The Egg Cup League 1 2014/15

[tenpinterry]

Eggy Fried TPTerry

4-3-3

Howard de Gea
Shaw Bertrand
Coleman Koscielny
Demichelis
Januzaj Debuchy Blind Azpilicueta Blind
Lallana Mata Hazard
Rodwell Downing Barkley elia Eriksen Ramsey (made on 4/5)
Nasri Sterling tadic Moses Cambiasso
Sturridge di Maria Aguero Costa Aguero Sterling
Fabregas Kane
Dzeko Falcao Lukaku Giroud Aguero


Team value - £48.6m
Transfers remaining - 2

[Hogmeister]

Updated table below.

I'm still just about holding off Jag - although this week I used my final two transfers, so now have to just sit and watch. 59 points for me this week, one better than Jag (58) who remains in second, 9 points behind. The gap to Woody (45) in third has grown and it's looking like it's either Jag or me for the title. Tenpinterry (62, the second highest score of the week) is now just 3 points behind Woody in the scrap for the remaining promotion place.

Second-bottom Nathan got the highest score of this week with 71, while there's no change in the scrap to avoid the third relegation place, with Nffc still having the dubious honour of holding that position - but remains in close contact with the rest of the pack, 10 points the gap now to Hogweed.

1 Ian Wallace Hog Eggs 1576 59 80 7518
2 James Anderson-Gordon Jagged Egg 1567 58 85 9059
3 Anthony Woodbine Eggcited Woody71 1518 45 86 22148
4 Terry Knapton Eggy Fried TPTerry 1515 62 68 23152
5 George McCulloch Bigbaddod over easy 1499 54 83 29282
6 Geoff Vickers Geoff's Egg Mayos 1465 59 82 44914
7 Michael Beesley Les Ouefs de Bolton 1463 33 83 45979
8 David Rhodes Wiseowl65 Clever Egg 1444 56 76 56018
9 Ross Banyard Hogweeds Eggs 1421 41 77 68936
10 Kevin Wright Notteggham 1411 45 64 74753
11 Thomas Miller Nathan's Eggs X1 1338 71 73 116590
12 Jonathan Harrington Dude's Eggy Soldiers 1207 51 63 179966

[Jagduracell]

So it's your Bertrand, Hazard, Giroud and 9 points versus my Coleman, Aguero, Coutinho and one transfer. Was going to go down the Giroud route after the next round of games but with your lead I may have to rethink this unless I can overturn that lead over the weekend.....decions, decisions.....

[Hogmeister]

So it's your Bertrand, Hazard, Giroud and 9 points versus my Coleman, Aguero, Coutinho and one transfer.

Ouch! A 23-point haul from Sergio has made the top of the table look very different this morning!

[Jagduracell]

So it's your Bertrand, Hazard, Giroud and 9 points versus my Coleman, Aguero, Coutinho and one transfer.

Ouch! A 23-point haul from Sergio has made the top of the table look very different this morning!

Yeah, Better than I had hoped for and makes the transfer to Giroud for a 5-2 an obvious one this evening but that seems a bit of a defensive move on my part. Not too sure how to play this last one.

[Jagduracell]

May live to regret this but went Ramsey for Sterling in a bid not to be boring with my last sub. Good luck for the run-in Hog!

[bigbaddod]

Bigbaddod over easy

Fabianski 2.4

Bertrand 2.7 Ramsey
van Aanholt 2.2
Koscielny 4.5
Bellerin 2.9

Cazorla 5.2
Hazard 5.8
Sigurdsson 3.6

Kane 3.8
Aguero 7.5
Sanchez 7.0


3-4-3

1 transfers left
£49.8 m

Late posting, transfer made yesterday

[Hogmeister]

Oh well, suppose I'd better do the weekly update - somehow I don't feel quite as enthusiastic about it this week!

