h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...and am i still ahead of B?

Please tell me I am!

Does that put me top of the league?

To be honest with you I'm a bit disappointed with this week's performances. The winning score was a mere 9 points which is very low considering that there were 40% more games and a total of 35 points up for grabs.

My feeling is that as this was the last week of the Division 1 season, and all of the games were crucial for promotion or relegation purposes, that folk went with the decisive results by way of natural bias. When in actual fact the majority of the matches turned out to be crucial draws. Ho-hum

Turning our attention to the table. You will notice there has been a significant change

Yes that's right, I've slipped another place down to 13th and have been overtaken by WILD-BIRIYANI. Oh and Leeds seem to be at the top courtesy of Psycorp's 9 pointer this week.

Sorry todd, you're just going to have to pull your finger out if you're going to reclaim the top spot that you've had for most of this season

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The Results:

Ipswich Town 1-1 Cardiff City (KUQI, Bullock)

Preston 3-3 Sheffield United (JAGIELKA , Alexander, Gray, Healy, Fuller)

Wigan Athletic 1-1 West Ham (ROBERTS, Deane)

Coventry City 2-1 Crystal Palace (KONJIC, Doyle, Freedman)

Burnley 1-2 Sunderland (LITTLE, Breen, Kyle)

Walsall 3-2 Rotherham United (OSBORN, Proctor, Wright, Warne, Ritchie)

Stoke City 0-0 Gillingham (--)

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The Points:

McKay The Disorganised - 9 points (Ipswich result & score; Preston scorer; Wigan result; Coventry result & score)

Psycorp603 - 9 points (Preston result; Coventry scorer; Burnley result; Walsall result; Stoke result)

Bottletop - 7 points (Wigan result & score; Burnley result; Stoke result)

creachy - 7 points (Preston result; Wigan result; Coventry scorer; Burnley result)

Owlatron - 7 points (Ipswich scorer & 1st scorer; Burnley result & scorer; Stoke result)

WILD BIRIYANI - 7 points (Preston scorer & 1st scorer; Burnley result & scorer; Stoke result)

Egon - 6 points (Ipswich result; Preston scorer; Burnley result & score)

me[Andy]g - 6 points (Preston result; Burnley result; Stoke result)

Number Six - 5 points (Preston scorer; Burnley result; Walsall result)

sprout - 5 points (Wigan result & score; Burnley result)

Master B - 3 points (Burnley result & score)

Ormondroyd - 3 points (Preston scorer; Walsall result)

todd_abraham87 - 3 points (Coventry scorer; Burnley result)

GreyDesk - 1 points (Preston scorer)

Otto Fisch - 0 points

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So a hearty congratulations to McKay and Psycorp, you are our joint winner of this, week 19

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PS - I would advise checking your own points for yourselves. As is well known, I am not infallible when it comes to the marking. Especially when there are more than 5 games being played

Top of the League! Finally! After 19 weeks I get to the top! Huzzah!

In your face Todd! You just can't last the pace...

Well There's me thinking I'd only had an average week, and you were all underperforming.

Can I request that future FF thread skip the 'live' commentary please? It's a lot of backlog to work through.

B

Can I have an English translation please

GD....Owls above blades ???,,,crikey,,,has the world gone mad ??.......I'm enjoying this competition,,,its got all the banter etc...oh,btw,,,see u the season after next when ur still in div1 we'll be back!!(soon,dunno when tho )

and im fourth in th eleague

andy

....oooooooppps,I joined the league late...then we'd av put the blunts further down...


ALLEN OUT !!!!

well your doing better in th eother league


andy

sssshhhhhhh,to early yet pal...we'll be back on map soon tho ....

Hillsbro corner was full of cops earlier,there must av been some sour grapes floatin about....ie,its on the road from the woodhead,,,damn the results toady,,,lmao

i know what ya mean


andy

* peers down from a height of 32 places and a gulf of class and quality *


Did you call?

*shakes head from another League up (for the moment)*

You still bickering down there?

And have you reaslised that with a bit of luck, Rotherham could be Yorkshire's biggest tesm next season?

Bickering? I'm not bickering. I have a zen-like calm about the whole situation

Something last night prompted me to take a look at some of the Division 2 stats for the season. As I'm sure you can imagine, such things are generally not of any great interest to me, so I haven't really been following them during the year.

What struck me was just how large Sheffield Wednesday's average gate is in comparison to the other clubs in the league; and how out of kilter that gate size was in comparison to their final league position of 16th.

Wednesday seem to have an average gate of around 20,000+ per game. All the other teams in the league, bar three, have gates in the region of 4-6,000. The three exceptions are Plymouth, QPR and Bristol City who are in the 11-15,000 range - bigger than average, though way less than Sheffield. Yet look where those three clubs finished - 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

What is going on?

Would it be that the cost of maintaining the debt is so great that it is sucking the life-blood from the club?

The short answer is Yes. Where Wednesday are now is where Leeds will be in a couple of years, I fear.

I also think it doesn't help them with Hillsborough being such a great cave of a place. 22,000 were there when I saw Argyle beat them to go top of the league, yet the place seemed less than half-empty and the Wednesday fans seemed to make very little noise.

I don't understand why they don't shut one of the stands to concentrate the support a bit more.

I mentioned this to one of my housemates, and he suggested they take Ken Bates' money and make him sit in one particular stand, which would have the same effect but without officially closing it

I hate Chelsea (Cheating Cockney Baskets) - and Ken can't change my opinion of him by moving.