THE MATCH

SATURDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER KO 12:30PM

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LAST MATCH



Despite putting in a decent performance, we went down to Luton with a little help from the referee. We were the better team in the first half with Kaminski making a couple of saves from Smith and Windass, while Bannan fired one over the bar. Beadle did save from McGuiness. Onto the 2nd half and we deservedly took the lead when Bazza volleyed past Kaminski. We could have had a penalty, but the EFL wont allow that. The game changed when Bernard was judge to have handled on the line and was sent off and the penalty put in by Morris. Luton then won it with a few minutes left, Morris again, though there could have been handball by Morris

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and back to Hillsborough to take on WBA. The Baggies have mad an excellent start to the season, winning 5 and drawing one in the league and sit proudly at the top of the Championship, although 4 of there wins have come against teams currently in the bottom 11, so how good they are is a question mark. If they can keep there start going they should finish somewhere in the top 6. They are managed by Carlos Corberan, who took over in October 2022 and has a 48% winning percentage. There leading scorer is Maja, who has 6 goals so far this season.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 54
WBA 38
DRAWS 29

CURRENT FORM

OWLS L W D L L L                                                            

WBA W W W W D W                                        

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

BEN TONER
Jonathan Hunt & Greg Read
Fourth Official: Lewis Smith

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Charles
Musaba Ingelsson Gassama
Ugbo

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Ugbo

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

28112

BML LEAGUE

Wereham 7
Maddix 6
Imre 4
Washington 4
SCO 2

BMPL

Southey 10
Owlkev 4
Stateside 1
Pei 1

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Chelsea v Brighton
Oxford v Burnley
Barnsley v Stockport
Doncaster v Chesterfield
Forest Green v Hartlepool

HAHAH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

More than 100,000 litres of water has been pumped out of AFC Wimbledon's flooded Plough Lane home after the "entire stadium" was left under water, says the club's managing director.

The pitch at the Cherry Red Records Stadium has suffered "significant damage" after the nearby River Wandle broke its banks on Sunday night, James Woodroof told BBC Radio London.

Tuesday's Carabao Cup third-round match against Newcastle United has been postponed and will instead be played at the Premier League club's St James's Park ground on 1 October.

The Dons' League Two home game against Crewe Alexandra, originally scheduled for that day, has in turn been postponed, while the club are hoping to stage Saturday's league game against Accrington Stanley at another venue in south London, Woodroof said.

The club's next home game after that is against Carlisle United on Saturday, 12 October and he said it is their "real intention to fulfil that fixture".

"I woke up to images from my stadium team. I thought it was AI [artificial intelligence]," he said.

"The entire stadium, the concourse and ground floor, was under water. It was horrendous. The pitch has significant damage.

"We filled four tankers, which house 27,000 litres each – over 100,000 litres."

With a running tap estimated to use nine litres a minute, 100,000 litres is the equivalent of a tap being left on continuously for around a week.

Listen: 'The entire stadium was underwater'
Attribution

Parts of central and southern England experienced more than a month's worth of rain on Sunday and Monday morning.

It is the first time the River Wandle has broken its banks since the 1960s, Woodroof said.

Damage to the pitch shows several areas of exposed sand close to one of the corner flags.

Woodroof said he expected diggers to be brought into the stadium on Wednesday to begin excavating the damaged pitch.

"We are deep in investigation mode into what has happened here. Essentially it's a natural disaster," he said.

"The River Wandle was full. There was too much water and nowhere for it to go, and the pressure has been so enormous that this area of the pitch has been the unfortunate victim.

"We really need to understand what the damage has been beneath that surface."

Wimbledon have made a strong start to the season and sit fifth in League Two, with 13 points from their first six matches.

They are undefeated in five home games in all competitions.

A JustGiving page, external has been set up by Wombles fan Graham Stacey to raise funds to help Wimbledon repair the damage, with a target of £100,000.

Their cup opponents Newcastle are among those to help, pledging £15,000.

"We are really thankful for all the support," Woodroof added.

"It typifies the spirit of this football club, this relentless resilience and community spirit is extraordinary.

"Time after time this football club has defied naysayers. We have another obstacle in our path and I've no doubt we'll be back and I'm hopeful it's sooner rather than later."

Woodroof later confirmed to BBC Radio 5 Live that the club has insurance for the stadium and pitch, and were working closely with their insurers.

