OFFL Cup
Final
Week 39
TriumphAnt v Livercoolio
[Ant Reeves] [Russ Bielby]
Highest climber, however, with an ascent of four places is Radnorshire Tigers who now looks out across the fantasy horizon from the lofty heights of twenty-third.
Managers of the Week are Ant Reeves and, yet again, Martyn Field. Both managers' teams score 19 points. More significantly however...
OFFL Cup
Semi-Finals, Fixtures
Results, Week 36
Waldron's Wanderers 1 v 15 Livercoolio
TriumphAnt 19 v 16 Wonka FC
This sets up an incredibly exciting final between Livercoolio and TriumphAnt. Both managed, respectively, by larger-than-life characters, Russ 'Russell Crowe in Gladiator' Bielby and Ant 'Nothing like Keanu' Reeves.
The final is to be played in Week 39.
And for us that means that time is running out for our Manager of the Week, Russ Bielby whose charges, Livercoolio, notched up a massive 29 points plonking them into a very strong second place in the league. This leaves a mere 24 points between themselves and Neil 'Surely He's Got It Sewn Up' McConaghy's Big Macs Mingmongs.
So, we have a new 'Can He Do The Double' man in our midst. Russ Bielby. The season could yet be his.
| Waldron's Wanderers Matt Waldron | v | Livercoolio Russ Bielby |
| TriumphAnt Ant Reeves | v | Wonka FC Neil Keefe |
Yours,
The OFFL 'Exhausted By The Excitement' Headquarters
With over a month of fixtures left in the Premiership calendar we can see that a rather wide gap needs to be bridged. Yes, Rudolf Huckers are 27pts behind Book My Face FC and have been bottom of the league ever since joining us very late in the day. In fact, Francis Fox entered his team so late in the day that he didn't even make the OFFL Cup First Round. Which means his only objective for the season has been to not finish bottom. Which is where he's currently on target to finish. Shame. Shame.Manager of the Week this week is Gavin Ward with his Marauding Metatarsals. His team of mediocre miscreants knocked together a respectable score of 22 points. Meanwhile, Oscar Bradley celebrated his Christening with weekly tally of minus 2. Shame. Shame.
Happy Birthday to Ant Reeves by the way, let's see who he's been drawn against in his OFFL Cup Semi-final...
| Waldron's Wanderers Matt Waldron | v | Livercoolio Russ Bielby |
| TriumphAnt Ant Reeves | v | Wonka FC Neil Keefe |
Manager of the Week is Minty 'Always Moaning About Bent Being Bench Bound Every Bloody Blinkin' Week' Colquhoun. I know, it’s a name you couldn't make up. 24 points earns Upmintster United's Manager the certificate [not supplied] at last. However, it's the Cup we're all talking about. Wondering if the seemingly inevitable has, in fact, been realised...
Sigh.
OFFL Cup
Quarter Finals, Results
| Marauding Metatarsals '07 | 14 | v | 22 | TriumphAnt |
| Abeerden | 11 | v | 20 | Livercoolio |
| Big Mac's Mingmongs | 9 | v | 15 | Wonka FC |
| Waldron's Wanderers | 20 | v | 9 | Olymping Macdrid |
Amazing. The League's first and second placings get dumped out of the cup by their nearest rivals. Meanwhile, two Real-Sense boys make it through to the next round - a fine show from arguably the best Warehouse in Derby brand of football in the world.
Congratulations to Ant Reeves, Russ Bielby, Neil Keefe and Matt Waldron who make it through to the Semi-Finals of the Cup. They can just about smell the lacquered hard back of that Shoot Annual.
And this week coming, don't forget, sees the quarter-finals of the OFFL Cup being played out.
Marauding Metatarsals '07 v TriumphAnt
|Gavin Ward| |Ant Reeves|
Abeerden v Livercoolio
|Steve Tierney| |Russell Bielby|
Big Mac's Mingmongs v Wonka FC
|Neil McConaghy| |Neil Keefe|
Waldron's Wanderers v Olymping Macdrid
|Matt Waldron| |Craig McHugh|
In other words that's
2nd v 4th
1st v 3rd
5th v 24th
How exciting is this?
The Chairman is face down dribbling onto the lino' again. The pins and needles have been replaced with just needles. Dr Yuetmui Chung's needles to be precise. With the recent passing of the 400 point mark by Neil McConaghy's Big Mac's Mingmongs, Our Holistic High Chairman has sort an even higher plane of well-being by trying out Dr Chung's Acupuncture credentials. Obviously this is a celebratory move aimed at commemorating McConaghy's achievement at such an early stage of the season.Indeed the Champions Elect, as they look over their shoulder to see how well the competition is doing behind them, spy not even a chasing pack - which, as it happens, is sixty odd points behind a hill in the distance. The Mingmongs could even stop for a breather if they wanted, rest for a moment, handvisor their forehead to level their sight onto the horizon to just about make out the lone lanky figure of Steve Tierney, fist raised in the air, aimed and shaking at the runaway leader.
McConaghy could even afford to shrug his broad Welsh shoulders before continuing on trotting his seemingly unchallenged way to the Title.
There's no point carrying on really.
Acupuncture anyone?
Manager of the Week is Edinburgh's Rob Ivison whose Wife#3 netted 29 points and whose Son#1 burst into tears the very moment he caught sight of the Chairman at his front door in Morningside last week. 29 points, eh? That Frank Lampard doing most of the leg work as usual I suppose. Well done Frank. I mean Rob. Are we allowed to talk about the Astronomy business yet without spitting blood? Why not turn your hand to Astrology? Same business really isn’t it?
Cough.
Ooh, everyone... don’t forget, the OFFL Cup... Neil can't have this one in the bag too can he?
OFFL Cup
Quarter-Finals, Fixtures
To be played in Week 33
| Marauding Metatarsals '07 Gavin Ward | v | TriumphAnt Ant Reeves |
| Abeerden Steve Tierney | v | Livercoolio Russ Bielby |
| Big Mac's Mingmongs Neil McConaghy | v | Wonka FC Neil Keefe |
| Waldron's Wanderers Matt Waldron | v | Olymping Macdrid Craig McHugh |
At least we can rest assured that there will be a Neil in the next round.
