombe Wanderers who will all be playing in League 2 next season, here's hoping they have better seasons next time around.

The three teams coming down from the championship this season are Doncaster Rovers, Coventry City and Portsmouth after all suffering torrid seasons last year they will be hoping to bounce straight back.

We also must welcome the four newly promoted clubs, Swindon Town, Shrewsbury Town, Crawley Town and Crewe Alexandra.

Managerial Changes:

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[TD]Team[/TD]

[TD]Outgoing manager[/TD]

[TD]Manner of departure[/TD]

[TD]Date of vacancy[/TD]

[TD]Position in table[/TD]

[TD]Incoming manager[/TD]

[TD]Date of appointment[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Bournemouth[/TD]

[TD]Lee Bradbury[/TD]

[TD]Sacked[/TD]

[TD]25 March 2012[2][/TD]

[TD]Pre-season[/TD]

[TD] Paul Groves[/TD]

[TD]11 May 2012[3][/TD]

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[TR]

[TD]Crawley Town[/TD]

[TD]Steve Evans[/TD]

[TD]Signed by Rotherham United[/TD]

[TD]9 April 2012[4][/TD]

[TD]Pre-season[/TD]

[TD] Sean O'Driscoll[/TD]

[TD]16 May 2012[5][/TD]

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[TR]

[TD]Crawley Town[/TD]

[TD]Sean O'Driscoll[/TD]

[TD]Signed by Nottingham Forest[/TD]

[TD]19 July 2012[6][/TD]

[TD]Pre-season[/TD]

[TD] Richie Barker[/TD]

[TD]7 August 2012[7][/TD]

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[TR]

[TD]Bury[/TD]

[TD]Richie Barker[/TD]

[TD]Signed by Crawley Town[/TD]

[TD]7 August 2012[7][/TD]

[TD]Pre-season[/TD]

[TD]Kevin Blackwell[/TD]

[TD]26 September 2012[8][/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Coventry City[/TD]

[TD]Andy Thorn[/TD]

[TD]Sacked[/TD]

[TD]26 August 2012[9][/TD]

[TD]14th[/TD]

[TD]Mark Robins[/TD]

[TD]19 September 2012[10][/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Colchester United[/TD]

[TD]John Ward[/TD]

[TD]Sacked[/TD]

[TD]24 September 2012[11][/TD]

[TD]22nd[/TD]

[TD]Joe Dunne[/TD]

[TD]27 September 2012[12][/TD]

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[TR]

[TD]Bournemouth[/TD]

[TD]Paul Groves[/TD]

[TD]Sacked[/TD]

[TD]3 October 2012[13][/TD]

[TD]20th[/TD]

[TD]Eddie Howe[/TD]

[TD]12 October 2012[14][/TD]

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[TR]

[TD]Hartlepool United[/TD]

[TD]Neale Cooper[/TD]

[TD]Resigned[/TD]

[TD]24 October 2012[15][/TD]

[TD]24th[/TD]

[TD]John Hughes[/TD]

[TD]14 November 2012[/TD]

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[TD]Scunthorpe United[/TD]

[TD]Alan Knill[/TD]

[TD]Sacked[/TD]

[TD]29 October 2012[16][/TD]

[TD]22nd[/TD]

[TD]Brian Laws[/TD]

[TD]30 October 2012[16][/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Portsmouth[/TD]

[TD]Michael Appleton[/TD]

[TD]Signed by Blackpool[/TD]

[TD]7 November 2012[17][/TD]

[TD]17th[/TD]

[TD]Guy Whittingham[/TD]

[TD]24 April 2013[18][/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Doncaster Rovers[/TD]

[TD]Dean Saunders[/TD]

[TD]Signed by Wolverhampton Wanderers[/TD]

[TD]6 January 2013[/TD]

[TD]2nd[/TD]

[TD]Brian Flynn[/TD]

[TD]17 January 2013[19][/TD]

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[TR]

[TD]Oldham Athletic[/TD]

[TD]Paul Dickov[/TD]

[TD]Resigned[/TD]

