AFC Fylde 2-4 Gateshead
Aldershot Town 3-0 Dorking Wanderers
Altrincham 2-1 Oldham Athletic
Barnet 4-0 Oxford City
Bromley 2-0 Woking
Chesterfield 2-2 Kidderminster Harriers
Dagenham & Redbridge 1-2 Ebbsfleet United
Eastleigh 3-2 Maidenhead United
FC Halifax Town 1-2 York City
Rochdale 2-0 Hartlepool United
Southend United 1-0 Boreham Wood
Wealdstone 2-1 Solihull Moors

THE MATCH

MONDAY 1ST APRIL KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



It felt like we threw 2 points away after drawing with Ipswich. Swansea had a lot of possession but didn't do much with it mustering just 1 shot, while we had more efforts and we would take the lead close to HT, Diaby flicking on a cross and Cadamarteri applying the finish from 6 yards. Onto the 2nd and Swansea were a bit more creative having several chances. Ugbo nearly made it two but his shot crashed against the bar and a minute later the Swans were level, Lowe scoring from close range following a corner. We had a few chances to win it but had to settle for a point.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and a trip to Middlesbrough. It looks like Middlesbrough will have to settle for another season in the Championship as they currently lie in 10th place, but are 9 points off the playoffs with only 7 games left in the season, and would probably have to win 6 or 7 of there remaining games to try and get in and that would probably be not enough. They are managed by Michael Carrick, who took over in Oct 2022 and took Boro from 21st to a playoff spot, only to lose to Coventry in the playoffs. There leading scorer is Emmanuel Latte Lath with 10 goals.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 49
MIDD 48
DRAWS 19

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                                

MIDD -                                         

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

TOM NIELD
Mark Stevens & Blake Antrobus
Fourth Official: Robert Madley

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Ihiekwe Bernard Johnson
Paveda M Diaby Vaulks Bannan Gassama
Ugbo

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Ugbo

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Imre 23
Washington 18
Maddix 17
Owlkev 13
SCO 10

BMPL

Wereham 12
Stateside 6
Pei -2
Southey -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Stoke v Huddersfield
Ipswich v Southampton
Charlton v Stevenage
Stockport v AFC Wimbledon
FC Halifax v York City

HHAHD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

With this season’s BKT Tires World Women’s Championship now successfully concluded in Sydney, Canada, the World Curling action now moves to Europe. The final Women's results were GOLD - Canada, SILVER - Switzerland, BRONZE - Korea. Scotland finished a disappointing 8th with a team of Rebecca Morrison, Jennifer Dodds, Sophie Sinclair and Sophie Jackson, plus Gina Aitken as Alternate.

The LGT World Men’s Curling Championship 2024 is set to be staged at the IWC Arena in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, from Saturday 30 March to Sunday 7 April. With Switzerland gaining participation as hosts, the other teams qualified are Scotland, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Czechia, Canada, Korea, Japan, United States and New Zealand.

Dangerous prediction time (dangerous because any one of about seven teams could win it) -
My final four would be ;-
Canada: Skip Brad Gushue – a world champion and three-time world silver medallist – leads his team to a third successive appearance.
Scotland: the defending champions and Olympic silver medallists, who are also the current European champions, skipped by Bruce Mouat on his fifth appearance. You'll have seen photos of the Scottish team of Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan many times before, so I'll not post another one.
Sweden: the Olympic champions, skipped by Niklas Edin, who has won this title six times and is making a 13th appearance.
Switzerland: last year’s bronze medallists, skipped by Yannick Schwaller, who is making a third appearance.
These teams could well be replaced by any from Italy, Norway and United States, possibly even newcomers Germany.

There will be 20 sessions of round-robin play, commencing on Saturday 30 March and concluding on Friday 5 April. This will determine the top six-ranked teams. The teams ranked top and second will proceed directly to the semi-finals. For teams ranked third to sixth, qualification games will take place at 10:00 on Saturday 6 April (3rd v 6th and 4th v 5th). Semi-finals will follow on the same day at 16:00. The bronze medal game and then the gold medal final will be staged on Sunday 7 April, at 10:00 and 15:00, respectively.

