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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 | 9 Jan 2016, 01:57 PM Post #31 |
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Now 50 mins gone, and it's Wycombe 1-1 Aston Villa ... another "cupset" possible ? |
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| daib0 | 9 Jan 2016, 02:41 PM Post #32 |
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So two games so far, and TWO surprises. Well done Wycombe for blunting Aston Villa, a 1-1 draw is very dignified. So that means lots of people up and down the country have their first points, and a dozen of the top dogs scored yesterday and today, so already sit on 4 points before the main programme gets underway. Good luck everyone! |
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| daib0 | 9 Jan 2016, 06:05 PM Post #33 |
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The level of predictions has been astoundingly good, it’s going to be very close. There are a numerous group of people in the 10 to 12 point bracket (including yours truly), but tomorrow’s game means a few could even get past the dozen. Funnily enough there has been no six-point game, which means it’s all packed together … Only sadness has been Newport’s game being postponed, and I’m very sorry to have to call this VOID, because I can’t let everyone wait for just one match. Bad luck if that’s been called, and indeed has amongst just a few of you, hopefully better luck next time… |
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| daib0 | 10 Jan 2016, 12:20 AM Post #34 |
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bear with me just the once lads, difficult to please everyone about the Newport game but I'll talk to a few of the mods from a few of the other forums and we'll improve the postponed status thing for next round, OK?! Sorry, this is the first time this has ever cropped up in about ten different round games over past few seasons ... |
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| daib0 | 10 Jan 2016, 02:09 PM Post #35 |
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FA Cup Finished Oxford Utd 3 - 2 Swansea SIX POINTS for some!!! that's put the cats amongst the pigeons
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| Wolfy | 10 Jan 2016, 08:02 PM Post #36 |
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Not to bad, Shrewsbury just shocked Cardiff. Walsall beat Brentford. Peterborough beat Preston. Narrow defeats in the other two games, all educated guesses. Missed a trick with Oxford and unfortunately Exeter. |
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| daib0 | 10 Jan 2016, 09:02 PM Post #37 |
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Here goes for the final results!! Firstly I am going to put each person on your forum in order of excellence with the full punctuations … OUR FORUM - Winning selections and all others, in order GOLD – mason1871rfc – 13 points ** Wycombe v Aston Villa--TWO POINTS ** Eastleigh v Bolton--TWO POINTS **Peterborough v Preston---THREE POINTS ** Man Utd v Sheff Utd-----0 ** Oxford Utd v Swansea---SIX POINTS SILVER - shared Foxxinator – 12 points Wycombe v Aston Villa--TWO POINTS Ipswich v Portsmouth--TWO POINTS Peterborough v Preston---THREE POINTS Northampton v MK Dons--TWO POINTS Brentford v Walsall ---THREE POINTS daib0 - 12 points ** Wycombe v Aston Villa--TWO POINTS * Colchester v Charlton---THREE POINTS ** Eastleigh v Bolton--TWO POINTS ** Northampton v MK Dons --TWO POINTS * Peterborough v Preston---THREE POINTS BRONZE - shared Darlington – 10 points * Brentford v Walsall---THREE POINTS ** Eastleigh v Bolton--TWO POINTS ** Northampton v MK Dons--TWO POINTS * West Ham v Wolves-----0 * Cardiff v Shrewsbury ---THREE POINTS Tilehurstsouthbank – 10 points ** Wycombe v Aston Villa--TWO POINTS * Birmingham v Bournemouth-----0 ** Ipswich v Portsmouth--TWO POINTS ** Man Utd v Sheff Utd-----0 ** Oxford Utd v Swansea---SIX POINTS And … Zip – 9 points ** Wycombe v Aston Villa--TWO POINTS ** Newport v Blackburn POSTPONED, VOID ** Eastleigh v Bolton--TWO POINTS ** Northampton v MK Dons--TWO POINTS **Peterborough v Preston---THREE POINTS Wolfy – 9 points * Birmingham v Bournemouth-----0 * Brentford v Walsall---THREE POINTS * Peterborough v Preston---THREE POINTS * West Ham v Wolves-----0 * Cardiff v Shrewsbury---THREE POINTS Number 13 – 9 points **Exeter vs Liverpool --TWO POINTS **Eastleigh vs Bolton Wanderers--TWO POINTS **Northampton Town vs MK Dons--TWO POINTS *West Ham United vs Wolverhampton Wanderers-----0 *Cardiff City vs Shrewsbury Town---THREE POINTS Owlish52 – 8 points ** Wycombe v Aston Villa--TWO POINTS ** Doncaster v Stoke-----0 ** Eastleigh v Bolton--TWO POINTS ** Ipswich v Portsmouth--TWO POINTS ** Northampton v MK Dons--TWO POINTS Clyde 1998 – 7 points ** Wycombe v Aston Villa--TWO POINTS * Birmingham v Bournemouth-----0 ** Northampton v MK Dons--TWO POINTS * Peterborough v Preston---THREE POINTS * West Ham v Wolves -----0 Webster – 2 points ** Wycombe v Aston Villa--TWO POINTS ** Doncaster v Stoke-----0 ** Everton v Dag & Red-----0 ** Man Utd v Sheff Utd-----0 ** Chelsea v Scunthorpe-----0 Reading – Royals Rendezvous 11 entries ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OVERALL INTER-FORUM RESULTS – THE TOP PLACINGS Simply Alphabetical when on same points ... ashman (Peterborough) – 16 points Feliuk (Watford) – 16 points kennymc (Bounemouth) – 16 points stressed_eric (Blackpool) – 16 points The Voice of Reason (Watford) – 16 points wfc4ever (Watford) – 16 points jon_e_lee (Watford) – 15 points LAsouthcoast (Leeds) -14 points NottinghamWhite (Leeds) – 14 points platform3 (Peterborough) – 14 points UEA_Hornet (Watford) – 14 points mason1871rfc (Reading) – 13 points Mr Russell (Leeds) – 13 points Sheepy (Leeds) – 13 points SmokinPool (Blackpool) – 13 points Becs (Sunderland)– 12 points daib0 (Reading) - 12 points dlw10 (Leeds) – 12 points Foxxinator (Reading) – 12 points Godfather (Watford) – 12 points Heisen (Newcastle) – 12 points Hornpete (Watford) – 12 points Little Ape (West Brom) – 12 points thetruth1953 (Blackpool) – 12 points Selby White (Leeds) – 12 points Suffolkposh (Peterborough) – 12 points The Pozzman (Watford) – 12 points TJR (Newcastle) – 12 points Tufty (Sunderland) – 12 points Edited by daib0, 10 Jan 2016, 09:42 PM.
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| Zip | 10 Jan 2016, 09:13 PM Post #38 |
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If Newport beat Blackburn I've been robbed. For shame on you young David.
Edited by Zip, 10 Jan 2016, 09:17 PM.
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| Wolfy | 10 Jan 2016, 09:23 PM Post #39 |
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Blame the weather.
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| Clyde1998 | 10 Jan 2016, 09:26 PM Post #40 |
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My predictions fell apart due to late goals, my impressive run is over.
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