TFFCH 2009-10: Telegraph Championship * £12 Prize League *

[Rob]

Moving on, time for a different weapon tonight!

I had the same thought - just waiting for the update

[Bramernic]

Oh well, at least I wasn't the only person who went into reverse last night!

Pos. Manager (Team Name) Week Pts Total Pts National Pos.
1 Simon Holman (Chiefschampsotrons) 2 1694 48
2 Ian Melluish (High green Owls) 0 1673 67
3 Robert Bryson ( Farmers) 24 1630 161
4 David King (ManJester United) 14 1614 206
5 Benjamin Day (TommyMooneys Champs) 18 1605 237
6 Keith Clarke (BoingBoing) 8 1587 301
7 Geraint Owen (Molby Memorial XI) -2 1585 307
8 David Andrews (NFG-Ne Obliviscaris) 4 1553 450
9 Sam David (Forever Changes) 10 1543 502
10 Phil Saul (The Sea Wolves) 2 1482 939
11 Bernie Hartley (PNE4PREM) 7 1474 1001
12 Damian Jones (The Oinkment) 2 1471 1031
13 Jonathan Stewart (Forest Forever) 0 1448 1236
14 Geoff Pryor (BlessedBrians FISO12) 0 1430 1404
15 Rob Wheatley (SOBD CHAMP XI) 9 1382 1874
16 Mike Whitaker (Bramernics Eagles) -2 1374 1953

[Rob]

Excellent

Best get my secret weapon(s) lined up.

[SamD]

The race for third place - alongside Leeloo's always prominent super league - is getting pretty close too:

Position - Chairman - League - Average
1 Liam Mannion, FISO, 1,707.2
2 Ryan Goodman, LA LIGA, 1,670.8
3 Craig Element, LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, 1,645.0
4 Sam David, FISO FEDERATION, 1,643.2
5 Ian Gibbs, THE FIZZY POP LEAGUE, 1,583.8

[melvin]

getting worried about hanging on to second place now.

[Bramernic]

Excellent

Best get my secret weapon(s) lined up.

I think I scored 44 tonight!

[melvin]

24 for me.

[Jester]

9

[Rob]

I think I scored 44 tonight!

[Chief Wiggsy]

24 for me.

F'ing play-offs ... I think I only got seven.

So, you have the Cardiff keeper? Or Chopra and others. Not that it concerns me, I have no transfers left. To the wire, but I fancy you have me on the last day.

Darn.

[Chief Wiggsy]

Silly me ... gave meself more worry than I need to. I think I got 12 points. Which I think that makes me 9 points ahead? Blimey, still darn too close for me.!!

[Bramernic]

I think I scored 44 tonight!

Make that 40 - forgot penalty shoot-out goals are only +3. Anyway, you didn't do too badly yourself SOBD.

How many do you expect to have playing in the final? I'm hopeful of a full 11.

[Rob]

Make that 40 - forgot penalty shoot-out goals are only +3. Anyway, you didn't do too badly yourself SOBD.

How many do you expect to have playing in the final? I'm hopeful of a full 11.

Cheers I was a bit surprised with your score I have to admit - well done.

I'm hoping for the full 11 also. It's turned into a titanic battle to avoid the wooden spoon...good luck!

[melvin]

Silly me ... gave meself more worry than I need to. I think I got 12 points. Which I think that makes me 9 points ahead? Blimey, still darn too close for me.!!

Only 20 for me, thought it was 5 for penalty shootout goals.

Will hopefully have 5 in the final (1 transfer left).

[SamD]

Week 40 of 41 (second leg of play-off semi-finals on Tue-Wed 11-12 May)

Top scorer across the two games is farmerbob with 46 points.
Bramernic, 38, and tommymooney, 33, are next best.

Top five in the Championship are unchanged:
Chief Wiggsy, 1,706, is just 11 ahead of melvin.
Farmerbob, 1,652, now looks to be clear favourite for third prize.
Jester, tommymooney, kcboing & Jan Molby's Bolws are 23 to 67 pts further back.

Meanwhile, the league climbs one notch into third place.

