2 points for correct result
4 points for correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score   (correct score on a joker would give you 8 points)
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Badger gives you 2 points

The prize for winning the league is one rep point.

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. However, if you do predict a draw and it's a match that won't be going to a replay, you can get a possible extra point by stating which of the two teams you think will eventually win.

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.  


At the end of the season, the winner of group 2 and the bottom of group 1 will swap places in what is commonly known as "promotion" and "relegation". It's something that most football fans will be familiar with, unless you're a fan of Liverpool or Arsenal or one of those other fashionable clubs.

The second placed player in group 2 will then have a play off with the player who finishes second from the bottom in group 1 to decide whether they will be going up, down or staying where they are.

We're going to have two seasons in one though, just to try and make it a bit more interesting and not so long drawn out. The first season will end on the Boxing Day fixtures, with the play offs being on the dates of the Twixtmas fixtures and the NYD fixtures.

The second season will start the following week, which is usually the FA Cup 3rd round, finishing on the last game of the League One season. Then another period of relegation/promotion play off games, taking in such fixtures as the EFL play offs, FA Cup Final, UEFA finals and such like.

Each group will have it's own set of fixtures. Both groups will have the Town games, with scorers to predict as before. Then it will be a split of League One fixtures and bonus matches, hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.

The random badger is restricted to three goal scorers in any of the fixtures in your group.

Here's how that will appear at the end of the fixture list. All you have to do is fill in the blanks.......


*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.

Postponed matches will only count if the match is re-played before the next Matchday is under way. Abandoned matches will be awarded half the points for the score at the time of abandonment, so 1 point if you have the correct result, 2 points if you have the correct score.

Substitute or scorer in one of the Town games:- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off.

Prediction League Archive: https://www.sportsbabble.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=12830



Division One table after Matchday 15:

1. themaclad = 286 pts
   
2. jjamez = 276 pts
   
3. St Charles Owl = 261 pts
   
4. Baggiebob(BBB) = 257 pts
   
5. Lord Snooty = 236 pts
   
6. SHEP_HTAFC = 222 pts
   

Saturday November 23rd:
Town v Charlton
Town scorers:
Charlton scorers:

Crawley Town v Rotherham United

Tuesday November 26th:
Leyton Orient v Town
Town scorers:
Orient scorers:

Barnsley v Reading
Bristol Rovers v Blackpool
Burton Albion v Charlton Athletic
Cambridge United v Bolton Wanderers
Exeter City v Birmingham City
Wigan Athletic v Northampton Town
Wrexham v Lincoln City
Wycombe Wanderers v Mansfield Town

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
Sheffield Wednesday v Cardiff City (12:30)
Preston North End v Derby County
West Bromwich Albion v Norwich City

*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

1. theo_luddite = 287 pts
   
2. neonfoxinthebox = 285 pts
   
3. Devongone = 254 pts
   
4. ritchiebaby = 244 pts
   
5. Amelia Chaffinch = 216 pts
   
6. WakeyTerrier = 198 pts
   

Saturday November 23rd:
Town v Charlton
Town scorers:
Charlton scorers:

Bolton Wanderers v Blackpool (12:30)
Shrewsbury Town v Birmingham City (12:30)
Stevenage v Leyton Orient (12:30)
Barnsley v Wigan Athletic
Burton Albion v Stockport County
Lincoln City v Wycombe Wanderers
Mansfield Town v Bristol Rovers
Northampton Town v Cambridge United
Peterborough United v Reading
Wrexham v Exeter City

Tuesday November 26th:
Leyton Orient v Town
Town scorers:
Orient scorers:

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
League Two:
Chesterfield v Barrow

Tuesday:
Scottish Premiership:
Hibernian v Aberdeen

*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

Here's the Christmas thread in Remberance of Madsteve.


