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2016/17 Prediction League; Game 38 v Morecambe (away)

In the spirit of – well – taking the pi55, really – may I remind you of the opening line of the thread when we played Eric’s Eleven at our place back in August (Game 5)? At that time, of course, they were top of the table with 9 points from 4 games (3 wins, one defeat), and although we went 2 up on 34 (Billy the Whizz x 2) they did us 3-2, assisted by Mark Hughes’s sending off on 36 for hauling down Cole Stockton, Hughes being the “last man standing” ...... I opened the thread with these words;

“Top of the table? Ha! Hands up who thinks they’ll still be there come next May!”

Well, it ain’t May yet, but at the moment they’re 15th, with 45 points from 37 games ................. Happy Easter, Lads!

The red card that Scott Brown got at Yeovil was his third of the season, by the way, so he’ll probably get banned for, like, two hundred games or something ................ Mark Hughes has two reds as well, as does Omar Beckles, while Goldenboots, Matty Pearson and Elliott Parish (who?) each have one (Elliott’s being in the EFL Cup and all the others being in the League) .............. so that’s eight times in 36 League games that we haven’t managed to keep 11 men on the pitch, which ain't reet thrilling, really .....

Form teams in League Two? Well it isn't Carlisle, that’s for sure – five defeats, one draw, no goals and one point in their last 6 games ................ over the last ten played, there are four teams who’ve only lost once ......... that doesn’t mean they’ve each won nine either, but Donnie have won 4 and drawn 5, Stevenage have won 8 and drawn one, Blackpool have won 5 (including four of their last 5 played) and drawn four, and Accie – yes, we’re the fourth of the four - have won 5 and drawn four as well .................Orient have lost 6 of 7, Newport 4 of 7, Morecambe also 4 of 7, and a good few have lost 3 of 7 – and don’t forget Carlisle (see “no goals and one point” above), who’ve lost 5 of 7, taking just four points ................oh, and by the way, Morecambe have lost their last four on the spin – 1-3 at Blackpool, 1-3 at home to Yeovil, 0-1 at home to Newport, and 0-1 last time out at Plymouth ........... So they’re not the Form Team either!

I was musing, you might recall (if you actually read these crafted gems of English prose which pass for thread-openers), about numbers of games lost not actually equating to your League position ............ We’ve lost 13; so have Wycombe (despite You Fat Bastard banging them in for England) and Yeovil; but in fact there are only eight teams who’ve lost fewer than 13 games in the League, and Stevenage (4th, and steaming up the League) have lost 15, Exeter in 7th have lost 14, as have Colchester and Cambridge (11th and 12th) while Grimsby (13th) have lost 15 ...................going the other way, biggest losers are Orient (24 defeats), Newport and Notts Co with 19, and Cheltenham, Hartlepool, Crawley and Morecambe have each lost 17 ........ but Morecambe have only drawn 7, and we’ve drawn 12 ......... and that was a very interesting tactical double substitution today ........ Goldenboots and Clarke off by the half hour, Husin and Donacien on ....... Discuss ...................

The consequence, of course, of not having a pot to pi55 in is that you don’t ..... cut your cloth, and all that ............ You won’t be surprised, then, that they - the Langoustines (thought that sounds more up-market than Shrimps) – haven’t ProperSigned anybody since the start of the season ..... two left after the season started, Laurence X-Stanley Wilson, who went to Bangor (and Didn’t He Have A Lovely Day The Day He Went?), and Tom Barkhuizen, who joined from Blackpool in May 2015, and who left for Sunnier Climes in November, but couldn’t find any, so joined Preston in a deal that Jimmibob Bentley didn’t seemingly think was the best that Morecambe could have achieved, but he doesn’t really want to say it out loud, and with an Owner like they’ve got you can sort of understand why .............. For the record, they did LoanSign Everton’s AM Anthony Evans (“Everton’s” is his employers, by the way, not his first name, in case you were wondering, and “AM” isn’t the time of day, it’s where he plays) and also Fleetwood RB Michael Duckworth, once of Coronation Street .......or was that Our Jack?

Between 15th October and 30th December they lost 7 of 10 League matches, and their present run looks like it might equal that one, which should give us hope ............ They’ve scored 44 in the League (we’re on 45), and they’ve conceded 56 to our 47 ............. 56 is actually joint (with Carlisle) 6th-worst in the League, behind Orient (67), Notts Co (65), Hartlepool (63), Newport (61) and Crawley (60) ........... Leading scorers are striker Paul Mullin with 8 (including the February Goal of the Month); whinger, sorry, winger Kevin Ellison with 7; defender Michael Rose with 5; and Old Boys Murph and Moly (sounds like a firm of dodgy decorators!) with four each a-piece.

Deadline for entries is, as always, scheduled kick-off time, which is 7.45pm on Tuesday March 21st. Bragging rights are still ours by a Country Mile, and about to improve even more, you might think (although we all know what goeth before a fall – twelve pints of Boddies, usually) .............. Unbeaten in eight (W4 D4) plays “Couldn’t Hit The Floor With Your Hat” ........... might just be our night .........and our turn to laugh .......... and He Who Laughs Last is a damn fool for waiting so long!

Good luck to everyone! ..............Keep the Faith! ...........And thanks for playing!

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