First of all, apologies for not having published the results and also for only recently discovering that the schedule was incorrect for all groups.
The first two rounds of games for the Meisterschaft League were held in Weeks 24 and 27 and here is a quick summary of the results so far. Remember that the top three qualify.
Group A
Done Like A Kipper 2.0 gave their manager Ken Yau an excellent start with narrow victories in their first two games. It is a bad start for Gusset Rovers with two defeats.
Group B
Dinorben Tigers got off to a great start with wins over teams with good weekly totals. Hoad Harriers were very unlucky to lose their last game by two points and find themselves with no points from two games.
Group C
No team has won more than one game so even Farcelona, with two defeats, stand a good chance of progressing.
Group D
AC Tricey managed a record 28-3 victory over Oi Oi Saveloy and have a strong first place. The Sausages bring up the rear.
Group E
Golden Eagles have started with two wins from two followed by the The Who and AFC Cornwall. Snaiks 11 and Rennet Rovers lost their only game in what looks likely to be a closely fought group.
Full details can be found at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pwF0dSpz-s366oYcghrqiZw
The next round of games will be in Weeks 29 & 30.
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Thursday, 6 December 2007
Documents
A full schedule of which weeks each of the cup competitions fall and the transfer deadlines.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pwF0dSpz-s35mNx6Q7qKaNw
The Meisterschaft League schedule can be viewed in this spreadsheet.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pwF0dSpz-s366oYcghrqiZw
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p
The Meisterschaft League schedule can be viewed in this spreadsheet.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p
The Meisterschaft League : The Draw
With the individual league cups about to reach their conclusion, it is time to announce the Meisterschaft League competition, an inter-league contest between all 25 teams in 3 leagues.
The first stage of this competition will be a group contest with 5 sections of 5 teams competing over 5 weeks in January, February and March.
The top three from each group will qualify for the second stage, a knock-out contest culminating in the Meisterschaft League Final on the very last weekend of the season in May.
The highest-scoring group winner will seal a bye through the first knockout stage, with the remaining group winners and highest-scoring runner-up seeded to be drawn against one of the third-placed teams in the knockout round.
No seeding was applied in the draw, so you may well have been drawn with four great teams or four poor teams - that's just the way it goes. The only seeding I've applied is to ensure that I don't draw two of my teams together, otherwise I could be accused of fixing the result between two of them. I also ensured that each group had one team from each league in it.
The draw was made from the CSMCL Champions Cup and here are the results.
The first games will be played on the week of 15th-21st January, so why not check out your opponents and look out for news about the fixtures in the next couple of days.
The first stage of this competition will be a group contest with 5 sections of 5 teams competing over 5 weeks in January, February and March.
The top three from each group will qualify for the second stage, a knock-out contest culminating in the Meisterschaft League Final on the very last weekend of the season in May.
The highest-scoring group winner will seal a bye through the first knockout stage, with the remaining group winners and highest-scoring runner-up seeded to be drawn against one of the third-placed teams in the knockout round.
No seeding was applied in the draw, so you may well have been drawn with four great teams or four poor teams - that's just the way it goes. The only seeding I've applied is to ensure that I don't draw two of my teams together, otherwise I could be accused of fixing the result between two of them. I also ensured that each group had one team from each league in it.
The draw was made from the CSMCL Champions Cup and here are the results.
| Group A | Manager | League |
| Finntastic FC | David Mason | MMM |
| Gusset Rovers | Matt Small | VBCL |
| Done Like A Kipper 2.0 | Ken Yau | MMM |
| Cabernet United | Shiraz Cassim | CSMCL |
| Forthy's Tractor Boys | Peter Forth | MMM |
| Group B | Manager | League |
| Berbie Goes Bananas | Leon Hayes | MMM |
| Dinorben Tigers | David Trice | CSMCL |
| Bobby Robson's Old Boys | Marc Bradbrook | MMM |
| Hoad Harriers | Paul Hoad | CSMCL |
| Scott Arnold | Scott Arnold | VBCL |
| Group C | Manager | League |
| AFC Richmond's Rovers | Pete Fuller | CSMCL |
| Prancing Show Ponies | Ben Renshaw | CSMCL |
| Farcelona | Gavin Short | CSMCL |
| We Were Leeds | Suresh Mistry | VBCL |
| It's Only Ray Parlour | David Trice | MMM |
| Group D | Manager | League |
| Basingstoke Beavers | Jon Small | VBCL |
| AC Tricey | David Trice | VBCL |
| Oi Oi Saveloy | Andy Holmes | CSMCL |
| You Gotta Have A System | Jon Ryder-Oliver | VBCL |
| The Piemen | Chris Lamy | MMM |
| Group E | Manager | League |
| Snaiks 11 | Shalin Naik | MMM |
| The Who | Anthony Trice | CSMCL |
| Golden Eagles | Glyn Wilmshurst | VBCL |
| AFC Cornwall | Stuart Guard-Ward | VBCL |
| Rennet Rovers | Andy Jewitt | CSMCL |
The first games will be played on the week of 15th-21st January, so why not check out your opponents and look out for news about the fixtures in the next couple of days.