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Position                                              Points
TW  LW  Overall**   Manager (Team Name)               w40  Total
-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
01  01       49 Simon Holman (Chiefschampsotrons)      14  1,706
02  02       59 Ian Melluish (High green Owls)         22  1,695
03  03      136 Robert Bryson (Farmers)              * 46  1,652
04  04      206 David King (ManJester United)          29  1,629
05  05      237 Benjamin Day (TommyMooneys Champs)   # 33  1,620
06  07      305 Keith Clarke (BoingBoing)              22  1,601
07  06      373 Geraint Owen (Molby Memorial XI)     ~ -2  1,585
08  08      441 David Andrews (NFG-Ne Obliviscaris)    19  1,568
09  09      465 Sam David (Forever Changes)            31  1,564
10  11      918 Damian Jones (The Oinkment)            31  1,500
11  10      949 Phil Saul (The Sea Wolves)             17  1,497
12  13    1,107 Jonathan Stewart (Forest Forever)      26  1,474
13  12    1,107 Bernie Hartley (PNE4PREM)               7  1,474
14  14    1,374 Geoff Pryor (BlessedBrians FISO12)     17  1,447
15  15    1,692 Mike Whitaker (Bramernics Eagles)    # 38  1,414
16  16    1,790 Rob Wheatley (SOBD CHAMP XI)           31  1,404

          ** of                      Our SL average    24  1,552
          5,672                Leading Team Overall  1958
          teams                          Leading SL  1722
                                       Our SL top 5  1660
                                        Our SL Posn   3rd

          key:   * best of week; # rest of top three; ~ lowest

Final Week 41 holds just one fixture, the play-off final between Blackpool and Cardiff at Wembley on Sat 22 May.

[Chief Wiggsy]

Silly me ... gave meself more worry than I need to. I think I got 12 points. Which I think that makes me 9 points ahead? Blimey, still darn too close for me.!!

Only 20 for me, thought it was 5 for penalty shootout goals.

Will hopefully have 5 in the final (1 transfer left).

You scored 22 points during the week, against my 14, leaving me only 11 points ahead and a final play off where you will have the upper hand on players. This could end up as close as my Wes Brown (I think it was him, maybe JOS) FA Cup part CS that won me my superleague some years back.!! There was two points in it when the whistle blew.....

I think I need say a 2-1 in normal time where I have at least one scorer.

Ooooooh deeearry .... fart

[Chief Wiggsy]

Week 40 of 41 (second leg of play-off semi-finals on Tue-Wed 11-12 May)

Top scorer across the two games is farmerbob with 46 points.
Bramernic, 38, and tommymooney, 33, are next best.

Top five in the Championship are unchanged:
Chief Wiggsy, 1,706, is just 11 ahead of melvin.
Farmerbob, 1,652, now looks to be clear favourite for third prize.
Jester, tommymooney, kcboing & Jan Molby's Bolws are 23 to 67 pts further back.

Meanwhile, the league climbs one notch into third place.

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Position                                              Points
TW  LW  Overall**   Manager (Team Name)               w40  Total
-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
01  01       49 Simon Holman (Chiefschampsotrons)      14  1,706
02  02       59 Ian Melluish (High green Owls)         22  1,695
03  03      136 Robert Bryson (Farmers)              * 46  1,652
04  04      206 David King (ManJester United)          29  1,629
05  05      237 Benjamin Day (TommyMooneys Champs)   # 33  1,620
06  07      305 Keith Clarke (BoingBoing)              22  1,601
07  06      373 Geraint Owen (Molby Memorial XI)     ~ -2  1,585
08  08      441 David Andrews (NFG-Ne Obliviscaris)    19  1,568
09  09      465 Sam David (Forever Changes)            31  1,564
10  11      918 Damian Jones (The Oinkment)            31  1,500
11  10      949 Phil Saul (The Sea Wolves)             17  1,497
12  13    1,107 Jonathan Stewart (Forest Forever)      26  1,474
13  12    1,107 Bernie Hartley (PNE4PREM)               7  1,474
14  14    1,374 Geoff Pryor (BlessedBrians FISO12)     17  1,447
15  15    1,692 Mike Whitaker (Bramernics Eagles)    # 38  1,414
16  16    1,790 Rob Wheatley (SOBD CHAMP XI)           31  1,404

          ** of                      Our SL average    24  1,552
          5,672                Leading Team Overall  1958
          teams                          Leading SL  1722
                                       Our SL top 5  1660
                                        Our SL Posn   3rd

          key:   * best of week; # rest of top three; ~ lowest

Final Week 41 holds just one fixture, the play-off final between Blackpool and Cardiff at Wembley on Sat 22 May.

These tables and comments have been 1st class all season.

[SamD]

CW: maybe it's easier to say that when you're winning!

Would welcome feedback on prize league, entry fee and award splits, plus any suggestion for next season.
Always assuming, of course, there's a Telegraph Championship game and prize SL.

[NFG]

Excellant competition as always Sam.

Many thanks for organising it.

The only change I would make to the prizemoney is awarding 95% of it to the Cup Winner, backdated to this season of course.

Looks like I may struggle to keep my top half finish. I went for Blackstock instead of Earnshaw, and backed Forest and Leicester to make the Final. That means I only have a maximum of 3 players in the Final(Adams, Whittingham and Burke).


I wonder if the Telegraph will do a League 1 Competition next year?