[TD]3 February 2013[20][/TD]

[TD]20th[/TD]

[TD]Lee Johnson[/TD]

[TD]18 March 2013[21][/TD]

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[TR]

[TD]Notts County[/TD]

[TD]Keith Curle[/TD]

[TD]Sacked[/TD]

[TD]3 February 2013[22][/TD]

[TD]10th[/TD]

[TD]Chris Kiwomya[/TD]

[TD]23 February 2013[23][/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Preston North End[/TD]

[TD]Graham Westley[/TD]

[TD]Sacked[/TD]

[TD]13 February 2013[24][/TD]

[TD]17th[/TD]

[TD]Simon Grayson[/TD]

[TD]18 February 2013[25][/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Coventry City[/TD]

[TD]Mark Robins[/TD]

[TD]Signed by Huddersfield Town[/TD]

[TD]14 February 2013[26][/TD]

[TD]8th[/TD]

[TD]Steven Pressley[/TD]

[TD]8 March 2013[27][/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Swindon Town[/TD]

[TD]Paolo Di Canio[/TD]

[TD]Resigned[/TD]

[TD]18 February 2013[/TD]

[TD]6th[/TD]

[TD]Kevin MacDonald[/TD]

[TD]28 February 2013[28][/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Stevenage[/TD]

[TD]Gary Smith[/TD]

[TD]Sacked[/TD]

[TD]20 March 2013[/TD]

[TD]15th[/TD]

[TD]Graham Westley[/TD]

[TD]30 March 2013[29][/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Sheffield United[/TD]

[TD]Danny Wilson[/TD]

[TD]Sacked[/TD]

[TD]10 April 2013[30][/TD]

[TD]5th[/TD]

[TD]David Weir[/TD]

[TD]10 June 2013[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Doncaster Rovers[/TD]

[TD]Brian Flynn[/TD]

[TD]Appointed as "Director of Football"[/TD]

[TD]3 May 2013[31][/TD]

[TD]1st[/TD]

[TD]Paul Dickov[/TD]

[TD]20 May 2013[32][/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Hartlepool United[/TD]

[TD]John Hughes[/TD]

[TD]Sacked[/TD]

[TD]9 May 2013[33][/TD]

[TD]24th[/TD]

[TD]Colin Cooper[/TD]

[TD]24 May 2013[34][/TD]

[/TR]

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Who supports who :

Teams                             Supporters
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AFC Bournemouth			  Robokid87
Brentford                         darren1983, Dan_Simmonds
Bury
Carlisle United                   Mwalker99, Jorg
Colchester United                 
Coventry City                     G-man11, Skybluedave, Covfan, JasontheYank
Crawley Town
Crewe Alexandra                   ssestig, Leftism
Doncaster Rovers                  DJB_1990     
Hartlepool United                 come_on_poolies
Leyton Orient                     DanielM_90, Stu Coleman
Milton Keynes Dons
Notts County                      Mr Villa
Oldham Athletic
Portsmouth                        Dafuge, Standard Liege!, Sheer Class, Benjani'sBootCleaner, johnwalker, wisla_krakow 
Preston North End
Scunthorpe United
Sheffield United                  Cleon, HotChocolate, Super Bladesman
Shrewsbury Town
Stevenage
Swindon Town                      STFC will rule again, slawbawn
Tranmere Rovers
Walsall
Yeovil Town			  DazRTaylor

The teams:

AFC Bournemouth

Stadium: Dean Court

Manager: Paul Groves

Promotion Odds: 12/1

Last season: 11th

Brentford

Stadium: Griffin Park

Manager: Uwe Rosler

Promotion odds: 14/1

Last season: 9th

Bury

Stadium: Gigg Lane

Manager: Richie Barker

Promotion odds: 50/1

Last season: 14th

Carlisle United

Stadium: Brunton Park

Manager: Gregg Abbott

Promotion odds: 25/1

Last Season: 8th

Colchester United

Stadium: Weston Homes Community Stadium

Manager: John Ward

Promotion odds: 33/1

Last season: 10th

Coventry City

Stadium: Ricoh Arena

Manager: Andy Thorn

Promotion odds: 11/1

Last Season: 23rd in Championship - Relegated

Crawley Town

Stadium: Broadfield Stadium

Manager: Sean O'Driscoll

Promotion odds: 16/1

Last Season: 3rd in League 2 - Promoted

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Crewe Alexandra

Stadiums: Alexandra Stadium

Manager: Steve Davis

Promotion odds: 25/1

Last season: 7th in League 2 - Promoted

Doncaster Rovers

Stadium: Keepmoat Stadium

Manager: Dean Saunders

Promotion odds: 14/1

Last season: 24th in Championship - Relegated

Hartlepool United

Stadium: Victoria Park

Manager: Neale Cooper

Promotion odds: 33/1

Last season: 13th

Leyton Orient

Stadium: Brisbane Road

Manager: Russell Slade

Promotion odds: 66/1

Last season: 20th

Milton Keynes Dons

Stadium: Stadium mk

Manager: Karl Robinson

Promotion odds: 10/1

Last season: 5th

Notts County

Stadium: Meadow Lane

Manager: Keith Curle

Promotion odds: 12/1

Last season: 7th

Oldham Athletic

Stadium: Boundary Park

Manager: Paul Dickov

Promotion odds: 50/1

Last Season: 16th

Portsmouth

Stadium: Fratton Park

Manager: Michael Appleton

Promotion odds: 16/1

Last Season: 23rd in Championship - Relegated

Preston North End

Stadium: Deepdale

Manager: Graham Westley

Promotion odds: 12/1

Last season: 15th

Scunthorpe United

Stadium: Glanford Park

Manager: Alan Knill

Promotion odds: 33/1

Last season: 18th

Sheffield United

Stadium: Bramall Lane

Manager: Danny Wilson

Promotion odds: 5/1

Last season: 3rd

Shrewsbury Town

Stadium: New Meadow

Manager: Graham Turner

Promotion odds: 33/1

Last Season: 2nd in League 2 - Promoted

Stevenage

Stadium: Broadhall Way

Manager: Gary Smith

Promotion odds: 20/1

Last season: 6th

Swindon Town

Stadium: County Ground

Manager: Paolo di Canio

Promotion odds: 10/1

Last season: 1st in League 2 - Promoted

Tramere Rovers

Stadium: Prenton Park

Manager: Ronnie Moore

Promotion odds: 25/1

Last season: 12th

Walsall

Stadium: Bescot Stadium

Manager: Dean Smith

Promotion odds: 80/1

Last Season: 19th

Yeovil Town

Stadium: Huish Park

Manager: Gary Johnson

Promotion odds: 50/1

Last season: 17th

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G-Man11

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New thread \o/ Hope it's more active this year.

It better be :mad:

Still no Chairman (haven't had one since December), no Assistant Manager, under transfer embargo with no end in sight. Now it also turns out we're away for our last and first game of the season, both games over Christmas and in our League Cup tie. Really hating this season already.

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Looking forward to the new season already. As Walker said it is very open this season with no clear front runners.

Already hating this season :D

Put down everyone I know/could remember who supports a League 1 team in the OP but if I missed you let me know and I'll add you :thup:

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Will be coming up to Sheffield for our game in Oct! Want to go to the Carlisle game as well.

I live in Gateshead now but if I go to the game (which I should) I'll buy you a drink :D

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That's one hell of a long trip from Portsmouth!
Well I live near Oxford so not quite as bad. Tempted to drive up there tbh, as train ticket searching isn't going great.

Yeah funny quirk that Trains are cheaper from Portsmouth than they are from Oxford :cool:

£54 for us, tempted foreshure.

Looking forward to sharing our fantastically awful ownership battle and lots of talk of Floating charges! Definitely open for teams like MK Dons, Notts County and of course the favourites have to be Sheffield United. I hope you can bare with me while I make the transition and not having much of a clue of players in this league I'll be sure to come across as a **** once or twice.

