Think I might have blown us £100 this week with my starman extra striker selection... Adebayor! Against 10 men, he returns zip!

Had Arsenal 4 at the back, including Vermaelen , and Jones alongside them . Added Vidic

Midfield of Walcott, Ramsey and Silva, Nani added....lacks a goal, Arteta or Bale added would have been nice.

Hernandez , Gervinho and RVP up top.

Oh well, reasonable start in the monthly, though Hernandez will make that one unlikely

1 Arsene M8 u r toast David Edmondson 750 [98th in the monthly ]
2 Diggers Ashley Bloodworth 641
3 Doofymans Sun eight garry moors 603
3 Pieces of Eight David Tonkin 603
5 JP 8 John-Paul Knight 592
6 Smoke City Glyn Rigby 580
7 Ronny 8s Newcastle Mark Place 564
8 mad dog h8tes stoke Carol Read 539
8 Grampys 8 Rich Tidmarsh 539
10 Nigels Pool Is Gr8 Nigel Dodds 501
11 The Elkmaster B8s Mil Gajic 473
12 Suzykins 8 Ballers Ray Tait 460
13 Everton 888 Payal Sadhwani 455
14 Galactico Fusion John Morrison 449
15 Wolves 8 gottachance Danielle Revill 442
16 Chrispy 8 Blues Chris Robinson 415
17 8Legs in my Baggies darren leggatt 397
18 FinneysHeroes Bernie Hartley 395
19 Issaca Norwich eight Lee Brooker 390
20 4000 holes in Blackb Mick Wall 356 [ ]

Manager of the Season....anyone winning the league by 100+ pts surely

It's tight for the treasured 8th spot.

Bring home the bacon by winning a £100 weekly, or Monthly and I'll review the situation Dave.

Not anymore.

1 Arsene M8 u r toast David Edmondson 750
2 Diggers Ashley Bloodworth 674
3 Doofymans Sun eight garry moors 603
3 Pieces of Eight David Tonkin 603
5 JP 8 John-Paul Knight 595
6 Smoke City Glyn Rigby 583
7 Ronny 8s Newcastle Mark Place 564
8 mad dog h8tes stoke Carol Read 539
8 Grampys 8 Rich Tidmarsh 539
10 Nigels Pool Is Gr8 Nigel Dodds 519
11 The Elkmaster B8s Mil Gajic 476
12 Suzykins 8 Ballers Ray Tait 460
13 Everton 888 Payal Sadhwani 455
14 Galactico Fusion John Morrison 449
15 Wolves 8 gottachance Danielle Revill 442
16 Chrispy 8 Blues Chris Robinson 415
17 8Legs in my Baggies darren leggatt 397
18 FinneysHeroes Bernie Hartley 395
19 Issaca Norwich eight Lee Brooker 390
20 4000 holes in Blackb Mick Wall 356

Just noticed that Vid has moved into 2nd place in our Mini League, but I also noticed that he has 9 Man City players in his team

Not sure if that's against the rules though

Managed to get myself a steady minus 16 yesterday

1 Arsene M8 u r toast David Edmondson 874 Arsenal
2 Pieces of Eight David Tonkin 816 Man City
3 JP 8 John-Paul Knight 800 Spurs
4 Diggers Ashley Bloodworth 764 Fulham
5 Smoke City Glyn Rigby 761 Swansea
6 Ronny 8s Newcastle Mark Place 729
7 mad dog h8tes stoke Carol Read 712
8 Doofymans Sun eight garry moors 702
9 Nigels Pool Is Gr8 Nigel Dodds 686
10 Grampys 8 Rich Tidmarsh 672
11 Suzykins 8 Ballers Ray Tait 623
12 The Elkmaster B8s Mil Gajic 612
13 Everton 888 Payal Sadhwani 596
14 Wolves 8 gottachance Danielle Revill 552
15 Chrispy 8 Blues Chris Robinson 548
16 8Legs in my Baggies darren leggatt 533
17 Issaca Norwich eight Lee Brooker 524
18 Galactico Fusion John Morrison 517
19 FinneysHeroes Bernie Hartley 482
20 4000 holes in Blackb Mick Wall 428

TURN OF THE YEAR REPORT CARD.

Edmonson has taken over at the top with his Arsenal 8 and is looking at Pa's £25 first place prize, but let us remember how quickly Ashers came tumbling from his lofty perch after being up there for so long with his Fulham Block.

