Premiership 2008/9 Competition

[ZOIDBERG]

(ENTRY NOW CLOSED)

The new season is less than a month away, so as always I thought I'd do a competiton to go with it. This one's simple enough, as all you need to do is predict the season's final table. You may need the teams:

Arsenal, Aston Villa, Blackburn, Bolton, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Hull City, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham, West Brom, West Ham and Wigan.

Then, all you'll need to do is post them here in an order, preferably numbered 1 to 20.

The scoring is easy: for each team, you get 5 points for the right position, 4 for one away, 3 for two away, 2 for three away and 1 for four away. See, that even adds up to exactly 100. I'll update the league table each weekend (after the Sunday games) along with how the teams are doing, and that's about it. (Oh, and if you could say who think will be top scorer that'd be good, since I'll use that as a tie-breaker)

ENTRANTS (20)
Mr stabby, *OKO, *ashburnham, Bacon Machine, waggit, Nuclear Spoon, me, ynnekkenny, Roxit, Disgruntledgoat, Flava Dave, 3v1l |\/|1NiOn, Urlosenged, swampmonkey, AngryPaul, Dingbat, streety, jonffm, lemondemon, Luna
Anyone with an * before their name has not picked a top scorer (see above)

THE LATEST TABLE (November 16th)

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/5559/16thnovtq0.png (http://imageshack.us)

The actual Premiership table can always be found here (http://www.premierleague.com/page/LeagueTable). Good luck!

[Nuclear Spoon]

Like the Fantasy Football, I'll wait for a week before until I start doing stuff.

[Flava Dave]

Maybe you could throw in some other categories in this, like top scorer, first manager to get sacked, biggest transfer flop, young player you expect to make a breakthrough, worst hair, fattest player, first red card, most red cards, oldest goalscorer, youngest goalscorer, number of times Wenger doesn't see it, number of players Harry Redknapp would "yeah we'd love to sign 'im, but...", and other crap.

[Mr stabby]

1. Man Utd
2. Liverpool
3. Arsenal
4. Chelsea
5. Everton
6. Aston Villa
7. Tottenham
8. Pompey
9. Man City
10. Middlesbrough
11. West Ham
12. Blackburn
13. Newcastle
14. Wigan
15. Fulham
16. Sunderland
17. Bolton
18. West Brom
19. Hull
20. Stoke

[OKO]

1. Arsenal
2. Man Utd
3. Chelsea
4. Liverpool
5. Man City
6. Everton
7. Tottenham
8. Aston Villa
9. Portsmouth
10. Newcastle
11. Blackburn
12. West Ham
13. Wigan
14. Sunderland
15. Middlesbrough
16. Fulham
17. Bolton
18. Hull
19. West Brom
20. Stoke

[ashburnham]

Here's how I'd *like* it to end....

1. Arsenal
2. Hull
3. Stoke
4. Middlesbrough
5. Man City
6. Everton
7. West Brom
8. Aston Villa
9. Portsmouth
10. Newcastle
11. Blackburn
12. Bolton
13. Wigan
14. Sunderland
15. Liverpool
16. Fulham
17. West Ham
18. Chelsea
19. Man Utd
20. Tottenham

Guess what team I support???

[Bacon Machine]

1. Man Utd
2. Arsenal
3. Chelsea
4. Man City
5. Aston Villa
6. Everton
7. Liverpool
8. Portsmouth
9. Tottenham
10. Blackburn
11. Newcastle
12. Middlesborough
13. West Ham
14. Wigan
15. Sunderland
16. Fulham
17. Bolton
18. Stoke
19. Hull
20. West Brom
(21. Nott'm Forest)

[waggit]

1. Chelsea
2. Man Utd
3. Tottenham
4. Liverpool
5. Arsenal
6. Aston Villa
7. Portsmouth
8. Everton
9. Man City
10. Blackburn
11. Newcastle
12. West Brom
13. West Ham
14. Middlesborough
15. Bolton
16. Stoke
17. Sunderland
18. Fulham
19. Wigan
20. Hull

[Nuclear Spoon]

1. Man Utd
2. Chelsea
3. Arsenal
4. Liverpool
5. Tottenham
6. Villa
7. Portsmouth
8. Blackburn
9. Everton
10. Man City
11. Sunderland
12. Newcastle
13. Middlesbrough
14. West Ham
15. Bolton
16. West Brom
17. Fulham
18. Wigan
19. Hull
20. Stoke

[Flava Dave]

Fine, I'll enter. I liked my idea about the stuff though.