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Only record in the PL is joint least away wins in a season, which is 0 :( However we still finished 11 pts above the drop zone due to our awesome home record that season :D We then sold Robbie Keane to Inter Milan replaced him with Craig Bellamy and went down the following season :(

However we were in the premier league for more seasons than anyone else in this league :cool:

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Looking forward to the new season, really think we can finish top 6 (then lose in play offs :))

Well I live near Oxford so not quite as bad. Tempted to drive up there tbh, as train ticket searching isn't going great.

Don't know if it'd be worth looking at for you, but a couple years ago me and my mates went Carlise and was cheaper for us to get a flight up to Scotland (glasgow I think, but could be wrong) then got a train down from there as was cheaper then a train from London :D

Oh and Bury to start the season? Thank feck I'm at V that weekend

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So far im uninspired by our signings (Orient) and i don't see it getting any better in terms of anything with Slade still here im afraid to say!

Heard Symes (Bournemouth) being chucked about to join us! A big striker who when ive seen is not a slouch either and has looked effective. Along with him ive seen Shaun Batt been mentioned! I would possibly cry if we signed him :( he was on loan at Leyton FC years ago when i played for the youth team there and he was woeful could not finish to save his life and was dire at everything else too and this was Ishtmian Premier level! Granted was a good few years ago and he must of improved but its just put me off him forever.

In other news Swindon have made 3 awesome signings today imo!

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I went to our fans forum yesterday and apparently our playing budget will be towards the upper end in this league which is good to hear, can't be doing with another season of not being able to compete financially and getting stuffed every week. We just need to move some players on and then we can start building a new and hopefully competent squad.

Also the club now controls the stadium and are hoping to actually get it making money for us rather than it making significant losses as it did under council control. This is pretty massive for the club and the new plans put into place now that we have the stadium sounded very positive.

The new home shirt was on sale too and it's actually the exact same template as our 2010/11 kit but with a red panel on the back rather than white. Poor from our supplier that, they must only have two different hoops templates. I bought one anyway 'cause I'm an idiot football fan and sense goes out of the window in such situations.

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Looking forward to the new season, really think we can finish top 6 (then lose in play offs :))

Don't know if it'd be worth looking at for you, but a couple years ago me and my mates went Carlise and was cheaper for us to get a flight up to Scotland (glasgow I think, but could be wrong) then got a train down from there as was cheaper then a train from London :D

Oh and Bury to start the season? Thank feck I'm at V that weekend

You get the train back up to Scotland in time? Or stayed over night somewhere?

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"It's a fixture that I believe the supporters would have been looking out for first with Portsmouth being in such close proximity to Bournemouth" said Groves.

"There is a rivalry there and I think it's a fantastic fixture and one that heightens the excitement of the beginning of the season and it makes everybody aware of what is ahead of us."

Paul Groves on our fixture with Bournemouth.

Please note Mr. Groves that I have no negative image of Bournemouth. Just because they are close doesn't mean we are rivals. In fact if we went under and there wasn't another Pompey, I would be watching Bournemouth for a season.

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Bournemouth have signed Frank Demouge - who has ample experience in the Dutch highest tier.

Could be an interesting signing. Pure striker, big of a dirty bugger - but good heading and finishing - as compared to being technically poor and slow. Should fit a traditional English style of play.

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Bournemouth have signed Frank Demouge - who has ample experience in the Dutch highest tier.

Could be an interesting signing. Pure striker, big of a dirty bugger - but good heading and finishing - as compared to being technically poor and slow. Should fit a traditional English style of play.

Odd seeing as they've made a habit of signing good prospects from the non league and selling them on for a profit.

I'll look forward to it when a) we have a confirmed kit, and b) we have a goalkeeper and 10 outfield players :(

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Transfer Embargo finally lifted :) Probably good the negotiations for the Ricoh broke down and didn't drag out longer tbh.

Shame we're a few days too late for James Collins who seemed to be our main target, a boyhood fan and wanted to join us. :( Can't see us bringing in many but we desperately need some new strikers, who's available on free transfer?

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