Week 20: Happy Christmas and Happy New Year

After weeks of having their lead chipped away, RS T-Boy reassert themselves with a Manager of the Week certificate winning performance for Rick Beecroft of 43 points. Of course, this means the T-Boys nudge ahead of their opponents in their OFFL Cup fixture against an high scoring Olymping Macdrid.


OFFL Cup

With two more weeks of scores to go, this is how the cup fixtures are shaping up.

Weeks 20, 21 and 22

Poof of the North 10 v 21 Two Owls
Mannschester Rovers 28 v 16 Rayner Midriff
Metatarsenal 9 v 8 Tat Mucker
Dube Stars FC 12 v 7 Giving It Some Thought
Upmintster United 25 v 4 Two-Oh-Ten
BM Mingmongs 35 v 38 Decimated Left Peg
Straw Bucharest 33 v 25 Jordan Utd
Windmill United 16 v 30 Abeerden
Olymping Macdrid 36 v 43 RS T-Boy
Woolyback Town AFC 25 v 20 Mal
Charlie's Angels 16 v 38 Inter Milandrover
Pompey Puss 31 v 15 Book My Face
Ant & Bex 39 v 41 Livercoolio FC

Radnorshire Tigers, Campbellwin, Nuttingham Florist all received a bye for this round.

Happy New Year folks.

Week 19: The Cup Overfloweth

Manager of the Week this week is the lovely Hilary Straw for leading her Straw Bucharest to 9 points. 12 more than Gavin Ward's Metatarsenal. Not that we should point that out at all. But also, it may be of interest to note that everyone, bar Gavin Ward and Minty Colquhoun, made up ground on our current League Leaders.

Nice.

Happy Christmas. And Good Luck in the OFFL Cup.

OFFL Cup

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Three teams are randomly given a bye.

These lucky teams have been randomly chosen from the available 29 teams. They are:

Campbellwin

Radnorshire Tigers

Nuttingham Florist

The fixtures for the first round are...

Poof of the North v Two Owls

Mannschester Rovers v Rayner Midriff

Metatarsenal v Tat Mucker

Dube Stars FC v Giving It Some Thought

Upmintster United v Two-Oh-Ten

BM Mingmongs v Decimated Left Peg

Straw Bucharest v Jordan Utd

Windmill United v Abeerden

Olymping Macdrid v RS T-Boy

Woolyback Town AFC v Mal

Charlie's Angels v Inter Milandrover

Pompey Puss v Book My Face

Ant & Bex v Livercoolio FC

In other words...

Mark Norman v Chris Brown

Dan Manns v Edgar Rayner

Gavin Ward v Mat Tucker

Khumbula Dube v Adrian Bradley

Minty Colquhoun v David Manttan

Neil McConaghy v Neil Jukes

Hilary Straw v Grant Larking

Chris Walsh v Steve Tierney

Craig McHugh v Rick Beecroft

Guy Harewood v Malcolm Pratt

Rob Ivison v Smasher

Lionel Larking v Ashley Keeler

Ant Reeves v Russ Bielby

Week 18: By the bye

Managers of the Week this week are Ant Reeves and Dan Manns for respectively steering Ant & Bex and Mannschester Rovers to a haul of 16 points each.

Which isn't bad.

Especially as it's the second time that Ant Reeves has claimed the certificate, betraying his stealthy escalation toward the top prize wethinks.

Ant & Bex climb highest this week, along too with Andy Straw's Nuttingham Florist who also barge up four places.


OFFL Cup

And, due to his highest climber status, it is Mr Straw who will be picking, out of an electronic hat, the three teams that will be receiving a bye for this year's OFFL Cup.

Mr Straw...? [Drum roll, please]

Week 17: Rayner's Leap of Faith

There is a Manager amongst you who doesn't believe in all this transferring nonsense. He thinks that the OFFL test should be one that lasts an entire season without tinkering with the initial selection at all. This manager happens to be in Twentieth place with little to no chance of rising much in the forthcoming weeks. His team includes a goalkeeper currently enjoying a total of minus 9 points, a full back on minus 3 and a midfielder whose managed about three minutes playing time all season.

Experts predict an early OFFL Cup exit.

In fact, the OFFL Rumour Mill has churned out a possible explanation for such lunacy: it's a really poor excuse to justify a hands-off approach, enabling the Manager to jet off to places like China so he can make a point of not taking the opportunity to pick up really cheap 64GB flash memory USB keys for his mates.

Indeed, THAT sort of manager will never succeed.

Managers of the Week are Craig McHugh and Ant Reeves of Olymping Macdrid and Ant & Bex respectively. They each steered their charges to a large weekly score of 25 points apiece. RS T-Boy is joined at the top of the table on points by Inter Milandrover who take their season's spasm of top spots too early again this year.

The OFFL Cup will be taking place over Weeks 20, 21 and 22. So get your transfers in. Or, you should be lacking one, your team indeed.

Thank you.

Week 16: Don't Stare at the Tierney

No. Don't.

It's cruel.

Do not stare at Abeerden's latest League position. It's rude don't you know.

Just walk on past.

As twelve of you Managers already have in fact.

Charlie's Angels have just tapped RS T-Boy on the shoulder to remind them of their equality in points while simultaneously watching Inter Milandrover move up on the leaders by 4 points also. Hilary Straw's Straw Bucharest made up ground on the top two too and settles in fifth place behind Upmintster United. Another minus score for Mr Ward's Metatarsenal sees them bobble about in twenty-sixth.

Alun Edwards steers his Radnorshire Tigers to a modest 13 points this week and still makes off with the Manager of the Week certificate. Meanwhile, nobody comments on what Lionel Larking's team selection spells out. Which is probably a good thing seeing as it's a bit wrong anyway.

Does anybody actually read any of this tosh anyway?

http://offl.littlesmasher.com

Start preparing yourselves for the OFFL Cup. Coming soon. New Managers welcome. Preferably another 3. That would be administratively useful.