THE MATCH

SATURDAY 8TH NOVEMBER KO 3:00PM

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LAST MATCH



We got a point but probably should have had all three. We were nearly behind after 1 minute but Sargent shot wide. A few minutes later we were ahead, Bannan firing in from 30 yards. Bannan nearly made it 2 a few minutes later but the keeper saved. We had a couple of other chances but we went in 1-0 at the break. Onto the 2nd half and Ingelsson had a shot saved and then we had a great chance to make it 2 but Lowe somehow fired wide. Norwich then went down the other end and and Sargent fed Kvistgaarden who tapped into a empty net. Both sides had chances to win it but it was Horvath who saved the day with a good stop in injury time.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and we travel south to take on Southampton before the next international break. The Saints have made a poor start to the season and currently lie in 19th place in the Championship, but they did win there last match 1-2 at QPR after going 5 without a win. Will Still had been in charge but was sacked a few days ago. The Saints should be doing much better than they are with the squad they have. If they can get the right appointment, you would expect them to move up the table and maybe have a shot at the playoffs. There leading scorer so far this season is Adam Armstrong, who has 4 goals and 1 assist.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 33
SOUTH 29
DRAW 24

CURRENT FORM

OWLS   D D L L L L                                                             

SOUTH W L L L D D

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  



THE TEAM

Horvath
Fusire Palmer Iorfa M Lowe Amass
Valery Ingelsson Bannan
McNeill Cadamarteri

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

3-1 Ingelsson

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

56

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Owlkev 9
Maddix 8
Imre 4
SCO 3
Washington 3

BMPL

Stateside 6
Pei -4
Wereham -11
Southey -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

West Ham v Burnley
Swansea v Ipswich
Doncaster v Barnsley
Newport v Walsall
Boston v Rochdale

HAAAA

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

i`m in no way calling for the manager to go:
but as we all know things have taken a turn for the worst
from being promotion contenders we are now looking over our shoulders at the bottom of the table.

yes the manager will get the brunt of the flak

is he out of his depth?

been supporting this lot since i was 10yrs old
seen good times
and the bad

i am the eternal optimist that we can still salvage something from this season

is our manager skating (already) on thin ice?
maybe he is

if he is dismissed
who will be next?

we have so called strikers that suddenly forget where the goal is
a midfield that have no idea how to pass the ball

as i said i`m optimistic we can salvage this season

we aint going to get promoted
and i sure we wont go down....but as the saying goes...."Football....It`s A Funny Old Game"

Group A

Twerton 15
Minizin 11
BaggieVicar 9
Zimnan 8
Stairs 5
A.A.A. 5
B.B.B. 2
BaggieOne -2

Not a great week in Group A, just 53 points, the third lowest of the season. The Bonus again caused major problems with just one player scoring positive points on it!! Twerton keep us his good form in top spot with 15 points, he was one of two players to score a max on the Gamball and backed that up with another CS. Minizin was the only player to get a CR on the Gamball and he is second on 11 points. BaggieVicar was the other player to get a correct result on the Gamball but like Minizin wasn't able to add much to back it up.

Zinman finished on 8 points, he was the only player to get a CR on the Bonus. Stairs and AAA ended joint 5th with 5 points with BBB on 2 just behind them. BaggieOne, the long time leader sees his poor form continue this week and he posted his lowest score of the season with -2.

126 Minizin
125 Stairs
118 BaggieOne
108 Twerton
90 A.A.A.
90 BaggieVicar
77 B.B.B.
61 Zinman

Since Week 3 Baggie One has led the table with as much as a 22 point lead, but this weeks negative score for him sees him drop to third place after being overtaken by both Minizin, the new leader and Stairs in 2nd spot. Twerton is slowly catching up to the top 3 and all of them are over 100 points. AAA and BaggieVicar share 5th place with 90 points. BBB drops further back with another poor week and now has Zinman only 16 points behind him.

Cheers
SCO

Group B

4eva 16
Themaclad 10
Salop 8
Snooty 7
Lady Jane 2
SCO 2
Derby 1
Amelia 1

A very strange week for Group B. There can't be many weeks in the history of this competition when 2 players maxed out on the gamball but failed to reach double figures. It was also the second lowest points total of the season, but one player managed to equal his best score. Three games produced negative totals with the gamball just pipping the Bolton win to record the highest total of points.

4eva claims top spot by some distance with the weekend's stand out performance. He had the highest number of correct reults - 6, the highest number of correct scores - 2, and also scored on the gamball. Themaclad had exactly half the number of correct scores/results but his 1 correct score was his bonus which helped him into 2nd place with 10 points.

Salop and Snooty both collected 8 points from the gamball.......and not a lot else! Salop got one other correct result and a scoreball to compensate for his missed bonus, while Snooty came in with just 1 other correct result to leave him with minus 1 point from the other 9 fixtures.

