Goals - 6 points for a Defender, 5 for a midfielder and 4 for a Forward.Thankyou, Toni, for this link about Goals!
http://lyndagrayauthor.com/tag/goal-setting/
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Gameweek 6 coming up now. Let's hope there are lots of goals!.
http://lyndagrayauthor.com/tag/goal-setting/
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
A message from Toni - commenting on Gameweek 5 blog "Ladies Day"
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Girls on top! Long may it continue.
Glad to see you are back to normal Barbara. Being out of reach of the web is not good for your team. Its holidays or F.L.
My beautiful daughter in law played a blinder last week. Where does she get her info!
Girl Power. Yes!
Toni
Thankyou, Toni, for your comment and well done this week.
Lady Managers, we love you all.
Confidentially, I think I know where Joanne (HelloJo All Stars) gets her information.
It's from Jim - that's what I heard.
Or was it "At the Gym"?
Monday, 23 September 2013
Gameweek 5 - Ladies' Week.
I woke up this morning to find the washing was out. All those white shirts dazzling us. The "No Wonders" are on top so soon this season. With a round of 72 to lead the field. In fact, the ladies are blooming all together. Barbara's "Dynamos" wound themselves up to the same score. And then what do we get? Joanne's "All Stars" at 85 puntos! (It sounds less threatening in Spanish).
Ladies' week in the Tiger Balm Gardens.
The Allotments got going on time! There are 18 of us and there will be 34 matches. Teams play each other twice. Bad luck for Nigel's "Cool Feet from Essex" team with 70 points! He got entangled in the washing. Good score, bad luck. I've given him a flag of consolation.
With my score, there were 4 teams that I could have beaten in the Allotments. And I am only 72 points behind the Washing in the Gardens. Look on the bright side!
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Mid- Gameweek 5, a comment on tomorrow's Stoke v Arsenal
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One of tomorrow's matches is Stoke v Arsenal. Three years ago in this fixture Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey's leg was broken in several places in a tackle by Stoke's defender, Ryan Shawcross.
Ramsey has played at Stoke's ground 3 times already since his recovery and each time he has been booed by the Stoke fans! ....... Strange behaviour?
I have transferred Ramsey into my team for today's match. I'd like to see him score.
If he does, will he get booed louder?
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Week 5 coming up and ....Stanley Matthews!
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Get into the Allotments!
The Tiger BalmAllotments league is due to start on Saturday 21st September. There are still two members missing from the planned total of 18. If, by chance, we do not have a total of 18 by Friday night I shall close the League to new entrants and start at a slightly later date one or two weeks later. No problem.
You can work out how many weeks we need for 18 teams to play each other twice if you follow the Premier League paradigm. With the 20 teams of the Premier League our season is 38 weeks. (Total number of teams minus one, then multiply by 2)
Amongst the non-fantasy matches coming along in Gameweek 5 we have two local derbies: in London and Manchester. The London one is between two clubs whose grounds you can see on the District Line of the London Underground (above ground in this vicinity). If you look out to the left of the carriage before Putney Bridge you will see some of the stand at Stamford Bridge; further on you might get a glimpse of Fulham's stand on the north bank as you cross the Thames. If you don't see it you can get off the train and walk along the south bank to where the Boat Race starts and look across the river. Craven Cottage is where I think I saw Stanley Matthews play in 1952..........
......I only just got in. I had to stand at the top rear of a terrace and I could only see part of the pitch. Immediately from the kick-off Mathews must have got the ball. He was playing in the hinterland of the near touchline. I could not see the pitch. The thousands in front of me strained up on their toes flinging their arms about for the traction to push themselves higher in order to see the great Stanley. Those of us at the very back got pushed away down the slope of cinders and shale towards the river. We would climb back up just in time for Matthews to get the ball again and the same thing to happen: down we would go towards the river. The ground was so full that last of us to get in to watch were on the reverse downward slope of the so-called terrace anyway!
The second half, for this reason, was not much better. Matthews was on the wing at the far side of the ground but not in the half of the pitch that I could see something of.......did I really see him? Certainly: his head here, a leg there, a shirt certainly, a boot once - if I add it all up I suppose I can say, "Yes, I probably did see Matthews play!"
Gameweek 4 league table
With Jezza City Slickers still at the top, who is this arriving in 2nd place overnight? But nobody is surprised after her win last season that Toni's 'Little Wonders' has the highest score of the week: 71.
Congratulations, Toni, and a suggestion for a change of team name to Little Short of Amazing.
Anything can happen in football and even more chance is added in our fantasy game. There is hope for us all down there below. Tell everyone your good luck stories, send them to me if you do not have a Google account. With an account you can write directly into the comments on the blog page.
Example.
One of your best players doesn't play at the last minute and in comes a substitute who scores lots of points but seemingly they were not not going to count. Read Johnson of Liverpool and Fonte of Southampton.
Monday, 16 September 2013
Gameweek 4: who is top and why?
However, I have to point out that 'Jezza' is a bit of a light-hearted name for a football team. And 'City Slickers' only makes it worse. And you would think that a Sunderland supporter would have at least one Sunderland player in his team. Well done, Jeremy!
There were 7 Premier League teams with clean sheets at the weekend so defenders with max points could be expected and indeed Jeremy had four who brought in good returns.
I'll publish the Gameweek 4 league table tomorrow to keep the record straight.
Monday, 2 September 2013
Gameweek 3
Up to the top comes Jackula United, by 2 points. Well done, Jack!
(Brace yourselves, everyone, and have a look at his team's kit. The lad might be good at sport but is his eyesight all right?)
And then two points behind the leader is young James with a team called BouWow11 (Green is my favourite colour, and the name is very subtle.)
Where has Ed strolled off to? Ah, there he is - not far behind, only 7 points from the leader. But what is this? It's the Little Wonders - bobbing up a mere 15 points below her grandson. Then looking further down there's me, and then we are in deeper water.
Whose idea was it to play this game?
I think we have another league within our league as it turns out to my surprise that Steve has more than 2 friends. Latest arrival is from the Gosforth, Newcastle hotbed of footer.
Not one of them has chosen a Newcastle player.
Not one of them has chosen a Newcastle player.
By the way, the League is now closed at 18 members. Get ready for the Heat to Head which will have to start soon so look out for the code for The Tiger Balm Allotments league.
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