2015/16 Co-Ord Roundup part one - The 'Counters' Table

Here's the table if that was all that mattered in the game was 'counters'. Don't worry it won't be. (Well, not on my watch!)

1. Claymore Athletic FC - 121 (same place as real table, eight more counters than last season)
2. Aardvark Abacus - 95 (four higher, 20 more)
3=. Fred West LGXI - 93 (one higher, 13 fewer)
3=. The CFJs - 93 (two higher, two more)
5. The Fabulous Artisans - 92 (two lower, seven more)
6. Athletico Phoenix - 87 (four lower, 11 fewer)
7. San Dimas High School - 86 (same place, 16 more)
8. Cheese Makers - 78 (same place, one more)
9. Real Muppets - 77 (two higher, six fewer)
10. FCK2 - 74 (one lower, 12 fewer)
11. The Wateringhole Society - 66 (one higher, 13 more)
12. Trusted By Millions - 61 (two lower, 14 fewer)
13. Nil Satis Nisi Optimum - 59 (one higher, 13 fewer)
14. Final Fantasy XI - 57 (one higher, eight fewer)
15. Mega Buck Bandits - 50 (two lower, eight fewer)
16. YTFIB - 49 (same place, one more)

Clive's dominance brought home by these scores. The Aardvarks have bounced back (do aardvarks bounce?), San Dimas have improved and Kiran has got The Wateringhole Society pointing in the right direction.

Not sure whether Trusted can fall further while Nil satis and Mega Bucks will be looking to arrest their decline in counters too.

Total counters fell to 1,238 which is the lowest since we've been keeping tally of this stuff.

2015/16 Awards - £500k Team of the Season

(More of the same but this time with players from the bargain basement)

GK: Joe Hart (The Wateringhole Society)

DEF: Hector Bellerin (Real Muppets), Robert Huth (Cheese Makers), Chris Smalling (FCK2), Craig Dawson (Fred West LG XI)

MID: Riyad Mahrez (Athletico Phoenix), Gylfi Sigurdsson (The CFJs), Ross Barkley (Claymore Athletic FC), Manuel Lanzini (Cheese Makers)

ATT: Harry Kane (FCK2), Jamie Vardy (San Dimas High School)

Subs: Heurelho Gomes (FCK2); Jose Fonte (Cheese Makers); Nathan Redmond (Athletico Phoenix) ; Marko Arnautovic (YTFIB)

That's a decent-looking line-up. The bargains are there to be had.

Last year's team

2015/16 Awards - English Team of the Season

(Same rules as before but England-qualified players only)

GK: Joe Hart (The Wateringhole Society)

DEF: Chris Smalling (FCK2), Craig Dawson (Fred West LG XI), Eric Dier, Danny Simpson (both Nil Satis)

MID: Dele Alli (Fred West LG XI), Ross Barkley (Claymore Athletic FC), Theo Walcott (San Dimas High School), Raheem Sterling (Real Muppets)

ATT: Harry Kane (FCK2), Jamie Vardy (San Dimas High School)

Subs: Jack Butland (The CFJs); Glen Johnson (FCK2); Adam Lallana (Fred West LG XI); Jermain Defoe (Fred West LG XI)

And as it's a Euros year let's have a few more to get us up to a squad of 23.

Troy Deeney (Cheese Makers), Aaron Cresswell (Claymore Athletic), John Stones (Nil Satis), Kyle Walker (San Dimas), Danny Rose (Aardvark Abacus), Leighton Baines (The Fabulous Artisans), Ryan Shawcross (Trusted By Millions),  Phil Jagielka (Aardvark Abacus).

That squad is a bit defence-heavy. I suppose Walcott and Sterling could push on. And a mis-categorised Eric Dier could take the defensive midfield role.

Joleon Lescott was in last year's team. How times change!

2015/16 Awards - Team of the Season

(All awards are made on basis of contributions in all WSFFL competitions. Where there is a tie, contributions in league matches take precedence. Then I'll try to separate them by goals scored. Then counters in the FA Cup. Then perhaps by best hair. If you see two or more names in a position I still couldn't split them.)

GK: Joe Hart (The Wateringhole Society)

DEF: Wes Morgan (Mega Bucks), Hector Bellerin (Real Muppets), Robert Huth (Cheese Makers), Chris Smalling (FCK2)

MID: Riyad Mahrez (Athletico Phoenix), Gylfi Sigurdsson (The CFJs), Sadio Mane (Real Muppets), Dimitri Payet (Claymore Athletic FC)

ATT: Sergio Aguero (Claymore Athletic FC), Harry Kane (FCK2)

Subs: Petr Cech (Aardvark Abacus); Christian Fuchs (YTFIB); Dele Alli (Fred West LG XI); Jamie Vardy (San Dimas High School)

Big changes this year with only Hart and Aguero surviving from last year's line-up. No WSFFL team with more than two representatives. Does that suggest a wider spread of talent than previous years?