A week to forget for the rest. Lady Jane has now scored 31 points from the last 4 weeks - 28 of them were in week 9! Just 2 correct predictions from her (1 perfect) and a blow out on all balls. She's joined on just 2 points by SCO - he only got 1 preduiction correct but was rescued from a negative score by it being his bonus ball. Derby scored on just 2 games and missed out on the main balls - he was able to stay in positive territory thanks to his scoreball. Amelia got 4 points from the gamball and nothing else to leave her with Derby on just 1 point for the week.

104 4eva
93 SCO
91 Snooty
79 Lady Jane
75 Themaclad
68 Derby
67 Amelia
67 Salop

A change at the top with 4eva passing SCO and becoming the first player to reach 100 points. Snooty is closing in on SCO while The maclad's return sees him climb 2 places to 5th. At the bottom Salop has caught Amelia with both of them just a point behind Derby.

Salop remains the only player yet to top any week's table, a feat 4eva has now achieved 4 times. SCO's correct bonus sees him join Snooty as the only players with positive totals from that ball.

Zin

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Cheers Guys!

Just read Becham's just been knighted. What a farce!!!
Let's just cancel the Honours System altogether. It wouldn't be rude to the great people who will actually deserve to be honoured as they will only compare themselves to plonkers like Beckham.

It was only a year or so ago that he was recorded as calling those who doled out the honours as "c***s" for not awarding him a knighthood, as I recall.

THE MATCH

WEDNESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER KO 7:45PM

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LAST MATCH



We stopped the run of 4 consecutive defeats by grabbing a deserved point at the Hawthorns. The Baggies started the better and forced Horvath into a couple of early saves. Ugbo was inches away from a goal as he just failed to get a foot on a cross. Onto the 2nd half and after a start to the second half, Ugbo could have punished slack play in the Albion midfield on a quick break but his shot was easily saved by the keeper. Palmer then fired over from a long throw. Iorfa nearly put through his own net only for Horvath to save. Grant had a couple of late efforts for the Baggies but we managed to hold on for a point

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and Norwich head north to Hillsborough. Norwich are in terrible form, currently in 23rd position in the league, no wins in 9 games and losing there last 6 games, there last win coming at the end of August. You would think that there would be enough quality in the squad for Norwich to get out of there current predicament. There current manager is Liam Manning, who took over in June of this year, but having lost his last 6 games, his job must be in serious jeopardy. There leading scorer this season is Josh Sargent with 5 goals and 1 assist.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 26
NORW 20
DRAW 17

CURRENT FORM

OWLS   D L L L L D                                                            

NORW L L L L L L

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

EDWARD DUCKWORTH
Nigel Lugg and Matthew McGrath
Fourth Official: Andrew Kitchen

THE TEAM

Horvath
Fusire Palmer Iorfa M Lowe Amass
Valery Ingelsson Bannan
McNeill Cadamarteri

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Ingelsson

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

56

ATTENDANCE

28212

BML LEAGUE

Maddix 7
Owlkev 6
Imre 3
SCO 3
Washington 3

BMPL

Stateside 6
Pei -4
Wereham -11
Southey -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Preston v Swansea
QPR V Southampton
Portsmouth v Wrexham
Solihull v Truro
York v Gateshead

HAHHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

SCO




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Southampton have sacked manager Will Still after just five months in charge.

The 33-year-old was only appointed in May after leaving French Ligue 1 side Lens so that he could return to the UK, but he has won just two of 13 Championship games this season.

Saints were booed off after their 2-0 defeat by Preston North End on Saturday, a result which dropped them to 21st in the table.

In a statement, the club said Ruben Martinez, Clement Lemaitre and Carl Martin had also left their positions at the club, while men's under-21 head coach Tonda Eckert will take over on an interim basis.

"Will is a great person who gave everything to try and improve performances and results," technical director Johannes Spors told the club website, external.

"Ultimately that process has taken longer than any of us would have liked. By making a change now we believe it gives us the best chance of turning things around this season and climbing back up the league table.

"I would like to thank Will, Ruben, Clement and Carl for their efforts and wish them well for the future."

Two Championship wins this season have been accompanied with six draws and five defeats in the league for Saints, who were relegated from the top flight last season.

Those two victories came on the opening day of the season at home to Wrexham and away at Sheffield United on the final day of September.

After beating Northampton Town and Norwich City in the EFL Cup, they were knocked out of the competition in a 2-1 defeat at Liverpool.

Still's sacking comes after a run of five games without a win, consisting of two draws and three defeats.

He told BBC Radio Solent after Saturday's defeat that there was not an "instant fix" for the side after another loss.

"If I'd got an instant fix I would have found it about a month or two months ago.

