THE MATCH

TUESDAY 14TH JULY 7:45PM KICK OFF

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LAST MATCH



Well after losing 3 straight we go and comfortably beat QPR on there own patch. We got off to quick start and took the league when Iorfa finished well after Luongo had struck the post. We had further chances through Windass & Lees but missed them both. Then on the stroke of halftime we did make it 2-0 when Windass glanced in a header from about 6 inches. Onto the 2nd and we managed the game well with QPR only having a tame effort on target and then we broke clear and Murphy finished well to wrap up the points. Mathematically we are safe but we are STILL WAITING for the EFL to come to a decision about misconduct charge

THE MATCH



Back to Hillsborough and The Village make the short trip south. The Village are battling to stay in the division and are only 2 points above the relegation zone. The Wigan situation and possibly ours makes it difficult to know how many points the Village might need to stay up. The Village are managed by the Cowley Brothers who did a great job at Lincoln but have struggled at this higher level. This was Monks first game in charge earlier in the season when we won by 2 goals to nil, Fletcher & Winnall the scorers, remember them.

CURRENT FORM

OWLS               -                                  

QPR                  -                                    

THE BASTARD IN THE BLACK

DEAN WHITESTONE
James Wilson and Jonathan Hunt
Fourth Official: Anthony Backhouse

THE TEAM

Will Wickham & Lee make a re-appearance is the only real question.

Wildsmith
Lees Iorfa Borner
Murphy Lee Bannan Luongo Harris
Wickham Windass

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Windass

BML STANDINGS

SCO 20
Washington 18
Imre 17
Wereham 17
Pei 16
Owlkev 13
Stateside 11
Southey 8

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Reading v Middlesbrough
Wigan Athletic v Hull City
Cardiff City v Derby County
Luton Town v Queens Park Rangers
Millwall v Blackburn Rovers

HHHHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC





One for Washington



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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.  

THIS IS THE FINAL WEEK. WE'RE NOT GOING TO THE PLAY OFFS THIS TIME.

Friday 17th July:
Town v West Brom (17:30)
Town scorers:
Baggies scorers:

Saturday 18th July:
Charlton Athletic v Wigan Athletic (12:30)
Blackburn Rovers v Reading
Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday
Hull City v Luton Town
Middlesbrough v Cardiff City
Preston North End v Birmingham City
Queens Park Rangers v Millwall
Stoke City v Brentford
Swansea City v Bristol City

Sunday 19th July:
Derby County v Leeds United (14:00)
Barnsley v Nottingham Forest (15:00)

Wednesday 22nd July: (all 19:30 ko)
Millwall v Town
Town scorers:
Millwall scorers:

Birmingham City v Derby County
Brentford v Barnsley
Bristol City v Preston North End
Cardiff City v Hull City
Leeds United v Charlton Athletic
Luton Town v Blackburn Rovers
Nottingham Forest v Stoke City
Reading v Swansea City
Sheffield Wednesday v Middlesbrough
West Bromwich Albion v Queens Park Rangers
Wigan Athletic v Fulham

Bonus matches:
FA Cup semi finals (at Wembley):
Saturday:
Arsenal v Manchester City (19:45)

Sunday:
Manchester United v Chelsea (18:00)

Table after Matchday 37:
jjamez = 829 pts
Baggiebob(BBB) = 793 pts
themaclad = 790 pts
neonfoxinthebox = 790 pts
theo_luddite = 761 pts
St Charles Owl = 737 pts
ritchiebaby = 715 pts
SHEP_HTAFC = 714 pts
Lord Snooty = 709 pts
Amelia Chaffinch = 650 pts
Beefy 1965 = 648 pts

Injuries

Stiff back
Ball onto foot
Coup de Grace
The rules at the moment mean you are not allowed to field the ball for someone else, the red missle was propelled at me at breakneck speed it was a bit like Stuart Broad batting trying desperately to get out of the way but fate decided I should meet the red thing somewhere low down.
Luckily it didn't as I dropped the ball I was carrying tripped over it headbutted the ground, both elbow's hit the ground, pines and needles in both arms and did my shoulder in.
And that is just practice.

