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Match Thread - Bolton Wanderers - St Charles Owl - 15-01-2015
THE LAST MATCH
At the beginning of the season if we had been told that our 25th game would be away against Forest to give us the chance to go 6 points clear of them, we would have probably fallen off our chair!! After all they had just poached our best player and paid 5.5m for a striker, so to be up with them would have been a dream!!
As it was, we were playing a Forest side that is devoid of all confidence and looking a shadow of the side we played at S6 earlier in the season!! But whereas in the past we have often provided a springboard for struggling teams, this time we strolled to a nice 2-0 win and really never looked in trouble against them. For me this game showed us that we are much better than previous seasons, that our defence is currently as good as any in the division and that while we still don't score enough we are doing enough to pick up points!! Here is the video:
THE MATCH - SAT 17TH JAN 2015 KO 1500 GMT
Question now is can we live up to the expectations that are beginning to be put on the team?? This week we play Noblot at home, a game we are rightly expecting to be able to take three points in, but then we all still have that demon in the back of our minds that tells us we have screwed up in these positions before!!
But, not this time, we shall remain positive and we will finally put in a decent performance at Hillsborough!!! 
Up until we appointed Megson, we had never really had any animosity between us and them, but it all kicked off on the old BBC606 between us and their supporters due to us seeing him as a returning hero and them seeing him as the Ginger Satan!! This went on for weeks, to the point that they became a hated rival of those posters involved!! So even though the Noblot fans have long since disappeared, there are still enough of us on here to carry on that particular torch!! Of course they now once again have a ginger twat as manager in Neil Lennon!!
Our record against them is P72, W30, D15, L27, so we hold a slight upper hand on them overall but we only have 2 wins in the last 10 meetings!!
Our last win was at their place on Boxing Day 2012 when Sidibe scored the winner and our last home win was back in Nov 1997 when we met in the prem and beat them 5-0. We were 5-0 up at half time that day with goals from Di Canio, Whittingham and an Andy Booth hat trick!!! We all know what happened in the seasons after that and there was a 10 year gap between us playing not long after!! Here is the video of Paulo's goal that day, typical goal for him and please note the home fans on the lower tier of the West Stand!!POTENTIAL LIVE STREAMING SITES
Each game I will post the links to the websites anyone mentions on the thread. That way its easier to find the potential threads rather than scrolling through all the posts on the thread to find the ones where a link is posted. Lets see how ths works.
Cricfree Football - stole this one from Larry on the Rangers board.
http://pilkalive.weebly.com - this one was mentioned on the WBA forum.
http://fırstrowsports.eu - the old favorite that tends not to work as well as it used to!!
WHO'S THE BASTARD IN THE BLACK
Well I have done my due dilligence this week (lets hope the Thai guys have done theirs!!
) and can inform you that the Referee will be Graham Scott, with Assistant Referees Danny Markham and Daniel Meeson and Fourth Official Darren Drysdale. MS will hopefully give us the skinny on this guy in previous Owls games!!CURRENT FORM
OWLS -
BOLTON -
Since Gingy took over as manager they have been better but still not that good!!!!
OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST
Derby v Nottm Forest
Fulham v Reading
Middlesbrough v Huddersfield
Watford v Charlton
Wigan v Blackburn
Five somewhat localish derby's to pick the results for this week!!
THE TEAM
Not really expecting many, if any at all, changes to the team that beat Forest last week. I expect Dielna to keep his place and I suppose the only possible changes would see Baker coming into midfield and Helan on the left but I don't expect it. So its as you were I think:
Westwood
Palmer Looven Lees Dielna
Maguire Semedo Lee Maghoma
Nuhiu May
THE BIG MANS LEAGUE
Owlkev
Wereham
Imre
Offshore
Pei
St Charles
Maddix
Towinjustonce
Kimmy
Bottesford
Chezzie
Daffodils
Owlshighgreen
Thurnscoe
Stateside
BBB
Back to attendance this week, no copying and no "shit lining" of other predictions, must be at least 100 difference!!!
