Week Three

In Week Three of the competition and this weekend we had another two winners to share the £6 weekend cash prize money.  Our winners won on a score of 10 goals which is a little better than last weekends score.

One of our winners is our second lady to win this season and she is BARBARA BARNES with her third combination. Barbara started the competition in the 2000/01 Season. Last season Barbra’s best combination finished in 18^th place on 321 goals with two weekend wins winning just over £23 in cash. Our other winner is TONY SKINNER who started with Golden Goals in the 2013/14 Season. Last season Tony finished in 76^th place and failed to win any cash, so a good start for the season for Tony.

Barbara – CELTIC 2, CHARLTON 4, MANCHESTER UNITED 4

Tony – ASTON VILLA 4, CELTIC 2, MANCHESTER UNITED 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

Fifty of us picked up some midweek goals for the race for the £40 cash prize money this season. The prize money will go to the first person to reach 100 goals from their three teams.

We had just one player that picked up the most number of midweek goals this week with four goals and they went to ABBEY NEWMAN. Abbey picked the four up from Ipswich and that takes her total to 12. Abbey’s other teams are Celtic and Manchester City.

Out in front this week still with 17 goals is AMANDA MORRISON who has Falkirk, Manchester City and Scunthorpe. In Second place we have GARY BOLBERY,  TONY GUY (2),  and DAVE WOOD all with 15 goals. In third place all on 14 goals we have SIMON DICKINSON, MIKE PEPPERRELL and JAMES PLATT. We then have a total of twelve players on 13 goals with four still yet to score any midweek goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS 

Things seem to be slowing down in our second full weekend fixture as teams struggle to score goals. We had four teams with no game over the weekend with another fourteen teams that failed to score any goals. So our weekend average score was just four goals which is a little better than last weekends. So if your teams picked up more than that, then you have done well.

The Highest score over the weekend was four goals once again and we had four teams that scored them. They came from ASTON VILLA, CHARLTON, FOREST GREEN and MANCHESTER UNITED.

PREMIERSHIP

With the Premiership playing their second league games MANCHESTER UTD have remained top after they won 4-0 away to Swansea. United have now scored 8 goals in just two games. Behind Huddersfield is WEST BROM in third place. They won 1-0 away to Burnley and that is now two goals in two games for them. LIVERPOOL are in fourth place behind Watford as they win 1-0 at home to CRYSTAL PALACE. Liverpool are on 4 goals while Place have yet to score and have two blank score sheets to date. BOURNEMOUTH picked up their second blank score sheet as they lost 2-0 at home to Watford. LEICESTER CITY picked up their first win of the season with a 2-0 home win against Brighton. Leicester are on five goals. WEST HAM are still rock bottom but are now on a total of two goals as they lost 3-2 away to Southampton.

ARSENAL picked up their first blank score sheet as they lost 1-0 away to Stoke. Last seasons champions CHELSEA beat rivals TOTTENHAM 2-1 away to pick up their first win. Chelsea are on four goals while Tottenham are on three.NEWCASTLE have lost again with a 1-0 defeat away to Huddersfield. No goals for Newcastle in two games played.

CHAMPIONSHIP

CARDIFF win four out of four and stay top after they won 2-1 away to WOLVES. Cardiff are now on a total of 10 goals while Wolves moved down to third place with 8 goals. In second place is IPSWICH as they win 2-0 at home against BRENTFORD. Ipswich take their goals tally to 11 goals while Brentford picked up their second blank of the season. ASTON VILLA picked up their highest score of the season as they win 4-2 at home to NORWICH. Villa are now on a total of 8 goals while Norwich are on 9. It’s six goals for BOLTON but they lost 2-1 at home to Derby. FULHAM lost 1-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday to pick up their second blank score sheet and now two in a row. MIDDLESBROUGH lost 2-1 away to Nottingham Forest. READING picked up their second blank score sheet as they went down 1-0 away to Preston. QUEENS PARK RANGERS are on six goals as they win 2-1 at home against HULL. Hull’s single goal was goal number eight. After a run of two blank score sheet’s, SHEFFIELD UNITED are on 5 goals as they win 1-0 at home to Barnsley. SUNDERLAND pick up their first blank score sheet as they lost 2-0 at home to LEEDS UNITED. Leeds after a two game dry spell for goals are now on a total of nine.

