Altrincham 2-0 Sutton United
Barnet 0-2 Aldershot Town
Chesterfield 2-0 Bromley
Dagenham & Redbridge 1-1 Solihull Moors
FC Halifax Town 2-1 King's Lynn Town
Notts County 0-1 Eastleigh
Stockport County 1-1 Maidenhead United
Wealdstone 0-3 Hartlepool United
Woking 0-3 Wrexham
Yeovil Town 0-0 Boreham Wood


League Table After Matchday 44
Lord Snoots = 444
Amelia = 392
Spireitematt = 348
Dancing = 324
Devon = 310
St Charles = 290

I'm convinced Celtic will lose this match as they will definitely be playing the Huns plus a Hun backing referee at Ibronx UNLESS THEY REALLY SHOW UP AND TURN THEM OVER COMPREHENSIVELY IN A SOLID HI-PRESS PERFORMANCE that wins the game in spite of the usual underhand efforts of the match official. Is the assigned ref Madden again????? It wouldn't surprise me but I don't know who it is. IMO John Kennedy must emphasise to every Celtic player that 11 players must remain on the field of play for obvious reasons and esp where the ref will be there to give them an advantage at the slightest opportunity - total discipline is paramount in order to have any chance in this must win match!! Also emphasise they've never won a major domestic cup in about 10 years.

This fixture moved to Sunday due to a clash with Saturday's DOE funeral arrangement on Saturday afternoon.
This is definitely a match in which I just wanna see Hibs do a professional job in winning it v inferior opponents and quickly move on to our next Scot Prem match. C'mon Hibs, no messing about please!!

GGTTH

IT'S A MUST WIN GAME TONIGHT, IF NOT I CANNOT SEE US ANYWHERE BUT IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP NEXT TERM.
YOU WANTS TO SEE US IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP? OR STAY IN THE PREM?

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.

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.  

I've been waiting to see if the games got postponed on Saturday due to the funeral or not. Can't really see them being camcelled but obviously kick off times will change. Anyway, no decision has been made yet, so here you go.

Thursday 15th April:
Rotherham United v Coventry City

Friday 16th April:
Reading v Cardiff City (18:00)

Saturday 17th April:
Nottingham Forest v Town
Town scorers:
Forest scorers:

Blackburn Rovers v Derby County
Brentford v Millwall
Luton Town v Watford
Middlesbrough v Queens Park Rangers
Sheffield Wednesday v Bristol City
Stoke City v Preston North End
Swansea City v Wycombe Wanderers
Norwich City v AFC Bournemouth (20:00)

Sunday 18th April:
Rotherham United v Birmingham City (12:00)
Coventry City v Barnsley (15:00)

Tuesday 20th April:
Brentford v Cardiff City
Norwich City v Watford
Preston North End v Derby County
Sheffield Wednesday v Blackburn Rovers
Swansea City v Queens Park Rangers

Wednesday 21st April:
Town v Barnsley (19:45)
Town scorers:
Barnsley scorers:

Millwall v AFC Bournemouth
Rotherham United v Middlesbrough
Stoke City v Coventry City
Wycombe Wanderers v Bristol City
Birmingham City v Nottingham Forest
Luton Town v Reading

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Scottish Cup:
Rangers v Celtic (16:00)

FA Cup semi finals:
Chelsea v Manchester City (17:30)

Sunday:
Leicester City v Southampton (18:30)

Table after Matchday 32:

