Levi scored two for Maidstone against Worthing. Worthing had been doing well, only a couple of points behind the league leaders, but they crashed 4-0 at Maidstone for whom Covolan also keeps goal.

Levi was MOM and made the Non-League Paper's team of the week. The second of his goals involved controlling the ball and volleying home, so he isn't just scoring tap-ins .....

Shame he isn't a centre back. We could hardly avoid signing him back on.

Nick Montgomery gets his first game in charge at home on Saturday against the Perth Saints, who are currently languishing at the foot of the table. That doesn't mean it will be an easy game for Hibs, as we are only 2 points ahead of them. It sees the start of a busy week at Easter Road with 3 home games coming up.

I would imagine it'll be the same starting line-up and substitutes as last week, hopefully with a better outcome. Any opposition side will know our weaknesses and will be geared up to take advantage. I'm sure Montgomery will want to see more control and composure if we need to see the game out. I'll be disappointed if we don't win the 2 league games this week to get us quickly climbing the table.

"I’m really excited." said Montgomery on Hibs TV. "I walked around Easter Road when I arrived and visualised a full crowd, so if supporters are watching or reading this let’s try and get 20,000 in there because the boys really need your support. They’ve had a tough start to the season, but hopefully the supporters saw that the boys are really buying in to this; they want to be an exciting team that takes the game to the opposition. We’ve got enough quality to do that and to score goals."

There will be a new entry system coming in for Saturday with front-facing scanners to recognise the QR code on the tickets, so it'll be interesting to see if it works smoothly.

Woking 1-2 York
Altrincham 2-2 Ebbsfleet
Barnet 2-0 Halifax
Boreham Wood 1-0 Aldershot
Chesterfield 2-0 Wealdstone
Dag & Red 2-1 Hartlepool
Dorking 2-1 Rochdale
Eastleigh 1-0 Kidderminster
Gateshead 4-1 Maidenhead United
Oldham 1-2 Oxford City
Solihull Moors 2-1 Bromley
Southend 2-0 Fylde


League Table After Matchday 10

Spireitematt - 231
Amelia - 229
SaltergateBorn - 186
St Charles - 186
Dancing - 169
Lord Snoots - 164
Devon - 105

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



Still winless in the league but we did get get our first point at Hillsborough this season. We actually did ok in the first half, we even had a shot on target which got a round of applause and then we had another shot on target and we scored, Musaba firing in Bernards pull back. Valentin was a threat down the right but none of his good work lead to any goals. Onto the 2nd half and Boro made one change and the game changed (a familiar story of 2nd halves) and Boro quickly levelled from a corner due to poor defending and Vasquez maybe could have done better. Boro continued to be a threat and had a goal disallowed for offside while Byers had our best chance but put it wide.

THE MATCH



Next up and a long trip to Swansea. The Swans have made a bad start to there season, winless in 7 games drawing 3 and losing 4 and lie 22nd in the table. They are managed by Michael Duff, who was the Barnsley manager when we beat them in the playoff final just a few months ago, how things have changed since then We are due a win at Swansea, out last coming back in the early eighties. They have lost there best striker Piroe, who signed for Leeds in the transfer window. I expect them to escape the relegation mess and finish a bit closer to mid table

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 13
SWAN 9
DRAWS 13

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                          

SWAN              -                                                                            

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

ANTHONY BACKHOUSE
Alex James and Adam Crysell
Fourth Official : Will Finnie

THE TEAM

Vasquez
Palmer Diaby Famewo Berrnard James
Buckley Byers Bannan
Musaba Gregory

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Gregory

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

55

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Maddix 2
Washington 2
Owlkev 1
Imre
SCO

BMPL

Stateside 2
Wereham 1
Pei -11

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Luton v Wolves
Plymouth v Norwich
Bolton v Peterborough
Stockport v Wrexham
Barnet v Halifax

