THE MATCH

SATURDAY 12TH APRIL KO 3PM

v

LAST MATCH



We threw more points away as Blackburn came from 0-2 down to get a point. We saw ourselves 0-2 up at the break after we opened the scoring following a corner which was headed back across goal and Valery headed in from close range. Charles did have to make a double save from Blackburn's only chances before we doubled the lead before halftime, Musaba getting down the right and pulling back for Gassama to turn and fire into the corner. Onto the 2nd half and Blackburn quickly pulled one back from a corner which Charles at fault. We never really got going in the 2nd half and Rovers equalised with 5 minutes to go as Cantwell crossed and Ohashi guided it home.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and we are back at Hillsborough as Oxford make the journey north and we try to win a home game for the first time in over three months . Oxford have been hovering around the relegation zone for most of the season and are currently in 18th place just 3 points above the relegation zone. They do have to play Leeds & Sunderland in there remaining fixture so it could down to the final day of the season when they play at Swansea. They are managed by Gary Rowett, who took over just before Christmas and has won 7 of the 21 games played. There leading scorer is Mark Harris with 8 goals.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 10
OXFD 12
DRAW 13

CURRENT FORM

OWLS  D L D L W W                                                                      

OXFD  W L W L D L  

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

ANDY DAVIES
Graham Kane and Paul Hodgkinson
Fourth Official: Daren Drysdale

THE TEAM

Charles
Iorfa Ihiekwe M Lowe Hatsuse
Bannan Charles
Gasama Windass Ingelsson
Pato

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Gassama

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

25468

BML LEAGUE

Imre 28
Maddix 23
SCO 22
Washington 20
Wereham 14

BMPL

Stateside 19
Owlkev 14
Southey 12
Pei 9

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Newcastle v Man Utd
Portsmouth v Derby
Barnsley v Bolton
Barrow v Walsall
Forest Green v Gateshead

HHDDD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Group A

Twerton 18
Amelia 16
Themaclad 15
A.A.A. 7
Zinman 5
Minizin 3

Definitely a table of two halves this week in Group A, top 3 scoring well and the bottom 3 having a week to somewhat forget. Plus we had a first in the history of the league as far as I can see, but more on that later!!

Twerton’s rollercoaster ride continues for another week, this time he moves again from bottom back to the top of the table, this time with 18 points!! He got a spot on Gamball, the only player to score positive points on it this week and backed that up with one more CS but missed on his bonus. Amelia continued her pretty good recent form with 16 points, she got a max on the Bonus plus scored on multiple other games. League Leader Themaclad was third with 15 points, he managed 3 CSs but missed on all his balls to keep his score lower than it could have been.

Big gap to the bottom half where AAA finished with 7 points, he managed to get 2 CSs but missed on all his balls. Zinman ended with 5 points, he did get one CS but not much else. Last place this week goes to Minizin whose run of poor form continues with just 3 points. He did manage one CS but as i alluded to above he played his Bonus and Scoreball on the Manc derby, so due to getting his prediction wrong and it ending as a 0-0 draw he managed to end that game with -4 points, never seen that before!!!

308 Themaclad
279 Twerton
271 Zinman
258 Minizin
210 Amelia
203 A.A.A.

A couple of positional changes this week. Themaclad keeps his decent lead intact but is now ahead of Twerton who jumped over Zinman into 2nd spot. Minizin is solid in 4th but now there is a bit of a gap between him and 3rd spot. Amelia has once again jumped ahead of AAA, but both of them are now over the 200 point mark. Still enough points available for a few changes but the playoffs are looking set from a Group A perspective.

Cheers
SCO

Group B

SCO 15
BaggieOne 11
Stairs 5
Snooty 5
BBB 5
Derby 3
Lady Jane -3

A second consecutive week of 7 wrong gamballs, just one positive bonus but at least everyone scored something on the scoreball.....though not necessarily in a positive way. This week also saw SCO equal the season's highest number of correct scores and Lady Jane become the 2nd player to fail to predict a single correct result....and as those 2 players were occupying the 2 top spots in the league, things may have just become very interesting!

