Dear All,

 

The results for the preliminary round of the DITB FFA Cup are in and attached below.

 

Teams highlighted in red will now proceed into the first round proper along with the Premiership clubs and remaining Conference teams who received a bye to the last 32.

 

Not much to note, except another defeat for Paddy Sulls at the expense of Minibabybelle FC.

 

Imagine getting beat again by a girl!!! 

 

Yes, that’s what Brother Johnston said to me just five minutes ago so I’ve had to give him a final warning for gross sexism and he may be disqualified from the DITB League if he doesn’t change his outdated attitudes regarding women and football very soon.

 

Anyway, we’re not here to discuss Brother Johnston’s neanderthal chauvinistic behaviour, we’re here to talk football!

 

So here are the results of the preliminary round, followed by a quick look at the league tables...

 

FFA CUP PRELIMINARY ROUND RESULTS

 

Match One:         

Real Goldfish               28         vs         42        The Well Hungarians (may as well get a bye Nujo!)
Match Two:

Joey’s Monsters           20        vs         30        The Rio Chargers 
Match Three: 

HahaBarcawankasFAF  10        vs         22         Minibabybelle FC (ouch grudge match!!!)

Match Four:

Jittery Dynamos           26         vs         16         Kirbs Crawlers
Match Five:

Boys of Summer          17         vs         33         Fullofthepipe  

Match Six: 

Mattrua                         29        vs         13         Bazkinginglory 

 

Match Seven: 

Cherry Utd                    32        vs         19        Stickshifter Utd

Match Eight: 

Cool Dude Zoo             20        vs         23        Hoof Hearted Utd

 

Turning our attention now to the Premiership, nothing much has changed since I last spoke to you – apart from Torres going to Chelsea for £50M, Carroll going to Liverpool for £35M and Charlie Adam staying at Blackpool where’ll he continue to play for a weekly salary of £2.50 with a bag of chips and a tin of coke.

 

The world has indeed gone crazy – but in the stable economic climate that is the DITB League, some things never change.

 

In a nutshell, that means The Professor is still at the top of the table, Brother Molloy is still crying his lamps out (even though he’s in second position), The Grapes are still hovering around the top five, and the relegation zone features such regulars as KFC Academical and Gulladuff FF.   

 

Yer Ma’s Athletic (Andy Gray’s favourite team) are propping up the table but it has to be said that any team from 13^th down is still in danger of the drop.

 

Yes’ I’m talking to you McD, Wallsy, Shieldsy, Crudden and Donnelly!!!

 

Meanwhile, outside of the top two in the Premier League, the rest of the top ten is as tight as Charlie Adam’s corset and changes freely from one minute to the next.

 

Moving on to the Conference League, the Rio Chargers are charging their way to promotion, Kirbs Crawlers are crawling their way back to the top flight, and Mattrua is.... a crap team name!  Have to say that Brother Curran is doing well in his debut season though.

 

The top three are followed by a host of regular promotion challengers, alternatively known as ‘nearly men’ or ‘gallant losers’.  Bridesmaids but never brides, one could say.

 

At the bottom of the table, Brother McAvoy’s attempt to be the worst ever team in the history of DITB is really going well as Real Goldfish open up a 170 gap between him and the team above him.

 

No surprise that, of the five teams above McAvoy, three of them are O’Sullivans. 

 

Throw perennial underachievers The Well Hungarians into the mix along with Hoof Hearted Utd and it’s hard to see outside this motley crew for relegation.

 

Having said that, Jittery Dynamos and Gunning for Glory are still in the league!

 

So that’s it folks until next week.

 

Remember there’s pretty much a full league programme tonight and tomorrow night.

 

Who knows how the recent transfer activity will affect your teams.  To be honest, I’m gutted that El Hadji Diouf has gone to Rangers – that’s another transfer wasted!!!

 

Until next week...

 

.... READ ‘EM AND WEEP!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Michael R.