1. Baggiebob(BBB) = 826 pts
   
2. jjamez = 817 pts
   
3. themaclad = 791 pts
   
4. St Charles Owl = 786 pts
   
5. theo_luddite = 784 pts
   
6. Lord Snooty = 768 pts
   
7. SHEP_HTAFC = 728 pts
   
8. ritchiebaby = 718 pts
   
9. neonfoxinthebox = 715 pts
   
10. Amelia Chaffinch = 604 pts
    
11. Beefy 1965 = 356 pts

After Tuesdays debacle at Norwich, Town followed that display with another of an abject nature in a lucky 0-0 draw at home to Rotherham. In a performance which saw Town rarely trouble the Millers goalkeeper, Leigh Bromby's granddad Richard Keogh came closest when he struck a well timed effort into the midriff of the keeper. Otherwise I can seldom remember a shot from a Town player, I can remember some brain fades in the final third where the players pick the wrong option, but shots not really. Most at threat was the Town goal, with Lewis Wing causing trouble from set pieces, hitting the crossbar on one occasion from a free kick and hitting a rasping effort that needed Schofield to push well away from goal. Ex Town player Matt Crooks hit the post in the first half when he had most the goal to aim at, and the Millers squandered another handful of chances, whilst Town had Keogh and Schofield to thank for keeping it goalless too.



I would say Town have another chance to put things right on Tuesday in a 17:30 kick off against Bournemouth, but lets be fair, we've been saying this a lot, especially since Christmas and quite frankly, it just never seems to be anywhere near to occurring, the performances since the turn of the year have been poor to say the least, with equally poor recruitment and it never seems like changing. With season cards starting to go on sale tomorrow (monday) the club will be no doubt hoping for an improvement, otherwise the club will find it easier to sell dog muck than cards.

Not going to say that I am full of confidence going into this one, but I would hope that it will be a better performance than when the two sides last met and our last Tuesday outing, a shocking performance/scoreline and it could see Phil donning the executioners mask, however, Dean owns the Axe wielded to remove the likes of Lee Clark and Simon Grayson and Phil hasn't the money to even rent it, borrowing is out of the question. Carlos' request of a quick execution is out of the window as he will be hacked away by a KFC Spork (other sporks are available) it could be argued that the execution started in February, just Phil hasn't made much progress or I've been watching too much Game of Thrones...or both.



But anyway, Tuesday, we welcome Bournemouth up from the South coast, in a game that was rearranged due to the Cherries progression in the FA Cup. The Cherries sit 6th in the table on 68 points and automatic promotion is out of the question, not mathematically yet, but very highly improbable, they will be focussing on the play offs. They are 3 points behind Barnsley, but have a far superior goal difference, and are 2 points ahead of Reading, but still have a superior goal difference, a win on Tuesday will send them 5th and put them 5 points clear of 7th.

After suffering a bit of a slump in February and early March, the Cherries have come into some form, having not dropped a point since the 13th of March when they lost at home to Barnsley, their only defeat since then came in the FA Cup against Southampton. They've had a 3-0 win at home to fellow play off hopefuls Swansea, Phil Billing opening the scoring with an own goal and Arnaut Danjuma being the other 2 scorers. Another 3 goals came at home, this time against Middlesbrough in a 3-1 win, someone called Billing opened the scoring once again, with Jefferson Lerma and Dominic Solanke scoring the other 2, Duncan Watmore scored Boro's goal. They followed that up with a 2-0 win away at Blackburn, Billing scored for the 3rd consecutive game, with Danjuma scoring in the second half, Adam Armstrong missed a penalty late on for Rovers but it wouldn't have made much difference.

Last time out they played on of Towns relegation rivals in the form of Coventry City and ran out 4-1 winners. Danjuma opened the scoring after just 23 seconds and Coventry hit back minutes later through Matty James. Danjuma scored his second of the game after 28 minutes when Billing set him up, before David Brooks and Solanke scored in the second half to secure the points. You may notice that Billing has been heavily involved of late primarily due to ex Leeds Defender and failed Middlesbrough boss Jonathan Woodgate moving him up into the number 10 position, a role he played on a handful of occasions in the promotion campaign under Wagner. To be fair I preferred seeing him in that role rather than having to move Aaron Mooy there as it allowed our key player to be in his favoured place, plus it gave Billing more chance to get shots away, adding to that his physical presence there would cause issues for the opponents and I am a bit surprised he didn't get utilised there more and that it has taken this long for someone to give it an extended go.



