Week 04: Tedious

Pewter Effect Knobs?  Or Brass?

The Chairman is currently flicking through a Kitchen Catalogue with a grizzled look of enforced scrutiny.  There's nothing more tedious than trying to decide whether or not the floor tiles should be grey with relief or flat, matt and flecked with a suspicion of yellow.

Ooh, hang on.  Yes there IS something more tedious.  And that's International Week for the football.  Yes.  That's much more tedious.  Indeed England's National side, entitled "England", are in a qualifying group of barely capable opponents - all of whom, should they qualify, are waiting until a later round of the subsequent tournament to then humiliate the Three Lions by thrashing the shin pads off them.

It's like the English actually believe it might be different this time.

Now that's what I call tedious.

Sigh.

Manager of the Week is aged latecomer Mike Smears whose Irishpool finally rocks up to the back door of the party with 52 points.  They're in last place.  At the moment.

Right, off you pop.  Have a week.

T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                 Manager             (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Pyeators             Dave Clayton         50.0 39  217
 2 Neil's Diamonds      Neil McConaghy       49.7 45  197
 3 Moanchester United   Alex Blundell        49.9 51  192
 4 Inter Milandrover    Smasher              49.4 32  188
 5 RS-TBOY              Rick Beecroft        49.8 41  185
 6 Rushden Academicals 2Malcolm Meaden-Pratt 49.9 49  185
 7 Game Of Throw Ins    Craig McHugh         49.0 36  168
 8 Suits You Sur-man    Sarah Bingham        49.3 27  162
 9 Johnny's Heroes      Sarah Bielby         47.7 39  160
10 Moobchester United   Jon King             49.9 42  157

Week 03: Early Jostle

Jostle

It's that early jostle for position that we so love each season that sees Dave 'Second Place' Clayton upwardly pushing himself further away from Second Place.  His Pyeators not only earn him his second consecutive Manager of the Week Certificate [for scoring 67 points] but they have also consolidated an already impressive lead.  Is it too early to consider this side to be Champions Elect?

Well, yes it is, actually, so if you're doing that then you should probably stop it.  You can certainly count on current Champions, and thirdly placed, Neil's Diamonds to not let Pyeators have an easy ride of it that's for sure.

You're all lovely.

T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                 Manager             (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Pyeators             Dave Clayton         50.0 67  178
 2 Inter Milandrover    Smasher              49.4 54  156
 3 Neil's Diamonds      Neil McConaghy       49.7 54  152
 4 RS-TBOY              Rick Beecroft        49.8 56  144
 5 Moanchester United   Alex Blundell        49.9 52  141
 6 Rushden Academicals 2Malcolm Meaden-Pratt 48.2 49  136
 7 Suits You Sur-man    Sarah Bingham        49.3 46  135
 8 Game Of Throw Ins    Craig McHugh         49.0 52  132
 9 Livercoolio          Russell Bielby       49.6 54  126
10 Johnny's Heroes      Sarah Bielby         47.7 61  121

Week 02: Panic Pogging

You lift your left leg up...

We, here at Studmarks, are suffering from Second Week Malaise Syndrome.  You've probably heard of it, we suspect.  There's been a nasty bout of it going around.

So here we go...

Manager of the Week is Dave 'Second Place' Clayton.  Indeed, Dave's Pyeators scored 61 points this week and while in the old days that would have been e-nor-mungus, we're still not quite sure how very big that really is, are we?

The bigger news is, perhaps, that we have our first transfer submission.  Dr Nick 'Hair Trigger' Reed has broken the seal on the OFFL transfer market by PANIC-REMOVING Pogba from his Pogboom, which can't be right, can it?  Surely the only reason behind Pogboom's very existence is Monsieur Pogba's presence, non? And how many other nervous managers will follow?  All 7?

Terrible situation.

In the meantime, here's our current Top FOUR Favourite Players...
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PIN NAME     TEAM £M  TEAMS
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196 Alonso, M CHE 4.3  13
606 Lukaku, R MUN 6.6  12
443 Salah, M  LIV 4.5  11
627 Kane, H   TOT 7.0   9

T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                 Manager             (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Pyeators             Dave Clayton         50.0 61  111
 2 Inter Milandrover    Smasher              49.4 53  102
 3 Neil's Diamonds      Neil McConaghy       49.7 52   98
 4 Suits You Sur-man    Sarah Bingham        49.3 57   89
 5 Moanchester United   Alex Blundell        49.9 46   89
 6 RS-TBOY              Rick Beecroft        49.8 35   88
 7 Rushden Academicals 2Malcolm Meaden-Pratt 48.2 52   87
 8 Game Of Throw Ins    Craig McHugh         49.0 35   80
 9 RockRollford United  Edgar Rayner         48.0 46   76
10 Wardy's Wasters      Gavin Ward           49.4 36   76

Week 01: Go, Go, Go.

Well, how does it feel?  Bit unnerving isn't it?  So many points for just one week's worth of work?  New point system that, isn't it?

Manager of the Week is, of course, Rick Beecroft thanks to his RS-TBOY netting him a good-looking 53 points.

Perennial Runner Up, Dave Clayton, is already occupying his second place spot while current Champions, Neil's Diamonds, have made an adequate start in the defence of manager McConaghy's Title.

But this is Week 1, don't forget.  And it is a marathon and it isn't a sprint.

SSH!

That's right.  You heard it.  A MARATHON.

T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                 Manager             (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 RS-TBOY              Rick Beecroft        49.8 53    53
 2 Pyeators             Dave Clayton         50.0 50    50
 3 Inter Milandrover    Smasher              49.4 49    49
 4 Neil's Diamonds      Neil McConaghy       49.7 46    46
 5 Game Of Throw Ins    Craig McHugh         49.0 45    45
 6 Moanchester United   Alex Blundell        49.9 43    43
 7 Wardy's Wasters      Gavin Ward           49.4 40    40
 8 Rushden Academicals 2Malcolm Meaden-Pratt 48.2 35    35
 9 Moobchester United   Jon King             49.9 34    34
10 Ali McMoist          Alison Faulkner      49.3 33    33

Slowly, Slowly, Footie Starty

Slowly, slowly, footie starty.

With eight days and two hours to go before the next Premiership game, we are already receiving teams from across the realm and it's good to see some familiar faces.

2013's OFFL Cup Winning Manager Gavin Ward is back with Wardy's Wasters while 2005/2006 League Championship winning manager Guy Harewood is also back with his marvellously monikered Bayern Bru.

Game Of Throw Ins are back too with the 2006/2007 League Runner Up Craig McHugh at the helm as is the more recent League Champion of 2015/2016, Minty Colquhoun - she's back with her Minions.  And, of course, we have 1996's League Winners Sheep City.  Martyn Field's woolly wallies are back with fluffy avengeance and out for a return to the glory days of ancient times.

Good luck with that.

Keep them coming people, keep 'em coming.

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