He also urged Magpies fans to buy tickets for the rearranged tie, adding: "There’s a revenue share, so we get 45% of the gate. If you live in Newcastle please come down - by supporting your team you are supporting us."

He said switching Saturday's League Two game to Accrington was "sadly not possible" and added: "We are speaking to local clubs about whether they can lend us their ground for the day.

"We are working with the EFL and Accrington on a solution, but we don’t have one yet."

Friday 27th September

Tranmere 1-1 Salford City

Saturday 28th September

Harrogate 2-1 Bradford City
Walsall 0-2 Colchester
Bromley 1-1 MK Dons
Carlisle 1-2 Grimsby
Cheltenham 1-2 Fleetwood
Doncaster 2-2 Chesterfield
Gillingham 1-1 Barrow
Morecambe 0-5 Notts County
Newport 2-1 Crewe
Port Vale 2-0 Swindon
Wimbledon 1-2 Accrington (If it's on)


League Table After Match day 7

Devon - 170
Dancing - 147
Lord Snoots - 143
Maclad - 124
Spireitematt - 115
St Charles - 111
SaltergateBorn - 106
Amelia - 104

Group A

Themaclad 12
Minizin 6
A.A.A. 5
Amelia 5
Twerton 1
Zinman 1

Lowest score of the season so far with just 30 points scored. Another whitewash on the Gamball didn’t help. But this didn’t stop Themaclad continuing his fine form this season and he took advantage of the other poor scores by grabbing 12 points!! A CS on the Bonus, backed up with 3 CRs certainly helped his cause. Minizin was 2nd with 6 points, he at least managed a CR on the Bonus. AAA and Amelia both ended with 5 points each, AAA was the only other player to managed a CS but missed on his bonus, Amelia got a CR on the Bonus.

Bottom in joint 5th this week is Twerrton and Zinman. Both of them managed to pick up the Scoreball point but not much else!!

67 Themaclad
48 Twerton
40 Minizin
37 A.A.A.
30 Amelia
29 Zinman

Themaclad has now extended his lead to a healthy 19 points and has more than double the points of Amelia and Zinman, can he keep this going?? Amelia was actually the only positive mover this week, pushing Zin back down to the wooden spoon spot!!

A few stats from the results so far. Themaclad has a nice lead and its not difficult to see why - he has scored the most CSs, most points on each of the three balls and is one of only 2 players to be positive on the ball playing points overall!!!

Cheers
SCO

Group B

Lady Jane 20
Snooty 15
Stairs 10
Derby 7
BaggieOne 6
SCO 5
BBB 3

Although the total points this week was marginally below average, the spread of individual scores was large with a difference of 17 points separating top from bottom. We did see a couple of negative scoreball points and 2 games, Fulham/Newcastle and Palace/Man U provided a toal of minus 1 point between them.

Lady Jane hasn't yet been outside the top 3 in any week so far and this week she set her highest single week score, being the first of this group to achieve th 20 point mark. Nailing her gamball for the second time this season (now 4 out of 5 positive gamball weeks) helped her on her way together with 2 other correct scores from 6 correct results. Thankfully for the rest of the group she missed out on her bonus! Snooty had his best week so far to take 2nd place - 5 correct results for him including 2 corrext scores including his bonus. Stairs is the other player making double figures, largely down to a maximum bonus.

Derby was the only other player to score from the gamball but he was the only player not to get a correct score, keeping him in mid-table just a point ahead of BaggieOne who only scored on 2 games though one was his bonus.

SCO's slow start continues scoring just 5 points but he's kept off the bottom by BBB. They were both held back by their balls - minuses on all 3 thanks to Palace's nil nil draw.

74 Lady Jane
53 Derby
50 Stairs
48 Snooty
45 BBB
44 BaggieOne
37 SCO

Lady Jane is fast disappearing out of sight at the top of the table. Her lead now stretches to 21 points over the chasing (?) pack. She also has double the total of SCO languishing at the foot of the table.

Some early season balls analysis highlights Lady Jane's great start. She has amassed 30 points from her balls, just ahead of Derby on 27. In contrast SCO has minus 3 points from his balls!

