Week 11: Shutdown Shoots Up

Sam Reed: one of our youngest managers

Earlier this season, winning the Manager of the Week certificate meant automatic top spot occupancy.  The last few weeks have stopped all that nonsense of course but this week it looked, for a moment, like it was going to happen one last time for one of our youngest managers.  Sam Reed's Shutdown FC decided to put a random 25-point spurt on this week and leapfrog to the 100-point mark while pinching the Manager of the Week certificate along the way.  Sam's Shutdown shot up eleven places in the table to land with an imposing thud into Second place.  Marvellous to see such young talent, fecund with potential, setting itself up for the inevitable ultimate disappointment, future adult disillusionment and bitter self-destruction.

Enjoy it while you can, Sam.  While-you-can.

Meanwhile, Chris Walsh continues conjuring with his mysterious magic by netting another negative point-haul pushing Obi Wan Kenobi Nil even further away from the rest of the league.  Nearly back at zero, Chris.  Nearly.

Farthest faller... Big Mally.  Down five places.  Shocking.

Righto.  Tinkety Tonk.

T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                       Manager       (GBPm)Wk Tot
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 1 Absolutely Fabregas  Sarah Bingham        54.8  6 101
 2 Shutdown FC          Sam Reed             54.4 25 100
 3 Dowds Farm Goblins   Nick Borrett         55.0 11  96
 4 Pyeators             Dave Clayton         55.0 14  94
 5 Moanchester United   Alex Blundell        54.9  9  90
 6 Inter Milandrover    Smasher              54.9  7  90
 7 Johnny's Heroes      Sarah Bielby         54.6  4  88
 8 Neil's Diamonds      Neil McConaghy       53.9 12  87
 9 Big Girl's Blouses   Guy Harewood         54.6  8  86
10 Epic Yellowz         Stanley/Kate Wilson  54.8  7  86

Week 09 & 10: Herding Geese

Mandy Noble herds her Geese to a Manager of the Week certificate

Like the England Football Team's international reputation since 1996, bottom-placed Obi Wan Kenobi Nil and the now-second-from-bottom Moreton Rovers are both marching enthusiastically backwards - it's as if both managers (Chris Walsh and Edgar Rayner respectively) are in a desperate, high-stakes battle for the wooden spoon.

Take a leaf out of Mandy Noble's book, lads.

Learn from her winning ways.

Study her acquisition of the Manager of the Week certificate this week as she herded her Geese to a large 17 points score.

Latecomer Noble and her Flying Geese are now only 42 points behind the current leaders Absolutely Fabregas.

Inspiring.

T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                       Manager       (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Absolutely Fabregas  Sarah Bingham        54.8  7  95
 2 Dowds Farm Goblins   Nick Borrett         55.0  6  85
 3 Johnny's Heroes      Sarah Bielby         54.6  6  84
 4 Inter Milandrover    Smasher              54.4  6  83
 5 Moanchester United   Alex Blundell        54.9 11  81
 6 Pyeators             Dave Clayton         55.0 11  80
 7 Epic Yellowz         Stanley/Kate Wilson  54.8  2  79
 8 Big Girl's Blouses   Guy Harewood         54.6 13  78
 9 Starpratt Mustgo     Malcolm Meaden-Pratt 55.0  7  77
10 RS-TBOY              Rick Beecroft        55.0  0  77

Week 08: Gavin's Dice

Gavin's rolling all his dice and he's coming up Snake Eyes

For the second week in a row, congratulations go to this week's Manager of the Week: Mike Smears.  His Irishpool scored another large 20 points pushing themselves up another seven places into sixteenth in the table. Commiserations, on the other hand, to Gavin Ward's Roll All The Dice.  They fall furthest, six places, leaving them below Mr Smears's Irishpool in nineteenth.  That'll explain Mr Ward's rececnt transfers then.

Team of the Month for September...

Team                   September Score
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Absolutely Fabregas             56
Starpratt Mustgo                51
RS-TBOY                         46
Irishpool                       44
Minty's Minions                 40
Epic Yellowz                    39
Dowds Farm Goblins              37
Inter Milandrover               37
Shutdown FC                     36
Johnny's Heroes                 35
Toby's Gang                     35
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T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                       Manager       (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Absolutely Fabregas  Sarah Bingham        54.8 12  88
 2 Dowds Farm Goblins   Nick Borrett         55.0 15  79
 3 Johnny's Heroes      Sarah Bielby         54.6  5  78
 4 Inter Milandrover    Smasher              54.4  5  77
 5 Epic Yellowz         Stanley/Kate Wilson  54.8  9  77
 6 RS-TBOY              Rick Beecroft        55.0  8  77
 7 Minty's Minions      Minty Colquhoun      54.6 13  76
 8 Shutdown FC          Sam Reed             54.4 14  73
 9 Toby's Gang          Toby Larking         55.0  8  73
10 Moanchester United   Alex Blundell        54.9 14  70