Week 16: The OFFL Cup Is Upon Us

With an astonishing midfield of Fabregas, Lampard, Gerrard and Elano; a very healthy ManU/Ars/Por/Eve defence setup; AND Tevez and Benjani up front, it's no surprise that Neil McConaghy's Mingmongs are seemingly running away with it right now. Stretching their lead over the chasing pack by at least 17 points, the rest of the league can almost make out a victory wiggle from those slim Welsh hips on the horizon ahead.

A timely reminder therefore, that it is marathon and not a sprint.

And let's face it... have you ever seen a Welshman with a wiggle ever win a marathon?

Well, have you?

No.

Manager of the Week this week is Matt Waldron. Waldron's Wanders notch up a large 23 points landing him the certificate ahead of fellow highest climbers [up five places all] Hilary Straw's Straw Bucharest, Rob Ivison's Wife #3 and Russell Bielby's Livercoolio.

And look, surely some sort of reward should be tossed out to Tom Vamos for scoring enough points to lift him off the bottom of the table. His West Vam climb TWO places!

It just doesn't get any more exciting [for him].

Oh yes it does...

The OFFL Cup

Current Champs: Neil Davis's Nellies Overpaid Convicts

Welcome to the Qualifying Round

Briefly:

1. Five groups of 8 teams, selected on the basis of this week's League positions.

2. Using the scores from Weeks 19, 20 and 21 the final positions of the teams in these groups decide whether or not they go through to the knockout stage of this most wonderful of competitions.

3. The bottom team of each group will exit the competition.

4. The three worst scoring 'second-from-bottom-placed' teams also exit the competition leaving a knockout tournament of 32 teams.

And don't forget, there's a Shoot Annual at stake [not 2008's though, cough].

You can view the groups by clicking here

Week 7: Dastardly Duo Drop

It doesn't take much to rock the boat in Derby. Apart from a navigable stretch of water and, of course, a boat. But in bringing this tortured metaphor to a premature close I quickly add that it is usually a passing train that rocks the, erm..., warehouse?

No. 1 Hit In The Making

Indeed, the Real-Sense boys have turned into the Non-Sense boys and are at each other's spotty throats. A war of words broke out between RS T-boy's Rick and Livercoolio's Russ. A shame, seeing as the pair would have made a great pop-duet band-name together. However, whilst Rick 'n' Russ's ruck has ruined that risible rumination it has, however, spiced up the league table somewhat.

Eleven Goals

Whilst we hope the débâcle of the first paragraph has been forgotten, we here at Studmarks, salute the OFFL Powers That Be for bringing in an even-handed referee's decision to penalise both Managers for ungentlemanly conduct. A large point fine for each sees them suffering penance at the bottom of the table. In our opinion, they got off lightly - we saw the emails that were flying about! Shocking stuff. Enough to embarrass the Chairman's silver-haired mother into dropping a stitch.

Manager of the Week this week is spat-free Matt Waldron who guided his Waldron's Wanderers to 21 points.

Highest climbers lever themselves up ten places. And they are Matt Waldron, Gavin Ward, Malcolm Pratt.

And everybody look at Rob Ivison. His Wife #3 slips down nine.