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Fantasy League News: Superior
News Cups:
Bits & Bobs: Manager
of the Month League
Events Opinion: Rogues Gallery
thefogghorn ©
Martin Pearce and Steve Pearce 2001
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Bobo United
7 Stockport C*unty 9
Bobs Boys 11 Ornamental Brown Star 7
Fortuna Huggies 9 Never Knowingly Undersold
16
Smug XI 8 The Undef*ckables 13
Draw for Semi-finals:
The Undef*ckables
v Bobs Boys
Never Knowingly Undersold v Stockport C*unty
Matches to be played 2-8 Dec 2008.
Chairman still poorly
The Chairman is still laid low with flu. We hope to return to normal service soon.
28/11/08.
Chalice: Quarter-Final Draw:THE DRAW FOR THE CHALICE QUARTER-FINALS HAS BEEN MADE:
Bobo United
v Stockport C*unty
Bobs Boys v Ornamental Brown Star
Fortuna Huggies v Never Knowingly Undersold
Smug XI v The Undef*ckables
MATCHES TO BE PLAYED THIS WEEK. GOOD LUCK TO ALL.
Apologies for late notification
of this and the non-appearance of The Fogghorn this week. The Chairman
currently has flu.
We hope to return to normal soon.
21/11/08.
Chalice: Third Round results:Bobs Boys
21 Hull Tigers 7
Bobo United 13 Fugly XI 9
Skonto Riga Reserves 11 Stockport C*unty 14
Never Knowingly Undersold 15 The Partridge Family
6
Moody Blues 5 The Undef*ckables 13
Fortuna Huggies 26 Warmley Wombles 8
Skonto Reefa 9 Ornamental Brown Star 13
Smug XI 16 Emmas Orbs 9
Bobs Boys, Bobo United, Stockport C*unty, Never Knowingly Undersold, The Undef*ckables, Fortuna Huggies, Ornamental Brown Star and Smug XI go into the hat for the next round.
The draw for the Fourth Round will take place this weekend.
14/11/08.
Nick Lloyd-JonesIt was with great sadness that we learnt this week of the death after a long illness of Nick Lloyd-Jones, former manager of Megans & Owens Clarets, (information relayed from a post by Barry Thompson on the League Noticeboard at fantasyleague.com).
Nick was the first member of that infamous sub-genre, the so-called Northern Monkeys, and was led to us by Barry Thompson; as such he was our first “Out of Area” manager. He and Baz had been long-time friends since training at Nursing College together and he was a natural recruit to our ranks.
Nick managed his team from 1994-97 during which time he took his squad to a best-place of eighth. Over 103 weeks of competition, Megans & Owens Clarets accumulated 693pts, an average of 6.728 per week. He also picked up one Manager of the Month Award during his time as a manager.
Nick spent most of his short life living. You only had to spend a few minutes in his company to realise that here was someone who liked to wring as much as he could out of life; put him in the same room as Mr Thompson and the mangle was in for a torrid time! The world is less of a party without him.
Nick is survived by his wife and two children. Our thoughts are very much with them at this time.
06/11/08.
Chalice Second Round replays:
Buffys Muff Club
16 Hull Tigers 38
Blue Army 15 Fortuna Huggies 53
Chalice: Third Round Draw
Bobs Boys
v Hull Tigers
Bobo United v Fugly XI
Skonto Riga Reserves v Stockport C*unty
Never Knowingly Undersold v The Partridge Family
Moody Blues v The Undef*ckables
Fortuna Huggies v Warmley Wombles
Skonto Reefa v Ornamental Brown Star
Smug XI v Emmas Orbs
Some interesting ties in this one – Steve Ferguson takes on the role of underdog against Mr Thornton, whilst newcomers Bobo United meet fellow novices, Fugly XI. However, the stand-out tie has to be Jon Ward’s Skonto Reefa pitted against Paul Harding’s Ornamental Brown Star: the grudge match of the season if ever there was one. As the fireman said as he hurled the moggie out of the tree, fur will fly...
06/11/08.
Chalice Second Round results:Smug XI
9 Hugo ‘N Botty 6
Ornamental Brown Star 11 Chasers Chancers
10
Bobo United 15 Totalled Football 14
Bobs Boys 9 Seven Of Nine 0
Warmley Wombles 18 Scrumpy Jacks Cider Eds
15
Los Intergalacticos 2 Emmas Orbs 11
JC Lives 2 Never Knowingly Undersold 28
Keirlys Wurleys 11 Moody Blues 18
Skonto Riga Reserves 11 Treading Water 9
Fugly XI 20 Mandrake Slappers 7
The Partridge Family 16 Greasy Chip Butties
15
Skonto Reefa 12 Matty The Camel HIC 3
Gary Linekers Legs XI 9 The Undef*ckables
11
Stockport C*unty 21 The Memorial Marauders
2
Hull Tigers 16 Buffys Muff Club 16
Fortuna Huggies 11 Blue Army 11
Hull Tigers and Buffys Muff Club, Fortuna Huggies and Blue Army, could not be separated; in the absence of a bucket of water, they must replay this week.
