THE MATCH

SATURDAY 5TH MARCH KO 3:00PM

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We kept our playoff push going with an emphatic win over Burton despite a wobble either side of HT. We got an early lead whn Johnson's cross was turned in by Palmer from close range. We went 2 up when Bazza picked the ball up 20 yards out and bent one in off the post. Minutes later Burton pulled on back after a slightly deflected 25 yarder. 2-1 at the half. Onto the 2nd and Burton were level when there striker bundled one in, though the defending could have been better. Instead of folding we upped the ante and retook the lead when Pato steered in a corner. It was Johnson next on the scoresheet with a 20 yard piledriver. Bazza finished the scoring when firing one in from 25 yards

THE MATCH



Next up and we travel to Sincil Bank to take on Lincoln. The Imps have had a disappointing season and currently lie in 18th place just 4 points above the relegation zone. Anthony Scully is there leading scorer and assist maker, 8 & 7, who plays down the wing. Michael Appleton is there current manager who took over from the Cowley brothers. They aren't in the best of form losing there last 3 games including a 0-2 home defeat to Gillingham on Saturday.

CURRENT FORM

OWLS               -                                                    

LINC                -                                   

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

MARTIN COY
Steven Rushton and Grant Taylor
Fourth Official : Christopher Sarginson

THE TEAM

Peacock-Farrell
Storey Hutch Palmer
Hunt Byers Bannan Luongo Johnson
Pato Berahino

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-2 Paterson

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML STANDINGS

Pei 12
SCO 11
Wereham 10
Kev 8
Maddix 7
Imre 6
Wash 4
SS 4

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Oxford United vBurton Albion
Plymouth Argyle v Morecambe
Portsmouth v Accrington Stanley
Rotherham United v Milton Keynes Dons
Wigan Athletic v AFC Wimbledon

HHHHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

OWLKEV
SCO
WASHINGTON




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Hopefully these games are actually scheduled to take place:

Gamball:
Norwich - Brentford

Others
Bristol City - Birmingham
Hull - WBA
Reading - Millwall
Swansea - Coventry
Burnley - Chelsea
Watford - Arsenal
Newcastle - Brighton
Lincoln - Sheff Wed
Charlton - Sunderland


Derby's Predictiions:

Gamball Norwich 2 -1 Brentford Doh
Others
Bristol City 1-0 Bham
Hull 0- 1 WBA
Reading 1-0 Millwall
Swansea 1- 2Coventry Tongue
Burnley 0 - 2 Chelsea Smartass
Watford 1 - 2 Arsenal
Newcastle 2 - 1 Brighton
Lincoln 1-2 Sheff wed
Charlton 0-1 Sunderland

Well this is a match that should certainly provide Hibs with a welcome 3 pts v a poor Dundee side in relegation freefall. However, my optimism is not boosted by what Hibs are doing on the pitch up front. In other words, to win matches like this one Hibs need to "bang in" some goals to finish off a good performance/victory that should bolster their 4th position in the Scot Prem. Will they do it? Hibs competed well on Sunday in the mid area v Celtic. They need to add goals to "round it off" in a similar good display v Dundee. I can only hope Doidgy "finds his scoring boots" with Nisbet out injured. I also wish Chris Cadden would opt for more shots on goal in his forages down Hibs right flank. I think he can score more goals, if he tried, rather than pass to certain Hibs players who are not gonna do it anyway. C'mon Hibs!

GGTTH

Are we just a stop-gap in Paul Cook's successful career? I hope tonight I'm proved wrong, but it seems like he's just going through the motions.

Perhaps it is just that he's thinking he'll re-build over the summer and make this his team, playing his way and win the league. Maybe? After all he's no experience of taking over someone else's successful team, playing in a different way from his own and building on it.

Watching us against Yeovil I felt we were completely absent. Asante was trying and Kellerman produced probably the most sublime piece of skill in his career, but we couldn't string three passes together, and when attempting a long ball we were missing by yards. We had no definable strategy, no approach to attacking that made me think we could ever score and we were generally outplayed by a journeyman Yeovil side.

How Adam Virgo could award Kellerman MOM for one piece of skill in a very ordinary performance I don't know. How anyone could not see that Yeovil's Knowles was head and shoulders the best player on the pitch is beyond me at least.

We looked tired and lacking in confidence. We gave every indication of simply waiting to fail. Something bad was going to happen soon.

But we won. Maybe that was our low-point and much better is now on the way. Maybe.

Nevertheless Paul Cook's low-key return worries me. Is he hoping when the end-of-season managerial merry-go-round starts that he might get a proper job? On Saturday it seemed like the team reflected its manager. None of them were really there. What do you think?

