Aguero in the fall (October's three matches}

The Aguero league?
Only two teams in the top half of the league do not have Aguero. He certainly looks like a banker for any team. He costs a lot!

At least one manager played a Triple Captain card, taking advantage of a fixture against Sunderland.

Emperor leads with 549,
                                        that's 26 points from Elojo on 523 then 11 less to Forest Gunners.


The top 5 teams with more than 500 points are in line for a total score of 2000+  needed to win the league.


Goals in October 
Week 8    total 27        Home 19 Away 8      Clean sheets 8
Week 9            19                   13           6                           9
Week 10          28                   12           16                         7

October was the best month for defenders with 22 clean sheets over the 3 matches.

September with 4 Gameweeks ..... 16 clean sheets
and August (3 gameweeks) ........... 13.

The end

Bright September

August leader Elojo, gives place to Emperor Strikes Back, after the 4 Gameweeks started in September. And Jackula drops from 2nd to 8th.

The last of these (Gameweek 7) saw only 20 goals in all matches, the  lowest of the season so far, and so points were scarce.

But the previous 3 Gameweeks  had 34, 36 and 34 goals totalling 124 for September. (August had 72 in the 3 Gameweeks)

I am not showing the league here this month as I am not able to copy it at a reasonable size of print - don't know why!
Goal totals: 28  Week 1
                    22            2
                    22            3
                    34            4
                    36            5
                    34            6
                    20            7

Keep taking the points. The end.

Scrapbook items pre-Gameweek 4

On the pitch v On the touchline - a piece from today's Times. Click on the link.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/forget-bad-blood-now-its-up-to-the-players-to-perform-js3bt9fts

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/forget-bad-blood-now-its-up-to-the-players-to-perform-js3bt9fts

Email, Friday 9/9/16 to everyone in TBG from el jefe

Good luck for Gameweek 4

Dear Plotters,

I believe there are 9 teams with Aguero at the last check. I just wanted to say that he will probably still score lots of points over the whole season. 

Unless he slips on the wet grass when he returns from his 3 match ban (it is 3, isn't it?). 

But there are still loads of matches for him to fall/score in. Or get sent off.

All the best from the Senior Consultant

ps Isn't PL exciting compared to watching England? 

pss Un agüero is 'a hole' in Spanish...... Just saying!

psss Still, he is definitely the best forward in the PL!

"For it's a long long time from May to September" (Autumn Weather)

And it is about the same time from April to August ....but here we are with the three August EPL gameweeks done and dusted.....
......and Mike is still in the lead even though he was on holiday when the first two matches went down.

I have pleasure in announcing that same honoured gentleman was presented last week with the Diploma as leading light of the 2015-16 season by my representative in a Chinese cap and jacket.



Gardens League

1   Elojo Mike Trainor 51 190 2   Jackula Vampires Jack Trainor 48 171 3   Emperor Strikes Back Ian Davidson 24 160 4   Boro4theTitle Harry Thompson 35 159 5   Si Si Songs nick hall 58 159 6   Flocante Furies Vernon Hall 65 155 6   Jimbo Jets XI James Boucher 45 155 8   Spudato Leah Pardo 22 154 9   It's just not Cricke David Thompson 38 149 10   Tiger balms garden Peter Jones 45 143 11   Florence Dynamos Barbara Rogers 29 141 12   Little Wonders antoinette trainor 38 141 13   Little Ted Unhinged Steve Trainor 42 132 14   Chi Strollers Ed Rogers 42 122 15   Foxes John Vickers 36 104 16   Gottodobetter16/17 Richard Boucher 39 90 17   El-Fandi Allstars Peter Holland 36 84 And not surprisingly at this early stage, Mike is also ahead in the Allotments: Rank Team & Manager Wins Draws Losses Score Pts 1    Elojo Mike Trainor 2 0 1 190 6 2    Jackula Vampires Jack Trainor 2 0 1 171 6 3    Si Si Songs nick hall 2 0 1 159 6 4    Flocante Furies Vernon Hall 2 0 1 155 6 5    Little Wonders antoinette trainor 2 0 1 141 6 6    Little Ted Unhinged Steve Trainor 2 0 1 132 6 7    Emperor Strikes Back Ian Davidson 1 0 2 160 3 8    AVERAGE AVERAGE 1 0 2 143 3 9    Florence Dynamos Barbara Rogers 1 0 2 141 3 10    Gottodobetter16/17 Richard Boucher 0 0 3 90 0 The end

