Aldershot Town 1-2 Oldham Athletic
Altrincham 2-0 Woking
Chesterfield 3-1 AFC Fylde
FC Halifax Town 0-1 Boreham Wood
Kidderminster Harriers 2-1 York City
Maidenhead United 1-1 Dorking Wanderers
Rochdale 4-1 Oxford City
Southend United 2-1 Dagenham & Redbridge


League Table After Matchday 43

SaltergateBorn - 768
Spireitematt - 763
Amelia - 655
Lord Snoots - 623
Dancing - 621
St Charles - 608
Devon - 562

B.B.B. 16
Stairs 15
Zinman 10
Blue B 10
Minizin 8
Derby 6
Lady J 6
Dingle 0

Better week in the PL this week, everyone missed the Gamball but everyone scored on the Bonus!! We once again see an in form BBB at the top of the table with 16 points, he scored on 7 games including one CS. Stairs was 2nd with 15 points which included a week's high 2 correct scores. Our battling leaders, Blue Baggie and Zinman, finished joint 3rd with 10 points each. Blue scored on more games but Zinman was able to get one correct score to match the points total.

Minizin was 5th with 8 points, Derby and Lady Jane ended effectively last each with 6 points. Not much to report on with these three but Derby needs to watch those fat fingers when posting as he did not add a score for Brighton in their game against Fulham so this prediction was void in the end!!

352 Blue Baggie
351 Zinman
302 Derby
302 Minizin
302 BBB
277 Stairs
220 Lady Jane
204 Dingle

No change with the top 2, still a solitary point between them. But we now see the crazy situation with Derby, Minizin and BBB all level on points in the battle for 3rd place!! They are all still way behind the front two but this race looks like the relegation race in the real Championship at the moment!!

Championship

Twerton 19
Snooty 15
Themaclad 15
BaggieOne 11
SCO 10
Sanjay 7
AAA 2

Unlike in the Premiership, the Gamball provided a decent return with just 3 players losing out on it. In contrast, for the first time this season, nobody scored on the scoreball - fortunately none of the eligible games finished scoreless or we'd have been looking at a negative total score! There was also a distinct lack of correct scores - and the 4 scores that were correct all came from the same match!

Twerton heads the table having scored on 7 of the games including both the gamball and bonus. Snooty also got 7 results right but lost out on his bonus to sit joint 2nd with Themaclad - 6 correct predictions for him including the gamball and bonus, but unfortunately he failed to get any correct scores. BaggieOne and SCO gained respectability by reaching double figures, BaggieOne scoring on just 4 games but achieving the week's only bonus maximum. Sanjay's struggles continued with just 3 correct predictions though at least these included the gamball and 1 correct score while AAA endured a miserable week with just 2 points and missing on all his balls.

304 SCO
302 Twerton
279 Snooty
266 AAA
259 Themaclad
237 BaggieOne
207 Sanjay

It's getting tight at the top with both SCO and Twerton passing the 300 point mark and Twerton closing the gap to just 2 points. They have opened a decent gap to Snooty in 3rd place who himself has some space in the play-off chase due to AAA's poor week. No changes at the bottom though Themaclad is closing on AAA.

THE MATCH

FRIDAY 8TH MARCH KO 8:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



We made it 4 wins in a row as we saw off fellow relegation threatened Plymouth. We started the better and Ugbo forced Hazard into a save. Poveda then put the ball in the bet only to be ruled offside, it was a tight decision. Phillips headed wide for Argyle soon after while Beadle parried a Miller shot. Onto the 2nd half and we took the lead on the hour mark, Ugbo got into the box and fed Gassama, whose shot went in despite Hazard getting a hand to it. Beadle made a save from Whittaker and despite having a couple of chances late on we held on for another vital win

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and a big Yorkshire derby as we entertain Leeds. Leeds are having a very good season and are in a 4 way battle to get one of the automatic spots with Leicester, Southampton and Ipswich. They are on an excellent run, undefeated in the league so far in 2024, there last defeat coming against WBA in December. The way they are playing they should have a very good chance of claiming one of the 2 auto slots. They are managed by Daniel Farke, who got Norwich promoted to the PL several years ago. There leading scorer is Summerville with 16 goals & 9 assists, with James & Piroe on 11 goals each.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 34
LEEDS 39
DRAWS 27

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                                

LEEDS             -                                                        

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

SAM ALLISON
Matthew Smith and Blake Antrobus
Fourth Official: Gavin Ward

THE TEAM

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

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Ugbo

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

29854

BML LEAGUE

Imre 23
Washington 17
Maddix 15
Owlkev 13
SCO 9

BMPL

Wereham 8
Stateside 6
Pei -2
Southey -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Wolves v Fulham
Millwall v Birmingham
Exeter v Bolton
Morecombe v Wrexham
FC Halifax v Boreham Wood

HHAAD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

PEIOWL




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Sunday sees Sevco come to Easter Road for their Scottish Cup quarter final. After a tough test in Portugal this Thursday this is probably a fixture they could do without.