Zin

Gamball:
Derby - Norwich

Brentford - West Ham
Everton - Crystal Palace
Nottingham Forest - Fulham
Sheff W - WBA
Oxford - Burnley
Portsmouth - Sheff Utd
Watford - Sunderland
Reading - Huddersfield
Swansea - Bristol City

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 7:

1. Baggiebob(BBB) = 141 pts
   
2. themaclad = 131 pts
   
3. jjamez = 129 pts
   
4. St Charles Owl = 128 pts
   
5. SHEP_HTAFC = 125 pts
   
6. Lord Snooty = 109 pts
   

Saturday 28th September:
Reading v Town (12:30)
Town scorers:
Reading scorers:

Tuesday 1st October:
Birmingham v Town
Town scorers:
Birmingham scorers:

Barnsley v Wycombe Wanderers
Blackpool v Lincoln City
Bristol Rovers v Charlton Athletic
Cambridge United v Rotherham United
Crawley Town v Mansfield Town
Leyton Orient v Exeter City
Northampton Town v Bolton Wanderers
Shrewsbury Town v Stockport County
Stevenage v Wrexham
Wigan Athletic v Peterborough United
Reading v Burton Albion (20:00)

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
Sheffield Wednesday v West Bromwich Albion (12:30)
Millwall v Preston North End


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

1. neonfoxinthebox = 149 pts
   
2. Devongone = 139 pts
   
3. theo_luddite = 132 pts
   
4. ritchiebaby = 129 pts
   
5. WakeyTerrier = 103 pts
   
6. Amelia Chaffinch = 96 pts
   

Saturday 28th September:
Reading v Town (12:30)
Town scorers:
Reading scorers:

Crawley Town v Bolton Wanderers (12:30)
Birmingham City v Peterborough United
Blackpool v Burton Albion
Bristol Rovers v Wycombe Wanderers
Cambridge United v Lincoln City
Leyton Orient v Wrexham
Northampton Town v Mansfield Town
Shrewsbury Town v Rotherham United
Stevenage v Charlton Athletic
Wigan Athletic v Exeter City
Barnsley v Stockport County (19:45)

Tuesday 1st October:
Birmingham v Town
Town scorers:
Birmingham scorers:

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
League Two:
Doncaster Rovers v Chesterfield

Sunday:
Scottish Premiership:
Rangers v Hibernian (12:00)


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

Cardiff City have sacked manager Erol Bulut, with the Bluebirds bottom of the Championship.

Cardiff have picked up just one point from six leagues games and have scored just one goal - their worst start to a season in 94 years.

First-team coach Nikolaos Karydas has also left, with Omer Riza taking charge of the club on an interim basis.

Bulut's final game was Cardiff's 2-0 home defeat against Leeds United on Saturday.

The Bluebirds have also lost to Sunderland, Burnley, Middlesbrough and Derby County, with their only point coming in the south Wales derby against Swansea City.

After a relegation battle in 2022-23, Cardiff improved in Bulut's first year in charge, finishing 12th.

The 49-year-old was rewarded with a new two-year deal in June, which was set to run until the end of the 2025-26 season.

But a calamitous start to this season has seen the Turkish boss sacked after just seven games in all competitions.

"The board of directors wish to thank Erol for all of his hard work and wish him well for the future," said a club statement.

The Bluebirds will now look to appoint a 12th permanent manager in the 14 years that Vincent Tan has owned the club.

Team selection is of course the key to out-Billy-Sharping Saturday's opponents. Controversial it may be but I'm suggesting we go.........


Team Sheet

GK - Ryan Boot (our most senior keeper with a surname even Ederson and every other modern keeper must envy).

Defence - A slightly controversial back three of Palmer, Dunkley, and Grimes. I only wish Dunkley were called Huntley then our centre back pairing could really take the biscuit.

Middle of the park - Again some controversy - Jones as defensive midfield, I suspect he is still alive and on the books, hope so. Then a glorious midfield three could dominate in front of him Fleck, Naylor and Banks.

Up front would be easy were everyone fit - Jacobs, Grigg, Madden.


The tactical masterstroke would be on 55 minutes to flood on the subs, much as they do in rugby union, so we would exchange our front three, get five subs on as follows:-

Drummond, Berry, Colclough, Markanday and Metcalfe. Of course if we felt any need the shore up at the back we might bring on maybe Tanton or Araujo in place of one of them.

Out-speeded and out-thought, having been ground down by age ,youth could finally step in to rip poor old Donny apart.

Just an idea Cookie, and you could go into the record books for fielding the oldest Chesterfield team ever.