Smokey Doubles Season 9

The 9th season of the Smokey Doubles have finished, and guess who were the winners again...

Let´s see the final tables and also a beautiful review by one of the blog contibuters, Russ.

Final Table

HarriField Rangerers 60 32 20 8 75 33 116
Rodalonk FC 60 34 10 16 77 43 112
Byron Villains 60 30 21 9 78 26 111
South City Orioles 60 28 25 7 63 29 109
Badcrazysaxon 60 29 15 16 65 46 102
Biscuit Villains 60 24 19 17 74 44 91
500 Too Much or Less 60 25 11 24 62 51 86
Benficabellies 60 23 14 23 51 51 83
Lager Whisperers 60 21 19 20 49 41 82
Dirty 80's in Dan Haag 60 21 15 24 55 51 78
The Knights of Borg 60 17 19 24 60 58 70
The Jakes Vengeance 60 17 19 24 48 61 70
SouthDunstabilishields 60 16 12 32 43 78 60
Lucy's Stella 60 14 16 30 48 63 58
Steel Clowns 60 10 12 38 36 106 42
The Bleached United 60 11 9 40 31 134 42


The end of a very competitive and enjoyable Smokey Doubles ends with the team that has never dropped lower than 2nd all season, HarriField Rangerers claiming the kings of Smokey crown. I'm sure you will all join me in congratulating both managers for such a great achivement.
A great fightback by Rodalonk FC moves them up the table into the runners-up position. They finish only 4 points behind the leaders. (How costly was that "six point" game where The Rods manager failed to turn up and lost 0-7 to Harricam Wanderers so early in the season?)
Byron Villains at the start of the season were a little slow out of the blocks but soon displayed their pedigree rising up the table to even take hold of pole position at the halfway stage. Too many draws towards the end of the season means that the partnership will have to be content with 3rd this season.
In 4th place South City Orioles deserve some respect as out of all the teams this partnership lost the fewest games. If only some of those draws could have been wins eh!

Rounding up the rest of the league, as I predicted Badcrazysaxon did finish 5th. Biscuit Villains leap over 500 Too Much or Less and Benficabellies as they all finish in the top half of the table. (In my first season in the doubles I'm happy with that finish. Well played partner.)
Lager Whisperers are TOP... of the bottom half closely followed by a Dirty 80's in Dan Haag team who's form dipped dramatically towards the end of the season. Goal difference seperates The Knights of Borg and The Jakes Vengeance in 11th and 12th, and then in lucky for some 13th, SouthDunstabilishields are well safe with 18 points to spare on the bottom. Lucy's Stella are 2 points behind them in 14th and in 15th place we have Steel Clowns. Steel Clowns were able to make up the 4point gap and escape the wooden spoon on goal difference, leaving The Bleached United cursing their goals against and holding aloft the wooden spoon.


League A Final Standing

Pos Team Name Pld W D L F A Pts
1 Byron Park F.C. 30 19 9 2 50 7 66
2 The Rods 30 19 6 5 47 23 63
3 Arkansas Indians 30 17 8 5 36 16 59
4 Lagerfield 30 14 8 8 31 14 50
5 South City 30 11 17 2 26 12 50
6 HarriCam Wanderers 30 12 12 6 34 25 48
7 Cubana Villains 30 12 10 8 40 24 46
8 SL Benfica 30 12 9 9 22 22 45
9 FC Haag Utd 30 10 10 10 34 28 40
10 Too Much Too Young 30 10 6 14 29 33 36
11 Jedi Knights 30 9 9 12 24 32 36
12 Uncharted FC 30 10 4 16 21 39 34
13 Screaming Vengeance 30 4 12 14 18 34 24
14 INTER STELLA D.C 30 5 6 19 25 44 21
15 Dunstablians 30 5 6 19 23 53 21
16 Steel City Blades 30 3 4 23 15 69 13



League B Final Standing

Pos Team Name Pld W D L F A Pts
1 Anfield Rd Rangers 30 20 8 2 41 8 68
2 Ocean City Orioles 30 17 8 5 37 17 59
3 Fivehundred or less 30 15 5 10 33 18 50
4 DonkaLonk Fc 30 15 4 11 30 20 49
5 The Jakes 30 13 7 10 30 27 46
6 Biscuit Barrell 30 12 9 9 34 20 45
7 Aston Villains 30 11 12 7 28 19 45
8 Rickys Rovers 30 12 7 11 29 30 43
9 South Shields 30 11 6 13 20 25 39
10 Jellybellies 30 11 5 14 29 29 38
11 Down and Dirty 30 11 5 14 21 23 38
12 Lucys Tigers 30 9 10 11 23 19 37
13 The Borg 30 8 10 12 36 26 34
14 Hoarse Whisperers 30 7 11 12 18 27 32
15 Corinthian Clowns 30 7 8 15 21 37 29
16 BleacH F.C. 30 1 5 24 10 95 8

Just like to say many many thanks to all the managers that took part. I'm sure you will agree that it has been a great competition.