Well what the f*** was that? (Said, knowing that it's all random and if we didn't get results like this then there would be little point having random numbers in the games. So no, it's not a rant).

Anyway we weren't just mugged by Olmec (and the code is called Olmec.java) but stabbed in the back, ran over a few times and left for dead.

Based on shot chance (and ignoring the fact that GM's was halved after going four goals up) the expected -chances for each team was 6.5 for GM and 5.6 of ALO (I accept that Tapani's change to opporunistic might have been based on the score at the time). Actual chances were 10 to 1. GM had 8 chances in the first half alone.

With 6.5 shots and a 30% chance or less of scoring lets give GM 2 goals. Even with the 8 shots they got it's only 2.5 goals tops. With 5.6 shots and around 48% chance of scoring that's 2.7 goals.

So thank you, Olmec, for making me decision that much easier for the next few games.

A great start to the league campaign with two captain's bonuses for Andy Graham who already has three.

First up was a 5-0 thrashing of Annan with Graham getting two goals and Gentles, Donnelly and Fuller getting the others. Five shots and five goals.

Next up was a visit to Clyde and they had the better stats, which showed with their five shots and two offsides to our four shots. Unfortunately for Clyde, Morrison saved three of the four shots on target but Fuller with two and Donnelly and Blackie with a shot apiece all scored.

It's early days but nice to see us top of the table with an impressive goal difference and top in T11. In fact we're third in T11 in the whole league. Greenock in the Cup on Wednesday followed by two difficult league games. Looks like I have to get my thinking cap on.

After the 5-0 first leg win it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that we'd be playing in the second round. However East Stirlingshire aren't all that far behind us in T11 so I was taking nothing for granted. I was able to play some of our back-up players but still had CP and TP I wanted to use and initially I was going to stall the whole game, with a change if we found ourselves 4-0 down. Then I saw Tyron's pre-match post and trusted that he was playing a weak stall. I changed my initial tactic to normal in the hope we could win to make getting an MVP that bit easier. I already had a lot of player conditionals so didn't bother changing from the 5-4-1 with three attackers out of position in midfield.

I thought that was going to bite me on the bum as we couldn't find a way past Raya. Gentles was particularly disappointing with his three chances. But future star, Blackie came off the bench at half time and scored the winner after 72 minutes. Then we stalled to see out the game.