[St Charles Owl]

THE LAST MATCH

Wrong team picked, wrong tactics played, wrong formation, wrong subs used!!!!  How many times are we going to be saying this about a previous game???   By all accounts it was a pretty inept performance devoid of any real threat from anywhere on the field and littered with silly and avoidable mistakes that constantly put us on the back foot!!  Again I could be describing a few games this season with these comments!!   For me SG takes sole and full blame for all of it, his stubborness and lack of a plan B is killing us this season!  If he really wants to keep his job beyond this season he really has to make a complete turnaround not just in results but in the performances associated with them.  I for one have no doubt he will not achieve this!!



THE MATCH - SAT 14TH FEB 2015 15.00 GMT

Last season Brighton sneaked into the play offs, losing to Derby, so to see them languishing in or around the relegation spots this season is one of the surprises for most of us. They started the season with Sami Hyypia (yes I had to look up how to spell his name!! ) but struggled from the start of the season, seeing him resigning just before Xmas.  His quick replacement was Chris Hughton but so far it has seen only a marginal improvement in results with his record being P8 W3 D1 L4.

The will be only the 29th meeting between the two teams with a record for us of W13 D10 L5!! Our first loss to them was in 1977 in the old 3rd division!!  Our home record against them is P14 W8 D6 L0, I cannot remember playing a team at home who had never beat us at S6!!!  Of course we know this doesn't necessarily bode well for this game though!!!  We started our season against them with a nice 1-0 win with Coke scoring a cracker to win the game.



CLASSIC MATCH

This is a perfect game to start a new feature on the match threads of classic games against the opposition we are facing.  I started watching Wednesday in the mid 70s, not great times, but as we gradually rose through the ranks we started to hope that one day we might see Wednesday play in the top flight or play at Wembley.  In 1982-83 season we had a great cup run culminating in the semi-final below match against the Seagulls at Highbury.  Our cup run didn't start that well, needing three games to beat Southend in the 3rd round, followed by an away win at Torquay in the 4th, an away win at Cambridge in the 5th and a classic 5-0 home replay against Burnley to reach the semis!!

This was my first trip to Highbury and hopes were very high that we could pull this off and see us at Wembley, unfortunately a Jimmy Case wonder strike and Michael Robinson second half winner, either side of an Ante Mirocevic equaliser, saw us heartbroken and still waiting for that trip in May to Wembley.  BHA went on to lose to Man Utd after a replay in the final.



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

Ref - Scott Duncan
Assistants - Paul Marsden and Kevin Mulraine
Fourth Official - Darren Deadman

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

CURRENT FORM

OWLS  -    
BRIGHTON -  

Their recent form is as bad as ours but it has seen them get out of the relegation spots, albeit on goal difference over Millwall.

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Bolton v Watford
Bournemouth v Huddersfield
Charlton v Brentford
Leeds v Millwall
Norwich v Wolves

Couple of games at the top and a couple including bottom teams to pick from!!

THE TEAM

Where do we start here??  SG always seems to surprise us with his team every game.  Maguire is still suspended and Loovens will face a fitness test.  Mattock should be dropped imo and Dielna should play at LB if Loovens is back.  Midfield is where i am sure SG will still change things a bit but who know who he will pick!!  Up front Bus needs to start, personally I would play him alongside Keane and leave May and Nuhiu on the bench.  I have no doubt SG will go 442    so with that in mind I would go for:

Westwood
Vermijl Loovens Lees Dielna
Palmer Melo McGugan Helan
Bus Keane


THE BIG MANS LEAGUE

Owlkev    
Offshore      
Wereham    
Imre        
Pei    
St Charles  
Bottesford  
Maddix    
Towinjustonce    
Kimmy      
Owlshighgreen  
Chezzie    
Daffodils    
Thurnscoe  
Stateside  
BBB  
Southey  

No winners from the game against the Tractor Boys, so as you were.  Back to attendance this week, as per usual, no copying and no deliberate shit lining!!!