[ZOIDBERG]

And me but my stuff like that always seems to be too OTT for people's liking. Tell you what, anybody who enters can pick a top scorer too. If anyone's tied on points, it comes down to how many goals their player's scored so far. And then if it's still tied then I'll sort something else out to separate them with. About time I entered I think.

1. Man United
2. Chelsea
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
5. Villa
6. Everton
7. Portsmouth
8. Spurs
9. Blackburn
10. West Ham
11. Man City
12. Newcastle
13. Wigan
14. Middlesborough
15. Bolton
16. Sunderland
17. Fulham
18. West Brom
19. Hull
20. Stoke

And top scorer to be John Carew (:p)
Might PM everyone who played last year, see if I can get more people into this.

[Nuclear Spoon]

I pick Darren Bent for top scorer.

YEAH.

[ynnekkenny]

there we go count me in

1. Chelsea
2. Man Utd
3. Arsenal
4. Liverpool
5. Everton
6. Aston Villa
7. Portsmouth
8. Spurs
9. Man City
10. Blackburn
11. Newcastle
12. Middlesbough
13. West Ham
14. Wigan
15. Sunderland
16. West Brom
17. Bolton
18. Stoke
19. Fulham
20. Hull City

Top Scorer Fernando Torres

[Roxit]

1. Man Utd
2. Arsenal
3. Chelsea
4. Aston Villa
5. Liverpool
6. Everton
7. Portsmouth
8. Newcastle
9. Tottenham
10. Sunderland
11. West Ham
12. Blackburn
13. Man City
14. Middlesbrough
15. Wigan
16. Bolton
17. Stoke City
18. Fulham
19. West Brom
20. Hull City

Top Goalscorer: Emmanuel Adebayor

[Disgruntledgoat]

1: Chelsea
2: Manchester United
3: Liverpool
4: Arsenal
5: Everton
6: Aston Villa
7: Manchester City
8: Portsmouth
9: Blackburn Rovers
10: Newcastle United
11: Tottenham Hotspur
12: West Ham United
13: Sunderland
14: Wigan Athletic
15: Fulham
16: Hull City
17: Middlesbrough
18: Bolton Wanderers
19: West Bromwich Albion
20: Stoke City

Top Scorer: Fernando Torres

[Flava Dave]

1. Arsenal I may be rendered retarded by optimism but I can see Arsenal challenging all the way. Yeah Hleb and Flamini are gone, but Hleb being replaced in the starting XI by Walcott will produce a more direct attack (Walcott scored more last season for Arsenal than Hleb did in the past three). The defence is shaky at times but they held their own until Sagna was injured and Kolo moved to right back

2. Man Utd I can't see Ronaldo being as effective as last season but I imagine the focus of the team will shift this season when they inevitably sign a new centre-forward this month.

3. Chelsea Will be stronger than last year (they would surely have won the league if Drogba wasn't injured for most of the season). Not sure how Deco, Ballack and Lampard will fit in the same midfield though. Their best bit of business this summer was keeping hold of Carvalho when he allegedly wanted to leave a couple of months ago.

4. Liverpool Not much different from last season. They'll be better off if they don't sign Barry. Keane'll take the place of Gerrard playing up with Torres and Gerrard will probably play half the games on the right wing.

5 Portsmouth They'll miss Muntari in midfield but they're very solid in defence and Crouch and Defoe will score more goals than any other team's front two.

6. Spurs Darren Bent is actually a very good forward, the main reason he didn't do well last year was because he didn't play. A bit like Keane and Defoe kept getting swapped around before Jol stuck with Keane. The midfield looks a bit weak defensively.

