By Frank Stormont
March 5 2007

As there are only 6 or 7 matches left to play where will the top 5 finish?  

The run to the winning post.

	Leeds	Titians	Doncaster	Pirates	Albion
points	100	97	86	84	80
10 March	Waterloo 5	Albion 1	Pertemps 5	Nottingham 4	Titans 4
17 March	Exeter 4	Pirates 1	Moseley 5	Titans 5	Sedgley 5
31 March	Coventry 4	Bedford  4	Exeter 0	L Welsh 5	Moseley 5
7 April	Otley 5	Doncaster 2	Titians 4	Albion 0	Pirates 4
21 April	Titians 3	Leeds 3	Waterloo 5	Pertemps 4	Bedford 4
28 April	Albion 1	Newbury 5	Bedford 4	Coventry 2	Leeds 4
Postponed				Bedford 4	Nottingham 5
Prediction for points at end of the season	122	113	109	108	111

Italic print for a home fixture.     Number after team is predicted league points.

 

With Leeds sitting on top of the table they have a mixed bag of opponents through to the end of the season finishing with Titians at home and Albion away. But they still have to deal with on form Exeter Chiefs and to travel to Coventry.

Rotherham. the only team in the top 5 to have a match in the league last weekend, travelling to Nottingham they pulled back to 3 points behind Leeds. They are the only team in the top 5 to still play all other 4 teams so have the most difficult run to the close finishing the season travelling to Newbury.  Their key match will be the penultimate match against Leeds

Doncaster on paper have the easiest run only having to to play Rotherham in the top 5 but still have tricky fixtures against Exeter and Bedford.

Pirates with a loss against on form Exeter last week sit 16 points off the lead an 4 points in front of Albion. The Tamar derby on Easter Saturday will probably dictate who will make the challenge for third place.

Albion sitting in 5th place, the same place they finished the league last season, have three key matches Rotherham next week,  Pirates over Easter and the last Saturday of the season Leeds at home.  They will need to play well and win ALL their remaining matches to stand any real chance of coming 3rd in the league.

 

 

I hope to keep this running and updated as we approach the end of April.