MILK PLATE – ROUND 1 DRAW

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door …… to the Milk Plate!

The Statue of Liberty knows her fantasy football (even if she is French!). She knows the heartbreak of first round cup exits. The agony of one bad gameweek ruining a gamemonth score. Of ghost teams and their lucky captain choices, or coming off second best in the game of Pep roulette.

The Milk Plate is the light! For all the hard-done-by first round losers of the FFUK Cup. F**k the FFUK Cup. They’re the real losers. This is where it’s at! This is where the real teams plays, that live and breathe their fantasy football. Sheffield Wednesday on a cold, snowy January afternoon vs those pampered, prawn sandwich-eating elites in their boxes in the Premier League!

This is the Milk Plate.

It is the very heart of

Fantasy Football

If you lost in the first round of the FFUK Cup, you are automatically entered for the Milk Plate. 128 Managers, including the two byes. The first job then was to decide who should play the byes. This was done using an online draw randomiser, and the two lucky managers were: Lawrence Sprigings and Fabian Mascoll! These jammy so-and-sos get a free pass to round 2!

The next step was to seed all the remaining managers based on their October gamemonth score. Lawrence and Fabian seeded 1 and 2, the Byes seeded 127 and 128. Finally a draw was created for all the rounds through to the final, using a Wimbledon-style approach with the first seed at the top of the draw, the second seed at the bottom, and the third and fourth seeds in the middle, such that the four top seeds couldn’t play each other until the semi finals. And so on and so forth. The full first-round draw is therefore as follows:

Seed	Manager		Seed	Manager
1	Lawrence Sprigings	vs	128	BYE
64	Mark Leathem	vs	65	Steven Mountford
33	Chris Norman	vs	96	Kevin Trotter
32	Ian Galloway	vs	97	Neil Sutherland
17	Lei Cao	vs	112	Ana Pascual-Leone
48	Neil Gordon	vs	81	Mark Beaumont
49	Malachi Benjamin	vs	80	Glenn Johnson
16	Adam White	vs	113	Ian Saunders
9	Richard Harrison	vs	120	Andrew Bryan
56	Tom Newman	vs	73	Louise Wilcockson
41	Eoin Reynolds	vs	88	Dylan Fjellstrom
24	Joseph Mulhern	vs	105	Luay Alfaham
25	Ben Pycz	vs	104	Philip Dewsnap
40	Nick Johns	vs	89	Sam Crabbe
57	Jonty Cooke	vs	72	James Nalepa
8	James Page-Chatton	vs	121	Alexander Thomas
5	Mark Storrar	vs	124	Danny Burgess
60	Craig Sharman	vs	69	Joseph Colliass
37	Jonny McEwan	vs	92	Seb Klyen
28	Aggie Ford	vs	101	Thomas Hagerman
21	Chris Eley	vs	108	Kingsley Goodridge
44	Toby Jones	vs	85	Pete Cronin
53	Daniel Shaw	vs	76	Ben Tiffin
12	Jack Clarke	vs	117	Duane Anderson
13	John Parkinson	vs	116	Jack Wilson
52	John Harper	vs	77	Chris Webb
45	Allan Tomkins	vs	84	Yabah Turnbull
20	Jamie Davis	vs	109	Simon Cockram
29	Oliver Hill	vs	100	Franklyn Sams
36	Steven Coffen	vs	93	Jim Wheat
61	Jack Lowther	vs	68	Jake Walker
4	Damian Willis-Hutchinson	vs	125	Steve Smith
3	Steven Almond	vs	126	Matt Packham
62	Karl Weyman	vs	67	Stuart Bennette
35	Jonathan Britcher	vs	94	Matthew Lucas
30	Andrew Fogaty	vs	99	Paul Monger
19	Dan Hardwick	vs	110	Nathan Ennis
46	David Harrison	vs	83	Scott Volker
51	Tom Neal	vs	78	Jamie Allaway
14	Sam Douglas	vs	115	Ian Saunders
11	Marko Sudar	vs	118	Douglas Wilson
54	Andrew Clarke	vs	75	Jordan Davison
43	Andy Caulfield	vs	86	Andy Heath B
22	Ben Carter	vs	107	Phil Andrews
27	Mike Cronin	vs	102	Jacob Drant
38	Liz Colman	vs	91	Ashley Read
59	Scott Hassell	vs	70	Marcus Blowers
6	Dean Collins	vs	123	Dan Mogridge
7	Ross Smith	vs	122	James Sheridan
58	Stewart Thomas	vs	71	Josh Kelly
39	Haroon Rashid	vs	90	Vladimirs Voronkovs
26	Mark Turnbull	vs	103	Tom Spicer
23	Max Walker	vs	106	James Downie
42	Chris Hoerder	vs	87	Aaron Smith
55	Tom Price	vs	74	Mark Tarbox
10	James Amar	vs	119	Dexter Smith
15	Jimmy Spence	vs	114	Chris Galloway
50	Andrew Russell	vs	79	Matt Frost
47	Chris Lovegrove	vs	82	Louis Dowling
18	Peter Hayes	vs	111	David Petts
31	Tina Whitehouse	vs	98	Joe Hammond
34	Rob Latuske	vs	95	Stephen Fielden
63	Alan D	vs	66	Jason Phillips
2	Fabian Mascoll	vs	127	BYE

Good luck to everyone in the Milk Plate. The first round will be played over the 4 game weeks of the November gamemonth. With the final being played in May.

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