ROUNDS TEN & ELEVEN ROUND UP!
Well, the GoT question caused a tad of contention cum apathy! So let’s hurry on to matters RL. The names Atomic & Chayders may crop up several times in the following summary.
Let’s begin with a good win for The Bulls away at ‘Fax. Five out of the nine foresaw that victory with Atomic just hitting the wrong side of the upright by being a mere one point out on the margin.
5 points for all of us by unanimously plumping for a Tranny stroll in Cumbria. By this time Atomic had had a sighter and bisected the sticks with a plumb margin of 26. 10 more to him. What’s more he played a joker. Good call!........ Sadly,though, he didn’t have one to play (unless another of this Band of Brothers has been swapping theirs for Atomic’s bitcoin?)
Still, good show thus far, Old Man!
6/9 presaged a home victory for Fev (Bongser, EVVO & Wanderer erring). No one even halfway to the surprisingly high margin though.
Let’s now shoot the elephant in the room and say that The Chemics comfortably beat The Comics. Five points to five walkers. The faithful losers, Atomic, Bongser, EVVO & Vanners.
Swinton beat ‘Dale and 40 points were divided ‘twixt eight. This time only Atomic ran into the post.
Onto a belting win for The Bulldogs at Tetleys Stadium. Only two (Vanners & Charlie) plumped for it. Bravo to both. That means that, with one game left to type of, Charles alone could scoop a pokemon.
Again only two prophesied a win for Sheffield when The Tools came to town. Charlie, sorry Chuck, was not of that number. Bongser was one and, in being the other, Atomic joined Chazzer on 30 points for the round. A further 25 to each.
Round Ten saw a total of 379 points accumulated by the fourteen teams. With a prediction of 56 points lower than that (if Bletchley Park correctly deciphered his Enigmatic post for thine host), Chayders was closest. Charlie was in two and, with Bongser garlanding his shared wooden spoon for the round by being furthest out (112 on the low side) the latter’s surprisingly long grip on the lead was looking very tenuous as we headed into Round Eleven!
Monday:
Just before 4pm, with six games standing at HT and Toulouse nearing the end of a rout against ‘Fax, HMS Bongser started to ship water. His tacet prediction of an aggregate weekend points total of 529 had already been swamped by reality. Clean sweep on the Toulouse win. Everybody way too low on the margin.
The water rose above the 600 plimsoll line before 4.20pm and threatened to swamp the lot of us. The first time a six year old Bongser saw a winter football match (72/73 season) there was a persistent deluge of rain throughout. When your correspondent (who already knew of Noah and his Ark) was told that all the big, tall lamps that had just come on were called floodlights, he was “sorely afraid”. That was the season that Bolton won promotion from the third flight – to which they have again been consigned to play next season, if they exist. Is Wanderer as dubious as B&B about the prospective Deus ex machina and his three year plan?
Back to RL. The weekend aggregate eventually rose to a (Boeing) 707 that soared high above everybody’s heads. Chayders still closest with 674 (25 GP pts), Wanderer next (18) and La Chasseur troisieme (15). Bongser left wiping everyone’s botties.
We’ll take the rest of the games in the order posted by all bar Chayders:
A great Easter for Batley was foreseen by all bar Donny Juan who tried to net the elusive predicted draw. 10 extra points to Chayders who nailed the margin.
A full house called continued Paschal misery for Barrovia. This time the 10 add-ons went to Pubbers (W, actual scoreline triple checked this time ).
Final game to finish saw The Fevver Boas surrender a latish lead to The Trannies, the enjoyment went to a very few thousand Canadians out of 37+ million (and nobody else bar Wood & his Rimmer). The late flurry from the parvenus did, however, give 5 points each to all save Atomic.
There were points for all as everybody correctly predicted triumphs for Leigh (Easter glass half full) and Sheffield. The only point to note is that the man who can’t keep out of this summary’s headlines, Atomic, played another Joker that was not in his possession. Atomic, (how are you, well one would hope) Bongser, despite manifold reports to the contrary, is not always drunk (though he is presently pleasantly on the road to nowhere)
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So, with only the Clash of The Vikings to come (allusion to the Jorvik Centre), a full seven of us were still in the hunt for a Monday pokemon. Alphabetically they were Bongser, Charlie, Chayders, Evvers, Pubbers, Vanners & Zools.
There was a “parlour game” that Bongser’s ex (and now late) father in law regularly inflicted upon the former and many others. It was called “Fish, Fruit, Flower..” Starting with A (followed one by one by the rest of the alphabet until everybody was long since bored stupid), contestants had to write down the name of a fish, a fruit, a flower and four other stated categories (that endorphins have thankfully blocked from this brain) that began with that letter. A correct answer earned a scribbler a point, a unique correct answer earned many more. Perhaps an idea for next season?
No fff (fortisissimo) extras this time for the unique correct call of a York victory but, the other geezer that can’t keep out of this week’s headlines, yup Chayders, was the only mon to bag the poke! Huzzay thrice by three for a belt & braces double header from him. Round Eleven winner by a country mile and the collector of the Weekend Winner Bonus to rugby boot.
A massively loud (fff) score of 220 points for (Sunday name though it ain’t Sunday) Cheadle Leyther. In the words of Deniece Williams, “Let’s Hear it for the Boy!”
Charlie, Bongser will fight tooth and nail to retain the leadership to which he has grown quite attached (the Prescioussss). He would now “Klingon” by the skin of his teeth, save that his dentures have no skin! One fingernail left and he is clinging on by it. After a drawn Ashes series, the holders of the itsy-bitsy urn retain said trophy. So shall it be! Charlie, it may be time to play a Joker (or two, or three) legally as the other predatory creature now in possession of three Jokers has just, under cover of a scary soundtrack, noiselessly swum into the shallows of third position.
SCORES ON DOORS:
Bongser 688 J
Chazzer 688 JJJ
Donners 598 JJJ
EVVO 591 JJ
Zools 560 JJ
Pubbers 543 J
Vanners 531 J
Chayders 501 J
Tommers 487 J
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