Next set of games

Tuesday (tomorrow)
Telford v GATESHEAD
EASTLEIGH v Wrexham
HALIFAX v BARNET

Saturday
Altrincham v HALIFAX
BARNET v Welling
Dover v GATESHEAD
GRIMSBY v EASTLEIGH
MACCLESFIELD v Nuneaton
Woking v FGR


Tuesday I think Gateshead, Eastleigh & Barnet will all win.

We have our game in Friday which I think we will win.

Saturday I think all our rivals will win apart from the Grimsby vs Eastleigh game. I think that will be a draw, which would be a good result.

I predict come 5pm on Saturday, the table will look like this....

Pos.. Team....... Pl.... Pts
1st... Barnet..... 40... 80
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2nd. Rovers..... 40... 77
3rd.. Maccles... 40... 74
4th.. Grimsby... 39... 70
5th.. FGR.......... 40... 69
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6th.. Eastleigh... 39... 67
7th.. Gateshead. 38... 63
8th.. Halifax...... 38... 61
9th.. Woking...... 39... 59

Competition is hotting up for 5th place between 3 sides. If we end 2nd, we would be facing FGR or Eastleigh in the play offs! We havent beat these 2 teams this season. Drew both away games and lost both home games, the only 2 league home games that we have lost!

Somehow we need to gain 4 points on Barnet within the last 6 games. Looking at the fixtures for the last 6 games for both Rovers and Barnet, I cant see us catching them again. A tough play off challenge it is then, against teams we havent been able to beat.

 

Of course, its just my opinion and all ifs and buts of course.

 

Don't think Barnet will get all three points tomorrow...

 

Reading the Halifax's managers thoughts on our game that you provided on the match thread, we took a lot of his team. He said fitness wise they really struggled in the 2nd half. So I think Barnet will turn up and be too powerful and fast for Halifax to handle.

Hope im wrong and you're right though!

 

Let's hope the short rest does Halifax good!

 

Half times....

Telford 0 GATESHEAD 1
EASTLEIGH 1 Wrexham 2
HALIFAX 0 BARNET 0

Halifax/Barnet game had a piotch inspection earlier which only just passed. After our game on Saturday, Halifax had rugby played on Sunday and had a lot of rain since as well. Pitch must be awful!

 

Tweet from Barnet....

 

Telford 0 Gateshead 1
Eastleigh 2 Wrexham 2
Halifax 1 Barnet 1

Barnet no longer have any games in hand. They are just 1 point ahead. 2 points really if you count the goal difference. So we just got to hope they slip up 1 more time than us.

 

Brilliant result after Barnet leading at 90 mins. I noticed that Akinde got booked anyone know if he is anywhere near being suspended again.

 

They'll have a player suspended now. Well done to the Shaymen. They gave Barnet a battering and had loads of chances to beat them.

 

Our comeback against Halifax looks even better after the Barnet result

 

The new stats have come out from the conference.... http://www.footballconference.co.uk/premier_scene/ConferenceScene_1903.pdf

Page 6 shows the disciplinary record. Akinde 85 fouls and 8 yellows. Needs 2 more yellows to get another suspension.

Mansell has made 42 fouls so committed less than half of Akinde but Mansell has got 10 yellows and now serves a 2 game ban. Lockyer has made 17 fouls and got 7 yellows, just 1 less than Akinde but committed 68 less fouls than Akinde.

How Akinde has got away with it, I dont know. Persistant fouler.

 

How many penalties has he won? And how many people have been sent off as a result? I reckon at least half the goals he's scored have been penalties. And in most of those games Barnet have ended up playing against ten or even nine men. It seems to be gamesmanship on a massive scale. I've never known anything like it. The scouts probably picked this up ages ago, which is why no one's been falling over themselves to sign him.

 

First page of this.. http://www.footballconference.co.uk/premier_scene/ConferenceScene_1903.pdf on the right side shows Akinde has scored 10 pens. He has scored 27 goals so nearly a 3rd of his goals are pens. Barnet themselves have been awarded 16 pens all season and scored 14 of them. Thats on page 5. It shows the stats for all teams. If you look at page 5 it shows no other club has been awarded double figures on pens. Lincoln was award 9, us along with Eastleigh have been awarded 8 pens. So Barnet have had double amount of pen than us or you could look at it that they have had the same amount of pens than us and Eastleigh combined.

 

Thanks statto

 

well I gave you enough time to come up with the stats yourself but you took too long

 

Barnet winning 3-0. Guess what? They won another penalty which resulted in a Welling player getting sent off!!!!!