Draw for the third round takes place this weekend; matches to be played 4 – 10 November 2008.
28/10/08.
Chalice: First Round replay:Chadwick – Freak Or Unique? 2 Warmley Wombles 19
So: a right old spanking for Alex Chapman in this first round replay; a richly deserved result for such a diabolically named team.
Chalice Second Round Draw:
Smug XI
v Hugo ‘N Botty
Ornamental Brown Star v Chasers Chancers
Bobo United v Totalled Football
Bobs Boys v Seven Of Nine
Warmley Wombles v Scrumpy Jacks Cider Eds
Los Intergalacticos v Emmas Orbs
JC Lives v Never Knowingly Undersold
Keirlys Wurleys v Moody Blues
Skonto Riga Reserves v Treading Water
Fugly XI v Mandrake Slappers
The Partridge Family v Greasy Chip Butties
Skonto Reefa v Matty The Camel HIC
Gary Linekers Legs XI v The Undef*ckables
Stockport C*unty v The Memorial Marauders
Hull Tigers v Buffys Muff Club
Fortuna Huggies v Blue Army
Matches are to be played this week!
23/10/08.
Sportsman’s Chalice – First Round results:Partick Thistle Nil 10 Blue Army 12
Argyle Sweater FC 2 Fugly XI 3
Courage Haddock 7 Gary Linekers Legs XI 8
Emmas Orbs 11 The Minus Touch 3
Warmley Wombles 12 Chadwick – Freak Or Unique? 12
Hull Tigers 7 Real Madyid 1
Matty The Camel HIC 9 Mount Morget Gas 4
Bobo United 16 Liversalts FC 6
Leedslads -2 Bobs Boys 4
Limping Club Toostokes 8 Keirlys Wurleys 9
JC Lives 7 MC Hammerheads 4
Random Rovers 1 Fortuna Huggies 21
The Drunken Slobs 2 Moody Blues 4
Nermals Eleven 4 The Undef*ckables 12
Greasy Chip Butties 12 Real Galacticos 4
Warmley Wombles and Chadwick Freak Or Unique? must replay the week after next (Week 10) after being locked 12-12 this week.
Skonto Reefa, Mandrake Slappers, Ornamental Brown Star, Scrumpy Jacks Cider Eds, Seven Of Nine, Los Intergalacticos, Stockport C*unty, Treading Water, The Partridge Family, Hugo ‘N Botty, Smug XI, Buffys Muff Club, The Memorial Marauders, Skonto Riga Reserves, Never Knowingly Undersold, Totalled Football and Chasers Chancers all join the winners of Round One in the hat for the Second Round.
Manager of the Month: September
It was a first in the league this week. For the first time ever The Manager of the Month Award was shared by Father and Son. 49pts for September earned Adrian Downs and Marcus Downs the right to sneer at the rest of us whilst holding their champagne flutes on high to catch the last rays of the setting September sun. Well, done to them!
08/10/08.
Chalice gets under wayThe First Round of the Chalice kicks off this week. Fifteen matches in the preliminary round, with the winners of those fifteen games going through to meet the seventeen teams that were given byes due to their position last season (i.e. the top seventeen teams by divisional ranking).
Sportsman’s Chalice – First Round
Partick Thistle Nil v Blue Army
Argyle Sweater FC v Fugly XI
Courage Haddock v Gary Linekers Legs XI
Emma Orbs v The Minus Touch
Warmley Wombles v Chadwick – Freak Or Unique?
Hull Tigers v Real Madyid
Matty The Camel HIC v Mount Morget Gas
Bobo United v Liversalts FC
Leedslads v Bobs Boys
Limping Club Toostokes v Keirlys Wurleys
JC Lives v MC Hammerheads
Random Rovers v Fortuna Huggies
The Drunken Slobs v Moody Blues
Nermals Eleven v The Undef*ckables
Greasy Chip Butties v Real Galacticos
Skonto Reefa, Mandrake Slappers, Ornamental Brown Star, Scrumpy Jacks Cider Eds, Seven Of Nine, Los Intergalacticos, Stockport C*unty, Treading Water, The Partridge Family, Hugo ‘N Botty, Smug XI, Buffys Muff Club, The Memorial Marauders, Skonto Riga Reserves, Never Knowingly Undersold, Totalled Football and Chasers Chancers all received byes to Round Two.
