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 = 26 pts
   
2. neonfoxinthebox = 25 pts
   
3. Baggiebob(BBB) = 24 pts
   
4. jjamez = 21 pts
   
5. themaclad = 21 pts
   
6. theo_luddite = 21 pts
   

Saturday 19th August:
Middlesbrough v Town
Town scorers:
Boro scorers:

Plymouth Argyle v Southampton (12:30)
Blackburn Rovers v Hull City
Bristol City v Birmingham City
Leicester City v Cardiff City
Sunderland v Rotherham United
Swansea City v Coventry City

Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Friday:
Nottingham Forest v Sheffield United

Saturday:
Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United (17:30)

Sunday:
West Ham United v Chelsea (16:30)

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

1. Lord Snooty = 37 pts
   
2. ritchiebaby = 35 pts
   
3. SHEP_HTAFC = 31 pts
   
4. Devongone = 26 pts
   
5. Amelia Chaffinch = 23 pts
   
6. WakeyTerrier = 22 pts
   

Friday 18th August:
Leeds United v West Bromwich Albion

Saturday 19th August:
Middlesbrough v Town
Town scorers:
Boro scorers:

Queens Park Rangers v Ipswich Town
Sheffield Wednesday v Preston North End
Stoke City v Watford

Sunday 20th August:
Norwich City v Millwall (12:00)

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Premier League:
Manchester City v Newcastle United (20:00)

National League:
Chesterfield v Oldham Athletic (12:30)
FC Halifax Town v Oxford City

Sunday:
Scottish League Cup:
Hibernian v Raith Rovers (14:00)

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66419889

Too easy for Celtic today v one of the supposed better teams in the Scot Prem. One can see how Rodgers manages this kinda match effectively and it will only get better as the games continue through this footie season. Full points and looking good, but ominous from the point of view of the rest. And Kyogo ominously scores another goal, a class goal scorer at work and showing how he does it. At least 25 goals coming from him unless he suffers an unfortunate serious injury.

Stunning three nil away win at the seal sanctuary last night in their opening game of the PL2 season.I
Still got a great academy ..... Just wait for the money men from the greed league to come raiding.

CoyB

Well this is another testy Scot Prem fixture coming up two days after a Euro thriller at ER where players exertions have been greatly expended. What team does Johnson start in this match? He commented four days ago that "the players have to become accustomed to Thursday matches followed by Sunday matches". However, I beg to differ re the practise of starting the same players - totally daft in my humble opinion and most reputable footie managers playing in Euro footie choose amended and fresher line-ups to suit the circumstances. Hibs player pool not strong enough? That is indeed the case even with certain new signings in the frame. Anyway, a big Hibs away support will be travelling to Fir Park on Sunday, many of whom will be pondering on what Hibs team will show up for this match. IMO our defence needs to be bolstered. Marshall still in Hibs goal - very debatable at the moment! Up front? I'm hoping Dylan Vente makes his mark on his Scot Prem debut and I wanna see a better service to the big man from both flanks this time. Also no serious injuries please!! C'mon Hibs!

GGTTH

We've signed James Berry from Macclesfield. I mentioned him before on here. He's a very very good player and could play at an even higher level than the National League.

Huddersfield Town v Leicester City
The Sky Bet Championship
Saturday August 12th - 15:00 ko
at the old Leeds Road Stadium

Head to Head



Town lead the head to head with 28 wins to Leicester's 24, with 10 draws.

Match no.7 in the history of Huddersfield Town's Football League career was on the 22nd of October 1910 against Leicester, who were still known as Leicester Fosse back then. It was played at Leeds Road in front of a crowd of 6,800 and the Fosse won it 2-1. Henry Hamilton, who earlier in the season had scored our first ever league goal, scored in this one. Leicester won the reverse fixture to do the double over us. Our first victory came the following season when we won 2-0 at Filbert Street with goals from Ellis Hall and Arthur Cowley.

