Team of the Week
TSFC are back at the top of this column bay bay. 2nd time in 4 weeks with a special mention last week too this bunch of utter misfits seem to be absolutely firing on all cylinders at the moment. 61, 45, 63 and 55 are their last 4 scores and that doesn’t include the 30pts they left on the bench in their 63 week (only 6 on the bench this week). To be honest I’m as baffled as anyone that they’ve scored so well and are 2nd in the league but I’m sure their tall moustachioed manager will not be complaining. Castage (7), Saka (10), Foden (11) and Ayew (13!) did the damage against a very resilient Rudi. There’s an argument they were fortunate to scrap this victory but that discussion (spoiler alert) is for another part of these needless words. As it stands they are now 5pts clear of 3rd and leering over the shoulder of young Ed at that top spot.
Player of the Week
Jared ‘The Inducer of Unnecessary Stress’ Bowen take a big ol fucking bow lad. 20pts in a single GW is a glorious thing and it was nearly made even more glorious as he single handedly turned around an 18pt deficit for his manager Rudi. 2 goals inside the first 7 minutes set up a fucking terrifying next 90 but ultimately he couldn’t quite drag his manager over the line. Still bloody lovely stuff.
Match of the Week
Can only be Rudi v Lee which ended a toight toight 54 v 55. Rudi has come in for a bit of haterade recently due to his perfectly imperfect record of, now, 8 straight losses in a GR and this one was all geared up to be another very miserable weekend for the Barellatron. 18pts separated these two going into the last game and then Bowen did that thing we’ve already chatted about. Brentford scoring 2 dropped a point off Areola and Zouma for Lee leaving us at 54 all but one man was not having any of it. Someone must have tickled Areola as he stood to attention and made a few saves in quick succession to drop that extra saves point into his little bag in what would end up being the winning point. Tense? Yes. Exciting? Yes. Unexpected? Definitely. Good end result? Some may say so……
Chump of the Week
Oh Chrishy where to start? You scored 8 overall this week? It’s bad but not our starting point. No player scoring higher than 2? Nah not there. A team built on attacking output failing to register a single assist or goal? Nope. A 3 man defence and keeper conceding 14 goals between them? Nearly there. Ah how about your 3 defenders and keeper scored a combined total of -4. MINUS FUCKING FOUR!!! Flekken (0), Moreno (-1), Murillo (-1) and Botman (-2) hang your heads in shame, what a goddamn shambles. Also how many goals does DCL not have to score before Chrish drops him? What on earth happened this week? I don’t think it’s quite the lowest score we’ve had but it is by the far the worst score in terms of minus points and shit output from quite good players.
Dawkins of the Week
Odobert. Just what. Who in living fuck is this guy? I’m at a loss for words here. Where’s this cunt been hiding Chris? Just thought you’d throw him out into the open 26 GW’s in? Christ on a bike.
Thread Contribution of the Week
I complained and boy did you chaps deliver. Strap in this is a bumper dish of deliciousness.
Brophy asking the important questions....
...then bringing the heat.....
....before cooling down quite quickly....
This guy has a pretty responsible job with actual humans to manage.
The thread was really ducking a diving with people literally just writing out their thoughts
Erm...is this a good time to announce the teams? Pretty normal 1130 Sat morn chat.
You could smell Dev's excitement as he typed this.
Off the back of a Coleslaw dinner Broph came back with more important questions.