Jag (51 points, second highest of the week) hits the front at just the right time, fuelled by Aguero's 23 points, and now leads me (29 points) by 13. With his last transfer being used this week (sportingly avoiding the defensive option of Giroud), it's now a case for both of us to sit and watch how the teams perform. The differentials look like this:
Jag - Coleman, Coutinho, Ramsey, Aguero
Me - Bertrand, Sterling, Hazard, Giroud

Meanwhile Woody's challenge has completely evaporated - his 17 points is the lowest of the week and he drops 2 places, being overtaken by Tenpinterry (50) and Bigbaddod (52, the highest of the week).

At the other end of the table, Nffc (25 points) remains in that third relegation position and is now 20 points off safety.

1 James Anderson-Gordon Jagged Egg 1618 51 88 6648
2 Ian Wallace Hog Eggs 1605 29 80 8722
3 Terry Knapton Eggy Fried TPTerry 1565 50 71 18194
4 George McCulloch Bigbaddod over easy 1551 52 86 22652
5 Anthony Woodbine Eggcited Woody71 1535 17 86 28481
6 Geoff Vickers Geoff's Egg Mayos 1515 50 86 36660
7 Michael Beesley Les Ouefs de Bolton 1506 43 86 40813
8 David Rhodes Wiseowl65 Clever Egg 1488 44 79 49732
9 Ross Banyard Hogweeds Eggs 1456 35 78 66790
10 Kevin Wright Notteggham 1436 25 64 78036
11 Thomas Miller Nathan's Eggs X1 1372 34 74 113617
12 Jonathan Harrington Dude's Eggy Soldiers 1257 50 66 169704

[Jagduracell]

Now that you have outlined our differentials I suddenly don't feel as confident....

Good luck!

[Hogmeister]

Now that you have outlined our differentials I suddenly don't feel as confident....

Good luck!

I think my money would still be on Jaguero

[Jagduracell]

Now that you have outlined our differentials I suddenly don't feel as confident....

Good luck!

I think my money would still be on Jaguero

I'm personally really hoping that Hog-zard get's rested this week (doesn't quite work as well does it....)

[tenpinterry]

Eggy Fried TPTerry

4-3-3

Howard de Gea
Shaw Bertrand
Coleman Koscielny
Demichelis
Januzaj Debuchy Blind Azpilicueta Blind
Lallana Mata Hazard Cazorla
Rodwell Downing Barkley elia Eriksen Ramsey
Nasri Sterling tadic Moses Cambiasso
Sturridge di Maria Aguero Costa Aguero Sterling Giroud
Fabregas Kane
Dzeko Falcao Lukaku Giroud Aguero


Team value - £49.8m
Transfers remaining - 0

I hope I don't regret ending up with only four Arsenal players!
Although if they get results like last Monday ...........

[woody71]

Eggcited woody71

K Davis
Bertrand
Blind
Rojo Monreal
Sterling
Eriksen
Cazorla
Hazard
Giroud
Kane
Sanchez

