Tipsters Comp Round Up!!

Lone Shark · Post by **Lone Shark** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:11 pm

And so it concludes, with Plain of the Herbs securing the 2006 league by the narrowest of margins from yours truly, largely down to his spectacular calling of last weeks draw in the hurling. He takes over the crown from Seán Boyle Ó'Rathallaigh and adds his name to the overall winners roster.

Fullback is another who adds his name to the winners roster, closing out the Daithi Regan Cup Final by a final margin of 14-7. The size of the gap gap was largely down to ManFromFerbane having to do some chasing this week with some specualtive picks, but the heroic effort of Joe Brady in the drawn final made all the difference.

The McCormack Cup remains up in the air, now tied at 10-10 after two legs. Rynagh's Biffo, looking to retain his crown, went for the favourites across the card in the match results and got three out of three, but only called one of the extra specials, while yours truly made some awful match picking, but the trio of Ryan, Carroll and McNamee made up the points to bring it to a replay this week. Having been runner up in the last two league titles, the pressure will be on Uibhfhaili.com's waffler-in-chief in order to avoid a reputation as a perennial choker at the business end of matters in these competitions...

Final table here:

85 Plain of the Herbs
84 Lone Shark
83 Mighty Pair o' Hands, True Red
81 Del
79 Bart
78 As Such Ger,
76 Ballymanabroad
75 TheManfromFerbane, Fit for Junior
74 Hocker, The Rat
73 Fullback,
72 Rynagh's Biffo, Bogman,
71 Harperj
63 The Biff
62 Skippy
61 Naasmanxrhode
56 Gaaa Head, Treasurer
55 sparklin
51 Seamróga
48 Offaly man away
47 Turk
46 The Untouchable,
42 Percy Sledgehammer, Juteman
34 Bord na Mona man, Tom
33 The Rover
31 Mikey
30 AZoffaly
29 Hyper
18 Minor
17 Far from Croghan Hill
16 Leroy, rachra lady
15 barracuda, hairy hole
12 shovels, stupid like a fox, sniper
10 arbarg
9 doon massive
8 doobane man
5 Sean boyle O rathallaigh
3 96318104

TheManFromFerbane · Post by **TheManFromFerbane** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:55 pm

Gutted, absolutly gutted

Rynaghs Biffo · Post by **Rynaghs Biffo** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:14 am

So whats the craic now? How is this going to be decided? Are there any more big games left?

Lone Shark · Post by **Lone Shark** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:37 am

I'll see what games are on this weekend, but barring the cupboard is completely bare, I'll use the intermediate final and flesh it out with a few others.

I'm going to try and avoid tie breaks if at all possible!

Rynaghs Biffo · Post by **Rynaghs Biffo** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:59 am

That sounds fair enough to me!

Plain of the Herbs · Post by **Plain of the Herbs** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:13 pm

I feel like I should make a speech or something. "Ta an áthas orm an corn seo a glachadh . . ."

"Three cheers for the runners- up . . . Hip Hip . . ."

I owe it all to Gary Hanniffy and his last gasp equaliser. I had some serious ground to make up and I went for broke tipping the draw in the hurling final. Shure it wouldn't be an Offaly win if it didn't involve some bizarre comeback-from-the-dead scenario!

Lastly, thanks to the Shark for facilitating the comp during the domestic season.

Lone Shark · Post by **Lone Shark** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:55 pm

Plain of the Herbs wrote:Shure it wouldn't be an Offaly win if it didn't involve some bizarre comeback-from-the-dead scenario!

To be fair, bearing in mind the competition it was, there'd be questions to answer if it wasn't an Offaly win......