7. Aston Villa Brad Friedel is a great keeper and they've improved an already good defence by buying some actual full backs but I'm not sure if any of their strikers will score more than 9 or 10 this season.

8. Everton Hard to judge really since they will probably strengthen the team before the end of the window. If Arteta and Cahill (he won't) stay fit and Yakubu keeps scoring they'll be alright.

9. Man City And then they'll sack Hughes for only finishing 9th.

10. Newcastle Utd If Owen doesn't break himself that is, otherwise they'll finish 26th. Coloccini is a great defender, and unless he turns to shit like every other defender ever to play for Newcastle (I think the stripey kit has some kind of strobing effect which messes with their heads), they'll do better than last season.

11. Middlesbrough Afonso Alves will score a billion goals, which they must be hoping will cover for the fact that they have no keeper.

12. West Ham Probably the highest concentration of cunts of any squad in the league, they'll be average again. If Bellamy stays fit for the whole season (does anyone else notice how many injury-prone players there are these days?) they may get a place higher.

13. Fulham Some great signings (Schwarzer, Gera) and Roy Hodgson in charge rather than Sanchez (he would have signed me last summer only I was busy) will lead them to the promised land of midtableness. Andy Johnson's transfer will work out as £1,000,000 per league goal.

14. Wigan That Egyptian fella looks a bit good and Kirkland's one of the best in the league. The guys in between aren't so great but they'll be alright as long as no one gets kidnapped.

15. Sunderland Roy Keane seems to sign five shit players for every decent one. Good thing he's signed about fifty players since taking over then.

16. Blackburn Rovers Paul Ince is a ballbag. He can get away with bullying his players in the lower leagues but the Premier League ponces won't stand for it (David Bentley left his last training session halfway through after Ince demanded he do 20 push ups fas a punishment for disrespecting him (by standing with his arms folded when Ince was speaking)). But yeah, so long as Santa Cruz doesn't turn into McCarthy they'll be alright.

17. Stoke City Play absolutely shit football and are apparently trying to buy a 6'8" centreforward. Will get the odd bumming but probably sneak enough 1-0s to stay up.

18. Bolton Sorry Luna. Unless Elmander turns out to be amazing I can see Megson carrying on his career pattern of being shit at every club.

19. West Brom I know they won the Championship but they lost the reason why. They have no forwards and will try playing proper football and get murdered.

20. Hull City Much like West Brom they've lost their best player in the summer (Frazier Campbell) and it'll be a step too far for them. A lot of their squad were in League 2 with them a couple of years back. They'll probably do better than Derby, but not by much.






Oh, and top scorer will be Emmanuel Adebayor. Who will presumably store a billion and one goals.

[Nuclear Spoon]

Flava Dave has done it wrong. He put thought into his.

:mad:

[Flava Dave]

Not that much. I had to go back because I forgot about Aston Villa. I'm very proud of doing the team names in bold though. That looks classy.

[Nuclear Spoon]

It does look very neat, yes.

[ZOIDBERG]

Nice touch with the top scorer too.

Out of interest when you say you "forgot Villa", where were they before? Pleased wih how much hope everyon else has for us too :D

[Flava Dave]

I got as far as 16th place and was thinking of which teams I had left and realised I forgot to put them in.

[3v1l |\/|1NiOn]

First post in aaaages

1. Arsenal
2. Man Utd
3. Chelsea
4. Liverpool
5. Tottenham
6. Portsmouth
7. Aston Villa
8. Man City
9. Everton
10.Sunderland
11.West Ham
12.Blackburn
13.Middlesborough
14.Newcastle
15.Bolton
16.Fulham
17.West Brom
18.Wigan
19.Hull
20.Stoke

Top Scorer: Torres

[Urlosenged]

Oh hell yes I am in this for this year - good job you PM'd me about it!