The first top flight meetings came in 1925/26, the season we became the famous Thrice Champions. Leicester had just been promoted and we beat them 3-0 at home with two George Brown goals and one from Joey Williams. Leicester won the match at theirs 2-0. The 1920s and 30s saw us gain the upper hand in the head to head, winning six matches consecutively as Huddersfield Town continued to dominate English football.

We had 18 seasons together up to the start of the 2nd World War, but since then this is only the 13th time we have shared league status. One of those was the 1969/70 season when we won the 2nd Division (Championship) title. Both games ended in 1-1 draws with Jimmy McGill scoring in the away game and Frank Worthington scoring at Leeds Road.

Leicester didn't come up with us, but did so the year after and therefore we met again in the top division in 1971/72. The home game was the opening match of the season and again finished in a draw. Two all this time with Frankie getting on the scoresheet again as well as Trevor Cherry. Leicester won the away match 2-0.

Meetings between the two clubs became rarer and rarer until 2012/13 when we met each other four times in the Championship and FA Cup. We lost the first one 0-2 at home with two brilliant goals from Anthony Knockaert and then got stuffed 6-1 at theirs on New Year's Day. Two more from Knockaert, two from the lanky streak of piss, Chris Wood that day. Scott Arfield getting our consolation.

But we did get our own back in the next few weeks after drawing 1-1 at ours in the Cup, after Wood had equalised a Lee Novak penalty late on, we went down to the Monster Munch Stadium for the replay and came back with a shock 2-1 win. Adam Clayton put us ahead early doors with a superb free kick only for Michael Keane to draw level a couple of minutes later. But with extra time looming super Sean Scannell dribbled his way from the wing past the entire Leicester defence to poke the ball home, through the legs of Kasper Schmeichel to give us victory and the prospect of being humiliated live on TV in the next round against Wigan.

Sunday's line up at home to Coventry:


30 Mads Hermansen - Danish u21 keeper, signed from Brøndby.
21 Ricardo Pereira - Portuguese international full back.
3 Wout Faes - Belgium international centre back.
23 Jannik Vestergaard - Denmark international centre back.
5 Callum Doyle - 19 year old defender on loan from Man City.
25 Wilfred Ndidi - Nigeria international, now in his 8th season at Leicester.
8 Harry Winks - Signed from Spurs for 10 million.
22 Kiernan Dewsbury Town-Hall - Scored twice on Sunday against Coventry.
35 Kasey McAteer - 21 year old midfielder was on loan at Wimbledon last season.
9 Jamie Vardy - Ex Halifax and Fleetwood striker.
10 Stephy Mavididi - Derby born, ex Arsenal striker, signed from Montpellier for 7 million.

Subs:
2 James Justin - Full back, capped once by England.
11 Marc Albrighton - 33 year old wing back, been there since 2014.
14 Kelechi Iheanacho - Paid Man City 25 million for him in 2017.
15 Harry Souttar - Aussie international defender, paid Stoke 20 million for him.
17 Hamza Choudhury - Spent last season on loan at Watford.
20 Patson Daka - Zambian international striker.
26 Dennis Praet - Belgium international midfielder.
27 Timothy Castagne - Belgium international defender.
41 Jakub Stolarczyk - Polish keeper spent last season on loan at Fleetwood and then Hartlepool.


So that was the team that played in the Championship. They made a few changes for the League Cup tie at Burton, a total of seven changes to the starting line up. That is totally disrespecting the competition and I for one am thoroughly disgusted by that. You wouldn't get a proper football club like Huddersfield Town doing such a disservice.

One of those changes was a forced one, with new goalkeeper Mads Hermansen getting injured in training and he's a doubt for the game at the JSS. Still no place for Wardy or Smithies.

That League Cup line up was as follows; Stolarczyk, Albrighton, Faes, Doyle, Justin, Ndidi, Winks, Choudhury, Praet, Iheanacho, Marçal-Madivadua. Subs: Vardy, Daka, Ricardo Pereira, Dewsbury-Hall, Vestergaard, Castagne, Iversen, McAteer, Nelson.