Last year's line-up

2015/16 Awards - Players of the Season

(Awards are made on basis of contributions in all WSFFL competitions. Where there is a tie, contributions in league matches take precedence.)

Player of the season, Attacker of the season and Golden Boot:
Sergio Aguero (Claymore Athletic FC) - 23 goals

Deja vu all over again. Aguero retains all three trophies with the same number of goals as last season. How many would he get with a full year of fitness? Like Claymore, must be favourite to make it a hat-trick next season.

Golden Gloves:
Petr Cech (Aardvark Abacus) and Joe Hart (The Wateringhole Society) - 13 cleans


No surprise to see Hart at the top of the table again (fifth time in six seasons) but it's the first award since 2009/10 for long-serving Aardvark custodian Cech.

Defender of the Season:
Wes Morgan (Mega Buck Bandits) - two goals, 13 cleans

What odds would you have given on Morgan winning this one? Or anyone playing for Mega Bucks for that matter? He just edges out another surprise performer, Hector Bellerin.

Midfielder of the season:
Riyad Mahrez (Athletico Phoenix) - 17 goals

He might not have made off with the main trophy but Mahrez would have been many people's first choice of the player they'd most likely want to go and see in 2015/16.

Young Player of the Season and £500k Player of the season: 
Harry Kane (FCK2) - 20 goals 

The first player to be Young Player of the Season twice. He'll still be eligible next year too! Proved he wasn't a flash in the pan and could be terrorising WSFFL defences for years to come.

Full list of previous winners

Week 30 Results and final table

Farewell 2015/16.

Aardvark Abacus 5 v 5 Claymore Athletic FC

Athletico Phoenix 0 v 1 YTFIB

Cheese Makers 3 v 1 FCK2

Final Fantasy XI 0 v 1 San Dimas High School

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 1 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits

Real Muppets 4 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

The Cow-Faced Juniors 1 v 1 Trusted By Millions

The Wateringhole Society 2 v 3 The Fabulous Artisans

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	30	18	8	4	98	53	45	62
2	Athletico Phoenix	30	15	7	8	67	55	12	52
3	The Fabulous Artisans	30	15	6	9	74	41	33	51
4	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	30	15	5	10	73	60	13	50
5	The Cow-Faced Juniors	30	14	8	8	67	61	6	50
6	Aardvark Abacus	30	15	4	11	68	56	12	49
7	San Dimas High School	30	13	9	8	67	53	14	48
8	Cheese Makers	30	13	7	10	53	55	-2	46
9	FCK2	30	12	4	14	52	53	-1	40
10	Trusted By Millions	30	10	8	12	36	48	-12	38
11	Real Muppets	30	12	1	17	60	63	-3	37
12	The Wateringhole Society	30	10	6	14	43	60	-17	36
13	Mega Buck Bandits	30	8	7	15	37	57	-20	31
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	30	7	9	14	38	52	-14	30
15	Final Fantasy XI	30	6	8	16	38	66	-28	26
16	YTFIB	30	8	1	21	25	63	-38	25

Our champions were pushing towards a couple of records going into the last game but were denied the biggest winning points margin in a remarkable game. Olivier Giroud hit a hat-trick for Claymore, Cesc Fabregas got his only goal of the season and Gio Wijnaldum came off the bench to convert a spot-kick and Clive’s team were 5-2 up with 10 minutes left. Ady’s team struck back through Danny Drinkwater, Steven Davis and a Phil Jagielka clean to earn a point. The Aardvarks scored five in each of their last three games. Are they the ‘Leicester’ of next season Ady was talking about?

Clive’s winning margin ended at ten points after Athletico suffered a last season reverse to YTFIB. Brian did hang on to second place, his best finish, after his rivals slipped up. A brilliant Jason Puncheon strike after 64 minutes was the only goal. Julian’s team claimed 16 of their 29 points in the last nine games, only two teams could top that.

One of those were the Artisans who took advantage of other teams’ failure to win to take third place. Ben had trailed Kiran 2-1 late on but cleans from Leighton Baines and Jon Flanagan from the bench got him all three points. He’s been on a remarkable run in the second half of the season, winning ten and losing just two of his last 15 games. Title-winning form I fancy. Kiran has not quite managed to build on early-season form but finished two places higher than his predecessor managed in his last two seasons.

Solomon Rondon looked to have lifted Fred into second with his 13th minute near-post but the much improved Michal Antonio equalised 10 minutes later for Dave and despite chances Rondon couldn’t find a winner. Only two points in the last three games for the Gardeners blew their chances of closing in on Claymore. Mega Bucks season ends on eight without a win.

The CFJs had been putting a run together and looked favourites for second place at one point but a 1-1 draw with Trusted means the Howells finish with only one win in their final four. Jeremiah Lens got the CFJs goal after being a lot-minute signing. Erik Lamela earned Beef a point but his tenth=place finish is his worst, ever!

