A look at the managers - part 3

Tim Feldbruegge has had an interesting time recently. He and his lovely missus got pregnant and unlike his fantasy football prowess, it seems in the box, so to speak, Tim is quite the prolific striker because Mrs F is having triplets! According to the father it was a natural process, i.e. 7 pints and a burrito and no extra time was required. Tim's life of course will never be the same again, although he has promised me that him and his buddy Frank will try harder next year. After a very barren couple of years though Tim did win the penultimate prize finishing 54th and collects $20.

One place above Tim was Megan McLeod, just 24 points herslef from collecting 20 bucks. Megan never got her fantasy team going though this season but did win MoW in week 11.

The 2002-03 champion Barry Plummer had a superb campaign. Starting in The Championship after his poor showing last season, he took the 2nd tier title winning 30 notes. Baz's season actually started very slowly, he was in 54th place after the first week but by the middle of October he had made his way to 7th in The Championship.

Barry hung around up until after Christmas when in January he started to get on Greg Foulger's tail. Greg had been leading for almost the entire campaign but in the last week before the switch Barry showed all of his fantasy experience and overtook Greg in the final week to win The Championship by 9 points. Then in the Title Race he made 3rd before settling on a 4th final place and a 60 quid prize.

It was Greg Foulger's first ever N&R season and in that time he has worked in London and Miami and is soon to move to Mexico. However the ex-par lifestyle did not impact on his fantasy play at all after unfortunately losing The Championship prize in the last week, he then adapted well to top level play and finished a very worthy 7th.

Nobby struggled again, especially up until the early part of this year, when some transfers got him promotion to the Title Race, and then I embarked on trying to climb the league, which I did pretty well ending up in 18th. Perhaps the sea air will bring me better luck next season. Alex Boswell has been around the fantasy block and he started this season well and scraped into the Title Race but a lack of transfer activity limited his success and he finished 27th.

Lee Day, the man who strips to do a number 2, sorry to those of you eating! Lee spent the whole campaign in the 2nd tier but gave it his all during those last few weeks and ended up with a tenner for finishing 6th in The Plate. Lee who has been out to see me more than anyone else will hopefully have added Bermuda to his 2009 plans. I still find it hard to believe that Doyley actually won the N&R FL title, it must have been such a flippin fluke. It was back in 2004-05 but this season's Ginger representatives Red Bull never made any real impression hanging around the bottom half of the 2nd tier until the switch and then, things did improve for him to finish 13th in The Plate and 40th overall.

Apart from week 1, Chris Wright spent the next 31 weeks in the top 5 of the 2nd tier before moving deservedly so into the Title Race in week 33. There he worked his transfers well and showed some real ability to push himself into the top 10, winning MoW in week 39 and ending in 6th for a excellent first season. Sweaty is a perennial struggler but he had one of his best season's on record dallying with the top in the 2nd tier, he was actually in 6th in February. Lee got himself into the Title Race but came up against some very strong opposition finishing 20th, a great improvement on last season's 51st.

I met Emma Wylie last summer late one night in a sweaty city bar. Well I was actually the one sweating to be honest. The lovely Highland lass gleefully signed up for the unknown and found the going hard, which was not to be unexpected bearing in mind she didn't know the rules and Kirsty was her fantasy tutor. I hope I can convince her to try again next season when I see her at the end of season drinks.