Scotland's opening games are against Korea at 13.00 tomorrow, United States at 18.00 tomorrow, at 12.00 against Canada on Sunday and at 17.00 against Italy on Sunday.

After the International break, Hibs find themselves back in League action with the daunting task of a trip to Ibrox.

I can only see this going one way and I feel most Hibs fans would snatch your hand off if a point was offered.

In all games I have seen , highlights admittedly, Hibs continue to give away soft and silly goals. One place you cannot afford to be so lax is Ibrox. It may be a case of trying to protect their goal difference as that might prove crucial later on.

Will be on my way back from Banbury so will try to keep updated with all the action from Glasgow.

Boreham Wood 1-2 Dagenham & Redbridge
Dorking Wanderers 1-0 Bromley
Ebbsfleet United 1-2 Southend United
Gateshead 4-1 Rochdale
Hartlepool United 1-2 FC Halifax Town
Kidderminster Harriers 1-2 Altrincham
Maidenhead United 2-2 Aldershot Town
Oldham Athletic 3-1 AFC Fylde
Oxford City 0-2 Wealdstone
Solihull Moors 1-3 Barnet
Woking 1-0 Eastleigh
York City 2-2 Chesterfield

League Table After Matchday 49

SaltergateBorn - 848
Spireitematt - 824
Amelia - 733
Lord Snoots - 725
Dancing - 671
St Charles - 644
Devon - 627

Huddersfield Town v Coventry City
The Sky Bet Championship
Good Friday March 29th - 15:00 ko
at the John McAlpharm Stadium

AND

Stoke City v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Easter Monday April 1st - 15:00 ko
down on Stanley Matthews Way

Huddersfield Town welcome Coventry City to Leeds Road on Friday afternoon for the first match in this traditional Eastertime double header. This is closely followed on Monday afternoon with a trip to Smoke-on-Stench for what could be a massive 6 pointer. At the moment, Stoke are two points better off than us. They play away at Hull on Friday afternoon. The Stoke game is also going to be shown live on Sky Sports Football.

Coventry are the talk of the football world at the moment, having reached the FA Cup semi finals by beating Wolves at Molineux with an injury time winner when their charmless nerk of a manager, Mark Robins celebrated in the face of a ball boy.

Stoke on the other hand, have just continued to struggle since they poached Steven Schumacher from Plymouth and have been one of the teams alongside ourselves, QPR and Birmingham, who have been flirting with that third from bottom, relegation slot.

Town will have Sorba Thomas missing for the Coventry game after he was given two quick yellow cards in the second half of the Rotherham away game last week. Surely, the obvious choice would be to bring Pat Jones in. But knowing how modern Head Coaches work, he won't be considered because he hasn't shown much in training this week. The fact that he's been away with the Cymru u21s will have no bearing on the issue. I do wish we would pick our best players, regardless of what's been going on down at Canalside.

Talking of internationals, our Brodie Spencer has two more full Northern Ireland caps to his name and Radinio Balker made it into the Suriname squad for the first time, following in the footsteps of Dean Gorre and Ken Monkou in representing that country as Huddersfield Town players. He was on the bench for their friendly against Martinique.

And talking of Town internationals brings us to today's first question. Who the hell have Poland got that's better than Michal Helik?

Only 22 fixtures between these two famous old clubs. They were formed in the 1880s and Town in 1908, so for us to have avoided each other for so many seasons is quite unusual and I can't think of another team of similar status that we have played so few times. This, the fourth consecutive season we have shared a league season together, is the longest time together. The longest before was three seasons in the mid 1960s.

The most recent fixture was a crap game, a Monday night Sky game at Highfield Road, which was the first game of the new Darren Moore era. It was a baffling game to watch, coming so soon after Neil Warnock had left and it looked like the new manager had just told the lads to forget everything that Colin had taught them. It was such a disjointed performance.

Coventry took the lead with a lucky rebound. It was a fantastic shot from Ellis Simms that deserved a goal, but hit the bar, then hit Yasin Ayari on the way down and ended up in the back of the net. But super Michal Helik equalised in injury time, controlling the ball brilliantly from a Sorba Thomas cross and finishing with the coolness of a top class striker, which had the Sky commentators crowing about what a magical manager their mate Moore was. None of us were convinced though, but happy to get away with a point.

