First of all the "who's on the naughty step?" bit. Just like last time I checked, virtually all transfers made had been correctly posted on this thread, so thanks to everyone for doing that. Having been through all the posts since the last update, I came up with the following few queries...
Robot - I found two unreported changes, but I'm guessing that these were changes you have only just made and which you'll be posting on here prior to kick-off tomorrow. So the table below shows you with 9 transfers left. The two changes were:
Gibbs
Jagielka Michu
OscarPaulgrinny - I think you forgot to report an earlier Enrique-Luiz change?
Topspur - I think you forgot to report a Sterling-Walcott swap?
Skiffer - Looks to me like your team has 4 names that weren't reported - Ben Arfa, Arteta, Walcott and Aguero. So I have reduced your number of transfers left in the table from 22 to 18, but I guess you may have made more. Can you confirm the number of transfers you have left?
Apart from that, there were no issues so thanks again to everyone for getting their declarations in
Just like last time, Van Persie is the most common pick - only ADK doesn't have him. Cazorla now is also picked by 11 out of 12 of us, with only Paulgrinny not having him.
At the other end of the scale, the real differentiators out there (players only picked by one of us) are as below. Of course, now that we are approaching the business end of the season, some of these have been recently selected as quite deliberate differentiators, and the list is noticeably longer than earlier in the season. As usual however, while some of these names look inspired picks, others perhaps don't look quite so good
Aguero (Skiffer)
Arteta (Skiffer)
Bale (Jag)
Bassong (ADK)
Begovic (Jag)
Ben Arfa (Skiffer)
Cleverley (PaulG)
Hart (HogM)
Hazard (Skiffer)
Huth (Dude)
Jagielka (Robot)
Krul (Dude)
Lampard (Topspur)
Luiz (PaulG)
Oscar (Robot)
Sessegnon (Dude)
Shawcross (Jag)
Sturridge (HogW)
Szczesny (Topspur)
Ramires (Robot)
Torres (ADK)
Valencia (PaulG)
Zabaleta (Topspur).
I noticed in one of the other Egg Cup divisional threads that it had started to highlight the number of players who were still in the FA Cup (so potentially getting extra games), so I have done the same here, with all those players who are still in the FA Cup in bold.
Surprisingly (as I haven't been paying much attention to this so far), I have 9 players in the cup which is the joint highest, along with my fellow hog, Hogweed, and Robot. On the other hand, ADK, Ashers and Jag are the three with the fewest, each with just 6 players still involved in the cup.
And, finally, the Tinkerman Trophy...
At one end of the scale we have the tortoise-hugging Nathan247, who could yet make a big move up the table if he uses his 21 remaining transfers wisely.
At the other extreme, the current leader in the race for the Tinkerman trophy is PaulGrinny (just 7 transfers left) - PaulG is now seriously threatening to retain the trophy he "won" in last year's Egg Cup Div 3
He is being followed closely by Topspur (8) and Robot (9).Anyway - here's the table, let me know if you spot any mistakes...
