Colchester United 1 - 2 Wrexham | Friday, March 4th, 1988

Colchester Utd

1 - 2
HT: 1-2

Wrexham

League
(Division Four)
Friday, March 4th, 1988
Layer Road
Attendance: 1,797
7:30pm kick-off

Goalscorers
David Coleman (18)	Geoff Hunter (7) Mike Carter (38)

Team Managers
Roger Brown	Dixie McNeil

Starting Eleven
1. Craig Forrest 2. Gary Smith 3. David Coleman 4. Paul Hinshelwood 5. Steve Hetzke 6. Colin Hill 7. Winston White 8. Richard Wilkins 9. Dale Tempest 10. Tony English 11. Steve Grenfell	Mike Salmon .1 Neil Salathiel .2 Darren Wright .3 Joey Jones .4 Mike Williams .5 Brian Flynn .6 Roger Preece .7 Geoff Hunter .8 Steve Buxton .9 Kevin Russell .10 Mike Carter .11

Bench
12. Rudi Hedman 14. Tommy Keane	Jon Bowden .12 Joe Hinnigan .14

Substitutions
None.	None.

Cautions
None.	None.

Red Cards
None.	Steve Buxton (60)

Match Officials
A Buksh (Dollis Hill) (Referee) A Pearson (Broxbourne) & D Orr (Iver) (Assistants) I Ponder (Colchester) (Fourth Official)

Match Report

This match has no report.

Squad Statistics (as at March 4th, 1988)

			1987-88				All Time
				League		Cups		League		Cups		All	All
	Age	Nat
Mike Salmon (GK)	23		31	-	8	-	48	-	10	-	58	-
Joey Jones	33		23	-	5	1	266	8	65	2	331	10
Neil Salathiel	25		12	-	0	-	168	3	53	-	221	3
Darren Wright	19		23	-	7	2	37	-	15	2	52	2
Mike Williams	22		30	1	7	-	126	2	41	1	167	3
Brian Flynn	32		5	-	0	-	5	-	0	-	5	-
Geoff Hunter	28		28	3	6	-	28	3	6	-	34	3
Roger Preece	18		31	1	9	1	38	3	12	1	50	4
Mike Carter	27		11	4	7	1	11	4	7	1	18	5
Steve Buxton	27		29	5	7	2	173	37	55	15	228	52
Kevin Russell	21		26	9	7	3	26	9	7	3	33	12

League Table & Results (as at March 4th, 1988)

Results of league matches played since last match

2nd March 1988

Exeter City	1-0	Hartlepool Utd
Scarborough	1-2	Torquay

4th March 1988

Cardiff C.	0-0	Peterborough
Colchester Utd	1-2	Wrexham
Stockport Co.	1-0	Halifax Town
Tranmere R.	3-0	Wolves

Division Four 1987-88

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1.	Wolverhampton Wanderers	35	19	8	8	57	32	+25	65
2.	Cardiff City	34	16	11	7	47	33	+14	59
3.	Leyton Orient	34	15	10	9	67	48	+19	55
4.	Bolton Wanderers	33	16	7	10	45	34	+11	55
5.	Burnley	34	16	6	12	42	45	-3	54
6.	Scunthorpe United	33	14	11	8	58	42	+16	53
7.	Torquay United	31	15	8	8	47	32	+15	53
8.	Hartlepool United	34	13	12	9	41	36	+5	51
9.	Colchester United	34	15	6	13	41	38	+3	51
10.	Darlington	32	14	7	11	54	44	+10	49
11.	Scarborough	34	13	10	11	43	37	+6	49
12.	Swansea City	34	13	9	12	49	43	+6	48
13.	Crewe Alexandra	33	11	13	9	49	41	+8	46
14.	Cambridge United	33	13	6	14	38	42	-4	45
15.	Tranmere Rovers *	35	14	4	17	44	43	+1	44
16.	Peterborough United	33	12	7	14	38	48	-10	43
17.	Hereford United	34	11	9	14	32	42	-10	42
18.	Halifax Town *	34	11	9	14	38	42	-4	41
19.	WREXHAM	34	12	5	17	42	47	-5	41
20.	Exeter City	33	9	9	15	41	48	-7	36
21.	Rochdale	35	8	12	15	35	63	-28	36
22.	Stockport County	35	8	11	16	33	46	-13	35
23.	Carlisle United	32	9	6	17	45	62	-17	33
24.	Newport County	33	5	6	22	28	66	-38	21

Tranmere Rovers were deducted 2 points for failing to fulfil the league fixture against Bolton Wanderers on September 24th. Tranmere had objected to the amount of policing they were expected to pay for and appealed, unsuccessfully, to the police and courts.

Halifax Town were deducted 1 points for fielding an unregistered player against Darlington on August 15th.

Colchester United 1 Wrexham 2 League (Division Four)