Monday 18 August 2014

Week 01: Paws, Pause, Pours

Other ways to watch the TV in your favourite lycra listening to your iPod.

Apart from playing their part in many an amusing cat video there is no real need for running machines to actually exist in our lives, let's face it.  There are plenty of other ways to watch the TV in your favourite lycra while standing up listening to your iPod.

And very much like a running machine so the OFFL treadmill finds itself in existence.

[We shall now pause for you to flick through your own images of stumbling padding pussy paws while we awkwardly wait for the OFFL metaphor rain to stop pouring on the opening couple of paragraphs of this Week's Studmarks. Let's hoist an umbrella and get down to business, shall we?]

And like needless running machines there is certainly no need to point out the bleedin' obvious (but we're going to anyway) in that the Manager of the Week this week is Alun Edwards for managing his Radnorshire Tigers to a first week's table-topping tally of 16 points. Let's see if the Tigers can keep this up unlike Minty Colquhoun's early lead last season...

*Swanny Whistle Down*

Amid such farce we welcome some old faces back to OFFL20.  Not least Pete "Mr Loverman" Braithwaite who was part of the league when it was the RFFL, many years ago, but also we say hello [in the style of Mr Tumble] to OFFL Virgins Stanley Wilson and Mandy Noble.  And while their two ages bring the OFFL Manager average down to about 15 years, the returning Mr Smears ensures it climbs back up to nearer the usual 65 years.

In the meantime, let's have a look at the most popular players picked so far in the league.

PIN     Surname           Club Value  Count
-------------------------------------------
263 CB  D Lovren          LIV    3.8    8
402 MF  R Sterling        LIV    4.6    7
413 MF  Y Toure           MC     6.4    7
531 ST  D Costa           CHE    7.5    7
171 FB  S Coleman         EVE    4.5    6
322 MF  A Ramsey          ARS    5.0    6
559 ST  W Rooney          MU     7.8    6
341 MF  C Fabregas        CHE    5.6    5
423 MF  J Mata            MU     5.4    5
114 GK  T Howard          EVE    4.0    4
143 GK  H Lloris          TOT    3.8    4
199 FB  C Chambers        ARS    3.6    4
159 FB  K Richardson      AV     3.5    4
188 FB  P Zabaleta        MC     4.9    4
399 MF  A Lallana         LIV    4.5    4
519 ST  A Sanchez         ARS    7.4    4
560 ST  R van Persie      MU     8.4    4

Enough of this nonsense.  It's Week 1.  Welcome back.  Get on with it.

PS
No mention of the World Cup so far eh?

PPS
D'Oh!


T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                       Manager       (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Radnorshire Tigers         Alun Edwards    54.8 16  16
 2 Botley Yellow              Stanley Wilson  49.1 15  15
 3 Inter Milandrover          Smasher         54.9 15  15
 4 Irishpool                  Mike Smears     54.8 13  13
 5 Blet Satters Mad Hatters   Gavin Ward      54.6 11  11
 6 The Flying Geese           Mandy Noble     55.0 11  11
 7 Livercoolio                Russ Bielby     54.9 10  10
 8 Pyeators                   Dave Clayton    55.0 10  10
 9 Pedro's Plodders           Pete Braithwait 46.7  8   8
10 Moanchester Disunited      Alex Blundell   52.1  8   8

11 Fat Malcademicals          Malcolm Pratt   54.8  8   8
12 Didcot Rovers              Edgar Rayner    55.0  8   8
13 Which Team                 Rachel Jones    53.8  4   4
14 Johnny's Heroes            Sarah Bielby    54.9  4   4
15 Couldn't be Hyppia         Nick Reed       55.0  4   4
16 RS-TBOY                    Rick Beecroft   55.0  3   3
17 It's A Snickers            Ashley Keeler   52.5  1   1
18 Moobchester United         Jon King        54.5  1   1


                              Week's Average Points     8
                              Total Average Points      7


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