Week Twenty-One

It’s Week Twenty-one of Season 34 and it is a very slow start to the second half. This weekend we had a total of four players that picked up this weekends highest score with just four goals each. They are ADRIAN BEW, JAMES HUNTER, ROBERT NETTING and CHRIS NUNN.

As we said on last weeks sheet that we will have a Rollover for next weekend for £12 PLUS we will have our Christmas Jackpot of £20 making a total grand jackpot total of £32.  

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT  

Well over half of us managed to pick up some more goals this week so once again this week we see a bit of a change in the race for the cash this weekend as DARYL NICHOLLS is still in the lead now with 71 goals. In second place on 68 goals we still have GRANT PHILLIPS. In third place down from two we have MANGO and DAVID SMITHERS both on 67 goals. In fourth place on 66 goals we still have CHRIS SETFORD but DANIEL GOODSON joins him as he moves down from third place. Still in fifth place with 64 goals is STEPTOE & SON while in sixth place both on atotal of 63 goals we have MALCOLM CORMACK down from five while IAN SMITH comes back in the race for the cash.

The good news this weekend is that we now have a total of thirty-seven players that are now over the 50 goals mark. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

We only had three of our teams in action over the weekend and as you will have noticed that it was the Christmas weekend with only a couple of Scottish league in action on Christmas Eve.

SCOTTISH RESULTS

In the Scottish Premiership CELTIC remained top after their won 3-0 away to Hamilton to go fourteen points clear of rivals Rangers. Celtic have kept their 100% goal run after all twenty-two games and they are now on a total of 61 goals. Celtic have now won seventeen of their eighteen league games played. RANGERS are still in second place after their 1-0 home win against Inverness. Rangers goal now gives them a total of 46 goals and they have won just eleven of their nineteen league games played.

In the Championship HIBEERNIAN are now down to second place as they drew 1-1 at home to Raith. Hibs are now on 31 goals. 

Our Best Three Teams Are

CELTIC (61) NEWCASTLE (56) LIVERPOOL (53) Total of 170 goals

Our Worst Three Teams Are

OLDHAM (18) KILMARNOCK (21) SOUTHAMPTON (22) Total of 61 goals 

Our Best team on form is still CELTIC after they have scored in all of their twenty-two League and Cup games played and netting a total of 57 goals which still gives them an average score of just under three goals per game.

Our worst teams is  OLDHAM  this weekend as they have picked up a total of fourteen blank score sheets out of twenty-five games played.

Our highest goal scorers in our 34^th Season are  LUTON after they won 6-2 at home to non-league Solihull Moors in the FA CUP 2^nd Round in week eighteen. LIVERPOOL winning 6-1 at home against Watford in the league in week fourteen and SHEFFIELD UNITED winning 6-0 at home to LEYTON ORIENT in the 1^st Round of the FA Cup also in week fourteen. BOURNEMOUTH  after their 6-1 home win against Hull in the league in week eleven.  CELTIC with their 6-1 home League win against Kilmarnock from week eight. NEWCASTLE winning 6-0 away to Q. P. R in the league in week seven and 6-1 away to Preston in the EFL League Cup 4^th Round in week thirteen.  NORWICH by winning 6-1 at home to Coventry in the EFL League Cup 2^nd Round in week four.

DANIEL GOODSON is now in his eighth weekend at the top and now nine weeks over the season. His combination picked him up a total of five goals over the week with two coming from midweek and the other three at the weekend. They came from Celtic as Liverpool and Newcastle had no game over the weekend. Dan has again extended his lead from June Tighe as she remains in second place after picking up a total of four goals for the week. Dan is now four goals clear of  June. Her teams are once again Celtic, Newcastle and Sheffield United.

At the other end at 136 we still have SANDRA NICHOLLS as her combination had no games at all over the whole week. Sandra is now in her tenth weekend at the bottom over the season and now seven weekends in a row. Sandra’s teams are Everton, Leicester City and Manchester United and she is still just one goal behind 135.

      THIS      LAST                                                           M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

       WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                 GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1            -                  D. GOODSON                          66                 104                170              

             2                 -                 J. TIGHE                                     56                 110                166

             3                 -                 G. PHILLIPS                              68                 96                   164

             4                 7                I. SMITH                                     63                 99                   162              

             5                 4                M. PEPPERRELL (2002/03)   55                106                161

             6                 5                D. NICHOLLS                           71                 90                   161              

             7                 6                S. STUBBS                                 60                 100                160              

             8                 -                 G. DOCKERILL (1994/95)    48                 109                157

             9                 -                 M. DORAN                                52                 103               155                              

             10              11              STEPTOE & SON                      64                 91                   155