Edmonson's £25 Manager of the year award (if presented at this moment) could possibly go to The Pom for taking his Swansea 8 into second place, a worthy feat. Let us however not forget Doofyman who has rewarded the League with a £100 win with his Sunderland 8. Both could be contenders.

Currently in 8th place and hoping to collect the Elkmasters coveted £25 'Octopus Prize' is Ronny, but this changes on a weekly basis and could go to the last game of the Season.

Zimmermans £25 Prize for the highest positioned team out of this lot. Blackburn, Bolton, Norwich, QPR, Swansea, West Brom, Wigan and Wolves could also go to the Pom with his Swansea Squad, but that's highly unlkely to happen, is it

Dunce of the Season: Vid for creating his Team using 9 Man City Players (and they said that it couldn't be done)

1 Arsene M8 u r toast David Edmondson 919
2 Smoke City Glyn Rigby 828
3 Pieces of Eight David Tonkin 822
4 JP 8 John-Paul Knight 818
5 Diggers Ashley Bloodworth 793
6 mad dog h8tes stoke Carol Read 740
7 Doofymans Sun eight garry moors 737
8 Ronny 8s Newcastle Mark Place 735
9 Nigels Pool Is Gr8 Nigel Dodds 697
10 Grampys 8 Rich Tidmarsh 696
11 The Elkmaster B8s Mil Gajic 633
12 Everton 888 Payal Sadhwani 628
13 Suzykins 8 Ballers Ray Tait 621
14 Chrispy 8 Blues Chris Robinson 578
15 Wolves 8 gottachance Danielle Revill 566
16 8Legs in my Baggies darren leggatt 544
17 Issaca Norwich eight Lee Brooker 539
18 Galactico Fusion John Morrison 534
19 FinneysHeroes Bernie Hartley 491
20 4000 holes in Blackb Mick Wall 449

I take back what I said about that nice Mr Vid . His Man City team with 9 City Players has crept into the Top 100 of the Monthly Mini League.

78 Berties city Robert Bertram 78
78 Pieces of Eight David Tonkin 78
78 BLUE MOONEY Michael Handley 78
78 Kalyes All Smiles andrew davis 78
78 barty lisa slatter 78

JPK coming up like a train with his Spurs 8. Fully expect a new leader come Monday

Mad Dog developing a little cushion in 8th.

Tonight is where my Wigan team show their worth, bottom against top.....easy

Maybe not

Anyone in this mini-league got a clue what to do now

Along with three others I pledged a £25 prize in this.
The 4 were

Pa £25 to the winner
Edmonson £25 to Pa's nominated manager of the season
Me £25 to the manager who finishes in 8th place
Zimm £25 to the winner of the 8 teams he nominated at the start.

Obviously Pa's prize no longer exists
Edmonson £25, perhaps we can change that to the winner?
I can still pay as planned
Zimm can still pay as planned.

On a personal note, I'm quite willing to call it a day with this mini-league and forward my £25 I pledged onto Vid to go towards monies already collected (I think that I read that it was going towards the cost of Pa's headstone).

Obviously everyone needs to agree, thoughts please....

I think we carry on. As you say, edmo's money goes to the winner (could be himself)! Both our prizes still stand.

I think John would want the interest and game to carry on.

As for his memorial fund, I've already contributed towards that as has Edmo I think.

Happy to go with the consensus though.

It was John's baby and pretty sure he would want it to continue, I will take over the £25 that John was putting in to the winner so the game prizes can remain the same

Nice one Ronny

Doofyman is currently in the lead i the Feb monthly.

Do we allow him to make changes to focus on that or does he have to keep to the rules?

His choice but as any winnings were to go into the group pot it would make sense for him to chase it, not having the required number of players would then invalidate him from the competition prizes (is he in contention for any?), 2 birds in 2 bushes, none currently in the hand.

I'd be happy to enter this next year (prizes are immaterial to me) following the same or a tweaked format as long as competition, teams and ML all carried mention of pa.

Doofyman must have a shout as 'manager of the season' as Pa had mentioned. Perhaps the best way to do this one now, is for me as prize sponsor, to stick up 3 nominations and then everyone can vote?

Doofyman had already made 2 transfers in his side before seeing monthly update, so perhaps missed the full opportunity to chase the monthly. Who knows though a couple more Sunderland cleans....

