THE MATCH

SATURDAY 15TH JANUARY KO 3PM

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LAST MATCH



Back to winning ways as we saw off the Sky Blues. There weren't many chances in first half but we had the majority of them but none of our chances tested there keeper and we went in 0-0 at the break. Onto the 2nd half and both teams tested the keepers but the score remained 0-0. We then put Smith on and 8 minutes later he got the winner after Windass intercepted a pass and fed Smith who finished well. We nearly made it 2 but were denied by the keeper and we thought we had thrown away 3 points but a last ditch goal was ruled out, correctly, for offside.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up we return to Hillsborough as we take on Coventry. The Sky Blues are having a decent season, with Frank Lampard now in charge after the sacking of Mark Robins earlier in the season. Lampard took over on the 28th November and has a 47% win rate. They are currently in 10th place and are just 3 points off the playoffs, if they can make the playoffs it would be a pretty good job by Lampard. There leading scorer is H Wright with 7 goals.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 30
COVE 36
DRAW 24

CURRENT FORM

OWLS  W L D W D L                                                                      

COVE W L W W W W               

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

JOSH SMITH
Sam Lewis and Blake Antrobus
Fourth Official: Scott Oldham

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Ingelsson
Musaba Windass Gasama
Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Gassama

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

27655

BML LEAGUE

SCO 21
Imre 20
Maddix 20
Washington 19
Wereham 12

BMPL

Stateside 15
Owlkev 13
Southey 12
Pei 8

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Fulham v Notts Forest
Millwall v WBA
Barnsley v Huddersfield
Walsall v Chesterfield
Halifax v Boston

AAAHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Head coach John Eustace has left Championship promotion chasers Blackburn Rovers to take over as boss of relegation-threatened Derby County on a three-and-a-half-year deal.

Eustace was absent from Blackburn's win at West Bromwich Albion on Wednesday, which lifted Rovers up to fifth in the table - 19 points and 16 places above Derby.

His first game in charge of the Pride Park side, with whom he had two spells as a player, will be Friday's trip to Queens Park Rangers.

It was late on Monday when Blackburn "reluctantly" gave Eustace permission to begin talks with their lowly Championship rivals, who sacked Paul Warne on Friday.

Despite meeting with Derby officials on Tuesday, Eustace was not spotted at Pride Park later that day as the Rams shared the points with Oxford United in an uneventful draw that lifted them out of the relegation places on goals scored.

Assistant head coach Matt Gardiner and first-team coach Keith Downing also leave Blackburn to join Eustace at Derby.

"Fans will remember him for his craft, commitment and intelligence, he was a real leader," Clowes told the club website., external

"I've followed his managerial career with interest, and it's clear he has the qualities we need to maintain our progress."

Eustace, who also previously managed Birmingham City in the second tier, leaves Ewood Park with Blackburn in the play-off spots with 14 matches remaining.

Despite the clubs being at opposite ends of the table, it is understood Eustace believes Derby are the better long-term project. And with his family living in the Midlands, location has been a major factor in the move.

Rovers said they were "disappointed by his decision to leave at this crucial stage of the season" but added they "understand" the family reason behind it and the pull of his former side.

"The club had hoped that John would see out the season and continue the fantastic work he has done, particularly after strengthening the squad in January and guiding us into a strong position in the league," a Rovers statement said., external

"Football is always evolving, and while we part ways with John Eustace, this also presents an exciting opportunity for the new head coach to build on our current positive position."

Eustace's exit from Blackburn means half of the teams in the Championship have changed manager since the start of the season.
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Despite picking up just 11 points from a possible 36 since late December, Rovers have maintained their spot among the high-fliers.

His final game in the dugout for Rovers was Sunday's FA Cup exit against Premier League side Wolves.

It is the second time in as many seasons that Eustace has left a club while they are in the play-off places in the Championship table.

While this move is of his own volition, he had his time at Birmingham surprisingly ended in October 2023 by new owners who wanted Wayne Rooney in charge.