His recent run of goals has moved him 4th in their scoring charts on 6 goals, comfortably behind Junior Stanislas on 11 and Solanke and Danjuma on 13. Danjuma leads the way in the creative charts with 7 assists, whilst Solanke, Brooks and full back Adam Smith are joint 2nd on 6. Towns leading scorer is still Fraizer Campbell on 7, with Koroma who hasn't played since December in second on 6. Isaac Mbenza leads the assists chart on 7 and has found himself on the bench against Brentford and Rotherham, but started in the humiliation at Carrow Road. It would seem plausible that he will return to the starting line up on Tuesday to possibly lead the line with Campbell.

It was a relatively quiet winter window for the Cherries in regards to incomings with injury prone ex Arsenal wonderkid Jack Wilshere joining on a free transfer having being training with the club for a spell to keep his fitness up. Wilshere spent the 2016-17 campaign on loan at the club and made 27 appearances, he has made a further 11 in the red and black stripes this campaign. Former Barnsley loanee Ben Pearson joined for an undisclosed fee from Preston, the former Manchester United trainee was out of contract at the end of the campaign and made the move to the south coast where he has made 10 appearances for the club. The final incoming was that of experienced striker Shane Long from south coast rivals Southampton. The Irish international made the loan move due to limited game time, having made 10 appearances for the Saints this campaign, without finding the net, in fact he had only scored 12 league goals for the club since the 16/17 in 124 games. He has featured 9 times for the Cherries and has scored 2 goals.

In terms of leaving the club, Nnamdi Ofoborh joined Wycombe on loan, whilst Jack Simpson moved to Scotland to Steven Gerrards Rangers, Dan Gosling left to add competition to Watfords midfield whilst electric striker Josh King finally left the club to join Everton on a undisclosed deal. Getting his hefty wages off the book as well as Goslings with their contracts ending at the end of the season coupled with the departure of Nathan Ake in the summer for 40million proves to be good business conducted by a relegated Premiership side. Unlike some closer to home.



The head to heads between the two clubs sits in the favour of Town, but only just, with Town winning 19, Bournemouth winning 17 and 18 being drawn, including the tense play off games back in 2011 when both sides were fighting for promotion to the Championship. The two sides would draw the first leg 1-1 at the then Fitness First Stadium. Loanee Kevin Kilbane opened the scoring for Town, before future Town signing Donal Mcdermott equalised in the second half.  The second leg was even more nerve jangling, if I remember it was played on a Friday night and I made it home from playing football just in time for kick off. Prolific goal scorer Lee Peltier opened the scoring for Town, before Steve Lovell equalised from the penalty spot just before half time, only Danny Ward decided to score even closer to half time on the 45th minute to take the sides in 2-1 at the break. Lovell doubled his tally in the second half to send the two sides into extra time, where Danny Ings would give the Cherries a 3-2 lead in the 104th minute, only for Anthony Kay to equalise a minute later, Cherries defender Jason Pearce would see red in the 112th minute as the sides headed to penalties. Michael Symes would score the opening penalty for Bournemouth, with sub Lee Novak netting Towns first, Ian Bennett saved Liam Feeneys spot kick whilst Ward scored for Town. Future Town midfielder Anton Robinson took Bournemouths 3rd kick but missed, with the experienced Kilbane not suffering the same fate, Shaun Cooper scored Bournemouths 4th kick but it mattered not as Kay fired Town into the play off final to face Peterborough at Old Trafford, and we know how that went.



A few years later the two sides would meet again, this time in the Championship, where a Mark Robins lead Town would face up against Eddie Howe. Adam Hammill gave Town the lead with a prodded finish before James Vaughan doubled the lead with a header from Hammills cross. Vaughan would grab his second of the game just before half time after being slotted through by Oliver Norwood. Jake Carroll would get fouled in the second half to give Vaughan the chance to get a hattrick, which he did, much to the disdain of the corner flags. Marc Pugh pulled one back for Bournemouth before Adam Clayton scored Towns 5th goal late on. Bournemouth would get retribution later in the season with a 2-1 win, before the opening game of the next season saw them beat Town 4-0, which lead to Robins walking out on the club. Bournemouth would get promoted that campaign.