Team value - £49.3m
Transfers remaining - 0

Shaw injured - Cahill good fixtures
Januzaj won't play - Debuchy good cheap defender
1. Demichelis out - not sure how much he will play. Bertrand in - Cheap option will play
2. Coleman out - free up money, don't want 2 everton defenders. C Davies in - Always play and odd goal
3. Lallana out - injured - Rooney in - want 3 strikers and good fixtures
4. Sturridge out - injured - Costa in - started well hope he will be fit to play
5. Debuchy out - looks like he got a bad injury - Blind in - good fixtures, maybe odd goal and assist
6. Dzeko out - doesn't always start, rotation risk - Di Maria in - hoping for lots of assists and a few goals
7. Nasri out - injured. Ulloa in - made a great start to season, good cheap 3rd striker option
8. Rooney out - suspended. Aguero in - if he stays fit should score goals
9. Ulloa out - Hasn't worked out for me - Sigurdsson in - loads of assists & odd goal hopefully
10. Rodwell out - hardly playing - Tadic in - having a great season so far
11. Fabregas out - done well but doesn't score a lot - Baines in - good fixtures chances of a goal or two
12. Blind out - injured - Pelle in, doing well so far this season
13. C.Davies out - done nothing for ages - Eriksen in - good chance of assists and odd goal
14. Aguero out - injured - Yaya Toure in - starting to find form & good fixtures
15. Di Maria out - not played for ages - Fabregas in - goals and assists
16. Tadic out - injury not playing - Kane in - cheap striker scoring goals
17. Howard out - injured - Courtois in - best goalie with best defence
18. Y Toure out - missed games & off to Africa Cup soon - Hazard in - must have player
19. Courtois out - injured - Forster in - Southampton great defence
20. Sigurdsson out - 3 game ban - Rojo in good fixtures United in Cup
21. Costa out - 3 game ban - Rooney in as Sanchez my first choice unlikely to play this weekend
22. Fabregas out - injured - Cazorla in as on a great run of form
23. Baines out - injured - Blind in, defender playing in midfield gets the odd goal
24. Pelle out - done nothing for a while now - Defoe in, good run of fixtures and still in the cup
25. Defoe out - injured - Di Maria in
26. G Cahill out - not playing - Sterling in, goals, assists, still in Cup
27. Forster out - injured for rest of season - K Davis in, cheap Southampton reserve goalie
28. Di Maria out - not in great form - Giroud in - Is in great form, wanted 3 strikers and Arsenal still in F A Cup
29. Rooney out - playing in midfield wasted - Sanchez in - extra fixtures plus goals & assists
30. Rojo out - always injured - Monreal in -extra games

[Hogmeister]

Update ahead of tonight's game.

I claw back 2 points on leader Jag, but he remains 11 clear at the top.

Highest score of the week, strangely, goes to Dude's no-longer-managed team at the bottom... just checked and while it contains players like Dzeko and Nasri, it also has Mane, who got 23 points yesterday!

Looks like Nffc is destined for the third relegation place - his 14 points was the lowest this week, and the gap looks now too much to make up, even with 6 Arsenal players.

1 James Anderson-Gordon Jagged Egg 1642 24 88 7387
2 Ian Wallace Hog Eggs 1631 26 80 9306
3 Terry Knapton Eggy Fried TPTerry 1594 29 71 18179
4 George McCulloch Bigbaddod over easy 1582 31 87 21945
5 Anthony Woodbine Eggcited Woody71 1558 23 86 30753
6 Geoff Vickers Geoff's Egg Mayos 1551 36 86 33682
7 Michael Beesley Les Ouefs de Bolton 1547 41 90 35469
8 David Rhodes Wiseowl65 Clever Egg 1513 25 79 51715
9 Ross Banyard Hogweeds Eggs 1490 34 79 63950
10 Kevin Wright Notteggham 1450 14 64 86166
11 Thomas Miller Nathan's Eggs X1 1397 25 74 115414
12 Jonathan Harrington Dude's Eggy Soldiers 1300 43 70 162576

[Jagduracell]

Another point back Hog. Tight finish in the offing!

[Hogmeister]

Another point back Hog. Tight finish in the offing!

Indeed The gap now down to 10 points, with just one more round of matches and the cup final to come - would still take something spectacular to run it around though.

[Hogmeister]

Just the cup final to come..

Jag (53 points) eases further ahead of me (49) and, with the only remaining differential being Giroud vs Ramsey next week, the bookies have stopped taking bets.

Highest score of the week though was Bigbaddod (56) who remains in a tight scrap with Tenpinterry (53) for the the third promotion place.

No other significant changes, with the three relegation places all now filled.

1 James Anderson-Gordon Jagged Egg 1695 53 90 5411
2 Ian Wallace Hog Eggs 1680 49 81 7480
3 Terry Knapton Eggy Fried TPTerry 1647 53 74 13911
4 George McCulloch Bigbaddod over easy 1638 56 89 16253
5 Anthony Woodbine Eggcited Woody71 1596 38 87 30108
6 Geoff Vickers Geoff's Egg Mayos 1595 44 88 30460
7 Michael Beesley Les Ouefs de Bolton 1575 28 91 38801
8 David Rhodes Wiseowl65 Clever Egg 1553 40 81 49095
9 Ross Banyard Hogweeds Eggs 1539 49 79 56018
10 Kevin Wright Notteggham 1482 32 64 86598
11 Thomas Miller Nathan's Eggs X1 1446 49 75 105784
12 Jonathan Harrington Dude's Eggy Soldiers 1331 31 71 161096

[Jagduracell]

A Giroud hat-trick to end the season in a gentlemanly draw?

