Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Week Twenty-Three

We have not started off  2015 with any goals rush as the average score fell down from four of  last weekend to just 3 goals this weekend. We had four teams that had no game over the weekend and another nine teams that failed to score any goals.
The Highest score that we had came from the Scottish Championship where HEARTS won 5-1 away to Dumbarton. That now gives Hearts a total of  54 goals.
Hearts  was our 12th Scottish team to be picked in Golden Goals and they are in their 10th season with us. They started with us back in our 1986/87 Season and finished on a grand total of 72 goals. In the following season they picked up their highest score to date with 92. Their lowest score is 50 goals scored in our 1998/99 Seasons. Last time out was back in our 2006/07 Season and finished on a total of 55 goals. Over the ten seasons, they have scored a total of  642 goals which gives them an average score of 64 goals per season. They have just one vote this season.
 
PEREMIERSHIP
CHELSEA are now two points clear of Manchester City after they beat Newcastle 2-0 at home. Chelsea are now on a total of 56 goals and they remained our third best team this weekend. MANCHESTER CITY drew 1-1 away to EVERTON. That was City’s 54th goal of  the season while Everton picked up their 31st.  MANCHESTER UNITED drop down to fourth place as they lost 1-0 at home to Southampton. That was United’s 5th blank score sheet of the season.  ARSENAL are fifth as they win 3-0 at home to Stoke. The Gunners are now on 40 goals. LIVERPOOL are now on 38 goals as they win 1-0 away to Sunderland. CRYSTAL PALACE won 2-1 at home against TOTTENHAM and that now gives them a total of 31 goals while Tottenham picked up their 40th goal of the season.  QPR picked up their 23rd goal as they lost 2-1 away to Burnley.
 
CHAMPIONSHIP
DERBY are in second place here as they win 1-0 away to Ipswich and that was their 59th goal of the season to keep them our secondbest this weekend. In the play-off zone we have just one team hanging on in there and they are WATFORD who lost 3-1 away to Huddersfield. That was Watford’s 46th goal. It’s 26 goals for WIGAN after they lost 3-1 away to Birmingham after they had a two game dry spell. LEEDS are on 29 goals as they drew 1-1 away to Bolton. NORWICH are on 49 as they win 2-1 away to Bournemouth after going a goal down in the first eighteen minutes. ROTHERHAM picked up their 12th blank score sheet of the season as they lost 1-0 away to Brentford.  CARDIFF are on 41 goals as they win 1-0 at home to FULHAM. Fulham picked up their 10th blank of  the season and they have failed to score in their last four games. CHARLTON picked up their 9th blank of the season as they lost 1-0 at home to Brighton. Charlton have scored just two goals in their last five games. NOTTINGHAM FOREST lost 2-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday to get their 8th blank of  the season and now two games in a row without a goal. READING drew 0-0 at home to Middlesbrough to pick up their 10th blank score sheet. WOLVES are on 31 goals as they win 1-0 away to Blackburn. 
 
LEAGUE ONE
BRISTOL CITY are still top here as they win again 4-0 at home to Notts County to pick up their highest score of the season. City are now on a total of 51 goals. In the play-off zone we have three of the four teams there. MK DONS drew 2-2 away to Crawley and are now on 64 goals. PRESTON are also in there but they lost to our other team there SHEFFIELD UNITED 2-1 away. Preston picked up goal number 46 while United are now on 45. After a two game dry spell for goals BARNSLEY are now on 42 goals as they win 2-0 at home to Yeovil. LEYTON ORIENT lost 1-0 at home to Fleetwood and picked up their 10th blank of the season while DONCASTER drew 2-2 away to Oldham and they are now on a total of 35 goals. PETERBOROUGH picked up their second blank in a row as they lost 2-0 at home to Colchester. Borough have now had a total of ten blank score sheets and now they have netted just four goals in their last seven games. SCUNTHORPE picked up their highest score of the season as they win 4-1 away to Walsall. Scunthorpe are now on 39 goals.
 
LEAGUE TWO
Again just two teams were in action here as STEVENAGE won 2-1 at home to AFC Wimbledon. Stevenage have now scored a total of 36 goals. PORTSMOUTH lost 1-0 away to Newport and so picked up their 11th blank score sheet of the season.
                                                     
SCOTTISH LEAGUES                                                                                                                       
In Scotland we had four of our five teams in action again over the weekend. Hearts we already know about but RANGERS won just 1-0 away to Alloa and that was their 53rd goal of the season. STENHOUSEMUIR are on 30 goals but lost 3-2 at home against Morton. DUNFERMLINE are on 41 goals in their 2-2 draw away to Stirling.
 
THE BEST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

MK DONS (64) DERBY (59) CHELSEA (56) Total of 179 goals.
 
THE WORST THREE TEAMS ARE…  

QPR (23) ROTHERHAM (23) WIGAN (26) Total of 72 goals.
 
QPR are still our worst team this weekend as they have only picked up another single goal. Rangers have played a total of 23 games and they have picked up a total of nine blank score sheets.
 
ROTHERHAM have picked up the most number of  blank score sheets in our 32nd season.  After a total of 28 games played, Rotherham have picked up twenty-three goals and  had a total of 12 blank score sheets to date.
 
We have had two teams that have picked up the highest score this season. First MANCHESTER CITY won their Capital One Cup third round tie against Sheffield Wednesday 7-0 at home.  MK DONS won 7-0 at home to Oldham in the league.
 
Manchester City had a record breaking end of season score of 137 goals from last season, In Week twenty-three last season, City scored six goals in midweek and two goals at the weekend. Their goals tally has now risen to 76 goals after twenty-six games played. They have had two blank score sheet’s and their highest score was seven goals against Norwich in the league.
This season they had no midweek game but picked up a single goal at the weekend. So City are now on a total of 54 goals this weekend. They have still had two blank score sheet after twenty-four games played. They are now 22 goals behind last seasons record run. They are home to Arsenal at the Weekend.

We had a very poor weekend for goals but here is how our top Ten look's like this weekend.


THIS     LAST                                                             M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL
       WEEK   WEEK            NAME                                      GOALS         GOALS        GOALS
 
            1              -                 C. EVANS                                      68                  101                169
            2              -                 S. THOMSON (1)                          65                  101                166              
            3              -                 M. PEPPERRELL (2002/03)         57                  106                163
            4              -                 J. SOMERVILLE                           63                    99                162
            5             -                  R. NETTING                                  55                  104                159
            6              9                G. GOODEY                                  40                   118                158
            7              6                M. STUBBS                                   55                   101                156
            8              -                 S. KEMP                                        65                     91                156
            9              15              K. THOMSON                               55                   100                155
            10           12              G. PHILLIPS                                   58                     97                155

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