Chesterfield 2-1 Notts County
Dag & Red 2-0 Maidenhead United
Wrexham 3-0 King's Lynn

League Table After Matchday 41

Lord Snoots = 436
Amelia = 434
St Charles = 434
Devon = 426
Dancing = 412
Spireitematt = 368

Former Huddersfield Town owner Dean Hoyle is in discussions to buy back the Championship club.
Phil Hodgkinson, who Hoyle sold the club to in 2019, has stepped down as a director of the club to focus on his other business interests.
Nine of Hodgkinson's businesses were placed into administration in November.
Hoyle retained a 25% stake in the club when he sold it and is now in talks with Hodgkinson's PURE Sports Consultancy Limited to buy the rest.
Lifelong Terriers fan Hoyle was chairman during Huddersfield's rise to the Premier League from League One. He stepped back in 2019 after suffering an acute form of pancreatitis, which led to him spending 15 weeks in hospital.



Do you fans want this, or not?

THE MATCH

TUESDAY 1ST MARCH KO 7:45PM

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We continued our surge towards the playoffs as we comfortably saw off the Addicks. We got off to the perfect start when Byers flicked in Bannans free kick. We were controlling the game but weren't creating a hatful of chance, but that changed just before halftime when Johnson was played down the right and crossed for Pato to fire home. The pattern continued into the 2nd, we had a couple of chances and Charlton had there only shot on target which was comfortably saved by BPS. Bannan & Johnson went off with knocks the only concern.

THE MATCH



Next up and Burton travel to Hillsborough after the Boxing Day match was postponed due to Covid. We finally beat these for the first time 4 weeks ago with Byers & Sow on the scoresheet. Burton are placed 14th in the league and wont be troubling either the playoff spots or the relegation dogfight. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is in his second stint as manager and is doing a decent job with what he has to work with. Brayford is there leading scorer with 5 goals and he is a centre back, maybe they should play him up front.

CURRENT FORM

OWLS               -                                                   

BURT                -                                    

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

SAMUEL BARROTT
Mark Jones and Stephen Wade
Fourth Official : Richard Wigglesworth

THE TEAM

Peacock-Farrell
Storey Hutch Palmer
Hunt Byers Bannan Luongo Johnson
Pato Berahino

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Berahino

ATTENDANCE

24211

BML STANDINGS

SCO 11
Pei 11
Wereham 10
Kev 8
Maddix 7
Imre 6
Wash 4
SS 3

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Cardiff City v Derby County
Portsmouth v Oxford United
Shrewsbury Town v Rotherham United
Wigan Athletic v Fleetwood Town
Wycombe Wanderers v Cambridge United

HAAHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

OWLKEV
SCO
WASHINGTON




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

2 points for a correct result
4 points for a correct score
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.


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.  

NEW FOR THIS SEASON: 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.
So last season's matches would've been Baggiebob(BBB) v theo_luddite and jjamez v St Charles Owl and would've given a bit more to play for towards the back end of the season.
The prize for winning will be enormous. Another rep point.

We now have an Appeals Committee set up, consisting of me, myself and I. All appeals must be made before the next Matchday kicks off.

Friday 4th Match:
Town v Peterborough
Town scorers:
Pish scorers:

Sheffield United v Nottingham Forest

Saturday 5th March:
Fulham v Blackburn Rovers (12:30)
Bristol City v Birmingham City
Derby County v Barnsley
Hull City v West Bromwich Albion
Middlesbrough v Luton Town
Preston North End v AFC Bournemouth
Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City
Reading v Millwall
Stoke City v Blackpool
Swansea City v Coventry City

Monday 7th March:
FA Cup 5th round:
Nottingham Forest v Town
Town scorers:
Forest scorers:

Championship:
Tuesday 8th March:
Barnsley v Stoke City
Blackburn Rovers v Millwall
AFC Bournemouth v Peterborough United
Coventry City v Luton Town
Sheffield United v Middlesbrough
Swansea City v Fulham

Table after Matchday 31:

1. Baggiebob(BBB) = 753 pts
   
2. jjamez = 708 pts
   
3. Lord Snooty = 690 pts
   
4. St Charles Owl = 683 pts
   
5. themaclad = 677 pts
   
6. theo_luddite = 673 pts
   
7. neonfoxinthebox = 657 pts
   
8. SHEP_HTAFC = 620 pts
   
9. ritchiebaby = 575 pts
   
10. WakeyTerrier = 563 pts
    
11. Amelia Chaffinch = 534 pts

I rarely watch the bbc these days, but I was caught up in a discussion in which one of the speakers stated we needed to stand up to Putin. Otherwise it would mean letting him damage international law and international agreements. My immediate thoughts reflected back to Iraq and the illegal invasion based on lies uttered by Blair and Bush plus the admitted lies to the UN itself by Colin Powell, one of his huge regrets before he passed last year. Don't forget the loss of 100s of 1000s of innocent lives, both in the war and in the lead up via sanctions. Over decades, millions have been killed or displaced due to foreign policies which take no account of the genuine interests of the ordinary people of the West or international law. It may be necessary for our interest and self-defence to take action against Russia/Putin for this disgraceful action against a sovereign country (note Iraq was also a sovereign country!), but we need to do it honestly and with a clear vision in order to avoid the creation of an all-out war in Europe. IMO we can do without the hypocrisy and jingoism that is spouting out of a lotta the MS media (and others), the "usual suspects" in this country at the mo, as it does nothing to help as well as laying the groundwork for future "military adventures" by leaders who IMO are "lightweight" and dodgy "into the bargain".