Looks like we may have a question to answer, whether to proceed with the midfielder signing or look for a striker now we are back to square one on the striker front, with Dike looking to be out again and Josh Maja out for a couple of months with a fractured ankle.

On Dike you have to feel for the lad and give him every opportunity, but realistically you also have to question whether he will ever play anywhere near his promise again. Obviously there is something going on with him physically which is making him more prone to serious injury than the norm, you also have to question whether he will now ever recover mentally from these setbacks, by that I mean the majority of his injuries seam to be caused by impact on landing or extension (stretching), will he ever be able to function properly or in the back of his mind will he be thinking, "I am not jumping/reaching for that, I might do something bad", even if that thought is in the sub-conscious?

Not just thinking of just Dike here, but I dread to think how much of our wage bill has gone up in smoke in the treatment room this season.

Altrincham 3- 2 Rochdale
Boreham Wood.1-3 Maidenhead United
Chesterfield 4-0 Ebbsfleet
Dag & Red 0-1 Oxford City
Dorking 2-2 Halifax
Eastleigh 2-0 Fylde
Southend 3-1 York
Woking 2-1 Hartlepoo

A long trip up the A9 (weather permitting) for what will possibly prove to be a season-defining game for Hibs against Super Caley in the Scottish Cup.

Following Hibs' much-improved display against Celtic last night, there will be a new confidence in the team. OK, we still lost (again), but we showed we can be an exciting team to watch. We just need to convert the excitement into cool, clinical finishing. I'm expecting goals galore from this game, probably going right down to the wire for a Hibs win.

ICT will be no pushovers, though, and I'm certain Duncan Ferguson will have his players fired up for this one. They are having their own struggles in the Championship, especially at home, but will look upon this as a welcome break.

GGTTH

magine flying 8,000 miles to see your beloved team in action only for the game to be abandoned because of heavy rainfall after only nine minutes.

That nightmare was a reality for Bolton fan Andy Bebbington, who made the trip from China for Tuesday's ill-fated away fixture at Cambridge United.

With an extended two-week break for Chinese New Year, it should have been a return visit to remember, with Wanderers riding high in League One and pressing for promotion.

But play was stopped with the score 0-0, referee David Rock taking the players off the pitch and after a delay of 16 minutes, it was announced the game was off altogether.

"I looked at the fixture list and this game popped up. I thought Cambridge in February, what can go wrong?" he told BBC Radio Manchester.

"It turns out everything can go wrong. It was just my luck but worse things can happen."

Despite the wet weather, Bebbington's spirits were not dampened by the experience, however.

He added: "Luckily we stopped over for the night so we found a little pub.

"If I said we drowned our sorrows then that would be a bit of an understatement."

'Let's just get the game on'
Tuesday's abandonment caused a headache for Bolton boss Ian Evatt, whose side have had a number of postponements this season during the winter period.

They have played three games less than leaders Portsmouth, who they trail by five points, and two less than second-placed Derby County, who are one point better off.

It means Bolton will have a packed weekend and midweek schedule leading into the tail end of the season in their pursuit of promotion to the Championship.

"It's not ideal. We've got one Tuesday free up until the end of the season so that's that gone," Evatt told BBC Radio Manchester.

"I think we've both [Cambridge and Bolton] got a free Tuesday two weeks from now; let's just get it on as soon as we can.

"This happens in football and anything you gain in life, as in football, you have to earn the hard way, it's as simple as that.

"We're focused on the job and we're looking forward to getting it done."

THE MATCH

FRIDAY 9TH FEBRUARY KO 8:00PM

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LAST MATCH



WE'RE SO SHIT ITS UNBELIEVABLE!!! No surprise as we went out of the cup at the 4th Round. Did OK first half, Coventry took an early lead but we quickly equalized through Cads. We got to halftime level but we quickly capitulated after the break, this time conceding 3 goals in 8 minutes. With the game over both teams made a number of changes, we gave several of the youngsters a runout.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up on our relegation tour and we return to Hillsborough to take on Birmingham. Birmingham have had a poor season, mostly thanks to putting Wayne Rooney in charge and see them fall from 6th to just above the relegation zone. They now have the more experienced Tony Mowbrey in charge to see if they can move away from the relegation zone. There leading scorer is Stansfield with 9, but there best player is Bacuna who has 7 goals and 5 assists so far this season

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 35
BIRM 40
DRAWS 27  

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                                  

BIRM                -                                                                    

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

ANDY DAVIES
Graham Kane and George Byrne
Fourth Official : Geoff Eltringham

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Ihiekwe Bernard Johnson
Musaba M Diaby Vaulks Bannan Gassama
Cadamarteri

