Aldershot 1-3 Wrexham
Altrincham 0-2 Woking
Bromley 2-1 Dorking
Eastleigh 2-0 Maidenhead United
Oldham 2-1 Maidstone United
Scunthorpe 2-1 Dag & Red
Solihull Moors 0-2 Chesterfield
Southend 3-2 Gateshead
Torquay 0-3 Barnet
Wealdstone 2-1 York
Yeovil 1-5 Notts County
Boreham Wood 0-2 Halifax


League Table After Matchday 41
Devon - 754
St Charles Owl - 666
Lord Snoots - 660
Spireitematt - 650
SaltergateBorn - 647
Amelia - 583
Dancing - 573

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 18TH FEBRUARY KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



So after 2 tough games, where we picked up an excellent 4 points, it was nice to get a pretty straightforward win. We got off to the perfect start when Bannan finished well after a pull back in the opening minutes. We didn't have long to wait for the 2nd Windass forcing the ball home from close range. Dawson had to save well to keep the 2 goal advantage going into halftime. Onto the second half which was uneventful as Morecombe went fairly defensive, but we did manage to get a 3rd just before the end as FDB went on a run and crossed for Windass to flick home from close range.

THE MATCH



Next up and the Donuts make the journey north. After making the playoffs last year, this year has been a struggle for the Dons. They did lose there best player Scott Twine and haven't been able to replace him with there top scorers being Will Grigg & Mo Eisa with 6 goals each. The Dons are now managed by Mark Jackson who has only been in charge since December and his remit will be pretty simple, keep the Dons in League One. There last game didn't go well getting thrashed 5-0 by in form Bolton.

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 5
DONUTS 2
DRAWS 6

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                        

DONUTS          -                                                 

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

SCOTT OLDHAM
Blake Antrobus and Ravel Cheosiaua
Fourth Official : Garreth Rhodes

THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Iorfa Flint
Hunt Bannan Byers Vaulks Johnson
Windass Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

3-1 Smith

ATTENDANCE

23432

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

BML LEAGUE

Owlskev 25
Stateside 21
Imre 19
Wash 17
SCO 15
Maddix 14
Peiowl 12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Brighton v Fulham
Luton v Burnley
Wycombe v Bolton
Stockport v Stevenage
Yeovil v Notts Co

HADAA

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

WEREHAM




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Premier League

Stairs          18pts 4CS 6CR 0GB -3BB 1SB
Sanjay        11pts 3CS 3CR -3GB 6BB 0SB
Zinman        7pts 2CS 4CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Blue Baggie  5pts 2CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Derby          5pts 1CS 4CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Minizin          1pt 1CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Snooty          1pt  0CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
SCO            -1pt 1CS 1CR -3GB -3BB 1SB

Well it seems that Sanjay is the only one to take any notice of what I say (including myself!) After last week's wipeout on the bonus we came close to repeating the effort but were saved by Sanjay's maximum. Unfortunately we were even worse with the gamball with nobody predicting a draw and only Stairs avoiding a loss from it. The scoreball fared better with Sanjay again the odd one out as the only player not to score from it.

Stairs is the clear winner this week thanks to his normal gamball avoidance plus 6 correct results with 4 of them being spot-on. Sanjay only scored on 3 games but made sure of double figures by getting the scores exactly right on all of them, including his bonus.

The rest are all trailing some way behind. Zinman at least improved on recent performances to claim 3rd place 2 points ahead of Blue Baggie and Derby. Minizin's recent good run which had included 4 consecutive positive gamballs came to a crashing halt as he, along with Snooty, only managed a single point but they were still clear of SCO who had a week to forget, becoming this week's minusman. Wednesday's recent winning run coming to an end, probably due to him playing the bonus on them, wouldn't have helped his mood!

Minizin 215
Derby 203
Zinman 197
Stairs 192
Snooty 177
Blue 169
Sanjay 147
SCO 145

2 positional changes this week as Stair's high scoring week propels him above Snooty and within touching distance of 3rd place. At the foot of the table Sanjay and SCO swop places again as they battle (well, one of them) to avoid the drop.

Now, any chance we can get our balls working properly this week?

Zin


Championship

Twerton 18pts 3CS 3CR -3GB 6BB 1SB
AAA 10pts 1CS 2CR NPGB 3BB 1SB
Lady Jane 7pts 1CS 1CR 5GB -3BB 1SB
BaggieOne 7pts 1CS 2CR -3GB 3BB 1SB
Themaclad 3pts 1CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Dingle 1pts 0CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
BBB 1pts 0CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Amelia 0pts 0CS 1CR -3GB 3BB 0SB

Another poor week for most in the Championship, the Gamball was almost a wipeout and the Bonus wasn't much better!!  The vast majority of the points, 36 out of 47, came from just two games - Fulham's win over Forest and the draw between Palace & Brighton.

