What do people think we need in January?

What do think we will get?

What do you think is the most important for promotion?

I will start 

A striker who can get 10 goals, a midfield organiser and to keep Diangana.

A striker on loan who falls short of 10, Austin filling the shortfall, a defensive midfielder bought and Diangana staying. Ferguson will be sold, so a new defender bought as well from level 3. Harper out on loan, and Field out on loan to a level 3 club so he gets game time. O’Shea signing a long term deal plus Louie Barry given loads of abuse for signing with the Villa.

Can I request two things Diangana to stay and Diangana and Pereira to stay injury free. (Or is that 3 things!) ?

Josh you can put the names to the positions!

Could be before the end of the month according to Carson on Radio Sheffield tonight. Reckons Feb 7th latest.
Mind you with his track record ...................

Well this is a "huge match" for Hibs v testy Championship opponents and I view this game as being 90 mins away from Hibs footie season being almost ended in terms of any real further interest in the Scottish Premiership as we are now too far away from 4th place, a consequence of Heckingbottom's awful management of the 1st team activities. I watched United's recent derby match v Dundee and came to the conclusion that Hibs can definitely beat the Tangerines but we are so "hot n cold" in our matches that one doesn't know what Hibs team is gonna "show up" at Tannadice. It is a Scottish Cup tie attracting a huge Hibs away support to Tannadice. Therefore I expect Jack Ross to field an attacking Hibs team that will go all out to win this cup tie in the true tradition of Hibs sides of the past. Also I wanna see a solid defence for a change! Rocky in goal , Naismith or Gray at RB and the ever faithful Stevo at LB. The current CBs to use are Hanlon and Magregor but I'd personally bring in Ryan Porteous to play in an "anchor" role in front of Hibs defence. Let him "battle" that area in a defensive mid capacity. Hibs midfield is where this game is gonna be won or lost. Hence Scott Allan should start in a forward role with Stevie Mallan omitted. Slivka to slot in to back up Allan and the pace of Boyly and Horgan hopefully can run amok!!! The CF position is definitely a crucial call for the manager and all I can say is "good luck re that decision" unless Mark McNulty is a surprise Hibs signing by then!! C'mon Hibs!

GGTTH

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 11TH JANUARY 3:00PM KICK OFF

v

LAST MATCH



Well after the last 3 league games, not many of us could see us winning, so in true Wednesday fashion we win and deservedly so 1-0. We made several changes with a young lad Urhoghide playing RB. Brighton had more possession but chances were few for both sides with both keepers making a good save each. Onto the 2nd half and we were the better team and took the lead from Reach's deflected freekick. We saw out the rest of the game fairly well, although Fletcher was stretchered off with a possible bad injury, the only downer on the day.

THE MATCH



Back to the league and off Bellend Road. Leeds are top of the table and are the media darlings as they all declare there love for them and cant wait to see them back in the Premier League   They do have probably the best coach in the Championship in Bielsa and some good players, Nketiah, Phillips, Bamford Hernandez. Leeds were in a similar position last year but then stumbled and ended in the playoffs only to be knocked out by Lampard FC. They will be looking to make amends this season and have a handy 9 point gap to 3rd place as we speak.

CURRENT FORM

OWLS               -                          

LEEDS              -                              

THE BASTARD IN THE BLACK

OLIVER LANGFORD
Paul Hodskinson and Adam Crysell
Fourth Official : Andy Woolmer

THE TEAM

Still no news on Fletcher, but I would be surprised if he played. Hope the young lad keeps his spot in the squad, not sure if Monk would start him away at Leeds though.

Dawson
Iorfa Lees Borner Fox
Bannan Hutch Luongo
Reach Winnall Harris

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Harris

POSSESSION X SHOTS

420

BML STANDINGS

Washington 16
SCO 14
Wereham 13
Imre 12
Pei 11
Stateside 10
Owlkev 8
Southey 5

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Barnsley v Huddersfield
Blackburn v Preston
Charlton v WBA
Hull v Fulham
Middlesboro v Derby

HAAAH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC





One for Washington



The thread awaits the Meggo of Statesides choice.[/b]

I think his extreme spat with Hertz fans at the PBH finally "spelt the end" for him although there will be other Scot footie clubs who will take him.

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.  

Saturday 11th January:
Barnsley v Town
Town scorers:
Barnsley scorers:

Brentford v Queens Park Rangers (12:30)
Blackburn Rovers v Preston North End
Charlton Athletic v West Bromwich Albion
Hull City v Fulham
Leeds United v Sheffield Wednesday
Luton Town v Birmingham City
Middlesbrough v Derby County
Reading v Nottingham Forest
Stoke City v Millwall
Wigan Athletic v Bristol City

Sunday 12th January:
Cardiff City v Swansea City (12:00)

FA Cup replays:
Tuesday 14th January:
Coventry City v Bristol Rovers
Manchester United v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Shrewsbury Town v Bristol City

Wednesday 15th January
Carlisle United v Cardiff City
Tranmere Rovers v Watford

Table after Matchday 23:
neonfoxinthebox = 515 pts
jjamez = 505 pts
themaclad = 505 pts
theo_luddite = 499 pts
Baggiebob(BBB) = 469 pts
St Charles Owl = 453 pts
Lord Snooty = 443 pts
SHEP_HTAFC = 436 pts
ritchiebaby = 425 pts
Beefy 1965 = 402 pts
Amelia Chaffinch = 395 pts

SMILIES/BALLS

 Bonus Ball
 Score Ball, Free to use Ball , play it on a game that you think both teams will score in !
 Gamball,

New Scoring System

Incorrect Result =  0 point
Incorrect Result (Bonus Ball) = -3 * Changed from -2
Incorrect Result (Gamball) = -3
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Score Ball = 1 added Point if both teams score.  !