LEAGUE ONE

WIGAN are now top here after they won 2-0 away to Oldham and they are now on 9 goals. PETERBOROUGH are still in second place after they won 2-1 at home to Rotherham. Borough are on 9 goals. In third place is FLEETWOOD TOWN who won 2-0 at home against AFC Wimbledon. Fleetwood are on 6 goals this week. BRADFORD picked up their first blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 at home to BLACKBURN. Blackburn are on a total of 6 goals. CHARLTON picked up their highest score to date with a 4-1 home win against Northampton. Charlton are on 7 goals. DONCASTER have picked up another three goals as they drew 3-3 at home to Blackpool. Doncaster are now on 9 goals. MK DONS picked up their second goal of the season as they win 1-0a t home to Gillingham. PORTSMOUTH are on four goals as they drew 1-1 at home to Walsall. SCUNTHORPE won 1-0 at home to Oxford to pick up goal number six. After a run of two blank score sheets SOUTHEND are on three goals as they drew 1-1 at home to PLYMOUTH who are now on 4 goals.

LEAGUE TWO

EXETER are in second place here behind Swindon after they beat LINCOLN CITY 1-0 at home. Exeter are now on four goals after four games. In third place is LUTON as they win 3-0 at home to COLCHESTER. Luton after a two game dry spell for goals, are now on a total of 11 goals. Colchester have picked up their first blank of the season. COVENTRY are now in fourth place after they lost 1-0 at home to Newport to pick up their first blank score sheet. MANSFIELD are on 5 goals after they lost 2-1 away to Accrington. PORT VALE also picked up their first blank score sheet after four games as they lost 2-0 away to Chesterfield. After a two game dry spell for goals, FOREST GREEN have picked up their highest score to date with a 4-3 home win against Yeovil. Forest Green are on 6 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES

In the Scottish Premiership, it’s three wins in three games for CELTIC this weekend after they win 2-0 away to Kilmarnock. Celtic are now on 12 goals this week. In third place is ABERDEEN. They won 2-1 at home to Dundee and are now on 7 goals. RANGERS was the only Scottish team that we have not to score this weekend as they drew 0-0 at home to Hearts. As Rangers pick up their first blank score sheet, they remained in sixth place in the league.

In the Championship FALKIRK have extended their goal run to eight games as they lost 3-1 away to Dunfermline. Falkirk are now on a total of 17 goals.

In League One RAITH ROVERS are still in second place as they win 3-1 at home to Forfar and they are now on a total of 16 goals.

In League Two PETERHEAD are down to third place as they lost 3-1 away to STENHOUSEMUIR. Peterhead have scored in all of their eight games this season and they are now on 13 goals while Stenhousemuir are on 9. ELGIN CITY not only won their first game of the season but also picked up their highest score with a 3-2 home win against Clyde. Elgin are now on a total of 6 goals.

OUR BEST THREE TEAMS this week with Golden Goals are

FALKIRK (17) RAITH ROVERS (16) PETERHEAD (13) Total of 46 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

BOURNEMOUTH (0) NEWCASTLE (0) CRYSTAL PALACE (0) Total of 0 goals

Our Best team is still  FALKIRK after they have scored in all of their eight League and Cup games with 17 goals.

ELGIN CITY have picked up the most number of blank score sheets with four in seven games played to date.

Our highest goal scoring team in our 35^th Season is LUTON from League Two. They picked up our highest score in week one as they win 8-2 at home to Yeovil in their first league game of the season.

GARY BOLBERY is celebrating his second weekend at the top as his combination of teams pick him up a total of  seven goals all coming from the weekend. They came from Celtic and Chelsea two goals each while Raith Rovers netted three. With just a goal in front again this week from Jed Wearden who has Celtic, Luton and Manchester United, will Gary still be there next weekend.

At the other end at 149 we have Colin Pinder staying there for another weekend. Colin picked up just one goal from Southend. His other teams who failed to score are Colchester and Crystal Palace. 

        THIS      LAST                                                          M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

      WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                  GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

          1            -                  G. BOLBERY                              15                   17                  32

            2                 4                J. WEARDEN                             6                     25                  31

            3                 7                M. LIDDLE                                 7                     22                  29

            4                 8                G. DOWSETT (2)                       10                   19                  29

            5                 54              T. SKINNER                              9                     19                  28

            6                 50              B. BARNES (3)                          8                     19                  27

            7                 5                P. O’DONOGHUE                     10                   17                  27                

            8                 6                JAMIE SOMERVILLE              10                   17                  27

            9                 2                C. BOOM                                   13                   14                  27                

             10              16              S. DICKINSON                         14                   13                  27