By contrast, we have played Stoke 83 times. The last time was the game before that Coventry game, the last match with old Mr Warnock in charge. Matty Pearson opened the scoring from a Sorba free kick in this 2-2 draw on a warm September Wednesday night in Huddersfield, as Town looked to be getting their act together. We had just won away at West Brom and beat Rotherham at home and the decision to relieve Warnock of the role that we had all begged him to keep at the end of last season, was just baffling. I still can't understand it now. But let's not dwell on that now.

The lead didn't last long. Two minutes later, Tyreese Campbell, who's always had a good game against us, had a shot saved by Lee Nicholls, only for ex Preston midfielder Daniel Johnson to follow up and slot home the rebound. Ben Wilmot gave the Potters the lead in the 62nd minute, but six minutes later, Jack Rudoni fired home from a Ben Jackson corner, to shut the pervert Potters fans up and get this reaction in their direction from the man, the myth, the legend, Neil Warnock.

Coventry in popular culture: It is most famous these days for getting bombed in the Second World War, with the Cathedral the focal point of that. Me and AmChaff visited there recently, after the West Brom away game, during the mini heat wave we were having. Coventry looked a beautiful place on that sunny Sunday afternoon, but I suppose it may look a bit bleak like any other town/city centre in the winter. Whatever, it doesn't look as depressing as Huddersfield does.

Apart from the bombing or possibly why the bombing happened in the first place, Coventry is a huge place on the British motor industry map. Alvis, Armstrong Siddeley, Daimler, Humber, Jaguar, Riley, Rootes, Rover, Singer, Standard, Swift and Triumph have all had factories there over the years.

The famous Lady Godiva story is synonymous with Coventry, but over recent years (40 odd years ago) the Two Tone music scene began there, giving us bands The Specials, The Selector and Lieutenent Pigeon.

Here's a video of them there Specials for all you Death In Paradise fans......

1. Seventh Scrum Ache
   
2. Slime Slims
   
3. A Jewish Dogwood
   
4. Chelsea Spit
   
5. Morris Bank
   
6. Fidel Highroad
   
7. Calley September
   
8. Remolded Stingrays
   
9. Alan Tweets Myths
   
10. Tin Womble
    

THE MATCH

FRIDAY 29TH MARCH KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



We had our worst defeat of the season as Ipswich put us to the sword, thrashing us 6-0. It didn't take long for Ipswich to take the lead, Hutchinson firing in from the edge of the box. Ipswich then struck twice before halftime, Burgess and Broadhead finding the net as our defending went awol. Onto the 2nd half and it was how many did Ipswich want to get, and they found the net a further 3 times with Hutchinson and then substitute Al Hamadi adding 2, to make the score 6-0.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



A huge easter weekend coming up and the first of the two games sees Swansea heading north. The Swans are 7 points above above the relegation zone, winning 3 of there last 5 games, but a few bad results could easily see them back into the relegation dogfight. They are managed by Luke Williams who took over in January 2024. There leading scorer is Jerry Yates with 8 goals, with Paterson and Lowe with 7 each.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 13
SWAN 10
DRAWS 13

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                                

SWAN -                                         

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  



THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Ihiekwe Bernard Johnson
Paveda M Diaby Vaulks Bannan Gassama
Ugbo

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Ugbo

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

27589

BML LEAGUE

Imre 23
Washington 17
Maddix 17
Owlkev 13
SCO 10

BMPL

Wereham 8
Stateside 6
Pei -2
Southey -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Brentford v Man Utd
QPR V Birmingham
Port Vale v Bristol Rovers
Wrexham v Mansfield
Solihull v Barnet

AHAAA

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Tuesday Night Games

Altrincham 1-0 Wealdstone
Gateshead 2-2 Hartlepool United
Solihull Moors 1-1 Southend United




League Table After Matchday 48

SaltergateBorn - 848
Spireitematt - 818
Amelia - 727
Lord Snoots - 722
Dancing - 671
St Charles - 644
Devon - 621