I'll start my ramble with last Christmas which was unexpected at the time! a very good one under DR. We won 4 and lost 3 of the 7 games this made sure we avoided relegation later on in the season
We lost our Boxing day Fixture at Coventry for the first time in many occasions and Cardiff upset us at Hillsborough but in all like the Christmas before nothing much to complain about

This Christmas will see us take on yet again familiar opponents we always seem to get at this period PNE infact is on the exact date and time of the last Fixture and this year sees us playing them twice in as many weeks, if we counted the Derby fixture on new years day in the thread then this is also the case! Middleborough away on Boxing day isn't the first time either and Stoke also pops up as a regular Christmas theme

So with all this taken into account personally I see a lot of draws taking place but hopefully we can win more as on paper these are the easiest fixtures we are going to get in the championship although we all know it means absaloutley bugger all


The hardest picks I'm going for Derby and Middlesbrough away and the easiest I'm going for Preston and Stoke at home


This thread is post Cardiff Hull fixtures but after getting over the pig loss it does look a lot brighter than last season where we looked hung drawn and quartered completely The clown is still chairman though and my thoughts are still the same! Untill he's sold up we are not moving forward and I fear DR won't be with us next Christmas should it be the case




Fixtures

A. Derby County Dec 1st Sun 3pm Result 1-2 Bannan, J Lowe GT 64 Minutes,1Yellow card 1pt Away win.

H. Preston North End Dec 7th Sat 1230pm Result 1-1 Smith GT 76 Minutes, 4 Yellows cards 4pts Draw

H. Blackburn Rovers Dec 10th Tues 745pmResult 0-1 Away

A. Oxford United Dec 14th Sat 3pm Result 1-3 Windass, J Lowe, Gassame. GT 28 Minutes,1 Yellow card 1pt, Away win

H. Stoke City Dec 21st Sat 1230pmResult 2-0 Windass, Pato. GT 52 Minutes ,4 Yellow cards, 1 red card 7pts, Home win.

A. Middlesbrough Boxing Day Thurs 3pmResult 3-3 Ingleson, Windass. Valery. GT 47 Minutes, 2 Yellow cards 2pts Draw.

A. Preston North End Dec 29th Sun 1230 pmResult 3-1 Windass, GT 59 Minutes. Home win


RULES Only the correct results win points copying is allowed but frowned upon

1.Total number of points from all the matches we will get

2.Total GD we will get using plus and minus like a normal league table would be

3.Total amount of cards picked up as a team Red 3points Yellow 1point

4.Top goal scorer

5. Predictions for all seven matches Home Draw Away Unlike our match thread the highest amount wins even if drawn out as low as 3 results

New 6. First Wednesday goal scorer GT added up over all seven matches, Nearest wins

Predict as follows it makes it easier to work out rather than sifting through youre worthless comments

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I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year 2025 try and enjoy yourselfs as hard as it is in this fucked up time we are living

Predictions to be in by the 29th of November all results to be added to the BML and BMPL by Owlskev in the new year

Gamball:
QPR - Stoke

Others:
Bournemouth - Brighton
Everton - Brentford
Bristol City - Burnley
Coventry - Sheff Utd
Sheff Wed - Cardiff
Luton - Hull
Millwall - Sunderland
Preston - Derby
WBA - Norwich

Accrington 2-1 Swindon
Barrow 1-1 Wimbledon
Bromley 1-0 Carlisle
Colchester 1-2 Bradford City
Crewe 2-2 Notts County
Doncaster 0-1 Salford City
Harrogate 1-3 Chesterfield
MK Dons 2-1 Cheltenham
Morecambe 0-2 Port Vale
Newport 1-1 Grimsby

Tuesday 19 November 2024
Wimbledon 2-3 Accrington


League Table After Match day 15

Maclad - 278
Devon - 276
SaltergateBorn - 273
Dancing - 270
Spireitematt - 264
Amelia - 259
Lord Snoots - 241
St Charles - 241

World Curling championship action continues in Europe when the Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2024 are staged from 16-23 November. The B-Division will be held in the Östersund Curling Club in Sweden where 10 women’s and 16 men’s teams will take part.

The ten B-Division women’s teams are: Austria, Czechia, England, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands (promoted from C-Division), Poland, Slovenia, and Ukraine (promoted from C-Division). The Semi-finals and Final will take place on Saturday 23 November.