There are some juicy ties here, but the pick of the round has to be Argyle Sweater FC meeting up with newcomers and bedfellows Fugly XI in a titanic Mr & Mrs struggle that can only reduce Strathmore Road to rubble. If only Alan Taylor had lived to see that one...
02/10/08.
Chalice First Round DrawThe First Round of the Chalice takes place next week. See below to see who you have drawn...
Draw due this weekend.
26/09/08.
League CalendarThe League Calendar for the season can be found by going to the Fixtures List in the right-hand menu. Cup draws will be made this weekend. The Chalice starts at the end of the month!
18/09/08.
Beered-up managers cock-up bidsI don’t think there has ever been as much gossip, speculation or excitement regarding the closure of the Transfer Window and who may or may not be getting on the Fantasy League Player List as there has been in the last few days. There has been a feeding frenzy – to use Paul Rabbitts’s words – and the results have been interesting, to say the least.
In part, this has been because of the sheer magnitude of some of the names arriving – Robinho, Pavlyuchenko, Reira et al. But also it has been notable how many managers must have been beered-up when they submitted their bids. Invalid bids abounded – anyone ever hear of the THREE players PER CLUB rule? Add that to the number of bids that were sent to the wrong Officer and you have a nice muddle. Just for the record the transfer officers are:
SUPERIOR DIVISION: TREVOR JONES
INFERIOR DIVISION: PAUL RABBITTS
NURSERY DIVISION: ZOND FLINT
XTRA DIVISION: ANDY WOODWARD
THE CONFERENCE: MARTIN PEARCE
You can find their email addresses in any string of emails that go out to managers.
05/09/08.
League calendar and Cup Draws due shortlyThe League Calendar is being finalised by the Chairman – whatever that means! And it should be out shortly. The Cup draws will also be taking place soon. You will be emailed with the draw as soon as it has been performed.
Week 2: The lowdown
Go to the divisional pages to check out the latest comments from The Fogghorn on what has been happening – or not...
28/08/08.
Blue Army newcomers put all to shameThe dust has settled on the first week of the new season and trends are already emerging: Those defences! Those lapses! With points being dropped all over, the squads will begin changing sooner than ever. Look out for changes activity on the Fantasy League pages to see who you got and who you were outbid on!
Meanwhile, the team of the week without any doubt was Blue Army. Marcus Downs shot to fame, stardom and prominence with a 29-point week that must have dropped jaws all over the league. Hardly surprising when you consider the identity of his dad – Marcus Downs is MiniSpawn. He is here. He is walking among you. Whatever you do, don’t draw him in the cups...
21/08/08.
Season 16 – The curtain rises!Hello everyone and welcome to another nine months of hopes, schemes, and cruelly dashed dreams. And there will be plenty of them, I shouldn’t wonder. Sometimes we end up with what we least expect. Well, that was my auction, anyway!
This campaign marks the sixteenth season we have been playing this game and I have no doubt that it will be full of the usual surprises; with Andy Stewart staying awake and not falling into his curry on the Curry Night, perhaps this will be a more unusual season than most. You never can tell... not in this game, anyway.
There will be plenty going on in the coming weeks: there is the matter of the League Calendar – the drawing up of which is nigh; the draws for the two major cup competitions – The Roy Pearce Trophy and the Chalice; the allocation of Transfer Officers – you may have already received notification of that; and coming up this week, the item I get buttonholed about more than probably any other: The Chairman’s Predictions for the Season Ahead. Every year they get more inaccurate, every year they get more outlandish. So if you go to your league pages, you will find what El Chairo thinks this time around... Peter Crouch...150pts! Trevor Thornton...150pts - one for every poppadom he could probably eat, if he could be bothered to put our own meagre gourmandising to shame!
So thanks for playing yet again. Welcome to our new managers – it might all seem a bit strange at present but by the end of August you will be as caught up in it as the rest of us.
I will be after Prize Fund Contributions in the next few weeks – I want to get them sorted by the end of September. The amount is £15. If you opted for a Standing Order last season you are already paid up.
Finally don’t forget to get those Standing Orders up and running – you need to set them up no later than the end of this month to get the full benefit – it will have you paid up for Season 17 with no head scratching or pocket emptying. Never more will you be forced to look down the back of the sofa, or empty that blasted 5p jar and sort them all up into little piles that keep toppling over when you try to count them! It is £3.50 a month – by this time next year a half of Stella will cost that! If you want more details, (what happened to that flyer I gave you?) get in touch with the Chairman.
You know it makes sense. Go on, punks! Make my day!
Now get on those bulletin boards and let the banter begin!
14/08/08.
