stattointhailand wrote:Early notice of games shown on MCOT this weekend for those that like to plan well ahead.

Sat 25th MCOT Channel 14 Leeds V Sheff Wed 19:30 ..... 5th v 6th with Norwich & Fulham fans watching closely no doubt
Sat 25th MCOT Channel 14 Aston Villa v Derby 22:00 .... can villa end their losing streak and stay out of relegation dogfight
Sun 26th MCOT Channel 30 Brighton v Reading 00:30 ....2nd v probably 5th by KO time. Can Reading put pressure on top 2

Sun 26th MCOT Channel 30 Man United v Soudth Thamptons (as it was advertised on TV all last week) 23:30 (League Cup Final)

Bumped

Leeds United 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday
Newcastle United 2-2 Bristol City
Bristol Rovers 1-1 Scunthorpe United
Port Vale 1-2 Bradford City
Leyton Orient 0-1 Cheltenham Town
Forest Green Rovers 4-3 Woking
Dulwich Hamlet 2-2 Macclesfield Town

Leeds win the lunchtime battle & then get the afternoon results as well. Still 9 points & a game off an automatic spot, but 7th. place are also now 8 points adrift.
It was an easy on paper home game against a Bristol City side struggling against relegation. Somehow the home side managed to be 2 nil down after 20 minutes though!! Certainly a point saved in the end, but a Brighton win sends them down to second.
It was also a point saved for the Iron against the other Bristol side. with Sheffield United beating promotion rivals Bolton, the Iron are now second by 7 points. With Bolton slipping away the danger to 2nd. spot looks like coming from joint on points & inform side, Fleetwood.
With Oldham winning away & Bury drawing the loss sinks Vale into the drop zone.
Massive win for Town away against fellow strugglers, ,Leyton Orient. With Accrington & Notts County both only managing a draw they rise up to a heady 19th. spot. That is still only 6 points away from sinking out the league, but a huge improvement so far this year..
Green just about manage to gain some points on their promotion rivals, but remain in 3rd.
Macclesfield will have to try it again in the Cup as theirs is the only game that does not produce a result. Ominously for them in that competition is that league leaders & FA Cup giant killers, Lincoln City, ease through 2 to zip away from home!!

Nuff said

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-2 Newcastle United
Rochdale P-P Port Vale Postponed
Scunthorpe United 1-2 AFC Wimbledon
Cheltenham Town 1-0 Carlisle United
Macclesfield Town P-P Dulwich Hamlet Postponed

Those woosies in Macclesfield cancel their game because of a bit of the white stuff... No such worries in the civilization of sunny Cheltenham where Town win a remarkable 2 on the bounce to promotion chasers Carlisle. Surprisingly Town looked by far the better side all game but just couldn't put the ball in the net. When it looked to be ending in a draw they managed to bundle in a messy goal with 5 minutes remaining.
They are up to 18th. but, more importantly, now 9 points away from danger as Leyton Orient lose again..

Should have played the original match last night Bob........ bloomin' Southern Jessies from the Hamlet of Dulwich .... frightened of a bit o snow. The Gateshead lads would have played em in a shirts v skins game

Cracker down at the Amex ....... glad I made the effort to drag myself out of bed to watch.
Thought the toon may have been on a hiding as Brighton started like a train and Darlow had to make a couple of good early saves. and after a few recent games, he needed, to get some confidence back. Ref gave a crazy pen which the commentator must have pointed out 20 times during the game, and the seagulls took the lead. From then on Newcastle came into the game and created twice as many chances as Brighton, but by playing a false No 9 they didn't have the killer instinct to get back on terms. After about 70 mins Rafa dropped Diame back into the middle and brought Daryl Murphy on in place of the "ginger m*nge". This seemed to trigger a belief that a draw was possible as he made Stockdale make two saves within a couple of mins of coming on. Gouffran had a golden op to equalise when the keeper tried to pass the ball out to a defender an Gouff stuck out a boot and intercepted the ball, but he could not place it back past the keeper. To be fair there was only about 3 feet between the pair of them so neither the keeper with his pass or Gouff with his shot had a lot of room to work with.
Christian Atsu had a shot from the edge of the area which took a deflection before hitting the outside of Diames foot and balooning up into the air and into the net over the outstretched keeper and defender on the line. Wierd goal that had to be seen to be believed, as it all seemed to be in slow motion. Rafa immediately realised the game was there for the winning and put Ayoze Perez on up front with Murphy for the last 8 or so minutes. With a minute to go (and statts suffering bruised shins having kicked the imaginary ball and hit the coffee table a dozen times) Matt Richie hit a Shelveyesque 50+ yard pass to the ever available Atsu on the wing, he controlled it looked up and found Ayoze Perez who placed his shot passed Stockdale for the winner, 3 pts, and a bit of breathing space before Huddersfield (3rd) away Sat and Reading (5th) away next Tuesday. Still think Brighton are favorites due to their far easier schedule.