ATTENDANCE

17,666 - Imre
17,899 - Madsteve
18,500 - Southey
18,769 - Owlshighgreen
19,054 - Thurnscoe
19,191 - Offshore
19,374 - Actual Attendance
19,999 - Maddix
20,177 - Daffodils
20,500 - Pei
20,789 - Washington
21,000 - Owlkev
21,250 - Stateside
21,789 - Towinjustonce
22,591 - St Charles
23,100 - A57
23,459 - Bottesford
23,861 - Wereham

RESULTS

ADDHH - Bottesford
ADHHH - Actual Results
AHADA - Stateside
AHAHD - A57, Wereham
AHAHH - Owlkev
DADDD - Maddix
DDAHD - Owlshighgreen
DHAHD - Washington
DHDDD - Thurnscoe
DHDHH - St Charles, Towinjustonce
HAHAH - Daffodils
HHAAD - Southey
HHADD - Pei
HHAHH - Madsteve
HHHDH - Offshore
HHHHH - Imre

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.  


THE MUPPET LEAGUE

I think its fair to say that we are reaching the point where SG will finally be honoured with the "Lifetime in the Muppet League" award!!!

So SG, you f ucking Muppet!!!!!





THE FISH PIC

In honour of our new owners, here is a picture of a couple of their employees working hard to bring in the fish!!!




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

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




This thread awaits the Meggo of Statesides choice  

[madsteve]

Not a all season so I will try something silly!

17899

HHAHH

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The Bastard in the Black is Scott Duncan. He is from Gateshead (probably a mate of Madine).

Our record is

August 2014 - OWLS 0-0 Derby - 5Y
April 2014 - Forest 3-3 OWLS - 7Y 1R - this was where we were 3-1 & against ten men yet still blew it

and that is it

So a draw it is, although we knew that already.

Get on 0-0 at about 10/1.

[A57owl]

23 100

AHAHD

I'm also running out of chances to get into the BML

I agree with madsteve. A draw seems a good bet. But we really need the win. SG needs to get his tactics and subs right and our forward line needs to get its F*****G act together!!

UTO

[Owlshighgreen]

18769

DDAHD

[Statesideowl]

Nice one SCO!

We'll no doubt make Brighton look like world class footballers, they already know we're going to play 442

I'll go 21,250

AHADA

This match's Meggy will be.. A business class Owl smoking one.

[Maddix]

DADDD, fluck me how much money do you need now you're 26 years old and have your own house, job, car, child WTF do I still have to pay

19999

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Sorry lads got carried away with sounding out the DADDD bit It's just when I hear it said like that I know it's going to cost me badly the only thing that opens its mouth in my family without asking for money is the bloody goldfish

[Offshore Owl]

19191
H H H D H

Please Mr Fisherman throw SG back into the pond of failures.

[Was Wereham Owl]

23,861

AHAHD

[Southeyowl]

18,500

HHAAD

[madsteve]

17,666 and all Homes ... cheers ms      Loovens is out by the sound of things    id play Zayette there   if he still plays for wednesday that is   Because dielna is f ucking shite at cb   id play 4-5-1 and ill say this agian leave Palmer alone and stop **** about with the defence it has enough problems without its captain loovens    and play Bus on his jacks becuase the other strikers are utter f ucking bobbar May included im afriad  

You do realise that if we lose then Sg will say he missed maguire and he will walk striaght back into the team    i still think we will win this though   although ive lost intrest after the Cardiff game    and i wont be shouting or giving a f uck untill next season now  


Cried my eyes out after that semi final    Anti miggeravitch as his name was pronounced     was a cult hero in those days thurny a bit like Nuhui is now    but back in those days we wernt so cynical and we enjoyed wathcing crap footballers as long as they gave there all    lets face it lads untill the Big ron era there where only a handfull of players that realy had class  

Shouldn't have copied me & gone for a stupidly low crowd for three reasons:

1) It is Member's Day so the crowd will be higher than usual

2) I am bad at predicting in BML & have scored zero all season

3) I am aiming to score no all season despite predicting every week