[St Charles Owl]

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!!



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