Friday Night "Transcript"

I hope you all enjoyed Friday night as much as I did. Great night and a good laugh. Thanks to all of you for coming and thanks again for my giant football set and "tickets" to the mighty Gers! I really appreciate it chaps!

Below you'll find details of the awards - who got what and why - in case anyone is interested. If anyone wants an electronic copy of their award then I've put them all onto flickr for you to download.

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Thanks

Foxy for booking the pitch every week.
Si & Martie for helping me get hold of players.
Creeky for keeping the website going when I've been away.
All the reserves for making up the numbers.

Summary

Our first full season (though we did miss one game due to the weather breaking the pitch)
Lost the Brothers Barker - Luke to retirement and Tom to the English Premiership
But had the promotion of young Karl
We had out first proper injury with Neil's broken leg (Si just fell over last year and was out for months - doesn't count!)
We unfortunately saw the rise of the pitch from £45 to £46.95, enabling me to embezzle my 5p/week again. Excellent!
We finished the season with Creeky's nose smashed all over the place which put him out of the running leaving a two horse race on the final game of the season.
All in all, I'm sure you'll all agree, a very exciting and enjoyable season.

Stats

Number of proper games = 47
Number of games abandoned due to broken bones = 1! Not 2 even though Neil almost detroyed his leg!

Number of wins for the Mincer = 29
Number of wins for the Tatties = 15
Number of draws = 3

Number of goals for the Mince = 615
Number of goals for the Tatties = 540
Total number of goals = 1155

Ave number of goals per game = 24 and a bit
Ave score per game = 13 - 11.5

Awards

Karl - Right Place, Right Time Award. He nornally scores about the same as most people but I lost track of the number of times Mr Reid popped up at the end of games to net the one goal that either snatched a draw or grabbed the winner for his team. Not only that but he also popped up to score that magical 1000th goal of the season. Also special recognition for Karl's hair for never moving during the game.

Alan - Peter Crouch Award - This one was between Creeky and Alan but the winner is Alan for being very tall, pretty handy but not really managing to score that many!

Martie - "Should have taken up bowls" Award for failing to get into double figures of wins this year.

Creeky - Stookie Award which was between Neil and Creeky but he wins it for him looking so rediculous with that thing on his nose!

Gordo - Left Slipper Award for managing to send the ball anywhere and everywhere with his magic left peg. Also well played for sharing the MOTM award with Si.

Si - Megged by Foxy. This was hotly contested between Alan and Si but due to the frequencey of Foxy playing the ball through Si's gapingly wide legs (at least twice a week), Si win this one hands down. On another note, Si did manage to rack up the most MOTM votes!

Neil - Henrick Larsson Award for his spectacular comeback to form after a broken leg. Unbeaten since his return!

Craigo - The Handbags at Dawn Award for consistently managing to get himself into every scrape, argument or altercation that happens on the pitch regardless of his actual involvement!

Jon - Dennis Bergkamp Award for his weekly appearances "off the bench"

Stu - Almost Player of the Year - He lead the league from week four (I was top for the first three weeks - oh how the mighty have fallen) only to go second a few weeks ago. He quickly regained top spot and held it right up until the last 2 minutes of regulation time on Wednesday. He's a champion among men, but just not quite Player of the Year.

Foxy - Player of the Year - I'm not sure what Foxy winning this award tells us. That age is better than youth? That eating pies are better than fitness? That nutmegging the opposition is better than a high work rate? That shouting "PISH!" at your team members makes you look better? I have no idea. But what I do know is that although Stuart looked uncatchable, Foxy managed to pull it back and you can't argue with the results.