[bigbaddod]

Just the cup final to come..

Jag (53 points) eases further ahead of me (49) and, with the only remaining differential being Giroud vs Ramsey next week, the bookies have stopped taking bets.

Highest score of the week though was Bigbaddod (56) who remains in a tight scrap with Tenpinterry (53) for the the third promotion place.

On the subject of third place, by my reckoning, taking out the players we have in common, it's looking like

Giroud Vs Bellerin, Sanchez and whoever I use my last transfer on to attempt to overturn a 9 point gap, could be a close one

[tenpinterry]

Just the cup final to come..

Jag (53 points) eases further ahead of me (49) and, with the only remaining differential being Giroud vs Ramsey next week, the bookies have stopped taking bets.

Highest score of the week though was Bigbaddod (56) who remains in a tight scrap with Tenpinterry (53) for the the third promotion place.

On the subject of third place, by my reckoning, taking out the players we have in common, it's looking like

Giroud Vs Bellerin, Sanchez and whoever I use my last transfer on to attempt to overturn a 9 point gap, could be a close one

Closer than you think as I don't think Giroud will start which, if I'm right, makes Walcott your last transfer (unless you hedge your bets and get Benteke)

[bigbaddod]

Bigbaddod over easy

Fabianski 2.4

Bertrand 2.7 Ramsey
van Aanholt 2.2
Koscielny 4.5
Bellerin 2.9

Cazorla 5.2
Hazard 5.8
Sigurdsson 3.6

Kane 3.8
Aguero 7.5 Benteke
Sanchez 7.0


3-4-3

0 transfers left
£47.8 m

After much deliberation.......

[happyhoppy]

Final Standings

1 James Anderson-Gordon Jagged Egg 1720 25 861 270139 91 27359 5119 Promoted as Champion

2 Ian Wallace Hog Eggs 1709 29 878 267884 83 61891 6425 Promoted
3 George McCulloch Bigbaddod Over Easy 1669 31 865 269639 90 30950 13613 Promoted

4 Terry Knapton Eggy Fried TPTerry 1666 19 878 267884 75 107896 14324
5 Geoff Vickers Geoff's Egg Mayos 1627 32 881 267405 90 30950 25745
6 Anthony Woodbine Eggcited Woody71 1626 30 931 256922 89 34611 26097
7 Michael Beesley Les Ouefs De Bolton 1585 10 878 267884 92 24216 42359
8 Ross Banyard Hogweeds Eggs 1571 32 878 267884 82 67018 48777
9 David Rhodes Wiseowl65 Clever Egg 1568 15 861 270139 82 67018 50170

10 Kevin Wright Notteggham 1514 32 881 267405 65 171693 77267 Relegated
11 Thomas Miller Nathan's Eggs X1 1475 29 861 270139 77 95806 97578 Relegated
12 Jonathan Harrington Dude's Eggy Soldiers 1331 0 1078 173125 71 133268 164428 Relegated

[happyhoppy]

Yet again great job Hogmeister in chairing thanks!

[Hogmeister]

Thanks HH, yep, congratulations to title-winner Jag - any faint hopes I had of catching you were dashed when Giroud stayed on the subs bench - and to Bigbaddod for clinching the third promotion spot, look forward to seeing you both next year in the Championship

There is one remaining piece of business before I sign off for the year -the Tinkerman Trophy, awarded to the idiot who runs out of transfers first

And so, as we've done at this time in each of the last few seasons, I'll ask my able assistant Judy to present the special turtle-shaped Tinkerman Trophy trophy.

Trophy.png

This year it goes to, erm, me

[Jagduracell]

Egg Cup received! Cheers HH.