National League

Dover Athletic 0-2 Hartlepool United
Eastleigh 1-1 Solihull Moors
Maidenhead United 2-0 Boreham Wood
Weymouth 1-3 Bromley
Wrexham 2-2 Dagenham & Redbridge
Stockport County 3-1 Yeovil Town

FA Trophy

Aldershot Town 0-2 Chesterfield
Darlington 2-1 Wealdstone
Havant & Waterlooville 0-2 Notts County
Hereford 3-0 Leamington
Hornchurch 0-4 Maidstone United
Oxford City 1-0 Peterborough Sports
Southport 0-2 Torquay United
Sutton United 2-1 Woking

League Table After Matchday 25
Lord Snoots = 220
Spireitematt = 180
Dancing = 178
Devon = 178
Amelia = 174
St Charles = 122
BBB = 0

Premier League

Player Pts CS CR GB BB SB
A.A.A. 12 0 5 NP 3 1
St Charles 11 1 2 5 NP 0
Snooty 10 0 5 5 -3 0
Bomber 8 2 3 -3 -3 0
B.B.B. 6 2 2 -3 -3 NP
Sanjay 5 0 3 -3 3 1
Amelia 1 0 3 -3 -3 1
Themaclad 0 1 1 -3 -3 0
Derby -3 0 1 -3 -3 1
Twerton -4 0 1 -3 -3 0

Not a great week of scoring this week, trouble playing with the balls seems to be a big issue again!!  AAA continues his good form to finish top with 12 points. he scored points on the most games this week but didn't get any CSs which kept his score down, he was one of only 2 players to get points on the bonus.  St Charles is in 2nd with 11 points, a CR on the Gamball always helps but he did suffer as he has played his Bonus on the Walsall game so missed out on potential points there.  Lord Snooty picks up another podium finish in 3rd on 10 points, like SCO a CR Gamball helps and like AAA scoring on 5 games will keep the score in double figures.

Bomber maintains his midtable mediocrity in 4th place with 8 points.  Statistically he was the best predictor this week, gaining points on 5 games and having 2 of them as CSs, but those balls stripped him of the points he gained.  BBB is in 5th, maintains his ability to restrict his poor scores during overall poor weeks, like Bomber he scored well but like most missed on all his balls, although for some reason he didn't play a scoreball at all!!  Sanjay rounds out the ones who did ok in 6th with 5 points, he was the other one to score on the Bonus.

Now to the stragglers, Amelia's shocking form continues although this week she was at least in positive territory in 7th with 1 point!!  Themaclad puts up a second zero in a row to keep him in the bottom 2 for sure.  I would like to say Derby went from hero to zero compared to last week, but the reality was he went from hero to -3!!  The only thing keeping him off last place was his scoreball.  Twerton had a mare this week, only scored on one game and missed on all his balls to finish last on -4!!

BBB - 202
St Charles - 181
Sanjay - 178
AAA - 156
Bomber - 146
Amelia - 126
Derby 122
Lord Snooty - 119
Twerton - 98
Themaclad - 94

Not a lot of change in the table.  BBB cracks the 200 point mark but his lead has shrunk slightly to SCO in 2nd with Sanjay falling to 3rd.  The gap to AAA in 4th is dropping but still stands at 22 points, with Bomber a further 10 points behind.  Amelia is now alone in 6th with Derby's minus score and Lord Snooty's fin form sees him just a few points behind both of them.  Twerton and Themaclad are now truly adrift, 23 points now separates them from Snooty.

Cheers
SCO

Championship

BaggieOne  13pts 0CS 4CR 5GB 3BB 1SB
Somerset    10pts 1CS 3CR 0GB 3BB 1SB
DD               9pts 1CS 4CR -3GB 3BB 1SB
Minizin         8pts 1CS 4CR 0GB -3BB 1SB
Joker           4pts 2CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
Stairs          4pts 1CS 2CR 0GB -3BB 1SB
Lady Jane    2pts 1CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
Silver           1pt 0CS 2CR 0GB -3BB 0SB
Zinman         1pt 0CS 2CR 0GB -3BB 0SB

For some reason I don't have much time to write a long commentary this week. Relatively low scores, BaggieOne and Somerset did ok, Silver and Zinman didn't.

