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Look forward to hearing of another win from tomorrow's Cup Final....go go...you can do this... :D

 

The leaders in the league are on :-

 

 

ALC Rangers

Played 13 Won 10 Drawn 2 Lost 1 Points 32

Culter Colts

Played 10 Won 7 Drawn 0 Lost 3 Points 21

 

However, we still have 3 points to be added from the one that the other Culter team were deducted points from. And also Andy said there was a rumour that ALC could be having 6pts deducted after altercations with the ref after a recent match. He hasn't heard anything official yet, but time will tell. One of the 17's had apparently heard something. So if we keep our winnings ways things could be looking good again. Plus the game ALC lost was to us... ;)

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Some tricky maths for Culter there Inver, but they're looking in a great position - we're rooting for them down here!

 

I'm exhausted but elated after a 3-0 win this afternoon. Frankly it was a bit of a relief as well. We've had a fantastic season but until today had nothing to show for it. Whatever happens for the rest of the season, at least we have silverwear in the cabinet.

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Silverware...did I hear right....fantastic...well done... :doowapstart:

 

Think Andy said 17's have 8 games left...so hoping they can get wins in all of them. Hopefully a straight forward win on Saturday against bottom of the league, however they managed a draw on Saturday so got a point against a midtable team. The other Culter team got a draw v the league leaders too...so there no easy games really.

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We sort of follow the fortunes of Spanish team Osasuna, and unfortunately they're down in the relegation zone in the second division … only 10 games left in the season, I'm seriously hoping they can drag themselves up the table a little bit and avoid relegation.

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Thanks Inver - looks like we've both got a busy few weeks where the games come thick and fast. Despite looking a bit tired we managed a 2-0 win tonight. Frankly we got away with it - our opponents were pretty useful.

 

We've moved up to 2nd place, just six points behind the leaders with six games in hand. Nothing is certain, but I'm going to allow myself some quiet optimism.☺

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What a farce of a day....to quote hubbies update re U'17's game today.

 

'What a farce. Got the nets up, checked the pitch for turds, ready to go. 2pm KO time comes and goes, and at 2.15pm we get kicked off the pitch because an amateur semi final's pitch is waterlogged and they "have priority." Another case of Sport Aberdeen not bothering to do a pitch inspection (and after torrential rain during the night) in the morning. Lazy B'.....ds. Cue calls from Carol Baxter the Adjfa match secretary to Sports Aberdeen... Don't get her angry - you won't like it when she gets angry...'

 

So basically there was no game....Andy got a call back from match secretary re it all....long story about allocation of pitches to juvenile and amateurs. We were relocated this week in plenty time due to a flood in the home pitch pavilion so no facilities could be used. These pitches today are used as 'overflow' in these circumstances....4 pitches allocated but only 3 were playable. It turns out that really the 'am semi-final' should have been the ones to have their game abandoned as we were already allocated our pitch and waiting to play. Opposition had come 1/2hr journey away. (bottom of league). Trying in too as suggesting to Andy that because they still have to play each other twice, why don't they play for a 6pt game....no way. Also tried to say what about saying today's game a draw and point each...no way, as Andy and the boys are chasing the league title. Anyway after phone calls the ref had to go by supposedly what they said in 'priority' which is probably a load of b....llcks.

 

Watch this space. Nightmare too which means they have another game to add to the fixtures, but the boys have exams coming up etc which could interfere with mid-week games.

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Sorry Inver, you mentioned the 2pm kick-off. Does that mean they were forced off the pitch after the match had started? Either way that's pretty shoddy treatment of your boys and their opposition. Will a formal complaint be made?

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Not forced off exactly Sedge as the game hadn't actually started. No the amateurs supposedly thought they had priority, but given what Andy was told re secretary nobody did and we were on our rightly allocated pitch, just so happens that the allocated pitch the amateurs had was waterlogged. Really the pitches, as per normal were not checked for playability in the morning.  The secretary spoke to some other person at Sport Aberdeen, who will be looking in to I think. If she hears anything more she will get back to Andy. Not that it will matter now of course as they game wasn't played.

