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FA Cup Upsets Game – Round Three; One-off Weekend Game (Jan 2016)
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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!

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Owlish52
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Here are my carefully considered (my dartboard was broken) selections:

** Wycombe v Aston Villa - 1-1 Draw, 2 pts.
** Doncaster v Stoke - 1-2, no points
** Eastleigh v Bolton - 1-1 Draw, 2 pts.
** Ipswich v Portsmouth - 2-2 Draw, 2 pts.
** Northampton v MK Dons - 1-1 Draw, 2 pts.

Hardly top o' the table, but not bad.. 8 points. ;)
Edited by Owlish52, 9 Jan 2016, 06:34 PM.
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I will go with

Wycombe v Aston Villa
Newport v Blackburn
Eastleigh v Bolton
Northampton v MK Dons
Peterborough v Preston
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daib0
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Very pleasing, It's a separate game for each forum but entries well coming in -


Reading – Royals Rendezvous 9
Blackpool – Back Henry Street 3
Peterborough – Posh Forum 5
Sunderland – Black Cat Chat 1
Newcastle – Toon Forum 9
Watford – WHF Forums 13
W.B.A. - Baggies Zone 3
Leeds – LUFC Talk 7
Liverpool – Talk the Reds 1
Bournemouth – CourtOffside 2




Edited by daib0, 6 Jan 2016, 11:14 PM.
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I'll go...

Wycombe v Aston Villa
Eastleigh v Bolton
Peterborough v Preston
Man Utd v Sheff Utd
Oxford Utd v Swansea

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daib0
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As mentioned in the Shout Box -

FA Cup Upsets Game - 3rd Round.... Guests can even post selections HERE as "independents" !!


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* Birmingham v Bournemouth
* Brentford v Walsall
* Peterborough v Preston
* West Ham v Wolves
* Cardiff v Shrewsbury

Can't see too many shocks, gone for the logical ones :wub:

Hopefully Liverpool avoid a shock -_-
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Wolfy
6 Jan 2016, 10:48 PM
* Birmingham v Bournemouth
* Brentford v Walsall
* Peterborough v Preston
* West Ham v Wolves
* Cardiff v Shrewsbury

Can't see too many shocks, gone for the logical ones :wub:

Hopefully Liverpool avoid a shock -_-
Cheers, good thing about this game is that it's just a weekend to contemplate, no worry remembering to re-enter ...

however, I'll put the different round winners in the RR Hall of Fame at end of season!!


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Here are my picks:


** Wycombe v Aston Villa

* Birmingham v Bournemouth

** Ipswich v Portsmouth

** Man Utd v Sheff Utd

** Oxford Utd v Swansea
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** Wycombe v Aston Villa
* Birmingham v Bournemouth
** Northampton v MK Dons
* Peterborough v Preston
* West Ham v Wolves
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daib0
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Currently the entries are:

Reading – Royals Rendezvous 11
Blackpool – Back Henry Street 4
Peterborough – Posh Forum 7
Sunderland – Black Cat Chat 2 (expecting more here!)
Newcastle – Toon Forum 10
Watford – WFC Forums 14
W.B.A. - Baggies Zone 3
Leeds – LUFC Talk 11
Liverpool – Talk the Reds 1
Bournemouth – CourtOffside 3 (expecting more here!)
Edited by daib0, 7 Jan 2016, 06:10 PM.
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