Wednesday 19 October 2011

Scarborough Athletic FC - Quarter Of The Season Gone (Almost)...Progress Report.

At half-time on Saturday 29th October during the home fixture against Hall Road Rangers, Scarborough Athletic FC's 2011-12 NCEL Premier campaign will have reached it's quarter-way stage.

Time then to take stock of the Seadogs season thus far.

League Form: WWLLWWWWW

Win %: 77.78
Draw%:  0.00
Loss%: 22.22
Average Points Per Game: 2.33


The two blips came at Brighouse & at home to Long Eaton, otherwise pretty faultless stuff, Boro currently sit 3rd in the table, two points behind the leaders (Bridlington Town) but with two games in hand. Of course games in hand mean nowt unless you get points from them.

It could be argued, by the pessimist, that the majority of the wins have been against teams in the bottom half of the table & the proof of the pudding will lie in getting results against the sides who are also vying for top-spot.

That may be true, but the high standard of play shown recently suggests that the Seadogs are capable of doing just that.

Of our promotion rivals, Staveley MW have had the best start with 20 points from 8 games, the vast majority of which have been at home. Be interesting to see how they fare with an extended run of away games.

So it is fair to say that the Seadogs have made a very good start and have shown the potential to be promotion contenders for the duration of what looks like becoming a very exciting season, The squad is deep and there is always class sat on the bench, and of course Dean Windass has just re-signed with the club (although his appearances will be constrained by his media work commitments).

In the FA Cup, record progress was made as the club reached the 1st Qualification Round before crashing out 3-0 at Tadcaster (whom Boro had beaten in the League just a few weeks prior). Before that progress had been made at the expense of Hallam (Extra-Preliminary Round) & Barton Town OB (Preliminary Round) (after a replay).

Scarborough Athletic are still in the FA Vase after a comfortable win over Worsborough Bridge in the 2nd Qualification Round and Parkgate FC await a Seadog visit in the 1st Round proper (This Saturday, 22nd October).

I will draw a veil over our short-lived participation in the domestic NCEL League Cup, when Boro came a cropper away at NCEL1 Bottesford Town. Clearly not a priority!

Onwards & Upwards.

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