[SamD]

So in the race for eighth and a top half finish (is there a prize?):

NFG 1,568 points
Adams, C - Blackpool - MID
Whittingham, P - Cardiff - MID
Burke, C - Cardiff - MID

SD 1,564 points
Marshall, D - Cardiff - GK
McNaughton, K - Cardiff - DEF
Hudson, M - Cardiff - DEF
Whittingham, P - Cardiff - MID
Burke, C - Cardiff - MID
Chopra, M - Cardiff - STR

Nil-nil and a penalty shoot out should suit...

Other managers are welcome to reveal teams before or soon after the start of the play-off final.

[Rob]

Thanks for running things so well Sam.

[NFG]

An Adams goal might just do it for me then.

[melvin]

My players for play off final are

Adam
Whittingham
Boothroyd
Chopra

and 1 transfer to do when the teams are annouced (can't be a striker though as formation is 3-5-2).

Thanks for running the competition Sam.

[tommymooney]

Thanks for running the comp Sam, same next year I reckon!

Here are my remaining players

Gilks
Adam
DJ Campbell
Whittingham
Bothroyd

well played too farmerbob who beat me in the cup, and now looks solid for a hard contested 3rd place in the league. If only I hadn't burned so many transfers trying to beat him in the cup semi...

[kcboing]

May I add my thanks to Sam for organising it. Had hopes with a few transfers left that I might challenge for third, but went Forest heavy and now have no chance.

Strange that, being a Baggies season ticket holder, you might have thought that I would have put up a better show. Stayed with an Albion heavy defence for too long at the start of the season - wishful thinking -and didn't get on the Dorrans bandwagon until way too late. Stuck with Brunt, but Dorrans takes a lot of the set-pieces off him now, so Dorrans ended up about the only Albion player worth having. Had Maynard at the start, but sold him, possibly for Luke Moore

Certainly be up for it next year if it runs where maybe I could do better with no Albion players to put me off!

[SamD]

With just a day and the Wembley play-off to go, here's a rundown of the super league top fives:

Championship (top three will receive cash prizes)

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     Manager (Team Name)              Points
1  Simon Holman (Chiefschampsotrons)    1706
2  Ian Melluish (High green Owls)       1695
3  Robert Bryson (Farmers)              1652
4  David King (ManJester United)        1629
5  Benjamin Day (TommyMooneys Champs)   1620

Starting XI

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                                      Points
1  David King (ManJester United)        1287
2  Keith Clarke (BoingBoing)            1233
3  Phil Saul (The Sea Wolves)           1174
4  Bernie Hartley (PNE4PREM)            1122
5  David Andrews (NFG-Ne Obliviscaris)  1120

Goals

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                                       Goals
1  David Andrews (NFG-Ne Obliviscaris)   114
2  Ian Melluish (High green Owls)        112
3  Simon Holman (Chiefschampsotrons)     111
4  Robert Bryson ( Farmers)              109
4  Keith Clarke (BoingBoing)             109 

Understand the Telegraph will be running a Championship game again in August.

In the meantime, managers may feed the FF bug via Two Foot Challenge, the World Cup prize super league:
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[blessedbrian]

thanks for running the comp Sam

I will try and give this one a bit more focus next time around, my team was very badly neglected

[bloggie]

Perhaps I should've been in this as I'm 4th overall. Could've been higher if I pulled the transfer reign in even slightly. Then again as your one is a knockout there's no guarantee that I'd get through and it looks like you may use transfers differently merely as you are in this. Put 3 in and the other 2 were only just in the top 200 so not even sure what the difference was so may have a look at that. It seems nice gameplay in the Championship anyhow and Newcastle,WBA,(Cardiff or Blackpool),Shef Wed,Plymouth and Peterborough replaced by Burnley,Hull,Portsmouth,Norwich,Leeds,(Millwall or Swindon) next season.

[Bramernic]

Make that 40 - forgot penalty shoot-out goals are only +3. Anyway, you didn't do too badly yourself SOBD.

How many do you expect to have playing in the final? I'm hopeful of a full 11.

Cheers I was a bit surprised with your score I have to admit - well done.

I'm hoping for the full 11 also. It's turned into a titanic battle to avoid the wooden spoon...good luck!

I'm going to be out most of tomorrow as my youngest is making his 1st Communion. I probably won't be around until well after 3pm so I've made my final transfers tonight. At risk of giving you an advantage in the race to avoid last, here is my XI for tomorrow:

Marshall

Crainey
Baptiste
Hudson
McNaughton

Adam
Whittingham
Ledley

Campbell
Ormerod
Chopra

You've got to beat me by 10 to share the honour.

[melvin]

My players for play off final are

Adam
Whittingham
Boothroyd
Chopra
Burke