Week 39: The OFFL Final and the Last Week of the Season

Time to retire after a highly successful career

Is it too late for this week's Manager of the Week, Dave Clayton, to finally take the top spot in the table on the last day of the season?  Probably, but let's not crush his spirit just yet.  His Pyeators took 16 points this week, 13 more than leaders Inter Milandrover leaving themselves just 7 points adrift from the title.

So, far from over then.

Maybe.

Otherwise it looks like this could be the first season that the OFFL Championship has been retained by the current Champions.  Manager Smasher must think it's time to retire.  Or something.

In the meantime, there's another title to be won...

The OFFL Cup Final

To be played over Week 40

OLYMPILIMPS FC [£54.2m]  v   REAL MCDRID [£54.1m]
Gavin Ward                   Craig McHugh

In the event of a draw, Real Mcdrid would win on Points per Pound difference. 

So let's have a look at their teams.

Firstly, it's not very interesting to note that Olympilimps FC is registered as Team 15 and is lying in Seventh whereas Real Mcdrid is Team 7 lying in Fifteenth.  Spooky, huh?  Here are the players that count in this fixture.


Olympilimps FC             7th    Real Mcdrid               15th
Gavin Ward                        Craig McHugh
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Pos Name           Team Total     Pos Name           Team Total
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 GK P Cech         CHE      29     GK T Howard       EVE      13
 FB J O'Brien       WH      19     FB K Gibbs        ARS      11
 FB G Clichy        MC      28     FB J Riise        FUL       5
 CB J Vertonghen   TOT       5     CB D Luiz         CHE      36
 CB R Shawcross    STO      17     CB W Reid          WH       4
 MF T Walcott      ARS      15     MF G Sigurdsson   TOT      14
 MF G Bale         TOT      79     MF Nani            MU       9
 ST R Lambert      SOT       0     ST D Berbatov      MU      37

                  Totals   192                      Totals   129
                  
The winning manager will be awarded the 2013 Match of the Day Annual.  Yes, 'awarded'.

Good luck all.

T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.1  3 461
 2 Pyeators               Dave Clayton        54.0 16 454
 3 FC Maalcoma            Malcolm Pratt       54.0  7 441
 4 Neil's Diamonds        Neil McConaghy      55.0 11 432
 5 Multiple Scorgasms     Sarah Bingham       54.6  1 427
 6 WWMC                   Steve Tierney       54.7  9 409
 7 Olympilimps FC         Gavin Ward          54.2  0 396
 8 Irishpool              Mike Smears         54.4  6 384
 9 RST-BOY                Rick Beecroft       54.6  4 367
10 Double's United        Rachel Jones        53.9  5 366

Week 38: Clayton's Clawback

Dave Clayton Claws Back [6 points]

Dave Clayton's second place Pyeators claw back 6 points from the current OFFL leaders, and OFFL Champions, Inter Milandrover while third placers FC Maalcoma win their manager - Twitter's very own @MallyFactor - yet another Manager of the Week certificate.  That makes it 5 Manager of the Week certificates so far for Malcolm Pratt this season.

It's all 'Go' here.

Meanwhile, having leapfrogged his colleague in the table last week, Chris Walsh suffers the indignity of being immediately leapfrogged back by the previously leapfrogged colleague Russ Bielby. Leapfrogged Livercoolio leapfrog Lashings of Cheese and go up into seventeenth while Mrs Bielby's week, on the other hand, hasn't been so wonderful.  Her Johnny's Heroes fall two places after notching up the worst score of the week.

And as if you were interested, the other Real-Sense manager, Lord Rick Beecroft, bounced his infamous RST-BOY up a place into ninth.

So, no change in the top eight places overall this week, though Steve Tierney's WWMC have just reached the 400 point mark.  We thought that worthy of note, at least.

We were wrong.

Mr Tierney joins Mr Smears and Lady Colquhoun in making transfers this week.  Look at the fools they're drafting in these days, oof.

