THE MATCH

MONDAY 1ST JANUARY KO 5:15PM

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LAST MATCH



We ended the year just like we started the year with 3 very welcome points. We had the first real chance when Vaulks should have done better with a header. We took the lead when Cads played Johnson through on the inside left and he finished well from 12 yards. PNE had a few chance but didn't test Dawson. Onto the second and Preston nearly levelled but there effort hit the bar. Preston were edging it but we were defending well. Then near the end Byers was given a straight red, if it was for the challenge it will surely be rescinded, unless something else happened that we don't know about. We managed to hang on and reduce the deficit to 6 points.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Our first game of the New Year sees Hull make the short journey to Hillsborough. The Tigers are having a good season and are currently lying in the final playoff spot. If they can stay there is another matter as there is only a 5 point gap between themselves and 14th spot. There form of late has been mixed with 3 wins and 3 defeats in there last 6  games. They are managed by Liam Rosenior who has been in charge for just over a year. They have several threats, Connelly is there leading scorer with 8 followed by Delap & Tufan with 7 each, Tufan scoring a hat trick at there place earlier in the season

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 21
HULL 16 
DRAWS 20  

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                              

HULL                -                                                               

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

Referee – Darren Bond 
Assistant Referee 1 - Matthew Jones
Assistant Referee 2 - Jonathan Hunt
Fourth Official - Rebecca Welch 

THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Ihiekwe Bernard Famewo
Windass Bannan Vaulks Byers Johnson
Cadamarteri

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Cadamarteri

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

30

ATTENDANCE

25564

BML LEAGUE

Imre 14
Washington 13
Owlkev 11
Maddix 6
SCO 3

BMPL

Wereham 7
Stateside 6
Pei -3

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Liverpool v Newcastle
Middlesbrough v Coventry
Derby v Peterborough
Tranmere v Notts Co
York City v Gateshead

HDHAA

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

This week with the extra random feature - what sort of teams will be selected for the cup.

Gamball:
Arsenal - Liverpool

Others:
Millwall - Leicester
Sunderland - Newcastle
Gillingham - Sheff Utd
Stoke - Brighton
Middlesbrough - Villa
Peterborough - Leeds
Maidstone - Stevenage
QPR - Bournemouth
Sheff W - Cardiff

I assume that there are replays for this round, but if not, scores will be taken at the end of the game after extra time but before penalties.

Hibs will be welcoming the Steelmen (do they have a new nickname nowadays?) to Easter Road on Tuesday afternoon before the New Year break kicks in. Hibs' recent form has been a bit patchy, with plenty of promise spoiled by individual lapses. This should be a great chance for them to get back on the winning trail with Motherwell going through a worse time, although only 8 points behind us.

We'll be losing Martin Boyle (a definite miss) and Lewis Miller (both good and bad) for the Asian Cup as well as Rocky Bushiri (no great miss) and Jojo Wollacott (don't really know enough about him as long as David Marshall retains the No1 jersey) for the African Cup of Nations. It'll possibly be mid-February before they're all back, so it's an ideal time for some newer faces (and older ones returning) to come into the first team reckoning.

After this game we have 18 days before the Scottish Cup-tie against Forfar to get a better idea of where we're going with new players coming in,etc. Nick Montgomery will definitely have a better idea of who fits into his playing style and who doesn't.

Happy New Year to all Hibees everywhere and look forward to an upturn in our fortunes. GGTTH

Saturday 30th December

Barnet 2-1 Southend
Bromley 2-1 Ebbsfleet
Kidderminster 1-1 Boreham Wood
Oldham 2-0 Hartlepool

New Year's Day

Fylde 0-1 Rochdale
Chesterfield 2-1 Solihull Moors
Eastleigh 1-3 Dag & Red
Halifax 1-2 Altrincham
Oxford City 1-3 Dorking
Wealdstone 2-0 Maidenhead United
Woking 1-2 Aldershot
York 2-1 Gateshead

League Table After Matchday 26

Spireitematt - 556
SaltergateBorn - 545
Amelia - 465
Dancing - 444
St Charles - 444
Lord Snoots - 421
Devon - 353

The fat lady approaches the stage soon be up and running or not as the case may be

Huddersfield Town v Middlesbrough
The Sky Bet Championship
Friday December 29th - 19:45 ko
at the John McAlpharm Stadium

Quote:That’s what we’re talking about!