1: Man Utd
2: Liverpool
3: Chelsea
4: Tottenham Hotspur (yes I know they let me down last year but still)
5: Arsenal
6: Aston Villa
7: Portsmouth
8: Everton
9: Blackburn Rovers
10: Middlesbrough (possibly influenced by my FM game as them)
11: Newcastle United
12: West Ham United
13: Fulham
14: Manchester City
15: West Bromwich Albion
16: Sunderland
17: Bolton Wanderers
18: Wigan Athletic
19: Stoke City
20: Hull City

For top scorer - Darren Bent. Yes, really.

[Nuclear Spoon]

I was just being silly o_0

[Urlosenged]

Yeah I'll probably change my mind tomorrow when I have slightly less whisky in me.

[swampmonkey]

1. Chelsea
2. Man Utd
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
5. Tottenham
6. Aston Villa
7. Portsmouth
8. Everton
9. West Ham
10. Blackburn
11. Newcastle
12. Sunderland
13. Fulham
14. Bolton
15. Middlesborough
16. West Brom
17. Wigan
18. Hull
19. Stoke
20. Man City (some sort of points deduction)

Top Scorer: Jermain Defoe

Edit: After reading flava daves post I briefly thought about putting reasons for everything but soon realised I'm far to lazy to bother.

[AngryPaul]

1. Manchester United
2. Chelsea
3. Liverpool
4. Aston Villa
--------------
5. Arsenal
--------------
6. Portsmouth
7. Tottenham
8. Manchester City
9. Everton
10. West Ham United
11. Sunderland
12. Newcastle United
13. Blackburn Rovers
14. Fulham
15. Wigan Athletic
16. Middlesbrough
17. West Bromwich Albion
--------------
18. Bolton Wanderers
19. Stoke City
20. Hull City

Top scorer: Fernando Torres [Liverpool]

[Dingbat]

1. Manchester Utd
2. Arsenal
3. Chelsea
4. Liverpool
5. Aston Villa
6. Tottenham Hotspur
7. Everton
8. Portsmouth
9. Blackburn
10. Newcastle United
11. Manchester City
12. Sunderland
13. Middlesbrough
14. West Ham United
15. Fulham
16. Wigan
17. Bolton Wanderers
18. West Bromwich Albion
19. Hull City
20. Stoke City

Top Scorer: Emmanuel Adebayor

[streety]

1. Chelsea
2. Manure
3. Arsenal
4. Liverpool
--------------
5. Aston Villa
6. Portsmouth
7. Tottenham
8. Everton
9. West Ham United
10. Newcastle United
11. Manchester City
12. Middlesbrough
13. Blackburn Rovers
14. Fulham
15. Wigan Athletic
16. Sunderland
17. Bolton Wanderers
--------------
18. West Bromwich Albion
19. Stoke City
20. Hull City

Top scorer: Cristiano Ronaldo [Manure]

[jonffm]

1. United
2. Liverpool
3. Chelsea
4. Arsenal
5. Everton
6. Portsmouth
7. Tottenham
8. Aston Villa
9. West Ham
10. Blackburn
11. Manchester City
12. Middlesbrough
13. Newcastle United
14. Sunderland
15. Wigan Athletic
16. Bolton
17. West Brom
18. Fulham
19. Stoke
20. Hull

Top Goalscorer: Torres


United have already built on a great team and will finish top by a margin, but Liverpool and Chelsea will form a three-horse race that will go all the way till May. It'll all be decided on the head-to-head games. Arsenal will start strong because of a fortunate fixture list, but will drop off the radar as the season goes on.

United to win the Prem, another top 3 to win the CL, Arsenal to win the league cup.

[lemondemon]

Man Utd
Chelsea
Liverpool
Arsenal
Everton
Portsmouth
Blackburn
Man City
Aston villa
Tottenham
West ham
Newcastle (will suffer when joey barton kills michael owen for looking at him funny)
Middlesborough
wigan
sunderland
fulham
bolton
west brom
stoke
hull

oh and the top scorer's got to be edwin van der sar

[Nuclear Spoon]

Your put West Brom twice.