I think it would be good to carry this league on next season, "The Pa 8 Cup" it should lend itself to someone winning a prize in the main game, wdt or monthly. Perhaps we can tweak the rules to allow managers to go 'off course' to chase monthlies without invalidating their line up. A wildcard allowed between 2 of the windows. Maybe also allow 7 players from some of the dross sides, so it becomes more even on the draw.

Maybe a discussion for another thread.

But perhaps some sort of handicap based on unused funds?
Say at 35ppm?
So my team costs £40m I'd get 350 points.
No idea on current totals whether this figure is realistic (gone on the fact that 40-50ppm seems to be the usual figure wheeled out as expected vfm).

It would have to be based on the average cost across the season.

I'm quite sure that pa would have grasped that idea with both hands! Either the idea or your neck

About time we had a table update for this. Shock Horror JPK has stormed into the lead with his very nicely priced Spurs 8.

Doofyman is laying best claim for Manager of the Season, doing wonders in the current monthly with his Sunderland 8, not sure about dodgy Greek at the back !! He has already bagged a WDT ton. Surely someone else will do us proud this weekend??

The Pom is easily the best of the dross, Swansea still going great guns.

Doddsy sitting comfortably in 8th place, maybe a surge of Liverpool clean sheeting in the cups v championship fodder will push him out that money spot


1 JP 8 John-Paul Knight 1151 Spurs [see below...1151 looks under par for me ]
2 Arsene M8 u r toast David Edmondson 1124
3 Pieces of Eight David Tonkin 1102
4 Doofymans Sun eight garry moors 1076 Sunderland
5 Smoke City Glyn Rigby 1069 Swansea
6 Diggers Ashley Bloodworth 1030
7 Ronny 8s Newcastle Mark Place 1000
8 Nigels Pool Is Gr8 Nigel Dodds 946 Liverpool
9 mad dog h8tes stoke Carol Read 926
10 Grampys 8 Rich Tidmarsh 834
11 Everton 888 Payal Sadhwani 819
12 Suzykins 8 Ballers Ray Tait 815
13 The Elkmaster B8s Mil Gajic 774
14 Galactico Fusion John Morrison 759
15 Chrispy 8 Blues Chris Robinson 746
16 Wolves 8 gottachance Danielle Revill 734
17 Issaca Norwich eight Lee Brooker 728
18 8Legs in my Baggies darren leggatt 720
19 FinneysHeroes Bernie Hartley 625
20 4000 holes in Blackb Mick Wall 617

Possible Spurs 8 below gives 879 points for 33m, leaving room for Rooney and Van Persie's 461 points.....

STR 802 E Adebayor Tottenham 23.1 £4.5m 104

MID 753 L Modric Tottenham 19.2 £5.0m 96
MID 748 R van der Vaart Tottenham 19.7 £6.0m 118
MID 743 G Bale Tottenham 27.4 £5.0m 137

DEF 331 B Assou-Ekotto Tottenham 36.3 £3.5m 127
DEF 298 Y Kaboul Tottenham 34.0 £3.0m 102
DEF 135 K Walker Tottenham 38.0 £3.0m 114

GK 013 B Friedel Tottenham 27.0 £3.0m 81

Doofyman bags another wdt £100 win. Well played Gary.

And also goes back top of the monthly with not too far to go.....


Next season would be good to try and have teams as good as they can be in the actual game, as Doofyman has shown, prizes should be possible. Therefore not sure I favour a handicap system for leftover funds. If everyone was willing to commit 2 teams, we could have 1 drawn from top 10 pl teams and 1 from bottom 10. Then 40 teams in the league, more chance of wdt and monthly wins

The Pa 8's League

All teams named Pa 8 Liverpool, Pa 8 Arsenal etc.

Do you think the handicap would encourage people to submit poor teams?

There could be an element of taking a better value player + some extra points for leftover funds, rather than an 8m gun that soaks up the budget. However maybe we're talking Aguero at 5.5m v Rooney at 8m, so accept it doesn't necessarily lead to poorer teams, down to opinion, however as a rule the pricing reflects the quality / riskiness of the player.

Now we are in the money. £10 each

We all get a tenner?

Yes, rules state that all prize money won from this league is split evenly.

I personally think we should donate the two WDT wins to John's headstone.

I was always up for 7 players from the same team, I think pa always had these teams in mind with a wdt attempt