STOP THE MADNESS!!!

What started as an innocent points table posting, ended in this.  Good one Corey.

To stop any confusion from the below post, we have one game left (thank you Tom for pointing out the bleeding obvious to those, like Graham, who would rather write his doctorate thesis on the current standing in division 6 capital football).  The fact that there are 7 comments on that post already suggests that a) people are really keen for more football, and b) are really keen to hear about how I smacked the ball into the only nose within 10m of an empty net on Saturday and then followed that up by attempting to miss a penalty (note, for those of you not there, I said ‘attempted’ to miss the penalty).

Here is the correct table:

Ladder After Round 18

POS		TEAM	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1		Western Suburbs	17	15	1	1	103	33	70	46
2		Victoria University Raiders	17	10	2	5	44	39	5	32
3		Miramar Rangers	17	9	3	5	61	48	13	30
4		Lower Hutt City Green Machine	16	9	1	6	42	51	-9	28
5		Marist Inter	17	6	3	8	40	48	-8	21
6		Victoria University Stallions	17	6	2	9	46	51	-5	20
7		Brooklyn Northern United Pilsner	16	6	2	8	37	48	-11	20
8		Wainui Undertakers	16	4	4	8	36	42	-6	16
9		North Wellington Clarets	16	4	2	10	28	49	-21	14
10		North Wellington Lions	17	3	2	12	30	58	-28	11

So as you can see, we are 4 points clear of Wainui and 6 clear of Clarets who both have a game in hand over us.  Luckily for us, that game is against each other.  Wainui's other game is against Wests with the Clarets against Raiders.  I don't see any way that Wainui or Clarets will win those games unless Clarets stack their team to avoid relegation - something that I wouldn't put past them.  

Either way, if Clarets take 6 points the most Wainui can take is 3 meaning we're safe.  If Wainui take 6 points Clarets can only take 3 meaning we're safe.  If Wainui and Clarets both take 4 points (win and draw each) we're safe.  So no matter which way you look at it we're safe!

So the question is this.  Do we go out against BNU and seek revenge for getting smashed by them last time?  They haven't won a game since they beat us, and are 29-9 goals for and against since then including shipping in 12 against Wests, and losses to Marist and the Lions.  They just lost to Raiders in what sounded like a close game but other than that they have been dealt to.  Odd.  So do we play as per normal and try and get the win and finish above them and hopefully Marist (they have the Lions in their last game), or do we do the traditional (at least since last season) Stallions end-of-year-nothing-to-lose-ol-switch-a-roo.  I'd be pretty keen to have half a game in goal and half a game as an attacking sweeper, and I bet Tangihaere, Jason, Joe, Spencer, Mike and whoever else hasn't scored would love an opportunity to get their name on the score sheet (remember the days when Spencer hit side foot volleys into the top corner of the net?).

Aaron, can you out a poll up on it, and people can post comments below.  Also Aaron, can you change the worst miss of the season?  There's a glaring omission from two weeks ago (as well as mine from last week?).