[AngryPaul]

Oh shi.. Why didn't I pick a goalkeeper to be top scorer?

DAMN YOUR INISDER NAWLIJ!!

[lemondemon]

Your put West Brom twice.

thats because theyre so bad they will get relegated twice.

Oh shi.. Why didn't I pick a goalkeeper to be top scorer?

DAMN YOUR INISDER NAWLIJ!!


because, you just suppose that because 19 out of 20 keepers didnt score last season, a keeper wont be top scorer.

shame on you :)

[waggit]

Top Scorer: Carlos Tévez
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00495/SNF28BIZ06-280_495304a.jpg

[Luna]

1. Man Utd - Depends on signing stiker, but I reckon they will pull through. After all the rumours, Ronaldo has mediocre season and Sir Alex forced to rely on Wes Brown for goals, which he delivers.
2. Chelsea - Scolari plays a 1-9-1 to incorporate all Chelsea's midfielders. Ballack still gets upset and breaks Deco's nose in December.
3. Liverpool - Torres to score all of Liverpool's goals, and getting half of the assists (assisting himself) with Gerrard getting the rest. Benitez promoted to club owner by Hicks, who puts himself on the bench for the last game of the season.
4. Arsenal - Leading the league until mid-March, when Wenger sacks the first team for scoring a "not beautiful" goal, and playing the rest of the season with the Arsenal U-6's, who are still better than Stoke.
5. Portsmouth - Defoe and Crouch likened to "Pele and Maradona in the same team"
6. Aston Villa - Martin O'Neill is okay I guess
7. Spurs - QUAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNDE Ramos buys every player with the prefix "the next...". Some good ("The next George Best"), some not so ("The next Nicky Hunt")
8. Everton - Joseph Yobo reveals himself to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sold to Real Madrid at end of season for twice the previous world record transfer fee
9. Blackburn - Paul Ince is sickened by the way Blackburn perform for the first half of the season, and signs himself in the January window for a club record fee, then proceeds to single handedly drag them from the relegation battle.
10. Man City - Dr Thakshin wins award for "Innovation of the season" by having a different manager for every match, including cups.
11. West Ham - Dull
12. Newcastle - Keegan would LOVE IT, HE WOULD LOVE IT, but in the end Newcastle have another dull season, prompting Keegan to reiterate his point about not having enough money. He is then given all of Mike Ashley's money, and builds a super team for the next season...
13. Wigan - Steve Bruce proves to be rubbish after all but Chris Hutchings returns to save the day
14. Bolton - This is being modest, Elmander does score a billion goals, let down only by Meite, whose presence is still felt within the defence
15. Sunderland - Keane signs rubbish and Sunderland once again fail to capitalise on their 40m investment. Keane still regarded as a "bright, young manager".
16. Fulham - Fulham's plans to make Craven Cottage England's largest stadium distract the players.
17. West Brom - Good, but Meite ruins everything
18. Middlesborough - The sight of a crowd of six at the Riverside in March prompts the players to forfeit their remaining matches and relegate themselves. "Maybe now the 'fans' will show up, even if it is only to show they are angry" screams a tearful Alfonso Alves
19. Hull - Play with lots of heart, but suffer from having players that no-one other than Hull fans have heard of.
20. Stoke - Only get six points, by doing the double over Newcastle.

Top scorer Torres :o - Betters Elmander by one, scoring a billion and one

[ZOIDBERG]

Bit late but I'll let you off :)

[Luna]

Bit late but I'll let you off :)

Thanks, sorry, been on Holiday and only just got your PM and took the Friday deadline to mean next Friday.

[ZOIDBERG]

Well that took a while. Here's:
THIS WEEK'S TABLE!