Diving in the Box FF League Chairman

http://divinginthebox.blogspot.com/ 

 

DITB PREMIER LEAGUE

POS	Manager	Team name	Total points	Week pts	Starting XI pts	Starting XI pos	Goals	Goal Pos	Overall Position
1	Kurt Festraerts	Golden Generation	1031	33	802	18157	66	2075	1645
2	Mark Molloy	Harpic Amsterdam	1019	25	802	18157	59	14243	2699
3	Philip Risley	VUVUZOLA FC	971	47	759	38986	57	21806	14249
4	Michael Rafferty	The Grapes of Raff	963	32	681	101372	54	38072	17696
5	Mark Stevenson	Probably the Best	958	24	779	27938	50	67883	20177
6	Paul Brogan	Diaby Does Dallas	956	32	695	88781	58	17670	21225
7	Gavin Sheehy	prince of darkness	943	31	835	8957	55	32064	28881
8	Owen McNally	Maclacticos	926	32	707	78231	51	59522	41100
9	Gary McDonald	Gazza's Piping Hots	925	37	683	99563	51	59522	41846
10	Brendan Kelly	FlexysMidniteRunners	924	25	634	143681	46	103990	42588
11	Jules Eilledge	True Blue Strikers	899	15	794	21157	53	44554	64038
12	Geoff Johnston	Minus Three FC	895	28	500	212959	43	131720	67814
13	John McDermott	Sofa King Watt	860	27	550	197707	47	94679	101940
14	Declan Crudden	Bleedin Red	850	26	624	151977	43	131720	111333
15	Conor Walls	Wallsy's Warriors	839	21	730	59344	41	148755	121354
16	Conor Donnelly	The Busted Sofas	818	32	618	156844	42	140470	139003
16	Brian Shields	The Blue Monkeys	818	29	697	86953	51	59522	139003
18	Brendan Henry	Gulladuff FF	801	11	582	181719	36	184011	151786
18	Kevin McCauley	KFC Academical	801	26	615	159178	42	140470	151786
20	Francis Jones	Yer Ma's Athletic	799	24	720	67064	40	156778	153216

 

DITB CONFERENCE LEAGUE

POS	Manager	Team name	Total points	Week pts	Starting XI pts	Starting XI pos	Goals	Goal Pos	Overall Position
1	Andrew Jenkins	The Rio Chargers	995	30	800	18880	61	8817	6714
2	Andy Kirby	Kirbs Crawlers	962	16	746	47504	59	14243	18145
3	Gavin Curran	Mattrua	948	29	532	204508	61	8817	25701
4	William Cherry	Cherry United	918	32	761	37778	51	59522	47411
5	Barry Corr	bazkinginglory	907	13	761	37778	48	85543	56854
6	Austin McGinley	Boys of Summer	904	17	616	158371	54	38072	59544
7	Claire McCabe	MiniBabyBelleFC	881	22	790	22787	39	164241	81334
8	Simon Jenkins	Stickshifter United	874	19	863	4368	43	131720	88161
9	Arnold Thom	Inshallah	870	21	584	180488	46	103990	92043
9	Andrew McCabe	Joeys Monsters	870	20	772	31609	49	76590	92043
9	Alan McCabe	Dirty Dubs XI	870	20	576	185193	33	199213	92043
12	Barry Jones	Gunning for Glory	863	17	647	132442	47	94679	98975
13	Brendan Henry	Fullofthepipe	860	33	656	124250	48	85543	101940
14	Christopher Cherry	Jittery Dynamos	851	26	708	77359	64	3855	110378
15	Joseph O'Sullivan	COOL DUDE ZOO	847	20	504	212080	51	59522	114183
16	Joseph O'Sullivan	TORRES and co	835	30	640	138571	48	85543	124841
17	Gareth Bradley	Hoof Hearted UTD	832	23	535	203499	43	131720	127440
18	Conor Nugent	the well hungarians	818	42	689	94147	45	113328	139003
19	Simon O'sullivan	HaHa Barca wankasFAF	776	10	658	122505	38	171268	168004
20	Conor Mcavoy	Real Goldfish	604	28	604	167190	32	203468	221646