Plank Of The Week!!! Part 5

Enough said. PLANK!!!

Totally Round-Up Week 11

Well, well, well. We were waiting for someone to set out their stall and Ronan did so emphatically this week by netting 10 points to leapfrog Penny and Darren to claim top spot on the Totally Skill League table. As previously reported, it had been a rather slow start after the first few games, but Europe proved a happy hunting ground for Ronan as he picked up 7 of his points total there.
Huddersfield came good for all three with a comfortable home win, while Mansfield also held off the challenge of Alfreton Town to hand points all round to the intrepid forecasters. Don't know quite what happened with the Highland League fixture mix-up, but rest assured they shall not be left out of the running again...it's just not the same without a couple of points gained on an unikely Keith away win.
In related news, the new 'Fit Of Petulance' mini album is currently set to be released 'very soon' according to insiders at Plank Records. It has been confirmed that 90% of the album has been written, and now suitable blank cassettes are being sought to commit the sounds to tape. Yes, tape. In a radical move designed to shun the download generation, the recordings will be available only in the tape format, with plans to possibly upgrade to CD soon after. (8 track cartridge versions may be available on request).

WEEK 11 TABLE
                      Points
Ronan..............68
Darren.............66
Penny..............62


WEEK 11 RESULTS                   RESULT   PENNY   RONAN   DARREN
Bolton v Sunderland                         0-2           0-0             2-2            1-2
Blackpool v Notts Forest                 1-2            2-1            2-1            1-1
Huddersfield v Preston                     3-1            1-0            3-0            2-1
A!F!C! v Crawley Town                  2-5            2-2            0-1            1-1
Mansfield v Alfreton Town               3-2            1-0            2-0             3-1
Malaga v Real Madrid                      0-4            0-2            0-2            0-3
Nancy v Nice                                   1-0            1-1            1-0             1-2
Hamburg v Wolfsburg                       2-1           2-1             1-1             2-0
Fiorentina v Catania                          2-2           3-1             3-1              0-1

Hero of the Week

The peerless Steve Claridge who has not only come out of retirement at the age of 45 to play for Gosport Borough, but scored on his debut in the FA Trophy yesterday. Hero!!!

Week 11 halfway review

Well, we're halfway through Week 11's fixtures and already Pascal the Parrot is doing better than all of us.
Let's hope the European fixtures bring some big hitters or we'll find ourselves being nominated for Planks of the Week...
A bad week all round really as our shop teams all crashed to defeats. Lincoln started things off with an away loss to Cambridge on Friday night and it all went downhill from there. Didi's men saw their kickoff delayed whilst opponents Forest Green were stuck in traffic; how they must have wished they never escaped as they beat our boys 1-0. And, in what must have been a great game for the neutral, A!F!C! clawed their game with big spenders Crawley back to 2-2 only to lose 2-5 in the end.
To cap it all off, Niklas Bendtner scored his first goal for Sunderland.Bah.
Birthday wishes for Arsene Wenger though; lets hope Rory Delap doesn't spoil the party on Sunday.
STOP PRESS: Surefire contender for Plank of the Week has to be the boy Ballotelli who set his house on fire by letting off fireworks in his own bathroom. We'll update you on this once the judges have looked at any other possible candidates.

Totally Round-Up Week 10

Me oh my. Another rather underwhelming week of points totals. Just 3 each for Darren and Ronan, while Penny exerted at least a modicum of pressure on Darren by garnering 4 precious points.
All three of our intrepid forecasters were on the money with regards to Tranmere, who did have to ruin a triple perfect score by failing to notch up a second goal late on though. Also, the Totally Skill troops shared a point each thanks to Buckie winning the battle of the Thistles. What could have been a 'prickly' away tie for Buckie turned into an impressive victory, which will 'plant' seeds of doubt amongst their rivals for the title.
It was a rather sorry state of affairs for the Totally Skill teams this weekend......A!F!C! dropped three points and shipped three goals at home to Crewe, while Didi's twitch might well warp into a full blown total body spasm any day now. A 4-0 tonking by Wrexham is no cure for his ills. 
So, there you have it. The song remains the same for this week at least. Maybe next time around, someone will make a dash for it, open up a commanding lead and never look back? Or we could all just trudge along like this until next May, when Ronan will suddenly guess EVERY score correctly on the last day and make off with the winner's T-shirt, chuckling and babbling hysterically into the sunset.

Plank Of The Week!!! Part 4

Not many outstanding candidates this week really. It would be unnecessarily harsh to bestow the honour upon Armenia's Valeri Aleksanyan, though his own goal last Tuesday was a thing of twisted beauty. For anyone who's Irish.

