Congrats (eventually) to Dan Mac who stormed to victory in the third installment of the transfer window, a full forty seven points ahead of the Magicians in second place (nobody ever remembers the losers). He is shown below sporting the trophy that now adorns his coffee table (cos it’s too big to put anywhere else). I don’t know why he looks so glum, maybe it’s because his team has virtually fallen apart in the meantime, and is no longer really challenging for a place in the top four which would have seen him move up into the prize-money. Or maybe it’s bacause he hasn’t received any of his prize-money which should have gone with the trophy. He’ll have to push hard to get it!

But it was a well deserved victory for Dan. He had a drastic clear-out at Christmas when he was convinced they were a bunch of sooners, and would come to no good for the rest of the season.

Mike Cashman cordially accepted his prize as winner of the Inter-Transfer Competition #2 recently. He commented that his recent good form was in no small part to his ability to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to football players. Time and experience has taught him well, but on being pressed further, he admitted that it was a pure fluke that won it for him in the end … after the disaster of the first leg of the campaign, they could only get better. He thanked all the others for not being as lucky as he was, especially for lots of other teams players getting injured at the wrong times, and the good sportsmanship shown by everyone all along.

Unfortunately there were no pictures taken at the presentation, because the press photographer was unable to find the venue, so remote is this place called Tullig. But Cashman as usual wanted to keep a low profile and not to get tongues wagging, so he took his prize and slinked back out of the limelight, and into that shady place that is Tullig House.

However recent news reports are telling us that he has absconded to Vegas to see if he can further increase his prize-winnings, confident he is that his run of luck will continue after his recent success locally. One eagle eyed member of the paparazzi spotted him on the roulette table and grabbed a quick snap before he realised what was happening (as seen in the picture above). The chips were flying, cigars and whiskey were the norm and he was generally living it up with all the trappings of his new found wealth.

But it begs the question … how far could €20 really take him?

Pat Murphy, the winner of the first Inter-Transfer competition is seen above accepting his prize from the league sponsors. He commented afterwards: “We knew we had quality and strength in-depth in the team. We were fortunate to stay relatively injury free throughout the campaign, but we feel we still need to strengthen the team because there are a few weaknesses, and there is so much competition close to us, we need to strive to pull away from that competition now, and freshening up the team should keep everyone on their toes.”
He added: “We are looking forward to a fiercely competitive Christmas because it’s early days yet and everyone still has a chance so long as they choose wisely in the transfer market.”
It should be noted that as not all the entry fees have been collected, we were not able to afford to give Pat his correct winning prize, so we got him a big bottle of Bells instead, and an inscribed plate, which will hopefully last as long as the whiskey…

Der Golden received his prize-money last night for winning our inter-transfer competition with his team”Der’s Mighty Men”. Wearing his club kit he was presented with his €20 prize by yours truly, but he has his eyes focused on the €80 prize as overall winner. With 10 games to go and 36 points clear of second, you would be a brave person to bet against him taking that title too.

If you start to see Der getting cut off, then just widen your browser window, and he’ll come into view. Thanks to Mairead (of the Sexy Men fame) for doing the photo shoot, and thanks to DJ too for coughing up the prize-money (Ahemm!!!!). All the rest of the photo’s can be seen at http://www.farmercash.com/pics/ff_pics/ , just click on the link for each picture and up they should come.
Finally, it’s Der’s birthday today (20th March), so happy birthday Der.