Before my back seized up didn't bat to badly on a track which was similar to the one the abandoned test was played at Sabina Park.
However was good to be back and do something called exercise which has been sadly lacking for the last four months, also had the joys of trying to put the nets up, Baden Powell finest would have trouble with that however we start next week home game against Wrea Green.

Todays see's the passing of Jack Charlton.
A great player, great manager, great pundit, great fisherman, but most of all one of
the great CHARACTERS within the game.
RIP Jack and thanks for all the wonderful memories you leave us with.

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LAST TIME OUT

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 1 PRESTON NORTH END 3



NOTTINGHAM FOREST 0 FULHAM 1



FORM GUIDE LAST FIVE MATCHES MAX TOTAL 25

PNE 9 FOREST 12

THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE

Taking charge of Saturday’s home game against Play-Off chasing Nottingham Forest is a match official who last refereed a North End game back in January.
Jeremy Simpson was the man in the middle for PNE’s trip to Barnsley late in the first month of the year, having also been the official at Cardiff City just before Christmas, a game that ended 0-0.

He was also in charge at Deepdale for the 3-0 victory over Wigan back in August 2019, the third occasion when he has officiated a Lilywhites match this season.

Prior to that, the Carnforth referee took charge of three North End matches during the 2018/19 season, which all ended in draws.

The most action-packed of these was a 3-3 draw against Sheffield Wednesday in the final home game of the campaign, where Dominica Iorfa was sent off for the Owls.

He also oversaw fixtures against Bristol City and Rotherham United at Deepdale, both of which finished 1-1.

Back in January 2018, the select group two match official took the game in a draw away at Millwall, having also been in charge for a 1-0 win over Queens Park Rangers at Deepdale the month before.

He last refereed a match involving Barnsley in November, when they were beaten 4-2 at home by Stoke City.



Last season, he had the whistle for the Tykes’ home league fixture against Bradford City, a match which they won 3-0.

This will be his 27th match of the season, having so far issued a total of 89 cautions and six red cards. He will be assisted by Mark Russell and Akil Howson, while the fourth official will be Martin Coy.

MACS FOREST DEEPDALE MEMORY

PNE 3 FOREST 0



4/1/1969

My first ever FA Cup tie at Deepdale, think at the time Forest were in the top division won 3-0 highlight was a Derek Temple run with the ball legged it for about 50 yeards before slotting past the Forest keeper. Large Forest support that day who enjoyed a bit of fistycuffs on the Kop with the home fans.

THE GAME

Still all to play for more so if Cardiff drop points tonight at Fulham, big weekend this, all 10 ten clubs play each other so points will go west.
Forest 12 points off automatic and seven points clear from seventh so can basically say the play offs are virtually certain. Even more intersting were the comments of Lamouchi who described his players as being tired having played so many games in a short space of timed since the restart.
Will this means a bit of squad rotation, seemed like a couple of players were carrying knocks.
No matter what sie he puts out they will be organised hard to break down and will play on the counter

The meeting at the City Ground the spoils were shared in a 1 all draw both sides won 1 half each as well.

Confidence seemed to fly back into the players in the latter stages of Wednesdays win over Wednesday, Neil has some interesting teams selections to make will Storey play again in a back 3 which worked well, wing backs two forwards find out tomorrow.

i am a man u fan
i think most of us will be!
lets hope they put another nail in villa`s relegation coffin

love listening to their manager
"our performances have deserved better"
yeah right
you have been crap all season

(can anyone sense my villa hatred here?)

Damn & blast - Leeds currently 4 up v Stoke.
You just can't trust Stoke at all can ye

Looks like DAFC have agreed a six figure fee from Hibs to sign up the Pars' winger, Kevin Nisbet. So a failed January target is now gonna be a Hibs player tomorrow. I think he is "worth a punt" to see if he can progress to the next level - potentially a vg player!
Also a strong rumour that Hamilton's CH, Gogic, could be signed up tomorrow morn - that'll be a really good signing if it materialises!!