So instead, in the spirit of knocking them when they're well and truly down, the entire Galway Utd squad (and the managment team, physios, coaches....but maybe not the ground staff) take the plaudits by being so consistently bad for so long. One win in 34 games so far this season, and a whopping -85 goal difference. I think a stint in the First Division is well earned, and maybe they can build from there. Build what, I hear you ask? A sandcastle? It would be a start. PLANKS!!!

Plank of the Week!!! Part 3

"I've got a feeling you're going to score a goal tonight, my son".
What a 'fix' these spuddish oafs got themselves into the past week. High Plank status has been duly conferred on both. PLANKS!!!

Ebbsfleetio!!!

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/878042-football-fan-makes-1-800km-round-trip-from-italy-to-watch-ebbsfleet-united

And we thought watching out for A!F!C! and Stockport  from our Galway base was stretching it a bit!

Totally Round-Up Week 9

Points were thin on the ground this week, although the placings remain the same after Ronan failed to capitalise on Penny and Darren's relatively weak showings.
Penny's encyclopedic knowledge of the Corbett Sports Welsh Premier League paid off as she picked up on the New Saints recent impressive home form, and although they can't manage to throw a few badges into an envelope, Romulus got full points away to Halesowen Town, a result Penny also felt was on the cards. Only the 2 points for her this week though.
Darren renewed his faith in A!F!C! and was rewarded with two of his 4 points total, although he should have realised that Bournemouth were going to be tough to beat at home. Darren still leads the way regardless, and his steely stare on the finish line will no doubt be getting steelier by the week, so the others should steel themselves to try and steal his advantage over the coming weeks and months.
Ronan amassed a grand total of 5 points, when really he could have done with around 10. But, Forres Mechanics did not let him down, nor the impressive Mansfield, who knocked the stuffing out of Grimsby.
Obviously though, none of them know anything about Major League Soccer. Just as well it was simply a guest League this week. Back to the usual multi-league spread from next weekend. See you then Totally Skill fans!!!!

WEEK 9 TABLE
                       Points
Darren...............59
Penny.................54
Ronan................53


WEEK 8 RESULTS                                 RESULT    PENNY     RONAN    DARREN
Bournemouth v Rochdale                              1-1            1-0              1-0            1-2
Wycombe v Walsall                                       1-1            0-3              2-1            2-2
Gillingham v Port Vale                                    1-1            2-1              2-2            3-1
Morecame v A!F!C!                                      1-2            3-1              0-1           0-1
Mansfield v Grimsby                                       2-1            1-1             3-0            1-2
Forres Mechanics v Huntly                             2-0            2-2              4-1            0-2
New Saints v Camarthen Town                      4-0             3-1              1-1            0-1
New England Revolution v San Jose               1-2            3-3              2-0             3-1
Fort William v Turriff Utd                                0-1            4-1              3-2             2-1
Halesowen Town v Romulus                            0-1            0-2              2-1             2-4

Totally Round-Up Week 8

Darren keeps his nose in front by bagging an impressive 8 points which included a three pointer in the Darlington-Newport County tie. Darren was wise in reckoning Newport would struggle to score away from home. Good call Darren.
Meanwhile, Penny notched 8 points also to stay a mere 2 points behind in second place. While Darren and Ronan both foresaw a comfortable home win for Lossiemouth, Penny was canny in predicting that the Clachs impressive away form might see them edge this one. And she was right, by Jove!
Apart from predicting the margin with which A!F!C! would beat Gillingham (while Darren and Penny showed an alarming lack of faith in the mighty Wimbledon, predicting a loss and a draw respectively....shame on you guys), little else went right for Ronan, who stuttered to a 4 point total to now sit in third place on the table.
It's still early doors yet of course.


WEEK 8 TABLE          
                                      Points
Darren.............................55
Penny..............................53
Ronan..............................49

WEEK 8 RESULTS                                  RESULT       PENNY     RONAN     DARREN

Spurs v Arsenal                                             2-1                2-2              2-2             4-3

Leeds v Portsmouth                                       1-0                1-0              3-0             2-1

Brentford v Huddersfield                                0-4                0-3              1-2             0-1

A!F!C! v Gillingham                                       3-1                1-1              2-0             1-2

Darlington v Newport County                         2-0                1-2              0-0             2-0

Lossiemouth v Clachnacuddin                         2-3                1-4              3-1             4-1

Racing Santander v Rayo Vellecano               1-1                 2-2              1-0             2-3

Bordeaux v Montpellier                                  2-2                 3-1              0-2             2-0

Nuremburg v Mainz                                        3-3                 0-0              2-0             2-1

Fiorentina v Lazio                                           1-2                 1-3              2-2              2-0

P.S. Apologies for the wonky table above. We're still figuring out how to jazz up the blog with fancy graphics and suchlike.

Plank Of The Week!!! Part 2

Congrats to Carlos who scoops this weeks award with the hissiest of hissy fits. You'd never catch Matty Tubbs engaging in this kind of malarky. PLANK!!!