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So streety takes an early lead by a point and a half, with just a few others close behind. Now, you may be wondering what's going on for a few reasons. I'll try to explain:

- It's text-only cos I don't have Excel. Yes, I'm doing this on Notepad until I get it.
- Goals is to do with the top scorer. People with a goal picked either John Carew from Villa (yo) or Fernando Torres from Liverpool (everyone else).
- Points are more or less scored in the normal way (5 for correct place, 4 for one place out etc. down to 1 point for four places out) BUT the halves are there or a reason. Some teams are tied on everything (e.g. Man U and Newcastle have 1 point, 1 goal scored and conceded) so I've levelled their places off to make it fairer (Man U are shown as 10th and Newcastle 11th because of alphabetical order but I've made them both 10½th since it's in the middle). If you say they'll be 10th and they're 10½th you get 4½ points, if they're 11½ you get 3½ points and so on - but you can't score only ½ for a team)
- Anyone on the same number of points is separated by their goalscorer if possible (in this case no-one can be), and then by the number of teams they scored 5 points with (so Flava Dave is 10th), and then by the number of 4½s (so ynnekkenny is 7th and Disgruntledgoat is 8th), and so on. Any stats about 5s, 4½s and the rest are only shown if needed.
- It'll get easier in a few weeks, honest. It's worse for me :p

Special congratulations this week go to:
- ashburnham for scoring a point from Hull in 6th
- swampmonkey for scoring 3 points from Man City in 18th
- Nuclear Spoon and Dingbat for being so ridiculously hard to split
- 3v1l |\/|1NiOn for reminding me just how hard your name is to type
- and Gabby Agbonlahor for getting his first Villa hat-trick!

[Nuclear Spoon]

Zoidy, it makes me guilty to know that you do it all manually on Excel.

There must be some sort of formula for it you can devise. I could help, if needs be.

[ZOIDBERG]

Zoidy, it makes me guilty to know that you do it all manually on Excel.

There must be some sort of formula for it you can devise. I could help, if needs be.
Well actually this was on Notepad since I don't have Excel. Took like two hours...

Once I get Excel though I've got some formula stuff planned to help me. Might take about half an hour to set up but then barely any time to make the table each week. Thanks though :)

[Disgruntledgoat]

Woohoo top half of the table!

Take that everyone below me.

[ZOIDBERG]

Sorry it's late, haven't been able to use the computer at all.

THIS WEEK'S TABLE!

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Well done this week to:
- 3v1l |\/|1NiOn for moving aaaaalllll the way up the table
- Flava Dave for a new top score of 40
- ashburnham for being off the bottom (sorry :p)
- jonffm for giving the top scorer thing any use
- and John Carew for giving me some pride

Anything in red or green shows a change since last week, whether it's change in rank, score or top scorer's goals (only one this week). Hoping to do better next week!

[Nuclear Spoon]

I'm good at this game.

[ZOIDBERG]

THIS WEEK'S TABLE!

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This week I'm mentioning in this part of this post:
- Bacon Machine for a bit of a mad turnaround
- 3v1l |\/|1NiOn for swapping places (SECOND and TWENTIETH) with me, very kind of you :p
- Nuclear Spoon for making the above post and then plummeting
- Flava Dave and ashburnham for being so insanely close despite having such different tables
- And the Villa defence for keeping a clean sheet for the first time since November! (Sold Laursen on Fantasy Premier League after losing to Stoke though :()

No table next week due to England, in case you didn't know.

[Disgruntledgoat]

Dude, +18?

Shenanigans? :p

[Nuclear Spoon]

I'm bad at this game.

[Flava Dave]

He just posted the table upside down by mistake, don't worry everyone.

[ZOIDBERG]

I just noticed, 2nd to 15th is only 3 points. That explains it then...

[Bacon Machine]

Can I choose my top scorer still?

If so, I'll go for another latecomer and have Robinho.

By the way, top of the league is for badasses.

[AngryPaul]

I hate the start of the season. A few games then nothing for weeks. ¬____¬

[ZOIDBERG]

THIS WEEK'S TABLE!

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I currently feel the need to acknowledge:
- swampmonkey for another two Defoe goals
- Flava Dave, Dingbat and Roxit (even though you two are 19th and 20th) for getting a hat-trick this week courtesy of Adebayor
- Bacon Machine for such inconsistency (oh, and for picking Robinho as top scorer)
- Roxit AGAIN for now having been 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th
- and Heurelho Gomes. No really, well done you!

