THE MATCH

SATURDAY 14TH DECEMBER 3:00PM KICK OFF

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Well, we were heading for 3 points until the ref decided to intervene and award Derby a penalty (lets just say he was wrong). We started the game well and we deservedly took the lead when Fletcher finished first time from Bannan's pass. We had a few more chances but didn't take them and went in 1-0 up. The 2nd half was scrappy with not many chances for either side. We seemed to be on our way to a 1-0 win, until the referee intervened, judging Odubajo fouled Martin, (incorrect decision) and Martin fished from the spot. Odubajo was then showed a second yellow but we managed to see out injury time.

THE MATCH



Up next and a trip to the City Ground. Forest have made a good start to the season and currently are 5th in the table. They are managed by Sabri Lamouchi, who is a former French international who has previously managed Rennes and the Ivory Coast. They have some good player, Grabban, Adomah, Carvalho, Semedo, Lolley, so will be a good test. They will look to hold onto there current playoff position but with it being a tight division, a bad run of results can send you tumbling down the table at a rate of knots.

CURRENT FORM

OWLS               -                          

FOREST            -                          

THE BASTARD IN THE BLACK

JAMES LININGTON
Mark Russell and Robert Merchant
Fourth Official : Michael Salisbury

THE TEAM

Odubajo suspended so Iorfa to RB, and Borner to CB seems the obvious choice. Luongo for Hutch, Reach for Murphy or Rhodes for Nuhiu are all possible changes again.

Dawson
Iorfa Lees Borner Fox
Murphy Bannan Luongo Harris
Nuhui Fletcher

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Nuhiu

POSSESSION X CORNERS

360

BML STANDINGS

Washington 9
Stateside 7
Pei 7
Owlkev 5
Imre 5
Wereham 5
Southey 4
SCO 4

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Barnsley v QPR
Brentford v Fulham
Derby v Millwall
Stoke v Reading
Wigan v Huddersfield

ADADH

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If you do your predictions after these specified times, they will not be accepted.

Weekend games 12 pm
Midweek games 7:30 pm

Just a reminder that you can use your    on any fixture, but its not compulsory!! Get it right and you will score double points but getting it wrong will result in -2 points, so the reward and risk are there for all!!

Chesterfield 0-2 Notts County
AFC Fylde 3-0 Curzon Ashton
AFC Hornchurch 1-2 Dulwich Hamlet
AFC Telford United 2-0 Leamington
Atherton Collieries 0-5 Barrow
Barnet 2-0 Weymouth
Bradford Park Avenue 2-0 Halesowen Town
Carshalton Athletic 3-0 Aveley
Chelmsford City 1-1 Havant & Waterlooville
Dorking Wanderers 1-3 Bromley
Eastbourne Borough 0-1 Salisbury FC
Eastleigh 2-0 Yate Town
Enfield Town 1-0 Ebbsfleet United
Farsley Celtic 0-3 Altrincham
FC Halifax Town 2-2 Wrexham
FC United of Manchester 2-1 Kettering Town
Harrogate Town 0-1 Hartlepool United
Hednesford Town 0-2 Chester
Kings Lynn 1-3 Dover Athletic
Maidenhead United 2-0 Hemel Hempstead Town
Maidstone United 2-1 Concord Rangers
Matlock Town 1-1 Chorley
Royston Town 0-2 Boreham Wood
Solihull Moors 3-0 Darlington
South Shields 2-0 Southport
Stockport County 2-1 Blyth Spartans
Sutton United 1-4 Dagenham & Redbridge
Tonbridge Angels 1-0 Hampton & Richmond
Torquay United 1-1 Aldershot Town
Yeovil Town 2-0 Welling United

League Table after Matchday 26
Amelia = 352
Dancing = 310
Lord Snoots = 296
SaltergateBorn = 276
Spireitematt = 268
St Charles = 268
Theo = 236
Devon = 98

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LAST TIME OUT
PRESTON NORTH END 2 FULHAM 1

STOKE CITY 3 LUTON TOWN 0


FAMOUS LUTON SUPPORTER WHO CANNOT ATTEND DUE TO THE FACT HE IS NO LONGER ALIVE

Last meeting was in 2007 when we beat the Hatters 3-0, the season before we beat them 5-1 in both games they had their keeper sent off in the first game future North End superstar Kevin Nicholls went in goal.


Transfers dealings

Hatters paid £1.53 milion for keeper Simon Sluga a record fee, not had the best of starts presently warming the subs bench bit like Chris Maxwell, other than that free transfers and loans, Izzy Brown being the stand out.

