Well it's taken me a while to calm down fully. Now my brain is functioning normally I think it's time to comment on Saturday.
First of all I don't like to criticise young upcoming players but our keeper really should have cought the ball rather than punch it, but what followed was insane.
Oldham scored in the 95 minute with a player in an offside position interfering with play. The scorer runs to celebrate in front of our fans and prompts a pitch invasion. In the melle our keeper gets pushed over and chaos followed. Players and management ran to protect him with others surrounding the ref. Oldaker went to the lino with the ball and my lip reading is getting much better because I clearly saw him say "that was offside Sir" or something very similar. The lino shrugged his shoulders and said something that calmed Oldaker down and made him walk over to the ref.
The invaders made their way back to the stand, meanwhile the ref stands waiting in the center circle , then some knob threw a flare onto the pitch. The ref waits for the flare to be cleared and the teams to get into position then blows his whistle and that's it, game over. Get off the pitch quick to boos from all around the ground.
So the reasons why we dropped 2 points;

The manager tried to hold onto a 1 goal lead which we didn't - again.
The keeper made a big mistake,
The ref should have given offside and not been intimidated by Oldham fans.
Norwood should have been red carded along with Dan Gardner for dangerous play earlier.
The game was not restarted after the goal even though the full amount of additional time had not been played.
Take your pick.

Gamball:
Huddersfield - Norwich

Others:
Everton - Wolves
Birmingham - Plymouth
Cardiff - Sheff Wed
Coventry - Sunderland
Ipswich - Leeds
WBA - Middlesbrough
Burnley - Aston Villa
Newcastle - Liverpool
Watford - Blackburn

SCO's Predictions:
Gamball:
Huddersfield 1 - 2 Norwich Doh
Others:
Everton 2 - 1 Wolves
Birmingham 1 - 1 Plymouth
Cardiff 1 - 2 Sheff W Tongue
Coventry 2 - 1 Sunderland
Ipswich 1 - 1 Leeds
WBA 0 - 2 Middlesbrough
Burnley 1 - 3 Villa Smartass
Newcastle 2 - 1 Liverpool
Watford 2 - 1 Blackburn

Well this will be one of the glamour Euro matches that has a guaranteed full house on Wed night. How do Hibs take this on? With great difficulty in my humble opinion. However, we must never give up on such a challenge - not the Hibs way of doing things. Lets try to win it v very good opponents with a top manager, Unai Emery, who has been a "good fit" for the Birmingham footie club - a Euro trophy-winning legend who certainly lifted John McGinn's career, John now skippering the team. Villa's last away game was a thrashing v Newcastle United. I hope Johnson studies Newcastle's midfield tactics in this game and at least tries to make it a competitive one. They've never played us before in a Euro match on the big ER pitch, but there's no doubt they'll "show up" with what I reckon will be a strong B team chosen specifically to do the biz in Leith. I think John McGinn will play because he'll want to play and associate with the Hibs crowd again - a revered Hibs Scottish Cup legend who played a big part in smashing that historic Scot Cup bogey and also removed all the angsty flak from enemies/critics of our club in that historic 2016 final. A John McGinn "hat trick" coming up? I hope not. Anyway, like many other Hibs fans I'm looking forward to visiting ER Stadium and watching this glamour match. C'mon Hibs - try to make a game of it!!

GGTTH

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. neonfoxinthebox = 47 pts
   
2. St Charles Owl = 46 pts
   
3. theo_luddite = 39 pts
   
4. Baggiebob(BBB) = 38 pts
   
5. themaclad = 33 pts
   
6. jjamez = 29 pts
   

Friday August 25th:
Hull City v Bristol City

Saturday August 26th:
Town v Norwich
Town scorers:
Norwich scorers:

Cardiff City v Sheffield Wednesday
Coventry City v Sunderland
Preston North End v Swansea City
West Bromwich Albion v Middlesbrough

Sunday August 27th:
Watford v Blackburn Rovers (12:00)

EFL Cup 2nd round:
Tuesday 29th August:
Stoke City v Rotherham United
Plymouth Argyle v Crystal Palace

Wednesday August 30th:
Sheffield United v Lincoln City

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

1. Lord Snooty = 59 pts
   
2. ritchiebaby = 47 pts
   
3. SHEP_HTAFC = 39 pts
   
4. WakeyTerrier = 36 pts
   
5. Devongone = 34 pts
   
6. Amelia Chaffinch = 29 pts
   

Saturday August 26th:
Town v Norwich
Town scorers:
Norwich scorers:

Birmingham City v Plymouth Argyle
Ipswich Town v Leeds United
Millwall v Stoke City
Rotherham United v Leicester City
Southampton v Queens Park Rangers

EFL Cup 2nd round:
Tuesday 29th August:
Bolton Wanderers v Middlesbrough
Sheffield Wednesday v Mansfield Town
Fulham v Tottenham Hotspur
Wycombe Wanderers v Sutton United

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

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/pr...h-rovers-h

Well here we go again - another match, 2 days after another successful Thursday UEFA CL thriller, and at the moment Hibs have a 100% failure rate so far. Will that poor record change v this level of opposition from the Championship? I honestly have no idea TBF!! This Rovers team, riddled with a good few rejected young Hibs players, will certainly be up for a one-off cup tie like this one. There won't be a prob if Hibs "show up", but that has not been the case in other post Euro matches like this one. Therefore, the solution is for the manager to properly freshen up the team with appropriate changes rather than field many of the same leggy and uncommitted, disinterested players who have failed in previous games like this one. Dylan Levitt will miss out on this game due to a nasty ankle injury picked up in Lucerne. He won't be missed in my humble opinion, based on previous observations. I'd like to see Hibs play a strategy to effectively "blitz" this match early and finish it in the 1st half, see out the rest of the game and then quickly focus/prepare for the Villa Euro tie. Whether that realistically happens is anybody's guess!!!

GGTTH

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




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