This is Hibs FC officials "in their element" again suddenly "springing" a ticket sale this morning and creating a mad scramble for these briefs, some ST holders returning from Switzerland finding out their seats are gone/sold!! It looks like Villa fans have been allocated two thirds of the South Stand and Hibs fans taking up the remaining third. We're suddenly moving from a 13k attendance v Luzern to what looks like a full house next Wed night - a UEFA forced early date and early KO of 5.45pm. My own personal description of this is "conveyor belt footie", UEFA just wanting to clear out the quali games as quickly as poss before the real biz begins and the bigger footie clubs dominate as usual.

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/de...echin-city

A hammering of Brechin City in the SPFL Trust Cup. Drawn in the 3rd round v the New Saints from Wales, a tough draw, but very good experience for these lads and hopefully a good number of them will strengthen up and eventually progress to 1st team participation.

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

League Table After Matchday 3

Amelia - 92
Dancing - 69
Spireitematt - 64
Lord Snoots - 63
SaltergateBorn - 51
St Charles - 47
Devon - 24

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 19TH AUGUST KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



Back to back defeats in the league as Hull won comfortably. We gave up possession again just like the Southampton game although we were defending fairly well. With our first proper attack we took the lead Iorfa getting down the right and Delgado swept it in at the near post. Hull equalized in injury time, Gregory fouling in the box and Tufan scored from the penalty. Onto the 2nd half and we forgot how to defend properly. Tufan completed his hat trick as we failed to close him down twice and he finished well both times. A blind back pass led to an empty net fourth, while Smith got a "consolation" in injury time.

THE MATCH



Next up Preston at Hillsborough. They have made a good start to the season with a win & a draw, beating Sunderland and drawing with Bristol City. Will Keane has a couple of goals and an assist so far this season, he played for us in 2015 scoring 3 in 13 games. They are managed by Ryan Lowe, who played for us in the 2011-12 season scoring 8 in 26. He has been linked with the Wednesday job when there has been a vacancy. Not sure where they could finish, but they must be looking to try and finish in the playoffs although that wont be an easy task.

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 44
PRES 45
DRAWS 25

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                     

PRESTON         -                                                                      

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  



THE TEAM

Vasquez
Palmer Bernard Ihekwe James
Diaby
Musaba Bannan Byers Gessama
Gregory

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Gregory

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

34

BML LEAGUE

Owlkev 1
Imre
Maddix
SCO
Washington

BMPL

Stateside 1
Wereham 1
Pei -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Wolves v Brighton
Bristol C v Birmingham
Charlton v Port Vale
Doncaster v Notts Co
Southend v Hartlepool

AHHAH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Minizin 20pts 1CS 6CR 4GB 3BB 1SB
BlueB 16pts 0CS 8CR -1GB 3BB 0SB
Zinman 14pts 1CS 4CR 4GB 3BB 0SB
Derby 14pts 2CS 2CR -1GB 6BB 1SB
Stairs 12pts 1CS 4CR -1GB 3BB 0SB
B.B.B. 7pts 0CS 5CR -1GB -3BB 1SB
Lady Jane 6pts 1CS 3CR -1GB -3BB 0SB
Dingle 3pts 0CS 3CR -1GB -3BB 1SB

Another very good scoring week in the PL. This week we also saw our first 20 point haul as Minizin had an excellent week scoring on 7 games and scoring on all his balls. Blue had a large improvement on last week with 16 points and scored on a season's high 8 out of the 10 games, if he could have converted one or two of the CRs into CSs he would have had an even better week. Our Week 1 leader Zinman had another solid week with 14 points, again scoring on the Gamball and Bonus. Derby matched the 14 points and had a weks high 2 CSs including the Bonus.

Stairs was 5th again with 12 points and BBB improved to 6th place but only scored 7 points. Lady Jane struggled again this week, with 6 points this time and Dingle dropped to last place this week with just 3 points, a seasons low in the fledgling league.

34 Minizin
31 Zinman
27 Derby
25 Blue Baggie
23 Stairs
17 Dingle
16 Lady jane
12 BBB

Minizin moves to the top of the table, overtaking his elder Zinman. Derby is close behind in 3rd and Blue moves up 3 places to 4th. Stairs stays 5th, Dingle drops 3 places and Lady Jane drops into the bottom 2 with BBB still rooted to the bottom.

But as all us Owls will tell you, the league table means absolutely nothing at the moment!!

Championship

Sanjay 14pts 1CS 6CR -1GB 3BB 0SB
Twerton 14pts 1CS 3CR 8GB 3BB 1SB
AAA 11pts 0CS 5CR 0GB 3BB 0SB
Snooty 8pts 1CS 3CR -1GB 3BB 0SB
Baggie1 4pts 0CS 4CR -1GB -3BB 0SB
SCO 4pts 0CS 2CR -1GB 3BB 0SB
Themaclad 0pts 0CS 2CR -1GB -3BB 0SB

Some contrasting ball play this week. Only 1 positive gamball score, just 1 scoreball but a better return from the bonus with 5 out of 7 getting it right.

Sanjay came back into the fold and immediately hit form with a table topping 14 points from a week's high of 6 correct results. He's joined at the top by last week's leader, Twerton - in contrast to Sanjay he only got 3 predictions right but one of them was a gamball maximum and another his bonus 9 (plus the only scoreball point) - it definitely helps to get those balls right! AAA secuered 3rd place with a solid 11 points - he was the only player to avoid the gamball, saving him a point.

Snooty is 3 points further back and was the third player to get a correct score. BaggieOne got the second highest number of correct results but was also one of 2 players to miss out on all his balls so he's tied with SCO on just 4 points. That leaves Themaclad to bring up the rear failing to register a point form the week. Again it was his balls letting him down!

Twerton 29
AAA 20
Snooty 17
Sanjay 14
SCO 13
Themaclad 11
Baggie1 9

Twerton continues to head the table and has opened quite a gap considering we're only 2 weeks in. Sanjay gave everyone a week's start but immediately got into gear overtaking 3 of his rivals. But as SCO says, it's early days and as the late lamented Beefy used to say, it's a marathon not a sprint. Feel free to add your own cliches in the replies!

Gamball:
Swansea - Coventry

Others:
Fulham - Brentford
Wolves - Brighton
Spurs - Man Utd
Plymouth - Southampton
Bristol C - Birmingham
QPR - Ipswich
Sheff W - Preston
Stoke - Watford
West Ham - Chelsea

Tuesday

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

Wednesday
Boreham Wood 1-1 Solihull Moors


League Table After Matchday 2

Dancing - 49
Amelia - 43
Lord Snoots - 41
St Charles - 35
SaltergateBorn - 33
Spireitematt - 28
Devon - 12