Back in six days :)

[Mr stabby]

oh yeah baby wheres stabbys mention?

id like torres as my top goalscorer please if it isnt too late? starting now of course, wouldnt be fair otherwise

[ZOIDBERG]

Can do :)

[Bacon Machine]

Oh man last week was a bad one for me...

I'm too lazy to see how I'm doing after this week's results and so I demand an update!

[ZOIDBERG]

Completely forgotten about this :(

Tomorrow, definitely.

[AngryPaul]

Its alright. It keeps me from the reality that I'm nowhere near the top :(

[ZOIDBERG]

Its alright. It keeps me from the reality that I'm nowhere near the top :(
Interesting...

Watch this space, doing table now.

[Disgruntledgoat]

I want to be the Aston Villa of prediction. Comfortably mid-table with no realistic ambition of genuine success.

[ZOIDBERG]

*changes DGG to 21st*

THIS WEEK'S TABLE!

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This week bullet points are given over to:
- AP for being sooo wrong
- streety for staying in 2nd
- 3v1l |\/|1NiOn for adding another 10.5 to his score again
- Roxit for finally leaving the bottom four
- everyone in general for 18 people improving their score and for somehow all going up or staying put if in the top half and all going down or staying put if in the bottom half (look at the rank changes)
- and Man City for winning 6-0 this week with six different scorers, something only the best teams can do :cool:

[Bacon Machine]

Oh man, I rock so hard at inconsistency it hurts a bit.

[ynnekkenny]

im just plodding along in a uefa cup place haha

[Flava Dave]

1. Arsenal I may be rendered retarded by optimism but I can see Arsenal challenging all the way. Yeah Hleb and Flamini are gone, but Hleb being replaced in the starting XI by Walcott will produce a more direct attack (Walcott scored more last season for Arsenal than Hleb did in the past three). The defence is shaky at times but they held their own until Sagna was injured and Kolo moved to right back

20. Hull City Much like West Brom they've lost their best player in the summer (Frazier Campbell) and it'll be a step too far for them. A lot of their squad were in League 2 with them a couple of years back. They'll probably do better than Derby, but not by much.


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[ynnekkenny]

i feel your pain Dave!

piss poor arsenal today but fair play to hull, premiership champions 08/09?!

[Ronbert]

Please no, Phil Brown is an irritating knob.

[Bacon Machine]

piss poor arsenal today but fair play to hull, premiership champions 08/09?!
It's that kind of talk that killed Leeds.

Although that was hilarious so I'm all for them overspending next season in a bid for the title...

[ZOIDBERG]

THIS WEEK'S TABLE!

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/1287/28thsepte0.png (http://imageshack.us)

Special mentions:
- Disgruntledgoat for such an improved score and pretty big lead
- swampmonkey for yet another goal from Defoe
- the half a dozen people who picked Torres as top scorer
- The rest of last week's top 4 (:cool:) for all going down a bit
- ashburnham for being the only player stuck in the bottom half
- and Hull!

Same time next week :)

[Nuclear Spoon]

Man I'm good at this.

[streety]

11 places!! Wtf

[Bacon Machine]

How has my score gone from 45 to 35 but still my weekly score be +4.5?

By the way, still rockin' the inconsistency to the max!

Edit/ I see, mine's based on the prior week's scores...

Zoidberg is slipping, tut tut tut.

I blame Gordon Brown and PC gone mad, though!

[ynnekkenny]

Special Mention to Kenny for not changing place this week, cementing the Uefa Cup spot :)

[ZOIDBERG]

My excuse is I get Excel to work it out for me so I'm not the one who's wrong :p

Well noticed though, will look out for stuff like that in future.

[Bacon Machine]

Update, plox.

[ZOIDBERG]

THIS WEEK'S TABLE!

