Hello and welcome again to The Banterbury Leagues review. We are at game-week 16 and some massive games have been played and 8 more teams have joined Bench & Potty in securing their place in the Banterbury Shield to start in GW21 (January 11th-13th). There are still 6 spots up for grabs around the leagues in the final qualification game-week, next weekend. So without further ado let’s go round the leagues and find out who are falling in to the drop-zones or who are sitting pretty at the top & everything in between. As ever we start with the premier league.
Premier
Cookie’s Monsters regains top spot and secures his place in the shield after beating Horse FC 11th 73-65. Joining him in the shield and moving up to 2nd are Arsene’s Boys who beat Gasco’s athletic 8th 82-76, ending any hopes Gasco had of qualifying. Park Bench Exports drop to 3rd after another close game for him though this time it didn’t go in his favour as he lost to Rising Phoenix 68-66 who move up to 9th. Arguably the biggest game of the week was between Where’s The Dosh? who were 4th, in that final qualification place and Reubens Rioters who were sitting 5th, with Rioters coming out on top 84-80 which also means they swap places in the league with one qualification game-week to go. This result also keeps alive the hopes of both Bocadillo Allstars 6th & Pork n Cheese United 7th, they both won beating UD Stoke who drop into the relegation places & Eddy Hitler XI respectively. So if Reubens Rioters beat Pork n Cheese United who they face next week the place will be theirs, a defeat or a draw opens up the place for Where’s The Dosh or the Allstars who both have the same number of points though The Dosh have accumulated 7 points more in the overall standings, meaning it could be a straight points shootout if both win. While Pork n Cheese United must beat Rioters by 47 points and hope the other two teams in the running lose, it’s a big ask but funnier things have happened. Meanwhile in the bottom half Kojak’s Fireball beat Buzz’s Bomb Squad 83-71, Kop Warriors (FF247 writer) won again his 3rd in a row and move to 15th, 3 places above the drop-zone. Prutsers; allemaal and Killer Instincts played out a 78-78 draw. The 6 pointer between the bottom two, TheKopKnightRISES & THE MUTTS NUTS went the way of RISES leaving Mutts 10 adrift at the foot and 13 from safety, he just can’t catch a break as his score of 73 would have beaten 5 of the teams above him, but there’s no time for him to feel sorry for himself as he has another 6 pointer Vs 3rd from bottom UD Stoke up next.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/843/standings/
Championship
Gallowgators stay top and book their shield place after beating FC Tom Tomsk. James 101 beat bottom club Pathético Morbid to move 2nd and also book their place in the shield. WhoIsRonaldo drop to 3rd after defeat to a side that still has ambitions of the top 4, One Under Parr 6th, though WIR still only need a point. Elleffcee 4th last week lost to Real Morbid 103-73 and this result sees Real moving into that last qualification place while elleffcee drop to 7th after losing to 2 teams chasing a shield spot in last 2 game-weeks and will need a tiny miracle to claim 4th spot now. The other team still in the mix are Son of a Pitch 5th who are on same h2h points as Real and are only 10 overall points behind, it could all come down to who scores the most points next week to claim 4th. The two stand out games next week are James 101 2nd v WhoIsRonaldo 3rd & Gallowgators top v Real Morbid 4th, giving Son of a Pitch and One Under Parr real hope. Elsewhere, Mito’s Mercenaries move 9th after winning his 4th on the spin and ends Shylass @ the finish 8th interests in the shield, Mito must thinking that if it wasn’t for those few barren game-weeks where he captained Benteke, he’d be right up there challenging for a shield spot. There was also wins for Buzzilona & The Greatest FC moving them up to 10th & 11th in the table. At the bottom there were massive wins for The Reds moving them 3 places to 14th and Balotellibubbies moving them out of the bottom 3 to 16th, replacing them is Mrs Kirk’s Soap Powder Thieves. The Gallant Pioneers stay 19th and Mr Kirk’s Pathético Morbid 20th bottom and 8 points from safety.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/9338/standings/
League 1
The Banterbury FA have been called in to investigate after a flurry of bets were placed at the start of December in Potty’s bookmakers. These bets suggested that Powerful Potty Fc would not be top come Christmas despite holding an 11 point lead at the top of league, but after a full investigation the FA are happy that no games were fixed. So toppling Potty is Monty (Caz Daz) who is one of the 4 teams to beat potty in December and are on a bit of a run, winning the last 6. In 2nd and dropping potty to 3rd are another team to have beaten him this month, CFC (Awesome). All 3 have qualified for the shield. Joining them after earning the final spot available are we love manchester who drew with Bodene’s Army, the point was enough to see them earn their place. Elsewhere Ajax Trees, Fergie’s Henchmen & Slumdog Mignolet won & all move up the table to 6th, 7th & 9th. Inittowinit*** won and despite having over 1000 points sit 13th in the league. At the bottom there was a massive win for IFM PaLmeRo 17th vs The SpecialOne 19th 79-72, despite this the bottom 5 stay the same.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/9479/standings/
League 2
4th Place Trophy stay top and are the only team from this league to so far qualify for the shield. With so many teams still in the mix with only one game-week left, I’m not going to go through all the permutations, just name the teams and wish them well! I’m sure GW17 is going to be a roller coaster for the following teams, Norfulk-in-chance 2nd, ChorleyRocks 3rd, White Boys Day 4th, Busby Babes 5th, Wavey Squad 6th & Owls Rule 7th. Also in with a massive outside chance are ChelseaFTW 8th but they would need all of the aforementioned teams to lose. Finally I would like to give a shout out to (no hits) Prata who with 5 wins on the bounce have moved from the bottom to 13th in the league, Bring on ze Trumpets, I think you upset him! What was your bet again?
