After the International break, Hibs find themselves back in League action with the daunting task of a trip to Ibrox.

I can only see this going one way and I feel most Hibs fans would snatch your hand off if a point was offered.

In all games I have seen , highlights admittedly, Hibs continue to give away soft and silly goals. One place you cannot afford to be so lax is Ibrox. It may be a case of trying to protect their goal difference as that might prove crucial later on.

Will be on my way back from Banbury so will try to keep updated with all the action from Glasgow.

Boreham Wood 1-2 Dagenham & Redbridge
Dorking Wanderers 1-0 Bromley
Ebbsfleet United 1-2 Southend United
Gateshead 4-1 Rochdale
Hartlepool United 1-2 FC Halifax Town
Kidderminster Harriers 1-2 Altrincham
Maidenhead United 2-2 Aldershot Town
Oldham Athletic 3-1 AFC Fylde
Oxford City 0-2 Wealdstone
Solihull Moors 1-3 Barnet
Woking 1-0 Eastleigh
York City 2-2 Chesterfield

League Table After Matchday 49

SaltergateBorn - 848
Spireitematt - 824
Amelia - 733
Lord Snoots - 725
Dancing - 671
St Charles - 644
Devon - 627

Huddersfield Town v Coventry City
The Sky Bet Championship
Good Friday March 29th - 15:00 ko
at the John McAlpharm Stadium

AND

Stoke City v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Easter Monday April 1st - 15:00 ko
down on Stanley Matthews Way

Huddersfield Town welcome Coventry City to Leeds Road on Friday afternoon for the first match in this traditional Eastertime double header. This is closely followed on Monday afternoon with a trip to Smoke-on-Stench for what could be a massive 6 pointer. At the moment, Stoke are two points better off than us. They play away at Hull on Friday afternoon. The Stoke game is also going to be shown live on Sky Sports Football.

Coventry are the talk of the football world at the moment, having reached the FA Cup semi finals by beating Wolves at Molineux with an injury time winner when their charmless nerk of a manager, Mark Robins celebrated in the face of a ball boy.

Stoke on the other hand, have just continued to struggle since they poached Steven Schumacher from Plymouth and have been one of the teams alongside ourselves, QPR and Birmingham, who have been flirting with that third from bottom, relegation slot.

Town will have Sorba Thomas missing for the Coventry game after he was given two quick yellow cards in the second half of the Rotherham away game last week. Surely, the obvious choice would be to bring Pat Jones in. But knowing how modern Head Coaches work, he won't be considered because he hasn't shown much in training this week. The fact that he's been away with the Cymru u21s will have no bearing on the issue. I do wish we would pick our best players, regardless of what's been going on down at Canalside.

Talking of internationals, our Brodie Spencer has two more full Northern Ireland caps to his name and Radinio Balker made it into the Suriname squad for the first time, following in the footsteps of Dean Gorre and Ken Monkou in representing that country as Huddersfield Town players. He was on the bench for their friendly against Martinique.

And talking of Town internationals brings us to today's first question. Who the hell have Poland got that's better than Michal Helik?

Only 22 fixtures between these two famous old clubs. They were formed in the 1880s and Town in 1908, so for us to have avoided each other for so many seasons is quite unusual and I can't think of another team of similar status that we have played so few times. This, the fourth consecutive season we have shared a league season together, is the longest time together. The longest before was three seasons in the mid 1960s.

The most recent fixture was a crap game, a Monday night Sky game at Highfield Road, which was the first game of the new Darren Moore era. It was a baffling game to watch, coming so soon after Neil Warnock had left and it looked like the new manager had just told the lads to forget everything that Colin had taught them. It was such a disjointed performance.

Coventry took the lead with a lucky rebound. It was a fantastic shot from Ellis Simms that deserved a goal, but hit the bar, then hit Yasin Ayari on the way down and ended up in the back of the net. But super Michal Helik equalised in injury time, controlling the ball brilliantly from a Sorba Thomas cross and finishing with the coolness of a top class striker, which had the Sky commentators crowing about what a magical manager their mate Moore was. None of us were convinced though, but happy to get away with a point.

