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| FA Cup Upsets Game – Round Three; One-off Weekend Game (Jan 2016) | |
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| daib0 | 5 Jan 2016, 07:24 PM Post #1 |
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FA Cup Upsets Game – Round Three One-off Weekend Game Here’s a fun competition, and it’s a one-off game, so make a prediction and then sit back and enjoy! It’s been done a dozen times now, so we know it works. It’s a game orientated to a few special friendly forums, namely: Reading - Royals Rendezvous Blackpool - Back Henry Street Peterborough – The Posh Forum Sunderland – Black Cat Chat Newcastle – Toon Forum Watford – WFC Forums WBA – Baggies Zone Leeds – LUFC Talk Liverpool – Talk the Reds Bournemouth - CourtOffside How do I play, you’ll ask?! Well, have a look at the teams on the FA Cup Round THREE programme below - there are Premier, Championship, League 1, League 2, and National Conference teams included on the list. I'd like to invite you to call for FIVE matches where you see a possible upset on the cards! By upset, it must obviously be a lower league side winning (or at least drawing) against a higher league side. You haven't got to give any score, simply guess the match of the successful 'smaller clubs' or ‘minnow’ teams! If you get it wrong doesn’t matter at all, you don’t get awarded points for that particular game or games – and that will surely apply to all of us. So … how do you get points? If in your selected games a lower league side does indeed win you have 3 points. If the lower league side force a replay then it is 1 point (note - doesn’t matter if they later lose the replay). But ... bonus - if you choose an real ‘upset’ (win/draw) – a team from a league TWO tiers OR MORE lower their opponents then those points are DOUBLED. To help you, use the asterisks by the games list to make an easy-peasy selection: one asterisk (*) = one tier difference / two asterisks (**) = two or more tier differences / Meanwhile “ --- ” on the list of matches means this prediction is not valid, don’t include these options as it’s no cup upset if teams are from the same tier league! This is the real betting man's stuff - the more you risk with tier difference the more points you get, but there again, an upset is much less likely!! So you need to weigh things up!! THIRD ROUND DRAW Friday 8th January 2016 ** Exeter v Liverpool Saturday 9th January 2016 ** Wycombe v Aston Villa --- Arsenal v Sunderland * Birmingham v Bournemouth * Brentford v Walsall --- Bury v Bradford * Colchester v Charlton ** Doncaster v Stoke ** Eastleigh v Bolton ** Everton v Dag & Red ** Hartlepool v Derby --- Huddersfield v Reading --- Hull v Brighton ** Ipswich v Portsmouth --- Leeds v Rotherham --- Middlesbrough v Burnley ** Newport v Blackburn ** Northampton v MK Dons --- Norwich v Man City --- Nottm Forest v QPR * Peterborough v Preston --- Sheff Wed v Fulham --- Southampton v Crystal Palace --- Watford v Newcastle * West Brom v Bristol City * West Ham v Wolves ** Man Utd v Sheff Utd Sunday 10th January 2016 ** Oxford Utd v Swansea --- Carlisle v Yeovil ** Chelsea v Scunthorpe --- Tottenham v Leicester * Cardiff v Shrewsbury Have fun - answers on this thread please - CAREFUL closing time BEFORE KICK-OFF of the first Friday match [8th January] Points and the placings for this comp will appear on this thread within a couple of days after the last match for this round has been played … I’ll give both the complete points for your forum, and the top dozen overall positions on all forums together for even more prestigious bragging rights! Good luck! daib0 |
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| daib0 | 5 Jan 2016, 07:26 PM Post #2 |
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My selection is: ** Wycombe v Aston Villa * Colchester v Charlton ** Eastleigh v Bolton ** Northampton v MK Dons * Peterborough v Preston Likewise, you just give your FIVE upsets matches! |
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| Webster | 5 Jan 2016, 08:18 PM Post #3 |
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** Wycombe v Aston Villa ** Doncaster v Stoke ** Everton v Dag & Red ** Man Utd v Sheff Utd ** Chelsea v Scunthorpe ....well. there's my five choices... |
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| daib0 | 5 Jan 2016, 08:25 PM Post #4 |
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Many thanks ... and perfectly possible to play on the two forums! |
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| Number 13 | 5 Jan 2016, 10:16 PM Post #5 |
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Exeter vs Liverpool Eastleigh vs Bolton Wanderers Northampton Town vs MK Dons West Ham United vs Wolverhampton Wanderers Cardiff City vs Shrewsbury Town |
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| daib0 | 6 Jan 2016, 10:26 AM Post #6 |
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Going well on most forums, it's only the Cherries and Leeds without entries so far! Currently 30 in from the ten forums, although as I say, it's basically an individual game for each forum! |
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| Darlington | 6 Jan 2016, 02:00 PM Post #7 |
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* Brentford v Walsall ** Eastleigh v Bolton ** Northampton v MK Dons * West Ham v Wolves * Cardiff v Shrewsbury |
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| daib0 | 6 Jan 2016, 02:12 PM Post #8 |
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Cheers, only five of us last round, but this is even more interesting with the big boys coming into the cup. Let's get over half-a-dozen entries in now! |
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| Foxxinator | 6 Jan 2016, 04:32 PM Post #9 |
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Wycombe v Aston Villa Ipswich v Portsmouth Peterborough v Preston Northampton v MK Dons Brentford v Walsall |
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| Foxxinator | 6 Jan 2016, 04:33 PM Post #10 |
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Also is Chelsea losing to Scunthorpe really considered an 'upset' when you look at their form this season? |
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