Should be an interesting game with Hibs well rested after their win last weekend v Ross. There are signs down Easter Road that Montgomery
has a settled starting 11 with a number of the January signings proving themselves.

Ticket sales for the game apparently have not been the best but things are not helped by the 5.30 kick off and it being Mothering Sunday. This will be Hibs last chance of trips to Hampden and silverware for the 23 / 24 season so they need to show how much it means and be in the sevco players faces from the first whistle.

I'll be in Hereford for 2 important games ( Sat and Tuesday) in our play off bid but will keep updated with the score from Edinburgh as the action unfolds........penalty to Rangers anyone?!

I've just finished reading "Born To Be A Baggie" which my mate gave me (2nd hand).
It's great reading where the Author Dean Walton tells of his Albion following over 50 years, all around the Globe year-by-year. It brings back great memories, is well-written, and I really recommend it, if you can get your hands on it. (Published 2015, I think).

(Also recommended is Ian Richards' "Brummie Road" - fiction, with great Albion nostalgia.)

Any more Albion-based books worth telling about?

After the battle of the John Smith's, Andre Breitenreiter leads his men to Glamorgan to face up against the bluebirds of Cardiff with the fire of the red dragon in the bellies.

The terriers will be recovering from the wounds of the fiercely contested derby, it was an admirable performance considering the fact that we played with 10 men for a fair portion of the game, in truth it was a good point against a team aiming for promotion and a tenth straight win, but results around us went against, with QPR beating Leicester, Millwall winning once again and Sheffield Wednesday beating a Rotherham side who look destined for league one. The bottom of the league is so tight now, with anyone from bottom up to teams in midtable all being at risk of the drop. Luckily for town, our form is fairly healthy, whilst QPR are rumoured to have a points deduction hanging over them, Sheffield Wednesday are prone to burst bubbles, Millwall are having a new manager bounce which if Neil harris' record is owt to go by, could end with a mighty drop, then Blackburn and Stoke appear to be well out of form, to the extent stoke are considering reappointing tony pullis as manager. His last job was steering Sheffield Wednesday towards league one.

A few of the teams that are in the battle with us play a day before we do, with Rotherham travelling to Coventry, Stoke marching together to Leeds, Blackburn and Millwall facing each other, as do Plymouth and Sheffield Wednesday, whilst Hull hopefully maul Birmingham. Wednesdays fixtures see QPR host West Brom, whilst once promotion hopefuls Middlesborough host Norwich, knowing that on current form, they aren't anywhere near safe either.

Cardiff sit in 11th place and they too cannot claim to be safe yet, despite being on 47 points, they do however come into the game on the back of two wins, the most recent being a 1-0 derby win over Bristol City. Despite hitting Town for four earlier in the season, goals don't appear to be the goalden commodity for the Bluebirds, with defender Perry Ng and Kion Etete leading the way with 6 goals apiece, former Town forward Karlan Grant has only 5 goals this season, but you wouldn't put it past him to bag tomorrow night. He did sit out the game against Bristol after picking up an injury against Stoke, Etete's opener in that game was the first home goal that Cardiff have registered in 2024, so it could be fair to say that they have struggled a bit, and it should be something that Town look to work on. Elsewhere in the side, midfielder Siopsis has just returned from injury, whilst Welsh international Aaron Ramsay is still expected to be missing, whilst Irish forward Callum Robinson is also expected to miss out. Callum O'Dowda continues his return from injury, getting ten minutes last time out.



January saw the Welsh side make the most of the transfer window, with the club signing David Turnbull from Celtic after a few injury ravaged seasons in Glasgow, Nat Phillips joined on loan from Liverpool, whilst Josh Wilson-Esbrand joined on loan from Man City. Goalkeeper Ethan Horvath came in to take the number one jersey, joining from Nottingham Forest after they signed a shed load of goalkeepers for no apparent reason. The club also signed former Bristol City striker Famara Diedhiou on loan from Spanish side Granada, he's been struggling for goals since the 21/22, having managed to score only once since that campaign, and that was last season in the Copa Del Rey. In terms of outgoings, the Bluebirds weren't really active, with the most notable departures being Ebou Adams who joined Derby on loan and Andy Rinhomota who joined Rotherham.



