THE MATCH

SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



We progressed into the 4th Round of the Carabao Cup with a fairly comfortable win at Blackpool. We changed the entire starting line-up but were still the better side overall. Bernard had a goal disallowed for offside and Musaba handled one into the net which was also disallowed and a yellow card. Bernard did give us the lead when he fired in from Smith's head down. Onto the 2nd half and Blackpool were a bit better and forced Charles into his only save of the game. They never really threatened after that as went into Round 4.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up we travel south to take on Luton. The Hatters have made a disappointing start to the new season, they lost 3 of there first 4 games, but did win there last game 0-1 at Millwall. If Luton can get there act together, they should be challenging for a playoff spot come the end of the season. They are managed by Rob Edwards, who took over in November 2022 and took them to promotion to the Premier League that very season. Unfortunately they were relegated there first season back, but they will have got a bucket load of cash and will be rewarded (FOR FAILURE) with parachute payments to help them out this season

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 23
LUTON 19
DRAWS 21

CURRENT FORM

OWLS W D L L L W                                                            

LUTON W L L D L                                         

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

GAVIN WARD
Lee Venamore & Robert Hyde
Fourth Official: Scott Simpson

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Charles
Musaba Ingelsson Gassama
Ugbo

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

3-1 Ugbo

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Wereham 7
Maddix 6
Imre 4
Washington 4
SCO 2

BMPL

Southey 9
Owlkev 4
Stateside 1
Pei 0

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Southampton v Ipswich
Bristol City v Oxford
Rotherham v Birmingham
Salford v Walsall
Aldershot v York City

AAAAA

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Saturday 21st September

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

Monday 23 September 2024
Fleetwood 4-1 Morecambe


League Table After Match day 6

Devon - 136
Lord Snoots - 128
Dancing - 121
SaltergateBorn - 103
Spireitematt - 103
Amelia - 98
St Charles - 96
Maclad - 94

Group A

Themaclad 22
Twerton 18
Zinman 17
Minizin 10
A.A.A. 4
Amelia 4

Another solid week on the whole for Group A with a season's high 75 points in total, matching the total for week 1. The top three also all set personal high scores and the leader this week, Themaclad also became the first player to go over 20 points with 22 in total. He was one of two players to get a max on the Gamball, although I think this should be rescinded due to a QPR player literally sitting on our keeper during that crazy ending!!! He was also able to back up this with 2 other CSs and managed positive points on all his balls. The other player to get the "fake" maximum on the Gamball was Twerton as he scored 18 points, he too scored on all his balls.

In 3rd is Zinman, finally the speedos have been consigned to the chest of drawers as he posted by far his best score so far with 17 points. He got 2 CSs as well as a CR on the Bonus but he missed out on the Gamball like everyone else except the top 2. Minizin is 4th with 10 points, one CS helped him along with a CR Bonus.

Bit of a gap to the bottom 2 who both only scored 4 points each. AAA and Amelia has a week to pretty much forget, they both missed on all their balls and as we know that will always hurt you final score!!

Interestingly, this week saw every game get a positive total score with the Baggies win seeing 14 points scored down to the Watford draw with Coventry getting a single point. Can't say I have seen this very often but its not a stat I track.

55 Themaclad
47 Twerton
34 Minizin
32 A.A.A.
28 Zinman
25 Amelia

Themaclad excellent week sees him extend his lead at the top over Twerton to 8 points, and these two now have a 13 point lead over Minizin in 3rd place. AAA is 4th and Zinman is now hot on his heels just 4 points behind after scaping himself off the bottom. Unfortunately for Amelia, this has landed her in the bottom spot but only by 3 points with a long, long way to go.

Cheers
SCO


Group B

BBB 16
Derby 15
Lady Jane 13
Stairs 12
BaggieOne 8
SCO 8
Snooty 8

A decent week's scoring thanks to Sunday's matches which generated 36 of this week's total haul. Quite a mixture of ball returns as well - a total wipeout on the gamball (don't you just hate those last minute goals? I know SCO does!) but, quite possibly for the first time ever, everyone scored on the bonus. Scoreballs were hard to come by, hardly surprising as only 3 of the fixtures available for this ball had both teams scoring.

Heading the table this week is BBB securing half of his 16 points from Sunday's fixtures. Newcastle's come back gave him a bonus maximum and he also shared the week's highest number of correct results, 5. Derby is a point behind thanks to another maximum bonus. He scored on just 4 games but turned 3 of them into correct scores. Lady Jane continued her good start with another solid performance, securing 13 points from 2 correct scores, 4 results and the scoreball. Stairs matched BBB's correct results but with only 1 correct score he failed to reach the top 3.

The remaining players all scored 8 points with SCO and Snooty the only players to fail to predict a correct score.

54 Lady Jane
46 Derby
42 BBB
40 Stairs
38 BaggieOne
33 Snooty
32 SCO

The top 2 remain unchanged with BBB climbing to 3rd place as BaggieOne drops to 5th. No respite for Snooty and SCO as they remain separated by just a point at the bottom.