Club connections:

Frank Worthington was absolutely brilliant for both Town and Leicester. His flamboyant style of play was loved by the fans, not so the management of the England team though. He only got 8 full international caps, all in 1974, after Sir Alf Ramsey had left the job and with Joe Mercer in temporary charge. An impressive unbeaten record for both Mercer and Worthington, with big Frank scoring twice in this run, which included winning the Home Nations Championship. But then the FA took on some knob from Leeds called Don Revie and Frank never played for England again.

These England caps came as a Leicester City player, but it was at Huddersfield Town that Frank started his career and won his only title. That was the 1969/70 Second Division (Championship) title, under the leadership of Ian Greaves. He scored 41 goals for us in 171 matches and then went to Leicester in 1972 following our relegation, via a rather unsuccessful medical at Anfield.

At Leicester he stayed for five seasons and scored 71 goals for them from 210 matches, before moving on to play for Greaves again at Bolton and scoring the goal of the century in a match at Burnden Park against Ipswich Town. A perfect bit of keepy uppy with his back to goal and as the defenders rushed out, flipping the ball over his head and volleying the ball into the net. If one of your modern day players could score a goal as good as this one, the internet would explode!

Anyway, that was his playing career peaked, but he still went on playing for years, still going in his 40s at Halifax Town in 1992. He had one job in management, a couple of seasons at Tranmere Rovers in the 1980s.

Sadly, Frank got Alzheimer's a few years ago and died in March 2021.

1. Font Worth Ranking 
   
2. Hemisphere Clacks 
   
3. Better Trifles 
   
4. Be Dirty Trev 
   
5. Cocoon Yard 
   
6. Ohioan Wally 
   
7. Ridicule Oriana 
   
8. Moral Diane 
   
9. Knock Throaty Anne
   
10. Sheilas Timex 
    

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 12TH AUGUST KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



It proved to be a difficult night against "Premier League" Southampton as they took the win in our opening game. The Saints took the early lead when Tella cut in from the right and bent one in to the corner. The Saints continued to control the game though any chances were comfortably saved by Dawson. Onto the 2nd half and we leveled form a corner, Gregory firing in from 8 yards. The Saints were still controlling the ball but we were defending fairly well and any saves for Dawson were again comfortable. Just as we thought we might escape with a point ex Pig Chez Adams fired home to deny us a point.

THE MATCH



Our first away game of the season sees us make the short trip to Hull. Hull like us lost there first game 2-1 @ Norwich, the winner coming in the 96th minute, then they lost 1-2 at home to Doncaster in the Cup. They are managed by Liam Rosenior who took over in November 2022. Can only see them struggling this season, a bit like us and like us will be quite happy to finish 21st.

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 21
HULL 15
DRAWS 20

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                   

HULL               -                                                                    

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

MATTHEW DONOHUE
Paul Hodskinson and Mark Russell
Fourth Official : Benjamin Speedie

THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Bernard Ihekwe James
Vaulks
Delgado Bannan Windass Musaba
Gregory

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Musaba

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

34

BML LEAGUE

Owlkev 1
Imre
Maddix
SCO
Washington

BMPL

Stateside
Wereham
Pei -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Everton v Fulham
Southampton v Norwich
Leyton Orient v Portsmouth
Notts Co v Grimsby
Hartlepool v Gateshead

HHAHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Fylde 1-3 Chesterfield
Boreham Wood 1-1 Halifax
Dag & Red 3-0 Southend
Dorking 4-0 Maidenhead United
Eastleigh 1-2 Wealdstone
Ebbsfleet 2-0 Solihull Moors
Hartlepool 2-2 Gateshead
Oldham 0-1 Aldershot
Oxford City 2-1 Rochdale
Woking 0-1 Altrincham
York 2-1 Kidderminster
Bromley 0-3 Barnet


League Table After Matchday 1

Dancing - 23
St Charles - 23
Spireitematt - 19
Lord Snoots - 17
SaltergateBorn - 15
Amelia - 9
Devon - 9