Hello again from Banterbury HQ , I trust you all had a fab New Year. It’s been a busy time here at HQ with the continuation of the leagues, the 4th round of the Cup and the up and coming start of the Shield.
Banterbury Leagues
Premier
Cookie’s Monsters recorded his 16th win of the campaign, beating Where’s The Dosh? to stay top – The Dosh, who qualified for the Shield, has lost his last two and are 12pts behind Cookie now and have fallen to 6th place. Arsene’s Boys & Bench also win to keep the pressure on Cookie and stay 2nd and 3rd respectively, while Bocadillo Allstars win in the both Cup and the League and are 4th , holding a 5 point lead over 5th Pork n Cheese United. Reubens Rioters, Gasco’s athletic & Horse FC all move up a place to 7th, 8th & 9th dropping PUT THE OLD DOG DOWN to 10th & Eddy to 11th. Sitting 12th are Killer Instincts who were sitting bottom with just a point after 10 game-weeks – this should give Mutts some encouragement , though I hope it does not start for Mutts in the next game-week as we meet and could really dent my title hopes. Mutts lost again and has decided to activate his January wildcard – as a seasoned fantasy football veteran, i fully expect him to bounce back in the 2nd half of the season. Prutsers; allemaal sit 2nd bottom and are dropping like a lead balloon, having lost their last 4. TheKopKnightRISES move up a place to 18th after beating Kojak’s Fireball who drop to 17th, Kop Warriors & UD Stoke need to watch their backs as both are only a point above the dropzone.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/843/standings/
Championship
Moving into the Championship and despite Gallow going for the treble, he slipped to defeat this game-week and drops to 2nd, with james101 taking over at the top. One Under Parr move 3rd and one of our other resident geordie’s, Shylass @ the finish move to 4th with his 4th straight win. Dropping to 5th are WhoIsRonaldo, while staying 6th & 7th are Son of a Pitch & elleffcee after both winning. In 8th is my top tip for the top 3 come the end of the season, namely Mito’s Mercenaries, who have now won 7 of their last 8 – though I was i little worried to hear he had no idea who Bob Paisley OBE was!! Down at the bottom where things are getting very tight, with bottom club Pathético Morbid and 13th placed Glebe Farm Rovers separated by just 5 points , after a big win for Pathético Morbid over The Reds 17th and must feel they are now back in the dog fight for survival.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/9338/standings/
League 1
The Top 4 stay the same though they all swap places. CFC(Awesome) drop to 2nd with Monty (Caz Daz) hitting top spot – up to 3rd are Deano’s DavesRedDevils and dropping to 4th we have we love manchester . Powerful Potty Fc are 5th and have lost 8 in a row in a startling run of form – he now only sits 1 point above the chasing pack that includes Ajax Trees, Fergie’s Henchmen & BRYAN MUNICH FC. The bottom 4 all stay the same despite 3 of the bottom 4 winning, and a massive shout-out to Nifty’s Hotshots who had lost 16 on the trot – he recorded a much needed win over Fergie’s Henchmen but stays bottom.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/9479/standings/
League 2
4th Place Trophy remain top and are now 6 points above ChorleyRocks who move 2nd after beating previously 2nd place White Boys Day, who drop to 3rd. In 4th stay Norfulk-in-chance , but the battle is hotting up in mid-table, with 4th place and 13th place separated by just 3pts. Prata has risen from bottom to 9th. At the basement, destroyers & Bryan Munich remain the bottom two and are six points adrift of 18th, while a win for Wanderers1869 sees them close the gap with those above them. 15th to 18th are separated by just a single point.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/9698/standings/
Banterbury Cup 4th Round Results
New Year’s Day saw our Cup competition reach The Last 16.
Park Bench Exports 42 v 51 Fergie’s Henchmen
Busby Babes 46 v 56 Bocadillo Allstars
Gasco’s athletic 58 v 56 Monty (Caz Daz)
Son of a Pitch 42 v 49 Cookie’s Monsters
Horse FC 53 v 50 Manlet F.C
Kop Warriors 50 v 53 DavesRedDevils
WhoIsRonaldo 47 v 52 Buzz’s Bomb Squad
Owls Rule 45 v 54 Gallowgators
Banterbury Cup Quarter Final’s Draw/ Ties to be played 8th/9th Feb:
Fergie’s Henchmen v Gallowgators
Buzz’s Bomb Squad v Bocadillo Allstars
Gasco’s athletic v DavesRedDevils
Horse FC v Cookie’s Monsters
With two of the quarter-finalists still dreaming of an unprecedented Banterbury treble, Cookie’s Monsters and Gallowgators both have tough ties in the last 8. Cookie will have to conquer fellow Premier League side Horse FC, while Gallow will need to put one over his young protégé, Fergie’s Henchmen. In the other two ties, Gasco’s Athletic are up against Dave’s Red Devils from League 1 & finally there is an all Premier League quarter final as Buzz’s Bomb Squad take on Bocadillo Allstars.