Correct Result = +2 points
Correct Result (Bonus Ball) = +3
Correct Result (Gamball) = +5  * Changed from +4
Correct Score = + 4 points
Correct Score (Bonus Ball) = +6  
Correct Score (Gamball) = +10   * Changed from +8

As you can see the incorrect scoring has not really changed apart from a wrong Bonus this will be now scored at -3 instead of -2 the reason for this are the gains on the new Gamball scoring you will make (see below) in the hope this encourages you to use it most if not all of the time.

So to the Gamball, the use of the Gamball was tactically not used in some cases last season as the gains we not considered to great compared to the losses, it's for this reason we have decided to change the scoring, The loss will stay the same at -3 but the reward will be a correct result will go up by one from 4 to 5 points and the correct score will go up by 2 from 8 to 10 points !!!
Just a reminder you DO NOT have to play the Gamball if you dont want too, the score will then be marked normal.  


Again the third from bottom of the premiership will play off against the third in the table from the Championship to keep even more excitement going, they will have to predict through all the Playoffs and the winner obviously takes their place in the Premier League the following season  

Beefy, Bomber, Zinman & SCO  


If you do not predict,...........
If in your league everyone scores above zero you will receive Zero points,
However if in your league the person with the lowest score is below Zero (eg -4) you will score -5 and receive your first strike, Remember 3 strikes and you're out.

All scores must be in before MIDDAY SATURDAY,(For The Early Kick Off If Applicable) If the early kick off is missed the rest of your predictions must reach us by 2.45pm or none will be counted.



* NEW & UPDATED 2018/19 PARTICIPANTS,

Premiership
                             
1/ Zinman
2/ ST Charles Owl
3/ Derby                            
4/ Bomber
5/ Sanjay
6/ Beefy                                                      
7/ AAA
8/ BBB 
9/ MattWBA
10/ MacLad                  
                           
Championship

1/ Joker
2/ Stairs
3/ MightyBrom
4/ Baggieone
5/ 4eva
6/ Amelia                          
7/ Twerton
8/ Snoots
9/ Lady Jane

                        
                             
I'm almost 100% sure Myself & the Scorers get the scores added up correctly, From time to time over the season we may get now and again get this wrong, SO IN THE EVENT OF ANY POINTS DISCREPANCIES can i ask all you guys to check your predictions and if you feel they are incorrect in anyway contact me Via PM within a week of the TABLES & SCORES being presented and they will be corrected the following week.
Anything later unless it is a Major error will NOT be corrected. It is as much your responsibility to check your scores as much as it is ours to try and score them correctly.
Beefy  

Sat Jan 11th

1/ Wolves V Newcastle
2/ Spurs V Liverpool
3/ Brentford V QPR
4/ Barnsley V Huddersfield
5/ Blackburn V Preston
6/ Charlton V WBA
7/ Leeds v Sheff Wed

Sunday Jan 12th

8/ Bournemouth V Watford
9/ Aston Villa V Man City
10/ ** Cardiff V Swansea

Today I observed so called retrospective SFA justice imposed on Christie for supposedly grabbing Morelos' "private parts" and Celtic officials absolutely seething at this decision and wanting to meet with the SFA ref officials asap!! I watched this incident on a couple of occasions and can honestly say that it was possibly an offence of some sort but not a red card offence, the main reason for this OP being placed on this Sb board. Yet in the same match I watched one Rangers player (Morelos) gesturing to the Hoops' fans with a "slit throat" hand action and another Rangers player (Kent) gesturing to Hoops' fans with a "gun to the head" hand action - OUTRAGEOUS AND UNPRECEDENTED IN SCOT FOOTIE; I CAN CONFIRM I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT KINDA UNACCEPTABLE POISONOUS ACTIVITY IN ALL THE YEARS I'VE WATCHED THE GAME UP HERE!!! What the f### is going on with this kinda selective SFA ref scrutiny action that IMO is unwarranted while other unacceptably worse offences are ignored but have been clearly highlighted on a Sky Sport tv broadcast!! Also last season I watched Morelos stamp on Celtic players at Ibronx on a number of occasions - all filmed on camera and yet no retrospective action - a lot worse than the Christie incident! Thankfully Celtic will cover that midfield position anyway but the inconsistency is unacceptable!!

*Murder scene*

Cop 1: This is the 8th victim stabbed with a knitting needle

Cop 2: There’s definitely a pattern

Cop 1: Keith don’t


was walking past a pet shop. A sign on the shop front said ; ‘Pedigree Netherlands cats for sale.’
I didn’t believe they were from the Netherlands so I went into the shop and asked the assistant...
‘How Dutch is that moggie in the window?’.