League Weekend 18 - Our 1000th Post

Saturday's League fixtures -

• 1sts vs Grange 2nds, away.
• 2nds vs RH Corstorphine 2nds at Arbo.
• 3rds vs Glenrothes 3rds, away.

Sunday -

• Presidents Plate semi-final vs Preston Village at Arbo, 1pm start.

This is our 1000th blog post. So far it's almost as dull as the first, the thrillingly titled AGM News, from April 2009. That one deservedly got a duck according to the Google Blogger stattos with precisely zero page views. We've got a little better at finding an audience as things have gone on, with a total of just under 130,000 page views over the last five years and six seasons.

The top posts? A Ziggy match rant report? A KF essay on the Ashes or sermon on the evils of warming up? Something lavishly illustrated with Broon's superb photos?  No. The toppest, oddly, is Last Trophy of 2011. First Trophy of 2012, Charlie's telegraphic account of our Presidents Trophy triumph over Fauldhouse, with well over 4000 views. Strangely this is more than a hundred times as many readers as bothered to look up KF's excellent later photo-essay on the same game, Cup Final Pics.

Charlie obviously has a populist touch as the number two post with over 1500 views is Coaching Corner (part 2 of a continuing series) an essay on the importance of the long barrier technique and CA Smith's failure to deploy it correctly (although it was all, of course, EC Smith's fault). [Part 1, for those interested, was an essay on the forward defensive and Ellis Senior's failure to deploy it correctly .....]

In third place, with over 500 views, is Bainbro's Saturday Night Entertainment, outlining plans for the 2011 club arm-wrestling tournament. Bainbro was also responsible in a sense for number 4, JB's pulsating account of the 2nds' tie with Preston Village earlier this season, Saideep Stars as Twos Tie. Its 538 views were almost entirely down to Bainbro posting a link on Saideep's Facebook account - few Crossers past or present can have had so many digital fans, although KF's recent account of our complete humping by Glenrothes looked on course for a similar readership after an umpire circulated a link to his colleagues. Thankfully JB edited out all the interesting comments in that one before it could attract an even wider readership, or it might have displaced some of KF's finest work from the top five, namely his remarkable dissection of the Norrie Webb myth, Webb Posting, which mystified 299 readers including FFS (remember him?).