WORK AND PLAY, THEY’RE NEVER OK TO MIX THE WAY WE DO
I must apologise for the delay in getting this week’s newsletter out. This was due to one manager sending their weekend team line-up to me at my work e-mail address rather than my home address, which meant I couldn’t confirm their line-up until Monday morning. Now, I did actually find out about this during the weekend, so I was able to delay publication of the newsletter until checking the line-up and time received in my work e-mail, but this could have conceivably caused a problem.
Up until now, I’ve never made a ruling regarding my work e-mail, so I can’t blame the manager in question, or penalise them by not accepting that manager’s updated team (which incidentally would have affected the result of their weekend fixture to their detriment). However, after this weekend, I’m making one now!!
So, from now on, my work e-mail address is NOT a valid address for WSFFL correspondence, and any correspondence directed there will be treated as invalid. The reasons for this are;
· I’m a Mon-Fri 9 to 5er, so wouldn’t pick up any team sent there until Monday,
· My company frown on personal e-mail, and
· I’m trying to find a new job anyway!
The only reason my work e-mail address is on the WSFFL mailing list is because I sneakily print off copies of the newsletter at work for myself and for our non e-mailed up colleague Ady. So please update any details you may have, and make sure you use the official WSFFL e-mail address, to report your teams in. That’s one of the reasons I picked that ID in the first place!!
DECISIONS, DECISIONS, IT’S ONLY A SIGN
Just to recap on recent events; the recat appeals meeting was held on Monday 9th January, and the following recat decisions were made;
· Wayne Routledge (Prettier Than You), David Bentley (Boston Rock FC) and Luis Boa Morte (York’s Returning Glory), remain in midfield, having initially been recategorised into attack.
· Jon Aarne Riise (Aardvark Abacus), Stephen Jordan (Final Fantasy XI) and Jamie Carragher (Trusted By Millions) remain in defence, having initially been recategorised into midfield.
· Stephen Warnock (Dead Parrots) and Joey O’Brien (Real Muppets) are recategorised from midfield to defence.
· Eidur Gudjohnsen (Aardvark Abacus), Alan Smith (Boston Rock FC) and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (22 Legged Groove Machine) are recategorised from attack to midfield.
All the above decisions were unanimous amongst the attending panel of myself, recat guru Peej and the Executive Committee of Rich, Ady and Paul Saleh (by phone), apart from Warnock (4-0, one abstention) and Solskjaer (3-1 majority). Where players were owned by any of those managers, the owning managers did not participate in the voting process.
AND YOU KILLED ME TONIGHT, OH YES YOU SLAYED ME
The WSFFL FA Cup Quarter Final draw was also done at the recat appeals meeting. The draw was made by Rich (who drew the home teams) and Peej (who drew the aways), and came out of the hat as follows;
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum v Aardvark Abacus
Trusted By Millions v Prettier Than You
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI v The Dead Parrots
Real Muppets/ Thommo’s Titans v You Know Your Boston Rock FC
That’s better. This draw is much livelier than the rather anodyne first round draw, full of upset potential. The top 4 teams in the league are all drawn against opposition lower than them, so this could go one of two ways - either the top 4 teams will be contesting the semi-finals, or somewhere along the line, there’s going to be a giant-killing! The ties will be played on Tuesday 31 January/ Wednesday 1 February 2006, yup another evening game. Cup football under floodlights; you can’t beat it!
JUST AS YOU SOW YOU SHALL REAP
Half of this weekend’s games ended in draws, with the top 2 in the table both being involved in games ending in stalemate. This gave either Fred West or Aardvark Abacus, who went head-to-head, the chance to close the gap, and it was Aardvark who took it, turning over Fred 3-2 with goals from Riise, Hreidarsson and Lauren.
Ady now moves to within 5 points of the top 2, and leaders You Know Your Boston Rock FC and Trusted By Millions will no doubt feel Ady breathing down their necks very soon. Boston Rock drew 3-3 with Prettier Than You in the Whitby Grove Derby, Harry Kewell’s first goal in over 13 months drawing “the Sky Heroes” level after N’Gotty, Dunne and Vassell had given Rachel the lead. Trusted By Millions needed a late Hernan Crespo goal to salvage a point against Eleven Imaginary Boys, 1-1 the scoreline there. Also involved in draws were San Dimas and Mega Bucks, 2-2, and bottom club York’s who drew 0-0 with draw specialists Final Fantasy XI, this being Ceri’s eighth one-pointer this season!
Nil Satis took advantage of all this equality to move up the table with a 3-1 win over Thommo’s Titans, and Real Muppets also gained ground after beating a Groove Machine low on confidence, 2-0 the score. But game of the day was undoubtedly the 9-goal thriller between Claymore Athletic FC and the Dead Parrots, where a Thierry Henry hat-trick and Hleb and Osman goals gave Clive the win, despite a Martin Albrechtsen-inspired fight-back from the Parrots. This win lifts Clive above his weekend opponents in the table, and also earns him the POTW half a million. Well done Clive-lad!
It was double celebrations for Ryan this weekend. As well as being one of only 4 managers to record a league win this weekend, they also won their FA Cup 1st Round replay against Thommo’s Titans by 3-1, and now face You Know Your Boston Rock FC in the Quarter Finals at the end of the month. Good luck Ryan...
TRANSFER NEWS
Player From To Fee
Walter Pandiani (A) Aardvark Abacus Pool £2.75m
(since joined Espanol so not available under pool cooling down rule)
Sylvain Legwinski (M) Pool Thommo’s Titans £500K
Noureddine Naybet (D) Pool Thommo’s Titans £500K
Matthew Sadler (D) Thommo’s Titans Pool £250K
Jason Euell (A) Pool Aardvark Abacus £500K
Per Kroldrup (D) Trusted By Millions Pool £4.25m
Jlloyd Samuel Pool Trusted By Millions £500K
Don’t forget that the players highlighted are now subject to the pool “cooling off” period, Any managers interested in buying them can bid until close of play Saturday 21 January 2006, after which time they go into the pool proper and are readily available. All bids to me please.
