THE MATCH

MONDAY 10TH APRIL KO 3:00PM

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LAST MATCH



And the winless run continues as we failed to see off lowly Oxford. We started ok and had several chances but couldn't find the net. Stockdale made a point blank save, then Bazza gave us the lead with a beautifully curled strike from the edge of the box. Onto the 2nd half and we started fast with Wilkes forcing there goalie into a save and a great save but the score remained 0-1. Then the efl stooge decided to give Oxford a pen, and Brannagan blasted home. We huffed and puffed the rest of the game but never looked like scoring, and now lie in 3rd place, as we prepare for the playoffs

THE MATCH



Next up and Accrington Stanley make the journey to Hillsborough. Stanley are lurking in the final relegation spot but did win there last game 3-0 v Port Vale and are now just 1 point behind Oxford, who they play on the final day of the season. There top scorer is Tommy Leigh with 7 goals & 3 assists but he wasn't in the squad v Vale. They are managed by John Coleman who has been in charge for nine years, pretty good for a modern manager.

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 2
ACCR 0
DRAWS 1

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                               

ACCR              -                                                           

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

TOM REEVES
Ravel Cheosiaua and Paul Newhouse
Fourth Official : Jacob Lehane

THE TEAM

Stockdale
Palmer Famewo Flint
Adeniran Bannan James Vaulks Johnson
Gregory Wilkes

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-0 Gregory

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

BML LEAGUE

Owlskev 25
Stateside 23
SCO 22
Imre 20
Wash 20
Maddix 17
Peiowl 14

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Bristol City v Middlesboro
Burnley v Sheffield United
Cheltenham Town v Ipswich
Bradford City v Sutton
Wrexham v Notts County

AHAHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65124955

So Celtic advance 12 pts clear (plus a GD OF 28 goals) of bleating Beale's Rangers team in a match that was a decent advert for the Scot Prem. A couple of ironies in this match were 1. Kyogo the talismanic striker with a "brace" of goals for Celtic - remember he was racially targeted not so long ago by factions of these toxic Huns - a fitting response by Kyogo!! 2. Rangers players celebrating a late Tavernier goal only to find they had no Rangers fans to celebrate with or spur them on!! Remember the Govan footie club was the main instigator in forcing a reduction in away fan numbers in these kinda matches, IMO a ludicrous concession given to these morons by the SFA a few years ago. Anyway, Celtic still on course for another domestic "treble".

Premier League

Stairs          7pts 1CS 4CR 0GB -3BB 0SB
Sanjay          6pts 2CS 4CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
Zinman        5pts 2CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Blue              4pts 2CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
Snooty          2pts 1CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
Minizin          -1pt 0CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Derby          -3pts 0CS 1CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
SCO            -4pts 0CS 1CR -3GB -3BB 0SB

Oh dear. As we approach the end of the season, any decent form has evaporated with the Premiership returning its lowest points of the season - just 16. When you consider that one match, Wigan - QPR, provided 17 of those, it shows what a mess we made of it! A complete wipe-out on the bonus ball (too many reliant on the Baggies) and only one player getting the gamball result correct. No surprise that that person was Stairs who again declined to play it! Three minusmen including 2 of the season's pace setters.

Despite declining the extra gamball points, Stairs sits at the top with a mighty 7 points, 1 ahead of Sanjay both of them achieving the week's high of 4 correct result predictions. Zinman is a further point back thanks to 2 of his 3 correct predictions being a correct score and then a further point back to Blue Baggie. Snooty completes the list of players actually adding to their scores this week with 2 points.

The bottom 3 had a miserable week with just 4 correct predictions amongst them. Minizin got half of those and was one of just 3 extra scoreball winners but that wasn't enough to get him to zero. Derby and SCO only managed 1 correct prediction each with Derby's scoreball point leaving SCO at the foot of the table - it's beginning to be a habit for him!

Minizin 281
Zinman 275
Derby 258
Stairs 241
Blue 233
Sanjay 213
Snooty 203
SCO 199

As expected from a week with such low scores, there was only 1 positional change this week. At the top of the table Minizin's lead is cut to just 6 points as the pressure is beginning to tell - probably not helped by me reminding him of the classic Beefy blow up a few years ago when he lost an 18 point lead on the last week of the season. That's what happens with Zinman breathing down your neck (particularly after a good curry). Derby's recent poor form has seen him drop off the pace with it looking incresingly like a family battle for the title. Stairs and Blue look safe in mid table with Sanjay increasing his chances of at least getting to the play offs. SCO so enjoyed finally cracking the 200 barrier last week that he's decided to try to do it again next week as he drops back to the foot of the table.