A nice Boxing Day gift for all!!

Very proud of the staff and especially the players for going all out when shorthanded. Everyone played together and we got a much deserved result!

Very pleased to give the home supporters an entertaining match, now let’s get some momentum going this weekend.

Can’t WAIT to get out there for the month and pitch in.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but today was a great start!!

The most recent game was a 1-1 draw up at the Riverside Stadium. Our London Welsh wizard, Sorba Thomas fired in a corner from in front of the Town fans, which appeared to go straight in. Replays showed that it went in off the unfortunate Dael Fry to be the first of "Own Goals" entries into our leading scorers chart this season.

That was shortly after half time. Boro equalised on the hour through Hayden Hackney.

That match came just a week and a bit after we had met in the Carabooboo Cup first round. We lost 3-2 after taking an early lead through the nasty wee prick, Kian Harratt, after good work from Josh Austerfield winning the ball off an over elaborate Boro side trying to play out from the back.

They went route 1 for the next significant happening in the match when with less than a quarter of an hour on the clock, a long ball played over the top ended with Jaheim Headley inadvertantly touching one of the Boro attackers and getting sent off. That changed the game and within five minutes, Boro were level.

They went 2-1 up and then 3-1 up in the second half before Kyle Hudlin stooped higher than the Boro defence to score his first first team goal for the club in injury time to make the final score 3-2 to Middlesbrough.

Boro went on to get knocked out by (checks Wikipedia).....they're still in it. Having beaten us, they then won at Bolton 3-1, won 2-0 at the Manningham Tip, won 3-2 at St James' Park, Exeter. Then just before Christmas, won 3-0 at Port Vale. So all away ties, but against lower league opposition.

If only we'd take that competition seriously once in a while.

They'll play Chelsea in the New Year over two legs to see who will play Liverpool or Fulham in the Final.

THE MATCH

FRIDAY 29TH DECEMBER KO 7:45PM

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LAST MATCH



It was back to back defeats as we went down to Coventry. It was a quiet first half punctuated by Coventry's first shot on goal, while we were down to 10 men, Sakamoto steering a pull back into the net. Onto the 2nd half and while we better we weren't creating many clear cut chances, Musaba & Cads having our better chances. The Sky Blues wrapped up the points when Sakamoto cut in from the right and curled one past Dawson. After the the FT whistle Diaby & Kitching were both shown red for an altercation.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and a trip to Deepdale to take on Preston. North End are in mixed form at the moment, winning and losing 2 of there last 4 games. They do lie in 9th position on 35 points and are just 1 point off the playoffs. If they can sort out there inconsistent form they could make the playoffs. They are managed by Ryan Lowe, who has been in charge since December 2021. There leading scorer is Will Keane with 6 goals.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 44
PNE 46 
DRAWS 25  

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                              

PNE                 -                                                             

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  



THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Ihiekwe Bernard Famewo
Windass Bannan Vaulks Byers Johnson
Cadamarteri

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Cadamarteri

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

30

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Washington 10
Owlkev 8
Imre 8
Maddix 6
SCO 3

BMPL

Wereham 6
Stateside 3
Pei -6

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Wolves v Everton
WBA v Leeds
Exeter v Portsmouth
Walsall v Wrexham
Barnet v Southend

HAAAH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

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. St Charles Owl = 438 pts
   
2. Baggiebob(BBB) = 423 pts
   
3. jjamez = 372 pts
   
4. themaclad = 362 pts
   
5. theo_luddite = 357 pts
   
6. neonfoxinthebox = 347 pts
   

1. Lord Snooty = 383 pts
   
2. ritchiebaby = 355 pts
   
3. WakeyTerrier = 346 pts
   
4. Devongone = 345 pts
   
5. Amelia Chaffinch = 328 pts
   
6. SHEP_HTAFC = 304 pts
   

Monday 1st January:
Leicester v Town
Town scorers:
Leicester scorers:

Sunderland v Preston North End (12:30)
Blackburn Rovers v Rotherham United
Bristol City v Millwall
Leeds United v Birmingham City
Middlesbrough v Coventry City
Norwich City v Southampton
Plymouth Argyle v Watford
Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City
Stoke City v Ipswich Town
Swansea City v West Bromwich Albion
Sheffield Wednesday v Hull City (17:15)


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