THE MATCH

TUESDAY 18TH APRIL KO 7:45PM

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LAST MATCH



The gift that just keeps on giving, continues to throw the season away as we went down to mighty Burton Albion. We went behind when ex Blade Brayford headed in a corner. We levelled quickly, Pato striking one in from 20 yards. Burton then struck twice in 4 minutes,  Mark Helm scoring his first 2 senior goals, one from close range the other from 20 yards. Onto the second half and we huffed and puffed as usual. We did get a penalty near the end and Smith did convert but it was too little too late as we amde it 1 win in 8 games.

THE MATCH



Next up we make the long trip to Bristol to take on Joey Barton's Rovers. Rovers look to be safe as they are 12 points above the relegation zone with 4/5 games left, so we can look forward to playing them next season They are managed by Joey Barton who has been in charge since early 2021. There main threat is Aaron Collins who has 15 goals and 11 assists so far this season. They haven't beaten anybody in the current top 9, when playing them at home, with only ourselves and Bolton left to play. We actually have a decent record against them, losing just 2 of 14, but with Wednesday that means nothing

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 7
ROVERS 2 
DRAWS 5

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                 

ROVERS           -                                                           

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

JOSH SMITH
Hristo Karaivanov and Samuel Ogles
Fourth Official : Lee Swabey

THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Famewo Flint
Adeniran Bannan Shipston Vaulks Johnson
Gregory Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Gregory

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

BML LEAGUE

Owlskev 26
Stateside 23
SCO 22
Imre 21
Wash 20
Maddix 17
Peiowl 14

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Chelsea v Real Madrid
Blackpool v WBA
Shrewsbury v Plymouth
Gillingham v Leyton Orient
Chesterfield v Torquay

AAAAH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Altrincham 1-0 Dag & Red
Barnet 2-1 Solihull Moors
Chesterfield 2-1 Torquay
Halifax 4-2 Bromley
Gateshead 5-3 Dorking
Oldham 2-3 Southend
Wealdstone 2-0 Aldershot
Wrexham 1-0 Yeovil

League Table After Matchday 56
SaltergateBorn - 1037
Devon - 982
St Charles Owl - 964
Spireitematt - 889
Lord Snoots - 860
Dancing - 857
Amelia - 756

I watch horse racing on TV and enjoy most races and events. In the main prefer the jumps to flat racing but can watch both.

I've watched the Grand National every year and even went to Aintree back in 2013 and have had a flutter on the National (not every year but most years. I haven't had a bet on the National since 2019).

Yesterday I watched the National and found that a hard watch probably the worst one I've seen and I believe it shouldn't have gone ahead after the protesters tried to disrupt it. The horses will have been anxious and they would sense that something was up.

Personally they need to cut the field from 40 runners and riders to about 25. They need to take down certain fences like The Chair, Open Ditch and maybe Beechers. or lower them and they need to move the time back from 5.15 to 3.45 like it used to be as 5.15 is too late in the day for a run like that. They only moved it to 5.15 so people can get there bets on and because of TV viewing figures.

Do I believe the race has a future? Possibly not if it doesn't make changes to help the welfare and safety of horses in the race.

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/hibs-1-hearts-0

So, after nine consecutive fixtures v Hertz, Hibs finally win a Derby match and attain such a sweet victory in front of a near capacity crowd (first time for quite a while where Hibs have achieved such a positive result with the ER stands full up!) on a glorious sunny afternoon in Leith. How fitting that the Hibs anthem, Sunshine on Leith, was bellowed out after the final whistle by 1000s of joyful Hibees who appreciated the effort and resolve the boys put in to ensure they won this game v a Hertz side that was poor and looked like they lack a great deal of confidence and belief at the moment. Also Snodgrass now absent from their midfield, but hasn't had any effect in their previous five fixtures/defeats anyway. Hibs really should've won this game by two or three goals and I must say I can't figure out why certain players, who have skilfully got into a position behind a nervy Hertz defence don't choose to "pass in" a better placed Hibs player to score a simple "tap in" goal??? Thankfully Kevin Nisbet took his goal with aplomb from a Paul Hanlon "assist" to win this match.. As for Youann? I thought he was "mince" again today although he forced the corner from which Hibs scored the winning goal - can't figure out what has gone wrong with him after previously "climbing the heights" with some very important goals for Hibs. Playing in the wrong position? Livingston winning 2-0 v St Johnstone btw. So Hibs only 1 pt ahead of the Lions leading in to their last fixture (before the "split") v St Johnstone in Perth - very disappointing TBF as it makes for a nervy match next Saturday although there is no doubt that 1000s of Hibees will be heading up north to Perth to cheer on the guys. Lets hope that's enough to urge them to stay in the Scot Prem top six.

GGTTH

Barnet 0-2 Wrexham
Aldershot 2-0 Scunthorpe
Boreham Wood 1-0 Wealdstone
Chesterfield 3-1 Eastleigh
Dorking 1-0 Altrincham
Halifax 2-1 Maidstone United
Gateshead 4-1 Bromley
Oldham 2-1 Maidenhead United
Solihull Moors 2-0 Yeovil
Southend 2-3 Dag & Red
Torquay 2-0 York
Notts County 1-1 Woking


League Table After Matchday 55
SaltergateBorn - 1010
Devon - 943
St Charles Owl - 941
Spireitematt - 866
Dancing - 840
Lord Snoots - 839
Amelia - 731

Premier League

Stairs        8pts 1CS 4CR 0GB -3BB 1SB
Derby        7pts 1CS 5CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Blue Baggie 5pts 0CS 2CR 5GB -3BB 1SB
SCO            3pts 2CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Sanjay        2pts 1CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
Minizin        2pts 0CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 2SB
Snooty        1pt 0CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Zinman      -1pt 0CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 1SB

Well, it was better than last week....just. For the 2nd week in a row everybody got their bonus ball wrong (hint; you're supposed to pick the game that you're most confident of getting right!) and with just 1 positive gamball score it was never going to be pretty. Nobody reached double figures though in a change from last week we only had one minusman.