Leading the pack this week was Twerton with his highest score of the season of 18 points!!  He scored on 6 games, got a spot on Bonus and 3 CSs, unfortunately he missed on the Gamball but a great week!!  AAA is 2nd with 10 points, only scored on 3 games but wisely didn't play the Gamball so saved points there.

Lady Jane and her Auto promotion spot challenger BaggieOne were joint 3rd with 7 points.  LJ was the only one to get positive points on the Gamball but BaggieOne managed to score on one more game to stay with her.  Themaclad is 5th with 3 points, missed on his big balls but did manage a CS.

The bottom three only got 2 points between them.  Dingle's stuttering form saw him manage only a single point, same as BBB, they both got there the same way missed on the main balls, got 3 CRs to cancel that points deficit out and added the Scoreball to give them each a solitary point!!  Amelia unfortunately only scored on one game but at least it was her Bonus, she was the only one to miss on her scoreball as she was the one to pick the only game that ended 0-0!!

232 Dingle
217 Lady Jane
212 BaggieOne
199 AAA
180 BBB
155 Themaclad
135 Twerton
123 Amelia

Only one positional change this week at the bottom of the table.  Dingle's lead shrinks a bit, now down to 15 points and now in the zone where one bad week for him and a good one for LJ could possibly see it disappear completely!!  BaggieOne is still just 5 behind LJ.  AAA closed the gap a little on the top 3 but BBB is being left behind by him now.

Themaclad is firmly stuck in no man's land but if Twerton can repeat this weeks form then you never know!!  Amelia lost serious ground to Twerton today and as he overtakes her she drops back to the bottom!!

Stat for you, so far we have had 230 games to predict, so in total 1,840 predictions in the Championship and one sure way to boost your points outside of the Balls is to turn a Correct Result into a Correct Score and double your points on those games!!  So how often do we see that??  Well this season in the Championship so far we have seen 143 Correct Score predictions - so a measly 8% of the games predicted!!!  The leader in this category is AAA with 25 (11%) followed by Twerton with 21 (9%), BaggieOne and Dingle with 18 each (8% each).  At the other end Amelia has the least with just 12 (5%).  I will openly add that I believe there is a certain player in the PL who only has 4% in this category !!

Cheers
SCO

Hibs finally back at ER Stadium facing a Killie side that will no doubt provide a stuffy defence (a la Derek McInnes style of coaching) for Hibs forwards to attempt to break down and score goals. They should have a reasonable chance of achieving that goal on Saturday and continuing with another win and more positive momentum to build on in the weeks ahead. C'mon Hibs!

GGTTH

Gamball:
Newcastle - Liverpool

Others:
Brighton - Fulham
Aston Villa - Arsenal
Everton - Leeds
Millwall - Sheff U
Blackpool - Stoke
Huddersfield - Birmingham
Rotherham - Coventry
Wigan - Norwich
Watford - WBA

2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score      
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.

Friday 17th February:
Cardiff City v Reading

Saturday 18th February:
Town v Birmingham
Town scorers:
Brummie scorers:

Millwall v Sheffield United (12:30)
Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City
Blackpool v Stoke City
Hull City v Preston North End
Luton Town v Burnley
Middlesbrough v Queens Park Rangers
Rotherham United v Coventry City
Sunderland v Bristol City
Wigan Athletic v Norwich City

Monday 20th February:
Watford v West Bromwich Albion

Tuesday 21st February:
Blackburn Rovers v Blackpool
Millwall v Burnley
Norwich City v Birmingham City
Rotherham United v Sunderland
Swansea City v Stoke City

Table after Matchday 26:

1. jjamez = 640 pts
   
2. theo_luddite = 580 pts
   
3. themaclad = 574 pts
   
4. Baggiebob(BBB) = 567 pts
   
5. neonfoxinthebox = 550 pts
   
6. St Charles Owl = 536 pts
   
7. Lord Snooty = 529 pts
   
8. ritchiebaby = 519 pts
   
9. SHEP_HTAFC = 496 pts
   
10. Amelia Chaffinch = 472 pts
    
11. Devongone = 454 pts
    
12. WakeyTerrier = 171 pts

THE MATCH

TUESDAY 14TH FEBRUARY KO 7:45PM

v

LAST MATCH



Our run of wins came to an end.  Disappointing after being 2-0 up but a point is ok for this fixture.

