[St Charles Owl]

THE MATCH - SAT 26th SEPTEMBER 2015 3PM UK TIME

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Brentford were probably the surprise of the Championship last season reaching the playoffs in their first season back in the division.  Mark Warburton was hailed as the architect to this success yet during the season it was announced that he would not be staying as manager beyond the end of last season.  He duly left, joined Rangers who have had a very good start to their season, and so far Brentford have struggled a bit sitting in 17th place as I type this.  Of course losing some of their key players such as Andre Gray doesn't help, but it does make you wonder about the logic of letting Warburton leave.

We have played Brentford 32 times with a record of W11 D12 L9. Our record at Griffin Park is very good, since 2003  we have W3 D2 L1 including a 2-1 win in the playoff semis on our way to promotion in 2005. Here is the video of our goals in that semi from Peacock and Brunt, a game that saw our new CH Michael Turner playing for them!!




THE LAST MATCH

We have definitely stepped up our performances since the International break putting in good displays in all our games without being able to win them.  Well maybe this last week will hopefully prove to be the turning point for our fortunes and ability to turn good performances into goals and ultimately wins.  We played very well against Fulham, a game that saw us play some great stuff and finally score the goals to go with them.  Of course it was closer than it probably should have been due to us conceding 2 goals, but the win was the important thing at the end of the day.  That was followed up by a great performance and in the end comfortable victory at St Jame's Park against Newcastle, another game we dominated and although only by one goal in the end our "reserve" team was never really troubled by a Prem team that included multiple international players!!


FUNNY COMMENT FROM LAST MATCH THREAD

Quote from Maddix.

"BASTARDS   I'm sat here with my first bottle open only to find we don't frucking play until tomorrow  

"

A little confession from me, I changed the day of a meeting I had from Tuesday to Wednesday so that I too could listen to the game at work only to discover on Tuesday morning that the game was on the following day!!



OUR TEAM

The team is starting to look more settled after the good recent performances.  No changes to the back four from the Fulham game I would imagine, but Hutchinson is back from his suspension so will be in contention along with Semedo for the midfield anchor role.  The rest of midfield sees CC having to now make a few difficult decisions, does he play Wallace after his three assists against Fulham or does he bring in McGugan somewhere who had a good game against the Geordies or does he include Matias or even Sougou on the wings??????   Its certainly nice to see a squad with depth for a change and here is what I would expect to see:

The following is my prediction for the opening line-up:

Westwood

Hunt  Turner  Lees  Pudil

Lee  Hutchinson

Wallace  Forestieri  Bannan

Nuhiu

But I think we could probably all name a different line-up with so many options now available to CC.


WHO'S THE BASTARD IN THE BLACK

Ref - GEOFF ELTRINGHAM
Assts - Adam Crysell and Geoffrey Russell
Fourth Official - Charles Breakspear

MS will hopefully give us the skinny on this guy in previous Owls games!!

CURRENT FORM - League games

SWFC -  
Brentford -  

OTHER RESULTS TO PREDICT

Bolton v Brighton
Burnley v Reading
Hull v Blackburn
Ipswich v Bristol City
Preston v Wolves

THE BIG MANS LEAGUE

Current Table

OwlKev
Wereham 
Consilio 
Maddix 
Thurnscoe 
Imre 
Pei 
Towinjustonce 
Stateside
Owlshighgreen
St Charles  

For this week here is what you need to predict:

SCORE AND SCORER (SWFC score first please, no copying, correct for both only will win, defeats are allowed)

1-0 Forestieri - Towinjustonce
1-1 McGugan - Daffodils
2-0 McGugan - Wellowlbe
2-0 Nuhiu - Washington
2-0 Matias - Imre
2-0 Forestieri - Owlshighgreen
2-0 Bannan - Wereham
2-1 Nuhiu or Joao - Actual Result
2-1 Forestieri - St Charles
2-1 Lee - Madsteve
2-1 Nuhiu - Owlkev
2-2 Forestieri - Bottesford
2-2 Turner - Jacko
3-0 Nuhiu - Consilio
3-1 Matias - Thurnscoe
3-1 Forestieri - Southey
3-1 Nuhiu - Maddix
3-1 Lees - A57
3-2 Lees - Pei
4-1 Nuhiu - Stateside


SWFC Percentage Possession(no copying allowed, result is according to the BBC website, closest to wins)

36 - Madsteve
38 - Imre
39 - Consilio
42 - Washington
43 - St Charles
44 - Owlkev
45 - Jacko
46 - Thurnscoe
47 - A57
48 - Wellowlbe
49 - Stateside
50 - Towinjustonce
51 - Southey
52 - Pei
53 - Owlshighgreen
54 - Bottesford
57 - Maddix


OTHER RESULTS TO PREDICT (Copying is allowed, all 5 correct will win)

ADHDA - Daffodils
ADHHA - Wellowlbe
ADHHD - Thurnscoe
ADHHH - Jacko
AHHHA - Stateside
AHHHD - Southey
AHHHH - Owlkev
DADDD - Actual Results
DDDDD - Washington
DDHHA - Towinjustonce, A57
DDHHD - St Charles, Consilio
DHHHA - Bottesford
DHHHD - Madsteve, Wereham
HHADD - Owlshighgreen
HHDDA - Pei
HHHHD - Maddix


THE MUPPET LEAGUE

No inmates currently!



KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

The nice little video version is back, so hopefully she can writhe in ecstasy watching us win this one!!  



These "two" have one more chance to bring us some luck:



This thread awaits the Meggo of Statesides choice