TFF Transfer Deadlines: Tue 23-03-2010 at 20:00,
Wed 24-03-2010 at 19:45, Sat 27-03-2010 at 15:00.
TFFCH Transfer Deadlines: Tue 23-03-2010 at 19:45,
Wed 24-03-2010 at 19:45, Sat 27-03-2010 at 12:45.
September 20, 2009
Diary of a TFC Century League Challenge 25
Week 20 Day 5
The end of the penultimate week, just five more days to play. But first off there's a welcome break, a chance to focus on football for a weekend, a chance to celebrate England avoiding a whitewash. But even after Swann had bowled Australia out and Strauss and Denly had knocked off half the runs, still the rest of the team managed to almost let the convicts back in. In the fantasy world, the opportunity to rest players once the series outcome was clear played havoc with selections and meant that the generous allocation of transfers was in fact not enough. I ended up with only nine playing in the final match and I imagine most other teams at the top will have been in a similar position. I just hope that very few had Swann, let alone captained him, or my chances of staying in the top 50 will have gone. I stuck by Denly as captain which was jointly, with Ponting, the next best option. I guess the update will happen tomorrow after they have triple checked that there are no errors.
In the football it was a good day at Selhurst Park. It was all down to me, of course. I finally ditched my heavily Palace oriented fantasy team which was always certain to provoke a clean sheet. But who cares? Palace won, kept a clean sheet, halted the decline, and all because Warnock finally saw sense and put Lawrence on the transfer list.
And what of the Century challenge? Saturday was a relatively quiet day all round. Almost everyone chipped in a little and some of the deficit was clawed back. It's all in the lap of the gods now. It could hang on how many players actually turn out in the final match. Of course it wasn't all plain sailing on Staurday. Early in the morning I weighed up the likelihood of Worcestershire batting again and possibly gifting Trescothick a few catches and then set about choosing his replacement. I quickly confined my search to Sussex and Yorkshire players as they seemed likely to still be battling in the championship next week. In the end I chose safety and went for the already settled in Rudolph, with the fact that he couldn't get -20 a big plus factor. Five minutes into the day and he's gone without adding to his overnight score. And he was my captain too. At least Trescothick didn't score any either. Here's the top four at the end of week 20.
The end of the penultimate week, just five more days to play. But first off there's a welcome break, a chance to focus on football for a weekend, a chance to celebrate England avoiding a whitewash. But even after Swann had bowled Australia out and Strauss and Denly had knocked off half the runs, still the rest of the team managed to almost let the convicts back in. In the fantasy world, the opportunity to rest players once the series outcome was clear played havoc with selections and meant that the generous allocation of transfers was in fact not enough. I ended up with only nine playing in the final match and I imagine most other teams at the top will have been in a similar position. I just hope that very few had Swann, let alone captained him, or my chances of staying in the top 50 will have gone. I stuck by Denly as captain which was jointly, with Ponting, the next best option. I guess the update will happen tomorrow after they have triple checked that there are no errors.
In the football it was a good day at Selhurst Park. It was all down to me, of course. I finally ditched my heavily Palace oriented fantasy team which was always certain to provoke a clean sheet. But who cares? Palace won, kept a clean sheet, halted the decline, and all because Warnock finally saw sense and put Lawrence on the transfer list.
And what of the Century challenge? Saturday was a relatively quiet day all round. Almost everyone chipped in a little and some of the deficit was clawed back. It's all in the lap of the gods now. It could hang on how many players actually turn out in the final match. Of course it wasn't all plain sailing on Staurday. Early in the morning I weighed up the likelihood of Worcestershire batting again and possibly gifting Trescothick a few catches and then set about choosing his replacement. I quickly confined my search to Sussex and Yorkshire players as they seemed likely to still be battling in the championship next week. In the end I chose safety and went for the already settled in Rudolph, with the fact that he couldn't get -20 a big plus factor. Five minutes into the day and he's gone without adding to his overnight score. And he was my captain too. At least Trescothick didn't score any either. Here's the top four at the end of week 20.
| Team | Start | Sat | Week20 | Total |
| Outside Edge | 1 | 76 | 1512 | 21936 |
| Bramernic Spitfires | 16 | 108 | 905 | 21821 |
| GOLD 1 | 3 | 240 | 1254 | 21534 |
| Jones Boys Two | 4 | 398 | 1080 | 21002 |
