Place: 1
Goals: 1
Assists: 11
Bonus Points: 16
Total Points: 82
Points per game: 6.8
EPL Fantasy alike: Damn shame that I can't think of a fantasy alike for the star player. Instantly you think of the playmakers - like Fabregas, Arteta, Milner etc Paddy has hogged the set pieces all season, hit an amazing number of assists and picked up twice as many bonus points as any other player. Unlike those EPL playmakers, however, Paddy has continued a remarkable inability to score any goals - and that would be the worst assist to goal record in the world. So thinking more laterally, we might have to go beyond the epl, to everyone's 2nd best, broken down, way too old playmaker - Simon Elliott.
Place:2
Goals:7 (yes, I know - 'But I scored 2 goals in the games before we started this fantasy crap')
Assists: 1
Bonus Points: 3
Total Points: 62
Points per game: 4.42
EPL fantasy alike: Bobby Zamora: 'When you're sat in row Z, and the ball hits your head, that's Zamora.' Big strikers, big reputations, and both rock the white long sleeved undershirt. Both play damn well, but never quite the amount of goals the fans are hoping for. Zamora once scored 5 goals in a match for West Ham I think, and little else that season. Sound familiar? Rauru scored the biggest single haul for the Stallions with 21 points vs Lower Hutt (more than some of the defence got all season), remove that from the tally and what happens? Good season though, golden boot (though being the player he is, Rauru may be a little embarrassed at winning this with a grand total of 9 goals). Its a shame that just one more would have made double figures, and there was one moment this season I think when the ball was so close to going over the line (ha ha!).
Quote of the season: On being accused of leaving muddy Nairnville suspiciously clean - 'I can't help it if I have the balance of a gymnast (or was it ballerina?)
Place:3
Goals:4 (1 other in fantasy 'preseason')
Assists:1 (now that can't be right)
Bonus Points: 9
Total Points: 57
Points per game: 4.38
EPL fantasy alike: Undoubtedly its Lloydy Lampard, similar number of points for the bosses of the central midfield. Suffered a little this season from Paddy's epic points haul, and like when Drogba goes to take pens and Lampard pushes him away, Lloyd must cast a dirty look at Paddy following the ref and preparing for freekicks in a footballing version of a hack lawyer chasing ambulances. For every show pony, there needs to be someone to do the graft right.
Moment of the season: the glorious chip over the keeper vs Elite, a thing of beauty - just a shame it hit the post.
Next: The (other) showponies
1 comment:
Yea, 9 goals for leading goal scorer is pretty embarrassing, but is it embarrassing for me or everyone else? But yea, still not really good enough. Only one assist is pretty poor too, and being that it was the assist for the worst goal of the season says something too.
Next year we're gonna have to change the system up a bit so that defenders get more points (maybe if we concede one goal but still get the win it's 6 points, and if there are no goals it's 8 points?). Also, strikers who go on scoring droughts (I think I only scored in 6 games!) possibly could lose points. We'll have think in the off season.
Good work on keep the points going Aaron (although you could have started a couple of games earlier!)
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