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Inter-Forum FA Cup Upsets Game – Round Four; One-off Weekend Game (Jan 2016)
Topic Started: 23 Jan 2016, 04:07 PM (1,246 Views)
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FA Cup Upsets Game – Round Four
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 a game orientated to your forum, but 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 FOUR programme below - I’d like to invite you to call for just FOUR 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!!
+ NEW! Postponed or Abandoned? In this unlikely event the game is void, but you are awarded one point for the inconvenience!

FOURTH ROUND DRAW


FRIDAY - 29TH JANUARY
* Derby v Manchester United


SATURDAY - 30TH JANUARY
* Arsenal v Burnley
* Bury v Hull City
** Colchester v Tottenham
--- Crystal Palace v Stoke City
--- Bolton v Leeds United
--- Liverpool v West Ham
* Reading v Walsall
** Portsmouth v Bournemouth
* Nottingham Forest v Watford
** Oxford United v Blackburn
* Shrewsbury v Sheffield Wednesday
** West Bromwich v Peterborough
--- Aston Villa v Manchester City


SUNDAY – 31ST JANUARY
** Carlisle v Everton
* MK Dons v Chelsea




Have fun - answers on this thread please - CAREFUL closing time BEFORE KICK-OFF of the first Friday match [ 29th January - 7.55 pm ]
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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My selection is:

** Oxford United v Blackburn
* Derby v Manchester United
* Nottingham Forest v Watford
* Shrewsbury v Sheffield Wednesday



Likewise, you just give your FOUR upsets matches!



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* Derby v Manchester United
* Reading v Walsall (Sorry but potentially a upset here in my book)
* Nottingham Forest v Watford
** Oxford United v Blackburn
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23 Jan 2016, 06:10 PM

* Reading v Walsall (Sorry but potentially a upset here in my book)


not at all, don't worry, I really considered it ...

but could not bring myself to do it at the end!! :D
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23 Jan 2016, 06:10 PM
* Derby v Manchester United
* Reading v Walsall (Sorry but potentially a upset here in my book)
* Nottingham Forest v Watford
** Oxford United v Blackburn

but ... wouldn't you prefer to be with your Liverpool chums? I could transfer .. http://talkthereds.com/topic/11507333/1 Just asking like ...


Edited by daib0, 23 Jan 2016, 06:31 PM.
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or on both forums Wolfy ...




Advanced news!

From 5th round it'll be an exact score thing (I'll explain it in due course but will also be fun) as there simply aren't enough surprises!
At end of season I could do a mini-review of each round, a sort of 'Hall of Fame' !!
Edited by daib0, 23 Jan 2016, 06:48 PM.
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* Derby v Manchester United
* Nottingham Forest v Watford
** Oxford United v Blackburn
* MK Dons v Chelsea
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very good, almost 20 in all round from first day only ... and it's not closing to next weekend!
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* Derby County vs Manchester United
* Nottingham Forest vs Watford
** Oxford United vs Blackburn Rovers
* MK Dons vs Chelsea
Edited by Number 13, 24 Jan 2016, 02:42 AM.
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23 Jan 2016, 06:32 PM
or on both forums Wolfy ...




Advanced news!

From 5th round it'll be an exact score thing (I'll explain it in due course but will also be fun) as there simply aren't enough surprises!
At end of season I could do a mini-review of each round, a sort of 'Hall of Fame' !!
You can put me on both forums Daib0, I might have a look at joining in there, although my contribution won't lessen on here ;)
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24 Jan 2016, 06:06 PM
daib0
23 Jan 2016, 06:32 PM
or on both forums Wolfy ...




Advanced news!

From 5th round it'll be an exact score thing (I'll explain it in due course but will also be fun) as there simply aren't enough surprises!
At end of season I could do a mini-review of each round, a sort of 'Hall of Fame' !!
You can put me on both forums Daib0, I might have a look at joining in there, although my contribution won't lessen on here ;)

done - http://talkthereds.com/topic/11507333/1/#new

thanks, I'm sure you'd get a great reception signing up here - http://talkthereds.com/index and the great advantage is that being exactly the same Zetaboards coding it's so simple to copy and paste anything on the two sites!!


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