THE FF£100,000 QUESTION
What was so special about Ruud Van Nistelrooy’s 2nd goal in Manchester United’s 3-1 win over Charlton Athletic, at the Valley on 19 November 2005?
Answers to me by close of play Saturday 21 January 2006 As usual, first correct one out of the metaphorical hat gets the dosh.
Aston Villa’s 1995 home Premiership win over Manchester United prompted Alan Hansen to quote “you’ll never win anything with kids”. United’s team that day were packed with players from the 1992 Youth Cup winning side, who, despite the opening-day defeat, went on to win the Premiership Title that year and forge an Old Trafford dynasty. Hanson has never lived the remark down.
I was anticipating a flood of replies, as I invariably use an easy one such as this for a rollover, but I got only 2, from Peej, Clive and Ryan. Peej and Clive were correct, and the rollover £200,000 went to San Dimas High School – well done chap! Ryan went for Hansen’s lesser-known quote “It’s going to be a good year for Villa”, which he may well also have said, but is not renowned for doing so.
SHORTS
· Anyone else notice this – the Ewood Park tannoy playing Idlewild’s excellent “You Held The World In Your Arms” just before the teams came out, for both the home Man United and Bolton games? Not the song they actually walk out to (that, disappointingly, was Queen’s “We Will Rock You”), but the song before that…
· So we were watching the Wigan-West Brom game at the weekend, and Rach turned to me and said “what’s Ryan doing playing for Wigan?” After I’d picked myself off the floor, where I’d been lying prone after falling off the chair at the prospect of Mr. Moore being transferred from Ady’s Tuesday night team to the Premiership’s surprise package, I looked closer to see who Rach meant. Graham Kavanagh. Good grief. After Friedel and Fenwick, are there any other WSFFL manager/ player lookalikes out there??
· Anyone else out there think that Imaginary Boys and Blackburn forward Shefki Kuqi must have the hardest chest in the world? I wince every time I see his goal celebration, in which he launches himself into the air and belly-flops onto the pitch. That’s gotta hurt!
WSFFL RESULTS;
Week 16, W/E 14 January 2006
Claymore Athletic FC 5-4 The Dead Parrots
Hleb (2) Fowler
Henry 3 Harewood
Osman Albrechtsen
Neill 36,700
Final Fantasy XI 0-0 York’s Returning Glory
(2) 20,094
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2-3 Aardvark Abacus
Van Nistelrooy Hreidarsson
Robben Riise
Lauren 44,983
Mega Buck Bandits 2-2 San Dimas High School
Finnan (1) Senderos
Nelson Sinclair 32,420
Thommo’s Titans 1-3 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Bryan Hughes Hibbert
Yobo
Martyn 26,312
Trusted By Millions 1-1 Eleven Imaginary Boys
Crespo (3) Powell 47,192
22 Legged Groove Machine 0-2 Real Muppets
(1) Cygan
Joey O’Brien 21,974
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 3-3 Prettier Than You
Pires Vassell
Darren Bent N’Gotty
Kewell Dunne 38,186
WSFFL FA Cup First Round Replay
Thommo’s Titans 1-3 Real Muppets
Bryan Hughes Cygan
Joey O’Brien
Reina 18,180
Performance of the Week: Claymore Athletic FC
THE WSFFL LEAGUE TABLE, Season 2005/06
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As at 16 January 2006
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Team
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P
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W
|
D
|
L
|
F
|
A
|
Diff
|
Pts
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1
|
You Know Your Boston Rock FC
|
16
|
11
|
2
|
3
|
47
|
17
|
30
|
35
| |
2
|
Trusted By Millions
|
16
|
11
|
2
|
3
|
40
|
19
|
21
|
35
| |
3
|
Aardvark Abacus
|
16
|
9
|
3
|
4
|
44
|
23
|
21
|
30
| |
4
|
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
|
16
|
8
|
3
|
5
|
41
|
28
|
13
|
27
| |
5
|
Real Muppets
|
16
|
8
|
2
|
6
|
30
|
23
|
7
|
26
| |
6
|
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
|
16
|
8
|
2
|
6
|
26
|
29
|
-3
|
26
| |
7
|
Eleven Imaginary Boys
|
16
|
7
|
3
|
6
|
21
|
25
|
-4
|
24
| |
8
|
San Dimas High School
|
16
|
6
|
4
|
6
|
29
|
26
|
3
|
22
| |
9
|
Claymore Athletic FC
|
16
|
5
|
7
|
4
|
26
|
25
|
1
|
22
| |
10
|
The Dead Parrots
|
16
|
5
|
5
|
6
|
30
|
26
|
4
|
20
| |
11
|
Final Fantasy XI
|
16
|
4
|
8
|
4
|
24
|
24
|
0
|
20
| |
12
|
Mega Buck Bandits
|
16
|
5
|
5
|
6
|
20
|
27
|
-7
|
20
| |
13
|
Prettier Than You
|
16
|
3
|
5
|
8
|
14
|
32
|
-18
|
14
| |
14
|
Thommo's Titans
|
16
|
4
|
1
|
11
|
11
|
32
|
-21
|
13
| |
15
|
22 Legged Groove Machine
|
16
|
3
|
3
|
10
|
14
|
43
|
-29
|
12
| |
16
|
York's Returning Glory
|
16
|
1
|
5
|
10
|
14
|
32
|
-18
|
8
| |
TOTAL
|
256
|
98
|
60
|
98
|
431
|
431
|
0
|
354
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