Bah bloody humbug. Who came up with this game anyway?


OK, SCO's been in touch and apparently I have a contractual obligation to write no less than 150 words of erudite, witty prose each week in order to avoid him sending the boys round (clearly enforcement hasn't been great in previous weeks.) So, back to this week's glorious round of football predictions. BaggieOne heads the table despite failing to nail any correct scores. 4 correct results including the gamball, bonus and a scoreball point were enough to give him a 3 point lead at the top. Somerset was the other player to achieve double figures courtesy of a correct bonus result and his decision not to play the gamball.

Decent weeks also for DD and Minizin both with 1 correct score and 4 results (4 was as many as anyone got). DD lost points on the gamball but recovered them on his bonus. One of Mini's correct results was the gamball game but once again he chose not to play it costing him 3 valuable points.

Not such a great week for the rest of us. Joker was the only player to get more than one correct score but ballsed up his balls to drag his total down. Stairs got just 2 correct results but was spared further humiliation by declining his gamball. Lady Jane was another one to screw up her balls but at least she managed a point more than Silver and Zinman at the foot of the table. One of Silver's 2 correct predictions was the gamball but guess what? Yes, not played, and Zinman was robbed of points from an almost certain correct prediction on the postponed Walsall game (it's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.)

Minizin 188
Stairs 170
Zinman 169
DD 159
BaggieOne 155
Somerset 155
Silver 150
Joker 131
Lady Jane 107

Minizin stretches his lead at the top while Zinman's 9 week stint in the top 2 comes to an end as he's replaced in 2nd spot by Stairs. DD remains 4th and Silver's poor week sees him overtaken by both Somerset and BaggieOne with Joker dropping further behind the pack. Lady Jane remains bottom but has at least caught up with Beefy after his 4 week absence.

Zin

Another away match for Hibs and our record "on the road" is one of the best in the Scot Prem. However, this fixture is an interesting one in the fact that the Buddies, under Jim Goodwin, appear to have "found their mojo" after being beaten in their Betfred Cup semi-final at Hampden Park. On the other hand, Hibs look like they have "turned the corner" after beating Dundee United at Tannadice and subsequently ending an unwelcome sequence of bad results although "suckered" by bad ref calls in some of these matches. The likely result looks like a draw but Hibs actually have a decent record v the Buddies. This is a fixture that Jack Ross, an ex manager of Saint Mirren, seems to excel in. What team should he field on Tuesday night? He normally plays "two up top" but may have to be a tad cautious esp after they registered a 1st victory in 31 years at Celtic Park v a poor Hoops' side. I would tend to find out how many "tired Buddies legs" remain after such a big effort to win at Celtic Park. That means playing a high tempo strategy and see if they can handle it. Play the ex Saint Mirren players? They'll have something to prove! So prob a good initial move to face their former footie club. Hibs problem will prob be a goal scoring one again - who scores the requisite goals from the chances created? McGregor and Boyly obliged at Tannadice but I'm not so sure they'll repeat the "trick" v the Buddies. We need our recognised strikers to start scoring again but also need to provide a decent service to them. It could be that Doidgy will be "paired up" with Kevin Nisbet but that depends if Hibs hold on to the young striker. Another win would be great to see and it would provide another boost to the confidence of the team. C'mon Hibs but lets keep it "tight at the back"!

GGTTH

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.  