 

Mid-week games start tomorrow....Culter Colts v Kintore (the home game v the team the beat 0-3 away a couple of weekends ago). We have to win again, just to rub their noses in it....Andy doesn't particularly like their management and sometimes their players can play dirty... :blush2:

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Onwards and upwards Inver! We've played our last Saturday home match. The majority of our 9 remaining games are on midweek including an away tie at Camelford (18th out of 19) tomorrow. Let's see if we can both get a Tuesday win!☺

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Ouchy....disaster tonight...U'17's beaten 5-1 by the team they beat 0-3 a couple of weeks ago. They weren't the team they were a couple of weeks ago...two or three changes to the team, but it just didn't gel tonight. Plus ALC league leaders won tonight 3-0. We are still sitting 2nd place but they are now 14 points clear but have played the most games. So we possibly have to look for others to help us out with some random results. Maths getting tricky.

 

How was your result Sedge? Better than ours I hope :blush2:

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Commiserations on the result Inver,but I love tricky maths! It brings an added level of excitement to the table. Having said that though,I'd still rather have a twenty point lead and the title wrapped up in mid-March.

 

Our maths is gradually getting simpler. A nice 3-1 win last night took us to within a point of the leaders with 5 games in hand.

 

The only blot on the season occurred last night when the FA told us that we'd failed the ground-grading for Step 5 football and won't be accepted for promotion. That's a bit odd after our ground passed the criteria for hosting an FA Vase semi-final last month.

 

Still, it'd seem idiotic to complain as we're on the verge of only our second league title in 125 years!☺

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Strange decision making there..! Say one with on one hand and another with the other hand. What will happen then if promotion is in the cards?

 

Surprise last night though....! Andy had texts from Glendale on Tuesday night asking if he could play Wednesday, last night. He did ask if he was definitely needed, supposed shortages and injuries...he gave in and went and he actually got 90 mins, the still had 4 subs. Suffered a clattering to the face with the ball from a free kick just before FT, but was ok. Oh and they won 1-0, he had a chance himself but skied it over the bar...! Was nice to see him play again though...wonder how his hamstrings are holding out today though... :D

 

Still struggling a bit at the bottom of the league. 3rd bottom 19pts but two other teams above them on 19pts too but with games in hand, so still fighting against being relegated. Need to be winning on points as the goals tally is very good...lots of goals against.

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Hopefully we can make a push for the top three again next season when we've had a chance to make the necessary ground improvements.

 

I'm rooting for your boys Inver. At least their final run-in won't be dull!

 

There was an interesting result here last night as the leaders slipped up 3-0 at home to a team third from bottom. That puts us one point off the lead with SIX games in hand. On Saturday we have the chance to go top for the first time this season! ☺

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OMG.... :b7ydance: ...way to go guys...1pt off the lead...go for it. Fingers crossed for Saturday. :bye2:

 

U'17's drop to 3rd place tonight as Kintore, who they played on Tuesday, had another game tonight and won. Only a point in it. We play Cove, who lost tonight to Kintore 6-4, so hopefully we can get a win against them at the weekend. This will be the 3rd time to play them and have won both our previous against them...9-0 and 1-4.

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The omens look good Inver! Tell you what - if your boys win this weekend, so will we. Deal?

 

We're up against Plymouth Parkway, the reigning champions. If we win or draw then Parkway officially relinquish their grip on the title. It's gonna be a good game either way!

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The world of mathematical weirdness has seen us overtake the league leaders with a 1-1 draw but remain in second. Bodmin Town (who were a point behind us in third) managed a win to go top by a point. This is true end of season excitement. And we still have to play Bodmin again soon!

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:doowapstart: Good result guys well done, things definitely on the positives.

 

Good day at the office here too. U'17's got a 2-5 away win today.... :doowapstart:  Back to their winning ways, hoping they can keep it going on Tuesday night too, another mid-week game v Ellon, the bottom of the league. We are still in 3rd place but only a point behind with a game in hand 2nd place Kintore. ALC league leaders are 3 games ahead and sitting on 38pts, we had hoped that Stonehaven might have taken points from ALC today but ALC won 0-1. So we are still in with a shout for 2nd if we keep things on a par with today....fingers crossed.