It was a decision that sparked Blues' slide down the table, which culminated in relegation to League One later that season.

Blackburn had been in relegation trouble themselves when Eustace took the job at Ewood Park and, after keeping them up, he has guided them among the promotion hopefuls this term.

Derby's 10-match winless run across all competitions - which included seven straight league defeats - has them fourth from bottom of the table and in danger of making an immediate return to League One.

Eustace had two spells at Derby as a player, with his first spent helping the Rams avoid relegation from the second tier in 2008-09 while on loan from Watford.

He moved to Pride Park on a permanent deal in 2013 and saw out the final two years of his playing career.

It was in that second spell he helped them get to within one win of the Premier League, with the Rams beaten in the Championship play-off final by QPR in 2014.

Group A
Zinman 24
Twerton 22
Minizin 14
Themaclad 13
A.A.A. 11
Amelia 8

Excellent week of scoring in Group A this week with a total of 92 points setting a new weekly high for the season!! 5 players got into double figures, half picked up positive points on the Gamball and 12 correct scores were posted. Leading the pack this week is Zinman with a season high score of 24 points!! He managed a CR on the Gamball and Bonus and then backed that up with 3 CSs and the scoreball for good measure!! Close behind him was Twerton with 22 points, a season high for him as well, he managed to get the only CS on the Gamball this week and scored positive points on 7 games but missed out on top spot because he got his Bonus wrong!!

Bit of a drop to Minizin in 3rd with 14 points and Themaclad in 4th with 13 points. Minizin got a CR on the Gamball but missed on his bonus, Themaclad did the opposite!! Minizin scored on more games but Themaclad had one extra CS. AAA is 5th with 11 points, he managed 2 CSs but his points were kept down mainly because he missed on the main balls.

Amelia was the only player to not hit double figures this week, scoring 8 points. She scored on 5 games but she missed out on all the balls to keep her score down.

235 Themaclad
229 Minzin
219 Zinman
210 Twerton
182 A.A.A.
160 Amelia

No positional changes this week but its now really getting close at the top. Themaclad had a 28 point lead just 4 weeks ago, that is now down to just 6 points over Minizin!! Add to that the good form Zinman has shown sees him just 10 points back with Twerton not that far behind him. Another week like this one would see the top 4 separated by just 15 points!! The top 4 have now all surpassed the 200 mark and AAA is not far off it as well.

One interesting stat for you, if you look at Correct Scores and Correct results it shows an interesting fact about the importance of these. So far there have been 1320 predictions made in Group A and nearly 40% (491 games) of those have resulted in a CS or CR. Of these 351 have been CRs and 140 have been CSs which attract the extra 2 points. The interesting stat is that the league leader Themaclad has actually scored the least Correct Results, with just 53 to his name. Contrast this to Minizin with 62 and Amelia and Zinman with 61 each, so how is Mac top? Well when you look at Correct Scores Themaclad is leading the way with 29, of which 5 were Gamballs, and this easily outweighs the points scored by others on their CRs!! Getting a spot on score really boosts your points.

Group B

Stairs 17
SCO 15
BaggieOne 14
Derby 11
Snooty 11
BBB 9
Lady Jane 3

A good week for Group B - 5 players in double figures, a rare positive return from the bonus ball and everyone getting at least 1 correct score led to the equal 2nd highest points haul of the season. A poor return form the gamball, with just one player predicting a Bournemouth win, prevented a possible 3 figure total score.

Stairs leads this week's table thanks largely to a full set of balls. As well as getting the gamball correct (that's now 3 in a row) he also nailed a maximum bonus. SCO takes 2nd place with 5 correct results, 2 of them spot-on, but like everyone else failed on his gamball. His extra scoreball point keeps him 1 point ahead of BaggieOne in 3rd place.

Derby and Snooty are tied on 11 points with an identical breakdown of 1 correct score, 4 correct results, a bonus and the scoreball. BBB sits 2 points further back, his only difference being a negative scoreball, even though that game went to extra time! A miserable week for long time leader Lady Jane - just 3 points after scoring on just 2 games and missing out on all her balls.

