It will be tough catching the leader - particularly with no FA Cup games counting. I'm in 31st and desperately need to start using transfers else I'll run out of time. Have a plan for this month but it included bringing in Colocini for Hangelaand today and what with TFF motw, tinkerman and 2 year old twins screaming for their lunch I ran out of time.

exactly halved your position in one update Herc - up to 48th!
I'm thinking that 0-0 between Liverpool and Stoke was something you were hoping for

Wahaay - I'm January manager of the month

My prize choice is either a 32in Widescreen HD Ready Digital LCD TV with Freeview, or an 64GB iPod Touch.

Nice one Brightwater Did you target it or did it just happen,all by itself ?

I have entered a lot of free games this season. I have not spent much time on Elephant, so it was an unexpected and pleasant surprise.

Woooohoooo brightwater, congrats

All the more satisfying then

Psssst grob, tell him to get the widescreen - it won't work in Canada so we can get if cheap from him

snag,unless Canada swooped to take over the USA in the transfer window. Besides,he's sure to have relatives on this side of the pond.
Are we sure he's eligible to play this game though,being a non UK resident ? If not,maybe we could get him disqualified and the prize awarded to the snitch instead.

Good points well made (three points or two points plugs?).

Unlucky chaps - I'm a UK citizen (and mostly resident). I'm waiting to find out TV make and model before choosing my prize.

had a good week so checked out the monthly leaderboards to see where I was. Top 2 were both set up from scratch for the start of this month, both female managers

I mullered my overall chance - changed captain from RVP to Silva at last minute, had a plan to rotate another striker in

Managed to then bring in Ba & Rooney but still not enough to offset the damage. Doh.

Overall

1 Lois Brix-Craig Loisville United 1107
2 Chris Barnes BARNESBUSTERS 1090
3 Paul Cooke cookies1 1089
4 Barbara Hallam Barbies Boys 1068
5 Panna Patel Mrs Superman 1060
6 Tony Ianniello Tonys Tallys 1057
7 Gill Westall Monty's Millionaires 1051
8 bruce baer Rachel Aldana 1050
9 stuart lloyd bethania united 1047
10 Mike Ball Bouncy Balls 1046
11 bob briggs Bobs 1043
12 Simon Holman Koenigsegggg 1043
13 Phil Dines Lily 1042
14 James Cross Suffolk and Good 1037
15 Darren Mitchell Call Assist champion 2011/2012 1030
16 william copeland Dtown melters 1030
17 David Roberts Can't think of one 1029
18 Ashley Bloodworth Nelly 1028
19 Rich Crosbie Tomas Brolin's Undies 1021
20 David Fox Bright water Villa FL 1019

Monthly

1 Amy Dimmock goalllllll 128
2 Kimberly Bellamy Rapid Stalingrad 110
3 Rose Bryant The Flower Children 107
4 Trevor Fricker Superman.. 106
5 Phil Dines Lily 106
6 Geoff Pryor The Mr Men 104
7 Duncan Laird Camden Town 103
8 Niels Koopman HOLLAND01 101
9 marcus mccarthy Dogs of War 99
10 Ken Swindells February XI 99
11 Carl Brittain Galway Farmers 98
11 James Haggis HAGGIS 98
13 craig harris league binky 98
14 Christopher Bellamy Athletico Zion 98
15 Ian Trimble MCFC 1894 97
16 Panna Patel Mrs Superman 97
17 Paul Stowe Starzz 97
18 Seyum Berhe Messi Dinking 97
19 rob talbot pixies fc 97
20 colin markland shropshire daddy fc 96
21 raymond mangion agt11 96
22 jos braxhoven fc den haag 96
23 Stephen Hamilton Long Island Warriors 95
24 THOMAS FOX Attack Tominators 95
25 Ian Colquhoun Obi Wan Kenobi Nil 95
26 Matt Birch Real Muffin XI 94
26 Neil Holmes MUDAHIM 94
28 Tony Ianniello Tonys Tallys 94
29 david white MOT 94
30 Lee Green Out Of The Wilderness 93
30 daniel evans CHAMP19NS 93
32 keith maclean Random thoughts 93
33 dwayne knight tiger knights 93
34 Helen Threader Hellz Bellz 93
35 DAVID ULBRICH all i see is bald people 92
36 Sander Logtenberg FC Lucky Dip 92
37 Jason Outram A1 FC 92
38 Alex Ellmers Not Very Athletico 92
39 Duc Nguyen Bill Bop United 92
40 Anto Stray strays all stars 91
41 Keith Dobson Sportobello 91
42 James Smith SmithyFC 91
43 Craig Marchant Marchants Marauders 91
44 julian pennie julventus 91
45 gavin osborne one season wonders 90
45 karen foster Kazzies 90
45 stephen green AmyEthan UTD 90
45 RAY REAH Macams 90
45 Graeme Rees Reesy's Raiders 90
45 daniel seaborne MORNING GLORY 90

I saw you had a mare with RVP el_pap. I guess some you win etc.
You are 14th with more transfers than most - still well in it. the top 3 have next to no transfers left and are catchable I think.