By contrast, we have played Stoke 83 times. The last time was the game before that Coventry game, the last match with old Mr Warnock in charge. Matty Pearson opened the scoring from a Sorba free kick in this 2-2 draw on a warm September Wednesday night in Huddersfield, as Town looked to be getting their act together. We had just won away at West Brom and beat Rotherham at home and the decision to relieve Warnock of the role that we had all begged him to keep at the end of last season, was just baffling. I still can't understand it now. But let's not dwell on that now.

The lead didn't last long. Two minutes later, Tyreese Campbell, who's always had a good game against us, had a shot saved by Lee Nicholls, only for ex Preston midfielder Daniel Johnson to follow up and slot home the rebound. Ben Wilmot gave the Potters the lead in the 62nd minute, but six minutes later, Jack Rudoni fired home from a Ben Jackson corner, to shut the pervert Potters fans up and get this reaction in their direction from the man, the myth, the legend, Neil Warnock.

Coventry in popular culture: It is most famous these days for getting bombed in the Second World War, with the Cathedral the focal point of that. Me and AmChaff visited there recently, after the West Brom away game, during the mini heat wave we were having. Coventry looked a beautiful place on that sunny Sunday afternoon, but I suppose it may look a bit bleak like any other town/city centre in the winter. Whatever, it doesn't look as depressing as Huddersfield does.

Apart from the bombing or possibly why the bombing happened in the first place, Coventry is a huge place on the British motor industry map. Alvis, Armstrong Siddeley, Daimler, Humber, Jaguar, Riley, Rootes, Rover, Singer, Standard, Swift and Triumph have all had factories there over the years.

The famous Lady Godiva story is synonymous with Coventry, but over recent years (40 odd years ago) the Two Tone music scene began there, giving us bands The Specials, The Selector and Lieutenent Pigeon.

Here's a video of them there Specials for all you Death In Paradise fans......

1. Seventh Scrum Ache
   
2. Slime Slims
   
3. A Jewish Dogwood
   
4. Chelsea Spit
   
5. Morris Bank
   
6. Fidel Highroad
   
7. Calley September
   
8. Remolded Stingrays
   
9. Alan Tweets Myths
   
10. Tin Womble
    

THE MATCH

FRIDAY 29TH MARCH KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



We had our worst defeat of the season as Ipswich put us to the sword, thrashing us 6-0. It didn't take long for Ipswich to take the lead, Hutchinson firing in from the edge of the box. Ipswich then struck twice before halftime, Burgess and Broadhead finding the net as our defending went awol. Onto the 2nd half and it was how many did Ipswich want to get, and they found the net a further 3 times with Hutchinson and then substitute Al Hamadi adding 2, to make the score 6-0.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



A huge easter weekend coming up and the first of the two games sees Swansea heading north. The Swans are 7 points above above the relegation zone, winning 3 of there last 5 games, but a few bad results could easily see them back into the relegation dogfight. They are managed by Luke Williams who took over in January 2024. There leading scorer is Jerry Yates with 8 goals, with Paterson and Lowe with 7 each.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 13
SWAN 10
DRAWS 13

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                                

SWAN -                                         

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  



THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Ihiekwe Bernard Johnson
Paveda M Diaby Vaulks Bannan Gassama
Ugbo

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Ugbo

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

27589

BML LEAGUE

Imre 23
Washington 17
Maddix 17
Owlkev 13
SCO 10

BMPL

Wereham 8
Stateside 6
Pei -2
Southey -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Brentford v Man Utd
QPR V Birmingham
Port Vale v Bristol Rovers
Wrexham v Mansfield
Solihull v Barnet

AHAAA

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Tuesday Night Games

Altrincham 1-0 Wealdstone
Gateshead 2-2 Hartlepool United
Solihull Moors 1-1 Southend United




