Accrington Web - 2013 Prediction League; Game 27 v Cheltenham Town (away)

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2013/14 Prediction League – Game 27 v Cheltenham (away)

Frightening how detailed some Club’s scouting reports on the opposition are :o; this from Mark Yates - Manager of the Month for December, having won 3, drawn 1 and lost 1 – (10 points from 15 is obviously enough - perhaps it was the three clean sheets) - on the Stanley;

"Accrington have improved leaps and bounds by all accounts from the few DVDs we have watched and reports we have had. They have some experienced players there, like the full-backs and the strikers, Kayode Odejayi and Danny Webber

Well that’s that, then …………not much point us going, really ………..:p:p

They have, do Cheltenham, what we had a few years ago ………they keep drawing instead of winning :(. If they’d won the home games that they’ve actually drawn, they’d be joint top of League Two with Scunthorpe ;). In fact they’ve got a reet bizarre home record ……..P13 W3 D7 L3 F18 A17 ………they’ve beaten the Wombles and Exeter, both 1-0, and Morecambe (3-0), lost to Plymouth 3-1, Rochdale and Mansfield (both 2-1), and drawn against Brizzle Rovers and Newport (0-0), and Hartlepool, York, Oxford, Pompey and Burton, all 2-2 :eek:. They’ve kept 5 clean sheets at home, but conceded 2 goals seven times and three goals once :eek:; every team that’s scored at Whaddon Road has hit 2 or more, and every team that’s scored there has come away with at least one point :D:D………..The Robins don’t outscore many people ………………:cool:

For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, Mark Yates followed Paul Cook, Keith Hill, Colin Cooper and Phil Brown to the MotM award; it may have been influenced, unwittingly, by the 11 match unbeaten run that they went on once they started to turn the early season form around ……….but – whisper it – they’ve lost their last two :) (2-1 at Burton and 2-1 at home to Mansfield) and – with all the soggy pitches and postponed games - they’ve actually only played one game in the last three weeks :D; every little helps – especially if your scouting’s crap ………..:p

They’ve made few changes since the August SignUp; 21 year old Wolves MF Michael Ihiekle has come in on loan, as have Baggies’ striker Kemar Roofe (there’s got to be a joke there somewhere – Chimer? ;)) and Rotherham MF David Noble (31), who’s likely to be out injured; they also loaned Connor Goldson, a 21 year-old defender from Shrewsbury, but 2 days after the loan contract extension was signed, the Shrews called him back to NotGayAnyLonger Meadow :D (or whatever the hell their ground’s called now :confused:) …..they also helped our cause (maybe) by selling two of their regulars – on consecutive days – to York City, in the persons of Keith Lowe (def, 25), and Russell Penn (MF, 28), whom they’d signed in May 11 from Burton

The Cup Runs are over; the Capital One saw them beat Crawley 4-3 at home (you have to feel sorry for the very nice Mr Westley in Stevenage’s current plight, don’t you :); don’t you? :confused: Okay then ………….) but then went out 2-1 at West Ham; they exited the PaintTrayCup 5-4 on pens to Plymouth after a home 3-3 draw; and they were far more embarrassed then we were to depart the FA Cup in Round One, since we lost to a late goal against Tranmere, but they flopped out 1-0 at Tamworth ………. Ooooops! :o

Their overall record is P25 W8 D9 L8 F32 A35 for 33 points and 12th place, 6 points off the Playoff places; so tight is the League, though, that it’s worth pointing out that if we’d kept Newport’s third goal out and got the three points we’d now be 18th, not 22nd :D……………………They’ve managed 40 goals in 29 games …..1.37931 goals per game :) …………or, if you prefer, a goal every 66 minutes ;);) …………Leading scorers are striker Byron Harrison – 26, 6’ 3”, with loads of non-League clubs plus Stevenage and the Wombles - with 9; Matt Richards (MF, 29, Ipswich, Walsall and Shrewsbury) with 6; Jamie Zimmerframe-Cureton :D:D – who’s played at one time or another for every Football League Club (more or less) with 5; and Terry Gornell (Tranmere, Stanley, Shrewsbury and Rochdale, who – at 24 – has 40 career goals from 206 career matches :rolleyes:) and Jermaine McGlashan – MF, 25, who once played for The Moatsiders :confused: (Merstham) in Div One South of the Isthmian League before signing on at Aldershot in 2010, both with 4………..

They just shade the head-to-head; P9 W3 D2 L4 F15 A14 is our record, courtesy – if that’s the right word – of their 1-0 win at our place in game 4 of the season; our highlights were beating them 4-0 at home in 2009/10 :p:p, and doing them 2-1 at their place the season after (Gornell and Richardson with the goals, Leam’s coming on 89 mins); last season we managed to win at their place for the second time in four visits , this time by 3-0 – Podge, Miller, and Boco (getting lots of bench-time still) getting the goals, before holding them to a 2-all draw, with both our goals coming from one James Beattie (In Whom We Trust!) :D

Deadline for entries is kick-off time, which is 3.00pm this Saturday, 18th January ………… A win would do us a power of good ……. So come on, lads, how about it? Goalfest? (Wynonie?) Scrappy 1-0 would do it for me, frankly; Man City can play the pretty-pretty stuff; I still like to see full backs tipping their man over the surrounding wall, thanks all the same ...............:D:D:D

Good luck to everyone …….. Remember, passion overcomes logic :D ……….. Keep the Faith! ………… and thanks for playing! :)

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