Week 20: Still a marathon

No.

Steve Tierney gets the Manager of the Week certificate this week with his stonkingly massive 41 point haul.  And it's still only 'half-time' in the Group Stages of the OFFL Cup.  This also means he's climbed up eight places.  Eight!  Into ninth.

Unable to climb any places themselves, in spite of their own massive point gathering of 38, is top placed FC Maalcoma of course.  Indeed, the rest of the league let out a collective sigh of dejected disappointment this week as Manager Mal's 'inevitable' descent through the table has been replaced by the opening up of another enormous gap between his team of flukers and the chasing pack. Cold comfort is the oft-repeated fact that we're only half way through the season and, as we all know, it is a marathon, not a sprint.

A marathon.

Not a sprint.


T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 FC Maalcoma            Malcolm Pratt       55.0 36 244
 2 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.2 18 219
 3 Neil's Diamonds        Neil McConaghy      54.8 23 204
 4 Multiple Scorgasms     Sarah Bingham       54.6 24 203
 5 Double's United        Rachel Jones        53.9 24 198
 5 Pyeators               Dave Clayton        54.5 12 198
 7 Olympilimps FC         Gavin Ward          53.0 24 183
 8 Moobchester United     John King           53.5 12 182
 9 WWMC                   Steve Tierney       54.8 41 173
10 It's A Snickers        Ashley Keeler       53.4 19 172

Week 19: Gary Lineker is the real Father Christmas

The REAL Father Christmas

Manager of the Week this week is Dave Clayton whose Pyeators claim a massive 30 points, pushing themselves up into third place.  Congratulations Mr Clayton, and a merry Christmas to you.

...and to everyone.

Now sit back, loosen the belt, pour another glass of wine and switch on the TV to casually stumble across one of the many chances to catch Match of the Day.

Or Match of the Day 2.

Etc.

Gary Lineker is the REAL Father Christmas.

T h e   T a b l e

                                            Value Points

   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot

 --------------------------------------------------------

 1 FC Maalcoma            Malcolm Pratt       55.0 22 208

 2 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.2 24 201

 3 Pyeators               Dave Clayton        54.5 30 186

 4 Neil's Diamonds        Neil McConaghy      54.8 21 181

 5 Multiple Scorgasms     Sarah Bingham       54.6 22 179

 6 Double's United        Rachel Jones        53.9 23 174

 7 Moobchester United     John King           53.5 16 170

 8 Olympilimps FC         Gavin Ward          53.0 13 159

 9 Johnny's Heroes        Sarah-Jane John     54.5  9 154

10 It's A Snickers        Ashley Keeler       53.7  6 153

Week 18: Weeeeeee!

As our Chairman starts running around the house, forgetting that he needs the toilet and sucking the sparkly fairy lights into his mouth his bless little Christmas Excitement Overdrive is not just being triggered by thoughts of his bearded chubby double squeezing down the chimney, oh no.  It's also next week's start of the OFFL Cup First Round. WEEEEEEEE!

In the meantime, Johnny's Heroes slips down four places while Manager of the Week John King's Moobchester United [who scored a large 19 this week] now rest in sixth.

And Minty Colquhoun still thinks Darren Bent's got a major goal-scoring run left in him.  Sorry, couldn't keep that in.

Finally, everyone give Kate 'Duchess of Oxford' Wilson a Pity Come-Hither look. Her Botley Yellow lose 4 points.  She's not feeling great about it.

Be careful out there everyone.

T h e   T a b l e

                                            Value Points

   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot

 --------------------------------------------------------

 1 FC Maalcoma            Malcolm Pratt       55.0 10 186

 2 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.2  8 177

 3 Neil's Diamonds        Neil McConaghy      54.8  0 160

 4 Multiple Scorgasms     Sarah Bingham       54.6 10 157

 5 Pyeators               Dave Clayton        54.5  3 156

 6 Moobchester United     John King           53.5 19 154

 7 Double's United        Rachel Jones        53.9 18 151

 8 It's A Snickers        Ashley Keeler       53.7 14 147

 9 Olympilimps FC         Gavin Ward          53.0 15 146

10 Johnny's Heroes        Sarah-Jane John     54.5  8 145

Week 17: The Best Player-Name Wordplay Of The Year

Thanks to Newcastle's Demba Ba's two unlikely goals this week Malcolm Pratt is able to put his two fingers up at the rest of the league's Managers who all believed that his tenure at the top would be terminated. They're now collectively issuing an under-the-breath "Ba Humbug".

