Week 37: OFFL Cup Semi-Finals Draw

The Wet Fish-Slap of Reality
  
It's that time of the year when Our Most Gracious Chairman has been too busy checking his MySpace profile and forgets that the season might be running out of weeks.  The usual flailing arms and panicked head-scratching would indicate that He's forgotten to schedule the OFFL Cup within enough weeks to play it.

So this year [if you can imagine it] OMG Chairman was flicking the doughnut crumbs off his continually ballooning belly, and about to plunge into a beautiful snooze, when the wet fish of reality slapped him harshly across the face.  Convulsing with panic, he vaulted into the green leather chair of his bureaux followed by the dragging of a chubby little finger down a column of dates in his Danii Minogue calendar while his tongue apprehensively clings to the outside of his upper lip.

"Ah," he thinks with relief "that could have been embarrassing"

The moment passes and he mops his brow with a polka dot hankie.

And thus...

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OFFL Cup
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Semi-Finals, to be played over Week 39

           RS-TBOY v Inter Milandrover
     Rick Beecroft   Smasher

Dowds Farm Goblins v Moreton Rovers
      Nick Borrett   Edgar Rayner


Meanwhile, the Manager of the Week certificate goes to Stanley and Kate Wilson for skippering their Epic Yellowz to a chunky 11 points, boosting themselves up one place into Seventh.  They are 34 points off the top.  Couple of Winston Reid hat-tricks and they'll be right back in it.

T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                 Manager             (GBPm)Wk Tot
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 1 Neil's Diamonds      Neil McConaghy       54.8  9 371
 2 Inter Milandrover    Smasher              54.7  9 362
 3 Dowds Farm Goblins   Nick Borrett         54.8  3 358
 4 Livercoolio          Russell Bielby       54.8  3 356
 5 Pyeators             Dave Clayton         55.0  8 345
 6 Crystal Phallus      Guy Salter           54.2  6 344
 7 Epic Yellowz         Stanley/Kate Wilson  54.0 11 337
 8 RS-TBOY              Rick Beecroft        55.0  0 334
 9 Radnorshire Tigers   Alun Edwards         53.3  8 326
10 Absolutely Fabregas  Sarah Bingham        55.0  9 325
11 Moobchester United   Jon King             54.7  3 321
12 Game Of Throw Ins    Craig McHugh         54.9  3 320
13 Irishpool            Mike Smears          54.2 -1 318
14 Starpratt Mustgo     Malcolm Meaden-Pratt 55.0  5 318
15 Big Girl's Blouses   Guy Harewood         54.6  5 317
16 Bourneslippy         Karyn Meaden-Pratt   54.5  5 312
17 Moanchester United   Alex Blundell        54.7 -5 312
18 Shutdown FC          Sam Reed             54.0  9 309
19 Toby's Gang          Toby Larking         54.9  8 295
20 Johnny's Heroes      Sarah Bielby         54.6  5 289
21 The Flying Geese     Mandy Noble          54.8  2 284
22 Guess Hughton        Nick Reed            54.3  1 283
23 Minty's Minions      Minty Colquhoun      53.9 -1 282
24 Roll all the dice FC Gavin Ward           54.6  3 253
25 It's A Snickers      Ashley Keeler        54.0  9 243
26 Sheep City           Martyn Field         53.9  6 221
27 Obi Wan Kenobi Nil   Chris Walsh          53.7  6 211
28 Moreton Rovers       Edgar Rayner         55.0  5 162
29 Ali McMoist          Ali Larking          46.8  1  97
30 The Trumpeteers      Donald Trump         42.9  6  18


                        Week's Average Points        4.7
                        Total Average Points       287.4


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T r a n s f e r s   a n d   s t u f f
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Pyeators
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   From: Dave Clayton
     To: Chairman@LittleSmasher.com

Mr Chairman Sir

Please may I have a last roll of the dice (about 5 weeks too late of course) and make the following changes please?

Out
284 Fonte
408 Mane
565 Zlatan Ibrathingibob

In
279 Bailly
368 Zaha
584 Kane

Many Thanks

Your well of the ball Pyeating manager Dave

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Chairman responds:
Is this a last ditch attempt at grasping for glory?  Oh, yes, it is, you pretty much said that, didn't you.  Right.


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