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Loving the tactics / pre-match mind games, @Chivs & @citywest30 - but sorry to inform you that your match up has already taken place!

Waited to see who entered teams v Brentford before confirming the draw, apologies for the confusion. Waiting on VAR to confirm bonus points and will then reveal those through to the semi-finals.

Just to confirm as well, FA Cup matches are not included - will mess up my spreadsheet as much as anything else...

Also, to extend the #HashtagNYC throughout the whole of January, the semis will be two-legged affairs (v Wigan & Barnsley) before the final v Reading.

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Don’t worry @bissellredhead, only league games anyway, so your rushed team was in vain I’m afraid..! Have a unicorn for your efforts.

And while the “real” cup brought a disappointing result, our fantasy (and clearly far more important) version still holds some hope of success...

Gameweek 26 Update - Crappy New Year (#NYCR1)

No goals, four conceded, and a red card. That’s a hefty New Year hangover. Or, perhaps, they were all still drunk. Either way, it results in very few fantasy fireworks. Unlucky 13 was the highest score of the week, one of only two double digit scores, and the first round of our cup descended into a battle of “who’s got the least bad total?”.

Despite this, the beauty of a fantasy cup is that there are still four triumphant players, and we all receive at least some points - which is more than our real team can say this year. So without further ado...

New Year Cup R1 Results:

@Oubliette23 5 - 2 @jrt55555: with both choosing Dasilva and Weimann (C), this became the battle of Brownhill and Eliasson... and Brownhill won simply by playing for more than 27 minutes. Two bonus points gives a flattering gloss to the victory, much like two late goals...

@citywest30 7 - 13 @Chivs: they weren’t even ready to play each other, and yet it was the highest scoring match of the round. Captain Diédhiou got them both to double figures, but then Williams dragged the higher placed citywest30 down and we have our first cup “upset”.

@RedYoshi 10 - 9 @Dogbert: the tightest of tight ties. While I relied entirely on Cap’n Fam (Eliasson and Dasilva cancelling each other out), Dogbert had actually picked the two highest scorers (Diédhiou and Brownhill as skipper) for what could have been a match-winning 13 points. But yep, you guessed it: experienced, reliable, what-a-signing Williams ensured that 13 was unlucky.

@Chessels Chick 3 - 7 @bissellredhead: amazingly, Chessels was the only person other than Chivs to not choose a player with a negative score. Meanwhile, bissellredhead was the only person to captain a player with a negative score. Logic out the window; ripping up the form-book; magic of the cup.

Congratulations and commiserations!

Our semi-finals therefore (two legs, across GW27 & 28 - Wigan & Barnsley):

@Oubliette23 v @RedYoshi

@Chivs v @bissellredhead

But the rest of you, don’t fear, for this is a fantasy cup, and therefore we can bend rules, break boundaries, and generally make s*** up. So welcome to your “reverse semi-finals”:

@jrt55555 v @Dogbert

@citywest30 v @Chessels Chick

These will also be over two legs, and will then lead on to a 5th/6th and a 7th/8th place playoff.

Wouldn’t want anyone to feel left out now, would we Kasey?

 

Anyway, now the cupdate’s done, we can concentrate on the league:

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Low-scoring week, so pretty much as you were. Here’s to better things in Wigan :drunk2:  

 

GW26 Points Breakdown

  1. Diédhiou 5
  2. Brownhill 4
  3. Smith 2
  4. Watkins 2
  5. Eliasson 1
  6. Kalas 1
  7. Moore 1
  8. Nagy 1
  9. Rodri 1
  10. Weimann 1
  11. Hunt 0
  12. Dasilva -1
  13. Williams -4
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On 11/01/2020 at 09:18, Chessels Chick said:

Congratulations @bissellredhead ??

My team for Wigan

Dasilva (Moore)

Eliasson (Brownhill)

Diedhiou VC (Weimann)

 

On 11/01/2020 at 09:59, RedYoshi said:

Congrats @bissellredhead!

Thank you all for the likes and comments.

Robyn Bissell was born at 11:00 this morning weighing a healthy 8lbs 3oz. Mostly pleased that the wife loves the name we chose and the added bonus that it has affiliation to our club ?

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47 minutes ago, bissellredhead said:

 

Thank you all for the likes and comments.

Robyn Bissell was born at 11:00 this morning weighing a healthy 8lbs 3oz. Mostly pleased that the wife loves the name we chose and the added bonus that it has affiliation to our club ?

Congratulations! Great choice of name!

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PEU v Barnsley

@jrt55555 - cannot select Dasilva

@citywest30, @Dogbert &@RedYoshi - cannot select Diédhiou

@Chessels Chick - cannot select Eliasson

 

Update later or tomorrow morning - the semi finals are very close, so all to play for in this second leg! Final has obviously been postponed ‘til the QPR match, but we won’t dwell on why.

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Gameweek 27 Update - Return of the Pat

What a way to mark your “return from loan debut”. Score one, make the other, and inject at least a bit of hope into the non-believers. Derby are left wondering why the were so keen to get rid, as our Jamie can only look north and laugh at their impending points deduction. His mother would be proud. What a lad. What a specimen. What a player.

 

 

None of us picked him.

 

Ah well, there were clean sheets galore, and plenty of Captain Fams to the rescue, resulting in a pretty high scoring week:

Reverse semi-finals (first leg):

@jrt55555 31 - 33 @Dogbert: Eliasson the difference maker to give Dogbert a slight advantage heading into the second leg. With a clean sheet and a captain Diédhiou apiece, Nagy could only contribute a 1 point cameo for jrt.