Fresh from grappling with Trump's economic incontinence, SCO gets some light relief as he heads this week's table. He scored on 5 games and got 4 of them spot-on. Unfortunately the 5 he got wrong included the gamball and bonus so his overall total was lower than it might have been. BaggieOne scored on just 3 games, 2 of them correct scores, and was the only player to collect from his bonus ball to see him comfortably in 2nd spot.

The next 4 players all got 3 correct results and 1 correct score....unfortunately Derby played his scoreball on the Manchester Derby to end up 2 points worse off and prevent a 4 way tie for 3rd place. Lady Jane had a nightmare failing to predict any matches correctly though she did at least pick up the scoreball point to save herself from a total wipe out.

266 Lady Jane
261 SCO
240 Derby
236 Stairs
215 BBB
205 Snooty
186 BaggieOne

So, no positional changes this week but after months out on her own at the top of the table, Lady Jane is under severe pressure from SCO who now sits just 5 points behind her. With just 4 (5? - see below) weeks left until we get to the play-offs, can she hang on to top spot?

So, for Easter weekend, do you want 1 or 2 sets of fixtures - the split may be fairly arbitrary with games being played on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday?

Zin

Thursday 10th April

Crewe Alexandra v Cheltenham Town Kick-off 8:00pm

Friday 11th April
Notts County v Salford City Kick-off 7:45pm

Saturday 12th April

Doncaster Rovers v AFC Wimbledon Kick-off 12:30pm
Swindon Town v Bradford City Kick-off 12:30pm

3.00pm KIck-offs

Accrington Stanley v Tranmere Rovers
Barrow v Walsall
Chesterfield v Fleetwood Town
Gillingham v Milton Keynes Dons
Harrogate Town v Grimsby Town
Morecambe v Carlisle United
Newport County AFC v Colchester United
Port Vale v Bromley

THE MATCH

TUESDAY 8TH APRIL KO 7:45PM

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LAST MATCH



Another game where we lost it in injury time, as Hull took all 3 points. We started slowly as Hull had a few chances, but Charles made a one decent save. We came more into the game as we approached halftime with Windass forcing a couple of saves. 0-0 at the break. Onto the second half and Windass forced another save from the Hull keeper. We had another chance with Charles but there keeper again made the save. The just as it looked like the game would end in a draw, a free kick was curled into the box and Hughes powered a header past Charles to take all 3 points.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and we travel over the Pennines to take on Blackburn. Blackburn were in the playoffs 7 games ago but have since lost 6 of those games over the last 6 weeks or so and are now on the same points as us and look likely to be in the Championship next season barring a miraculous turn in form for the last 6 games. They are managed by Valerian Ismael who used to manage Barnsley and has been in charge for 6 games, though the new manager bounce hasn't worked, drawing 1 and losing 5. There leading scorer is Andreas Wiemann who has 9 goals so far this season

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 62
BLACK 58
DRAW 39

CURRENT FORM

OWLS  L D L W W L                                                                      

BLACK L L L L L D   

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

WILL FINNIE
Sam Lewis and Hugh Gilroy
Fourth Official: Lewis Smith

THE TEAM

Charles
Iorfa Ihiekwe M Lowe Hatsuse
Bannan Charles
Gasama Windass Ingelsson
Pato

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Gassama

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Imre 27
Maddix 23
SCO 22
Washington 20
Wereham 14

BMPL

Stateside 19
Owlkev 14
Southey 12
Pei 9

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Arsenal v Real Madrid
Derby v Burnley
Bolton v Rotherham
Chesterfield v Gillingham
Oldham v Woking

AAHHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Here's the league tables with the combined points from both match thread and Prediction thread.
Results are coming in thick and fast over the next week's will be updating after every one comes in
Remember if points are tied the poster with the most points on the seasons predictions thread wins.

