The player of the season vote will take place in early January. Most of the contenders will come through the player of the month votes and other means, like winning a slam title or being British number one. We have a list of 22 players already qualified, at the bottom of this post. However, there will be...
This pretty topical and fortunately getting lots of press because of the plight of Dulwich Hamlet FC, there are lots of great things about Hamlet, they get massive support for step 3 (the 7th tier of English Football) gates often North of 1500 generally a good gate at that level is 300-450. It is a genui...
I will use this thread to update the list of qualifiers as the season progresses. Not intended to be one for much chat, just to keep the list readily available Obviously, none qualified yet! In terms of qualifying for Player of the Season, players can qualify through 4 means:January to December Playe...
Time to start scratching your heads and come up with your predictions for 2026. We had 36 entries in 2025 which was 11 less than the women's competition, so I hope more will take part this time around. The closing date for entries is midnight on Saturday Dec 27th as I will be out of the country for the foll...
Time to start scratching your heads and come up with your predictions for 2026. We had 47 entries last year, which was the most since I have been running this competition. It would be great to get above 50 this year, especially if some of the more recent and more active members would enter. The closing d...
There doesn't appear to be a thread recording the man's abhorrent actions, so how about this one? -- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 2nd of January 2026 06:27:26 PM
Long overdue I think, better than bundling all sorts into the Leeds and non league thread. I see, after all the speculation, Graham Potter has just left Swansea to join Brighton, signing a 4 year deal. I know everyone wants to progress in their career / life and the lure of the Premier League would be big...
We've all seen the slow breakdown Harriet has been having and it got me thinking. Of all the top Women I think she is the only one that hasn't had an injury that allows her to utilise a PR (Heather may be another one) It got me thinking how hard it must be for the Players ranked below 50. They literally have...
I see that in adults we're calling it week 53 But in juniors, it is definitely week 1 this week - and it matters as the age restrictions that apply are the 2026 ones But the juniors and adults should be in synch so maybe we'll go for Week 1 (A) and Week 1 (B) or something like that - I'll amend it later if that se...
Surprisingly, did not seem to have a pre-existing thread. WTA did a featurette on Ms. Boulter (duration 02:19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1gyCi7KnpM
So, going live with these votes - but don't worry, no one will miss out as I am leaving them longer. This first round will last 30 hours and so it will close at 3 pm Wednesday 31st Dec. The final will then be posted at that time, and also run for 30 hours through to around 9 pm Thursday 1st Jan.15 players in each...
The numbers groundhopping (visiting new football grounds)seems to be growing in popularity and I have started trying to take in matches where I can at all different levels. I've been to two new venues this year Litherland Remyca (step 5) and Maine Rd (step 6) Both only cost a fiver to get in. The standa...
Hi everyone, This isn't really tennis related, but as it's still the off season, I thought I'd share a little bit of proud, personal news. As some of you know, I'm a health and medical journalist. I've spent the last three years researching and writing a book called The Age Code, which is all about the li...
Week 1 - from 30/12 : Men's Singles ITF M25 Indore, India Alastair Gray Men's Doubles ATP 250 Brisbane, QLD, Australia Julian Cash & Lloyd Glasspool ATP 250 Hong Kong Luke Johnson ( & Sander Arends, NED ) Juniors ITF J60 Arlon, Belgium BD: Liam Channon (16) ( & Romain Andres, FRA )