Results in our 20015-16 leagues

TBGardens

Mike won by 52 points.

Herr Klopp kept us waiting to see which Liverpool players would appear in the last PL match of the season given that they had the Europa Cup Final following in a couple of days.

And we found that Sturridge and Coutinho didn't play in Liverpool's last PL match underlining the fact that the end of season can be chaotic to plan for. But Mike didn't really look like being caught easily.

The Emperor's debut as 2nd in the league means we'll be hearing from him again. I cannot recall if Barbara's Florence has won the league before but as usual most of us were looking up to her. Last year's leader Leah's Legends did well again close up to Barbara (5 points) in 4th. Well placed when it all ended were It's just not Cricket and Jackula. The latter at 2009 was 149 behind his grandfather - which is only 4 points per match!

I expect we all had our crazy moments in dealing with the Chips: I mentioned one of mine involving the Triple Points for the Captain elsewhere. (See previous blog)

GW	TOT
	1	Elojo	Mike Trainor	35	2,158
	2	Emperor of Brixton	Ian Davidson	40	2,106
	3	Florence Dynamos	Barbara Rogers	49	2,064
	4	Leah's Legends	Leah Pardo	66	2,059
	5	Its just not cricket	David Thompson	55	2,023
	6	Jackula United	Jack Trainor	37	2,009
	7	Gottadobetter 15/16	Richard Boucher	43	2,008
	8	Super Rams	Peter Jones	39	1,975
	9	Floculante Furies	Vernon Hall	32	1,972
	10	Foxes	John Vickers	39	1,940
	11	MFC PL Dream	Harry Thompson	58	1,939
	12	little wonders	antoinette trainor	30	1,927
	13	Bouwow31	James Boucher	46	1,906
	14	Chi Strollers	Ed Rogers	60	1,898
	15	Little Ted United	Steve Trainor	62	1,836
	16	Si Si Songs	nick hall	28	1,807
	17	El-Fandi Allstars	Peter Holland	24	1,793
	18	Kenski Braves	Kenneth Pitt	43	1,577

And the Allotments. Congratulations to a previous winner of the Gardens league. Richard wins this by a single point from Jack. Leading names from the Gardens are in 3rd and 4th but El Ojo's points in this league leave him surprisingly low at ...10th!! Even the Average is in a funny position.

I won't print the other leagues but Mike won the Patio (classic league for 2nd half of PL season) and consort Toni won Allot of Tiger Balm. (2nd half of season, head to head)

+-	#	Team	W	D	L	+	Pts
	1	Gottadobetter 15/16	25	2	11	2,008	77
	2	Jackula United	25	1	12	2,009	76
	3	Emperor of Brixton	22	0	16	2,106	66
	4	Leah's Legends	22	0	16	2,059	66
	5	Si Si Songs	21	0	17	1,807	63
	6	Foxes	19	1	18	1,940	58
	7	little wonders	19	1	18	1,927	58
	8	Bouwow31	19	1	18	1,906	58
	9	Little Ted United	19	1	18	1,836	58
	10	Elojo	18	1	19	2,158	55
	11	Florence Dynamos	18	1	19	2,064	55
	12	Spartak Canary	17	4	17	1,860	55
	13	Floculante Furies	17	2	19	1,972	53
	14	Chi Strollers	15	3	20	1,898	48
	15	Average	8	4	26	1,790	28
	16	Kenski Braves	9	0	29	1,577	27