Them nice guys at MCOT have shown their live footie action details in English this week...... Looks like another sleep deprived weekend ahead....

get to bed about 5am Sat morn after Brum v Leeds
Sleep until daughter wakes me up (08:00 + [-o< )
19:00 on PPTV Man U v Bomo
22:00 MCOT Blackburn v Wigan
00:30 MCOT 'ddersfield v Toon

bed by 02:45 I hope

Actually,a pretty decent night for Macc despite the snow.....
Dagenham & Redbridge,Dover and Barrow all lost and Aldershot and Lincoln only drew.
Next up for the Silkmen is Forest Green away....positively tropical in contrast to South Cheshire !

Nah stato not having Brighton winning the league the toon's got good enough players to get us promoted as champions to the premier league but I would say rafa will have to start with Murphy up front against Huddersfield my prediction for saturday 2-0 to the toon keep the faith toon toon

can see where Huddersfields priorities are ......... they rested 9 players for last nights cup replay at Man City.

And there was me thinking its supposed to be the higher league team "RESTING" players for lower league oppos

magpie, do the "predictor" on the Chronicle website ........ http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/fo ... e-12672903

when I did it with honest results (head not heart) it came out Brighton to win league by 5 pts and Toon to finish second (one ahead of Huddersfield and without losing another game all season) That was assuming a draw on Sat. so it is still VERY VERY close....... one red card/a big suspension or injury........ or picking Colback in the starting X1 could derail any promotion attempt

Some really important games there for our local teams.The stand out ones are at Huddersfield and Scunthorpe.
Leeds will want to cement there play off position,as will Forest Green in the Conference but Macclesfield will want to keep there play off hopes alive.
Elsewhere,Cheltenham should pull away further from the mire of League 2 but tricky for Port Vale at Southend.
FC United look safe in midtable already....
Good luck to all our local teams and heres hoping for favourable results....well,apart from Forest Green that is !

nah statto still not having a the evening chronicles super computer predict the out come and there second rate sport reporter's what I've watched at st james and other ground's this season gives is no doubt that we will be promoted as champion's mind you I did think we could go all the way in the fa cup haha anyway hamma keep the faith just a question on a personal note where aboots from the north east do you hail from smb toon toon

hot off the press Dwight gayle back in the squad for Saturday howay the lads just what where missing someone with a bit of pace and knows where the net is smb

Last night.....Birmingham 1 Leeds 3......Chris Wood scores twice for the visitors.He has now scored 22 in the Championship this season and 25 in all competitions.....play offs looking good for Leeds.

magpie73 wrote:- "on a personal note where aboots from the north east do you hail from

From North East Romford mate (just by the main Lundan ta sarfend Road)

how come you don't follow west ham or whoever down that neck off the woods was down landon town few weeks back for the Brentford game always good away days down the smoke hwtl

statto was a big Millwall fan in the 1970's but their fans (The Bushwackers) thought he was too violent and he was asked to leave.....that's how he started supporting Newcastle,where nobody knew him !

haha is statto's war cry no one like's us we don't care I bet he mooches about udon with bricks in his pocket anyway looks like a case of deja vu for brighton can see them getting sucked into the playoffs