THE MATCH



Next up a home game against Morecambe.  They have struggled this season but this is as important to them as it is for us but for different reasons.  We beat them 3-0 at their place back in September with three late goals from Windass, Byers and Smith, more of the same please.

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 4
MORECAMBE 0
DRAWS 1 

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                        

MORECAMBE           -                                                 

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

ROBERT LEWIS
Ian Smedley and Robert Atkin
Fourth Official : Christopher Ward

THE TEAM

Dawson
Iorfa Flint Famewo
Palmer Bannan Byers Vaulks Johnson
Windass Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)


ATTENDANCE


WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME


BML LEAGUE

Owlskev 20
Imre 19
Stateside 19
Wash 17
SCO 15
Peiowl 12
Maddix 10

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Bolton v MK Dons
Cambridge v Cheltenham
Fleetwood v Peterborough
Oxford v Plymouth
Portsmouth v Burton



THE MUPPETT LEAGUE


Washington




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

LAST TIME OUT



FORM GUIDE

PNE 10 LUTON 13

MANAGER

Rob Edwards

On 11 October 2013, Edwards announced that he had retired from professional football at the age of 30.[31] He became Under-18s coach at Wolves, and his first season in charge (2014–15) was considered very successful by local newspaper Express & Star.[32] He was promoted to help Head Coach Kenny Jackett for the final two months of the season, and then to the role of full-time First Team Coach during the summer of 2015.

On 25 October 2016 Edwards was appointed interim head coach at Wolves following the sacking of Walter Zenga.[33] He took charge of two games – a 1–1 draw at Blackburn Rovers, followed by a 2–3 defeat to Derby – before Paul Lambert took charge. Edwards remained at a club in the role of first team coach until the conclusion of the season when he departed alongside Lambert.[34]

On 28 June 2017, Edwards was named as the new manager of his hometown club AFC Telford United.[35] The Bucks finished in 14th place in the National League North, 10 points outside the play-offs. Edwards left by mutual consent at the end of the season.[36]

Edwards was appointed as the head coach of Wolverhampton Wanderers U23 on 20 July 2018.[37] In his first season in charge, he led them to promotion to Premier League 2 Division 1, the highest level of youth football, for the first time in their history.[38]

In October 2019, Edwards left Wolves to take up a 'prestigious role' with The Football Association working as a coach with the England U20s.[39] On 24 September 2020, he was appointed as head coach for the England under-16 team.[40]

Forest Green Rovers
On 27 May 2021, Edwards was appointed Head Coach of League Two side Forest Green Rovers, joining the role on 4 June in order to be able to finish the season with his England sides.[41] After picking up four wins from his first five matches, Edwards was awarded the EFL League Two Manager of the Month award for August 2021 with his star striker Matty Stevens winning the Player of the Month award.[42] He won the award for a second time for November following three wins from three.[43]

Edwards then won the manager of the month award for a third time for January 2022 after picking up 14 points from six matches, including a 4–0 win away at second-placed Tranmere Rovers, moving ten points clear at the top of the league.[44] On 23 April, Forest Green drew 0–0 away at Bristol Rovers to secure promotion to League One for the first time in the club's history.[45] The following day, Edwards was named the 2021–22 EFL League Two Manager of the Season at the league's annual awards ceremony.[46] On 11 May, he departed the club following negotiations with Watford.[47]

Watford
On 11 May 2022, Edwards was announced as the new head coach of Watford, taking over from Roy Hodgson at the conclusion of the 2021–22 season.[48] His first game on 1 August was a 1–0 home win over Sheffield United with a goal by João Pedro.[49]


On 26 September 2022, Edwards was sacked as head coach after winning three out of ten league games and with Watford in 10th place.[50]

Luton Town
On 17 November 2022, Edwards was appointed manager of Championship club Luton Town, rivals of Edwards' previous club Watford.[51]

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https://www.lutontown.co.uk/

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Aldershot 0-3 Chesterfield
Altrincham 2-1 Bromley
Boreham Wood 2-2 Solihull Moors
Dag & Red 0-1 Eastleigh
Notts County 2-2 Barnet
Oldham 1-0 Gateshead
Southend 2-1 Halifax
Wrexham 1-1 Woking

League Table After Matchday 40
Devon - 752
St Charles Owl - 666
SaltergateBorn - 637
Lord Snoots - 631
Spireitematt - 619
Amelia - 583
Dancing - 556