Zin

Gamball:
Leicester - Everton

Others:
West Ham - Chelsea
Fulham - Newcastle
Southampton - Ipswich
Crystal Palace - Man Utd
Norwich - Watford
QPR - Millwall
Bristol City - Oxford
Sunderland - Middlesbrough
Preston - Blackburn

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. themaclad = 116 pts
   
2. Baggiebob(BBB) = 114 pts
   
3. jjamez = 108 pts
   
4. St Charles Owl = 104 pts
   
5. SHEP_HTAFC = 100 pts
   
6. Lord Snooty = 77 pts
   

Saturday 21st September:
Town v Northampton
Town scorers:
Northants scorers:

Lincoln City v Wigan Athletic (12:30)
Bolton Wanderers v Reading
Burton Albion v Barnsley
Charlton Athletic v Blackpool
Wycombe Wanderers v Cambridge United

Tuesday 24th September:
Town v Blackpool
Town scorers:
Blackpool scorers:

Leyton Orient v Peterborough United

EFL Cup round 3:
Walsall v Leicester City

Wednesday 25th September:
Liverpool v West Ham United

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:
Luton Town v Sheffield Wednesday
West Bromwich Albion v Plymouth Argyle

Sunday:
Preston North End v Blackburn Rovers (12:00)

Premier League:
Manchester City v Arsenal (16:30)


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

1. neonfoxinthebox = 131 pts
   
2. Devongone = 117 pts
   
3. theo_luddite = 112 pts
   
4. ritchiebaby = 107 pts
   
5. WakeyTerrier = 87 pts
   
6. Amelia Chaffinch = 82 pts
   

Saturday 21st September:
Town v Northampton
Town scorers:
Northants scorers:

Charlton Athletic v Blackpool
Exeter City v Stevenage (12:30)
Mansfield Town v Shrewsbury Town
Peterborough United v Bristol Rovers
Rotherham United v Birmingham City
Stockport County v Leyton Orient
Wrexham v Crawley Town

Tuesday 24th September:
Town v Blackpool
Town scorers:
Blackpool scorers:

EFL Cup round 3:
AFC Wimbledon v Newcastle United
Wycombe Wanderers v Aston Villa

Wednesday 25th September:
Arsenal v Bolton Wanderers

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
League Two:
Chesterfield v Cheltenham Town (12:30)

Premier League:
Crystal Palace v Manchester United (17:30)


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

THE MATCH

TUESDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER KO 7:45PM

v

LAST MATCH



Well in true Wednesday fashion we threw away 3 points after taking the lead in injury time. We were the better team in the first half and had a number of chances but our finishing let us down. Onto the 2nd half and we struggled to create much while QPR had a a few chances but didn't test Beadle. Then as we went into injury time Smith knocked down for Bannan to finish beautifully from the edge of the box. But our joy didn't last long, QPR won a corner and after a mad scramble the ball was put in our net.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and back to the Carabao Cup as we head to the seaside to take on Blackpool. The Tangerines have made a disappointing start to the season with just 1 win in 5 which saw there manager Neil Critchley sacked, to be replaced by former Owls boss Steve Bruce, who won his first game in charge on Saturday. Another former Owl is on there books, Jordan Rhodes, who assisted there winner on Saturday.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 43
BLACK 27
DRAWS 15

CURRENT FORM

OWLS D L L L W                                                            

BLACK W D D L L                                         

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

THOMAS KIRK
Johnathon Bickerdike & Conor Brown
Fourth Official: Edward Duckworth

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Charles
Musaba Ingelsson Gassama
Ugbo

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-2 Ingelsson

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Wereham 7
Maddix 6
Imre 4
Washington 3
SCO 2

BMPL

Southey 9
Owlkev 4
Stateside 1
Pei 0

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Stoke v Fleetwood
Brentford v Leyton Orient
Everton v Southampton
Preston v Fulham
QPR v Palace

HHHAA

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

AFC Fylde have parted company with head coach Chris Beech following Saturday's 3-0 defeat at National league leaders York City.

The 49-year-old only signed a new two-year deal in May after steering the Lancashire club out of the relegation zone last season, having taken over on an interim basis 11 months ago following the sacking of Adam Murray.

The team's upturn in fortunes saw Beech given the job until the end of that season in December before being rewarded with a new deal.

Fylde have struggled this season, however, winning just one of their opening eight games to sit second bottom of the league table. Saturday's defeat to York was their fourth in a row.

Goalkeeping coach Chris Neal and their former striker Nathan Delfouneso have been given caretaker charge of the club ahead of Tuesday's game against Southend United.

In a statement, the club say chairman David Haythornthwaite will give further details over how they will move forward on Monday.

I just went to post on the 'The Off Topic Thread' and realised I had not seen anything from Dingle Dingle in quite some time, so looked through and it seems they have not posted since January, does anyone know if he is OK?