ATTENDANCE
20,722 - Owlshighgreen
21,212 - Offshore
22,350 - Stateside
22,617 - Actual Attendance
22,767 - Bottesford
23,000 - Pei
23,211 - OwlKev
23,340 - A57
23,456 - Washington
23,666 - Imre
23,890 - Towinjustonce
24,007 - Maddix
24,242 - Madsteve
24,500 - Southey
24,678 - Thurnscoe
24,950 - Wereham
25,723 - St Charles
RESULTS
It's not meant to be easy lads, as Maddix would say, but its not meant to be almost impossible so for this game I am going to try something different by offering one
for getting 4 results right and for getting all 5 correct. Pei picked up a for getting 4 correct last week.AHHHD - Actual results
DDHHD - Washington
DHADA - Stateside
HAHAD - Pei
HAHHD - Madsteve
HDHHA - Towinjustonce
HDHHD - Bottesford
HDHHH - Offshore
HHADD - Owlshighgreen
HHDHA - Maddix
HHHDD - A57
HHHHA - Thurnscoe, Wereham, OwlKev
HHHHD - St Charles, Southey
HHHHH - Imre
THE MUPPET LEAGUE
David Jones
Still not forgiven Stuart Gray
- leaving you in here as we have been winning since you started your sentence!!![[Image: THE-MUPPETS-008.jpg]](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/3/29/1333038570260/THE-MUPPETS-008.jpg)
THE ASS PIC
![[Image: 12232-fancy.9ddddcdc2a7909a70be07d95cc28bcd5.jpg]](http://vds-food.com/files/pictures/product/12232/12232-fancy.9ddddcdc2a7909a70be07d95cc28bcd5.jpg)
KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC
This thread awaits the Meggo of Statesides choice
RE: Match Thread - Bolton Wanderers - Thurnscoe_OWL - 15-01-2015
HHHHA
24678
Think we'll lose this one
RE: Match Thread - Bolton Wanderers - Statesideowl - 15-01-2015
Nice one SCO!
We should really clean up here, but I have a feeling we'll scrap a point out of it.
I'll go with 22,350
DHADA
This weeks meggy is one of the current season's heroes!
![[Image: 7138-1930623_478x359.jpg]](http://www.swfc.co.uk/cms_images/gallery/7138-1930623_478x359.jpg)
RE: Match Thread - Bolton Wanderers - Washington - 15-01-2015
23,456
DDHHD
RE: Match Thread - Bolton Wanderers - Statesideowl - 15-01-2015
Haven't seen any links up as yet, but if I do come across any I'll put them up. Might be Friday.
RE: Match Thread - Bolton Wanderers - St Charles Owl - 15-01-2015
(15-01-2015, 03:15)Imre varadi Wrote: Charlie may i add that you missed asking for anylinks in the match thread for the game , you have to remember that this lot or all **** muppets !! and Thurny is a selfish little twat
I will go one better than asking, I have added a section to the match thread where I can list potential sites where the game may be on. Of course we may not know until Saturday which ones are listing our game but at least there will be a place for all to check for links.
RE: Match Thread - Bolton Wanderers - madsteve - 15-01-2015
24,242
HAHHD
RE: Match Thread - Bolton Wanderers - Was Wereham Owl - 15-01-2015
24,950
HHHHA
RE: Match Thread - Bolton Wanderers - madsteve - 15-01-2015
The bastard in the black or yellow, pink or green this week is Graham Scott.
He is another of the rising stars & his possible elevation to being a PL referee was indicated when he was given a PL match in November, Burnley v Villa, issuing seven yellow cards. His record this season is 79 yellows & one red from 26 matches. He has already refereed Bolton three times this season:
Brighton 2-1 Bolton
Chelsea 2-1 Bolton (LC)
Norwich 2-1 Bolton
Looks like there is a nice pattern emerging here.
Wednesday Matches:
April 14 - Leicester 2-1 Wednesday - 3Y (turned down two clear penalties for us)
Dec 12 - Cardiff 1-0 Wednesday - 4Y
Oct 10 - Yeovil 0-2 Wednesday - 2Y 1R (Otsemobor sent off, gave us penalty)
He does issue plenty of cards & doesn't mind a red card (issued four at Orient two years ago). He also has issued 80% of red cards to away players & has the highest percentage of home wins amongst current refs so may favour the home side.
Our overall record with this ref:
P3 W1 D0 L2
RE: Match Thread - Bolton Wanderers - Owlkev71 - 15-01-2015
23211
HHHHA