"I don't think there is an instant fix to be really honest with you, and I think whoever it is, there's a big job and I knew there was a big job coming in here.

"I said a few weeks ago there were a lot of things that need to change that haven't changed yet because we haven't had the time to do that, but there's still evidently a lot of work to do."

2 points for correct result
4 points for correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score   (correct score on a joker would give you 8 points)
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Badger gives you 2 points

The prize for winning the league is one rep point.

Cup games: In the event of a draw, it's half the points if you've predicted a draw when it gets to 90 mins and the full points if it's still a draw after extra time. Half the points will be awarded for correctly predicting the winner of the match if it goes to penalties. However, if you do predict a draw and it's a match that won't be going to a replay, you can get a possible extra point by stating which of the two teams you think will eventually win.

Random score generator: I will be using the random score generator again for those who miss predicting, so we shouldn't get some people too far behind that after missing a couple of weeks they lose all interest, because I know it's not easy getting on here every week.
To be fair to everybody, this is going to be like, say if three people in one week miss their predictions, the first one in the table will be given all 0-0, the second one down the line will get 1-0 and the third will get 0-1 and so on, like if there's four missing the 4th will get 1-1, then 5th 2-1, 6th 1-2. and if there are so many missing, might as well pack in.
And if you miss two weeks on the trot, I'll stop until you come back on again. Not doing it for half a season like I did t'other year.  


At the end of the season, the winner of group 2 and the bottom of group 1 will swap places in what is commonly known as "promotion" and "relegation". It's something that most football fans will be familiar with, unless you're a fan of Liverpool or Arsenal or one of those other fashionable clubs.

The second placed player in group 2 will then have a play off with the player who finishes second from the bottom in group 1 to decide whether they will be going up, down or staying where they are.

We're going to have two seasons in one though, just to try and make it a bit more interesting and not so long drawn out. The first season will end on the Boxing Day fixtures, with the play offs being on the dates of the Twixtmas fixtures and the NYD fixtures.

The second season will start the following week, which is usually the FA Cup 3rd round, finishing on the last game of the League One season. Then another period of relegation/promotion play off games, taking in such fixtures as the EFL play offs, FA Cup Final, UEFA finals and such like.

Each group will have it's own set of fixtures. Both groups will have the Town games, with scorers to predict as before. Then it will be a split of League One fixtures and bonus matches, hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.

The random badger is restricted to three goal scorers in any of the fixtures in your group.

Here's how that will appear at the end of the fixture list. All you have to do is fill in the blanks.......


*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.

Postponed matches will only count if the match is re-played before the next Matchday is under way. Abandoned matches will be awarded half the points for the score at the time of abandonment, so 1 point if you have the correct result, 2 points if you have the correct score.

Substitute or scorer in one of the Town games:- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off.

Prediction League Archive: https://www.sportsbabble.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=12830

Division One table after Matchday 14:

1. jjamez = 253 pts
   
2. Baggiebob(BBB) = 239 pts
   
3. neonfoxinthebox = 214 pts
   
4. Lord Snooty = 191 pts
   
5. ritchiebaby = 179 pts
   
6. SHEP_HTAFC = 137 pts
   

Saturday November 8th:
League One:
Town v Plymouth
Town scorers:
Plymouth scorers:

Blackpool v Cardiff City
Bolton Wanderers v Port Vale
Northampton Town v Mansfield Town (12:30)
Peterborough United v AFC Wimbledon
Rotherham United v Lincoln City
Stockport County v Luton Town

Premier League:
Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United (12:30)
Everton v Fulham

Championship:
West Bromwich Albion v Oxford United

Scottish Premiership:
St. Mirren v Hibernian (17:45)

*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

1. theo_luddite = 244 pts
   
2. themaclad = 240 pts
   
3. Devongone = 214 pts
   
4. Amelia Chaffinch = 186 pts
   
5. St Charles Owl = 183 pts
   
6. WakeyTerrier = 179 pts
   

Thursday November 6th:
League One:
Reading v Stevenage (20:00)

Saturday November 8th:
Town v Plymouth
Town scorers:
Plymouth scorers:

Wycombe Wanderers v Leyton Orient (12:30)
Bolton Wanderers v Port Vale
Bradford City v Burton Albion
Doncaster Rovers v Barnsley
Exeter City v Wigan Athletic

Premier League:
Sunderland v Arsenal (17:30)

Championship:
Millwall v Preston North End (12:30)
Southampton v Sheffield Wednesday

League Two:
Chesterfield v Accrington Stanley

*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

Gamball:
Stoke - Coventry

Others:
Spurs - Man Utd
Everton - Fulham
Millwall - Preston
Norwich - Leicester
Sheff Utd - QPR
Swansea - Ipswich
Wrexham - Charlton
Brentford - Newcastle
Man City - Liverpool