214 Lady Jane
197 SCO
195 Stairs
191 Derby
173 Snooty
161 BBB
140 BaggieOne

While she still sits on top, Lady Jane is beginning to come under pressure from the chasing pack. 7 weeks ago she held a 32 point advantage over 2nd place - that's now down to 17 and over the last 3 weeks, SCO in 2nd place has outscored her by 21. It's now very close in the fight for 2nd place with just 6 points separating the next 3 places. Derby had held 2nd place for many weeks but has now dropped to 4th having been overtaken by Stairs in the only positional change this week.

I mentioned Stairs run of 3 successive positive gamballs above and so I decided to look at such runs for my stats of the week. 3 successive gamballs is in fact the equal best run of the season, matched by BaggieOne and Lady Jane - can he set the record by getting another one right this week?

The longest positive bonus ball run is 5, a record shared by Stairs and Snooty, with 4 weeks being the longest positive scoreball run by SCO, BaggieOne, Snooty and Lady Jane. Snooty could make it 5 this week.

Zin & SCO

Thursday 13 February 2025

Port Vale 1-2 Notts County

Saturday 15 February 2025

Doncaster 1-2 Grimsby
Wimbledon 1-1 Salford City
Bromley 1-0 Fleetwood
Carlisle 1-2 Colchester
Cheltenham 0-2 Barrow
Gillingham 2-1 Crewe
Harrogate 2-2 Swindon
Morecambe 2-0 Accrington
Newport 0-2 Bradford City
Tranmere 1-1 MK Dons
Walsall 0-2 Chesterfield


League Table After Match day 34

Devon - 558
Dancing - 552
Maclad - 545
SaltergateBorn - 528
Amelia - 516
Lord Snoots - 503
Spireitematt - 501
St Charles - 493

THE MATCH

WEDNESDAY 8TH JANUARY KO 7:45PM

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LAST MATCH



Just as we seemed to have rescued a point, we threw that away by conceding in the last minute of injury time via a set piece....AGAIN The Baggies had much of the possession in the first half and had a couple of chances with Grant firing wide and Beadle making a save from Heggem. Onto the 2nd half and the Baggies had an early chance but Johnson blocked, then we appeared to take the lead, Gassama cutting in from left and guided the ball into the corner, but the goal was controversially chalked off by ref/linesman. The Baggies then went up the other end and Armstrong put the Baggies in front. We went looking for the leveller and we finally got it in when Pato knocked in his own rebound. A point gained, unfortunately not as Albion got a corner and we forgot how to mark again as the Baggies took all 3 points

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THE MATCH



Next up and we travel to Swansea. Swansea are languishing in the bottom half of the table in the 16th place and 9 points clear of the relegation zone and probably have too much to get embroiled in a relegation battle and probably too much to get to the playoffs. They are managed by Luke Williams, who has been in charge for just over a year and has a 34% win percentage from 56 games. There leading scorer is Liam Cullen who has 9 goals and 1 assist.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 13
SWAN 10
DRAW 15

CURRENT FORM

OWLS  L D W D L L                                                                      

SWAN W L L L L D                 

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

ELLIOT BELL
Graham Kane and Robert Hyde
Fourth Official: Leigh Doughty

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Ingelsson
Musaba Windass Gasama
Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Gassama

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

SCO 21
Imre 20
Washington 19
Maddix 19
Wereham 11

BMPL

Stateside 15
Owlkev 13
Southey 12
Pei 8

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Everton v Liverpool
Plymouth v Millwall
Sheff Utd v Middlesboro
WBA v Blackburn
Port Vale v Notts Co

AADDD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Wimbledon 1-0 Crewe
Barrow 1-2 MKDons
Bradford 2-0 Accrington
Newport 1-1 Carlisle
Tranmere 1-0 Fleetwood
Walsall 0-0 Gillingham