Monday 29 October 2018

Week Thirteen

In Week Thirteen of the competition, we had our eleventh winner of the season winning on a score of 11 goals. Our winner is DOUG MORBEY who become only the second player this season to pick up the full £6 weekend jackpot.
Doug has been with Golden Goals for a very long time now, in fact a total of twenty-eight years as he started playing in the 1990/91 Season. In that season, Doug finished in 33rd place on a total of 231 goals. The last time that he finished in the winning frame was back in the 2013/14 season in 18th place with 309 goals. Doug picked up a total of £11 including two weekend wins. Last season he finished in 53rd place on a total of 280 goals. This season, Doug has been as high as 32nd place in Week Two, and he has picked up a total of two blank score sheets at the weekend. With his biggest score of the season to date, Doug’s best team is Chelsea netting 26 of his total of 71 goals. His teams are

CELTIC 3, CHELSEA 4, LIVERPOOL 4

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
At last we get some midweek games and loads of goals. We had four players that picked up the highest amount of goals with seven each. They are RAY BUCKLAND, JOHN NICHOLLS, SCOTT THOMSON (2) and JACQUI WILLIAMS. So the race for the cash has changed just a bit from last week.
GRAHAM HARRIS is still out in front now with a total of 37 goals. He has Hearts, Tottenham and West Brom. In second place and ten goals behind Graham we have RYAN WILLIAMS who  moves up from third place with 27 goals. Straight in at number three we have JACQUI WILLIAMS with 26 goals. In joint fourth place all on 25 goals we still have JUNE TIGHE but she is now joined with TERRY WARWICK down from second place, MARTIN CORBETT up from fifth place and straight in we have SCOTT THOMSON (2). In joint fifth place all on 24 goals we have CLIFF BAMBRIDGE who has remained there and JOHN DAVIES down from three.

WEEKEND RESULTS
We had another good weekend for goals despite the weekends average score fell from seven goals last weekend to 5 this weekend. We had four of our teams without a game over the weekend and another thirteen teams that failed to score any goals.
The highest score that we had was again five goals and they came from the Scottish Championship, ROSS COUNTY. They won 5-0 at home to Morton taking their goals tally to 29 goals. Ross County are in their seventh season with Golden Goals and they were our 15th voted Scottish team to play in the competition. They first started in our 1994/95 Season and finished on a total of 66 goals. Their highest score came in the 1998/99 Season with a total of 101 goals. The last time that County played in the competition was back in the 2006/07 Season with a total of 45 goals. Over the season’s they have netted a total of 410 goals which gives them an average score of 58 goals per season. they have just one vote this season.

PREMIERSHIP
LIVERPOOL have gone top of the table and two points clear as they win 4-1 at home to Cardiff. Liverpool are now on a total of 21 goals. CHELSEA are up to second place after they won 4-0 away to Burnley and that now gives them a total of 26 goals. Manchester City are down to third place as they had now game over the weekend. ARSENAL are in fourth place as they drew 2-2 away to Crystal Palace. Arsenal are now on 27 goals and they have extended their goal run to ten games. WOLVES lost 1-0 away to Brighton and that is their fourth blank score sheet and now two in a row. BOURNEMOUTH are now on a total of 25 goals as they win 3-0 away to FULHAM who picked up their fourth blank of the season. After a two game dry spell for goals, WEST HAM drew 1-1 at home to LEICESTER CITY. Both teams are on 20 goals each. MANCHESTER UNITED won 2-1 at home to EVERTON and they are now on a total of 19 goals and they have now scored in all of their last eight games. Everton hit goal number 20.

CHAMPIONSHIP
This is the all changing league as Sheffield United go top this weekend. LEEDS UNITED have moved up to second place after they drew 1-1 at home to NOTTINGHAM FOREST. Leeds are on 28 goals and have scored in all of their last nine games. Forest are on a total of 29 goals. WEST BROM have now down to fifth place after they drew 1-1 at home to BLACKBURN. West Brom are on 36 while Blackburn picked up goal number 29. BIRMINGHAM won 3-1at home to Sheffield Wednesday and that now gives them a total of 19 goals. HULL won 1-0 away to Bolton and they are now on a total of 13 goals. STOKE won 1-0 away to Bristol City to pick up goal number 23. It’s 30 for DERBY after they drew 1-1 away to Middlesbrough. IPSWICH lost 3-0 away to Millwall and that is their eighth blank score sheet of the season and now three in a row. BRENTFORD picked up their third blank score sheet after they lost 1-0 away to Norwich. ROTHERHAM drew 1-1 away to Preston and they are now on a total of 15 goals. SWANSEA won 2-0 at home to Reading and that takes their goal tally up to 17 goals.