League Table After Matchday 48

SaltergateBorn - 848
Spireitematt - 818
Amelia - 727
Lord Snoots - 722
Dancing - 671
St Charles - 644
Devon - 621

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 Random Badger gives you 2 points

The random badger is used for any random prediction used once in each matchday sequence. For instance, a scorer at a particular match, the number of red cards in the matches or yellow cards or own goals or owt you want really within reason, I do need to be able to check whether it's correct or not. Please don't put stuff like....."Commentator says...."  
The joker   is played for one match in each sequence and if correct you get double points. So if you've predicted 1-0 and it finishes 2-0, you get 4 pts, but if you've predicted 2-0, that's 8 pts. But if you get it wrong, it's minus 2.
Jokers and badgers are optional. You don't have to play one if you don't want.

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. Similarly with the badger, if your random prediction is affected by this, it'll be half the points.

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.  

End of season Play Offs: The one who finishes top of the league will still be champion, but after the season finishes there will be Play Offs between the top 4, with 1st v 4th and 2nd v 3rd. This will take in stuff like the EFL Play Offs, FA Cup Final, final day of Prima Donna League, European Finals etc. It will be one matchday for the semis and one for the Final. It will be the individual scores for each matchday against the allotted opponent, with some kind of tie breaker for a drawn match.

The prize for winning will be enormous. Another rep point.

1. Lord Snooty = 261 pts
   
2. St Charles Owl = 258 pts
   
3. jjamez = 244 pts
   
4. Baggiebob(BBB) = 242 pts
   
5. themaclad = 230 pts
   
6. ritchiebaby = 213 pts
   

Friday 29th March:
Town v Coventry
Town scorers:
Coventry scorers:

Monday 1st April:
Stoke v Town
Town scorers:
Stoke scorers:

Leicester City v Norwich City (12:30)
Birmingham City v Preston North End
Coventry City v Cardiff City
Middlesbrough v Sheffield Wednesday
Plymouth Argyle v Bristol City
Rotherham United v Millwall
Sunderland v Blackburn Rovers
Swansea City v Queens Park Rangers
West Bromwich Albion v Watford
Ipswich Town v Southampton (17:30)
Leeds United v Hull City (20:00)

Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Newcastle United v West Ham United (12:30)
Nottingham Forest v Crystal Palace

Scottish Premiership:
Saturday:
Rangers v Hibernian


*** scores for ***
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1. theo_luddite = 239 pts
   
2. neonfoxinthebox = 234 pts
   
3. Devongone = 229 pts
   
4. SHEP_HTAFC = 217 pts
   
5. WakeyTerrier = 170 pts
   
6. Amelia Chaffinch = 169 pts
   

Friday 29th March:
Town v Coventry
Town scorers:
Coventry scorers:

Bristol City v Leicester City (12:30)
Millwall v West Bromwich Albion (13:00)
Cardiff City v Sunderland
Hull City v Stoke City
Norwich City v Plymouth Argyle
Preston North End v Rotherham United
Queens Park Rangers v Birmingham City
Sheffield Wednesday v Swansea City
Southampton v Middlesbrough
Blackburn Rovers v Ipswich Town (17:30)
Watford v Leeds United (20:00)

Monday 1st April:
Stoke v Town
Town scorers:
Stoke scorers:

Bonus matches:
National League:
Friday:
York City v Chesterfield

Premier League:
Saturday:
Aston Villa v Wolverhampton Wanderers (17:30)

Sunday:
Manchester City v Arsenal (16:30)


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

Fresh from a much needed break, we're back! Most of the matches are on Monday so the scores won't be up on Sunday because that would cause too much suspicion.

Gamball:
Ipswich - Southampton

Others:
Bournemouth - Everton
Nottingham Forest - Crystal Palace
Sheff U - Fulham
Man City - Arsenal
Leicester - Norwich
Birmingham - Preston
Plymouth - Bristol City
Stoke - Huddersfield
WBA - Watford

Less than 2 weeks to go