Thursday 11 August 2016

Week One

It.s a little late but here we are with our 34th Season of Golden Goals and a very big welcome to you all and what a season we are going to have. We have ended up with 136 entries into this seasons competition and I would like to thank everyone who has  helped us to get to that magic figure which is a New Golden Goals Record after beating our previous record of 119 from last Season. Although we have seen some names missing from last season, we have gained another twenty-six new ones. So who is going to be our 34th Champion? We will find out in forty-two weeks time. 

The most popular selection for any combination was Celtic, Manchester City and Newcastle and that was first taken by Matt  Doran on the very first day that the entry forms went out. 
We have a total of fourteen past Champions playing this season. Our last season Champion is also back and that was Richard Williams. Richard has kept his winning combination from last season of Hibernian, Manchester City and Rangers to try and retain his title. 
We also have another record broken this season and that is that we have a total of twenty ladies playing this season. 

So how did the voting of teams for this season finally end up. Well CELTIC have picked up the most number of votes as they came in with a total of 69. Last season they had a total of 64 and scored a total of 108 goals. So this was no surprise that they would be one of the most voted teams this season.  Staying with the Scottish teams the second highest voted team comes from the Scottish Premiership again and they are the newly promoted RANGERS with just 31 votes which is higher than last seasons 21. The Scottish teams did well again this season with nine teams being picked. We have five from the Scottish Premiership, two from the Championship and two from League One.With the English teams things have changed as they always do in this competition. We have a total of twelve Premiership teams in this years competition with MANCHESTER CITY becoming our top team again this season with 50 votes, two less than last season. Next comes NEWCASTLE with 42 votes compared to just one last season. In third place with 26 votes  is MANCHESTER UNITED. They were our fifth most voted team last season with just 17 votes. I was expecting them to pick up more votes but could it be that the number of goals they scored last season was just 66. In fourth place down from two last season is ARSENAL. They have just 16 votes compared to 35 last season. Our fifth team is CHELSEA with just 15 votes. They were our third most voted team last season with 24 votes but they only scored 76 goals.In the Championship we have picked up 12 teams compared to 17 last season,  while in League one we have 13 with 8 teams picked from League two. 

So to Week One in our very first weekend of the new season we are already starting to pay out the prize money. This weekend we have produced our very fisrt weekend winner, and that means that the first £6 weekend prize money goes to TOM BAXTER who picks up this weekends highest score of  just 9 goals from his combination as all three of his teams played. Tom is in his very first season with Golden Goals just one of our new twenty-six new players this season. We wish them all the best but here are Tom’s teams                                                               

HIBERNIAN 2, NORWICH 4, PETERBOROUGH 3 

Out of our 54 teams that have been picked this season, thirteen had no game and another fifteen teams that failed to score any goals. So lets have a quick run down on this weekends results starting with the English Championship.

CHAMPIONSHIP 
Here is where we see our highest scoring team this weekend when NORWICH won 4-1 away to Blackburn to go top  of the table. QUEENS PARK RANGERS are second as they win 3-0 at home to LEEDS UTD. Meanwhile CARDIFF drew 0-0 away to Birmingham. DERBY drew 0-0 at home to BRIGHTON while BRENTFORD lost 2-1 away to Huddersfield. PRESTON lost 1-0 away to Reading but WOLVES drew 2-2 away to Rotherham. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY won 1-0 at home to ASTON VILLA. 

LEAGUE ONE 
MILLWALL are top here after they won 3-0 at home against OLDHAM.  GILLINGHAM are second as they win 3-1 away to SOUTHEND. Third is SCUNTHORPE as they win 3-1 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS. BRADFORD drew 0-0 at home to PORT VALE while SHEFFIELD UNITED lost 1-0 away to Bolton. CHARLTON lost 2-0 away to Bury but PETERBOROUGH won 3-2 away to Rochdale. MK DONS won 1-0 away to Shrewsbury and WALSALL won 3-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon. 

LEAGUE TWO 
LUTON are our highest scoring team here in week one as they win 3-0 away to PLYMOUTH to go top of the table. ACCRINTON beat DONCASTER 3-2 at home while LEYTON ORIENT drew 
1-1 away to Cheltenham. COLCHESTER also drew 1-1 away to Hartlepool while PORTSMOUTH drew 1-1 at home to Carlisle. YEOVIL won 2-0 at home to Notts Co. 

SCOTTISH LEAGUES 
Now you might know that the Scottish have already played their first round of the League Cup and with the new group format, most of our teams have already played more than four games this weekend. But here is the results of the first league games.
In the Scottish Premiership, CELTIC are our highest team here in third place as they win 2-1 away to Hearts. RANGERS drew their first league game 1-1 at home to Hamilton but with the cup goals, they are now on 11 goals and a 100% scoring record to the new season after five games played. KILMARNOCK lost 2-1 at home to Motherwell but that was their 6th goal. ABERDEEN drew their first game of the season 0-0 away to ST JOHNSTONE. Meanwhile HIBERNIAN won 2-1 away to FALKIRK in the Championship and in League One, PETERHEAD picked up their first blank of the season as they lost 4-0 away to Alloa while STENHOUSEMUIR picked up their third goal of the season as they lost 2-1 away to Brechin.

As you can see that most of us have picked some goals in our first week of football but JACQUI WILLIAMS is out in front by two goals with her combination of Falkirk, Hibernian and Rangers.


       FIRST                                                                M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL
      WEEK              NAME                                      GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1                J. WILLIAMS                                   15                     5                     20
             2                T. KING                                              10                     8                     18
             3                ZIGGY                                                12                     5                     17
             4                R. WOOD (2007/08)*                      10                     5                     15
             5                B. BURROUGHS                             10                     4                     14
             6                M. HOWARD                                    10                     4                     14
             7                L. KING (2001/02)                           10                     4                     14
             8                C. SETFORD                                     10                     4                     14
             9                K. STRATTON                                  10                     4                     14
            10              D. BARRETT                                    10                     3                     13


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