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

When Rodrigues is either absent or not-bovvered Notts County aren't that good. They weren't. We were worth a draw, or we would have been if we could behave ourselves. But that is the manager's job.

I still can't see how we can expect to win, playing that system with Quigley at the front of it. Harry Kane he ain't.

I thought we had the best player on the pitch in Akinola. I just see the Non-League paper rated him 6/10. Find someone who understands the game to do your reports! I'll go through our team:-

Fitzsimmons - apparently threatened to leave for Scunthorpe. We should have waved the miserable-looking sod goodbye. Goalies need to have and show personality. He's had a by-pass. Made one good save, didn't play badly, thought he didn't do much on the first goal. He's ordinary, ordinary, ordinary, like their keeper, like Wrexham's keeper, lucky to be there. Scunthorpe FFS!

King - not at his best. Didn't get forward enough. I didn't get his first booking. Needs a kick up the ... for getting himself sent off in such an important game. Football is a team game. It isn't all about you Mr King, even if you are a good player.

Horton - didn't get forward enough and unfortunately that's all he can do. He got murdered in defence. Clements is a much safer bet against good opposition.

Grimes - simply cannot read the game. Dreadful on the opening goal. Tries and is brave and committed. Is he better than both Williams and Maguire?

Palmer - Looked competent, not outstanding, but he does want to win and did cut out the errors. Decent performance.

Jones - if anonymity is a virtue, as it is supposed to be for referees, then he's international class. Yes for sure he cuts out some danger and can read the game. He is largely there to do what Grimes can't. Which leaves us playing with ten men.

Banks - looked the part but didn't really play it. He was just slightly off his game, shots over the bar, defence splitting passes found no-one. He wasn't terrible but he certainly can do better.

Dobra - was on the verge of a good game until the ADHD kicked in and he started to behave like that child of eight you'd like to strangle. Excellent skills, tries, gets involved, a cut above our level, but lying on the floor and having a tantrum any time an opposition player brushes past doesn't help the team and it only makes his own life harder. Come on son, there are Albanians with tough lives, you're on easy street, do grow up.

Mandeville - flits in and out, looks a player, then he isn't there, dangerous and limp within the same minute. Looks ill, needs to do weight training, but he can play and sometimes he did.

Akinola - box to box, worked his sox off. He'll never make it at Arsenal, but the Championship shouldn't be beyond him. Hope we find a way to keep him, why he gets so little game time is beyond me. Best player on the pitch.

Quigley - like Fitzsimmons spends most of his life in the ordinary box. He tries, makes runs at his own pace, wants to win and lead the line, but he's been at all those clubs because he is as good as what you see. He was there, "better than a 5 and not good enough for a 6". That'll be his epitaph.

Colclough - should have started. Dangerous. Only a mother could love him tho'.

McCallum - unreliable, but is much better all round than Q.

Sheckleford - found his way on thanks to King, he looks okay-ish. Maybe we could have used some imagination instead, like bring on Maguire and go to three at the back?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/64613056

Scotland 35 Wales 7 and wowww!! What a scintillating performance by Scotland after losing our ex-captain, Hoggy, early in this game - ably replaced by Kinghorn in a decent all round team performance with Finn Russell irresistible and "well up for it" with some of his exquisite kicking/set up play v a poor Wales side. Two consecutive victories and looking good. Well done!!

Very well deserved. Thrashed the Dons and pumped Hibs twice, what’s not to like

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/football...594ccde7ab

A lotta "vested interest" in this proposal, an idea that was never gonna go away although "kicked into the long grass" last year after a Euro-wide condemnation following the announcement of an elite Superleague. This time the protagonists of said Euro Superleague now including other participants and making it look more palatable. Whether it comes to fruition any time soon is debatable TBF! UEFA and FIFA reaction still to come!