San Dimas have finished between fifth and ninth in each of the last six seasons so maybe seventh wasn’t too much of a surprise. My team finished with a 1-0 win over Final Fantasy thanks to Gabriel’s clean. This match was Ceri’s last as a WSFFL manager. She has a fifth-placed finish (in 2013) and an FA Cup win a year later to look back on. Maybe finishing below Dave for the first time in four seasons was the final straw! Anyhow, I thank her for her support and will miss the bids for previously unheard of Spaniards at auction nights. A new manager will be named in due course. I’m waiting for another team to get back to me about future participation before I make any announcements. I’d say ‘you know who you are’ but as I’ve written to them three times without reply they probably don’t.

Cheese Makers claimed their second top half place in three seasons with victory over FCK2. Matthew’s team had fallen behind to an excellent run and shot by Jordan Ibe, but Kevin Mirallas and a Troy Deeney penalty led the turnaround. Kevin and Jon’s season ended with just four wins in this calendar year.

The Muppets were one of the best teams in the second half of the season and finished with a comfortable 4-0 win over Nil Satis. Kelechi Iheanacho got things going from a rebound on five minutes and Mitrovic (who later saw red) and Mane had both scored by half-time. It’s been another patchy campaign for Nil Satis who finish in the bottom five for the sixth season in a row.

Week 29 Results

There will be a last day shoot-out between FCK2 and Cheese Makers for the final top-half spot.

Cheese Makers 2 v 5 Aardvark Abacus

Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 2 Athletico Phoenix

FCK2 1 v 0 YTFIB

Mega Buck Bandits 0 v 3 The Cow-Faced Juniors

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 Real Muppets

The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 1 Final Fantasy XI

The Wateringhole Society 3 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

Trusted By Millions 0 v 1 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Claymore Athletic FC	29	18	7	4	93	48	45	61
2	Athletico Phoenix	29	15	7	7	67	54	13	52
3	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	29	15	4	10	72	59	13	49
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	29	14	7	8	66	60	6	49
5	The Fabulous Artisans	29	14	6	9	71	39	32	48
6	Aardvark Abacus	29	15	3	11	63	51	12	48
7	San Dimas High School	29	12	9	8	66	53	13	45
8	Cheese Makers	29	12	7	10	50	54	-4	43
9	FCK2	29	12	4	13	51	50	1	40
10	Trusted By Millions	29	10	7	12	35	47	-12	37
11	The Wateringhole Society	29	10	6	13	41	57	-16	36
12	Real Muppets	29	11	1	17	56	63	-7	34
13	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	29	7	9	13	38	48	-10	30
14	Mega Buck Bandits	29	8	6	15	36	56	-20	30
15	Final Fantasy XI	29	6	8	15	38	65	-27	26
16	YTFIB	29	7	1	21	24	63	-39	22

Athletico’s draw at Claymore puts them in a strong position to hold on to second spot. Clive had clearly fired his team up after last week’s defeat and Aguero and Giroud had fired them two up inside ten minutes. Brian soon hit back through Diego Costa and a Paul Dummett clean earned his team a deserved point. Fred lost ground though with defeat at the Wateringhole Society. Despite scoring first through Solomon Rondon, Fred was 3-1 down at the break. Wayne Rutledge got his first of the season and then Andre Ayew and a screamer from Wabi Khazri put Kiran in control. Jermain Defoe pegged one back but it wasn’t enough.

The CFJs joined Fred on 49 points with a routine win at Mega Bucks. Two goals in two minutes from Borini and Sanchez midway through the second half doing the main business for Chris and Co. The Artisans haven’t given up on third either but could have gone third with victory over Final Fantasy. Roberto Firmino put Ben ahead 14 minutes from time but Matt Ritchie got the equaliser for Ceri six minutes later.

The Aardvarks are our final team with a shot at third following a big win at the Stade de Fromage. Ady has been a bit short of goals to mount a full title challenge so would have been surprised to have seen any one of Son, Joe Allen and Sean Davis on the scoresheet. You’d have got good odds on them all scoring and Davis getting a brace. San Dimas secured a top half spot with a win over the in-form Muppets. Two Jamie Vardy goals, either side of on for Kevin de Bruyne for Ryan, were enough. A wasted Vardy penalty not proving important in the grand scheme of things.

FCK2 go into a last day showdown with the Cheesers for a top half spot thanks to a 1-0 win over YTFIB. Chris Smalling’s clean the only score in a game that may be remembered as John Terry’s last WSFFL appearance after his sending off. The result condemns Julian to bottom spot for the third straight year. Nil Satis lifted themselves to 13th with a  1-0 win at Trusted. Bafetimbi Gomis notching deep in injury time to settle it in Paul and Dan’s favour.