Week 35: David and Guyliath

Pyeators II and Woolyback Returns, David and Guyliath

Well, we've entered Week 36 and the OFFL Cup Semi-Finals are being played right now. Rick and Russ slap it out to see which will meet the victor of David and Guyliath.

OFFL Cup

Semi-Finals

 RS-TBOY            v   Livercoolio
[Rick Beecroft]        [Russ Bielby]

 Woolyback Returns  v   Pyeators II
[Guy Harewood]         [Dave Clayton]

Meanwhile, Neil McConaghy nabs another Manager of the Week certificate for himself by guiding his Neil's Diamonds to 16 points and climbing one place into eleventh.

Also of note, four teams in the top six have exhausted their transfer quota while Steve Tierney's Twonks and Guy's Woolybacks swap places in the top ten.  At the bottom it's close too (If you exclude Wooden Spoon certainties, It Goes To Eleven that is). The panicked bundle to avoid the Wooden Fork involves the three M's: Mainly Bell Jam, Minty's Mintal Institute and King Jon Moob's Moobchester Utd.

Mmm.

T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                       Manager       (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Livercoolio                Russ Bielby     54.4  7 446
 2 Blat Setter's Mad Hatters  Gavin Ward      53.5  8 406
 3 Pyeators II                Dave Clayton    55.0  9 402
 4 Inter Milandrover          Smasher         54.5 13 397
 5 Irishpool                  Mike Smears     54.8 13 397
 6 Fattered Tanj              Sarah Bingham   52.9  8 367
 7 RS-TBOY                    Rick Beecroft   55.0  9 364
 8 Gone Poyet Gone            Nick Reed       54.8  5 345
 9 Tierney's Twonks           Steve Tierney   53.3  8 343
10 Woolyback Returns          Guy Harewood    54.9  4 341
11 Neil's Diamonds            Neil McConaghy  55.0 16 338
12 1964 Prathletico Grande    Malcolm Pratt   54.4  4 335
13 Eggafield Rovers           Edgar Rayner    52.9  0 308
14 Lashings Of Cheese         Chris Walsh     54.4 -2 292
15 Which Team                 Rachel Jones    52.8  6 291
16 Johnny's Heroes            Sarah Bielby    54.8  6 288
17 Radnorshire Tigers         Alun Edwards    52.5  8 286
18 Moanchester Ununited       Alex Blundell   55.0  7 283
19 Real Mcdrid                Craig McHugh    53.0  0 281
20 It's A Snickers            Ash Keeler      54.0 11 266
21 Botley Yellow              Kate Wilson     54.4  1 258
22 Moobchester Utd            Jon King        54.7  5 244
23 Mintal Institute           Minty Colquhoun 54.9 -1 241
24 Mainly Bell Jam            Hercule Poirot  54.0 -3 239
25 It Goes To Eleven          Tom Vamos       47.3  2 130


                              Week's Average Points     5
                              Total Average Points    315

Week 01: "Stop The Press! We need it for more 'Manager of the Week' Certificates"

Well that's never happened before.  Six managers, SIX of them, are all sharing Week One's top spot in the league with 18 points apiece.  This means there are SIX Manager of the Week certificates to be spewed out from the upper windows of the OFFL HQ's printing department.

Like a really naff ticker tape parade.

Also a first, each team that has been submitted to date has Robin Van Persie ARS as a striker.  This effectively means you're all fighting this season out with ten men.  Effectively.

Furthermore, we welcome back Kate Wilson to the best Fantasy Football League in the whole wide room.  The relentlessly optimistic Oxford United supporter has thrown her straw boater into the ring with other Oxford notables, Alun Edwards and Neil McConaghy.

Back too, with magnificent pedigree, is 2006 Champion Guy Harewood, and ukulele playing Brighton & 'Hove Actually' stalwart Nick Reed.  They'll be vying for supremacy with the only manager to ever achieve The Double: Steve Tierney is back to wave his Tierney's Twonks about, hoping to repeat the performance of 2004.  Let's emphasise that again... The Only Team To Have Done The Double.  That was an enormous achievement.  Enormous.  As is Steve.

[If all the stories are true]

[To be fair they're all HIS stories]

We also welcome back the current back-to-back Champions, Inter Milandrover.  But the less said about them the better.

Welcome back one and all, and remember... it's a marathon, not a etc etc.


T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Neil's Diamonds        Neil McConaghy      54.5 18  18
 1 Blat Setter's Mad HatteGavin Ward          54.6 18  18
 1 Real Mcdrid            Craig McHugh        54.7 18  18
 1 Woolyback Returns      Guy Harewood        54.8 18  18
 1 Mintal Institute       Minty Colquhoun     54.9 18  18
 1 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.9 18  18
 7 Eggafield Rovers       Edgar Rayner        54.8 15  15
 7 1964 Prathletico GrandeMalcolm Pratt       54.9 15  15
 9 RS-TBOY                Rick Beecroft       54.5 14  14
10 Livercoolio            Russ Bielby         55.0 12  12

11 Botley Yellow          Kate Wilson         54.4 11  11
11 Johnny's Heroes        Sarah Bielby        54.8 11  11
11 Radnorshire Tigers     Alun Edwards        55.0 11  11
14 Pyeators II            Dave Clayton        54.7  9   9
15 Moobchester Utd        Jon King            54.7  7   7
16 Gone Poyet Gone        Nick Reed           53.6  6   6
17 Lashings Of Cheese     Chris Walsh         54.9  5   5


                          Week's Average Points        13
                          Total Average Points         13
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