Dear All,

As we prepare to enter the busy festive period, our leader at Christmas is Brother kelly with flexysmidniterunners.

Looking back over the past two seasons, the leader at Christmas time in 2007 was Prince of Darkness (now in the Conference League) and Minus Three FC (currently bottom of the league).

Neither team, of course, went on to win the title that year. So, Flexy, the omens are good lad. be prepared for a tough few years ahead!!!

Out of interest, last year's winner was 9th at Christmas, while the previous season's winner was 7th at Christmas.

Therefore, recent trends tell us that this year's winner will be Brother Crudden's Bleedin' Red, Brother Shields' Blue Monkeys or Brother McDermott's Sofa King Easy. Scrap that theory then! ;-)

Anyway, all the above goes to show is that nothing is decided at this point in the season and what's to say 2010 won't see a total reversal of the pre-Christmas form. As I've said many times, and yes I WILL say it again, anything can happen...........

.......... and it usually does!

Back to the Premiership and Flexy is being chased by the Grapes of Raff, Gazza's Piping Hots and Ibiza Town FC, with a slight gap then to the improving Diaby Does Dallas and Probably the Best.

Apart from Cherry United, there are a couple of very surprising names in the relegation zone - namely bottom-placed Minus Three Fc and, even worse, defending champion Harpic Amsterdam!!!

However, they'll be happy to see the likes of the Busted Sofas, True Blue Strikers, KFC Academical and Kirbs Crawlers ahead of them. If you can't catch that lot, then you deserve to go down!

Turning our attention reluctantly to the Conference league, an amazing turnaround has seen the Prince of Darkness open up a 29 point lead over Joey's Monsters who themselves had a clear lead only a couple of weeks ago.

Brother McCabe remains second but is now under pressure from the Rio Chargers, Hoofers Utd and Dirty Dubs XI, all of whom are closing in fast. Yes it looks like we have a promotion battle on our hands.

Con Villa is still stranded at the bottom of the table, now joined in the bottom three by brother Austin and the Red Cherry Devils.

This week's highest scorer was Brotehr Brogan with an impressive 86 points, narrowly pipping Brother Sheehy's 85 points and Brother O'Sullivan (aka Chuckle Brother Junior) whose score of 82 has leapfrogged him from the relegation zone to 12th position!!! Surely this is a lesson to everyone in what can be achieved in one week.

The worst scorer of the week was the Blue Monkeys by a distance on 23 points - followed by drinking buddies Arnie (is he really fourth from bottom now?) with 34 and Baz with 37.

So that's about it my friends - our last score update before Christmas.

Tomorrow, Brother Johnston and I will be conducting the draw for the Preliminary Round of the FFA Cup - which as always will feature only teams in the Conference League as they battle it out to join the big boys in the first round proper (i.e., last 32).

In the meantime........

............ READ 'EM AND WEEP!!!!!!!!!


Michael R.
Diving in the Box FF League Chairman
http://divinginthebox.blogspot.com/


DITB PREMIER LEAGUE

Pos. Manager (Team Name) Week Pts Total Pts National Pos.
1 Brendan Kelly (flexysmidniterunners) 53 669 9970
2 Michael Rafferty (The Grapes of Raff) 51 661 12731
3 Gary McDonald (Gazzas Piping Hots) 70 653 16209
4 Kurt Festraerts (Ibiza Town FC) 52 650 17607
5 Paul Brogan (Diaby Does Dallas) 86 623 34362
6 Mark Stevenson (Probably the best) 45 622 35128
7 Declan Crudden (Bleedin Red) 48 616 39917
8 Brian Shields (The Blue Monkeys) 23 610 45054
9 John McDermott (Sofa King Easy) 71 605 49470
10 Brendan Devlin (Brendys Bruisers) 57 603 51208
11 Conor Walls (Support your own LFC) 49 588 65327
12 Owen McNally (Maclacticos) 41 584 69347
13 Francis Jones (Yer Mas Athletic) 46 579 74334
14 Andy Kirby (Kirbs Crawlers) 66 576 77436
14 Kevin McCauley (KFC Academical) 39 576 77436
16 Jules Eilledge (True Blue Strikers) 57 571 82481
17 Conor Donnelly (The Busted Sofas) 73 564 89593
18 Mark Molloy (Harpic Amsterdam) 61 559 94516
19 William Cherry (Cherry United) 56 549 104322
20 Geoff Johnston (Minus Three FC) 50 545 108082

The average points scored in your league is: 651. The league position is: 2189.



CONFERENCE LEAGUE

Pos. Manager (Team Name) Week Pts Total Pts National Pos.
1 Gavin Sheehy (Prince of Darkness) 85 661 12731
2 Andrew McCabe (Joeys Monsters) 45 632 27949
3 Andrew Jenkins (The Rio Chargers) 59 630 29305
4 Gareth Bradley (Hoofers UTD) 59 626 32141
5 Alan McCabe (Dirty Dubs XI) 72 621 35903
6 Colm Mckenna (mugsys barber) 62 612 43278
7 Brendan Henry (SOMEMAN4ONEMAN) 54 608 46787
8 Simon Jenkins (Stickshifter United) 45 603 51208
9 Philip Risley (LIQUIDATOR FC) 60 601 52964
10 Brendan Henry (GULLADUFF FF) 74 587 66318
11 Barry Corr (bazkinginglory) 37 582 71344
12 S P O'Sullivan (LICENCE TO ROAM) 82 570 83526
13 Conor Nugent (the well hungarians) 51 568 85572
14 Barry Jones (Gunning For Glory) 53 558 95523
15 Claire McCabe (Minibabybelle FC) 56 555 98452
16 Arnold Thom (Inshallah) 34 551 102371
17 Austin McGinley (Boys Of Summer) 54 546 107094
18 Christopher Cherry (Red Cherry Devils) 46 542 110867
19 Connell McGinley (Con Villa) 52 505 140487

The average points scored in your league is: 634. The league position is: 3474.