LEAGUE ONE
We have the top seven teams in this league with PORTSMOUTH still on top this weekend and now two points clear after they drew 1-1 away to ACCRINGTON STANLEY. Portsmouth are now on a total of 28 goals while Accrington are on 21. Behind them is PETERBOROUGH in second place as they win 2-1 away to BURTON ALBION. Brorough are now on 33 goals to Burton’s 24. It’s 30 goals for SUNDERLAND in third place after they won 3-0 at home to SOUTHEND. Southend picked up their fourth blank of the season. Fourth is BARNSLEY who won 1-0 at home to BRISTOL ROVERS. Barnsley picked up goal number 29 while Rovers picked up their ninth blank of the season and now just two goals in their last seven games. LUTON won 2-0 away to AFC Wimbledon and they are now on 27 goals. COVENTRY won 2-1 at home against Doncaster and they are now on 19 goals. SHREWSBURY lost 3-0 away to Oxford Utd to pick up their seventh blank of the season. ROCHDALE won 1-0 at home to CHARLTON to take their goals total to 25 while Charlton picked up their fourth blank of the season. PLYMOUTH picked up their biggest result of the season by beating SCUNTHORPE 4-1 away. Plymouth are now on a total of 21 goals while Scunthorpe are on 24. WYCOMBE lost 3-2 away to Walsall and they are now on a total of 28 goals.

LEAGUE TWO
We have the top three here with LINCOLN CITY still top this weekend even though they lost 1-0 away to Colchester. Lincoln picked up their third blank of the season. MK DONS are now in second place as they drew 1-1 away to MANSFIELD. The Dons are now on 23 goals and extend their goal run to eleven games. Mansfield picked up goal number 25. EXETER are down to third place after they lost 2-1 at home to Forest Green. Exeter are now on a total of 27 goals.
OLDHAM lost 2-1 away to Northampton and they are now on 19 goals. SWINDON won 2-1 away to NOTTS COUNTY and they have taken their goals total to 19 goals after a three game dry spell for goals. County are on 21.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Betfred Cup Semi-Finals, we had all four teams. Celtic are through to the finals after they won 3-0 away to league leaders HEARTS. Celtic are now on a total of 24 goals. Hearts picked up their second blank of the season. ABERDEEN will be playing Celtic after they beat RANGERS 1-0 at home. Aberdeen hit goal number 15 while Rangers picked up their third blank score sheet.
In the Premiership, HAMILTON drew 1-1 away to Kilmarnock and that is their 13th goal of the season.
In the Championship, Ross County are still top after their big win with  AYR UNITED in second place as they won 1-0 away to Partick. Ayr are on 35 goals. ALLOA picked up their seventh blank score sheet after they drew 0-0 at home to  Inverness CT. FALKIRK are still bottom of the league,after they  lost 2-0 away to Queen of South to pick up their ninth blank of the season and now three in a row.
In League One, RAITH ROVERS lost 3-2 away to Forfar which takes their goals total to 27 and they have now scored in all of their last eleven games. STENHOUSEMUIR are on 14 goals as they win 1-0 away to Airdrie. DUMBARTON picked up their highest score of the season by winning 4-0 at home to East Fife.
In League Two, PETERHEAD are in second place as they win 3-1 away to Clyde. Peterhead are now on a total of 25 goals and they have scored three goals in each of their last four games.

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals are

HEARTS (37) WEST BROM (36) AYR UNITED (35) Total of 108 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

FALKIRK (9) WOLVES (11) IPSWICH (12) Total of 32 goals

Our Best teams this week are TOTTENHAM after they have scored in all of their ten League and Cup games to keep their 100% scoring record going. They have a total of 18 goals.

Our worst team is BRISTOL ROVERS this weekend as they have picked up a total of nine blank score sheets out of eighteen league and cup games played this season. They have scored just two goals in their last seven games.

Our biggest result in our 36th Season are now WEST HAM UNITED who won 8-0 at home against Macclesfield in the Carabao/League Cup Third Round in Week Nine. West Brom has the second highest score with a 7-1 home win against Queens Park Rangers in their fourth league game of the season in Week Three.  

GARY BROWN  has  remained  top this weekend, after  he picked up a total of  five goals with four of them coming from the weekend. This is now his fifth weekend at the top this season and now two in a row. His teams are once again Ayr United, Manchester City and Sunderland. Graham Harris is still in second place as he only picked up a total of five goals with just one at the weekend. His teams are Hearts, Tottenham and West Brom. There is still three goals between them.
At the other end at 133 we have John Filtness at the bottom for his fourth consecutive weekend as he picks up a total of ten goals from his combination for the week. He has now had seven weeks at the bottom and he is now just two goals adrift. His teams are  Birmingham, Hamilton and Liverpool.

Here is how our top ten is looking this week.

     THIS      LAST                                                           M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL
    WEEK     WEEK             NAME                                  GOALS         GOALS        GOALS

         1             -                 G. BROWN                                22                   72                  94
          2                 -                 G. HARRIS                                37                   54                  91
          3                 4                K. STRATTON                          16                   73                  89
          4                 13              RYAN WILLIAMS                    27                   62                  89
          5                 8                M. LIDDLE                                9                     79                  88
          6                 3                C. WEBB                                   14                   74                  88
          7                 5                JAMES SOMERVILLE             16                   72                  88
          8                 7                C. BAMBRIDGE                       24                   64                  88
          9                 -                 R. FREEMAN                           8                     78                  86                                   10              6                M. HARRINGTON (1997/98)*    16                   70                  86

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