Fantasy Football Week 2 Summary
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It’s not all about winning; it’s the taking part that matters. That’s what I am telling myself as I sit in 193th place in the Extratime.ie Fantasy Football league table. Like so many people at this stage of the competition, the attractiveness of using the wildcard is overwhelming. The hopes and dreams of two weeks ago are long since dead for those of us at the base of the league. Drastic action is needed. Of course, once wildcards are used, you can be guaranteed players that you sold will suddenly remember they are footballers and net hat-tricks and your keeper will stop throwing the ball into his own net.
One player not in need of his wildcard is Darshan Joshi and his team Silly Cone. A weekly tally of 107 has fired the Manchester United fan to the top of the league table. Ironically it was his full quota of Red Devils that performed the worst as Van der Sar, Vidic and Berbatov could only manage a 2-2 draw with Fulham. However with Newcastle hattrick hero Andrew Carroll, Tottenham’s Gareth Bale and Arsenal’s Theo Walcott, Darshan finds himself ten points clear on 169 points.
Still a Ledge-bag, still sporting the worst clashing jersey in Fantasy Football, Aidan Doyle’s team Ledge-bag’s Eleven has moved up one place to second. With a pair of players from Tottenham, Everton, Bolton and Chelsea, Aidan’s main point scorer was Mr. Dider Drogba. Captaining his team, Drogba added three assists and provided 26 points. With Gareth Bale, Florent Malouda and Arsenal’s Marouane Chamakh on the scoresheet, Aidan gained 81 points this week leaving him on 159 points.
Rossie United managed by Kevin Moloney completes our top three. Having not been present in the league for Gameweek One, this new arrival has shot into third place thanks to Drogba, Chamakh, Bale and Bolton’s netminder Jussi Jaaskelainen. Despite having three players on the wrong side of six nil hammerings, 79 points was still earned and that was enough to put Kevin third on 150 points.
Last week’s leader Aaron Hanlon has dropped to 17th.
So what does Gameweek 3 have in store? Will Stoke City be able to stop the Chelsea goalathon (or at least stop them scoring six again this week)? Tottenham qualified for the Group stages of the Champions League on Wednesday night and buoyed by that success, they go to Wigan this week. Wigan have conceded 10 and scored none to date. Who will shine this week? Comments are very welcome on our Facebook page.
The full list of fixtures is as follows:
Blackburn v Arsenal
Blackpool v Fulham
Chelsea v Stoke City
Tottenham v Wigan
Wolves v Newcastle
Man Utd v West Ham
Bolton v Birmingham
Liverpool v West Brom
Sunderland v Man City
Aston Villa v Everton
If you feel like throwing your hat in the ring, our League code is 266397-71108.
One player not in need of his wildcard is Darshan Joshi and his team Silly Cone. A weekly tally of 107 has fired the Manchester United fan to the top of the league table. Ironically it was his full quota of Red Devils that performed the worst as Van der Sar, Vidic and Berbatov could only manage a 2-2 draw with Fulham. However with Newcastle hattrick hero Andrew Carroll, Tottenham’s Gareth Bale and Arsenal’s Theo Walcott, Darshan finds himself ten points clear on 169 points.
Still a Ledge-bag, still sporting the worst clashing jersey in Fantasy Football, Aidan Doyle’s team Ledge-bag’s Eleven has moved up one place to second. With a pair of players from Tottenham, Everton, Bolton and Chelsea, Aidan’s main point scorer was Mr. Dider Drogba. Captaining his team, Drogba added three assists and provided 26 points. With Gareth Bale, Florent Malouda and Arsenal’s Marouane Chamakh on the scoresheet, Aidan gained 81 points this week leaving him on 159 points.
Rossie United managed by Kevin Moloney completes our top three. Having not been present in the league for Gameweek One, this new arrival has shot into third place thanks to Drogba, Chamakh, Bale and Bolton’s netminder Jussi Jaaskelainen. Despite having three players on the wrong side of six nil hammerings, 79 points was still earned and that was enough to put Kevin third on 150 points.
Last week’s leader Aaron Hanlon has dropped to 17th.
So what does Gameweek 3 have in store? Will Stoke City be able to stop the Chelsea goalathon (or at least stop them scoring six again this week)? Tottenham qualified for the Group stages of the Champions League on Wednesday night and buoyed by that success, they go to Wigan this week. Wigan have conceded 10 and scored none to date. Who will shine this week? Comments are very welcome on our Facebook page.
The full list of fixtures is as follows:
Blackburn v Arsenal
Blackpool v Fulham
Chelsea v Stoke City
Tottenham v Wigan
Wolves v Newcastle
Man Utd v West Ham
Bolton v Birmingham
Liverpool v West Brom
Sunderland v Man City
Aston Villa v Everton
If you feel like throwing your hat in the ring, our League code is 266397-71108.
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