£6 goes to M Davey who was the October Manager of the Month with 270 points, closely followed by Jock with 244 and Cameron with 237.

£5 goes to Emily who climbed a massive 82 places in the month, closely followed by M Davey up 77 and Jock again up 76.

Since not a single person finished the month on a multiple of 100 and would therefore have claimed £1 each – for this month I have extended the prizes to those with a multiple of 10 but just 50p each – this means that all these jammy people have opened their account: Quirky, Fitzpatrick, J Cann, Wheeler (D), M Davey, Cameron, Caden Oestrich, Joanne S, James M, Andrew Edwards, A Kyle, Steven Williams, Nicolas Threasher, Tim Littler, Jake Alexander, Jon Griffiths, Nia Williams and Mat James!!!

At the top of the league we still have Luan but Andy G has climbed into second place pushing Anna and Joanne down a slot, whilst Tom Jones is up into 5th followed by Sibley in 6th whilst Michael and Cameron enter the top 10 at the expense of Keivan and Lyons.

Some of the mini battles that are going on look like this:

Marshall vs Edwards is too close to call at 537 vs 527
Lyons vs Brown vs Quirk is also hottening up at 566 vs 471 vs 538
Baber vs Jones vs Radford may be turning into a two horse race with 338 vs 528 vs 535
Scally vs Baker vs Else vs Stafford vs Dack looks like it has seen its first call for a medic with 533 vs 465 vs 553 vs 474 vs 258

We’ll cover some more inter league stories next week.

In addition to the normal prizes, there will also be a couple of fun competitions this month (with prizes) and all you have to do to enter is leave an answer to one or both of these questions on the website…

1) How many points will be scored in the final 5 International rugby games at the end of the month? (The games are France v New Zealand, Ireland v South Africa, Italy v Samoa, Scotland v Argentina, Wales v Australia and obviously all answers need to be submitted before match day which is the 28th!!!)

2) Name one of the items that you think will be in the Yahoo Top 10 Most Searched List on 1st December. Check out www.yahoo.co.uk (top right) to see the kind of things that Paris Hilton loving, Wayne Rooney worshipping, Royal Mail slagging people are looking for.

Ok that’s it for now. Let’s have some lunch.

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Most points: Ian Crocker (309 points) takes the prize having fought his way into top spot with a phenomenal months performance. Special mentions to Iwan (305) and Scal (295) who came a close 2nd and 3rd.

Most positions: James Mills (63 places) takes the dollar having dug himself impressively out of the relegation zone. Special mention to Stefan (57) and Andrew (50).

This months moose award goes to Alan C who fell a dizzying 52 places.

The first fun competition was won by Marshall who guessed 31,360 points would be scored by us all in the month – with the final tally coming in very close at 31,439. This months win was particularly sweet for him as he also ended Jon Ed’s 10 month sandwich win streak against him. The tables have turned.

The second fun competition was again a very close affair but in the end the prize has gone to Jo Clarke for her christmas cracker entry: Why was Santa’s little helper feeling depressed? He had low elf-esteem. This just pipped Steve and What did the beaver say to the Christmas Tree? Nice gnawing you! and Dave and Did you watch the sheepdog trials over christmas? the dogs were found not guilty. Good skills everyone.

To wrap it all off, this month lucky so-and-so’s are Dean Wheeler (Group 1), Gareth Richards (Group 2) and Joanne Mills (Group 3). Congratulations on being jammy.

So, a new month starts, a bunch of transfers have gone in and here are the next 2 fun competitions to get your teeth into…

Fun Comp 1:

How much will I weigh in pounds on the 1st of January after 2 weeks of turkey and beer?
(I’m not entering this competition obviously and I can assure you I will not be doing any dieting, running or low fat options. Lard all the way)

Fun Comp 2:

Ok all you’ve got to do is solve these three riddles:

A) What is the next line of numbers in the pattern?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221
…

B) If your sock cupboard has 6 green socks, 4 red socks, 8 purple socks, and 2 orange socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?

C) A mother and father have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?

(All the people who get these three right will be entered into a lucky dip – likewise with the weight question)

Stay classy.

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(Since I am off work until Monday 5th Jan – this is when December will run to – and this is when new transfers will be brought in)