Week Nine

Here we are with Week Nine of the competition we had no prize money this weekend due to the international games this week. So next weekend we will have our second Rollover of the season worth £10.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT 

RICK WOOD our 2007/08 Champion is still in the lead this week with a total of 27 goals. HAYLEY ADKINS stays in second place still with a total of 26 goals. In third place is still STEVE AYRES with NICK HORTON both on a total of 25 goals. In fourth place with 24 goals we have GUY DOWSETT (1). In fifth place we have,  MARK GREGORY, LOUIE HARRINGTON and TERENCE WARWICK all on a total of 23 goals. In sixth place we have PETER PORTER and BOB SOPER with 22 goals each. 

WEEKEND RESULTS 

We had just sixteen of our teams in action this weekend in which only three teams failed to score any goals. The highest score that we had was three goals and they came from PETERBOROUGH and SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY.  

LEAGUE ONE 

PLYMOUTH have knocked IPSWICH off the top of the table after they won 2-1 at home after going a goal down at half time. Plymouth are on a total of 18 goals and have extended their goal run to eight games. Ipswich picked up goal number 19 and they have also now scored in all of their last eight games. FOREST GREEN ROVERS lost 4-0 at home to Exeter City to pick up their 5^th blank of the season. CHARLTON lost 3-1 away to Barnsley. With yet another single goal, Charlton are on 16 goals and a goal run of eight games. BRISTOL ROVERS lost 1-0 at home to Accrington and that is their 4^th blank score sheet. After failing to score in their previous two games, PETERBOROUGH won 3-0 at home to Port Vale and they are now on a total of 19 goals. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have taken their goals tally to 25 as they win 3-1 at home against Wycombe. 

LEAGUE TWO 

The highest team that we have here are SALFORD CITY in fifth place. They won 2-1 away to SUTTON UTD and they are now on a total of 16 goals. Sutton are on a total of 13 goals. STOCKPORT COUNTY lost 2-1 away to Northampton and they are on a total of 13 goals. BRADFORD CITY drew 2-2 at home against AFC WIMBLEDON. Bradford have taken their goals total to 19 while Wimbledon are on 11 goals. MANSFIELD TOWN won 2-1 away to Crewe and they are on a total of 17 goals. CRAWLEY TOWN lost 4-1 away to Doncaster and that is goal number 12 for them. SWINDON TOWN won 2-1 away to Grimsby and they are on a total of 12 goals. GILLINGHAM drew 0-0 away to Hartlepool and that is blank number nine for them and now two in a row.  

Our BEST three teams this week 

ABERDEEN (30) CELTIC (29) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (25) Total of 84 goals 

Our WORST three teams are 

WEST HAM (3) GILLINGHAM (4) EVERTON (6) Total of 13 goals 

Our best performing team are now NORWICH as they have now scored in all of their last eleven league/cup games played. They have a total of 20 goals. That gives them an average score of 1.6 goals per game. 

Our worst performing team is GILLINGHAM this weekend as they have picked up nine blank score sheets out of twelve League/Cup games played. 

Our highest goal scorers in our 40^th Season are CELTIC who won 9-0 away to Dundee Utd in the league and LIVERPOOL who won 9-0 at home to Bournemouth in the league both from Week Five. 

GRANT PHILLIPS has moved into the lead this weekend with his teams of  Celtic, Sheffield Wednesday and Tottenham. Grant becomes our fourth player to reach number one this our 40^th Season. He picked up three goals from Sheffield Wednesday. Mark Gregory is now in second place on goal difference as none of his teams were in action this week. Mark’s teams are Celtic, Manchester City and Norwich.  

At the other end at 108 we still have MANDY WRIGHT who has now been there for seven consecutive weeks. Mandy’s teams were not in action this week. Her teams are Bournemouth, Swansea and West Ham.

With so many of us not having any of our teams in action this week, those that did manage to have a team playing and scored has changed the table just a bit this weekend.

         THIS      LAST                                                  M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL

WEEK     WEEK         NAME                             GOALS         GOALS        GOALS 

      1             2            GRANT PHILLIPS              13                   59                   72

       2                 1            M. GREGORY                     23                   49                   72

       3                 -             T. GUY (2)                           16                   55                   71

       4                 5            S. DICKINSON                    16                   53                   69  

       5                 4            H. ADKINS                          26                   42                   68                

        6                 -             R. WOOD (2007/08)*          27                   41                   68                

        7                 12          J. BLYTH                              17                   50                   67                

        8                 9            T. BICKNELL (2014/15)      22                   45                   67                

        9                 11          T. CROWTHER                     15                   51                   66    

        10               7             B. BURROUGHS (1)            9                     55                   64