Sunday 20 March 2011

RYMAN DIVISION ONE (NORTH) RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP AND PLAY-OFFS

        EAST THURROCK UTD (100)   NEEDHAM MARKET (99)  BRENTWOOD (82)   
22/3    -                         -                    GRAYS ATHLETIC
26/3    Potters Bar Town          -                    Ilford 
29/3     -                        Potters Bar Town     -
30/3    Ilford                    -                    -
2/4     Heybridge Swifts          ROMFORD              Maldon & Tiptree
5/4     -                         WALTHAM FOREST       -
9/4     NEEDHAM MARKET            East Thurrock United Romford 
12/4    -                         Wingate and Finchley - 
16/4    BRENTWOOD TOWN            -                    East Thurrock Utd 
23/4    Redbridge                 WALTHAM ABBEY        CHESHUNT 
25/4    GRAYS ATHLETIC            AFC Sudbury          -
30/4    Ware                      HARLOW TOWN          WINGATE & FINCHLEY 

        MALDON & TIPTREE (74)     WIN & FINCH (77)     HARLOW TOWN (77)    
22/3    -                         -                    Cheshunt 
23/3    -                         Waltham Forest       -
26/3    THAMESMEAD TOWN           Grays Athletic       ROMFORD 
29/3    Waltham Abbey             -                    -
2/4     Brentwood Town            -                    Great Wakering 
5/4     -                         THAMESMEAD TOWN      -
9/4     -                         CHESHUNT             TILBURY
12/4    -                         NEEDHAM MARKET       - 
16/4    ROMFORD                   -                    HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS
23/4    Great Wakering Rovers     Heybridge Swifts     Walham Forest     
25/4    HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS          WALTHAM FOREST       WARE 
30/4    Waltham Forest            Brentwood Town       Needham Market

        AFC SUDBURY (76)          ROMFORD (81)         ENFIELD TOWN (71)
22/3    THAMESMEAD TOWN           Tilbury              -
26/3    CHSHUNT                   Harlow Town          WALTHAM FOREST 
2/4     Potters Bar Town          Needham Market       REDBRIDGE 
5/4     -                         WALTHAM ABBEY        -
9/4     WALTHAM FOREST            BRENTWOOD TOWN       Ware
12/4    -                         Redbridge            -  
16/4    GREAT WAKERING            Maldon and Tiptree   Thamesmead Town 
23/4    Romford                   AFC SUDBURY          ILFORD 
25/4    NEEDHAM MARKET            Ilford               Cheshunt 
30/4    Grays Athletic            THAMESMEAD TOWN      TILBURY 

        HEYBRIDGE SWFITS (71)     WALTHAM ABBEY (71)   GRAYS ATHLETIC (74)
26/3    Ware                      Tilbury              WINGATE & FINCHLEY
29/3    Grays Atletic             MALDON & TIPTREE     HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS 
2/4     EAST THURROCK UNITED      Grays Athletic       WALTHAM ABBEY 
5/4     -                         Romford              - 
6/4     -                         -                    GREAT WAKERING ROVERS                
9/4     Redbridge                 GREAT WAKERING       Thamesmead Town 
13/4    -                         -                    CHESHUNT  
16/4    Harlow Town               WALTHAM FOREST       Ilford 
23/4    WINGATE & FINCHLEY        Needham Market       -
25/4    Maldon & Tiptree          POTTERS BAR TOWN     East Thurrock United 
30/4    ILFORD                    Redbridge            AFC SUDBURY

The above shows the respective run-ins for the current top 12 teams and shows how close the race for the Championship between Needham Market and East Thurrock United is going to be along with the scramble to get one of the remaining three play-off places.

Enfield Town's defeat against Romford yesterday was their thirteenth defeat in thirty-three league games which makes the statistic that in the last four seasons in Division One (North) the most games (being eleven) a team has lost to qualify for the play-offs not good reading for the Town supporters. This was over a 42 game season as well.

All is not lost though as the Town are still in with a chance. So many teams are dropping and taking points off of each other so it's looking like it's going to be a very exciting end to the season which may go right down to a tense final Saturday.

MAXIMUM POINTS TABLE 
                               GAMES TO GO     GAMES LEFT AGAINST CURRENT TOP TWELVE
EAST THURROCK UNITED    100    8               4
NEEDHAM MARKET          99     8               6
BRENTWOOD TOWN          82     7               5
ROMFORD                 81     10              6
WINGATE AND FINCHLEY    77     8               4
HARLOW TOWN             77     8               3
AFC SUDBURY             76     8               3
MALDON AND TIPTREE      74     7               4
GRAYS ATHLETIC          74     10              5
ENFIELD TOWN            71     7               0
WALTHAM ABBEY           71     9               4
HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS        71     8               5

Everyone knows it going to be either East Thurrock United or Needham Market who are crowned Champions but a fact for you is that only Brentwood Town, Romford, Wingate and Finchley, Harlow Town and AFC Sudbury (would have to turn around a goal difference of -28 against East Thurrock United)  who can now be crowned Champions!!

The good news is that Enfield Town can't go down as Waltham Forest can only achieve a maximum of 46 points. The Stags now look doomed as Ilford's good form has opened up a seven point gap between the bottom two East London sides.

Click here to see a full league table on the excellent and highly recommended footballwebpages.co.uk. A predicted final league table can be found here which shows East Thurrock United as Champions with Needham Market, Brentwood Town, Harlow Town and AFC Sudbury making up the play-off places. Town miss out by two points in eighth place.

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