The Inland North - pretty quiet up north

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Although the mini league is quite large with 18 patches, only 7 have submitted scores so far! Pugneys is the place to be so far, breaking the 100 point barrier and holding a healthy 14 point lead, a good start for Jonathon. Pete and Richard & Chloe make up the top 3, both at either end of the 80's. The Foot It challenge obviously hasn't affected Mark R's as he just misses out on 3rd by 2 points.

The Inland North
Position Name Patch Species Points %
1 Jonathan Holliday Pugneys/Calder Wetlands 90 103 58.85714
2 Pete Antrobus Marbury/Neumann's 85 89 59.73154
3 Richard and Chloe May Burton marsh 73 81 60.44776
4 Mark Reeder Orgreave 74 79 N/A
5 Adrian & John Northwich Woodlands 50 56 0
6 Mark Breaks Stocks Reservoir 50 51 35.78947
7 Mike Shurmer Long Mynd (North) 41 42 49.41176
8 George Watola Heslington East 33 34 44.73684
9 Graham Hulme Oakenclough 0 0 N/A
10 James Common Stobswood 0 0 0
11 Phil Walton Astley Lake 0 0 N/A
12 Phil Woollen Backford Cross 0 0 0
13 Steve Seal Stoneyfold Wood to Sutton Res 0 0 N/A
14 Steve Seal Bosley Res 0 0 N/A
15 Toby Collett Saltholme RSPB 0 0 0
16 Will Jones Ruyton-XI-Towns/Wykey 0 0 0
17 Harry Murphy RSPB Saltholme 0 0 N/A
18 David Horncastle Doncaster Lakeside 0 0 N/A

Jonathon drops to third in the comparative percentages while Richard & Chloe climb to the top spot. Only 1.6% seperates the top 3 and I'm sure once more results start coming in this will be a very close league.
 

The Inland North
Position Name Patch Species Points %
1 Richard and Chloe May Burton marsh 73 81 60.44776
2 Pete Antrobus Marbury/Neumann's 85 89 59.73154
3 Jonathan Holliday Pugneys/Calder Wetlands 90 103 58.85714
4 Mike Shurmer Long Mynd (North) 41 42 49.41176
5 George Watola Heslington East 33 34 44.73684
6 Mark Breaks Stocks Reservoir 50 51 35.78947
7 Adrian & John Northwich Woodlands 50 56 0
8 James Common Stobswood 0 0 0
9 Phil Woollen Backford Cross 0 0 0
10 Toby Collett Saltholme RSPB 0 0 0
11 Will Jones Ruyton-XI-Towns/Wykey 0 0 0

Hopefully come the end of February the league will fill out more, remember and post your scores, either on the RHS of the blog here or by email to us.

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