Gamball:
Norwich - Burnley

Others:
Wolves - Ipswich
Forest - Villa
Bristol City - QPR
Blackburn - Luton
Middlesbrough - Millwall
Oxford - Sheff Wed
Stoke - Cardiff
Swansea - Sunderland
Watford - WBA

Following last week's postponements there are extra balls:
Zinman has 2 bonus balls to play
Themaclad has 2 scoreballs.

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 17:

1. themaclad = 325 pts
   
2. jjamez = 306 pts
   
3. St Charles Owl = 305 pts
   
4. Baggiebob(BBB) = 294 pts
   
5. Lord Snooty = 270 pts
   
6. SHEP_HTAFC = 260 pts
   

Saturday 14th December:
Town v Lincoln
Town scorers:
Lincoln scorers:

Leyton Orient v Burton Albion (12:30)
Peterborough United v Crawley Town
Reading v Blackpool
Rotherham United v Northampton Town
Stevenage v Stockport County

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
Preston North End v Leeds United (12:30)
Oxford United v Sheffield Wednesday

Sunday:
Watford v West Bromwich Albion (14:00)

Scottish League Cup Final:
Celtic v Rangers (15:30)

Premier League:
Monday:
AFC Bournemouth v West Ham United

Wednesday:
EFL Cup quarter finals:
Newcastle United v Brentford


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

1. neonfoxinthebox = 337 pts
   
2. theo_luddite = 331 pts
   
3. Devongone = 291 pts
   
4. ritchiebaby = 276 pts
   
5. Amelia Chaffinch = 249 pts
   
6. WakeyTerrier = 239 pts
   

Saturday 14th December:
Town v Lincoln
Town scorers:
Lincoln scorers:

Bolton Wanderers v Wigan Athletic (12:30)
Birmingham City v Bristol Rovers
Charlton Athletic v Mansfield Town
Exeter City v Barnsley
Shrewsbury Town v Wycombe Wanderers
Wrexham v Cambridge United

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Scottish Premiership:
Hibernian v Ross County

League Two:
Carlisle United v Chesterfield

Sunday:
Scottish League Cup Final:
Celtic v Rangers (15:30)

Premier League:
Manchester City v Manchester United (16:30)

Wednesday:
EFL Cup quarter finals:
Southampton v Liverpool

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

Bolton Wanderers v Huddersfield Town
Bristol Street Motors Vertu Trophy - round 2 (North)
Tuesday December 10th - 19:45 ko
at the Toughsheet Community Stadium

1. Tran Twink Foghorn
   
2. Glowing Anal
   
3. Lady Caramels
   
4. Aires Vegan
   
5. Iguana Shackle
   
6. OK Babe Fine
   
7. Noel Cleo Jam
   
8. Costa Trifled
   
9. Pesky Medley
   
10. June Alsop
    

THE MATCH

TUESDAY 10TH DECEMBER KO 7:45PM

v

LAST MATCH



We managed to salvage a point after a disappointing performance. Preston were at it from the start and after a few missed chances deservedly took the lead when Riis tapped in from a few yards. Preston had further chances with Beadle keeping us in the match. Onto the 2nd half and Preston should have doubled there lead but Potts missed with only Beadle to beat. We were then awarded a penalty only for Windass to have the pen saved. We did then equalise, Musaba getting down the left and actually decided to cross it for Smith to fire home. We hade one or two scares near the end but managed to get a point.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and a second Lancashire team make the journey over the Pennines. Despite losing their top scorer from last season, Szmodjics, Rovers have made a good start to the season, currently lying in 6th place in the table after winning there last 4 games. If they can keep it up they could sneak a playoff spot. They are managed by John Eustace who took over in February this year. There joint leading scorers are Weimann & Ohashi who have four goals each.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 62
BLACK 57
DRAWS 39

CURRENT FORM

OWLS D W W D L W                                                            

BLACK W W W W L L                             

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

JOSH SMITH
Sam Lewis and Jonathon Block
Fourth Official: Geoff Eltringham

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Charles
Windass Ugbo Gassama
Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Smith

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

23456

BML LEAGUE

SCO 10
Imre 10
Washington 9
Maddix 9
Wereham 7

BMPL

Stateside 11
Southey 10
Owlkev 8
Pei 4

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Luton Town v Stoke City
Plymouth Argyle v Swansea City
Portsmouth v Norwich City
Sunderland v Bristol City
Leeds United v Middlesbrough

HDDHD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Dan has been released from his job at Man U. Another team who don’t know a good thing when they see it. 

Come back to the Albion Dan.

New thread starting with a quote from Wakey off the old thread

(08-12-2024, 18:26)WakeyTerrier Wrote: Still in for Taylor from Luton who is desperate to move here but once again we are waiting for Luton to get a replacement in first.

Also in for at least one more striker but as of yet no clue as to who or from where.

Left wing back is a priority signing in January and was before Miller got injured. It's safe to assume Duff doesn't rate Headley much.

Someone he does like though is Balker, can't wait for him to be fit again

The final chance to qualify for the World Junior Curling Championship 2025 will begin this week in Lohja, Finland at the men’s World Junior-B Curling Championships 2024. The event will run from Sunday 8 December until Friday 13 December where the three medallists will secure their World Junior spots.

Teams will be placed in three groups where the top two teams in each group, plus the two third overall ranked teams with the better Draw Shot Challenge, qualify for the quarter-finals. Teams will then be ranked 1-8 to determine the quarter-final matchups. Group play will end on Thursday 12 December at 12:00 with the quarter-finals beginning later that day at 19:00. The semi-finals will be played the following day 13 December at 10:00 and the medal games following at 16:00.

Group A: Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Korea, Latvia, Philippines, Poland and Sweden
Group B: Australia, China, Japan, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Türkiye
Group C: Chinese Taipei, Czechia, England, New Zealand, Slovakia, Switzerland and Ukraine


England are represented by Matthew Waring (Skip), Callum McLain (Third), Benjamin Gillard (Second and Vice-skip), Troy Caunce (Lead) and Benjamin Holcombe (Alternate). Also pictured is coach James Whittle with a grown-up's beard. Callum plays at my local Ice Rink, is determined to sweep as hard as Hammy and Lammie and will be looking to be involved in the later stages of this competition.

They play Slovakia at 12 noon tomorrow with games against Chinese Taipei at 7am on Monday, then Czechia at 5pm on Monday.

JUST NOTICED PLYMOUTH AN CARDIFF GAMES OFF RE WEATHER.  DO YOU HAVE REPLACEMENTS, AS GAMES IN PREMIER ARE ON SUNDAY...

NICE TO HAVE 10 GAMES NOT 8