2016/2017 LEAGUE ONE SEASON -- AFC WIMBLEDON V WALSALL KO 3PM

SATURDAY 6th AUGUST 2016

YEAH BABY PLAY OFF WINNERS, NOW FOR LEAGUE ONE

The football season is back again and another remarkable chapter for our club begins, having gained promotion to League One for the first time since their resurrection. 

This Saturday we travel north to Walsall who were trailblazing last season in this division, before finishing in 3rd place and therefore must be one of the favourites to go up this season. Clearly it will not be an easy baptism for the Dons, but these are the games and scenario's that we always tend to thrive upon. With matches against Peterborough and Bolton to follow in the coming week there will be no time to rest or easy games (except when we thrash the MK Scum later in the year of course). 

We shall update on Saturday before kick off with the confirmed starting XI for both sides and any further news as it comes available.

Line Ups (confirmed);

  AFC WIMBLEDON
   Odds -- 12/5 (William Hill) 


 Clarke (Gk),  Fuller (c), Kelly,  Robinson,  Bulman,  Barcham,  Charles,  Whelpdale,  Reeves,  Taylor,  Elliott,  



Subs – Shea (Gk),  Nightingale,  Beere,  Parrett,  Fitzpatrick,  Barnett,  Poleon

WALSALL
Odds -- 11/10 (William Hill) 


Etheridge (Gk),  Edwards,  O'Connor,  McCarthey,  Henry, Chambers,  Cuvelier,  Morris,  Osbourne,  Jackson, Oztumer 




Subs – MacGillivray (Gk),  Dobson,  Preston,  Ginnelly,  Bakayoko,  Makris,  Moussa

H/T Score – 2 - 0

First Half Comment;
Strong opening from the hosts and they went ahead on 7 mins from a free kick by Erhun Oztumer giving the Dons keeper Clarke no chance. 

Dons haven't really settled into the game yet and have had a few half chances but not enough to trouble the Walsall keeper. 

Then as we approached half time and thinking that a 1-0 deficit was still in our compass, another free kick and another goal scored, this time a close range finish from Walsall's new signing Simeon Jackson.
 

F/T Score – 3 - 1

Match Summary;
A defeat for our first match in League One, could have been worse and at least we kept going and picked up our first goal in this league. There will be better games, and points to be had but I'll forget this game and move on, Walsall did the business and should be a danger once they play more together (10 new signings apparently). 


Man of the Match – Simeon Jackson (Walsall).

Referee -- Referee for our match with Walsall is Charles Breakespear, 34, a kitchen salesman from Surrey. Has been a Football League referee since 2013 and has the reputation of being extremely picky and fussy (surely not).

Wimbledon have played the saddlers 6 times at Fellows Park & Bescot Stadium since 1981, and lost every one !! BUT as this is AFC Wimbledon and the match is played at the Bank's Stadium (*) it's clearly time for a change yeah. 

(*)I know it's the same as the Bescot, just playing with you.

Attendance – 5,845.

Next match:
Tuesday 9th August vs Peterborough (Away)
Football League Cup Round 1 -- KO 7:45pm

KEMPTON PARK RACES 2016 -- WEDNESDAY NIGHTS #22 3rd AUGUST

Hope you had a good few weeks since our last outing here at Kempton although we were on a nice roll there before we broke for Goodwood and Galway, couple of decent priced winners helped to reduce our losses for the year and we are into August with a loss of -27.59 points to work with. Lets see if our winning run can continue through into the turn of the year.

Though not as good as recent seasons have begun we do still have plenty of time to recover things. At least the places paid a little bit and the LAY bets are also still losing (or winning, depending on your view) so I'm optimistic that things will turn in our favour soon.

As always our focus will be on the handicap contests for each meeting but will occasionally include a feature listed or conditions event too. Keeping records of our endeavours to a 1pt level stake at SP, naturally we will personally be looking to get better odds but for the purpose of the results we record to SP.

We will keep up with our occasional lay opportunity of short priced favourites and as a result of yet another successful lay last time out we have a success rate of 10 from 10. Results for this will be kept separately too and hopefully we can remain at 100% for a long while yet.

This week there's a 7 race card on offer, only 4 of which are handicaps this time which is nice and the meeting will commence at 18:10 with a 1m 4f handicap contest.


Here is a link to the evening's race card;
http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/meeting/kempton-park/03-08-2016/fast-cards

The going on the polytrack surface is described as Standard to Slow and the current weather forecast is for a patchy day with sunshine but plenty of cloud. The temperature is likely to remain at about 23C when the meetings begins and will cool during the evening there is a small chance of a shower but we should be ok.