The sixteen B-Division men’s teams are: Belgium, Bulgaria (promoted from C-Division), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Israel (promoted from C-Division), Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Wales. These teams will play in two groups. Round-robin play gets underway on Saturday 16 November, with qualification and relegation games, followed by semi-finals being decided on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 November. The gold medal games will take place on Saturday 23 November.

England Women are regulars Hetty Garnier (Skip and Third), Anna Fowler (Vice-Skip and Fourth), Angharad Ward (Second), Lisa Farnell (Lead) and Alternate Naomi Robinson.

Ireland Men consist of John Wilson (Skip), Kyle Paradis (Third), James Russell (Second) and Craig Whyte (Lead).

Wales Men are James Pougher (Skip), Rhys Phillips (Third), Garry Coombs (Second) and Richard Pougher (Lead).

In fact, all of these players are regulars for their countries and I might have to pinch/acquire their photos from previous years' threads if I can't find any new ones.

Group A

Themaclad 14
Twerton 13
Minizin 7
Amelia 6
Zinman 6
A.A.A. 0

This week saw something happen that cannot recall happening before!! The weekly table order completely mirrors the season’s league table current order - which means it was a good week for those at the top and not so good for those losing ground at the bottom!! Some things we have seen on a regular basis, such as this week the Gamball was a complete washout and only the top two picked up positive points on the Bonus!!

Themaclad leads the way with 14 points, he scored on 5 games and managed to get 2 CSs. Twerton ended a single point back despite scoring on one more game, mainly due to him only getting one CS.

Minizin ended with 7 points closely followed by Amelia and Zinman with 6 points each. They all managed to score on 4 games, including one CS each but Minizin has the slight lead as he managed to gain a point on the Scoreball!!

AAA was AWOL last week yet due to the rules of the game he managed to score 2 points less this week despite posting his predictions!! He ended the week on zero points, missed on all the balls and only got 2CRs to cancel out the negative scores!!

119 Themaclad
89 Twerton
85 Minzin
79 Amelia
77 Zinman
68 A.A.A.

So Themaclad seems to be an unmoveable force at the moment and increases his lead to 30 points. Twerton took back the 2nd place he has held for most of the season and lost during a couple of poor weeks. Minizin is now 4 points behind him. Amelia and Zinman are not far behind but a bit of a gap is opening up between them and AAA in the wooden spoon spot.

Group B

SCO 20
LadyJane 16
Derby 13
BBB 12
BaggieOne 8
Snooty 6
Stairs 5

Technically this week saw the highest points haul of the season fro Group B. I say 'technically' because Stairs picked up 5 points even though he didn't submit any scores! All of the balls saw decent returns (surprisingly nobody picked the Albion game for the scoreball!) with even the bonus ball generating a positive return!

SCO heads the table with aseason's best performance in many respects. It was his highest total points, his most correct results (7), his equal best number of correct scores (2) and his equal best ball score (6). It seems that falling to the bottom of the table last week acted as a motivator! A familiar name in 2nd place - Lady Jane. She's actually been in the top 2 in 7 of the 11 weeks so far, a consistency most of us can only dream about. She scored on 5 games and all of the balls to secure her 9th double figure score. Derby only managed 3 correct results but they included the gamball and a maximum bonusball to see him in 3rd place a point ahead of BBB who matched Lady Jane's correct scores/results but was one of the 2 players to miss out on his bonus.

BaggieOne was the only player not to pick up a correct score but his 4 correct results included his bonus to see him 2 points clear of Snooty who only scored on 2 games, though at least these included his bonus.

No predictions from Stairs so he sits at the foot of the table 1 point below the lowest scoring player.

141 LadyJane
104 Derby
82 SCO
81 BBB
78 Stairs
76 Snooty
73 BaggieOne

Lady Jane continues to stretch her lead at the top ahead of Derby who became the second Group B player to break into 3 figures. Below those 2, the rest are continuing to trade places, SCO climbing off the bottom to 3rd place and BBB climbing one place to 4th. Only 9 points separate the bottom 5 so I'd expect to see a few more weeks of movement amongst this group in future weeks.

Back next week after yet another international break.