Dag & Red 2-2 Solihull Moors
Woking 0-1 Boreham Wood
Wrexham 2-0 Wealdstone
Chesterfield 2-2 Notts County

League Table After Matchday 39
Devon - 748
St Charles Owl - 646
Lord Snoots - 625
SaltergateBorn - 619
Spireitematt - 617
Amelia - 581
Dancing - 554

Premier League

Minizin      12pts 2CS 4CR 5GB -3BB 0SB
Stairs          9pts 2CS 4CR 0GB -3BB 0SB
Derby        9pts 1CS 3CR 5GB -3BB 1SB
SCO            9pts 0CS 4CR 5GB -3BB 1SB
Blue Baggie 8pts 1CS 3CR 5GB -3BB 0SB
Sanjay        3pts 1CS 2CR 0GB -3BB 0SB
Snooty        2pts 0CS 1CR 5GB -3BB 0SB
Zinman        1pt 1CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 1SB

I feel that I should explain to the Premiership players that the bonus ball should be played on the game that they are most confident of predicting correctly. It's a chance to gain an extra point but playing it on a game you're less sure of means that you run the risk of losing 3 points. What makes me think this explanation is necessary is that this week saw a complete wipe-out on the bonus ball with every single player getting it wrong - yes, randomly using a pin would probably have led to a better result!

In contrast the gamball proved more predictable (at least for some) with only 1 player losing points on it. One player, Stairs, got the gamball score correct ....but didn't play it.

Once again Minizin heads the table as the only player to achieve a double figure score from 2 correct scores from his 4 results. Stairs, Derby and SCO all scored 9 points but in very different fashion. Stairs would have been top but..well you know by now, Derby only got 3 correct scores and SCO failed to turn any of his 4 correct results into a maximum. Blue sits just a point back as he missed out on the scoreball.

The bottom 3 are a bit adrift. In contrast to Stairs, Sanjay would have been bottom if he'd chosen to play the gamball while Snooty only scored on 1 game- the gamball. Once again Zinman also took part but may be asking himself why he bothered (if only Plymouth had scored a last minute equaliser he'd have been top!)

Minizin 214
Derby 198
Zinman 190
Snooty 176
Stairs 174
Blue 164
SCO 146
Sanjay 136

Only one change this week with Zinman losing his share of 2nd place. Minizin extends his lead at the top but otherwise, not a lot to say.

Echoing my observations at the start of this report, the gamball has now generated more premiership points than the bonus - in Derby's case by a huge margin of 40 points. Derby and Stairs are both in negative territory from this free choice ball with Zinman soon to join them unless he can get his act together.

Zin


Championship

BaggieOne 12pts 1CS 2CR 5GB 3BB 0SB
Themaclad 10pts 1CS 3CR 5GB -3BB 0SB
AAA 6pts 1CS 2CR -3GB 3BB 0SB
Lady Jane 6pts 0CS 3CR 5GB -3BB 0SB
Dingle 4pts 0CS 2CR 5GB -3BB 0SB
BBB 3pts 0CS 3CR -3GB NPBB 0SB
Amelia 1pts 0CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Twerton -2pts 1CS 0CR -3GB -3BB 0SB

As Zinman so eloquently stated the playing of certain balls is down to the judgement of the participants to play them on their most confident predictions!!  While the Championship did slightly better than the PL on the Bonus with 2 players scoring positive points on it, only one person managed to pick a game where both teams scored!!  One player forgot to play either of them at all!!

BaggieOne is back at the top of the table this week with 12 points.  He actually only scored on 3 games but he got one of only 4 CSs this week and his two CRs were on the Gamball and Bonus.  Themaclad is a couple of points back, like B1 he was one of 4 players to get a CR on the Gamball. (Btw - shame on those who didn't see an Owls win on the Gamball this week!!! And thank you to Zin for not making our game this week the Gamball.) AAA is third along with Lady Jane on 6 points, they got there in completely different ways though!

Dingle is 5th with just 4 points, he has room to spare to be able to have the odd down week especially when the top score is not even into the teens!  BBB got just 3 points and I fancy that he would have scored zero had he remembered to play his Bonus, first warning for him for neglecting to play it!! 