Zin


Championship

Twerton 13pts 3CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
BaggieOne 10pts 1CS 3CR -3GB 6BB 1SB
Lady Jane 10pts 1CS 3CR -3GB 6BB 1SB
Amelia 9pts 2CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
AAA 6pts 0CS 4CR NPGB -3BB 1SB
BBB 6pts 2CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Dingle 1pts 1CS 1CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Themaclad -4pts 0CS 1CR -3GB -3BB 0SB

Mediocre week, but thats what you get when every one who played the Gamball got it wrong and only two players scored positive points on the Bonus!!  At least there were 10 Correct Scores between the players, nearly twice the season's average.

Twerton leads the way with a rare top spot finish on 13 points.  He scored on 6 of the games this week and would have scored in the mid 20s had it not been for his ritual of missing out on the balls!!  Joint 2nd are BaggieOne and Lady Jane with 10 points, they got there in identical ways, missing on the Gamball but the only 2 to score on the Bonus where they each got a spot on prediction.

Amelia is 4th with 9 points, like Twerton her balls spoiled what could have been a very good week.  AAA and BBB are 5th with 6 points, AAA failed to get any CSs whereas BBB got 2, but BBB as per usual missed on both balls.  Dingle had a poor week, eh seems to up one week and down the next!!  Themaclad had a mare, finishing on -4, missing on all his balls and only scoring on one game.

288 Dingle
271 BaggieOne
269 Lady Jane
260 AAA
258 BBB
182 Themaclad
179 Twerton
154 Amelia

No changes in position but yet again LJ and BaggieOne get closer to Dingle, is he just messing with them and giving them false hope with his rollercoaster weeks??  AAA and BBB are still hot on the heels of the top 3 and one really good week from either of them could see them break into it.  Big gap of over 70 points down to Themaclad, who is rapidly being caught by Twerton, leaving Ameilia still stranded on the bottom.

Cheers
SCO

It's had been announced former Albion academy product, Isaiah Brown, will retire from football aged 26.

He may have thought he was bigger than our club, he may have thought a stellar career would happen for him at Chelski. It did not work out for him, most of his career was spent on loan but following two surgeries he has decided to hang up his boots. He created a lost opportunity, what could he have achieved playing with Albion and playing along side Saido. We will never know what could have been.

Didn't like the way he left us or his attitude towards football, he was more concerned with personal wealth than personal achievements, (have you seen my car) but I am sorry for the way his dreams have been crushed and for the devastation he must be feeling.

Good luck for your future Izzy.

Next Saturday night we are sending you back to the future, Lampard back until the end of the season, thought April Fool was last week

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/pr...united-a-2

Well I must say this looks like a foregone conclusion - a defeat for Hibs v another bottom of the league opponent! And I base that conclusion on Hibs rotten performance v an average Motherwell team that the guys normally defeat without too much difficulty. Plus the fact I have no belief in Johnson's ability to be an astute manager with solid tactical nous. One "ray of hope" is the fact Jim Goodwin has not won a match since taking over the manager's role at Tannadice. However, United are battling to save their Scot Prem status and Johnson never seems to be able to motivate his own Hibs players to match up to this type of commitment at all; after all, we're still "in the mix" to fight for a 3rd or 4th place in the Scot Prem and a guaranteed Euro footie slot to potentially pull in some welcome finance - that's the target! Youan returning from a one match suspension and that is a welcome bit of positive news. I hope I'm wrong re my perception of this match and the end result. However, the previous match indicators/stats are not good with Hibs looking like they are "running on fumes" and a manager who doesn't impress me at all.

GGTTH

On the whole a cut and paste;

Albion chiefs have revealed they are likely to be reliant on players sales on top of a controversial £20million loan for the club to continue as a going concern.

Albion accounts for the club, WBA Group and WBA Holdings have been published at Companies House and reveal future going concerns. Albion accounts for the club, WBA Group and WBA Holdings have been published at Companies House and reveal future going concerns.

In financial results lodged at Companies House, Albion directors revealed 'a material uncertainty' over the future of the club if cash cannot be raised.

The new accounts for the club, parent company WBA Group and majority shareholder Guochuan Lai’s WBA Holdings dated to June 2022, revealed WBA Football Club Ltd made a profit of £5.4million before tax in the year to June 30, 2022.

The directors' report section of the results – signed by chief executive Ron Gourlay – lays bare fears for the future of the club.

The report adds: "Should the forecasted player trading not be achieved, the group would need to both maintain existing and find further sources of investment in order to bridge its cashflow position until appropriate player transactions are fulfilled."

However, it starkly states: "Given that such funding player trading is not guaranteed there is a material uncertainty present which may cast significant doubt about the group and company's ability to continue as a going concern."

The report’s contents have been described by minority shareholders to the Express & Star are ‘very worrying’ and at best raise big questions over Albion’s operations moving forward.

While Carlos Corberan’s squad are an outside shot for promotion via a late play-off push, which would go some way to easing financial concerns, the cost of not reaching the Premier League next season could be stark – and affect the head coach’s squad building.