Long tiime since we played these lads last time was under Paul bad apples Simpson, since then they rocketed down the leagues accumuating a 30 point deduction in one season for dubious off field practice, hovered around the Conference before making their way back to the Championship mainly thans to Nathan Jones , now managed by namesake Graeme Jones have had a struggle having been battered 7-0 at Brentford they lost 3-0 at Stoke on Tuesday in between beating the Pies at Kenilworth Road.
Given their smallish budget probably wil struggle to stay up but that is a long way off yet.

Welcome victory for us on Tuesday rumours of absent players returning, should be favourites however the Championship is no straightforward league.

Match Officials: Luton Town Home







The match official for Saturday’s clash with Graeme Jones’ Luton Town at Deepdale is experienced referee Gavin Ward.
Gavin, from Surrey, is in his 13th season on the EFL lists, and although he has officiated the Lilywhites on eight previous occasions, although this is only his third at Deepdale, but his second in a couple of months.

His last was the 5-1 home thrashing of Daniel Stendel’s Barnsley, the now Hearts boss’ last game in charge of the Tykes.

As mentioned, in his 12 seasons on the lists, the referee has also taken charge of North End on eight previous occasions, including our late draw at Hull City in October 2018, our early season trip to Carrow Road to face Norwich City and our home clash with Sheffield United in April.
Prior to our trip to Norfolk early last season, the last game he officiated was at Elland Road against Leeds United in December 2015, Mathew Hudson that day making his debut for the Lilywhites
His other games in charge of PNE were at Brentford and in 2010 at Leicester City, and his first two in the space of a few months back in early 2010, at Bristol City and a 1-1 draw with Coventry City at the Ricoh Arena.

This will be his 14th game of the season, having so far issued 42 yellow cards and three red cards in his seven previous games, including two other Luton games, their 2-1 win at Blackburn Rovers and their 2-1 home defeat to Nottingham Forest.

On Saturday afternoon Richard Wild and Matthew McGrath will be the match official’s assistants, whilst the fourth official will be Anthony Backhouse.

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  


Saturday 14 th of December

1/ ** Birmingham V WBA    12:30pm
2/ Burnley V Newcastle
3/ Sheff Utd V Aston Villa
4/ Southampton V West Ham
5/ Notts Forest V Sheff Wed
6/ Stoke v Reading
7/ Wigan V Huddersfield Town
8/ Salford V Exeter

Sunday 15th December

9/ Wolves v Tottenham
10/ Arsenal v Man City

Albion are now taking their case to FIFA having still not received any money from Barcelona for Louie Barry. The Premier League, EFL, and FA have all backed them up. https://t.co/pkwly9IxBe #wba

Player Pts CS CR GB BB SB
Bomber 24 2 4 10 3 1
Themaclad 22 1 5 10 3 1
Zinman 14 1 6 NP -3 1
Beefy 12 2 3 NP -3 1
St Charles 10 1 4 -3 3 0
A.A.A. 10 1 4 NP -3 1
B.B.B. 9 1 3 -3 3 1
Sanjay 7 2 2 -3 -3 1
Derby 3 0 4 -3 -3 1

Much better scoring week in the PL this week.  Top spot belongs to Bomber with a fine 24 points!!  This was on the back of a spot on Gamball, a CR Bonus and scoring on 6 of the games.  Just behind him is Themaclad on 22 points who like Bomber got a spot on Gamball along with scoring points on his other balls as well.  

Bit of a drop down the Zinman in 3rd spot on 14 points.  His best position for a while I think but it could have been a bit better if he had played his Gamball, especially as he scored on a week high 7 matches.  In 4th place is Beefy on 12 points who wisely didn’t play his Gamball and his superstition that predicting WBA losses helps them win is now costing him points on here!!  Doh St Charles and AAA are in 5th place on 10 points, SCO benefiting from The Owls getting a 2-1 win which while still being a crazy superstition prediction like Beefy’s, it is at least him backing his team to win!!!  AAA for once saved some points not playing the Gamball.

Our current league leader BBB finds himself in 7th place on 9 points, not much going for him this week although he did pick up a correct result on his Bonus.  Sanjay on 7 points is in 8th place, this despite getting a week high 2 correct scores but that was essentially wiped out by hair ball play!!  Last place this week goes to Derby on 3 points.  He was the only player not to get a correct score this week and even though he managed 4 correct results they were not on the ball games so he lost his points elsewhere!!

21 point difference between first and last might see some movement in the table this week and could we see a new leader in the process??