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/9698/standings/
Qualification Leagues
Firstly some good news, from next season I hope to run 4 h2h qualification leagues of 20 with the winners from each league earning an invite into the main league. There will also be an opportunity to qualify for the Banterbury Cup, so everyone who registers will get a chance to play some of us so called experts in a one off tie and the chance to become a fantasy football legend. Details will follow later in the season, but to register your interest please e-mail banterburyleagues@gmail.com
Secondly, well done to Norfolk n’ Chance & The Cape Bulls for cracking the 1000 points mark in the classic league, it’s also 4 from 4 for What’s the story FC & FC Sanchez in the H2H that was created to celebrate the opening of FF247. Those in the H2H qualification don’t forget you’re playing an expert in FF247 writer Flingy, haha no pressure now Sean!!
This article was written by Bench@banterburyleagues
Anyone know the Chelsea Team ?
M. Schwarzer
3 A. Cole
24 G. Cahill
4 David Luiz
28 Azpilicueta
8 F. Lampard
12 J. Obi Mikel
22 Willian
15 K. De Bruyne
29 S. Eto’o
14 A. Schürrle
Cheers Jeet
J. Hart
4 V. Kompany
6 J. Lescott
5 P. Zabaleta
13 A. Kolarov
7 J. Milner
14 Javi García
21 David Silva
15 Jesús Navas
17 J. Rodwell
10 E. Džeko
hope zab get doesn’t get injured
Hey you finally mentioned me in the article, Bench!
Appreciate it.
The Cape Bulls . your going well B
Good stuff Bench
I got the win I needed despite my 8 hit, thought I had blown shield qualification.
Need to beat Real Morbid now so another Pact member Inertia qualifies (son of a pitch)
NO HITS this week so it’s looking good for Inertia, reckon it’s in the bag looking at my opponents team and mine 😉
When does the shield start? Fix the draw mate and put me in cookies group
Cookie, took the P out of my Sterling move? Didn’t do too badly eh?
Trouble is I fancied Oviedo more and bloody benched Sterling Lol
Gallow well done for Qualifying , if you go on Banterbury Cup tap in competitions up top, on one of the comment i have explained how it works mate
Bench, you know he needs pictures mate or maybe dot-to-dot.
Sterling did great for you Gallow, thought he looked very comfortable on your bench :cuckoo:
Admit your wrong about him?
He’s playing for me this week, see how it goes.
I see you transferred Aguero out, got Roon by the looks if things?
I told you at the time it was a good transfer, Gallow. I really rate him. Maybe you should buy Henderson too, he was world class on Sunday?
Yeah I bought Rooney for Aguero mate. Contemplated Negredo also.
I got Negredo, already have Roon.
I wanted Wally but will wait until next week, don’t want a hit this week, it’s costing me bad.
Defo getting Wally next week though, selling Pikey to fund it, Mids will then be
Wally, Hazard, Silva,Ramsey, Sterling
A lot better than two weeks back.
Good plan – you can buy Theo and bench him!!
Gallow I assume you will Bench Sterling the GW 18 & 19 considering who Liverpool play. Don’t get why you would take a hit for someone you are likely to sit 3 out of 4 weeks. Stop the hits!! It is the only thing stopping you from a much higher ranking. Itchy trigger finger is costing you on some occasions. But you are doing very well, so I guess just continue doing what you are doing what the hell do I know.
Posted this in wrong bloody place grrrr
Mito.
I did the Sterling transfer early to avoid a price drop on Barkley who was sold for Sterling, that was done on the Sunday I think, no other intended transfers last week.
THEN Silva came on and played in Europe, had to have him, so had to take 8 hit and sell a top defender to finance it, I was just short of getting Silva in a straight transfer.
Decided I had to sell Zaba which killed me, I’ve had him since day one, decided Pikey was nailed for a clean sheet home to Palace-wrong!!!!
So as a pay off for Zaba I doubled up on Everton defence for a cert clean sheet against Fulham-wrong!!
Last week was a bloody nightmare, still, I’ve set myself up now and will reap the rewards this week- I hope!
Sterling? Defo starter this week, possible in following two weeks, Wally coming in means it’s less likely.
You have enough money!! At this stage 4 points is worth more than .1 in particular if it is for someone like Sterling. If he was a definite starter in your front 7, I might see it, but I would definetly avoid hits for marginal players on your roster. You are doing great money wise and you have to shift your strategy a bit if you want to climb higher. I would say I am catching up to you, but I think you are slowly catching down to me. 😉 By no means am I saying to stop doing what got you the high ranking, I would just be more careful on weighing up who you are taking a chance/hit for.
Ha!
I want both Cookie and Potty in my group.
Group of Dearth we could call it.
Ok, you could call it that, I have a couple of different names in mind for such a group, but lets wait and see the groups first.
at the moment that’s how it will work out 1st prem cookie 2nd champ yourself 3rd league 1 potty & whoever finish 4th in league 2
I have another name for you three guys all together at once..
Zabaleta subbed already, must be an injury after just 12 mins gone.
Done his hamstring Mutts
bugger
No, just his hamstring
Are you messing with me cookie?
Would I Milky?
Yes, yes you would Cookie.
Oh ye of little faith
Oh ye of trouble making!
Evening guys, great stuff bench
well done GP for qualifying for the Shield i will confirm the groups on boxing day evening
Hey GP, alright fella?
Hi cookie, yes im good. Looking forward to Xmas holidays