[That last bit of wordplay was donated to Studmarks by the League Leader himself]

Meanwhile, Rick Beecroft humbly collects his Manager of the Week certificate after going 'back to basics' with his training for RST-Boy - success comes in the form of a massive 24 points pushing his charges up into fourteenth alongside the mighty Real Mcdrid.

Of note too is Kate Wilson's steering of her Botley Yellow past the 100 point mark, leaving the struggling and lowly Moreton Rovers and West Vam to shuffle themselves around once more at the bottom of the table - their own particular pain is temporarily tempered by the sudden appearance of Mr Chris Walsh and his Lashings of Cheese.  Indeed, Chris finally joins us this season for the gory of the OFFL Cup.

I meant glory, obviously.

Glory.  Yes.

Talking of which, a reminder...

The OFFL Cup

First Round Groups

The bottom team of each group will be knocked out of the cup. To be played over the Christmas/New Year period 24th December to 6th January.  You still have plenty of time to make those cup-winning transfers.


Group A
FC Maalcoma
Johnny's Heroes
Olympilimps FC
Radnorshire Tigers
RST-BOY
Lashings of Cheese

Group B
Inter Milandrover
Multiple Scorgasms
Double's United
Real Mcdrid
Botley Yellow

Group C
Neil's Diamonds
It's A Snickers
Moobchester United
WWMC
West Vam

Group D
Pyeators
Irishpool
Minted
Livercoolio
Moreton Rovers

T h e   T a b l e

                                            Value Points

   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot

 --------------------------------------------------------

 1 FC Maalcoma            Malcolm Pratt       55.0 17 176

 2 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.2 14 169

 3 Neil's Diamonds        Neil McConaghy      54.8  5 160

 4 Pyeators               Dave Clayton        54.5 16 153

 5 Multiple Scorgasms     Sarah Bingham       54.6 17 147

 6 Johnny's Heroes        Sarah-Jane John     54.5  4 137

 7 Moobchester United     John King           53.5 14 135

 8 It's A Snickers        Ashley Keeler       53.7  6 133

 8 Double's United        Rachel Jones        53.9 10 133

10 Olympilimps FC         Gavin Ward          53.0  8 131

Week 16: OFFL Cup Group Stage Draw

Manager of the Week this week is Inter Milandrover's Smasher.  A mid-week-fixture-assisted 29 points nudges the current Champions up into second place alongside Neil's Diamonds.  League Leaders FC Maalcoma's numerical margin of superiority is now down to just 4 points. Will Malcolm's eleven week reign at the top of the table come to end next week?

Probably.

The OFFL Cup

First Round Groups

The bottom team of each group will be knocked out of the cup. To be played over the Christmas/New Year period 24th december to 6th January.  You still have plenty of time to make those cup-winning transfers.

Group A

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FC Maalcoma

Johnny's Heroes

Olympilimps FC

Radnorshire Tigers

RST-BOY

Group B

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Inter Milandrover

Multiple Scorgasms

Double's United

Real Mcdrid

Botley Yellow

Group C

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Neil's Diamonds

It's A Snickers

Moobchester United

WWMC

West Vam

Group D

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Pyeators

Irishpool

Minted

Livercoolio

Moreton Rovers

T h e   T a b l e

                                            Value Points

   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot

 --------------------------------------------------------

 1 FC Maalcoma            Malcolm Pratt       55.0 23 159

 2 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.2 29 155

 2 Neil's Diamonds        Neil McConaghy      54.8 26 155

 4 Pyeators               Dave Clayton        54.5 16 137

 5 Johnny's Heroes        Sarah-Jane John     54.5 20 133

 6 Multiple Scorgasms     Sarah Bingham       54.6 23 130

 7 It's A Snickers        Ashley Keeler       53.7 24 127

 8 Irishpool              Mike Smears         54.5 22 124

 9 Olympilimps FC         Gavin Ward          53.0 21 123

 9 Double's United        Rachel Jones        53.9 19 123