The documents also shed light on the controversial £5m ‘Wisdom Smart loan’, still unpaid by controlling shareholder Lai ,more than two years after it was taken out.

It was revealed WBA Holdings, Lai’s company controlled by Yunyi Guokai (Shanghai) Sports Development – of which Lai is controlling shareholder – has been added as guarantor for if, as expected, Wisdom Smart is unable to repay.

Despite the absentee chairman’s latest assurance the cash would be returned to club coffers, the move was described to the Express & Star as “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” or “kicking the can down Halfords Lane”.

The accounts say “at June 30 2022 and at the date of the approval of the financial statement, the company has yet to receive payment and so the full amount totalling £5,059,000 (including interest) has been impaired (or reduced, in this case) to a carrying value of £Nil.”

Evidence of that can be noted on Page 33 of WBA Group accounts, under section 16 titled ‘debtors’ where the loan was, in the previous accounts dated June 2021, highlighted in the ‘other debtors including related party loan section’. But in the 2022 figures, the £5m is missing and in essence written out of the balance sheet.

OH DEAR!!!

LAST TIME OUT



FORM GUIDE

QPR  3 PNE 13

MANAGER/JOY OF EX

Gareth Ainsworth (born 10 May 1973) is an English professional football manager and former player who is the manager of EFL Championship club Queens Park Rangers.

A former youth player at Blackburn Rovers, the midfielder, who was known for his crossing ability, moved to Preston North End in 1992 after impressing at non-league Northwich Victoria. He signed for Cambridge United, who in turn loaned him back to Northwich, and returned to Preston in 1993, establishing himself in the first team during his second spell. Sold on to Lincoln City in 1995, his performances earned him a place on the PFA Third Division Team of the Year in 1996–97, resulting in a £500,000 move to Port Vale. After being named as the Port Vale F.C. Player of the Year in 1998, Ainsworth was sold to Premier League club Wimbledon for £2 million. He was dogged by injuries at the club, and following loan spells with Preston and Walsall, he moved to Cardiff City in March 2003. He signed with Queens Park Rangers in June 2003, where he spent seven years. During his time at QPR, he helped the club to promotion from the Second Division in 2003–04, and twice served as caretaker-manager.

He joined Wycombe Wanderers in February 2010, following a short loan period. He was named in the PFA League Two Team of the Year in 2010–11, as Wycombe won promotion. He was appointed manager in November 2012, after a short period as caretaker-manager. He retired from regular playing appearances to concentrate on management in April 2013, but remained registered as a player. He led the club to promotion from League Two at the end of the 2017–18 season and then from League One in 2020, securing a place in the Championship for the first time in the club's history. He left in February 2023 to become the manager of QPR





In The Dressing Room

Manager Ryan Lowe will provide an update on the availability of his team in his pre-match press conference.

A Look At Our Hosts


After a very promising start to the season under Michael Beale, it’s been a tricky period at Queens Park Rangers, with the Rs having won just twice in their last 23 Championship fixtures.

Much of that run came under the management of Neil Critchley, but former North End man Gareth Ainsworth is currently in the hotseat, looking to guide his side away from the threat of relegation.

They have been dealt several injury blows over the course of the campaign, but they’ll be hopeful they have enough to get back to picking up points in the end of season run-in to retain their Championship status.

Going Head To Head


Games played: 50
PNE wins: 19
Draws: 17
QPR wins: 14
Last PNE victory: PNE 2-1 QPR, 9th April 2022

One To Watch

The struggling Rs were boosted by the return from injury of Ilias Chair in last weekend’s defeat to Wigan Athletic, with the Moroccan international having been missing since the end of February.

Often their most creative spark, Gareth Ainsworth will be looking for the attacking midfielder to inject some energy and quality into the side who have struggled for goals in recent weeks.

Chair – who featured at the 2022 Qatar World Cup – has five goals and seven assists to his name so far this season, and that’s a tally he’ll be keen to add to between now and May.

Match Officials

Experienced EFL official Geoff Eltringham will be the man in the middle on Friday.

It will be the second occasion which he has refereed PNE so far this season, with the previous fixture being the Boxing Day defeat at home to Huddersfield Town.

In total this season, Eltringham has shown 77 yellow cards and four reds in 22 matches.

MACS VIEW

When Neil Critchley won his first game in charge of the Hoops after taking over fom Beale things looked good for the West London side however since then it's gone massively tits up, Critchley gone, Ainsworth in, fans less than impressed with Gareth's version of the beautiful game led to a rxchange of views between players and supporters at Estadio del Pie last weekend.
Currently plunging into a relegation struggle although may ahve been helped by Reading's ability to spend more than was expected may give them a lifeline.
Out of form there for the taking we will find out Friday afternoon
5.30 am Friday alarm clock, well er no, end of season lethargy is kicking in it will be a cut and paste match report