Only 1 more prem weekend in Feb and it could be an interesting one.
Of the top 10 there is a large Liverpool/Everton dependency, and in the main not too many transfers to cover the blank gameweek for those clubs. Hopefully an opportunity to reel 'em in.

Loisville United overall 3 transfres left - Liverpool/Everton coverage 3
Paul Cooke 1, 2
Barbara Hallam 9 , 2
Chris Barnes 5, 2
Tony Ianniello 3, 1
Darren Mitchell 0, 2
stuart lloyd 21, 3
Phil Dines Lily 14, 1
Bouncy Balls 3, 3
Panna Patel 11, 1

The guy in 7th cannot actually use his full quota of transfers up now

Overall

1 Lois Brix-Craig Loisville United 1134
2 Paul Cooke cookies1 1123
3 Barbara Hallam Barbies Boys 1115
4 Chris Barnes BARNESBUSTERS 1111
5 Tony Ianniello Tonys Tallys 1098
6 Darren Mitchell Call Assist champion 2011/2012 1094
7 stuart lloyd bethania united 1094
8 Phil Dines Lily 1092
9 Mike Ball Bouncy Balls 1090
10 Panna Patel Mrs Superman 1089
11 bruce baer Rachel Aldana 1087
12 Gill Westall Monty's Millionaires 1087
13 Simon Holman Koenigsegggg 1082
14 bob briggs Bobs 1079
15 Ashley Bloodworth Nelly 1075
16 James Cross Suffolk and Good 1073
17 Rich Crosbie Tomas Brolin's Undies 1071
18 David Roberts Can't think of one 1070
19 Niels Koopman HOLLAND01 1064
20 Neil Carrington FrankieFrog 1060

Feb Monthly This weekend's game to add on

1 Amy Dimmock goalllllll 156
2 Phil Dines Lily 156
3 Trevor Fricker Superman.. 155
4 Jonathan Greenway Stanzman 152
5 Niels Koopman HOLLAND01 149
6 Graham McBurnie Sir Bobby 146
7 Ken Swindells February XI 145
8 Alex Watson wato's winners 145
9 david leonard MEAN MACHINE 144
10 richard tierney Fc Springfield 143

gutted with todays scores. Was leading the monthly going in to today - moved ahead of Dimmock (team entered solely for February in womans name ) courtesy of Hangelands clean sheet yesterday. He/She had RVP as capn (I had Aguerro) and all I needed was a nice gentle game at the Emirates - nothing major, and then all I would have needed was to bring Shawcross in to cover the fact Dimmock had him. Thanks to Walkers -/ve point and RVP goal and assist I went into the Stoke game behind so needed something different. Opted Walters with my final transfer (when I know I should have gone Crouch). Most annoying thing is this team is well placed overall so really shouldn't have let the monthly detract from that.

What place are you overall?

Have Odemwingie, RVP and Walcott. Pity I captained Rooney though.

find your team,then go up a bit

I can see. Just need to focus on the end of season prize now.

Any plans?

I have my plans Ash, although there are a lot of teams in similar situation to mine. The leader is in a good position but below that, down to me, the transfers remaining looks a bit thin so those teams will struggle I think.

Great day today with RVP being * and no-one above me * him.

I saw that Ash - you were one of only 2 on the top 20 starring RVP. Amazing really as he scores against everyone so no real reason to think away to Liverpool would be any different.

Updated table:


1 Barbara Hallam Barbies Boys 1204
2 Lois Brix-Craig Loisville United 1200
3 Paul Cooke cookies1 1192
4 Darren Mitchell Call Assist champion 2011/2012 1184
5 Ashley Bloodworth Nelly 1176
6 stuart lloyd bethania united 1174
7 Chris Barnes BARNESBUSTERS 1172
8 bob briggs Bobs 1168
9 Mike Ball Bouncy Balls 1165
10 Phil Dines Lily 1165
11 Panna Patel Mrs Superman 1163
12 bruce baer Rachel Aldana 1162
13 Pietro Diana Scuderia Swansea 1159
14 Tony Ianniello Tonys Tallys 1155
15 David Fox Bright water Villa FL 1148
16 David Roberts Can't think of one 1147
17 Gill Westall Monty's Millionaires 1147
18 Simon Holman Koenigsegggg 1145
19 Henryk Mackiewicz The Flying Donkeys 1133
20 John Kerr Captain Pugwash FC 1132

Nice one Ash.
Good luck for the run in. There are plenty of Fiso names on the leaderboards, not just ours. This one will go all the way and could go to any number of teams.

Yeah I know, but highlighted us as we seem to be the only two who have posted regarding this league.

I'm still going backwards

Shame it is winner takes all.