h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is the penultimate week of the season.

It's a pretty wide ranging list, but a list that avoids the Premiership, as that's the place that we will be visiting for the end of season final blow out.


Birmingham v Preston
Brighton v Cheltenham
Bristol Rovers v Hatlepool
Burton Albion v Aldershot
Blyth Spartans v Kettering


All predictions to be in by late lunchtime on Saturday, 9th December

The common link is all the names beging with B. Does that mean that B might actuyally perform well or just like normal thjis week?

Birmingham 2 v 0 Preston ~ McSheffrey
Brighton 2 v 0 Cheltenham ~ Revell
Bristol Rovers 2 v 1 Hatlepool ~ Haldane
Burton Albion 2 v 0 Aldershot ~ Webster
Blyth Spartans 1 v 0 Kettering ~ Scott Bell

Birmingham 2 Preston 1 McSheffrey
Brighton 3 Cheltenham 0 Revell (although the shoppers may weigh Brighton down)
Bristol Rovers 1 Ha’R’tlepool 0 Haldane
Burton Albion 3 Aldershot 1 Clare
Blyth Spartans 2 Kettering 2 Scott Bell

It seems that the shoppers *did* wear Brighton down, so we'll have to wait a few extra hours for this week's last result: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/brighton/6216666.stm

Birmingham 3-1 Preston (McSheffrey)
Brighton 2-0 Cheltenham (Revell)
Bristol Rovers 1-1 Hatlepool (Walker)
Burton Albion 2-1 Aldershot (Clare)
Blyth Spartans 0-0 Kettering

Birmingham 1-0 Preston (Nicklas Bendtner)
Brighton 2-1 Cheltenham (Alex Revell)
Bristol Rovers 1-0 Hartlepool (Stuart Nicholson)
Burton Albion 1-0 Aldershot (Daryl Clare)
Blyth Spartans 2-1 Kettering (Robbie Dale)

That was indeed the story to which I was referring Ormy.

Birmingham v Preston 1-2 (David Nugent)
Brighton v Cheltenham 4-0 (Alex Revell)
Bristol Rovers v Hartlepool 1-0 (Richard Walker)
Burton Albion v Aldershot 2-2 (John Grant)
Blyth Spartans v Kettering 2-1 (Dale)

Birmingham 1-1 Preston Bendtner
Brighton 2-0 Cheltenham Robinson
Bristol Rovers 1-2 Hatlepool Daly
Burton Albion 2-1 Aldershot Grant
Blyth Spartans 2-2 Kettering Bell

Birmingham 2-2 Preston (Agyemang)
Brighton 4-0 Cheltenham (Cox)
Bristol Rovers 1-1 Hartlepool (Boland)
Burton Albion 3-0 Aldershot (Clare)
Blyth Spartans 1-2 Kettering (Boucaud)

Birmingham 1-0 Preston Bendtner
Brighton 2-0 Cheltenham Robinson
Bristol Rovers 1-0 Hatlepool Walker
Burton Albion 2-1 Aldershot Clare
Blyth Spartans 2-1 Kettering Bell

Bottletop

Can I get a pools pick again please. Completely slipped my mind.

Birmingham 1-1 Preston (McSheffrey)
Brighton 2-1 Cheltenham (Revell)
Bristol Rovers 0-0 Hartlepool
Burton Albion 2-1 Aldershot (Grant)
Blyth Spartans 1-0 Kettering (Gildea)

B

Yes that road into Brighton is a right pig at times. It's the main road down from the motorway and London etc. It's also the location of the local's cunning plan as to how to avoid the visiting hoards of day-trippers and the like.

There are actually 6 roads into Brighton from the north, however only this one the A23 going past Withdean, is sign posted as being the 'road to Brighton'. Therefore all the visitors take this road which leaves the roads signposted to places like "Bevendean", "Coldean", "Moulsecoomb" very much free of traffic.

And where are these places? Why they are districts and communities within the city of Brighton & Hove


Birmingham 1-1 Preston (Bendtner)
Brighton 1-0 Cheltenham (Hammond)
Bristol Rovers 2-1 Hartlepool (Daly)
Burton Albion 4-1 Aldershot (Clare)
Blyth Spartans 1-1 Kettering (Solkhon)

Birmingham v Preston 2-0 (Bendter)
Brighton v Cheltenham 1-0 (Revell)
Bristol Rovers v Hartlepool 1-0 (Walker)
Burton Albion v Aldershot 0-0
Blyth Spartans v Kettering 2-1 (Bell)

Nirvanite's PP picks are:

Birmingham 2-0 Preston
Brighton 0-0 Cheltenham
Bristol Rovers 1-1 Hartlepool
Burton Albion 2-1 Aldershot
Blyth Spartans 1-0 Kettering
... with no additional scorer points.

This was a week when the mid-table folk shone. Demon Drawer and riotact have notched up nine points to take a share of this week's title. Well done guys (And well done riotact for an impressive 3-1 Full House. Nice call )

The three at the top had poor to mediocre weeks, which I believe leaves me[Andy]g vunerable to attack, and quite possibly Orcus as well. I don't think that Ormy can finish anywhere lower than 2nd, and will I believe most likely win it. But you never know what might happen in the final run in

Mr Desk, sir: nice though it is to be so handily placed with a week to go, I think you may have short-changed me by one point this week. I had the correct score in the Brighton-Cheltenham game as well as the Birmingham result. Call me greedy if you like, but as you say: you never know what might happen in the final run in!

Indeed you did get the Brighton score right along with the Birmingham result. Coming into this week you had a grand total, and it is grand, of 101 points; and as you leave you have 106. The miscalculation this time is yours, sir.