BML
SCO 25 +3+3+3+1+3+3+1 =45
Imre 31+3+3+3+3+1+1=45
Washington 20+3+3+3+3+3+3+1=39
Maddix 23+3+3+3+3+3 =38
Wereham 16+3+3 +3+1+1=27




BMPl
Owlskev 15+3+3+3+3+3+3+1+1 =35
Stateside 20+3+3+1+1+3+3 =34
Pieowl 10+3+3 +1 +3+1+3+3 =27
Southey 12 +3+3+3+3+3 =27

can you add it to important threads please charlie ..thanks .

2 points for correct result
4 points for correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score   (correct score on a joker would give you 8 points)
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Badger gives you 2 points

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. However, if you do predict a draw and it's a match that won't be going to a replay, you can get a possible extra point by stating which of the two teams you think will eventually win.

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.  


At the end of the season, the winner of group 2 and the bottom of group 1 will swap places in what is commonly known as "promotion" and "relegation". It's something that most football fans will be familiar with, unless you're a fan of Liverpool or Arsenal or one of those other fashionable clubs.

The second placed player in group 2 will then have a play off with the player who finishes second from the bottom in group 1 to decide whether they will be going up, down or staying where they are.

We're going to have two seasons in one though, just to try and make it a bit more interesting and not so long drawn out. The first season will end on the Boxing Day fixtures, with the play offs being on the dates of the Twixtmas fixtures and the NYD fixtures.

The second season will start the following week, which is usually the FA Cup 3rd round, finishing on the last game of the League One season. Then another period of relegation/promotion play off games, taking in such fixtures as the EFL play offs, FA Cup Final, UEFA finals and such like.

Each group will have it's own set of fixtures. Both groups will have the Town games, with scorers to predict as before. Then it will be a split of League One fixtures and bonus matches, hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.

The random badger is restricted to three goal scorers in any of the fixtures in your group.

Here's how that will appear at the end of the fixture list. All you have to do is fill in the blanks.......


*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.

Postponed matches will only count if the match is re-played before the next Matchday is under way. Abandoned matches will be awarded half the points for the score at the time of abandonment, so 1 point if you have the correct result, 2 points if you have the correct score.

Substitute or scorer in one of the Town games:- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off.

Prediction League Archive: https://www.sportsbabble.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=12830


Division One table after Matchday 13:

1. neonfoxinthebox = 241 pts
   
2. Baggiebob(BBB) = 220 pts
   
3. jjamez = 213 pts
   
4. Lord Snooty = 203 pts
   
5. themaclad = 200 pts
   
6. St Charles Owl = 196 pts
   

Saturday April 12th:
Burton v Town
Town scorers:
Burton scorers:

Wigan Athletic v Wrexham (12:30)
Bristol Rovers v Exeter City
Crawley Town v Leyton Orient
Lincoln City v Shrewsbury Town

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
Leeds United v Preston North End (12:30)
Sheffield Wednesday v Oxford United
West Bromwich Albion v Watford

Sunday:
EFL Trophy Final:
Birmingham City v Peterborough United (15:00)

Premier League:
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur (14:00)
Newcastle United v Manchester United (16:30)

*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

1. ritchiebaby = 241 pts
   
2. SHEP_HTAFC = 220 pts
   
3. theo_luddite = 218 pts
   
4. Devongone = 216 pts
   
5. Amelia Chaffinch = 157 pts
   
6. WakeyTerrier = 156 pts
   

Saturday April 12th:
Burton v Town
Town scorers:
Burton scorers:

Wycombe Wanderers v Stevenage (12:30)
Barnsley v Bolton Wanderers
Cambridge United v Charlton Athletic
Northampton Town v Reading
Stockport County v Rotherham United

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
League Two:
Chesterfield v Fleetwood Town

Sunday:
Premier League:
Chelsea v Ipswich Town (14:00)
Liverpool v West Ham United (14:00)

Scottish Premiership:
Hibernian v Dundee (14:30)

EFL Trophy Final:
Birmingham City v Peterborough United (15:00)

*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

Gamball:
Cardiff - Stoke

Others:
Luton - Blackburn
Millwall - Middlesbrough
Portsmouth - Derby
QPR - Bristol City
WBA - Watford
Burton - Huddersfield
Barrow - Walsall
Wolves - Spurs
Newcastle - Man Utd