World Curling Championship action continues in Europe when the Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2024 are staged from 16-23 November. The Kisakallio Sports Institute in Lohja, Finland will host the A-Division competitions, with the following teams-

The ten A-Division women’s teams are: Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and Türkiye.

The ten A-Division men’s teams are: Austria, Czechia, England, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Round-robin play commences on Saturday 16 November and will continue until Thursday 21 November. In both men’s and women’s events, the top four teams will progress to semi-finals. Semi-finals and qualification games will start on Thursday 21 November. For the semi-finals of both gender A-Divisions, the teams ranked first on the round-robin table will play the fourth-ranked teams, while the second and third-ranked teams will face each other. Both women’s and men’s gold medal games will be staged on Saturday 23 November.

Scotland Women are Rebecca Morrison (Skip), Jennifer Dodds (Third), Sophie Sinclair (Second), Sophie Jackson (Lead) and Fay Henderson (Alternate). They will be looking to improve on last year's 5th place finish.

Rebecca, Jennifer, Sophie S, Sophie J

Scotland Men are the usual suspects - Bruce Mouat (Skip), Grant Hardie (Third), Bobby Lammie (Second), Hammy McMillan (Lead) and Alternate Kyle Waddell. They are the form team in this event, having won Gold in the previous 3 years and are the current World and Tour Challenge Champions.

Kyle, Hammy, Bobby, Grant, Bruce

England Men consist of Rob Retchless (Skip), Jotham Sugden (Third), Scott Gibson (Second), Jonathan Havercroft (Lead) and Colin Mouat (Alternate). Colin is better known as the good-looking brother of Bruce.

Jonathan, Scott, Jotham, Rob

Gareth Ainsworth has been appointed as head coach of League One bottom club Shrewsbury Town.

The 51-year-old Lancastrian returns to management after a year out of the game.

After more than a decade in charge of Wycombe Wanderers, which included promotion to the Championship in 2020, Ainsworth left in February 2023 to take over at Queens Park Rangers, one of his clubs during his playing days.

But he lasted just eight months in charge at Loftus Road before being sacked.

Ainsworth replaces Paul Hurst, whose second spell ended last week after just seven months as head coach.

He brings with him long-standing number two Richard Dobson, who will be assistant head coach.

“From the moment we started the recruitment process, Gareth and Richard were our number one targets," said Town's director of football Micky Moore. "It is a massive coup for Shrewsbury Town to have them here.

“I’ve known Gareth for a long time. He was the stand-out candidate. And he is someone I have always admired for the outstanding work he did at Wycombe.

“He brings to this football club an enthusiasm and a wealth of knowledge having managed more than 150 games in League One. He is exactly what we need.

“I’m sure, in time, we will be able to build a football club that will really make the town and our supporters proud.”

Long-serving Shrewsbury chairman Roland Wycherley is in the process of trying to step down as the owner of the Shropshire club.

Ainsworth, who has worked as a match summariser in the media over the past 12 months, is Wycherley's 15th and probably final appointment after 28 and a half years at the helm.

"I would like to extend a very warm welcome to Gareth and Richard at this difficult time," said Wycherley. "I wish them every success in their endeavours as they work to restore the feel-good factor to our club.”

Shrewsbury sit 24th in League One, having swapped places with Burton Albion as a result of their 2-0 defeat by the Brewers last weekend.

First-team coach Sean Parrish took caretaker charge of both that and Tuesday's 3-0 EFL Trophy hammering at Walsall.

Town are scheduled to return to action on 23 November with a lunchtime home game against title favourites Birmingham City.

Bonnyrigg Rose have been deducted 6 points because their pitch has too much of a slope.

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/2024/...directors/

It must have taken about 2 mins for Hibs CE, Ben Kensell, to cobble together that totally unimpressive formal statement in support of David Gray. I'm absolutely stumped by this response and I'm sure there are 1000s of Hibs fans who are similarly bemused by it. We had an opportunity to reset during the "international break" - all gone!! I fear the threat of relegation looming ever closer and am gradually becoming more n more frustrated and disenfranchised from Hibs and the people who are supposedly running our football club with our best interests at heart.