Meisterschaft : Team of Week 17
I don't want to brag about it, but 1st, 6th and 10th in the same week is pretty pleasing. But lets give Jon Small of the Basingstoke Beavers his due - he benefitted from a good all round team performance and no individual points haul to add almost a third as many points in one week as they have scored all season. Nice one Jon.
- AC Tricey (VBCL, David Trice) 22 pts
- Scott Arnold (VBCL, Scott Arnold) 21 pts
- Basingstoke Beavers (VBCL, Jon Small) 20 pts
- Snaiks 11 (MMML, Shalin Naik) 20 pts
- Prancing Show Ponies (CSMCL, Ben Renshaw) 19 pts
- It's Only Ray Parlour (MMML, David Trice) 19 pts
VBCL : Manager of the Month - November
Despite allowing 21 and 26 goals each the Eagles and AFC Cornwall sit atop the league for November. Each of the top three scored 8 goals or more.
Spare a thought for the tribute to the Lillywhites at the bottom of the table. "We were Leeds" is not just a tribute to the echo of a former proud chant but also a poignant reminder of the talent that LUFC has let slip in to the hands of other clubs now in the Premiership. Suresh's team is stocked with former United players, and as luck would have it they all seem to be struck by the Ridsdale Curse. A team consisting of Robinson, Baines, Harte, Ferdinand, Woodgate, Kewell, Milner, Speed, Viduka and Healy would surely have done pretty well in the Premiership (when fit) a few seasons ago. I wonder if this a damning indictment of the way that George Graham and David O'Leary over-played these young players, with their injury breakdowns (Kewell and Woodgate particularly) and the Chairman's financial promiscuity now better remembered than the period in which this club reached two European semi-finals.
Spare a thought for the tribute to the Lillywhites at the bottom of the table. "We were Leeds" is not just a tribute to the echo of a former proud chant but also a poignant reminder of the talent that LUFC has let slip in to the hands of other clubs now in the Premiership. Suresh's team is stocked with former United players, and as luck would have it they all seem to be struck by the Ridsdale Curse. A team consisting of Robinson, Baines, Harte, Ferdinand, Woodgate, Kewell, Milner, Speed, Viduka and Healy would surely have done pretty well in the Premiership (when fit) a few seasons ago. I wonder if this a damning indictment of the way that George Graham and David O'Leary over-played these young players, with their injury breakdowns (Kewell and Woodgate particularly) and the Chairman's financial promiscuity now better remembered than the period in which this club reached two European semi-finals.
- Golden Eagles (Glyn Wilmshurst) 56 pts
- AFC Cornwall (Stuart Guard-Ward) 52 pts
- You Gotta Have A System (Jon Ryder-Oliver) 51 pts
VBCL : Stilton Trophy Semi Finals First Leg
STILTON TROPHY : Full details at http://meisterschaft.blogspot.com/
Semi-Finals Second Leg (December 4th - December 10th)AFC Cornwall (7) vs AC Tricey (22)
Golden Eagles (15) vs Scott Arnold (21)
AFC Cornwall have been in an impressive lead for a few weeks, but a bad week 17 has left them with a narrow two point lead at the top of the table and a 15 point deficit after the semi-final first leg to the same team, AC Tricey. AFC Cornwall are missing the presence of playmaker Cesc Fabregas.
Scott Arnold's recent resurgence lead to a 21 point haul and although the Golden Eagles can be pleased with a 15 point score they still trail in the other semi-final.
MMML : Manager of the Month - November
The prolific goal-scoring of the Tractor Boys (9 goals) saw them to the top of the table and through the Maestros Cup group stages. Finntastic FC dropped from first place after a miserable month of 28pts. There are only 23 pts between 1st and 7th in the month, though, meaning that it is a tight contest with many twists and turns still to come.
- Forthy's Tractor Boys (Peter Forth) 58 pts
- The Piemen (Chris Lamy) 56 pts
- Snaiks 11 (Shalin Naik) 47 pts
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