THE OFFL Cup

The Final

To be played over Week 40

Olympilimps FC [£54.2m]  v   Real Mcdrid [£54.1m]
Gavin Ward                   Craig McHugh

In the event of a draw, Real Mcdrid would win on Points per Pound difference.





T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.1 15 458
 2 Pyeators               Dave Clayton        54.0 21 438
 3 FC Maalcoma            Malcolm Pratt       54.0 22 434
 4 Multiple Scorgasms     Sarah Bingham       54.6 17 426
 5 Neil's Diamonds        Neil McConaghy      55.0 15 421
 6 WWMC                   Steve Tierney       54.8 15 400
 7 Olympilimps FC         Gavin Ward          54.2 20 396
 8 Irishpool              Mike Smears         54.6 20 378
 9 RST-BOY                Rick Beecroft       54.6 17 363
10 Double's United        Rachel Jones        53.9 14 361

Week 37: OFFL Cup Semi-Finals, Results

All About The Cup

It's all about the OFFL Cup this week but before we get on to that, let us give Mr Tierney's tiny trumpet a toot for gaining a second Manager of the Week certificate.  His Wymondham Working Men's Club fetched him 32 points.

Impressive.  But was it enough to get him through to the next round of the OFFoh yeah he went out ages ago.

Also of note, up into Fourth is Sarah Bingham whose enormous 28 points saw her leapfrog the Diamonds.  But was it enough to get her through to the next round of the OFFoh yeah she went out ages ago.

Etc.

OFFL Cup

Semi-Final Results

         Minted  22 v 30  Olympilimps FC
Minty Colquhoun           Gavin Ward

    Real Mcdrid  22 v 22  Neil's Diamonds
   Craig McHugh           Neil McConaghy
   

Real Mcdrid go through on Points per Pound difference, 0.41 v 0.40

In spite of the sweeping changes designed to conquer her opponent, Minty Colquhoun fell 8 points shy of her impressive superior, Gavin Ward, whose own transfers - designed to do the same - lost him a point this week.

Still, the real drama occurred in the other Semi-Final with Real Mcdrid and Neil's Diamonds battling out an exciting score draw.  The end result fell to a PpP shoutout which was won by Craig McHugh's Real men 0.407 to 0.400.  Foof.

And so, we have our final...

Olympilimps FC  v  Real Mcdrid
Gavin Ward         Craig McHugh

...two former colleagues, desperate for a bit of Match of the Day 2013 Annual action.

So to speak.

The Table

                                            Value Points
   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.1 31 443
 2 Pyeators               Dave Clayton        54.0 26 417
 3 FC Maalcoma            Malcolm Pratt       54.0 15 412
 4 Multiple Scorgasms     Sarah Bingham       54.6 28 409
 5 Neil's Diamonds        Neil McConaghy      55.0 22 406
 6 WWMC                   Steve Tierney       54.8 32 385
 7 Olympilimps FC         Gavin Ward          54.2 30 376
 8 Irishpool              Mike Smears         54.6 15 358
 9 Double's United        Rachel Jones        53.9 20 347
10 RST-BOY                Rick Beecroft       54.6 19 346
11 Moobchester United     John King           53.5 23 345
12 It's A Snickers        Ashley Keeler       54.8 21 322
13 Minted                 Minty Colquhoun     54.1 22 319
14 Johnny's Heroes        Sarah-Jane John     54.5 20 313
15 Real Mcdrid            Craig McHugh        54.1 22 309
16 Radnorshire Tigers     Alun Edwards        54.1 31 307
17 Lashings of Cheese     Chris Walsh         53.6 23 282
18 Livercoolio            Russ Bielby         54.6 17 281
19 Botley Yellow          Kate Wilson         54.2 13 219
20 Moreton Rovers         Edgar Rayner        51.4  7 159
21 West Vam               Tom Vamos           43.7  3  86


                          Week's Average Points        20
                          Total Average Points        325

Week 36: OFFL Semi-Finals

Gavin Ward and Minty Colquhoun:
biting back at a lacklustre season

Manager of the Week this week is Chris Walsh, his Lashings of Cheese, who were cruelly knocked out of the OFFL Cup in an earlier round, scored a high and mighty 28 points.  In spite of the much cherished MotW certificate to balm his wounds it is, ultimately, another trophy-less season for this member of the highly competitive Real-Sense stable.