Friday 5th February:
Swansea City v Norwich City

Saturday 6th February:
Luton v Town
Town scorers:
Luton scorers:

Coventry City v Watford (12:30)
Barnsley v Derby County
AFC Bournemouth v Birmingham City
Bristol City v Cardiff City
Middlesbrough v Brentford
Millwall v Sheffield Wednesday
Preston North End v Rotherham United
Queens Park Rangers v Blackburn Rovers
Stoke City v Reading
Wycombe Wanderers v Nottingham Forest

Tuesday 9th February:
Rotherham United v Cardiff City
Sheffield Wednesday v Wycombe Wanderers

Wednesday 10th February:
Reading v Brentford

Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Sunday:
Liverpool v Manchester City (16:30)

FA Cup 5th round:
Tuesday:
Burnley v AFC Bournemouth (17:30)

Wednesday:
Sheffield United v Bristol City

Thursday:
Barnsley v Chelsea

Table after Matchday 22:

1. jjamez = 539 pts
   
2. theo_luddite = 532 pts
   
3. themaclad = 523 pts
   
4. Baggiebob(BBB) = 516 pts
   
5. neonfoxinthebox = 509 pts
   
6. St Charles Owl = 496 pts
   
7. Lord Snooty = 495 pts
   
8. SHEP_HTAFC = 474 pts
   
9. ritchiebaby = 450 pts
   
10. Amelia Chaffinch = 410 pts
    
11. Beefy 1965 = 356 pts

Excuse my being naive, but does signing a loan player mean we pay all their wages that was agreed by the loaning club they'd pay him, or can that be changed up or down?

Also would we need to pay a loan fee?

THE MATCH

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 2ND 7:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



A much improved performance saw us take all 3 points v Preston. We reverted to a back 3 and defended fairly well through the whole match. Not too many chances in the first half but it was us who managed to put the ball in the net and from a very unexpected source as Liam Palmer popped up in the box and scored for the first time in 9 years!! Onto the 2nd half and Preston had more of the play but we continued to defend well and Westwood had little to do as we collected 3 valuable points.

THE MATCH



Next up and a trip to the south coast to take on promotion chasing Bournemouth. The Cherries started the season well but lost there first game to us of all teams. They have some good players like King, Solanke & Brooks and are now managed by Jason Tindall who was amongst the backroom staff when Eddie Howe was in charge. They currently lie 6th but have lost there last 3 games so will want to get back on the winning trail asap, lucky they are playing us then

CURRENT FORM

OWLS               -                    

BMTH                -                                                

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

ANDY WOOLMER
Mark Russell and Robert Hyde
Fourth Official : Dean Whitestone

THE TEAM

Will we be unchanged??

Westwood
Lees Hutch Urhogide
Palmer Bannan Pelupessy Penney
Reach
Kachunga Paterson

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

3-1 Paterson

BML STANDINGS

Owlkev 9
Washington 8
Stateside 7
Imre 6
Pei 6
SCO 5
Maddix 2
Wereham 2

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Sheffield United v West Bromwich Albion
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Arsenal
Coventry City v Nottingham Forest
Rotherham United v Derby County
Wycombe Wanderers v Birmingham City

HAHHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC





One for Washington

Aldershot Town 0-2 Barnet
Chesterfield 5-0 King's Lynn Town
Eastleigh 1-3 Wrexham
FC Halifax Town 1-2 Hartlepool United
Stockport County 3-1 Sutton United
Boreham Wood 2-2 Weymouth
Notts County 2-0 Bromley
Torquay United 3-1 Altrincham
Wealdstone 1-1 Maidenhead United

League Table After Matchday 24
Lord Snoots = 212
Spireitematt = 180
Amelia = 172
Dancing = 170
Devon = 164
St Charles = 122

Now losing to a team that has never beaten them in donkey's years but the manner of this awful defeat is enlightening re the malaise and lack of confidence that is clearly endemic in this team as well as Lennon continuing to field a "car crash" defender named Duffy!! Very lucky to have no Celtic fans watching these kinda games but no hiding place to go to TBH esp with Lawwell's announcement that he is leaving the club at the end of the season. I think Celtic have no choice but to move on Lennon now, something they should've done ages ago - the pressure from even the moderate faction of Hoops' fans will now be so intense - no choice in order to "show face"!!