Thursday, 20 January 2011

RYMAN NORTH WEEKEND PREVIEW - TITLE CLASH AT BLOOMFIELDS

Current Ryman League Division One (North) Table 
* still including Leyton's results at this time.

                              P  W  D  L  GF GA  GD PTS 
1 East Thurrock United        22 17 3  2  51 21 +30 54
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2 Needham Market              19 16 1  2  59 21 +38 49 
3 Wingate and Finchley        23 12 5  6  39 34 + 5 41 
4 Maldon and Tiptree          23 11 5  7  46 40 + 6 38 
5 Romford                     17 11 4  2  31 12 +19 37 
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6 Potters Bar Town            22 10 6  6  40 36 + 4 36 
7 AFC Sudbury                 21 9  7  5  41 38 + 3 34 
8 Thamesmead Town             20 9  4  7  29 28 + 1 31 
9 Waltham Abbey               22 7  9  6  39 32 + 7 30 
10 Ware                       22 9  3  10 37 37   0 30 
11 Brentwood Town             19 8  5  6  37 29 + 8 29 
12 Enfield Town               19 9  2  8  35 28 + 7 29 
13 Harlow Town                19 9  2  8  29 30 - 1 29 
14 Great Wakering Rovers      23 8  4  11 40 43 - 3 28 
15 Heybridge Swifts           21 7  6  8  38 30 + 8 27 
16 Cheshunt                   22 7  5  10 33 37 - 4 26 
17 Grays Athletic             19 6  6  7  25 27 - 2 24 
18 Tilbury                    22 5  1  16 20 42 -22 16 
19 Redbridge                  18 4  3  11 23 40 -17 15 
20 Waltham Forest             24 3  6  15 23 52 -29 15
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21 Ilford                     22 3  3  16 22 48 -26 12 
22 Leyton                     19 1  6  12 13 45 -32  9 

Current form table (over last six matches)
                       P W D L GF GA  GD PTS
1 East Thurrock United 6 6 0 0 20 6  +14 18 
2 Needham Market       6 5 1 0 17 5  +12 16 
3 Romford              6 5 0 1 15 7  + 8 15 
4 Waltham Abbey        6 4 1 1 15 6  + 9 13 
5 Ware                 6 4 1 1 14 8  + 6 13 
6 Redbridge            6 3 0 3 12 14 - 2  9 
7 Brentwood Town       6 2 2 2 10 10   0  8 
8 Wingate and Finchley 6 2 2 2  7 8  - 1  8 
9 Waltham Forest       6 2 2 2  7 9  - 2  8 
10 AFC Sudbury         6 2 2 2 10 13 - 3  8 
11 Great Wakering Rov  6 2 1 3 12 10 + 2  7 
12 Maldon and Tiptree  6 1 4 1 12 10 + 2  7 
13 Enfield Town        6 2 1 3 10 11 - 1  7 
14 Grays Athletic      6 1 3 2  9 10 - 1  6 
15 Cheshunt            6 2 0 4 11 13 - 2  6 
16 Potters Bar Town    6 1 3 2  7 9  - 2  6 
17 Harlow Town         6 1 2 3  8 11 - 3  5 
18 Heybridge Swifts    6 1 1 4  9 12 - 3  4 
19 Thamesmead Town     6 1 1 4  6 11 - 5  4 
20 Tilbury             6 1 1 4  7 14 - 7  4 
21 Leyton              6 0 1 5  2 20 -18  1 
22 Ilford              6 0 0 6  4 16 -12  0 

Fixtures for Saturday 22nd January 2011

Brentwood Town   v Romford  
Cheshunt         v Wingate and Finchley  
Enfield Town     v Ware  
Grays Athletic   v Thamesmead Town  
Great Wakering   v Waltham Abbey  
Heybridge Swifts v Redbridge  
Leyton           v Maldon and Tiptree  
Needham Market   v East Thurrock United  
Potters Bar Town v Ilford  
Tilbury          v Harlow Town  
Waltham Forest   v AFC Sudbury 

There is no doubting where the Ryman Division One (North) match of the weekend takes place as the top two title contenders play each other for the first time this season. Will it be unlucky thirteen for league leader's East Thurrock United on a twelve game winning streak who travel to second placed Needham Market??. The two are also top of the current form table and both recorded good wins in midweek. The Rocks won 4-2 at home to AFC Sudbury with Market recording a good 2-3 win away from home at Grays Athletic who went into the match after a 1-2 away win at Harlow Town. Market were 2-1 down but fought back with goals in the 64th and 81st minutes to take the all important three points in what sounded like a brilliant game.

Despite there still being much more football to be played and with a few more twists and turns the importance of winning the game can be highlighted in the following table -

Standings if??? -

East Thurrock United win 
                         P  W  D  L  PTS 
1. East Thurrock United  23 18 3  2  57
2. Needham Market        20 16 1  3  49

Needham Market win
1. East Thurrock United  23 17 3  2  54
2. Needham Market        20 17 1  2  52 

As you can see if ETU win they go 8 points clear but if Market record a victory they'll only be two points below with their three games in hand. The cold end thinks that one thing is for sure being that those who attend the game in Suffolk on Saturday will be seeing the future Champions on the Ryman League Division One (North) playing... which team will it be though??

Town, currently in 12th place, welcome 10th placed local rivals Ware to Goldsdown Road. They will be in good spirits having recorded a good win away at Wingate and Finchley last weekend. They are fifth in the current form league with 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat in their last six games so it's yet another tough game in prospect for Steve Newing and his squad.

Elsewhere a win for Potters Bar Town at home to now bottom placed Ilford will see them move into the play off zone as Maldon and Tiptree are not in action due to Leyton's withdrawal from the league.

UP THE TOWN!!!!

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