StarkMallard

4-2, get in! Goal of the season contenders from Palmer and Iorpenda. Fun fact: of the ten goals we have scored this week, not one was scored by a striker.

Is it me or have Cheltenham come dressed as Leeds United?

I've seen the estimates from that website before. I have no idea what they're based on, but the clubs near the top are the ones I was expecting. The numbers are fantastical though. If Barrow are spending 4 million on players' wages then I'm Michael Sheen.

Charlton Athletic 2-1 Norwich City QPR 2-1 Portsmouth (joker) Stevenage 2-0 Reading Wigan Athletic 1-0 Exeter City Accrington Stanley 0-2 Chesterfield Shrewsbury Town 0-2 Crewe Alexandra Altrincham 1-1 Southend United Yeovil Town 0-2 Morecambe

Apologies for the delay, I've been away for a few days. But better late than never! Here are the scores from last Saturday: Norwich City 2-0 Preston North End Stoke City 3-1 Watford Doncaster Rovers 2-1 Blackpool Northampton Town 0-2 Burton Albion Crewe Alexandra 0-3 Walsall Shrewsbury Town 0-2 Cheltenham Town Boston United 2-1 Yeovil Town Southend United 2-0 Forest Green Rovers In the first round with my new user name, I've broken my duck (oh ho ho) with 14 points, followed by @ARLukomski with 11! Overall, @william1984 still leads, but @magpiejue has cut the lead to six points... I'll count and post Tuesday's points at some point during the weekend, and of course Saturday's round is live. Thanks for playing (and for bearing with me)!

As I'm no longer 14, I've decided to dispense with DangerousSausage and adopt a new name instead. Every time I go to Meadow Lane, every third word seems to be "duck". So why does no one use it as their display name? Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

I would be happy to see any lof those players sign on again for next season to be honest, with a few caveats. Matty Platt's contract should be renewed, but for a minimum of two years as he'll probably miss a fair chunk of next season. Kouhyar and Bennetts have contributed and Bennetts in particular has real potential, but I can see the club looking elsewhere for someone who would be an automatic starter. Norburn and McDonald have the quality (if not the brains in the case of the former), but their age might count against them. And as for Harry Tangen, I don't think we've seen the best of him yet but MP clearly rates him - let's see what he can do in the final weeks of the season.

This is good news I wasn't expecting - I thought he'd be out for the season. But I still won't get too excited about seeing much of him in action with a little more than a month to go.

It's time for the mystic magpies to look into their crystal balls again. Send 'em in by 3pm on Saturday and don't forget your joker! Charlton Athletic v Norwich City QPR v Portsmouth Stevenage v Reading Wigan Athletic v Exeter City Accrington Stanley v Chesterfield Shrewsbury Town v Crewe Alexandra Altrincham v Southend United Yeovil Town v Morecambe

Watford 1-2 Wrexham Luton Town 1-0 Exeter City Plymouth Argyle 0-2 Stevenage Bristol Rovers 1-1 Shrewsbury Town Tranmere Rovers 2-1 Harrogate Town Walsall 2-1 Cambridge United Southend United 0-2 Rochdale (joker) Woking 2-0 Yeovil Town

A full round of midweek matches awaits us! Please send in your predictions by 7.45pm on Tuesday and don't forget your joker! Watford v Wrexham Luton Town v Exeter City Plymouth Argyle v Stevenage Bristol Rovers v Shrewsbury Town Tranmere Rovers v Harrogate Town Walsall v Cambridge United Southend United v Rochdale Woking v Yeovil Town

Nice article to mark International Women's Day. Of course appointing a woman is a first and raises eyebrows for that reason alone, but she'd risen through the ranks like any other coach and is respected by the players. Ingolstadt are an unglamorous and poorly supported club, but punch above their weight thanks to the sponsorship of Audi. I think the poor fanbase has helped Wittmann as she has been under less scrutiny and pressure than she would have been at Dresden or 1860. But she's well regarded in Liga 3 and appears to be doing a good job.

"Fallen giants" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there for a club whose most successful era ended in 1930. By the same token, you could call Notts a fallen giant as we were part of the furniture at the top level until the mid-1920s. And playing at the "top level" pre-Bundesliga isn't much a boast as the top level was divided into eight regional divisions then. There are village clubs who can legitimately call themselves former top-flight clubs... Since then, Holstein Kiel have spent much of their existance knocking about in semi-professional football until their rise in the last 10-15 years. They were in the Bundesliga for the first time ever last season but are fighting relegation to the third division this season. All the same, and despite their relatively modest crowds, these plans are unambitious - the revamp will see a capacity of 22,000 (7,000 more than now), including 12,000 seats. Kiel is a big city and the club pretty much has Schleswig-Holstein to itself, so I think it could do better.

I didn't see it (Champions League football on TV is way too expensive), but it's never a good sign when people send your goalkeeper "messages of support"...

Genuinely disappointed by this. It's a sad day for nominative determinism. It'll be interesting to see whether they now kick on (as their board are clearly hoping) or it spells the end of their season.