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Post by Budleigh on Jan 3, 2010 22:36:01 GMT
This is a very special programme for me as it was the day I was born... In the middle of some of the worse weather seen in this country, but with just enough of a thaw to get the game played and my Dad to get Mum to Newton Abbot hospital where I was born as the game went on.... We won 2-0 in front of 2,736 with a debut goal from Peter Anderson and an own goal from Hartlepools Lackenby. And purely by chance (or was it?) my first son was born on a winning home game day, last October the 31st against Northampton. Not only that but the attendance was 2,732, or rather 2,733 as I rushed in at half-time without being accounted for! |
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Post by Jon on Jan 3, 2010 23:11:05 GMT
We were sat in third place when we finished our season on May 6, but the three teams below us all had FIVE games still to play: 1 Brentford 43 17 2 3 55 28 9 5 7 36 29 26 7 10 91 57 59 1.60 2 Oldham Athletic 45 17 4 1 59 22 6 7 10 30 37 23 11 11 89 59 57 1.51 3 Torquay United 46 14 8 1 45 20 6 8 9 30 36 20 16 10 75 56 56 1.34 4 Crewe Alexandra 41 13 4 3 45 19 9 5 7 35 36 22 9 10 80 55 53 1.45 5 Mansfield Town 41 15 4 3 57 20 7 4 8 41 40 22 8 11 98 60 52 1.63 6 Gillingham 41 16 3 3 47 22 4 8 7 19 23 20 11 10 66 45 51 1.47 Table from www.torquayunited-mad.co.uk/footydb/loadgen.asp?Day=06&Month=May&ssnno=92&teamno=525 |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2010 23:57:38 GMT
And, by going further into the Mad sites, you find this league table following the games of 15 May - nine days after our last match:
1 Oldham Athletic 46/59 (1.58)
2 Brentford 44/59 (1.56)
3 Crewe Alexandra 44/56 (1.47)
4 Torquay United 46/56 (1.34)
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5 Mansfield Town 44/54 (1.51)
6 Gillingham 44/54 (1.44)
And this for 18 May, twelve days after we'd finished:
1 Brentford 45/60 (1.54)
2 Oldham Athletic 46/59 (1.58)
3 Crewe Alexandra 45/57 (1.47)
4 Mansfield Town 45/56 (1.57)
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5 Torquay United 46/56 (1.34)
6 Gillingham 45/55 (1.44)
Still mathematically possible but - and I'm not wholly sure about the number of decimal places used in calculating goal difference - we'd have been hoping for abnormal results for Mansfield and Gillingham on 20 May.
It didn't happen.
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Post by stewart on Jan 4, 2010 20:29:12 GMT
Very strange climax to the season as far as we were concerned - after the Newport County match (4th game of the Plainmoor 6), there were only 2 wins in the next 11 games and then 6 wins in the last 8.
At least we didn't throw it away at the death, as has been the case in so many post-war seasons when promotion seemed a certainty.
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