HHHDD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Premier League

Stairs 24
Blue B 24
Zinman 22
Derby 20
B.B.B. 19
Minizin 18
Lady Jane 14
Dingle 11

A record week so far this season by quite a large margin!!  Everyone scored on the Gamball and only one player missed on the Bonus.  Joint first place goes to Stairs and Blue Baggie who both amassed a fine 24 points!!  Stairs scored on 9 games but incredibly his score was "kept" down by only getting 1 CS.  Blue outdid this through and scored on all 10 games, not sure we have seen that before, but like Stairs he too only had 1 CS!!  Just behind them on 22 points is Zinman, he got 2 CSs including the Bonus and lost a point on a 0-0 on his scoreball.

Derby was 4th with 20 points, closely followed by BBB on 19 and Minizin on 18.  Derby was the only one to get a spot on Gamball, BBB got 2 CSs but Minizin failed to get any so dropped some points there.

Two of the promoted players are continuing to struggle in comparison but both scored in double figures, Lady Jane got 14 points and Dingle ended up with 11.  Dingle saw a six point swing against everyone else by being the only player to miss on the Bonus.

101 Stairs
89 Minizin
88 Derby
78 Blue Baggie
76 Zinman
64 BBB
56 Lady Jane
53 Dingle

Stairs doubled his lead at the top to 12 points and broke through the century mark with Minizin in 2nd now only a point ahead of Derby.  Blue moved ahead of Zinman although both will be happy with their score.  BBB is 6th and there is a bit of a gap emerging to the bottom two with LJ in 7th and Dingles second last place finish sees him fall to the bottom of the table. 

There is already a 48 point gap between top and bottom and the top 3 are setting a blistering pace this season.  At this stage last season the leader was on 52 points, Stairs is almost double that!!  The total points in the PL has now surpassed 600, last year after week 6 it was only 273!!!  Slightly different scoring on the Gamball but I am not sure thats the only reason for the difference.

A few weekly records broken this week, the highest scoring game is now Huddersfield v Rotherham with 36 points and the best non-Gamball scoring game was set this week in the Preston NE v Plymouth Argyle game.  As mentioned above Blue Baggie broke the record for the number of scoring games by scoring on all 10, a record that can only be matched but not beaten.

Cheers
SCO

Championship

SCO            26
Snooty        21
AAA            21
BaggieOne  16
Themaclad  12
Twerton      10
Sanjay          8

An easy set of fixtures this week and most of the Championship took advantage with the overall highest points total of the season by some distance. Everybody scored on the bonus and the Gamball generated a good return for a change!

We saw our first breach of the 20 point barrier with 3 players achieving this feat. SCO had a great week turning 4 of his 7 correct predictions into maximums - his only regret will be that his balls weren't amongst those 4 - still 26 points from the week must represent his best return for some considerable time. Snooty and AAA also had a good week, AAA helped by getting both the Gamball and bonus spot on, Snooty scoring on 6 games with a correct score on his bonus.

BaggieOne was another player with a spot-on Gamball but lost a point with his scoreball played on the week's only scoreless game. 16 points would head the table most weeks but this time is only good enough for 4th spot. Themaclad scored on all his balls but was unable to turn any of his 5 correct predictions into correct scores, a similar story for Twerton but only picking up the bonus point with his balls.

Sanjay's woes continued being the only player to fail to reach double figures. He was one of just 2 players to miss out on the Gamball (Twerton being the other) and scored on just 4 games.

Twerton 72
SCO 68
AAA 66
BaggieOne 63
Snooty 62
Themaclad 51
Sanjay 43

Twerton retains his overall lead but the pack is closing in after his fast start to the season. Just 10 points separates the top 5 with Themaclad and Sanjay falling behind.

Zin

The big man is installed as a favourite to take over from Colin this week.

I see your friends, Rovers, celebrated their 5,000th League match the weekend. Do you know where PNE stand, Mac?
There are only 6 Clubs who have chalked up 5,000. (I'll give you that elite 6 later).