@citywest30 31 - 24 @Chessels Chick: Again, Eliasson the difference maker, but this time in the wrong way, as Chessels’ decision to give him the armband instead of Diédhiou has left citywest with the largest (though not insurmountable) lead of all the semi-finals. Fine margins.

Semi-finals (first leg):

@Oubliette23 33 - 30 @RedYoshi: we know each other’s games inside out, and on this occasion my evidently better half has nudged just in front. I had backed a previously absent midfielder starting with a P to have a stormer, but Palmer was the wrong one to go for, and Brownhill’s injury left me with no midfielder at all. Thus, yet again, Eliasson was the pivotal pick.

@Chivs 13 - 10 @bissellredhead: the two lowest scorers of the week, handily drawn against each other to give us yet another tight semi-final. The only players not to pick Diédhiou, and the only match in which Eliasson wasn’t involved. It was still the midfield battle where the match was won though, Chivs’ 3-point Smith beating bissell’s unfortunate captain choice of Massengo.

Still, lowest scorer of the week or not, bissell received the greatest prize of us all. Welcome Robyn!

 

Good luck in the second legs today, but just like City, let’s concentrate on the league:

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@Dogbert‘s joint week-leading score has seen them leapfrog @bissellredhead and start pressuring the top 4, while @Oubliette23 continues to maintain the gap at the top.

Time to hit the road & get to Bristol - see ya there!

 

GW27 Points Breakdown

  1. Diédhiou 12
  2. Paterson 11
  3. Dasilva 6
  4. Hunt 6
  5. Williams 6
  6. Baker 5
  7. Eliasson 3
  8. Smith 3
  9. Weimann 2
  10. Massengo 1
  11. Nagy 1
  12. Rowe 1
  13. Watkins 1
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For Barnsley; for glory

Dasilva (Moore)

Eliasson C (Paterson)

Diedhiou VC (Semenyo)

 

PS On the way home on Tuesday, a friendly Shrewsbury fan asked me who we had on Saturday.  I said Brentford. Which pretty much shows how much attention I'm giving City....

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Gameweek 28 Update - Second Leg Syndrome

After five scores in the 30s in the first leg, and close matches galore, this second leg v Barnsley had a lot to live up to. For a good while, it was failing. The satisfying riffs and hooks were there, in the form of an (arguably fortunate) clean sheet, but it was just lacking that first leg magic, with potential crowd-pleasers missing the target time and time again.

But then came that penultimate track, and suddenly it all made sense again. The band were back, and they’d turned our expectations on their head. Our lowest scorers became our highest, wasted chips turned to inspired selections - could first leg deficits follow the same path?

Short answer: no.

 

Reverse semi-finals (second leg - aggregate in brackets):

@jrt55555 14 (45) - (50) 17 @Dogbert: neither gained any attacking returns, with the difference only in the captaincy - Dogbert trusting our defenders; Paterson unable to repeat his heroics for JRT.

@citywest30 18 (49) - (37) 13 @Chessels Chick: with them both captaining their forwards, it was all down to the engine room and the rearguard action, and citywest topped both - Williams a bonus point better off than Hunt, and matchwinner Eliasson reminding Paterson how it’s done.

Semi-finals (second leg):

@Oubliette23 23 (56) - (52) 22 @RedYoshi: a captained Best Of chip looked for a while like it might bring the first turnaround, but Oubliette’s organic selection of Eliasson coupled with a 12 point Dasilva ensured that captain Diédhiou wasn’t costly.

@Chivs 28 (41) - (36) 26 @bissellredhead: with Chivs matching Oubliette’s team but captaining better (Eliasson), it was a tough task for bissell, but by Jove it was close. An inspired choice to award the armband to Dasilva immediately gained 24 points, Diédhiou bumped that up to 26... but neither Nagy nor Massengo appeared, and the comeback was cut agonisingly short. Eliasson would’ve done it.

 

Thus we are left with these tantalising final match-ups:

7th/8th place playoff: @jrt55555 v @Chessels Chick

5th/6th place playoff: @Dogbert v @citywest30

3rd place playoff: @RedYoshi v @bissellredhead

GRAND FINAL: @Oubliette23 v @Chivs

Ridiculous that they’ve scheduled a final for a Tuesday night, mind. Bloody modern football.

 

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@bissellredhead‘s near comeback has seen them regain 5th spot, while the irrepressible @Oubliette23 is just a point away from half a millennium. Can 7th placed @Chivs cause an upset in the final?

 

GW28 Points Breakdown

  1. Dasilva 12
  2. Baker 8
  3. Eliasson 7
  4. Williams 7
  5. Hunt 6
  6. Brownhill 3
  7. Paterson 3
  8. Smith 3
  9. Diédhiou 2
  10. Weimann 2
  11. O’Dowda 1
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On 17/01/2020 at 20:27, RedYoshi said:

Final has obviously been postponed ‘til the QPR match, but we won’t dwell on why.

This was obviously wrong - but we won’t dwell on that either...

PEU v Reading

@Chivs - cannot select Dasilva

@Dogbert & @RedYoshi - cannot select Hunt

@Chessels Chick & @jrt55555 - cannot select Diédhiou

@Oubliette23 - cannot select Eliasson or Diédhiou

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