This is gonna be a tough away match v opponents who are unbeaten for a while and they have just leapfrogged above us into 4th place in the Scot Prem. However, this is a great opportunity to poss change our season and lay down our credentials to push on for that 4th place by beating the Buddies! We've been robbed of 3 pts in our last game by another incredible ref decision ignoring a clear foul on David Marshall, the goalie apparently livid with the ref after this match ended! It would be good to see a positive reaction from the guys and continue with a win. We really need to "lay down a marker" that we wanna push up this league and keep going until season end. C'mon Hibs!

GGTTH

I've nothing against Leicester - far from it - but how can this sort of debt be just written off - more than once, apparently?
Where is the level playing field again??

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64483794

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 4TH FEBRUARY KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



The result we didn't want as we played out a dreary 1-1 draw and have to play a replay next week. Not much happened in the first half and we went in 0-0. Fleetwood took the lead early in the second when Omochere headed in from close range. We forced a replay when Earl put the ball into his own net. Gregory could have won it but headed over near the end

THE MATCH



A top of the table clash as we entertain league leaders Plymouth. Plymouth are having a great season, and like ourselves have lost only 3 times this season and it looks like a 3 or 4 horse race for the 2 automatic spots. There leading scorer Whittaker (9G 7A) has now left the club but they still have Hardie, Ennis & Cosgrove who have 24 goals between them. They are managed by Steven Schumacher who has been in charge since late 2021 and has a 56% win rate.

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 15
PLYM 13
DRAWS 16

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                      

PLYM               -                                             

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

JOHN BUSBY
Mark Dwyer and James Wilson
Fourth Official : Ross Joyce

THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Iorfa Famewo
Hunt Adeniran Byers FDB Johnson
Windass Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Smith

ATTENDANCE

N/A

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

BML LEAGUE

Owlskev 20
Imre 19
Stateside 19
Wash 18
SCO 16
Peiowl 12
Maddix 9

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Aston Villa v Leicester
Preston v Bristol City
Cambridge v Ipswich
Northampton v Walsall
Aldershot v Dorking

HDAHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

WEREHAM
PEIOWL




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Gamball:
Sheffield Wednesday - Plymouth

Others:
Everton - Arsenal
Norwich - Burnley
Huddersfield - QPR
Millwall - Sunderland
Reading - Watford
Rotherham - Sheff Utd
Preston - Bristol City
Nottingham Forest - Leeds
Spurs - Man City

2 things:

firstly British Broadcasting Clowns(BBC to the rest of us)  And ITV...for their total love affair with premier league clubs
during the last round of the F.A cup

all those games bar ONE were terrible to watch
only one game....one game was entertaining...and yes you guessed it,it did not involve a premier league side


2nd
with the transfer window about to close
is any player seriously worth 105 million quid?.....most of us had never heard of Enzo Fernandez until the world cup

stupid money being thrown around yet again
if chelsea do sign this fernandez guy hate to imagine what wages he will be on....(wont see him shopping at asda)
the richer clubs are obviously getting richer
but.
with this cost of living crisis going on who can afford to go to games?
these big clubs will soon be playing in half empty stadiums cause people will be priced out of attending

rant over

Well that demonstrates our ambition. We don't play him in order to sell him.

What happens when he gets injured during the loan period?

Same as it ever was. Take it away David Byrne.

New manager/Coach

Wigan Athletic have appointed former winger Shaun Maloney as manager on a three-and-a-half-year deal.

The 40-year-old replaces Kolo Toure, who was sacked after just nine games in charge on Thursday.

The Latics are bottom of the Championship table, four points adrift of safety.

"I have amazing memories here and created some fabulous moments with teams and with fans, and I'm excited to get started," Maloney said.

"The feeling that I have from those times as a player is a big factor for me. I have been here previously and have always felt a great warmth from the supporters.

"I want the fans to see a team that is giving absolutely everything, fighting to get better and the supporters need to feel that. The connection is there, we just need to reawaken it."

The former Scotland international made 91 appearances across four seasons with the Latics and was part of the team that won the FA Cup in 2013.

He moved into coaching with Celtic, where he had started his playing career, before joining the staff of ex-Wigan boss Roberto Martinez with Belgium.

Hibernian gave him his first job in management in December 2021 but he was sacked last April after winning just six of his 19 games in charge.

He now becomes Wigan's third manager of the season after Leam Richardson was sacked in November and replaced by rookie boss Toure, who failed to win any of his nine games.

Graham Barrow has left Exeter City to return to the club as assistant manager. The 68-year-old previously spent eight years at DW Stadium between 2009 and 2017.

Maloney's first game in charge will be a trip to promotion hopefuls Blackburn a week on Monday, 6 February.

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 February 3rd:
West Bromwich Albion v Coventry City

Saturday February 4th:
Town v QPR
Town scorers:
QPR scorers:

Norwich City v Burnley (12:30)
Rotherham United v Sheffield United (12:30)
Hull City v Cardiff City
Luton Town v Stoke City
Middlesbrough v Blackpool
Millwall v Sunderland
Preston North End v Bristol City
Reading v Watford
Swansea City v Birmingham City

Monday February 6th:
Blackburn Rovers v Wigan Athletic

Tuesday 7th February:
Blackpool v Town
Town scorers:
Blackpool scorers:

FA Cup 4th round replays:
Tuesday:
Burnley v Ipswich Town
Fleetwood Town v Sheffield Wednesday
Grimsby Town v Luton Town
Sheffield United v Wrexham

Wednesday:
Sunderland v Fulham

Table after Matchday 24:

1. jjamez = 570 pts
   
2. theo_luddite = 525 pts
   
3. neonfoxinthebox = 508 pts
   
4. themaclad = 506 pts
   
5. Baggiebob(BBB) = 497 pts
   
6. Lord Snooty = 479 pts
   
7. ritchiebaby = 469 pts
   
8. St Charles Owl = 464 pts
   
9. SHEP_HTAFC = 462 pts
   
10. Amelia Chaffinch = 442 pts
    
11. Devongone = 408 pts
    
12. WakeyTerrier = 171 pts