Cheers
SCO

   


Snooty 24pts 2CS 6CR 10GB 3BB 1SB
Joker 20pts 2CS 4CR 10GB 3BB 1SB
Twerton 20pts 1CS 5CR 10GB 3BB 1SB
MightyB 11pts 1CS 6CR 0GB -3BB 0SB
BaggieOne 10pts 1CS 4CR -3GB 6BB 1SB
Amelia 6pts 0CS 3CR 0GB 0BB 0SB
Stairs 3pts 0CS 4CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
LadyJane -1pt 0CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 1SB

Urgent message to Amelia: Can you check that Snooty hasn't been abducted by aliens and replaced by an imposter who can look into the future? That can be the only possible explanation for his sudden, and continuing, improvement (though no longer playing his bonus on a Huddersfield win has probably helped) as for the second consecutive week he heads the table with a season's best score. A maximum from the gamball, 6 correct results and positive bonus and score balls helped him to 24 points - could he finally be off the bottom of the season's table?

Joker and Twerton also had a good week with 20 points, both getting the gamball score correct and continuing their march towards promotion - Twerton has now scored 20 points or more in 3 of the last 4 weeks. Impressive.

MightyBrom and Baggie_One sit in mid-table on 11 and 10 points respectively. Mighty matched Snooty's 6 correct results but again chose not to play the gamball and lost out on 6 points as he was the 4th player to get that score right. Baggie_One was the only player to get his bonus score correct.

Amelia got just 3 correct predictions and now faces the prospect of Snooty rapidly climbing the gap in the overall table - will this cause her to change her no-ball policy? Stairs disappointing season continues - a decent 4 correct predictions but losses on both the gamball and bonus - but at least he's kept of the bottom of the table by Lady Jane. She was saved from an even worse score by an improved Sunday performance which gave her her only correct predictions though this wasn't enough to lift her to a positive score.

Zin

   

THE MATCH

WEDNESDAY 11TH DECEMBER 7:45PM KICK OFF

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Kind of a game of two halves. We started OK for the first 10 mins then Brentford took control of the ball although they didn't create a load of chances. They took the lead from a corner that wasn't and Mbeumo headed in. Monk must have had a few choice words at halftime and we came out for the 2nd half on the front foot. We had several chances before we were correctly awarded a penalty when there defender hand-balled and Fletcher tucked away the penalty. Several minutes later we were ahead when Fletcher controlled and finished well past there keeper. Brentford had a few chances near the end but we held on for back to back wins.

THE MATCH



Next up a trip to Pride Park and Derby County. We haven't won at Derby in our last 11 visits, drawing 4 and losing 7 so to say we are due is an understatement. They are having a disappointing season after getting to the play off final last season only to lose to Aston Villa and currently are in 16th place. They still have a few decent players, like Lawrence & Waghorn, and are only 7 points off the playoffs. Former Dutch international Phillipe Cocu is there manager and he will hope to steer them into the top half and maybe a playoff spot in the 2nd half of the season.

CURRENT FORM

OWLS               -                          

DERBY              -                         

THE BASTARD IN THE BLACK

STEPHEN MARTIN
Andrew Fox and Shaun Hudson
Fourth Official : Andy Woolmer

THE TEAM

Iorfa to RB, and Borner to CB, please. Luongo for Hutch, Reach for Murphy or Rhodes for Nuhiu are all possible changes.

Dawson
Iorfa Lees Borner Fox
Murphy Bannan Luongo Harris
Nuhui Fletcher

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Nuhiu

POSSESSION X SHOTS

540

BML STANDINGS

Washington 9
Stateside 7
Pei 7
Owlkev 5
Imre 5
Wereham 4
Southey 4
SCO 4

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Barnsley v Reading
Birmingham City v Queens Park Rangers
Brentford v Cardiff City
Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers
Wigan Athletic v West Bromwich Albion

DDHHA

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LAST TIME AT DEEPDALE

PRESTON NORTH END 1 FULHAM 2



We got Mitroed

LAST TIME OUT

QUEENS PARK RANGERS 2 PRESTON NORTH END 0
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FULHAM 1 BRISTOL CITY 2



MANAGER

Scott Parker

Spent his youth in TV series Thunderbirds before playing for various sides throughout the capital always played with his shirt neatly tucked into his shorts as they did in the old days good player, just starting to make an impression as a manager although having seen the Cottagers get crushed by Hull may not have a plan B

DANGER MAN

Aleksander Mitrovic



Far too good for this league and in every appearence against us the Serbian has scored hopefully goes down with flu or a late injury so is ruled out, total class this guy.

TRANSFERS

10 Internationals in the squad main signings Michael Hector from Chelsea plus a shed load of loans Knockaert, Cavaliero who apparently nearly died on his last visit to Deepdale after a gentle touch by John Welsh

Just what we needed another televised game, four straight defeats and no goals and now we are up against Mitro.
Need to be at the top of our game for this one, they are beatable but need to press them all over the pitch, we will not have a lot of the ball but will have to deny them the time on it. As I said not sure whether Parker has a plan B.
Hopefully we will play the ball on the ground instead of some of teh alehouse stuff personally think we need to play a couple of fresh faces just to liven the side up, come on Alex time for Bayliss.