£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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I realised three important things over the holidays:

1) There is no limit to the amount of turkey you can eat – you just need to understand the importance of comfortable clothing and how to push through the meat sweats
2) Santa does exist but he works for Amazon and is an Express Delivery legend
3) Depsite doing nothing more energetic than lifting a pint glass for two weeks – you just never feel refreshed when you come back to work in January

Anyway on to the more serious matter of the December update – which with 6 players now having broken through the 1000 points mark is a bit of a humdinger let me tell you. As mentioned before, December ran up until the 4th Jan and includes both League and Cup games. It is perhaps best summed up though this months prizes…

:: Most Points Prize goes to Andrew Ford with 290 points. He was closely followed by Stu Farr (283) and Jo Garcia (275).
:: Most Positions Prize was shared by Alun Prytherch and Stu Farr, up 42 places each. Again Jo came in next on 37 places.
:: Fun Comp 1 Winner was Neil Quirk who had the closest guess with 200.2 pounds. Yes – I’m carrying a little holiday weight.
:: Fun Comp 2 Winner was Lee Kokbun who was chosen from all the correct riddle answers. Only Wizbit is better.
:: Pot Lucker League 1 was Stacey Brean
:: Pot Lucker League 2 was Stefan Griffiths
:: Pot Lucker League 3 was Chris Lloyd
:: Biggest Faller prize was shared by Dave Heylings and Chris Rawlings, both down 40 places each this month

Transfers will go in before the next update – although there were surprisingly few – I guess everyone’s waiting to see how the “real life” transfer window pans out.

The next update will also include two new fun competitions.

Smooth.
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Last update until I return from what I’m excited to call the “Drink, Eat And Dance For All The Time” session (or DEAD FATT for short) so get ready for a bit of a sing-along…

On the 1st day of Christmas, Ian Crocker said to me, I’ve got 956 points and a 36 point lead….
On the 2nd day of Christmas, Mark and Anna said, watch out Ian, whilst we storm ahead….
On the 3rd day of Christmas, Nic said to Jock, we’re climbing so fast, I think my socks blew off…
On the 4th day of Christmas, Alex said to all, my weekly points rock, so now hear me roar…
On the 5th day of Christmas, Marshall said to Jon, give me a subway, you’re falling like a rock my son…
On the 6th day of Christmas, Lewis sung a tune, up 15 places, now I’m over the moon…
On the 7th day of Christmas, Luan said to Oz, you might be ahead, but remember I’m still the boss…
On the 8th day of Christmas, Lloydy felt insane, as he was down near the bottom, but had a cool team name…
On the 9th day of Christmas, Jack climbed 18 spots, chasing his Dad, all the way to the top…
On the 10th day of Christmas, Millo fell 15, now he wishes, Anna had picked his team…
On the 11th day of Christmas, Kirsty said to Dean, I used to be ahead, this is the most insulting thing I’ve seen…
On the 12th day of Christmas, Sam and Quirk schemed, if we’re going to beat Lyons, we’d better play mean…

Hope everybody has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Beer Tree

Only a few Cup games this week, but there were some pleasant surprises there as Chelsea crashed out to Burnley on penalties, Tottenham took Liverpool to the cleaners for the second time in as many weeks and Premiership sides Sunderland and Wigan also failed to make the next round.

As the big orange man says: you know when you’ve been tango’d…

Forgot to annouce the winners of the 2 fun cups last week but it was a high standard so I went around this morning getting the vote:

Game A – The answer is 3000, what is the question?

Winner was “dm” with “What is Chris Morteo’s weight in stones?”

With honourable mentions to “funk” and “how many miles did the proclaimers walk in their follow up single?”
and “q” and “how many miles does the average man utd fan live from the ground and still have the balls to say it’s their local team?”

Game B – What you won’t hear in the Queens Christmas speech?

Winner was “babacek” with “doesn’t Prince harry look like charles?”

With honourable mentions to “coogan” and “knowing me – the queen – knowing you – my minions – AH HA!!”
and “diamond” and “I’ve got the horn”

Well done to everyone who entered though – some quality answers – go read ‘em.

This months new games are as follows:

Game 5 – guess the total number of points all the managers in our league will score this month (£5) (clue beneath the hoff below)
Game 6 – what’s the worst \ funniest Christmas cracker joke you’ve seen? (£5)

Get cracking.

Have a great weekend.

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So far this month, the total is 13,490 points…