Week 25: Never Mind the Pistols

A Slippery Thrashing Fish 

As the dust of last week's Manager of the Week certificate winner bonanza finally settles the dirt cloud clears to show one of those managers still standing, spinning his Smith & Wesson on his hooked forefinger before fumbling it, like a slippery fish thrashing around for its life, back into its holster, dropping it twice.

For Smasher, last week's exploits was not just a feeble flash in the pants, oh no.  He or she is again Manager of the Week after steering Inter Milandrover to an impressive 15 points.  A climb of two places in the league is the real reward.

Meanwhile, Jon King tries to spice up his zero points this week by submitting three, long overdue, transfers helping distract the rest of us away from Gavin Ward's 'interesting' score.

But never mind all that tosh.  It's OFFL Cup time!

[PLAYS INTRO TO MC HAMMER'S "HAMMERTIME" TO FADE]

Playing this week...

OFFL Cup

Second Round

Radnorshire Tigers        v  Moanchester Disunited
Alun Edwards                 Alex Blundell

Couldn't be Hyppia        v  Johnny's Heroes
Nick Reed                    Sarah Bielby

Blet Satters Mad Hatters  v  Pyeators
Gavin Ward                   Dave Clayton

Inter Milandrover         v  The Flying Geese
Smasher                      Mandy Noble

Moobchester United        v  Obi Wan - Kenobi Nil
Jon King                     Chris Walsh

Irishpool                 v  Livercoolio
Mike Smears                  Russ Bielby

A Bit Temperamintal       v  Malcolmyouplaysobadly
Minty Colquhoun              Malcolm Pratt

Not In Your Mum's Forest  v  Botley Yellow
Sarah Bingham                Stanley Wilson

Good luck all.  And, yes, it looks like we do have a Cup prize this year.  A football trivia book, waiting to be sent out to one of you lucky Cup survivors.  More details to follow.

Probably.

T h e   T a b l e

                                            Value Points

   Team                       Manager       (GBPm)Wk Tot

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 1 Malcolmyouplaysobadly     Malcolm Pratt    54.6  9 250

 2 Livercoolio               Russ Bielby      55.0  3 244

 3 Johnny's Heroes           Sarah Bielby     54.8  4 235

 4 Botley Yellow             Stanley Wilson   52.1  5 227

 5 Blet Satters Mad Hatters  Gavin Ward       54.6 -1 225

 6 RS-TBOY                   Rick Beecroft    52.2  5 223

 7 Irishpool                 Mike Smears      53.7  5 216

 8 Radnorshire Tigers        Alun Edwards     49.7  5 211

 9 Inter Milandrover         Smasher          54.0 15 211

10 Not In Your Mum's Forest  Sarah Bingham    54.7 10 211

11 Which Team                Rachel Jones     55.0 10 207

12 The Flying Geese          Mandy Noble      54.1 10 196

13 Pyeators                  Dave Clayton     55.0  4 196

14 Couldn't be Hyppia        Nick Reed        54.6  6 173

15 Moobchester United        Jon King         51.7  0 166

16 Moanchester Disunited     Alex Blundell    52.1  4 165

17 Obi Wan - Kenobi Nil      Chris Walsh      54.6  9 157

18 It's A Snickers           Ashley Keeler    54.6  3 154

19 A Bit Temperamintal       Minty Colquhoun  55.0  7 154

20 Didcot Rovers             Edgar Rayner     54.8  9 148

21 Real Mcdrid               Craig McHugh     54.8  9 142

22 Neil's Diamonds           Neil McConaghy   54.8  8 135

23 Awesome Athletic          Adrian Bradley   50.2  7  91

24 Pedro's Plodders          Pete Braithwaite 46.7  5  80

                             Week's Average Points      6

                             Total Average Points     184

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