Weather holds up the youth team

Last updated : 24 November 2014 By Tony Scholes
Andy Nugent

The match referee called the game off on Saturday morning with some of the youth team pitch waterlogged following the heavy rain overnight and that meant a late postponement.

The only team able to take advantage and go above us were Tranmere and they did with a home win against lowly Accrington. It has taken them level with points on Bury and a point ahead of us.

The top three are now all four points clear after good results. Rochdale drew one of their games in hand in midweek to draw level with Wigan and Walsall, and Saturday saw all three record victories.

Wigan maintain league leadership after beating Port Vale, Rochdale, still with one game in hand, are second following a win against Oldham and Walsall are right behind them having beaten Fleetwood.

For Oldham, one of those three teams beaten, it has been a major turn round recently. They won seven of their first eight games and looked a real threat for the title. But Tony Philliskirk's team have now lost each of their last five games.

Preston are now closest to us in the table, of those below us. They beat bottom club Morecambe 6-0 and that means Morecambe have now conceded a half century of goals in just 16 games. They remain two points behind Accrington but then there is a further five point jump to Shrewsbury who are now third from bottom after they at Blackpool and were passed by Carlisle, winners over Wrexham.

All last week's results can be found below along with this week's fixtures, Burnley's goalscorers and the current league table.

LAST WEEK'S RESULTS

Wednesday 19th November
ROCHDALE 2 BLACKPOOL 2

Saturday 22nd November
BLACKPOOL 3 SHREWSBURY 3
BURNLEY v BURY - match postponed
CARLISLE 2 WREXHAM 1
MORECAMBE 0 PRESTON 6
OLDHAM 1 ROCHDALE 2
TRANMERE 4 ACCRINGTON 2
WALSALL 2 FLEETWOOD 0
WIGAN 4 PORT VALE 1

THIS WEEK'S FIXTURES

Thursday 27th November
MORECAMBE v WIGAN

Saturday 29th November
BURNLEY v BURY
CARLISLE v PORT VALE
PRESTON v BLACKPOOL
ROCHDALE v SHREWSBURY

BURNLEY'S GOALSCORERS

5: NTUMBA MASSANKA, KHIUS METZ
4: JOSH DOLLING, BRAD JACKSON
3: CHRISTIAN HILL
2: BRANDON WILSON
1: JAMAL CRAWFORD, JAMIE FROST, SHAUN HOBSON
ANDY NUGENT, ALEX RICHARDSON, WAQAS AZAM

CURRENT LEAGUE TABLE

Team pld w d l f a pts
 
WIGAN ATHLETIC 15 10 2 3 41 16 32
ROCHDALE 14 10 2 2 36 15 32
WALSALL 15 10 2 3 28 14 32
BURY 14 9 1 4 28 19 28
TRANMERE ROVERS 15 8 4 3 28 21 28
BURNLEY 13 8 3 2 29 16 27
PRESTON NORTH END 14 7 5 2 30 13 26
OLDHAM ATHLETIC 13 7 0 6 29 20 21
BLACKPOOL 14 6 3 5 26 22 21
WREXHAM 15 5 2 8 25 32 17
PORT VALE 13 5 1 7 18 27 16
CARLISLE UNITED 13 3 3 7 16 29 12
FLEETWOOD TOWN 14 4 0 10 12 32 12
SHREWSBURY TOWN 13 2 4 7 22 28 10
ACCRINGTON STANLEY 15 1 2 12 16 40 5
MORECAMBE 16 1 0 15 10 50 3