Amelia and Twerton are the bottom 2 again but this time Amelia is in the positive points, thanks to being the only player to score on the Scoreball and Twerton is heading backwards again.

231 Dingle
210 Lady Jane
205 BaggieOne
189 AAA
179 BBB
152 Themaclad
123 Amelia
117 Twerton

Zero positional changes this week and not much else with the scores being so low.  Still a number of position up for grabs for any player that can go on a good run!!

Echoing Zinman, the Gamball has seen nearly 7 times the points awarded when compared to the Bonus Ball but even with just one point this week the Scoreball is still leading the way!

Cheers
SCO

LAST TIME OUT



FORM GUIDE

BURNLEY 21  PNE 10

Burnley is a town in Lancashire, England. Its unparished area contains 190 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, three are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.

Burnley was originally a market town, having been granted the right to hold a market from 1294, and it was surrounded by farmland. Much of this changed with the arrival of the Industrial Revolution. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal came to the town from Leeds in 1796, continuing west in 1801, finally connecting to Liverpool in 1816 and the town then developed into a major cotton town. Its population rose from about 4,000 in 1801 to over 97,000 a century later. During the second half of the 19th century it became "one of the most important cotton-weaving towns in the world".[1] The number of looms in the town rose from 9,000 in 1850 to 79,000 in 1900, and more large mills were built in the early years of the 20th century.[1]

In 1974 the borough of Burnley was established, which included the town of Burnley and surrounding towns, villages and countryside. Many of the outlying areas continued to be civil parishes, but the town of Burnley itself is unparished. This list contains the listed buildings in the unparished area of Burnley. The listed buildings in the outlying civil parishes are included in separate lists.

The listing buildings in the unparished area of Burnley reflect its history. Most of the oldest buildings originated as farmhouses or farm buildings, and also include the parish church, the country house Towneley Hall, and structures associated with these. Later there are structures associated with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and with the East Lancashire Railway, which arrived in the town toward the middle of the 19th century. The later buildings include industrial buildings, in particular cotton mills, together with houses for their workers, and villas for those who became wealthy at the time. There are also the buildings common to all towns, such as churches, schools, public houses, shops, banks, offices, a music hall, structures in public parks, and civic buildings.

A LOCAL



In The Dressing Room

Manager Ryan Lowe confirmed in his pre-match press conference that Ben Whiteman and Troy Parrott - who both missed the previous fixture through injury - are back in training.

Midfielder Josh Onomah, after making his debut last weekend, has been doing double sessions while he looks to build up his match fitness.

Emil Riis and Lewis Leigh remain the only absentees, with the rest of the squad available for selection for Saturday's Lancashire derby.

A Look At Our Hosts


Burnley head into the weekend’s game in a rich vein of form, having won each of their last nine Championship fixtures, and 13 of their last 14.

Having lost just twice all campaign, Vincent Kompany’s men are comfortable leaders of the division, with a seven-point gap between themselves and second place, and a 17-point cushion to third.

If they can continue on the same path, they could secure promotion back to the Premier League at the first time of asking well before the season is up.

Going Head To Head


Games played: 132
PNE wins: 53
Draws: 27
Burnley wins: 52
Last victory: Burnley 0-2 PNE, 5th December 2015

One To Watch


Manager Vincent Kompany made the most of his Belgian connections when recruiting players for his new-look Burnley side, with Anass Zaroury just one of those who arrived from the top tier of Kompany's homeland.

Zaroury – who represented Morocco at the Qatar World Cup – moved to East Lancashire in August 2022 and made his Championship bow for the Clarets at Deepdale against PNE.

Since that point, he has really endeared himself to the Burnley faithful, having scored six and assisted three in Championship action, and the skill he has at his disposal certainly seems to get the crowd off their seats.

Match Officials

Darren Bond will be the man to referee this weekend’s Lancashire derby.

Bond has taken charge of just one PNE fixture so far this season – the home draw against Watford in August 2022 – while he has been the main official for 25 games in total this campaign.

In that time, he has shown 115 yellow cards and two reds.

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