 

The league as it stands at the moment

                                  Played     Won     Drawn    Lost   Points

ALC Rangers              15             12        2           1           38

Kintore Utd                  13              8        1           4           25

Culter Colts                 12              8        0           4           24

Stonehaven YFC        11              6        2            3          20

Culter Boys                 13             5         1           7           16

Cove BC Utd               14            1          1          12            4

Ellon Meadows           12             1          1          10            4

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Happiness all round then Inver! ☺

 

Many of our rivals appear to have thrown in the towel. Mathematically it looks to be just a case of us catching up with our games in hand and collecting the league trophy. Unfortunately life isn't often that straight forward and with a match every two days, fitness could be a real problem!

 

As far as the title contenders go, this is how our table looks:

 

PLAYED WON DRAWN LOST GOAL DIFF POINTS

Bodmin Town 33 24 6 3 56 78

St Austell 29 24 3 2 62 77

Saltash United 34 25 2 7 26 77

 

You may notice that our points don't match up with our wins/draws/losses. This is down to a match earlier in the season where our opponents couldn't raise a side and we were awarded the 3 points, but officially the game had to be recorded as a draw.

 

We play again on Monday against the league's draw specialists. Fingers crossed we can finally top the table then!

 

(Apologies for the confusing table - I haven't quite got the hang of the presentation yet!)

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You should have copied and pasted my table....lol. We still have 3pts to be awarded too hopefully, due the game we ended up playing as a friendly v Culter Boys...so hopefully that will help us. Hope your boys stay fit for the rest of their games to play.

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Thanks Inver. A 3-1 win last night put us on top of the table after 8 long months!☺

 

Things are gradually getting simpler. A win tomorrow night would put us in a truly fantastic position. If our nearest rivals lose or draw on Friday (against the outgoing champions), we just need a Saturday victory to lift the title. It would almost be a shame as we'll be playing said rivals next Monday. It would be great for that to be the title decider.

 

Like I said, things are getting simpler but still aren't too clear!

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:doowapstart: Oh my...you are nearly there...great stuff....keep those wins coming then. :doowapstart:

 

Good result here tonight too. Culter Colts didn't quite have it all there own way as it was 3-3 at HT v Ellon the bottom of the league. But in the end we managed a 5-4 victory. Over on the other pitch Kintore who are in 2nd as per table above won 4-0...so really nothing has changed in the league tonight. See what happens on Thursday when the other 4 teams play each other.

 

Ellon v ALC (leaders) so I imagine that will be a win for them

Stonehaven v Culter Boys...and imagine Stonehaven would take a win from that one, but you never know Culter may do us a favour.

 

Tough game again on Saturday as we play Kintore....yet again...here is hoping we play better this time and not go down 5-1..!

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We haven't quite hit a brick wall yet but we're starting to wade through treacle. We held on for a 1-1 draw against a side in the bottom six. This could set things up nicely for our showdown against Bodmin Town next Monday.

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So Thursday's results as predicted

 

Ellon 0-2 ALC....(I expected that to be a lot more)

Stonehaven 3-3 Culter Boys.

 

So on to today v Kintore....I didn't manage to go today as my sister was visiting, however hubby kept me up to date via text. U'17's were up 3-0 within the first 15 minutes...yes you read correctly... :D ! 6-2 HT then managed to hang on for a win on 6-5...as hubby said...squeaky bum time waiting for the final whistle. Was a great game and some great goals.

 

So the table now looks like and we still have games in hand....woop.

 

The league as it stands at the moment

                                  Played     Won     Drawn    Lost   Points

ALC Rangers              16            13        2           1           41

Culter Colts                14             10        0           4           30

Kintore Utd                  15              9        1           5          28

Stonehaven YFC        13              7        3            3          24

Culter Boys                 15             6         2           7           20

Cove BC Utd               16            1          1          14            4

Ellon Meadows           15             1          1          10            4

 

We play Ellon again on Tuesday...another win hopefully while ALC play Kintore...on the pitch next to us...! See how that one pans out, would imagine ALC beating Kintore..which would be good, but at the same time if other way around would give as a chance to close the points at bit....watch this space.

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Nice going from your U17s Inver - sounds like the supporters got their money's worth!

 

Our nearest rivals, Bodmin Town suffered a shock home defeat on Friday and we got the win we wanted yesterday to make the championship a two-horse race. We now need one point from our remaining four matches to win the league. The script has been beautifully written as our next match will be at home to Bodmin tomorrow!

 

To win the title at home to our arch rivals (and the most successful team in the history of the league) would be a dream.☺

 

I'm still going to hold on to a healthy dose of pessimism though until that precious point has been won.

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