In terms of line up, i cant see there being much change for the blue birds, with Perry Ng being a key man down the right flank, he also gives freedom to another key player in Josh Bowler as he doesn't have to offer as much defensively. Down the left highly rated Ruben Colwill stepped in for Grant and it would see like he will keep his place if Grant doesn't return for the game.

As for Town, we know that Hogg will be out following his red card at the weekend, whilst Nakayama was in a brace after being on the receiving end of a rash challenge from Hogg. Helik made his comeback and should be fit enough to start, Spencer was subbed off after being ill but should be fine for wednesday. Headley continued his comeback, as did Danny Ward, Balker could be involved from the bench, but Sunday seems the most likely for his return. Rhys Healey is back on an idividual training program and should be seen in the next few weeks. Otherwise it seems as if it will be as you were for town.





Cardiff is the capital and largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of 362,310 in 2021 and forms a principal area officially known as the City and County of Cardiff. The city is the eleventh largest in the United Kingdom. A small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a port for coal when mining began in the region helped its expansion. In 1905, it was ranked as a city and in 1955 proclaimed capital of Wales. Cardiff Built-up Area covers a larger area outside the county boundary, including the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. Cardiff is a major centre for television and film production (such as the 2005 revival of Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sherlock) and is the Welsh base for the main national broadcasters. Caerdydd (the Welsh name of the city) derives from the Middle Welsh Caerdyf. The change from -dyf to -dydd shows the colloquial alteration of Welsh f [v] and dd [ð] and was perhaps also driven by folk etymology. This sound change probably first occurred in the Middle Ages; both forms were current in the Tudor period. Caerdyf has its origins in post-Roman Brythonic words meaning "the fort of the Taff". The fort probably refers to that established by the Romans. Caer is Welsh for fort and -dyf is in effect a form of Taf (Taff), the river which flows by Cardiff Castle, with the ⟨t⟩ showing consonant mutation to ⟨d⟩ and the vowel showing affection as a result of a (lost) genitive case ending.



Here's a nice link if you want a trip down memory lane of our past meetings

As for getting there, don't bother, its on the red button, but if you insist, Access to Cardiff City Stadium from the M4 is easy. Leave the M4 at junction 33 and take the A4232 towards Cardiff/Barry. Exit the A4232 onto the B4267 turnoff, signposted towards Cardiff City Stadium.

Home supporters should take the first exit onto Leckwith Road (B4267) before turning right onto Ffordd Fred Keenor at the second set of traffic lights.

Away supporters should take the second exit onto Hadfield Road and then the third left in to Bessemer Road. Travel to the end of Bessemer Road and turn left at the traffic lights onto Sloper Road. Travel along Sloper Road and turn left up Clos Parc Morgannwg towards the away supporters dedicated car park. Electronic vehicle management signage and brown football signage to help guide you to Cardiff City Stadium will be in place from the M4.

If following a Sat Nav, it may take you through the City Centre which will add at least 30 minutes to your journey.

A dedicated drop off point is located at the Fred Keenor Statue at the main roundabout.

Car Parking


Cardiff City Stadium has 78 accessible parking bays available to home supporters. All bays are allocated/sold on a seasonal basis. To be added on a waiting list please email Ben Jones or contact the ticket office on 033 33 11 1920.

If you hold a blue badge stewards will do their best to allocate you a space on the end of a row and as close to your gate entrance as possible. Please do not park in the accessible bays as they are all allocated/sold.

There are 20 accessible parking bays within the away supporter car park. These permits will be issued to the visiting club with their ticket allocation so they can allocate to their supporters. Permits cost £10.

The parking surface is flat and is tarmacked. There are no ramps to negotiate.

The stadium car park will close 30 minutes prior to the advertised kick off time and up to 30 minutes after the full-time whistle.

Sloper Road from the junction with Virgil Street to Leckwith Road will be closed post-match for up to an hour and from Leckwith Road to Atlas Road/Wellington Street.



Some anagrams of Cardiff for you, the answers to Saturdays will appear soon.

1) Vacant gin days
2) Napkin Rain
3) Sorer Mansion
4) cant invent
5) winner cloak
6) knightly pan notion