Bournemouth would be in the Premier League a couple of seasons before Town joined them. In the first meeting of that campaign Bournemouth would run out 4-0 winners, Callum Wilson bagging a hattrick as Town endured a heavy defeat. In the reverse fixture at the John Smiths Stadium Town would get off to a flyer when diminutive midfielder Alex Pritchard scored his first Town goal. He has since retired from football and allowed his brother Dave to take his place. Junior Stanislas would equalise soon after before Town started to take control of the game, Steve Mounie scored Towns second and tried to claim the 3rd, but it was later awarded as a Steve Cook own goal. Rajiv Van La Parra completed the scoring from the penalty spot in injury time to give Town a valuable 4-1 win.



In regards to team news, Town will likely assess Pipa once again, the right back went off again on Saturday after feeling his groin, an issue he had before the international break, yet was still fit enough to feature for the Spanish under 21's. Rolando Aarons made a comeback to the bench at the weekend but didn't get on the pitch, he will have had a few more days training and may be able to feature more. Josh Koroma and Harry Toffolo have both returned to training after lengthy spells, especially in the case of Koroma, so it remains to be seen if they are ready for any sort of action come Tuesday. Alex Vallejo is expected to return to the set up after missing the last two games through a knock to the head/ concussion picked up against Brentford. Schindler and Niasse remain long term absentees, whilst Pritchard, who knows, I have a sly feeling there may be an obligation to extend his contract if he plays a certain amount of games in his final year and that's why he has vanished again. I may be completely wrong though, but it happened to Rob Green when he was at QPR.

As for Bournemouth, it would appear that they will be at full strength with no new injuries or suspensions. Welsh defender Chris Mepham will be looking to reclaim a spot in the starting 11, putting pressure on Tottingham loanee Cameron Carter-Vickers, whilst Sam Surridge and Ben Pearson will be staking claims for a starting berth.

Neither manager has spoken yet, but I honestly don't think we are going to be missing much there. Most likely get the same babble from Carlos as usual, about needing to perform to our levels yaddah yaddah.

Who am I?

It's just the played for both quiz, I'm hoping its more difficult than usual.

1) A striker born in Leyton, England, I stand at 6 foot tall and have played for 12 clubs in my career, I've played for some of those in multiple spells. I was tipped to be the next big English talent, but injuries and loss of form ruined that. I switched my national allegiance in 2017 and have made 5 international appearances.

2) A defender by trade, I began my career at one of the current top 4, but made the vast majority of my appearances for Coventry in the mid to late 00's. I had two spells at Nottingham Forest on loan as well as playing for the likes of Norwich. I came to Town after falling out of favour at Bournemouth. Recently I have been drifting down the footballing pyramid but I am still playing.

3) Another defender, I have played the majority of my career on the south coast and I have had the honour of being the captain at Bournemouth. I made my debut in a side that contained my brother, he would be released and drift into the lower leagues, I, however made it to the Premier League. I own race horses due to my fathers interest in them and scored my first professional goal against Huddersfield Town. My most recent clubs have been in the north of England, one of whom is Huddersfield.

4) I am a winger who initially had a loan spell at Bournemouth, I impressed there and was signed up by Huddersfield via tribunal. I scored one goal for the club in the Football League Trophy, but I struggled to make any sort of impact. Bournemouth signed me on an undisclosed deal and I struggled to make the same impact there. I ultimately left and moved to Ireland before being given another opportunity in the north of England, it never quite worked out there either and I have struggled for a club since.