Stairs crawled his way to top spot thanks to his avoidance of the gamball paying off. Derby grasps second with the week's high of 5 correct result predictions though his balls held him back. Blue was the only player to predict a Wolves victory but didn't get a lot else right - still good enough for 3rd place!

SCO at least had the satisfaction of getting all of his correct result predictions spot on (I suppose grammatically I should have written "both" rather than "all" but all sounds better and he needs all the help he can get). Sanjay and Minizin scrambled to a mighty 2 points, 1 more than Snooty, leaving Zinman trailing in last place unable to even reach zero.

Minizin 283
Zinman 274
Derby 265
Stairs 249
Blue 238
Sanjay 215
Snooty 204
SCO 202

Unsurprisingly, no change in the overall table this week though SCO does at least get the satisfaction of breaking the 200 barrier.....again! 

Zin


Championship

Amelia 21pts 2CS 4CR 5GB 3BB 1SB
AAA 11pts 2CS 0CR NPGB 6BB 1SB
Dingle 9pts 1CS 2CR 5GB -3BB 1SB
Themaclad 7pts 1CS 2CR -3GB 3BB 1SB
BaggieOne 5pts 0CS 2CR 5GB -3BB 1SB
Twerton 5pts 2CS 1CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Lady Jane 3pts 1CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
BBB 1pts 1CS 1CR -3GB -3BB 1SB

Not the best week of the season but equally not the worst either!!  Amelia though was definitely not mediocre this week and scored her season's best with 21 points!!  She scored on 6 games, got 2 CSs and 4 CRs including both the Gamball and Bonus!!  Second place is AAA with 11 points, he went the opposite way to Amelia by scoring on just two games, with them both being CSs, one on the Bonus!!

No one else got into double figures through.  Dingle on 9, Themaclad on 7 and BaggieOne & Twerton on 5 were distinctly all mediocre this week.  Lady Jane ended with a poor 3 points and BBB had one of his worst weeks of the season and if it hadn't been for the Scoreball it would have been his worst!!

In fact the Scoreball was won by every player this week, if only more could get that consistency with the other balls we would see some better scoring across the board.

297 Dingle
276 BaggieOne
272 Lady Jane
271 AAA
259 BBB
189 Themaclad
184 Twerton
175 Amelia

No positional changes and the only real moves of note were AAA now right on the heels of LJ and BaggieOne, and Amelia closing right up on Twerton for the wooden spoon!!

Cheers
SCO

Bolton Wanderers footballer Kyle Dempsey and his father have been spared prison following a "merciless" drink-fuelled attack on a bouncer.

The pair had admitted assault over the incident at Maryport Labour Club, in Cumbria, in July.

It happened hours after Bolton played a friendly against Dempsey's former side Carlisle United.

At Carlisle Crown Court they were sentenced to 12 and 13 months in jail respectively, suspended for 18 months.

The midfielder, of Blackpool, and his 50-year-old father Michael Dempsey, from Maryport, were both ordered to pay social club doorman Darryl Jarvis £1,500 compensation.

They must also complete 200 hours' unpaid work as well as serve night-time curfews, which can be varied in Kyle Dempsey's case in the light of any "employment issues".

'Wildly excessive'
Judge Ian Unsworth KC rejected the pair's claim of having acted in self-defence and described it as an "ugly" attack that was "wildly excessive, ruthless and merciless".

"This was, as each of you have acknowledged, shameful conduct," he said.

"You have each let yourself down, your family down and, in your case Kyle Dempsey, you know that you have let down the people who employ you and those who look up to you.

"But it is important you are not treated any differently from anybody else appearing before these courts."

Kyle Dempsey scores Bolton's first goal against Plymouth Argyle in the Papa Johns Trophy final at Wembley in April 2023
IMAGE SOURCE,PA MEDIA
Image caption,
Dempsey scored at Wembley in Bolton's win in the Papa Johns Trophy final last week
The Dempseys had tried to enter the club at about 22:30 BST on 16 July as they followed a man who had briefly knocked the footballer unconscious in the street.

The pair then set on Mr Jarvis after he "pulled" Kyle Dempsey outside with the doorman suffering a broken nose, chipped teeth, bruised ribs, heavy bleeding and a cut to his head.

'Mindless thugs'
In a victim impact statement Mr Jarvis said a scar on the left side of his head was "a constant reminder of the attack" which fell on his wedding anniversary.

He added: "Now it will always be overshadowed as a reminder of the violence I suffered by two people who I can only describe as mindless thugs who had the sole intention of causing me serious harm."

Prosecutor Gerard Rogerson said the footballer punched and kneed the doorman before his father, an ex-rugby league professional, "joined in, raining punches towards Mr Jarvis".

Kyle Dempsey, who admitted he had "lost it", said he had drunk three or four pints of alcohol.

In mitigation, Lisa Judge said the footballer had been a man of previous good character and warned a prison sentence would "wreck" his career.

"He has faced (online) trolling. He has faced shouts from the stands since July 2022. This one night has lived with him ever since.

"Kyle Dempsey's trade is kicking a ball. It is something that he has lived for ever since the age of six.

"It is something he has fought for, it is something that his family have supported him throughout in achieving and all that may be thrown away for these 14 minutes or so in the Labour Club."

She described his father, who also admitted damaging a door, as a "loving, kind family man".