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Post by Wizaard on Aug 2, 2011 12:24:31 GMT 1
Who's going to finish top and bottom of each Division?
I'm going:
Man U - Swansea
West Ham - Coventry
Huddersfield - Bury
Crawley Town - Barnet
Anyone else's thoughts?
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Post by turtle on Aug 2, 2011 13:46:42 GMT 1
Hull City - Leeds United
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Post by markelt on Aug 2, 2011 14:19:16 GMT 1
God help us if Crawley win anything. Hopefully whatever is going on there will come out and we can be shut of them
Man City - Newcastle
West Ham - Peterborough
Sheffield United - Stevenage
Shrewsbury - Port Vale
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Post by AndyM on Aug 2, 2011 14:36:06 GMT 1
Chelsea Wigan
Leicester Barnsley
Preston Hartlepool
Shrewsbury Bradford
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Post by GroveR on Aug 2, 2011 16:18:40 GMT 1
Man U - QPR (single-figure points)
Leicester - Peterborough
Chorlton - MK Dongs (if there is a god) / Stevenage (if there isn't)
Argyle - Aldershot (and god help whoever fancies a tear-up with them nutters)
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Post by daleylama on Aug 3, 2011 9:18:16 GMT 1
My only bet is for Barnsley to do well under Keith Hill, - handicap betting with +34.
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Post by ab on Aug 3, 2011 9:54:35 GMT 1
What does that mean? That Barnsley will be champions if you give them a 34 point lead?
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Post by daleylama on Aug 3, 2011 11:33:39 GMT 1
Against the "top weight" using horse racing parlance, yep.
Others however are also handicapped in pre-season football, here's the Championship handicap for example.
Leicester Scr
West Ham +1
Nottm Forest +8
Birmingham +9
Middlesbrough +10
Reading +10
Blackpool +14
Brighton +14
Burnley +14
Cardiff +14
Ipswich +14
Southampton +16
Hull + 16
Leeds +16
Bristol City +22
Derby +24
Millwall +24
Portsmouth +24
Watford +29
Coventry +30
Peterborough +30
Crystal Palace +32
Barnsley +34
Doncaster +35
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Post by GlasgowTangerine on Aug 3, 2011 12:37:17 GMT 1
The other one that jumps out from that list is Palace. Whilst I don't expect them to challenge, at the top end, I don't think that they'll be embroiled in the dog fight either.
Reading, on the other hand, I think will struggle a lot more. Leicester have a lot to prove very quickly, and I just have a funny feeling they won't do as well as people expect.
Write us off at your peril too.
Season predictions:
Prem: Man Utd - Blackburn
Champ: West 'am - Coventry
Lg 1: Hudds - Bury
Lg 2: Swindon - Barnet
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Post by brispie on Aug 3, 2011 14:02:06 GMT 1
I'm so uninspired by the coming season that I can't be arsed to do this.
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Post by turtle on Aug 3, 2011 14:22:20 GMT 1
Not that it makes a jot of difference but I think that Blackpool could surprise a few in the 'Championship' this year.
Otherwise. What Brispie says.
We'll finish either 1st or 12th dependant on whether our players can finally be arsed to turn up for a few home games.
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Post by ab on Aug 3, 2011 15:50:46 GMT 1
As we are 3 days off the start of the season the only bit I care about and am mildly optimistic about is how Brentford will do. Of course, we'll probably capitulate hilariously against Yeovil at home on Saturday and I can go back to my default setting of "same old Brentford".
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Post by daleylama on Aug 3, 2011 16:16:25 GMT 1
I'm looking forward to it as it's our post Hilly season, so my interest is as to whether he truely is a football genius or whether the rest of the lower divisions have got so poor that steady as she goes RAFC can amass a team that is competitive due to others not being able to pay their ways despite getting crowds of 20,000.
I do believe that Hill is a football genius however this season is my litmus paper for that.
If we can dick one or two of the big boys again, all the better.