5) Another defender, I always seem to have a good game against Huddersfield, even when I was wearing their kit. I had a loan spell at Bournemouth early in my career and scored against Town for them. My loan deal there became full time but only lasted the year as I struggled with injuries and moved to Millwall. I would impress in the Championship for a number of seasons, chipping in with goals here and there, including another one against Town, before I would end up making the move north to Huddersfield. I ended up leaving fairly quickly back to the Championship, but I struggled for consistency. I have however, bagged a couple of good goals and another one against Town.

6) I retired early due to injuries and have since moved into scouting. My time at Huddersfield lasted 3 years, but with very few appearances over that time, including some time out on loan. I scored one goal for the club during my time. I got injured on my debut when I was looking decent and went backwards after that. My time at Bournemouth was more successful as I achieved promotion with them, playing an active role in it and easily made the step up with them. I also represented England, albeit the C team.

7) I am a journeyman winger that has bounced from pillar to post for a while now. I made my appearances for Bournemouth on loan early in my career and would have a loan spell at the likes of Halifax and Hereford before I signed for Huddersfield. I didn't have a great time at Huddersfield and ended up leaving on loan before being allowed to leave for Shrewsbury. The longest spell I've had at a club since leaving Town was a 4 year spell at Motherwell. Since then I've had a short spell on the south coast before going into the non-league.

Anagramies.

1) Bob Comes

2) I Mix Madmen

3) Vet Erect Shelf

4) Ye Err No

5) Major Flees Fern

So we're sticking with £249 and the deadline is 30/6/21 for renewals.

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They've even tried to lure us with a happy video. Not much from this season on it!

THE MATCH

TUESDAY 13TH APRIL 6:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



Normal service resumed as we slump to a heavy defeat at QPR. One team had nothing to play for, and one was supposedly battling to stay in the Championship but it didn't seem like that, Poor defending, poor goalkeeping and not taking our chances, seemed to have typed that a lot this season in the match threads. The Hoops took the lead but we equlaized a few minutes later to give us more false hope. Onto the 2nd and a Wildsmith error gave QPR the lead, then poor defending cost us the 3rd, before Rangers sealed the win in injury time and realistically our relegation.

THE MATCH



Up next Swansea who will put another nail in the coffin. The Swans seemed nailed on for a playoff spot, with a 6 point gap and an easy 3 points against us coming up. They have the likes of Ayew, Lowe, Routledge & Hourihane who should run rings around our clowns. The Swans had been on a 4 game losing streak, but won 0-3 at Millwall on Satdi, so that's one thing at least going for us.

CURRENT FORM

OWLS               -                                     

SWAN               -                                                          

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

MATTHEW DONOHUE
Nik Barnard and Rob Smith
Fourth Official : Geoff Eltringham

THE TEAM

532 again.

Westwood
Palmer Lees Borner Urhoghide Reach
Paterson Bannan Hutch
Windass Rhodes

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-2 Rhodes

BML STANDINGS

Owlkev 13
Stateside 13
Washington 10
Pei 7
SCO 7
Imre 6
Wereham 5
Maddix 4

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

AS WE WILL BE PLAYING IN LEAGUE ONE NEXT SEASON, HERES SOME GAMES FOR YOU TO PREDICT FROM

Crewe Alexandra v Portsmouth
Wigan Athletic v Sunderland
AFC Wimbledon v Ipswich Town
Blackpool v Accrington Stanley
Doncaster Rovers v Burton Albion

AAAHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Dagenham & Redbridge 1-1 Eastleigh
FC Halifax Town 3-1 Wrexham
Solihull Moors 0-2 Notts County
Stockport County 2-0 King's Lynn Town
Sutton United 0-3 Torquay United
Chesterfield 2-1 Boreham Wood
Weymouth 1-2 Aldershot Town
Woking 0-0 Bromley
Yeovil Town 2-0 Maidenhead United

League Table After Matchday 43
Lord Snoots = 440
Amelia = 386
Spireitematt = 342
Dancing = 316
Devon = 306
St Charles = 290