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FA Cup Upsets Game – Round Three; One-off Weekend Game (Jan 2016)
Topic Started: 5 Jan 2016, 07:24 PM (1,618 Views)
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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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Now 50 mins gone, and it's Wycombe 1-1 Aston Villa ... another "cupset" possible ?
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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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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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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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FA Cup Finished

Oxford Utd 3 - 2 Swansea

SIX POINTS for some!!!

that's put the cats amongst the pigeons :D :D
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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 -_-
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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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

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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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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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10 Jan 2016, 09:13 PM
If Newport beat Blackburn I've been robbed. For shame on you young David.
Blame the weather. :P :D
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My predictions fell apart due to late goals, my impressive run is over. :(
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