You might notice that loads of posts have gone missing this morning. By my reckoning is everything since Friday afternoon.

I've messaged Stairs and he's messaged Mark and this is the reply.

Sadly you are right.

Mark was forced last night to perform a recovery and as a result data has been lost and can’t be recovered.

Please spread the word and ask people to re enter posts accordingly.

I am very sorry. Nothing can be done to get material back and I know some very high quality contributions will have vanished.

You might notice that loads of posts have gone missing this morning. By my reckoning is everything since Friday afternoon.

I've messaged Stairs and he's messaged Mark and this is the reply.

Sadly you are right.

Mark was forced last night to perform a recovery and as a result data has been lost and can’t be recovered.

Please spread the word and ask people to re enter posts accordingly.

I am very sorry. Nothing can be done to get material back and I know some very high quality contributions will have vanished.

Danny Webb is set to join Yeovil Town as their new manager. He played for Yeovil and his father managed and also owned the club.

Just read that an idea has been put forward that would/could affect future promotion prospects.

The idea suggested is to increase the end of season playoffs to six teams.
How would it work I hear you say.
Well, the team finishing fifth would play an eliminator tie against the team finishing eighth, sixth would play seventh. The two winners would enter the normal playoffs for a chance at promotion via Wembley.

To me, it’s a stupid suggestion. You could be third all season miss out on automatic by a point or even on goal difference, a team twenty or more points below you have a little run and scrape into eighth, a whole third of the way down the league, have a bit of luck and make it to Wembley and then the premier league. Teams finishing first, second and third struggle in the premier league upon promotion what chance someone scraping eighth place.

I’m not a big fan of the playoffs although we have benefited from them in the past. Really the best three teams, top 3, have earned the right over 46 games and should go up. But I guess the playoffs generate more money …. Why not do away with the league and go straight to a 24 team playoff style tournament. Not necessary the best team winning but the team with the best draw and easiest route. Let’s just draw straws.

Stop messing with the people’s game. They’ve tampered with the premier league making it easier for the rich clubs to succeed but want to make the EFL easier for smaller clubs to win a lottery. Heaven forbid.

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER KO 3PM

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LAST MATCH



We made it back to back home league defeats as we went down to Swansea. It was a quiet first half, with the Swans edging it but neither team really looked like scoring and we went in at the break 0-0. Onto the 2nd half and within 5 minutes we were behind when Vipotnik fired past Horvath at his near post. Swansea had a few more opportunities but we kept the score at 0-1. We then had probably our best chance but Valery fired narrowly over the bar. Swansea made the game safe when Ronald found space in the box and fired past Horvath and they saw the game out to take the points.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and another home as Bristol make the journey north. Bristol have made a good start to the season winning 2 and drawing 2 of there first four league games, there only defeat coming away to Fulham in the League cup. Bristol did make the playoffs last year but then got blown away by the Blunts, 6-0 on aggregate. I think they have a chance to make it back to the playoffs as the league doesn't seem particularly good this season. They are managed by Gerhard Struber, who once managed the Dingles 6 years ago. There leading scorer this season is Scoot Twine who has 3 goals and an assist so far this season.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 31
BRIS 19
DRAW 18

CURRENT FORM

OWLS    L D L L                                                            

BRIS W D D W

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

TOM NIELD
Andrew Dallison and Andrew Fox
Fourth Official: Robert Massey-Ellis

THE TEAM

Horvath
Valery Iorfa Otegbayo Amass
Fusire Ingelsson Bannan
J Lowe Cadamarteri Ugbo

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-3 Cadamarteri

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

56

ATTENDANCE

19871

BML LEAGUE

SCO 3
Maddix 1
Owlkev 1
Imre
Washington

BMPL

Stateside 4
Pei -11
Wereham -12
Southey -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Fulham v Leeds
Stoke v Birmingham
Wigan v Doncaster
Chesterfield v MK Dons
Forest Green v Scunthorpe

HDAHD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Former Barrow caretaker manager Rob Kelly has returned to the club to become assistant head coach to Andy Whing.

Kelly, 60, will share the role with Craig Pead, who has been Whing's long-time assistant.

He had two spells as caretaker of the Cumbria club in the 2020-21 season, after the departures of David Dunn and then Michael Jolley.

But Kelly, who has been Leicester City manager and held coaching positions at various clubs, returns to help a Barrow side who are 19th in League Two after seven matches with just six points.

"I'm absolutely delighted to be able to bring in someone of Rob's experience," Whing told the club's website.

"We have a very young staff group, so to have someone like Rob coming in will be great for everyone."

Kelly first moved to the SO Legal Stadium to work under Dunn, just after Barrow had returned to the EFL.

He had a caretaker spell in between Dunn and Jolley and then when the latter left after a short period in charge, Kelly was caretaker for over two months, eventually securing the Bluebirds' League Two survival with two matches to go.

He did not want the job on a permanent basis and subsequently left to become assistant manager at League One Wigan Athletic.

Whow.... what a steal he was!!!

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 6:

1. Baggiebob(BBB) = 127 pts
   
2. neonfoxinthebox = 114 pts
   
3. jjamez = 113 pts
   
4. SHEP_HTAFC = 101 pts
   
5. Lord Snooty = 90 pts
   
6. ritchiebaby = 89 pts
   

Saturday 13th September:
Bradford City v Town (12:30)
Town scorers:
City scorers:

Leyton Orient v Bolton Wanderers
Luton Town v Plymouth Argyle
Mansfield Town v Stevenage
Peterborough United v Wycombe Wanderers
Stockport County v Cardiff City
Wigan Athletic v Doncaster Rovers

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
West Bromwich Albion v Derby County

Premier League:
West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur (17:30)

Scottish Premiership:
Hibernian v Dundee United (17:45)

Tuesday:
EFL Cup 3rd round:
Brentford v Aston Villa (20:00)

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

1. themaclad = 132 pts
   
2. Devongone = 103 pts
   
3. Amelia Chaffinch = 98 pts
   
4. theo_luddite = 98 pts
   
5. St Charles Owl = 77 pts
   
6. WakeyTerrier = 77 pts
   

Saturday 13th September:
Bradford City v Town (12:30)
Town scorers:
City scorers:

Northampton Town v Blackpool (12:30)
AFC Wimbledon v Rotherham United
Barnsley v Reading
Burton Albion v Lincoln City
Exeter City v Port Vale

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
Preston North End v Middlesbrough (12:30)

League Two:
Chesterfield v Milton Keynes Dons

Sunday:
Premier League:
Manchester City v Manchester United (16:30)

Tuesday:
EFL Cup 3rd round:
Sheffield Wednesday v Grimsby Town
Crystal Palace v Millwall (20:00)

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