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8906/5thoctvp1.png (http://imageshack.us)

Acknowledgments:
- jonffm for an enormous score (highest yet!) with a massive improvement on last week of +23
- swampmonkey for picking Defoe as top scorer, who now IS top scorer on 6
- the 7 of you who had another two goals from Torres this week
- swampmonkey and AngryPaul for being the last two players to stay in the top half
- Flava Dave for being the first to be top AND bottom
- virtually everybody for improved scores and not making it hard for me to split you (see "5s" column)
- and Hull. 3rd!!! :eek:

[jonffm]

Wooo, I am the win.

[Nuclear Spoon]

I'm not sucking. Cool.

[Disgruntledgoat]

Oh what, I totally missed the table before, I was awesome.

Now, not so much.

[Dr Phil]

I would just like to lol at all who put Hull in last / neer to last.

[Dr Bender659]

here mine:bb::bb::bb:
1) man u
2)Tottenham
3)Chelsea
4)Middlesbrough
5)Liverpool
6)Hull City
7)Aston Villa
8)Blackburn
9)Hull City
10)Portsmouth
11-Manchester City
12-West Ham Utd
13-Portsmouth
14-WBA
15-Fulham
16-Everton
17-Stoke City
18-Newcastle
19-Bolton
20-Arsenal

COME MAN UTD :mad::mad:
(they miss one match)

[ynnekkenny]

http://forums.weebls-stuff.com/showpost.php?p=1992503&postcount=1

read this

main part of it - "ENTRY NOW CLOSED" better luck next year

[ZOIDBERG]

Just a reminder it's internationals this week so the next agems are in a week's time.

[Nuclear Spoon]

buuuuump

[ZOIDBERG]

THIS WEEK'S TABLE!

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4884/20thoctpa8.png (http://imageshack.us)

Well done:
- jonffm and ynnekkenny for consistency
- the three people who moved up six places and got eight more points even though not much changed
- People in general for making the tie break stuff very easy this week
- and Amr Zaki, who's not bad at all.

I should be +1 for rank not +0 BTW, might fix later. Woo :)

[Nuclear Spoon]

IT'S A FIX!

Except I haven't sucked off ZOIDBERG so I do not know why I am 4th.

[Bacon Machine]

IT'S A FIX!

Except I haven't sucked off ZOIDBERG so I do not know why I am 4th.
I did and look where I am!

I suppose some people don't appreciate waking up with their penis in my mouth.

[Bacon Machine]

Did I kill the thread with my lewd comments?

[ZOIDBERG]

No I've not been here for a while. I'll update on Monday night after the Villa-Newcastle game.

[Nuclear Spoon]

Hello where is said update please thank you

[ZOIDBERG]

Yeah I gotta do this.

THIS WEEK'S TABLE!

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9551/9thnovfh6.png (http://imageshack.us)

Special mentions:
- everyone for being patient
- Urlosenged and Nuclear Spoon for picking Darren Bent as top scorer (mainly Urlosenged as he was being serious)
- streety for the impressive leap from 11th to 4th despite not much change in the league table
- jonffm for a score of 58, equalling his own record
- and Alvaro Arbeloa for getting me 13 points on Fantasy Premier league this week :D

Hassle me more from now on, seriously. It'll make me do this every week.

[jonffm]

I'm amazing.

[Bacon Machine]

My Robinho choice is paying off and all.

It's pretty close in the middle of the table.

[ZOIDBERG]

THIS WEEK'S TBALE!

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/5559/16thnovtq0.png (http://imageshack.us)

Since this is all worked out automatically (the only thing I do for our individual scores is put in the team's positions) I'm pretty sure nothing's actually wrong here. So special mentions go to:

- Flava Dave for getting off the bottom in some style
- streety for 2 Ronaldo goals
- Roxit and Flava Dave for being the only people to actually get more points this week than last week
- me and jonffm for such a catastrophic week
- people in general for managing to be so oddly packed together...
- those of you who picked Torres as top scorer for somehow all (nearly) being right next to each other somehow...
- and anybody who plays Fantasy Football and got about a million points this week :p

[Bacon Machine]

Woo, top 10!

Robinho is my bitch.

A bit of a case of who lost the least points this week...