Real Mcdrid and Neil McConaghy:
not exactly baring their teeth at each other

Meanwhile, biting back at a lacklustre season so far... both Gavin Ward and Minty Colquhoun [Olympilimps FC and Minted, respectively] are rattling their sabres at each other by making team changes ahead of their forthcoming OFFL Cup Semi-Final clash. Intriguingly, however, the other Semi-Finalists, both OFFL Cup winners from the past two years: Craig [2011 Winners] and Neil [2012 Winners], have demonstrated a toothless approach to their own fixture.  Not exactly baring their teeth at each other.


And has the weekend's jaw-dropping [and quickly jaw-closing-again-on-soft-flesh] controversy involving a certain uncontrollably violent Uruguayan set off an avalanche of team kick-outs?  Well, not really.  Two, so far.

OFFL Cup

Semi-Finals, being played now.

         Minted   v   Olympilimps FC
Minty Colquhoun       Gavin Ward

    Real Mcdrid   v   Neil's Diamonds
   Craig McHugh       Neil McConaghy

Stay tuned with the OFFL facebook or twitter pages for score updates and latest news.

T h e   T a b l e

                                            Value Points
   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.7 22 412
 2 FC Maalcoma            Malcolm Pratt       54.0 17 397
 3 Pyeators               Dave Clayton        54.0 10 391
 4 Neil's Diamonds        Neil McConaghy      55.0 18 384
 5 Multiple Scorgasms     Sarah Bingham       54.6 26 381
 6 WWMC                   Steve Tierney       54.8 21 353
 7 Olympilimps FC         Gavin Ward          55.0 24 346
 8 Irishpool              Mike Smears         54.6 24 343
 9 Double's United        Rachel Jones        53.9 14 327
 9 RST-BOY                Rick Beecroft       54.6 22 327

Week 35: Russ's wife

Russ Bielby: husband of
Sarah-Jane John who wins the
Manager of the Week
certificate this week.

The top three positions compress once more, with scores differing over a very tiny ten point range.

Manager of the Week this week is the Lovely Sarah-Jane John, the doting Mrs Russ Bielby.  Her Johnny's Heroes scored 12 points this week.  She'll be popping her certificate on the mantel piece right next to the one her husband won last week. Bless.  Oops!, she nearly knocked off that framed picture of Russ in his Showgirl days, yes, the one that leads this week's blog post again at http://offl.littlesmasher.com.

Meanwhile, it's time to prepare for the Semi-Finals of the OFFL Cup.  The prize, this year, is the 2013 Match of the Day annual. This will be sent to the winner's home. They will not have a choice.  And neither will there be a return address.

Here we go...

OFFL Cup

Semi-Finals, to be played over Week 37

         Minted   v   Olympilimps FC
Minty Colquhoun       Gavin Ward

    Real Mcdrid   v   Neil's Diamonds
   Craig McHugh       Neil McConaghy


Good luck.

T h e   T a b l e

                                            Value Points
   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.7  5 390
 2 Pyeators               Dave Clayton        54.0  8 381
 3 FC Maalcoma            Malcolm Pratt       55.0  9 380
 4 Neil's Diamonds        Neil McConaghy      55.0  4 366
 5 Multiple Scorgasms     Sarah Bingham       54.6  3 355
 6 WWMC                   Steve Tierney       54.8 11 332
 7 Olympilimps FC         Gavin Ward          55.0  3 322
 8 Irishpool              Mike Smears         54.6  6 319
 9 Double's United        Rachel Jones        53.9  5 313
10 Moobchester United     John King           53.5  5 306