The Shield
Finally our New Competition, The Banterbury Shield, gets underway in GW21 – here are the opening round’s fixtures:
Group 1 Cookie’s Monsters v ChorleyRocks , James 101 v Powerful Potty Fc
Group 2 Gallowgators v Where’s The Dosh?, CFC (Awesome) v White Boys Day
Group 3 Monty (Caz Daz) v WhoIsRonaldo, Norfulk-in-chance v Arsene’s Boys
Group 4 4th Place Trophy v we love manchester, Park Bench Exports v Son of a Pitch
Happy New Year and good luck to all!
This Article was written by Bench@BanterburyLeagues
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#AFC have confirmed that #TheoWalcott will be out for at least six months after rupturing his ACL in Saturdays win over #Spurs
Fokin Hell :satansmoking:
😮 !!!
6 months???, will his price be protected from dropping ?
FDMS
His price will drop faster than a woman’s pants would if she were to meet Ryan Gosling.
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he ll be out 4 good, mate…why would you wanna keep him ?!
So… anyone wanna take a guess at how Arsenal’s lineup will look like when Podolski and Ramsey is fully fit?
Flamini/Arteta – Wilshire
Santi – Özil – Ramsey
Giroud/Podolski
Something like that?
yeah agree with that. when giroud and bendtner absence, poldi likely to be a cf. but if they fit, he will operate on the left, with ramsey drop to cmf i suppose. and caz on the right.
Wally injury leaves me no Arsenal cover, should i bring in Ozil?
or perhaps lallana or Stevie G?
current midfield is: Wally – Hazard – Cabaye – Silva & Sterling
Suarez, Luka & Negrado up top
I have basically the same side.. and I have no idea!
Ozil is a bit expensive I feel – he won’t score as many goals as Yaya/Hazard to justify the high price tag, but then he does get a few goals and plenty of assists so is probably the best way into the Arsenal mid at the moment. Tough one – what are you thinking of doing? Having no Arsenal cover at all would be silly right?
i agree, Ozil seems too much for current form (around the injury) but i do think i should have arsenal coverage. I’m leaning towards lallana tbh and use the extra money for Ag or Roon when fit.
Or to keep Arsenal coverage, Santi
Ozil is a bargain at the mo
Hi all so walcott is being sold by my for 9.3m and ozil bought for 9.9m… got 2ft so thats fine… looking at finding the extra 0.6 by selling disitin for alcaraz or bardsley… or which def for 4.6m?
Wow big news
I was hoping to save WC for when Aguero was fit, but now I think I can’t wait that long.
What are peoples opinions on having a cheap striker in for a couple of games to keep money in the bank ready for Aguero’s return?
Also what do people think about the Aguero-Rodriquez-Suarez strike force?!
Cheers all
Aguero-Suarez-Rodriguez strikeforce looks good to me, longterm of course. Or Hooper instead of Rodriguez.
Help!!
I was fixed on waiting to use my wc but with the Walcott Injury I am now reconsidering. Which of these options would any of you recommend?
1. wildcard
2. take 4pt hit and swap Walcott for Gerrard
3. Stick, bench Walcott (swap next GW) and play Cabaye with the hope he plays.
My team is
Szcz, Myhill
Terry, Coleman, Davies (hull), gabbidon, Chico
Walcott, yaya, hazard, cabaye, Januzaj
Negredo, Suarez, lukaku
i will sell walcott straight away. there is no use to keep 9.3 m on your bench imo. and pretty sure with this news, walcott price will fall to the max 0.3 m before the deadline.
no need to wildcard, the rest of your team are fine.
I know what you are saying about the price drop but I really think a hit at this stage in the game will drop me back loads of places, I already used my FT. I am 3pts behind my mini league leader and so want to catch him
I take it you’ve already made your change then?
I’d go option 3, play 4-3-3, keep Januzaj as first off the bench in case Cabaye doesn’t play.
Hmmm I have never contemplated playing 4 defenders before, I would be abit nervous about it this week due to hull playing Chelsea and Swansea playing Man U. I could maybe gamble on Chico though.
Wildcard it is then – you just ruled out options 2&3.
Ha. I suppose I did
. I am going to walk away for an hour though and see what I think then. I am prone to making rash changes!