Week 02: Mock not. Yet.

The Umpa-Lumpas receive Mr Smears' transfer request at
OFFL HQ in the first week.

Senility is not something to mock.  So we'll just let Mike Smears' Week 1 transfer request speak for itself while allowing it to quietly open up the floodgates for all the other trigger-happy managers out there. Though, to be fair, if Irishpool win the League after this it may go down as a stupendous masterstroke.

Generally, Mr Smears' Fantasy Football team management genius has been well hidden up till now so we'll just move along from the opening paragraph.  There's nothing to see here [yet].

Manager of the Week this week is, again, not Mike Smears who didn't score 20 points for his team, unlike ninth-placed Moobchester United's Jon King who IS manager of the week for doing precisely that.  Congratulations Mr King.

In the meantime, more teams have joined us making the Most Popular Players List look a little bit like this {see table below].  Of course, as mindless panic-driven transfers continue to pelt down upon us this list will evolve.

PIN     Surname           Club Value  Count
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402 MF  R Sterling        LIV    4.6   11
263 CB  D Lovren          LIV    3.8   10
322 MF  A Ramsey          ARS    5.0   10
531 ST  D Costa           CHE    7.5    9
413 MF  Y Toure           MC     6.4    8
171 FB  S Coleman         EVE    4.5    7
559 ST  W Rooney          MU     7.8    7
143 GK  H Lloris          TOT    3.8    5
341 MF  C Fabregas        CHE    5.6    6
423 MF  J Mata            MU     5.4    6
560 ST  R van Persie      MU     8.4    6
188 FB  P Zabaleta        MC     4.9    5
487 MF  G Sigurdsson      SWA    4.0    5
108 GK  P Cech            CHE    4.4    4
114 GK  T Howard          EVE    4.0    4
150 FB  M Debuchy         ARS    4.5    4
199 FB  C Chambers        ARS    3.6    4
159 FB  K Richardson      AV     3.5    4
166 FB  B Ivanovic        CHE    4.9    4
214 FB  B Davies          TOT    3.5    4
399 MF  A Lallana         LIV    4.5    4
519 ST  A Sanchez         ARS    7.4    4
540 ST  S Naismith        EVE    5.9    4
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By the way, Our Most Gracious Chairman would like us to point out that 'tapping up' the Chairman for insider information on the arrival of new players will NOT be tolerated.  Balotelli, Bielby, need I say more?  Is that a Point Fine we can feel coming on?

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T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                       Manager       (GBPm)Wk Tot
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 1 Radnorshire Tigers         Alun Edwards    54.8 19  35
 2 Inter Milandrover          Smasher         54.9 15  30
 3 Botley Yellow              Stanley Wilson  49.1 13  28
 4 Moanchester Disunited      Alex Blundell   52.1 17  25
 5 Pyeators                   Dave Clayton    55.0 15  25
 6 The Flying Geese           Mandy Noble     54.8 13  24
 7 Blet Satters Mad Hatters   Gavin Ward      54.6 12  23
 8 Irishpool                  Mike Smears     54.6 10  23
 9 Moobchester United         Jon King        54.5 20  21
10 Didcot Rovers              Edgar Rayner    55.0 13  21

11 Which Team                 Rachel Jones    53.8 16  20
12 Real Mcdrid                Craig McHugh    54.8 19  19
13 Fat Malcademicals          Malcolm Pratt   54.8 11  19
14 Awesome Athletic           Adrian Bradley  50.2 18  18
15 Livercoolio                Russ Bielby     54.9  8  18
16 Obi Wan - Kenobi Nil       Chris Walsh     49.2 16  16
17 RS-TBOY                    Rick Beecroft   55.0 10  13
18 Not In Your Mum's Forest   Sarah Bingham   54.1 12  12
19 Johnny's Heroes            Sarah Bielby    54.9  8  12
20 Pedro's Plodders           Pete Braithwait 46.7  3  11
21 A Bit Temperamintal        Minty Colquhoun 54.9  9   9
22 Couldn't be Hyppia         Nick Reed       55.0  5   9
23 It's A Snickers            Ashley Keeler   52.5  2   3


                              Week's Average Points    12
                              Total Average Points     18
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