Here are our selections for this weeks handicaps, lacking time due to work commitments this week so just putting up my selections for the handicaps;


18:10 -- 1m 4f Handicap.
14 declared for the opening handicap here,  probably better to take two against the field instead of one each way. BOB'S BOY [7th 15/2] has a few place pieces of form and this three year old should go well off bottom weight. 

Adding AWESOME ROCK [3rd 10/1] into the mix too with Dane O'Neill a good booking for this course and distance winner.


19:40 -- 1m Handicap.
Just the seven for this event and top weight, as well as a near 10 month absence might be enough to stop the winning run of FLY. So will be our Lay for today and forecast about 2/1F. [LOST -- 3rd 13/8F]

Our selection for this against the rest will be ST MARY'S [4th 8/1] from the Andrew Balding yard.


20:40 -- 1m 3f Handicap.
The four 3yo's here all seem to have a good opportunity with their weight allowances, but I'm still going to side with LADURELLI [4th 11/2] against these and has won on the AW as well as having run with credit against horses in a higher grade.


21:10 -- 7f Handicap (3yo).
A line up of ten three year olds for the finale tonight and we pair up YENSIR [7th 20/1] together with NASSUVIAN PEARL [4th 4/1] against the field. The former has been running around Epsom and should find this flat track more to his liking.


Staked -- 6 points
Returns --  Nil points

Loss c/f to our next meeting ; -33.59 Points.

Lays -- 11/11 (Still 100%, FLY Lost in the 19:40 tonight).

Results will appear here during the course of Wednesday night. The next Wednesday evening meeting at this course will be on August 10th. 

PONTEFRACT HORSE RACING SYSTEM -- 2016 TURF SEASON -- PART ELEVEN

PONTEFRACT SEASON 2016
Wednesday 3rd August

11th Meeting of this season ... 

This will be our 11th meeting of the season on Wednesday afternoon for our system that focuses on Pontefract racecourse, West Yorkshire and we've another fixture to enjoy getting underway about 2.20pm.

Currently showing a loss of -45.06 points to level stakes at SP. Beginning to look like we have the season that breaks the rule and fails (rather spectacularly) to break into profit. There are still some meetings to go and it's possible to turn things around but haven't seen this level of deficit since I started.

As always we count ALL results for this meeting returned to a level stake at SP, and will also show any forecast results too in the daily results but these do not count for the profit / loss figures.

The forecast going is currently reported as 'Good to firm' the weather for Wednesday afternoon is for a fairly cloudy day in the most part, and a good chance of some rain. The max temp is going to be about 20C but probably a little cooler by race time with plenty of cloud cover.

Here are our selections for the 7 race card on Wednesday afternoon, remember it's a very simple selection process of stalls 1 and 2 in every race;


2:10 1m 2f 6yds Amateur Riders Handicap.
(1) -- MERCHANT OF MEDICI  [3rd 4/1]
(2) -- SILVER ALLIANCE  [WON 11/4F]


2:40 6f Maiden (2yo).

(1) -- PUDDING CHARE  [3rd 13/2]
(2) -- PERFECT MADGE  [WON 13/8F]


3:10 1m 4yds Handicap.
(1) -- BRITISH EMBASSY  [WON 100/30]
(2) -- MIME DANCE  [2nd 7/4F]


3:40 1m 4f 8yds Handicap.
(1) -- HERNANDOSHIDEAWAY  [5th 15/2]
(2) -- BLUE HUSSAR  [4th 8/1]


4:10 5f Handicap.
(1) -- BURNING THREAD  [4th 12/1]
(2) -- ETERNITY'S GATE  [11th 7/2]


4:40 1m 4yds Veterans Handicap (6yo+).
(1) -- CHISWICK BEY  [2nd 9/2]
(2) -- RALPHY BOY  [WON 11/4]


5:10 6f Handicap.
(1) -- SUNRAIDER  [4th 4/1]
(2) -- KYLLUKEY  [7th 7/2]


Staked -- 14 points.
Returns -- 14.46 points. 

[Three from Three so far, not amazing prices granted but winners are always welcome ... can we go through the card? Sadly not ... our bubble burst by race four !].

Four winners and a couple of forecasts too, shame we could quite find that big winner but at least we never lost today, of course returns are to SP and we did do better.

C/F to meeting #11 -44.60 points lost.

Our next meeting here will take place on Sunday 14th.