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Post by fgrfc_dan on Aug 4, 2011 10:18:41 GMT 1
City are handicapped by being a bit shite.
I fancy Forest Green to have a good season, though, and maybe challenge for the playoffs.
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Post by markelt on Nov 23, 2011 13:12:47 GMT 1
God help us if Crawley win anything. Hopefully whatever is going on there will come out and we can be shut of them Man City - Newcastle West Ham - Peterborough Sheffield United - Stevenage Shrewsbury - Port Vale Well, I'm doing pretty well with my predictions for the top, but shockingly unable to predict bottom clubs. The only thing that can save this for me is Vale going into freefall or administration. |
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Post by GroveR on Nov 24, 2011 15:43:49 GMT 1
Man U - QPR (single-figure points) Leicester - Peterborough Chorlton - MK Dongs (if there is a god) / Stevenage (if there isn't) Argyle - Aldershot (and god help whoever fancies a tear-up with them nutters) I'll stick by Man U as auld port-nose has much more experience at the squeaky-bum end of the season than mancini although seeing Citeh up close it's worrying how good they can be. Sven's made a c*** of me and Leicester although that was expected. Go Chorlton and damn your eyes Argyle for being worser even that Dagenham. |
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Post by Wizaard on Nov 24, 2011 16:41:06 GMT 1
Still waiting for Swansea to implode, although there's time yet.
Everything else not a million miles off.
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Post by Wizaard on Dec 5, 2011 16:23:31 GMT 1
The second half of the competition at work is to name the four teams who will move the most places upwards in their respective Divisions from the start of January.
I'm thinking:
Sunderland - O'Neill factor
Birmingham - four games in hand and out of Europe
Leyton Orient - Did well last season yet are well down
Bradford City - surely they must improve from 22nd?
Any thoughts, alternatives?
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Post by AndyM on Dec 5, 2011 16:29:30 GMT 1
I'll be happy if Bradford slip by 1 place
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Post by hansen on Dec 5, 2011 22:33:45 GMT 1
Man City - Bolton
Saints - notts forest
Charlton -Wycombe
Crawley Town - Plymouth
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Post by markelt on Dec 6, 2011 7:53:39 GMT 1
Oi hansen. If you wait for another four months, your predictions will be even more accurate
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Post by ab on Dec 6, 2011 10:39:04 GMT 1
You'll also win nothing with kids.
Nice to see Lee Hughes trying to keep his reputation at a steady level.
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Post by hansen on Dec 6, 2011 11:05:13 GMT 1
Oi hansen. If you wait for another four months, your predictions will be even more accurate Only just noticed this thread. I don't want to appear dumb, so thought I would try it on  and I was dumb enough  |
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Post by hansen on Dec 6, 2011 11:06:52 GMT 1
You'll also win nothing with kids. Nice to see Lee Hughes trying to keep his reputation at a steady level. Killed someone driving a car and runs off, now starts to fiddle with someone and runs off. 30 years in klink is about right imo. |
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Post by brispie on Dec 8, 2011 13:06:15 GMT 1
I would have thought better of you AB. What with you being a lawyer and all that.
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Post by ab on Dec 9, 2011 10:46:28 GMT 1
Of course in law he's innocent until proven guilty. But, I'm neither representing him nor likely to be on any future jury he might face. Having criminal allegations made which have enough foundation to result in arrest is hardly likely to improve your reputation. So if they're entirely baseless he can have a "nice libel" payday like Chris Jeffries.
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Post by brispie on Dec 9, 2011 11:14:41 GMT 1
The media need to be reigned in for pending court cases. Leveson had better sort it.
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Post by ab on Dec 9, 2011 19:08:50 GMT 1
In general yes - fabricating a narrative about someone being exactly the sort of poetry-loving loner weirdo who obviously was the type to abduct and kill his tenants is rather a long way over any sensible line, but merely reporting that someone has been arrested and the broad nature of the allegations should be fine in an open society.
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and I was dumb enough 