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-3 Gassama

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

23745

BML LEAGUE

Imre 18
Washington 17
Owlkev 12
Maddix 11
SCO 5

BMPL

Wereham 7
Stateside 6
Pei -2

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Luton v Sheffield Utd
QPR V Norwich
Carlisle v Portsmouth
Grimsby v Stockport
Southend v York City

HAAAH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Premier League

Stairs 18
B.B.B. 14
Minizin 10
Blue B 8
Derby 6
Lady J 3
Zinman -2
Dingle -3

Overall a poor week in the PL.  Some interesting stats on this weeks scoring though - only 5 correct scores, 4 of which were on the Gamball, only one CR on the Bonus and only one player missing out on the Scoreball.  Stairs moved from bottom last week to top spot this week with 18 points.  He got a CS on the Gamball, his first of the season and finally he is in positive territory on that ball!!  BBB is in 2nd spot for the second week in a row with 14 points, he too got a CS on the Gamball and added a second CS to boost his score.  Minizin is the only other player to get into double figures, he too scored a max on the Gamball but wasn't able to add much more to it.

Blue Baggie ended with 8 points, the final recipient of the Gamball max but he only added one CR to this.  Derby ended with 6 points and Lady Jane ended on 3, so not much to add to this for them.

Zinman posted his worst score of the season with -2 as his poor run of form continues.  He missed on all his ball and only added one CR t prevent him finishing with a complete washout!!  Dingle did not post any predictions, so by rule he finishes on 1 point less than the lowest score so gets -3.

299 Zinman
299 Blue Baggie
261 Derby
259 Minizin
255 BBB
231 Stairs
202 Dingle
187 Lady Jane

No actual positional changes this week but one significant move with Blue Baggie completely closing the gap on long time leader Zinman. Just a few weeks ago the gap between them was 28 points but slowly but surely Blue B has clawed it all back and the title race is definitely on!!

Derby, Minizin and BBB are now only separated by just 6 points, so that third place finish is also up for grabs.  The bottom three are still adrift and the bottom two look like they are heading for relegation.

A couple of general stats.  This was a bad week for the Bonus with only one player scoring anything on it but the Bonus is now showing a positive score of 69 for the season.  Stairs leads the way on the Bonus with 27 points with Minizin sitting at the bottom with -9 from it!!  This was the second best week for the Gamball with 34 points and that ball has now produced 279 points. Stairs wishes his Bonus form translated to this ball, but unfortunately he has only gained 5 points from it all season, compared to the 66 Zinman has at the other end of the table.

Cheers
SCO


Championship

BaggieOne 12
AAA          11
Twerton    10
Snooty      10
Themaclad  9
Sanjay        -1
SCO          -1

A difficult week with just 3 correct scores and the lowest number of correct result predictions since week 14. With these low figures, the balls proved to be very important. Only 5 matches produced positive scores with 2 games, the gamball and Man Utd fixture, providing 74% of this week's points.

2 distinct groupings in the table this week. Just 3 points separate the top 5 leaving 2 players some distance behind. BaggieOne sneaks top spot - no correct scores but he made up for that by scoring on all the balls. AAA is a point back. He only scored on 2 games but both of them were correct scores - he also chose not to play the gamball, saving himself 1 point. Twerton and Snooty crept into double figures but both via very different paths. Twerton only scored on 3 games but was helped by getting the gamball spot on. Snooty had the week's high of 5 correct predictions including the gamball, but failed to turn any of them into correct scores and missed on his bonus. Themaclad also only scored on 3 games but happily for him, 2 of those were the gamball and bonus.

Sanjay and SCO had a week to forget. They both scored on just 1 game and missed all their balls to put them into negative territory.

247 SCO
241 Twerton
227 AAA
218 Snooty
204 BaggieOne
202 Themaclad
162 Sanjay

Just the one positional change with BaggieOne and Themaclad swopping positions, just like they did last week! SCO's poor performance sees his lead at the top reduced to just 6 points and he'll be hoping for a return to form soon.

BaggieOne has extended his run of correct bonuses to 6 weeks though none of them have been correct scores. Twerton stands out as the ball king, leading the way with both the gamball and bonus ball - oddly he's at the bottom of the pack when it comes to the scoreball.

Zin

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


League Table After Matchday 34

Spireitematt - 662
SaltergateBorn - 657
Amelia - 560
Lord Snoots - 523
Dancing - 522
St Charles - 507
Devon - 422